GDL History
This is the name of the winning project created by Nick and Katherine, a standout success in GDL incubator history.
What is Bridge UCLA?
Completed in 1929 and built in a Romanesque Revival style, this building became the visual symbol of UCLA’s move to its Westwood campus.
What is Royce Hall.
Before Hollywood became the industry’s center, this Los Angeles–area studio, founded by Thomas Ince in 1915, helped pioneer the factory-style studio system in early American filmmaking.
What is Inceville?
This index, developed by the UN, measures development not just by income but by combining health, education, and standard of living into a single score
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)
This term describes the practice of involving community members in the design and implementation of a project, rather than imposing solutions from the outside.
What is participatory development?
GDL partners annually with this NGO to bring in guest speakers and help source internships for members.
What is NEI?
This long-serving chancellor, who led UCLA from 1968 to 1997, is recognized as the youngest chancellor of a UC.
Who is Charles E. Young?
This Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum tenant won the city’s first Super Bowl title, years before another NFL franchise made the stadium its home again.
Who are the Los Angeles Rams?
This concept, introduced by economist Walt Rostow in 1960, argued that all societies pass through five predictable stages on their way to becoming modern industrial economies.
What is the Stages of Economic Growth (or Modernization Theory)?
Before partnering with a local organization, development teams conduct this process to assess the partner's financial, organizational, and technical capacity.
What is due diligence (or capacity assessment)?
This acronym, central to GDL’s long-running partnership, stands for “Nutrition & Education International.”
What is NEI?
Before becoming the frontman of The Doors, this rock icon studied film at UCLA, where he met Ray Manzarek.
Who is Jim Morrison?
Modeled after Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, these structures were completed by Italian scultor Simon Rodia and completed in 1954
What are the Watts Towers
This UN Sustainable Development Goal specifically targets inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030.
What is SDG 4?
This principle holds that aid and development programs should align with the priorities set by the recipient country's own government, rather than donor preferences."
What is ownership (or the Paris Declaration principle of ownership)
This incubator project is the most recent winner in GDL history.
What is K.I.T.S. at UCLA?
This philosopher and political activist was a UCLA faculty member in 1969 before being dismissed by the UC Regents, a controversy that drew national attention.
Who is Angela Davis
This director’s 1974 film Chinatown used a noir mystery to dramatize real political conflicts over water, power, and corruption in early 20th-century Los Angeles.
Who is Roman Polanski?
This competing theory, developed largely by Latin American scholars in the 1960s, argued that poor countries are not simply behind rich ones but are actively kept underdeveloped by their relationship with wealthy nations." What is Dependency Theory?
What is Dependency Theory?
When two organizations share resources and credit toward a common goal but maintain separate identities, this type of relationship is called _____, as opposed to a merger.
What is a partnership (or coalition)?
When a judge worried about the general public abusing her food-insecurity app, this contestant memorably replied, “I mean I could use a snack sometimes too.”
Who is Clarissa?
This UCLA lecture hall, now the home of the mathematics department, is the historical birthplace of ARPANET.
What is Boelter Hall?
Elected in 1973, this longtime mayor of Los Angeles oversaw the city during the 1984 Olympics and a major era of growth, but also faced intense criticism after the 1992 unrest.
Who is Tom Bradley?
This governance reform, which transfers political authority and resources from central governments to local administrations, is theorized to improve public service delivery by bringing decision-making closer to communities
What is decentralization?
Coined in development literature, this concept warns that when a powerful outside organization enters a community, local actors may step back and defer — actually weakening local capacity over time
What is crowding out (or the dependency trap)?