Our Partners

PLUS ME Project activates the art of personal storytelling to increase confidence in youth as they pursue college, career, and life goals. Their vision is to create a world where all communities are filled with courageous voices whose stories are heard, valued, and celebrated.

Street Poets, Inc is a Los Angeles-based non-profit that harnesses the healing power of poetry, music, and storytelling to save lives, build community, and transform culture, with a primary focus on serving systems impacted and BIPOC youth. Street Poets, Inc. breaks the cycle of violence in the lives of at-risk and incarcerated youth, awakening them to their gifts. They build creative communities, connecting youth, adults and elders of diverse backgrounds.

PS Science brings hands-on STEM learning to elementary school children and supports classroom teachers and community educators with lessons, materials and training so they can provide their students with regular and ongoing science. Their goal is to ensure that all kids have an equal chance at the STEM careers of the future.

Pomona Economic Opportunity Center is a non-profit day labor organization whose mission is to provide an opportunity for day laborers to find safe work at a fair wage, to obtain new trades and skills that improve their employability and quality of life, and to improve overall conditions for all immigrant workers. PEOC programs support the economic, political and social development and sustainability of immigrant communities.

New Directions Drug and Alcohol Services, Inc. works to break the cycle of addiction and transform lives within low-income communities in Lancaster, CA by providing outpatient substance use disorder treatment for drug and alcohol addiction along with wraparound support services. Their services are designed to address the physical, mental, and emotional needs of individuals, families and targeted youth, i.e. at-risk and emancipated youth, struggling with both current and generational abuses.

With empathy and love, Mass Liberation addresses the harms of incarceration by educating and empowering returning citizens with evidence-based, whole-person approaches. They are dedicated to breaking the cycle of incarceration and creating opportunities for all by providing the support and resources necessary for individuals to thrive beyond their past and contribute to a more just and equitable society.

Long Beach Forward‘s mission is to create a healthy Long Beach with low-income communities of color by building community knowledge, leadership, and power. Their vision is for Long Beach to be a community that is safe, connected, and healthy for everyone,  where race and income do not determine one’s future.

Eastside Leadership For Equitable and Accountable Development Strategies (Eastside LEADS) was established in 2017 comprising community members and eight community-based partner organizations working together to ensure urban development and investment is guided by the needs and priorities of the community first, without displacement. Eastside LEADS organizes and advocates for policies that advance the values of social housing, including the preservation and expansion of affordable housing, the promotion of social equity, and the right to give community members control over the decision-making and governance process impacting their housing and local matters.

Community Asset Development Redefining Education (CADRE) is a grassroots organization of parent organizers dedicated to advancing educational equity and justice in South Los Angeles. Their  mission is to empower parents, particularly those from underserved, disinvested, marginalized communities, to become effective advocates for their children’s education and to influence policies that foster fair and just educational practices.

Brothers, Sons, Selves Coalition is an alliance of nine community-based organizations across Los Angeles and Long Beach. Their mission is to end the criminalization of young bois/boys and men of color by creating and influencing public policy that invests in young people and their future.

artworxLA combats the high school dropout crisis by providing long-term, sequential arts programming that offers alternative high school students a viable life path and inspires them to stay in school, grow as unique individuals, and flourish as creative adults. Their ultimate aspiration is for all students to graduate high school with an expanded sense of community, with an awareness of their agency in society, and on a path to a living wage.