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The Niles Foundation is a 501c3 organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable, historically disinvested, and communities of color in need.
Through our work in land access, food, clean energy, education, training, leadership, and environmental change, we strive to meet communities need.
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SAVE THE DATE NOV 21, 2025
This is a Property Owners Luncheon designed for properties with at least 5+ units. This event will provide a complimentary lunch and present amazing financial incentives and benefits programs for subsidized solar on multifamily affordable housing in LA County.
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Free to attend, and free to register. Seats are limited!
Community Education, Health & Wellness
Women + Environment
Land + Food + Environment
Land + Food + Environment
Land + Food + Environment
Land + Food + Environment
Land + Food + Environment
Youth + Leadership
Land + Food + Environment
Youth + Leadership
DO MOre With THe NIles FOUNDATION
Community Urban Agriculture - Land Stewardship, Food-Farming, and Native - Pollinating Gardens.
Our Yard2Farms #SouthLAGreenFoodLandProject expands its current "green food access" spaces into dedicated community "urban farms, edible gardens and open community green spaces" that increase BIPOC Community Food Security Sustainable Green Spaces, Environmental Education, BIPOC Community Engagement, and BIPOC Community Health and Wellness.
It expands and transforms outdoor land or living spaces throughout South LA or surrounding areas of high economic needs. We especially focus on areas that have been abandoned or that we can adopt. The project includes rooftop urban farms, edible parks and gardens, fresh food donations to homeless missions, families in need and and Los Angeles residents.
#SouthLAGreenFoodLandProject was made possible
by the Sony Music Group.
Launching Unique Zero-Emissions Community Mobility From Real Voices of Los Angeles
EVCLEAN15 is revolutionizing transportation in Los Angeles Council District 15, where frontline communities face some of California’s highest pollution burdens and deepest mobility inequities. Through over 1,002 in-person surveys conducted across 600+ days,
The Niles Foundation uncovered the real transportation challenges residents face: low incomes, limited car access, unsafe and unreliable transit, and minimal awareness of clean mobility options.
The findings are clear:
- Only 12% of residents own an EV, barriers like cost and charging access are widespread.
- Nearly 70% are unaware of EV incentive programs.
- 29% rely on transit daily, yet 46% rarely or never use it due to safety concerns, long wait times, and limited routes.
- Over 80% of residents are eager for community-based EV microtransit solutions.
EVCLEAN15 is answering that call, launching zero-emissions microtransit designed by and for the community. By embedding equity into every route, every ride, and every policy recommendation, EVCLEAN15 is not just reducing emissions, it’s expanding access to opportunity, improving public health, and building a model for just, inclusive, and sustainable transportation.
This is what climate justice in motion looks like.
The Halo Food Project
Clean Energy Supporting Local Food Systems For Communities In Need.
In partnership with USDA and RFI, TNF’s Halo Food Project (HFP) "EV Full Retail Mobile Grocery Store" stewards a necessary and pivotal food system of clean energy retail mobile grocery that provides high quality healthy foods for retail with SNAP and EBT accessibility thanks to the HFFI Initiative, RFI and USDA.
The community stores will benefit very low-income, low-income, underserved, underrepresented, disadvantaged and BIPOC communities of LA and South LA, giving 1.3 million LA residents an immediate food access and food security action plan.
See what the community had to say about natural and organic snacks. Check back soon for our CA farm partners and what our community tasters had to say about that.
If YOU MISSED IT...
If you missed our summer day filled with exciting discussions and innovations in the fields of climate, food, and clean tech! Don't worry, see you in 2026.
Check out event highlights below.
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Stay connected to learn about our Climate, Food & Clean Tech Pop Up 2026.
To attend, click register here, below.
State Mobile MOnitoring Initiative (SMMI)
What’s in the air we breathe?
Aclima, in partnership with the California Air Resources Board (CARB), is leading the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative (SMMI). This project will gather detailed air quality data across California using specialized mobile platforms. The initiative focuses on measuring pollutants, toxic air contaminants, and greenhouse gases, particularly in disadvantaged communities.
The Niles Foundation, in collaboration with Aclima, CARB, and CCI has hosted several community events for Gardena, Alondra Park Lawndale, and Torrance to discuss the project and learn how better we can monitor air within the community.
This work is happening through the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative, with the support of CARB @AirResources and CCI @CAClimateInvest. To learn more, visit our website: www.aclima.earth/ca-smmi
We’ve just published a Community Air Monitoring Plan in partnership with @aclima. Follow this link to access the report: here.
través de la Iniciativa Estatal de Monitoreo Móvil
Este trabajo se realiza a través de la Iniciativa Estatal de Monitoreo Móvil, con el apoyo de CARB @AirResources y CCI @CAClimateInvest. Para más información, visite nuestro sitio web: www.aclima.earth/ca-smmi