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Gente Organizada is a Latinx-led grassroots organization dedicated to building intergenerational power and promoting the wellness of immigrant working-class families and youth in Pomona. The organization equips youth and parents with tools and resources to identify critical community issues and leads campaigns to change the policies, practices, regulations, and laws that sustain those challenges.
Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute is a welcoming space to engage, share, and embrace the Nikkei experience and culture. Through their programming, they envision forming a vibrant network for all persons interested in Japanese heritage and culture while honoring history and tradition, inspiring action and change, and promoting cultural pride and respect for all humanity.
Feminist Center for Creative Work supports emerging feminist work by gender-marginalized, queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, and low-income artists and creative practitioners. Through an ever-evolving, intersectional, intergenerational, and joyful collaborative feminist praxis, the organization models alternative ways of working and living through art, programming, media, publishing, and the redistribution of resources—both in Los Angeles and around [...]
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is an environmental health and justice nonprofit organization. Through campaigns and programs, EYCEJ works toward forging a safe and healthy environment for communities that are disproportionately suffering the negative impacts of industrial pollution.
DIY Girls motivates girls and gender-expansive youth to pursue long-term success in technology, engineering, and making through innovative educational experiences and mentor relationships. Partnering with local schools in the Northeast San Fernando Valley region, DIY Girls offers programs that inspire and support students in grades 5 through 12 so that they are better able to [...]
L.A. Co-op Lab explores, invents, and deploys strategies to build LA’s capacity for worker ownership as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy. The organization offers technical assistance, non-extractive financing, online courses, and network-building opportunities throughout the worker ownership process. L.A. Co-op Lab focuses resources on people and communities that have historically been [...]
Visual Communications (VC) develops and supports the voices of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) filmmakers and media artists who empower their communities and challenge perspectives. As the first AAPI media arts organization of its kind, VC has created award-winning films, nurtured and given voice to our youth and seniors, promoted new artistic talent, presented [...]
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural transforms the Northeast San Fernando Valley and beyond by fostering ancestral knowledge, the arts, literacy, and creative engagement. Tia Chucha’s free or low-cost bilingual and intergenerational programs include mural painting, music, dance, writing, visual arts, healing arts, and talking circles. The center is also home to a bookstore that offers culturally [...]
Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) advances the social and economic well-being of low- and moderate-income Thais and other ethnic communities in the greater Los Angeles area. Thai CDC aims to create a thriving community by creating businesses and jobs, developing decent and affordable housing, and revitalizing public space.
Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG) fosters the creation and advancement of new artworks by Chicana/o and Latinx artists through experimental and innovative printmaking techniques and other visual art forms. Rooted in community since 1973, SHG has been at the intersection of arts and social justice in Los Angeles while establishing national and international collaborations [...]
