The Clean & Green Program was created by then-Mayor Tom Bradley as a way to keep 14- to 17-year-old high school students during breaks from school (which was on year-round tracks back then). Clean & Green Students provided community beautification and other support in every Council District across the City of LA. Today, our Clean & Green project lives in the Young Adult Corps and still ensures that all Council Districts are regularly provided with street and neighborhood clean-up services.

The Russell Kantor Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in honor of Founder Mickey Kantor’s teenage son who tragically died the year before.

Building Up Los Angeles (now our After School Programs) was created as one of the nation’s first AmeriCorps programs and serves over 20 schools across LAUSD today. BULA was the first AmeriCorps-funded program and mobilized 60 Community-Based Organizations to address critical Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, and Environmental issues in our underserved communities.

Will later be renamed the John Van de Kamp Center in memory of the Corps' Founding Board Member.

This park was built in partnership with the Compton Unified School District and MRCA by Corpsmembers and now serves as a Corps program site.

Program operations begin in the East Valley at a site in Sunland-Tujunga.

Program operations expand in the San Fernando Valley with a program site in Reseda.

The Corps' first site, located in South LA, is renamed as the Russell Kantor Center in honor and memory of the 1998 death of Founder Mickey Kantor's son.