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Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples (SPI) is located on the Southern California Coast within the unceded ancestral homelands of the Tongva people. SPI builds the capacity of Native Nations and Indigenous Peoples throughout California and around the world to protect sacred lands, waters, and cultures. The organization works to create environmentally and socially just [...]
Pacoima Beautiful is a grassroots environmental justice organization advancing a healthy and sustainable San Fernando Valley by providing education, impacting local policy, and supporting local arts and culture. Guided by community-driven planning and resident-informed solutions, Pacoima Beautiful is at the forefront of influencing statewide policy, and advocates for equitable land use, transportation options, and infrastructure [...]
Los Angeles Black Worker Center (LABWC) increases access to quality jobs, reduces employment discrimination, and improves industries that employ Black workers through collective action and unionization. LABWC works to reverse the disproportionate levels of unemployment and underemployment in the Los Angeles Black community.
Órale (formerly the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition) is building and sustaining an immigrant-led movement to end the criminalization of immigrants and secure bold protections and opportunities that allow immigrant communities to thrive. Through leadership development, advocacy, and as a regional hub for information and services, Órale supports an intersectional movement for justice.
Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) builds a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for gender, racial, and economic justice. Led by young Southeast Asian women, KGA creates community campaigns for institutional change, invests in and empowers Southeast Asian youth through leadership development, and conducts participatory action research.
Filipino Migrant Center (FMC) addresses the needs of Filipinos in South Bay cities and throughout Southern California. The immigrant-led organization aims to educate, organize, and mobilize low-income, working-class Filipino families to improve the conditions of their health, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and environment.
CLEAN Carwash Worker Center is a grassroots worker center that empowers car wash workers to make lasting changes in the car wash industry and in their communities. CLEAN fights for the self-determination of immigrant and working-class people through grassroots organizing, strategic outreach, skills-building workshops, and civic action.
California Black Women’s Health Project (CABWHP) is committed to improving the health of California’s millions of Black women and girls through advocacy, education, outreach, and policy. A healthier future is possible when women are empowered to make choices and when equal access and health justice are community priorities.
ALMA Backyard Farms reconnects the lives of formerly incarcerated people to the fabric of society by repurposing land into productive urban farms and reimagining community as a place for people and plants to thrive. Participants have the chance to attain gainful employment and become self-sufficient through urban agricultural job training, youth education, and their Farm [...]
Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles (ACT-LA) works to create a transit-rich city where all people have access to quality jobs, affordable housing, necessary social services, ample transportation options, and a voice in decision-making. The broad-based coalition builds a more sustainable Los Angeles community by reducing toxic air pollution, promoting public health, and strengthening [...]
