The Garage Board Shop

The Urban Warehouse was founded in 2015 by Maria “Patty” Ramblaz, to help children and teenagers stay off the street and stay in school through the beauty of art and skateboarding. The Urban Warehouse combines LA’s vibrant culture, motivating and empowering the community through art and skateboarding. We focus on serving at-risk youth in the Los Angeles area, often those from low income households to motivate them through their early education, college and beyond. 

One of its most prominent initiatives is the Skate 4 Education program, an afterschool program that awards points for academic excellence and consistent effort. The points translate into prizes, scholarships and a positive learning environment. The Urban Warehouse also provides weekly homework assistance, volunteer hours for highschool students, homework tutoring, opportunities to create art, music, mental health resources and even an indoor skatepark.

The youth learn how to be entrepreneurs, responsibility, communication and social skills setting them up for success.  The Urban Warehouse has created intergenerational impact resulting in improved grades, higher test scores, and college resources— while providing scholarships, food banks, and field trips for the broader community.

Your support is important to our work at The Garage Board Shop. There are many ways you can contribute towards our causes, and any sort of commitment can go a long way in helping us fulfill our mission.

Trading skateboarding for education; we use an active lifestyle as the backbone to success in education. We aim to teach the youth to value education through our Skate-4-Education. We successfully accomplish this by motivating and awarding our kids with scholarships. While trying to make a difference in the lives of our youth we also wish to help better our community. The youth participate in various community outreach activities the shop is involved with. The youth learn the importance of recycling and use recycled goods from our environmental cleanups to their advantage. Turning a profit from the recycled material, and investing it into candy boxes they use to raise money towards trips, events, skate park maintenance, and skater scholarships. At The Garage Board Shop, well-being is at the forefront of what we’re working together towards.