Grassroots Groups We Support

2nd Call is a community based organization designed to save lives, by reducing violence and assisting in the personal development of high risk individuals, proven offenders, ex-felons, parolees and others who society disregards.

APAIT has held a distinctive record of providing high quality programming through its vision – to advocate, educate, and achieve optimal health and well-being for vulnerable communities. APAIT’s mission is to positively impact the quality of life for vulnerable communities experiencing behavioral health challenges, housing insecurity, and at-risk for HIV/AIDS. APAIT is grounded by its core values of compassion, commitment, communication, empowerment, integrity, mentorship, respect, and teamwork.

ActiveSGV's mission is to support a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Advot uses the power of artistic exploration to empower young people to find their voice and grow into courageous and effective self-advocates.

Affordable Pasadena has collected enough signatures to qualify our ballot initiative for the November 2022 election. If passed, it would amend the Pasadena city charter to enact rent control and eviction protections on rental units in the city. Over 300 volunteers and dozens of grassroots community organizations and leaders contributed to this historic effort. We are seeking two experienced and enthusiastic organizers to help us run a successful campaign.

A La Defensa challenges punitive approaches to public safety through public education and cross-movement collaboration.

The Alliance for Community Transit-Los Angeles strives to create community transit – just, equitable, sustainable transit systems and neighborhoods for ALL people in Los Angeles, placing the interests of low-income communities and communities of color first as we create a more sustainable city.

We work strategically, passionately, and collectively to dramatically shift gender norms and realities and to ensure that the next generation of girls and gender-expansive youth realize their full potential.

ACCE is dedicated to raising the voices of everyday Californians, neighborhood by neighborhood, to fight for the policies and programs we need to improve our communities and create a brighter future.

The mission of the ACCE Institute is to improve the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, including communities of color, low-income and working families, and the undocumented population, by carrying out work that fosters deep, indigenous leadership development, policy creation, robust civic participation, and broad community empowerment.

All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly-and currently-incarcerated people and our families.

All Peoples Community Center's goal is to provide services and programs that empower individuals and promote community respect and self-determination for all.

The mission of Amazing Grace Conservatory is to train and develop emerging artists & at risk youth in the performing and digital arts by offering a well-rounded and culturally enriching, educational program in an environment that is nurturing for their personal, artistic and professional growth.

A New Way of Life Reentry Project provides housing, case management, pro bono legal services, advocacy, and leadership development for people rebuilding their lives after incarceration.

The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) works to end mass incarceration in California.

Empowering Asian & Pacific Islander communities to achieve LGBTQ, racial, and social justice. Together we can create an inclusive, equitable, and just society where all API LGBTQ people will thrive.

We cultivate healthy, long-lasting, and vibrant Asian and Pacific Islander communities through grassroots organizing.

API RISE's mission is to make freedom possible for the community of current and formerly incarcerated individuals, youth and families in high-risk situations, allies, supporters, and their communities. We do this through culturally sensitive direct support, education, power building, organizing, and advocacy.

A Place Called Home provides a safe, nurturing environment with proven programs in arts, education and wellness for the young people in South Central Los Angeles to help them improve their economic conditions and develop healthy, fulfilling and purposeful lives.

The Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN) is an interdisciplinary collaborative that provides exceptional arts programming in order to build resiliency and wellness, eliminate recidivism, and transform the juvenile justice system.

ArtworxLA combats the high school dropout crisis by engaging students in a long-term, sequential arts program offering a pursuable life path that inspires them to stay in school, evolve as unique individuals and flourish as creative adults.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have long been leaders, community members, and change makers. With over 50 ethnicities and over 100 languages and dialects, our rich history intertwines with efforts for racial justice, immigration, and civil liberties. Today, AAPIs are 7.2% of the US population, 15.3% of the electorate in California, and the fastest growing ethnic population in the US. This breadth of resilience informs the way we continue to fight for access and equity. From the earliest immigrants in the 1800s, to building communities across nationalities and experiences, to empowering community members to vote, educating ourselves and allies, we are advancing justice.

Beloved Youth seeks to interrupt cycles of poverty, incarceration, and houselessness by supporting and resourcing young people and families with community based alternatives. We partner with young people involved or at risk of involvement with the juvenile legal system and their families to reimagine and invest in housing innovations that foster a sense of belonging outside the institutions that have harmed us.

The mission of the Beverly Vermont Community Land Trust is to exercise land stewardship as the basis for creating pedestrian-centered neighborhoods emphasizing affordable housing, work and recreational spaces that are economically and socially sustainable, and that integrate urban living with nature.

The Black Equity Collective (Collective) is a community-public-private partnership with Black equity as its central, unifying force. Our focus is to strengthen the long-term capacity and infrastructure of Black-led and Black-empowering social justice organizations in Southern California (Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire). The Collective was born out of the Black Equity Initiative (BEI), an effort that began in 2017.

The California Black Freedom Fund is a five-year, $100 million initiative to ensure that Black power-building and movement-based organizations have the sustained investments and resources they need to eradicate systemic and institutional racism.

Black Women for Wellness is committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls through health education, empowerment and advocacy.

Our goal is simple, to use policy, electoral advocacy, and the power of narrative to reimagine a just new future where Black women and girls thrive.

The Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley is a youth and family-oriented nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the educational, vocational, social, and character developments of boys & girls between the ages of 6 and 17. Striving to help members and families enhance their lives, the Club offers programs that build self-esteem, social competencies, and positive values. Not only do members meet new friends, but they learn and develop new skills that benefit them a lifetime.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles creates safe spaces that EMPOWER Club members to learn, explore, achieve, and dream!

Bridge Builders Foundation (BBF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in 1998 and is dedicated to building bridges from dreams and aspirations to reality for the youth of our community.

Our mission is to remove and/or help individuals overcome the barriers that deter their pursuit of success in life and facilitate opportunities for a better quality of life by effectuating improved health & wellness, facilitating academic success, promoting personal, social & economic growth, providing access to artistic excellence & cultural awareness, increasing financial literacy and building community agencies & institutions.

Our 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

25-Year vision plan to advance the preservation and expansion of affordable housing options and economic development for a wide array of incomes and needs.

BTRC exists to promote Burbank's Measure RC, to stabilize rents and protect tenants from no-fault evictions, and to educate Burbank tenants on their rights.

We engage, educate and motivate new and infrequent voters among young people, from communities of color, and from poor and working class neighborhoods to make California’s electorate reflect our state’s diverse population.

The California Donor Table is a statewide community of donors who pool their funds to make investments in communities of color so they have the power and resources they need to (1) elect people who represent their values and needs and (2) help govern and hold decision-makers accountable.

The California Environmental Justice Alliance is a statewide, community-led alliance that works to achieve environmental justice by advancing policy solutions.

The Collaborative educates and organizes nail salon workers and owners to build their knowledge and skills on health, safety and workplace rights.

IYJA is a statewide immigrant youth-led alliance that focuses on placing immigrant youth in advocacy and policy delegations in order to ensure pro-immigrant policies go beyond legalization, and shed light on how the criminalization of immigrants varies based on identity.

California Latinas for Reproductive Justice is a statewide organization committed to honoring the experiences of Latinas/xs to uphold our dignity, our bodies, sexuality, and families.

The California Native Vote Project (CNVP) is dedicated to serving Native community members as we experience a disproportionate burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Californians for Justice is a statewide youth-powered organization fighting for racial justice.

Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) is a statewide coalition of 70 grassroots organizations that is reducing the number of people in prisons and jails, shrinking the imprisonment system, and shifting public spending from corrections and policing to human services.

The mission of California Youth Connection (CYC), a youth-led organization, is to develop leaders who empower each other and their communities to transform the foster care system through legislative, policy, and practice change.

Our coalition of 300 local residents, both adults and students and 30 community organizations is calling on all AV School Districts and the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster to cancel their contracts for policing with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, as well as their security contract with the Antelope Valley Union High School District that allows police violence to invade our schools and push our children into the school to prison pipeline.

The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) is a progressive equity-based organization that embodies hope, unites people y pueblos, to create intersectional solutions that transform communities “to bring people together to improve their social and natural environment.” Utilizing the lens of environmental health, we achieve regenerative change by developing resilient BIPOC intergenerational leadership, through the power of community base-building. Through strategic campaigns, we cultivate inclusive self-sustaining neighborhoods, where everyone can live, work, play, and thrive.

The Young Women’s Freedom Center was founded in 1993 to empower and inspire cis and trans young women, trans young men, and gender-expansive young people who have been disproportionately impacted by incarceration, racist and sexist policies, the juvenile and criminal justice systems, and/or the underground street economy, to create positive change in their lives and communities.

Centinela Youth Services vision is to use the principles of Restorative Justice and Trauma-Informed Care to empower youth, families, and crime victims to become accountable, to heal and to realize their full potentials.

CARECEN, the largest Central American immigrant rights organization in the country, empowers Central Americans and all immigrants by defending human and civil rights, working for social and economic justice, and promoting cultural diversity.

The CCU Coalition is led by the Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA), Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) and the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), as key stakeholders in the Chinatown, Little Tokyo and Skid Row neighborhoods of Downtown, along with Public Counsel. We came together to lift up the voices and concerns of the poorest and most vulnerable residents of Downtown in the community plan process. We know from experience that community-led planning results in healthier, more stable communities.

Changeist is a Saturday program that brings together 11-26 year olds to learn a common civic language, engage in dialogue, and build community to investigate local and national challenges.

Changing the Faces of Homelessness offers transitional housing with onsite supportive services to prepare our residents for long-term permanent housing by assisting residents with obtaining state ID, Social Security Cards, benefits and employment.

Our mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) is an all volunteer, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization based in Los Angeles Chinatown that builds grassroots power through organizing, education, and mutual help.

CHIRLA's mission is to achieve a just society, fully inclusive of immigrants

CLEAN Carwash LA is a coalition of immigrant, legal, and labor rights organizations.

As CLUE, we educate, organize, and mobilize the faith community to accompany workers and their families in their struggle for good jobs, dignity, and justice.

To protect, promote, preserve and restore our Mother Earth’s delicate ecology, environment, natural resources and wildlife

The Center for Clean Air investigates the source, the transport and transformation, and environmental and society impacts of local, urban, regional, and global air pollution.

The Coalition for Economic Survival is a multi-racial, multi-culture grass-roots community-based organization that has been dedicated to organizing low and moderate income people to win economic and social justice throughout the greater Los Angeles area since 1973.

The Coalition for Engaged Education empowers youth impacted by the justice and foster care systems. With compassionate social support, education, and advocacy for systemic change, we serve young people as they develop positive, self-sustaining lives.

CHIRLA's mission is to achieve a just society, fully inclusive of immigrants

The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.

CBE Action is committed to ensuring that each person is empowered through political education, leadership and organizing activities in support of social and environmental justice local and statewide policy.

Communities in Schools of Los Angeles (CISLA) is an affiliate of Communities In Schools (CIS), the largest dropout (pushout) prevention nonprofit in the United States.

We seek to effect policy change and mobilize political will through new parent participation models that preserve and expand the right to education for all South LA children and youth.

Community Coalition works to help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy.

Community Coalition Action Fund is here to educate South L.A. voters on important ballot measures, initiatives and races impacting our community.

CDTech’s mission is to build livable and economically viable communities in the low-income areas of Greater Los Angeles. This is accomplished by strengthening the skills and self-sufficiency of residents, businesses and community serving institutions through a variety of capacity building and direct service programs.

Community Health Councils (CHC) is a non-profit, community-based health education, advocacy and policy organization established in 1992 in response to the growing health and healthcare crisis. CHC’s mission is to collectively build equitable systems.

To build power with low-income tenants and workers through transformative, cross sectoral organizing to win economic justice, community control of land and housing, and to propagate systems of cooperation in Boyle Heights, East LA and the greater Los Angeles area.

Creative Acts is an organization that seeks to transform urgent social justice issues through the revolutionary power of the Arts; to heal trauma, build community, raise power, and center the voices of those who are or have been incarcerated.

The Criminal Justice Program (CJP) serves as a central hub for research, education, and special projects in criminal law and juvenile justice at UCLA Law.

Dance and Dialogue makes the highest quality dance classes accessible to all - primarily those in the overlooked regions of Los Angeles.

Building vibrant, healthy cities by advancing public health, empowering youth, and igniting change.

We are a debtors’ union fighting to cancel debts and defend millions of households. Join us to build a world where college is publicly funded, healthcare is universal and housing is guaranteed for all.

Our mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.

Dolores Huerta Foundations social justice grassroots organizing work is focused on Civic Engagement, Education Equity, Health and Safety, and LGBTQIA+ Equality. We believe that those most directly impacted by inequity have the knowledge to implement community driven solutions when empowered with the tools, training and resources.

Dream Live Hope Foundations mission is to serve as a provider of supportive services by connecting underserved populations to housing and related services.

East LA Rising​​ has emerged from Boys and Girls Club of America to provide youth and family programs and services that were uniquely tailored for this community, to ensure our youth stay on the road to success that we have been paving since 1950.

We create housing that retains our community fabric and improves residents’ quality of life.

Our coalition of renters, homeowners, youth, seniors, and local community organizations is demanding equitable and accountable development.

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is a community-based organization that works to facilitate self-advocates in East Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The El Sereno Community Land Trust is a group of committed residents and stakeholders who provide opportunities for the residents of El Sereno, Los Angeles to secure community spaces and housing that is decent, affordable, and that is held in stewardship by community members on a long-term basis.

EPIC was established in 2009 by a group of young Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander (NHPI) leaders who recognized the urgency to address the growing needs of NHPI families. With experiences ranging from grassroots organizing to higher education administration, the founders prioritized building a strong and unified advocacy voice for Pacific Islanders. They set out to accomplish this by collecting and publishing disaggregated data to illustrate the needs of NHPI families; and establishing a pipeline of strong leaders who can be advocates and influencers in, and on behalf of, the community.

Esperanza Community Housing Corporation is a social justice non-profit in South Central Los Angeles that achieves long-term, comprehensive community development.

EXP helps young people gain experience, unlock doors and build the confidence they need to succeed in school, career and life.

FACTS Education Fund has a wide range of programs to help formerly incarcerated men and women become positive forces in the lives of their communities.

The idea for Families For A Future started when two friends — and aspiring grandmothers — lamented over their young-adult daughters’ having informed them they did not plan on having children because of global warming. They realized global warming not only threatens kids and families today, it threatens whether there will be a future for families, at all.

Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians is the historic tribe of the northern Los Angeles County of ancestral villages from the San Fernando, Santa Clarita, eastern Semi and Antelope Valleys.

Providing opportunities for low-income residents of Boyle Heights and East LA to secure housing, preserving quality and affordable housing for future long-term residents, and combating community deterioration in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The Filipino Migrant Center (FMC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2010 to address the needs of Filipinos in the South Bay cities of Southern California and has since expanded to serve throughout the entire region.

Fostering Media Connections (FMC) produces media and journalism to lead the conversation about children, youth and families in the US.

From Lot to Spot (FLTS) is a 501c3, non-profit organization dedicated to improving blighted, urban neighborhoods in the greater Los Angeles area one vacant space at a time.

We believe that the people who bear the brunt of unjust housing policies and the negative impacts of profit-driven development should have power to determine what development looks like in their neighborhoods.

Future Leaders California (FLC) is a community-based youth development organization focused on empowering tomorrow’s rising generation. Their goal is to create safe spaces for and provide access to at-promise youth and young adults to flourish, explore, and become oriented to positive citizenry.

Garment Worker Center is a worker rights organization leading an anti-sweatshop movement to improve conditions for tens of thousands of Los Angeles garment workers.

Gender Justice LA (GJLA), which is a grassroots social justice organization led by and for gender non-conforming, two spirit, Black, Indigenous, trans people of color in LA.

GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.

Gente Organizada (Gente) is a community-led social action non-profit organization based in Pomona whose mission is to organize to build intergenerational power and wellness for youth and immigrant families in Pomona.

Compton G.IRLS Club was founded in 2017 as an after-school club based in Compton High School’s Library. We started with 12 girls and volunteers from within our own community. We have created a safe space for girls and gender nonconforming youth to learn something new without judgment.

Girls Club of Los Angele's mission is to enrich the lives of underserved, at-promise children, youth, and families through early education, youth development, and community outreach, which will contribute to self-sufficient, productive individuals.

Glendale Tenants Union is a tenant-led organization committed to strengthening tenant power and supporting the residents of Glendale.

Ground Game LA emerged from an electoral campaign, but we remain active — pushing progressive campaigns to win real change. Electoral victories can propel the movement forward, but only if campaigns are deeply rooted in the community.

Connecting LA’s most vulnerable communities with resource, recourse, and organizing know-how.

The people of The United Methodist Church are putting our faith in action by making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world, which is our church’s mission.

Homies Unidos provides youth life skills and parenting programs for target families and gang at-risk and gang involved youth. These curriculums are provided in our office or can be arranged to be implemented in any facility. It is their mission to defend the inherent right of youth, families and their communities to pursue their dreams and achieve their full potential in a just, safe and healthy society.

Dedicated to improving the skills of the hospitality, food service, and tourism workforce, HTA provides quality apprenticeship and training to upskill current workers and prepare underserved individuals for employment.

Housing Long Beach works to improve, preserve and increase affordable housing for the well-being of Long Beach residents through community organizing, systems and policy change.

Charitable assistance for Leukemia research

Indigenous Pride Los Angeles is a group of community activist, educators, artist, and members of indigenous communities who are two spirit, indigiqueer & lgbtqpai individuals.

Inner City Law Center fights for housing and justice for low-income tenants, working-poor families, immigrants, people who are disabled or living with HIV/AIDS, and homeless veterans.

Our mission is to build a powerful and an influential movement of youth and families on the Eastside of Los Angeles to promote healthy, safe and nonviolent communities.

Inquilinos Unidos (United Tenants) empowers low-income Los Angeles tenants through community organizing, education and advocacy.

The mission of InsideOUT Writers is to reduce juvenile recidivism by providing a range of services that meets the unique needs of currently and formerly incarcerated youth and young adults.

To create a more humane and democratic society by responding to the needs and problems of disenfranchised people through leadership development and educational programs based on Popular Education methodology. Specifically our goal is to organize and educate immigrants concerned with solving problems in their own communities.

In partnership with grassroots organizations, advocates, directly impacted communities, and stakeholders, we work to reduce the footprint of incarceration by stopping jail expansion and reclaiming, reimagining and reinvesting dollars away from incarceration and into community-based systems of care.

Just Us 4 Youth mentors their at-promise communities to develop as people, scholars, and leaders.

Keep LA Housed is a coalition of tenants, tenant rights advocates, public interest lawyers, and community based organizations with the goal of eliminating rent debt, evictions, and other harmful consequences of rent debt accrued during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the City and County of Los Angeles.

Khmer Girls in Action is a community-based organization whose mission is to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for gender, racial and economic justice led by Southeast Asian young women.

Kids In The Spotlight helps youth impacted by foster care heal and grow from trauma through the power of storytelling, filmmaking, and workforce development.

The Kollab Youth Workforce Development Program is a public charity organization and CA DAS Registered Pre-Apprenticeship Program created for under-resourced high school students aged 14 to 19 years old. The Kollab Youth program helps them explore career opportunities in business, STEM, and other emerging 21st century careers that are high-growth and high-wage jobs.

KIWA’s mission is to build the power of immigrant workers and to organize a grassroots leadership to transform our workplaces and communities, in Koreatown and beyond.

The Korean Resource Center (KRC) was founded in 1983 to empower low-income, immigrant, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and communities of color in Southern California.

The LAANE Action Fund is a 501c4 organization supporting the work and priorities of LAANE.

Our campaigns, projects, and publications are rooted in working class communities of color, and address the totality of urban life with a particular focus on civil rights, environmental justice, public health, global warming, and the criminal legal system.

La Defensa is leading a movement to decarcerate the largest jail population in the United States–the LA County jail system–by reducing the power and scope of the judiciary, law enforcement and the legal injustice system.

The LA Forward family of organizations is dedicated to a vision of Los Angeles County as a fair, flourishing region where our public institutions ensure that all people can live in dignity and reach their fullest potential as human beings, no matter where they live, what they look like, or who they love.

Our mission is to contribute to the equity and well-being of our neighborhoods through the development of parks, gardens, and community-driven organizing.

The Latino/a Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley works to improve quality of life and socio-economic justice for the Latinx community and those facing inequities through advancing education, leadership development, and civic participation.

Latino Community Foundation builds a movement of civically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in Latino-led organizations, and increasing political participation of Latinos in California.

The mission of Latino Equality Alliance (LEA) is to advocate for equity, safety, and wellness for the Latinx Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + community. LEA is located at Mi Centro LGBTQ Community Center in Boyle Heights.

LA Voice is a multi-racial, multi-faith community organization that awakens people to their own power, training them to speak, act, and work together to transform our County into one that reflects the dignity of all people.

LA Voice is a multi-racial, multi-faith community organization that awakens people to their own power, training them to speak, act, and work together to transform our County into one that reflects the dignity of all people.

Los Angeles Youth Uprising builds power through youth leadership, direct action organizing and policy advocacy to dismantle the racist juvenile justice system and divert its resources towards holistic models of youth development that ensure LA youth rise and thrive.

LeadersUp is an organization bridging the divide to create an inclusive, antiracist economy.

Legacy LA's mission is to make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. Legacy LA builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and community.

Liberty Community Land Trust is a newly-formed nonprofit organization headquartered in the South Los Angeles community.

The mission of Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) is to provide a comprehensive array of social welfare and community development services to assist low income individuals and other persons in need, contribute to community revitalization and cultural preservation in Little Tokyo and among the broader Japanese community in the Southland, and to provide such resources to neighboring Asian Pacific Islander and other low income communities.

LGC works to build livable communities and local leadership by connecting leaders via innovative programs and network opportunities, advancing policies through participation at the local and state level, and implementing solutions as a technical assistance provider and advisor to local jurisdictions.

We create a healthy Long Beach so that race and income don't determine one's future.

LBAHC works in community development, the creation of employment opportunities and the creation of new stakeholders in our communities. We are dedicated to the preservation, restoration and development of quality workforce housing.

Long Beach Residents Empowered (LiBRE) is committed to advancing justice in disadvantaged communities through the creation and preservation of affordable housing, renter protections, and community economic development.

Long Beach Rising was built to give a home to those who aspire to be more than they are today.

LAANE (Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy) is a nationally recognized advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all.

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ Black workers through action and unionization.

LACCLA aims to combat exploitative and discriminatory economic practices and prevent the displacement of low-income residents from their neighborhoods.

The Los Angeles Community Action Network organizes people to fight back against oppression.

Since 1973, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has worked to mobilize resources in the community to alleviate hunger.

For a quarter-century, Los Angeles Waterkeeper (LA Waterkeeper) has served as LA’s water watchdog, safeguarding our inland and coastal waters using the law, science and community action. We work to eliminate pollution, achieve ecosystem health for our waterways and secure a resilient, multi-benefit, low-carbon water supply to the region.

Measure J was a mandate for the future of L.A. County. In implementation we bring to life the Care First vision for Los Angeles that is rooted in stopping jail expansion, jail closure, and shifting resources to support the needs of Black, Brown and Indigenous communities.

Meztli Projects is an Indigenous based arts & culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to support, advocate for, and organize to highlight Native/Indigenous Artists and systems-impacted youth.

My Friend’s Place offers comprehensive services to 1,000 unhoused young people between the ages of 12 and 25, and their children, each year, out of our dynamic resource center in Hollywood.

The National Center for Youth Law believes in the incredible power, agency, and wisdom of youth. For more than 50 years, we have worked to center the voices and experiences of youth blocked from educational, health, and social well-being opportunities, particularly Black youth and youth of color, LGBTQ youth, disabled youth, immigrant youth, and youth in child welfare and juvenile justice systems. We are transforming systems – classrooms, courts, the justice system, and health care spaces – to extend equity, dignity and care for children and youth.

NDLON improves the lives of day laborers, migrants and low-wage workers. We build leadership and power among those facing injustice so they can challenge inequality and expand labor, civil and political rights for all.

Nature for all works to build a diverse base of support for ensuring that everyone in the los angeles area—no matter where they live—has equitable access to the wide range of benefits that nature can provide.

Established in 1975, New Directions for Youth (NDY) is a comprehensive youth development agency that provides direct services and programs to more than 3,000 at-risk youth and families annually. NDY has provided critically needed services to more than 200,000 youth, the majority of whom come from very low-income families residing in underserved geographic areas including North Hollywood, Van Nuys, Panorama City, North Hills, the economic Enterprise Zone of Pacoima, Sun Valley, and contiguous areas. Our approach is holistic: we recognize that our clients’ needs are extremely complex and we have worked to develop an array of services, including both prevention and intervention programs, to meet these diverse needs.

New Village was established in 2006 to provide a high quality educational opportunity for girls who have not been successfully served in traditional public schools. We allow students to reimagine their futures by providing remarkable educational experiences that ignite their desire to learn as well as social-emotional support from teachers and expert staff. Our students feel safe, encouraged, and excited about learning. They call New Village “a second home.”

The Northeast L.A. Coalition is an organization of active neighborhood participants coming together to pursue common community interests and, by coming together, improving the quality of life in the northeast Los Angeles area.

From building local grassroots networks to staffing international organizations – Oil and Gas Action Network has played key roles in some of the largest mobilizations, organizations, and actions of the US climate justice movement. Now, Oil and Gas Action network has launched a new organization focused on strengthening the grassroots climate justice movement ecosystem.

Prop 16 will help improve all of our daily lives by repealing Proposition 209 and eliminating discrimination in state contracts, hiring and college admissions.

We are a coalition of nonprofits, community advocates and people like you who are working to address the rise in homelessness by improving housing policies and creating affordable housing. We’re bridging the gap between aspiration and meaningful impact.

Pacoima Beautiful is a grassroots environmental justice organization that provides education, impacts public policy, and supports local arts and culture in order to promote a healthy and sustainable San Fernando Valley.

PACTL serves youth, parents and professionals to shape social policy, and promote collective wisdom and action.

Pasadenans Organizing for Progress is a multi-issue community organization whose mission is to make pasadena a more just, fair, and inclusive city.

PTU is the heart of the struggle for housing justice here in Pasadena. It is where tenants and allies gather to organize against rising rents, evictions and gentrification.

Pathway To Kinship empowers people to get free and stay free. Our mission extends beyond nurturing individual success; we foster safer communities and facilitate the reunification of families to build a foundation for lasting change.

At Pause 4 Peace, we provide a range of mental health resources and support designed to help youth, families, and educators navigate the challenges of today’s digital world.

To enable people of all walks of life to be as healthy and active as possible by assisting them to maintain the highest quality of purpose, improving the quality of their lives.

Creating a safe and affirming community where youth in foster care thrive and form lasting connections.

Peace Over Violence is building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence.

As a Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) collective, People for Mobility Justice seeds critical consciousness about mobility justice across all communities.

POWER works to develop the power necessary to create change by recruiting and developing leaders in low-income communities who exceed their own expectation of themselves through direct action, negotiation, relationship building, and winning campaigns.

We work with volunteers and supporters in every corner of the country to defend civil liberties and civil rights

Bresee’s mission is to battle poverty by empowering youth and families in Los Angeles with the skills, resources, and relationships necessary to thrive.

PSR-LA advocates for policies and practices that improve public health, eliminate nuclear and environmental threats, and address health disparities.

PICO California supports grassroots organizing which enables people of faith to build power to reshape their lives and their communities. Our network of organizations trains leaders and equips them with tools to fight racism and build a more equitable and just society.

Pilipino Action Center aims to empower & educate the Pilipino Community and make our voices heard no matter our status or voting eligibility.

Pilipino Workers Center aims to secure the dignity and safety of the Pilipinx community in Southern California and build labor leaders in the domestic worker industry

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally.

The PEOC 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.

The Pomona Kids First Initiative will combat the continuing legacy of systemic racism and the damaging effects of the pandemic by establishing a sustainable funding stream that will address the structural and environmental conditions that drive harmful behavior in children, youth and families; supplement rather than supplant existing funding or programs; and form coalitions among public agencies and community non-profit organizations dedicated to supporting children and youth.

PUSH is a housing rights organization proposing rent control for Pomona!

Positive Results Center addresses trauma from a cultural and age perspective, creating awareness to prevent and end teen dating, domestic and interpersonal violence, sexual assault, bullying, sex trafficking, and their impact and source through workshops on healthy relationships and leadership development.

PowerCA Action advances a progressive agenda for justice and equity for all Californians by engaging, mobilizing and building the leadership of young voters of color and their families.

Project Hope CA provides support to individuals impacted by violence and incarceration through mentorship, reentry services, and community engagement.

Promesa Boyle Heights is a collective of residents, youth, schools, and community organizations united in lifting community voices and working together to transform conditions and improve opportunities for students and families.

We believe that effective solutions to community challenges must be designed and implemented in close partnership with our community residents.

R.A.C.E.’s seeks to increase internal capacity to reach more clients with the end goal reducing gang-related violence in West Athens and Westmont neighborhoods. R.A.C.E.’s target populations are individuals and families that are involved or at-risk for involvement in gang activity and community violence.

Redeemer’s mission is to create a safe, healthy, opportunity-rich community where children, youth and their families thrive.

We are a workers rights group bringing our local restaurant communities together through justice, campaigning, education, organizing, policy work and forever fighting to bring better working wages and conditions to the table for ALL restaurant workers.

Retreat + Reimagine (R+R), an initiative born out of the pandemic + 2020 uprisings, is a collective respite space for community-connected Black transwomen, Black non-binary folx, + Black cis women who serve as change agents in transformative movements in Southern California. It is a movement that centers community care by creating spaces that honor restoration + healing. R+R uses rest as a portal of change. Through that portal, we can reimagine our systems, our movements, + ourselves.

Rideshare Drivers United uniting Uber & Lyft drivers for a fair, dignified, and sustainable rideshare industry.

The Right to Counsel Coalition formed in June 2018 to call for a Renters’ Right to Counsel for tenants facing eviction, including legal representation, eviction prevention services, and emergency rental assistance.

Right To The City Alliance (RTTC) emerged in 2007 with a strong and powerful vision to 1) halt the displacement of low-income people, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ communities, and youth of color, and 2) protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic, just, and sustainable communities.

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples (SPI) is an Indigenous-led, community-based organization located in the ancestral homelands of the Tongva People in Los Angeles.

SALVA pride themselves on working hand-in-hand to address our community’s needs and defend them from social justice and discrimination, with a focus on securing our family’s rights.

The mission of Sanctuary of Hope is to provide a caring and identity affirming approach to services that will help young people become self-sufficient, make connections, and lead prosperous lives.

The "San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians" Gabrieleno (Tongva) Band of Mission Indians was exclusively recognized by the State of California in 1994. They have remained an integral part of the Southern California community.

Prop 15 was put on the ballot by a record-breaking 1.7 million people who believe that wealthy corporations need to pay their fair share.

The South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z) is a place-based initiative and collective impact partnership whose mission is to revitalize South Los Angeles by moving residents to economic opportunity.

The Southern California Pacific Islander COVID-19 Response Team (SoCal PICRT) is a coalition of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community-based organizations and advocates providing much-needed resources and information to our communities in the the cities and counties across Southern California.

At the Social Justice Learning Institute, we are dedicated to improving the education, health, and well being of youth and communities of color by empowering them to enact social change through research, training, and community mobilization.

SEA empowers youth and communities in underserved areas to become self-determined members of society by providing guidance, resources and support.

To build power among Southeast Asian youth and their communities in Los Angeles for a more just and equitable society through intergenerational, multiethnic dialogue, leadership development, and community organizing.

To prepare a powerful network of leaders in low-income communities, and their allies, to act through their institutions to address the injustices that keep families caught in the cycle of poverty.

Special Service for Groups, Inc. – better known as SSG – is a non-profit health and human service organization dedicated to building and sustaining community-based programs that address the needs of vulnerable communities.

Spirit Awakening is an arts-based nonprofit dedicated to helping underserved youth and children in the juvenile justice system realize their value and self-worth. Since 1995 we have been teaching the unheard the power of positive and productive expression through creative writing, visual arts, improvisation, and meditation.

SAJE builds community power and leadership for economic justice.

Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) builds grassroots power to create social and economic justice for low-income, immigrant, woman, femme, black, and brown communities in Los Angeles.

Street Poets harnesses the healing power of poetry and music to build community and inspire our next generation to write, rap and dream a new world into being for us all.

We are students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Tenants Together is a statewide coalition of local tenant organizations dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants to safe, decent, and affordable housing.

The mission of Thai CDC is to advance the social and economic well-being of low and moderate income individuals in the greater Los Angeles area through a broad and comprehensive community development strategy including human rights advocacy, affordable housing, access to healthcare, promotion of small businesses, neighborhood empowerment, and social enterprises.

Abolition Dream Lab aims to resource a movement ecosystem that advances an abolitionist strategy that reflects the times and builds a new culture and revitalized vision for our movements by shifting how money, resources and power are distributed and shared by giving funder the tools they need to fund strategically, invest in mutual aid and transformative justice, and deepen their knowledge of how to nurture and grow a movement.

CCEJ’s programs support the development of critical consciousness, positive identity development, and leadership skills that enable youth and adults to shift cultures and advance wellness in their schools, workplaces and communities. CCEJ incorporates Restorative and Transformative Justice practices, peer support and mentorship, and coaching to help youth and adults increase their socio-emotional wellness, resiliency, and ability to address conflict using healthy, restorative strategies.

TCAL’s mission is to promote equality, to assist, empower, improve, elevate and advance the economic, political and social conditions of community residents within the Los Angeles County and the Antelope Valley.

The Los Angeles City College Foundation (LACCF) fosters philanthropic support to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes for students at Los Angeles City College.

Fighting for environmental justice and challenging the cultural and systemic roots of white supremacy.

The mission of TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) is to advocate for the specific needs of the Trans Latin@ community that resides in the U.S.A. and to plan strategies that improve our quality of life.

The Tree Yoga Cooperatives mission is to be a hub of holistic wellness and community support. We believe that true education is the exploration and expression of the intelligence that resides inside everyone.

The mission of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural is to transform community in the Northeast San Fernando Valley and beyond through ancestral knowledge, the arts, literacy and creative engagement.

To empower individuals and families to live healthier, more fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of community and the strength that comes from lifting each other up.

The Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy is a Tongva-led org created to steward lands in Tovaangar, the traditional Tongva region, encompassing the greater LA basin. The Conservancy has received land back, is creating community for and housing Native people, practicing traditional ceremony, creating a Native archive, and rematriating the land.

TODEC’s mission is to empower disenfranchised immigrant communities to become economically, socially, educationally, and civically self-sufficient.

Our mission is to serve as a steward for community controlled land; to be a catalyst for values-driven, community serving development; to build awareness and community leadership in issues of housing, transportation and recreation; and to create programs and initiatives that encourage community building and economic opportunity.

Turning Point is dedicated to supporting the needs of men, women and transitional aged youth who have been marginalized by addiction, trauma, homelessness and incarceration.

Actively promoting philanthropy and managing donated resources for the advancement of UCLA.

UCLA Law fosters a learning environment that is collaborative and challenging. It cultivates a faculty of cutting-edge scholars and dedicated teachers who embrace its core values.

Students interested in criminal law may engage directly in a wide range of specialized courses, and also have opportunities to engage in research, policy advocacy, and client representation. Research undertaken by CJP faculty and staff help to inform criminal law and policy at both the national and local levels. This research has several key areas of focus, including police brutality and accountability, criminal law and immigration enforcement, pretrial detention and bail policy, collateral consequences of criminal convictions, youth justice and the family regulation system, restorative and transformative justice, and alternatives to policing and prosecution.

Union de Vecinos’ overall focus is to improve the quality of life for residents who live, work, and play in the neighborhoods in which we serve.

To promote and support the physical, behavioral, and spiritual well-being of American Indian/Alaska Natives in the urban Los Angeles area by providing comprehensive, integrated services that focus on all age groups and incorporate American Indian/Alaska Native cultures and traditions.

ULA was drafted by homeless service providers, affordable housing nonprofits, labor unions, and renters’ rights groups. It was put on the ballot by 98,171 LA renters, homeowners and small business owners who want to see real change.

UPI develops and implements policy and systems solutions to reduce violence, achieve safety and improve community health.

Urban Scholar Academy's mission is to transform the lives of urban youth (Kindgarten-12th grade) through academic enrichment and community service opportunities.

To ignite, expand, and transform the lives of Los Angeles’ low-income youth through photography and film education, and use our participatory storytelling practices to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities around the world.

Venice Community Housing supports and builds equitable and inclusive communities by providing affordable housing with supportive services, education, employment programs, and public policy advocacy that advances racial and economic justice.

Vigilantlove creates spaces for connection and grassroots movement to protect the safety and justice of communities impacted by islamophobia and violence.

Warehouse Worker Resource Center is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organization founded in 2011 dedicated to improving working conditions in the warehouse industry in Southern California.

Watts of Power Foundation aims to create a pipeline of Black male teachers.

Dismantling structural racism and building community-centered structural well-being.

White Hall Arts Academy is where students of all ages and abilities come together in arts education

To secure a dynamic and sustainable future for the Willowbrook community and its individual members through intergenerational stability, economic development, and civic engagement.

WriteGirl is a creative writing and mentoring organization that promotes creativity, critical thinking and leadership skills to empower teen girls and gender-expansive youth.

Young People to the Front is a campaign that brings together experts on youth homelessness and prioritizes the voices of young people with lived experience. Our campaign raises up a set of policy demands for city, county, state and federal legislation.

For more than 30 years, Young Women’s Freedom Center has provided support, mentorship, training, employment, and advocacy to young women and trans youth of all genders in California who have grown up in poverty, experienced the juvenile legal and foster care systems, have had to survive living and working on the streets, and who have experienced significant violence in their lives.

Welcome to Youth Advocates for Change, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to amplifying the voices of youth through various art mediums while promoting intersectional social justice issues. Our focus lies in providing a platform for self-determined middle and high school students who aspire to make a positive impact through a critical consciousness approach.

Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life.

The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems.

The Youth Mentoring Action Network is a youth power-building organization that facilitates transformative mentoring, education, and wellness opportunities with young people worldwide.

The Mission of Youth Mentoring Connection is to transform the lives of at-risk youth by caring for their wounds and shining a light on their gifts through an ongoing mentoring community, creative expression, and life-changing experiences; thus inspiring them to become thriving adults. Our Vision is of safe communities worldwide using our Gifts Centered Approach to bring vital connection, love, and healing into the lives of at-risk youth, so they may live fully into their passion and purpose.