Founded in 1979, the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) serves Los Angeles County’s Asian and Pacific Islander populations experiencing language or cultural gaps, financial need, physical disabilities, or other challenges. To do so, it sponsors over a dozen different community and social service programs and partners with other nonprofit organizations on community-serving real estate projects. Through such collaborations, LTSC has helped develop 800 units of affordable housing and approximately 125,000 square feet of community space, totaling more than $200 million in investment. It is also working in partnership with over 100 organizations to create “Sustainable Little Tokyo,” a cultural eco-district that will sustain LA’s Little Tokyo for future generations by embracing green technologies and infrastructure, growing small businesses, and supporting Japanese and Japanese-American arts and culture.