Posts in Civic Participation
Causa Justa Just Cause

Causa Justa::Just Cause was formed in 2010 as the product of three different grassroots organizations (St. Peter’s Housing Committee, Just Cause Oakland, and People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in 2015). CJJC fights for tenant and immigrant rights in Oakland and San Francisco.

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Community Asset Development Redefining Education (CADRE)

CADRE is a community-based, membership parent organization in South Los Angeles founded in 2001.  The organization is led by African American and Latino parents and caregivers whose children attend local schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Since 1993, Asian Pacific Environmental Network seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice.

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Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)

Since 2001, the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) has developed various interactive and participatory programs to help the large population of Mixtecs in Ventura County overcome everyday obstacles and build community pride.

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PODER SF

After 5 years of organizing and gathering community input, PODER unveils Hummingbird Farm! The opening ceremony unveiled the new name and gathered the community to feast and plant seeds on the land around the farm.

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Boston-area Youth Organizing Project (BYOP)

Boston Youth Organizing Project is a youth-led organization supported by adults, with a common purpose to increase youth power and create positive social change. BYOP goals are to improve the lives of young people, increase real political participation and build community.

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SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION (SEAC)

The Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts, Inc. (SEAC) was founded in 1999 and established as a non-profit agency in 2001 to address the lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate support services for Southeast Asian Immigrants in Central Massachusetts.

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SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT (SWOP)

SWOP seeks to redefine power relationships by bringing together the collective action, talents, and resources of the people within our communities. We work primarily in low-income communities of color to gain community control of our land and resources.

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COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS (CAIR)

The Greater Los Angeles Area chapter is one of the oldest and largest CAIR chapters across the country and works to uphold civil rights of American Muslims, foster a better understanding of the Islamic faith and its followers, and helps to find avenues for Muslims to integrate more fully into the broader society.

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Pan-African Community Development Initiative (CDI)

Pan-African Community Development Initiative (CDI) is an organization based in the Bronx, NY. PACDI realizes that in order to stimulate the Bronx community (the most unbanked community in the state of New York) they need to help establish a local credit union to relieve residents of this borough of all the predatory lending services that are available.

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