Tara Roth joins BBC News Business Matters to talk about the Goldhirsh Foundation’s work in Los Angeles supporting social innovation.

Tara Roth featured on BBC News Business Matters

Check out a full video of Vator Splash LA 2014: “Technology and the LA Culture,” with panelists: Nate Redmond of Rustic Canyon; Rob Kornegay of Wilson Sonsini; Peter Marx of City of LA; Ashish Soni of USC Viterbi School of Engeineering, Viterbi Startup Garage & VSi2; Eva Ho of Susa Ventures; and Tara Roth of Goldhirsh Foundation, LA2050; with moderator Kevin Winston, Founder of Digital LA.

Tara Roth, President of the Goldhirsh Foundation, featured in Vator TV

Representatives from the city Department of Recreation and Parks, the Pershing Square Park Advisory Board and the Goldhirsh Foundation’s LA2050 Campaign joined LA City Councilman Jose Huizar to commemorate the groundbreaking of two new children’s playgrounds.

LA Downtown News: Pershing Square Playgrounds Break Ground

Los Angeles, the city that is synonymous with car culture, is getting a citywide advisor on autonomous vehicles, rideshares, and bicycles. The new position at Los Angeles’s Department of Transportation will be a year-long fellowship made possible by a grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation.

Goldhirsh Foundation supported LADOT Fellowship featured in Fast Company

LA2050 grantees Trust for Public Land and Community Health Council’s LA Open Acres are featured in this story on KPCC.

Groups work to turn South LA lots into children’s playgrounds

#TwitterDrive makes a stop at the  @incschool  in LA, a school dedicated to fostering tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

Twitter makes a stop at Incubator School, an LA2050 grantee

USC’s Los Angeles Community Impact hosted its Spring Showcase, the culmination of the organization’s semester-long consulting projects on Wednesday. Shauna Nep, director of community and innovation at the Goldhirsh Foundation, discussed what Goldhirsh Foundation calls the five points along the “circuitous path of innovation”: necessity, hustle, storytelling, unusual suspects and the reflective incubation period.

Los Angeles Community Impact hosts Spring Showcase featuring Shauna Nep

With a staff of only four full-time employees, along with some contractors and interns, the Goldhirsh Foundation is making incredible strides to work toward its mission of supporting personal innovation in Los Angeles.

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