This year's partners are to TBA. Last year we worked with this amazing organization!
LA CAN (Los Angeles Community Action Network)
The mission of the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) is to help people dealing with poverty create & discover opportunities, while serving as a vehicle to ensure we have voice, power & opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting us.
Through a community organizing model and human rights framework, LA CAN works on a number of issue areas, including (but not limited to) Housing Rights, Community Health, Civic Engagement, Women’s Rights, and Civil Rights.
Our overarching social change goals are to:
For more information, visit their website.
Through a community organizing model and human rights framework, LA CAN works on a number of issue areas, including (but not limited to) Housing Rights, Community Health, Civic Engagement, Women’s Rights, and Civil Rights.
Our overarching social change goals are to:
- Organize and empower community residents to work collectively to change the relationships of power that affect our community.
- Create an organization and organizing model that eradicate the race, class, gender barriers that are used to prevent communities from building true power.
- Eliminate the multiple forms of violence used against and within our community to maintain status quo.
For more information, visit their website.