South LA Needs You
The Hot & Cool Foundation serves South LA residents, with a focus on at-risk individuals, seniors, and aspiring youth who face systemic barriers to opportunity. Our programs are led by local community members who understand the challenges and potential of our neighborhoods, ensuring solutions are culturally grounded and impactful.
Build skills, Earn wages & Create opportunities
We provide paid training, hands-on experience, and direct job placement to South LA residents. From our 100-hour culinary program to Metro coffee carts, we break barriers and open doors to living-wage careers and entrepreneurship.
We provide fresh meals and sustain vital food resources for seniors, families, and vulnerable residents. With over 1,500 meals delivered and 625 weekly food pantry recipients, we nourish South LA while building
stability and wellness.
Feed the body, Strengthen the community
What We DO
POwer the PRograms & The Community
We provide paid training, hands-on experience, and direct job placement to South LA residents. From our 100-hour culinary program to Metro coffee carts, we break barriers and open doors to living-wage careers and entrepreneurship.
Fuel Healing, Build Opportunity, Transform South LA.
The Hot & Cool Foundation serves South LA residents, with a focus on at-risk individuals, seniors, and aspiring youth who face systemic barriers to opportunity. Our programs are led by local community members who understand the challenges and potential of our neighborhoods, ensuring solutions are culturally grounded and impactful.
IT’S WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS
We provide hands-on economic empowerment programs, free meals, wellness workshops, and social entrepreneurship opportunities. With initiatives like our paid culinary training program, food pantry support, and mobile coffee cart program, we tackle systemic challenges while building pathways to long-term independence and success.
THE ROAD TO $250K
We are raising $250,000 to directly invest in the people and programs that make South LA stronger. Your donation will fund critical initiatives, including paid culinary training for 40 residents, free meals for seniors, a local food pantry serving hundreds weekly, and entrepreneurial opportunities like our Metro coffee carts. It will also support the essential infrastructure — staff, program management, and systems — that ensures these programs can scale, measure impact, and create lasting change. Every gift moves capital directly into the community, breaking barriers, building opportunity, and empowering residents to thrive.
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Because healing and empowerment are inseparable. Without access to resources, training, and opportunity, talented individuals remain trapped in cycles of poverty. By funding grassroots programs directly and investing in both people and infrastructure, we create lasting change that strengthens the entire community.
We provide fresh meals and sustain vital food resources for seniors, families, and vulnerable residents. With over 1,500 meals delivered and 625 weekly food pantry recipients, we nourish South LA while building stability and wellness.
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MEET THE TEAM
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We provide paid training, hands-on experience, and direct job placement to South LA residents. From our 100-hour culinary program to Metro coffee carts, we break barriers and open doors to living-wage careers and entrepreneurship.
The Hot ANd Cool FOunation
At Hot & Cool, we believe that healing is not just emotional — it’s economic. Personal and communal well-being flourishes when people have access to resources, opportunities, and stability. That’s why our work centers economic empowerment as a pathway to wellness.
Through our programs, we equip at-risk individuals with tools to build brighter futures. And with the launch of the Hot & Cool Fund, we’re expanding that mission by moving capital directly into South LA. No gatekeeping. No red tape. Just direct support for grassroots organizers, small community organizations, and the big ideas that have the power to shift systems.
This Giving Tuesday, your donation helps us remove barriers, invest in local leadership, and build long-term community power.