Alta Community

a fiscal sponsee of The Cooking Project.

Join our mission to empower communities through food

Alta Community is a new non-profit dedicated to supporting our communities by addressing food insecurity, providing vocational training and creating opportunities for ownership while building neighborhood connections. We are so excited to continue the journey we started at LocoL in 2016, and could not do this without the support of people like you.

It all began at LocoL

LocoL opened in Watts in 2016. By hiring from the community and emphasizing training, LocoL was wildly successful in creating new careers for a team that had never held hourly positions. LocoL immediately had an outsized impact on Los Angeles culture, and its influence quickly spread across the country. The business was built on the idea that everyone deserves good food, a good job, and an opportunity to fulfill their potential.

We met in 2015, before LocoL opened. After working together for three years, in 2018 LocoL closed. A few months later, we opened Alta Adams in West Adams. Alta has been successful beyond anything we could have imagined, and we are so grateful for the support of the Los Angeles community. During all this time, our values never changed.

Returning to Watts as a nonprofit

Now we are ready to go back and relaunch LocoL as a non-profit. To do this we started Alta Community, a non-profit arm of Alta dedicated to empowering communities through food. Using the original LocoL Watts space as our home base, we will expand LocoL’s mission to include three focus areas:

1) Vocational Training

2) Address food insecurity in the community

3) Be a good neighborhood restaurant and gathering space

We will use LocoL Watts as a central hub, with satellite locations throughout Los Angeles. Our goal is to create a model that we can replicate in cities across the country.

Food is the key to a better future

We believe that changing how people eat improves their health, mental wellness, and confidence. It changes the supply chain by increasing demand for good ingredients and moving people away from processed food. Food is our connection to nature, culture and history, both personal and communal. By improving our food systems, we can change the future of our society for the better.

Help create jobs and feed people in need

Please consider supporting Alta Community so that together we can create jobs and feed people in need. Your generosity will have a direct impact on the lives of the people in the Los Angeles community. Help us build on the exciting journey we started at LocoL in 2016.

With gratitude,

Keith Corbin & Daniel Patterson

Co-founders, Alta Adams and Alta Community