About the Price Center

The mission of the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation is to develop ideas and illuminate strategies to improve the quality of life for people in low-income urban communities.

Gary Painter, Director, speaks at the Price Center's annual conference

An aerial view of the City Heights neighborhood in San Diego, home of Price Philanthropies

Masters of Public Policy students work on a wide range of research projects pertaining to social innovation

The Price Center hosts a variety of events that help inform the field of social innovation in both scholarship and practice

Portrait of a young man featured in the recent Sunshine and Central photo exhibit as part of the 2017 Forward LA conference

Rosa Parks school Storyteller statue in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego

Portrait of a young woman featured in the recent Sunshine and Central photo exhibit as part of the 2017 Forward LA conference

Weingart City Heights Library, one of the many community revitalization projects undertaken by Price Philanthropies

In November 2011, Price Philanthropies made an extraordinary $50 million gift to the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy to honor the life and legacy of Sol Price, founder of Price Club. The naming gift also launched the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation.

The mission of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation is to develop ideas and illuminate strategies to improve the quality of life for people in low-income urban communities. Together with the Price School’s academic rigor and practice-based expertise, the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation works to advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families, as well as advance the field of social innovation through scholarship and rigorous academic inquiry.

635 Downey Way
Verna & Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD)
2nd Floor, Suite 207
Los Angeles, CA 90089-3331

(213) 740-8582

pricecsi@usc.edu