LA Fund

The Los Angeles Fund for Public Education builds innovative partnerships.

The Los Angeles Fund for Public Education builds innovative partnerships to create solutions that will improve the educational, health and wellness outcomes for students in LAUSD. Through collaboration and creativity, they inspire action and achieve impact. Founded in 2011 by Superintendent Dr. John Deasy and Education Activist Megan Chernin, the Los Angeles Fund for Public Education invests in results-oriented programs designed to ensure that every student in the nation’s second-largest school system has the chance to succeed. The LA Fund is positioned to lead scalable innovations that reach all corners of Los Angeles. Working directly with classroom teachers as well as district leadership, the LA Fund has a proven track record of creating meaningful systemic change in the second largest school system in the nation. From ensuring that hundreds of thousands more students have access to a healthy breakfast every day, to hosting the nation’s largest anti-bullying campaign, to reimagining creativity and arts in every classroom through innovative arts integration programming, change is happening.