LOCATION
Downtown Los Angeles
PROJECT TYPE
Community Event
CLIENT
Wayfarer Foundation
PROJECT SIZE
One Day Carnival and community event for two-thousand people experiencing homelessness and two-thousand volunteers, spanning one city block in downtown LA.
PROJECT STATUS
Completed in 2017
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Skid Row Carnival of Love’s mission is to transform the way our communities respond to individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The carnival with music, food, games, and lots of hugs and love, brings together people from every walk of life to join with the homeless community and connect meaningfully. An important addition to the carnival in 2017 were health care services. A pro-bono project for us, Perch Projects created the Medical Pop-Up Clinic, identified, recruited and coordinated a dozen health care service agencies and over one-hundred volunteers to provide eight-hundred homeless residents with behavioral health and medical services, plus access to legal support, insurance, identification cards, feet washing, haircuts and showers.
PERCH ROLE
FEASIBILITY +
ASSESSMENT
- Listen and learn from stakeholders
- Create needs assessment for intended use and goals for project
- Build cost models for budgeting
- Define program requirements and end user priorities
- Draft project schedules and milestone timelines
TEAM
CONSOLIDATION
- Develop the project team and empower existing team
- Support funder and board conversations
- Calibrate expectations for project with local officials and across agencies
Design +
Visioning
for Program
- Align desired outcomes with built environment
- Direct space planning and functional programming
- Collaborate with event planner
Project
Management
- Recruit and manage volunteers, donations and services
- Inform project changes and risk mitigation
- Navigate cooperative engagement between primary stakeholders
- Oversee budget and pretend we’re spending our own money
- Coordinate scheduling
COLLABORATORS
IN THE NEWS
- Volunteers to help homeless with resume writing, health checkups today at Skid Row Carnival of Love
LA Times - Skid Row Carnival of Love Highlight Reel
Wayfarer Studios - Carnival of Love — Carson High students help feed the homeless
LA Times - Mayor Garcetti and Justin Baldoni at the 2018 Skid Row Carnival of Love
Skid Row Carnival of Love