Food & Hospitality
Initiative
Creative Pathways Fund
Investing in Creative Potential.
Overview
What this is for.
The Creative Pathways Fund is designed to remove barriers and create pathways for young people to explore, prepare for, and enter careers across entertainment, media, arts, technology, design, sports, mobility, and other creative industries. The Fund brings together philanthropy, corporate partners, public funding, and individual donors to support high-impact experiences and career-connected learning opportunities.
Too many young people never get the opportunity to see, experience, or prepare for the creative careers that exist around them. Cost, access, transportation, and limited industry exposure can prevent talent from ever discovering a pathway.
Strategy
What Music to the Ears actually does.
Help fund access to career-connected field trips, events, and industry experiences
Connect students with companies, professionals, and creative workplaces
Support education, training, mentorship, certifications, and work-based learning
Build pathways from career exposure to internships, apprenticeships, employment, and entrepreneurship
Partner types
- Philanthropy
- Corporate giving
- Individual donors
- Higher education
Communities
- K-12 students
- Program alumni
- Emerging creative talent
What we aim to produce
- Young people who can discover and pursue a future in the creative economy
- Stronger pipelines between education, industry, and opportunity
- More equitable access to creative careers and economic mobility
These are the initiative’s stated aims. Published outcomes appear in the related stories below as they are documented.
Programs inside it
What runs on the ground.
Related stories
Where you can see it.
Case Study
LAUSD Paid Internship Pipeline
Turning creative skills into paid, real-world industry experience.
Read the story
Impact Story
LA Auto Show Student Field Trip
Take your students beyond the classroom and into the future of the automotive industry.
Register your school
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Global Music & Arts Cultural Exchange.
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Student Merch & Brand Lab
School-Based Creative Entrepreneurship.
Students design, develop, and launch official school merchandise and brand identities, turning campuses into real-world creative labs.
Partner on this initiative
Join Creative Pathways Fund.
Initiatives grow by adding partners with something specific to contribute: a workplace, a technology, a community, or funding.