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Inner-City Arts

The nonprofit organization empowers and inspires Los Angeles' youth with comprehensive arts education programs in some of the city's most underserved communities.

Improving Outcomes through Arts Instruction

Inner-City Arts

Inner-City Arts was founded in 1989 to help local communities offer arts education and instruction that was no longer available in public schools. The organization began in Downtown L.A.'s Skid Row, working with some of the city's most vulnerable children. Inner-City Arts has now served more than 200,000 students and 10,000 teachers in the area, improving student achievement by boosting their confidence and creativity.

The organization partners with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide more than 5,000 elementary school students with an arts education on the Inner-City Arts campus every year. Inner-City Arts offers in-class arts instruction, after-school extracurricular workshops, summer workshops, and college and career guidance. Inner-City Arts also trains educators to effectively teach the arts and guides administrators as they incorporate arts instruction into other areas of their school's curriculum. Evaluations of Inner-City Arts have shown that its programs have drastically improved creativity, English proficiency, and even standardized mathematics scores for participating students.

GRoW Support

2017

General Operating Support