Who We Are

Founded in 2017, Snap Inc. and its two founders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, have generously pledged lasting financial support to the Snap Foundation. Through grant giving, field building & advocacy, education & innovation, and our collaborative commitment to the city of Los Angeles, our foundation strives to help youth attain a future of endless possibilities within the creative economy and beyond.

Our Mission

Our mission is to develop pathways to the creative economy for underrepresented youth
in Los Angeles.

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Mission

  • Develop pathways to the creative economy for underrepresented youth in Los Angeles
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How

  • Ensuring nonprofit organizations and collaboratives are well resourced to support strong outcomes for youth and communities
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Strategy

  • Strategic and Responsive Grant-making
  • Creative Education and Skills
  • Career Exploration and Readiness
  • Workforce Entry and Advancement
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Outcome

  • High quality education and training
  • Constant networking and mentorship
  • Access to ongoing funding and operational support
  • Centralized advocacy and equitable creative career policy
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Impact

  • Underrepresented leaders established in the impacted communities we invest in
  • Underrepresented youth in the creative industries equal to counterparts
  • Systemic inequities eliminated
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Our Vision

The Snap Foundation envisions a future where all young people have equitable opportunities to contribute to and benefit from the thriving creative ecology of Los Angeles. We will accomplish this by ensuring creative non-profit organizations and collaborative efforts are well-resourced. We provide access to funding, mentorship and networking opportunities, high-quality education and training in creative fields, and to organizations who advocate for and develop arts policy.

Our Values

Through our core values of collaboration, creativity, innovation, transformation, and trust, we are changing the face of LA’s creative economy.

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Collaboration

By listening to and sharing stories from others, we aim to help organizations and young people build — and tell— their own story. We believe we can all go farther, together.
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Creativity

The human imagination is boundless and hopeful. We believe creative solutions can remove obstacles and help youth reach their potential. We believe in the creative potential of young people to transform the world.
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Innovation

We boldly approach solutions to problems. For the sake of progress, we believe philanthropy should bear the risk of failure. We believe philanthropy can be a positive catalyst for change.
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Transformation

To build scalable, equitable, systems-level change, we believe in using data to inform our decision making and improve our impact.
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Trust

To advance equity, we build mutually accountable relationships of trust with our grantees. We believe partnerships move at the speed of trust.

Our Future

Snap Foundation will work to advance equity by funding organizations supporting and/or led by underrepresented youth working in our three primary focus areas: Creative Education and Skills, Creative Economy Career Exploration and Readiness, and Creative Economy Workforce Entry and Advancement.

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Our Board

Juan Devis
Betsy Lack
Kelly Kagan Law
Pedro J. Martí
Mary Ritti
Katherine Tassi

Our Team

Joel Arquillos
Michelle Moreno

Careers

Learn how to become part of our collaborative mission in empowering young creatives in Los Angeles through funding, mentorship, education, and advocacy opportunities.

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