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Incubation Academy

Program Overview

Ready to Join the Academy? New applicants can apply on a rolling basis for future cohorts here.  

The JCOD Incubation Academy supports grassroots nonprofits across L.A. County, with a focus on organizations that often face barriers securing government funding. 

This program Provides 12 weeks of training, 6 months of executive coaching and unlimited access to other resources that focuses on organizational growth, management contracting, capacity mapping and mentorship for community based organizations (CBOs) that serve communities and people across all of LA County.

Target Organizations:

  • Non-profit, 501(c)(3) status, and/ or faith-based organization
  • Grassroots and small CBOs (less than 50 full-time employees)
  • Community-rooted leadership (Organizations led by individuals with lived experience or deep ties to the communities they serve)
  • Priority given to organizations serving the highest need areas and offering a wide range of services
Graduates from Cohorts 1- 9  Have received more than $100 million in Combined Capacity-Building, County, and CFCI Grants.

 

Incubation Academy Fact Sheet

Learn more about how Incubation Academy works by viewing our Fact Sheet.

Ready to join the Academy?

New applicants can apply on a rolling basis for future cohorts. If you’re interested in participating in the Academy, click below to apply. If you have any questions or need assistance completing this application, please email the Incubation Academy Team at IncubationAcademy@jcod.lacounty.gov.

See The Academy in Action

Meet Cohort 8

Incubation Academy Cohorts

Meet the organizations that have participated in prior Incubation Academy Cohorts.

  • A Child’s Dream Altadena, Inc

  • AQMNI LLC

  • Audacity Global

  • Cease for Peace

  • Chasen Dreams Foundation

  • Community Reciprocity Development

  • Crenshaw District College Fund

  • Dreamers Youth

  • Driving Hope Foundation

  • High Point Community Development Corporation

  • It Starts Inside Wellness Center

  • Living Word Community Church of LA

  • Lovie’s Dogz Foundation

  • Ohana Center

  • Press Start

  • Project Protocol

  • Project Resilience

  • Restorative Academic Mentorship Program (RAMP LA)

  • Rich With Attitude

  • Shepherd Community Services

  • Shift Our Ways Collective

  • Soul Saving Productions

  • Sunnyside 5

  • The Alignment Foundation

  • The Next Hits

  • The Prism Way

  • Total Restoration Ministries

  • Watts Chosen Angels Inc

  • Westcoast Customs

  • Prison Education Project (CFCI)
  • Latino Equity Alliance
  • Miguel Contreras Foundation (CFCI)
  • Eastmont Community Center (CFCI)
  • Heavenly Los Angeles Organization
  • Ms. Keda Foundation (CFCI)
  • My Footprints LA
  • Angel City Aerospace Foundation
  • LA Legal Assistant (CFCI)
  • White Hall Arts Academy Foundation
  • Avenues of Life
  • Rich With Attitude
  • Next2Get
  • Coalition for Engaged Education (CFCI)
  • Reentry Wheels
  • Pukúu Cultural Community Services (CFCI)
  • We Are R.I.S.E (CFCI)
  • Jail Guitar Doors (CFCI)
  • Willing 2 Move Forward (CFCI)
  • April Parker Foundation (CFCI)
  • 5-Eleven Hoops (CFCI)
  • Street Cred Educational Consultants
  • Antelope Valley Community Traning Center (CFCI)
  • Finally Family Homes (CFCI)
  • House of REE Outreach Services
  • AQMNI LLC
  • Westcoast Customs

  • Christ Living Gospel Ministry/ American Renascent Center
  • Jus 2 Succeed
  • The Laundry Truck LA
  • PCS Family Services
  • Testimony Ministries
  • Chozen Few International 116
  • Pause 4 Peace Foundation
  • Greater Good News Church
  • Against All Odds Resource Network
  • EntreNous Youth Empowerment Services
  • COR Rescue Outreach
  • Financial Liberation Training Academy
  • Ben Free Project
  • Partners Building Community Groups
  • Twinspire: Together We Inspire
  • 10P Program
  • New Road Foundation
  • Opportunities for Success (OFS)
  • The H.E.through the ARTS Inc.
  • Chloe and Maud Foundation
  • The Laundry Truck LA
  • Generations Coffee
  • Gowns and Gardens House of Charities
  • It Takes a Village Transitional Housing & Homeless Shelter, Inc.
  • Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program
  • Paco Leadership Collective
  • Unique-Trans-ition
  • Ronnies House
  • Urban Health

  • The Sidewalk Project
  • Pauly’s Project
  • ELABGC/East LA Rising
  • Visionary Youth Los Angeles
  • KLBRI
  • Gracie’s Giving Hands
  • RIS Foundation
  • Blacks in Motion Community Development
  • Sisters of Watts
  • Breaking Stigmas Treatment Options
  • Integrative Communities
  • Clear Skies Ranch
  • Butterfly’s Haven
  • The WIN Project
  • Veteran Social Services Inc.
  • A Helping Hand in Recovery, Inc.
  • Welcome Home
  • The Mustard Seed Enterprises
  • High Tide Global
  • Seeds of Morning Glory
  • Two-Lifestyles, Inc.
  • A Meaningful Goal Housing Shelter
  • Street Company
  • GIFT (Growing Independence from Family Trauma) Enterprises, Inc.

 

  • A New Day Youth & Community Service Center
  • After Life Initiative
  • Assured Lifestyle Housing
  • Better Youth
  • Bithiah’s Family Services
  • California Mental Health Connection
  • Cherished LA
  • Community Veteran Justice Project (CVJP)
  • DEUCE Community
  • Do Good Daniels Family Foundation
  • Gems Uncovered Inc.
  • Green Thumb AV GRIP ( Gang-Reduction- Intervention-Prevention)
  • Growing Outreach Growing Opportunities
  • Healing Los Angeles Together Org
  • Health Matters Clinic
  • Jobs for Humanity
  • New Leaf on Life
  • On My Grind, Re-entry Services Inc
  • Plenitude Independence
  • Rescue-A-Life Foundation
  • Safety Alliance Group
  • Sisters of Action Recovering
  • Somos Familia Valle
  • SRD Straightening Reins
  • The Antelope Valley Community Uplift Foundation (AVCUF)
  • The City Lights Gateway Foundation

JCOD Incubation Academy Community Resource Guide

Download the resource sheet here, featuring all of our Incubation Academy alumni and the services they offer across all of LA County

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