Resources

Arts & Culture

Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

Established in 1963, SCL documents and preserves the history of labor, women, communities of color, peace, civil liberties, civil rights, and other progressive movements in the greater Los Angeles area.

Ultra-red

Founded in 1994, Ultra-red are audio activists producing radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations and public actions, or public space occupations (PS/o). The group's work radicalizes the conventions of electro-acoustic and ambient music to explore acoustic space as enunciative of social relations.

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Children & Youth

Crystal Stairs

Improving the lives of families through child care services, research, and advocacy.

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Civil Rights see also Human Rights and Workers' Rights

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center

Established in 1983 as a nonprofit, APALC has become the largest organization in southern California that provides Asian and Pacific Islander (API) and other communities with multi-lingual, culturally sensitive services and legal education.

CARECEN - Central American Resource Center - Centro de Recursos Centroamericanos EL CENTRO DE RECURSOS CENTROAMERICANOS

Dedicated to the empowerment and to the defense of the civil and human rights of Central Americans in Los Angeles, with a focus on building bridges between the Salvadoran community in the United States and the people of El Salvador.

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles CHIRLA

Came into being in 1986 as a response to the federal Immigration Act (IRCA); brings together a multi-ethnic group of immigration-related organizations to promote the civil and human rights of immigrants.

Feminist Majority Foundation

The Feminist Majority Foundation works for social, political and economic equality for women by using research and education to improve women's lives.

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Promote access to justice, strengthen communities, combat discrimination, and effect systemic change through representation, advocacy, and community education, especially for low-income people.

The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center

Founded in 1971, the L.A.G.L.C. is the largest organization of its kind in the world, offering the widest array of services to gay men and lesbians available anywhere in the world.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

MALDEF's mission is to foster sound public policies, laws and programs to safeguard the civil rights of the 35 million Latinos living in United States and to empower the Latino community to full participate in society.

National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan membership organization of the nation's Latino elected and appointed officials and their supporters.

National Korean American Service and Education Consortium

NAKASEC seeks to empower and improve the lives of Korean Americans.

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Community Development see also Housing

The Advancement Project

Dunbar Economic Development Corporation

Dunbar EDC was founded by local community members to implement a holistic approach to addressing the lack of employment opportunity and prosperity existing in Vernon Central.

First African Methodist Episcopal Church

FAME Renaissance (FAME Assistance Corporation (FAC)) is committed to improving the economic livelihood of communities.

The Hewlett Foundation

Concentrates its resources on activities in- conflict resolution, education, environment, family and community development, performing arts, population, and U.S.-Latin American relations.

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Democracy & Empowerment

The California League of Conservation Voters

The California League of Conservation Voters is the nation's largest and oldest state political action organization for the environment. Founded in 1972, the League mobilizes California voters to support environmentally responsible candidates and issues, and serves as a watchdog to hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes.

Rock the Vote

Rock the Vote is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and empowering young people to change their world.

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Economic Development

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Since 1993, LAANE has advocated living wage laws, demanded responsible economic development, and supported union organizing.

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy

SAJE is an economic justice and popular education center that has been building economic power for working class people in Los Angeles since 1996.

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Food & Nutrition

Results Education Fund

RESULTS is a nonprofit, grassroots citizens' lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.

Southland Farmers' Markets Association

Southland Farmers' Market Association serves member markets, local California farmers and consumers by promoting and protecting the integrity of certified farmers' markets in Southern California.

LA Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness

The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The mission of Los Angeles Regional Foodbank is to mobilize the resources of our community to fight hunger, the causes of hunger and the problems related to hunger.

Western Growers Association

Founded in 1926 to provide growers of fresh produce in California and Arizona with support programs.

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Foundation-Funding

Liberty Hill Foundation

A unique partnership of donors and community activists working to build a new Los Angeles based on a vision of social and racial equality, economic justice and a shared sense of social responsibility.

Rhino Records

A strong supporter of social change efforts throughout Los Angeles and beyond.

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Health & Wellness

Casa Colina Centers For Rehabilitation

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Physicians for Social Responsibility represents more than 20,000 physicians, nurses and health care professionals devoted to nuclear disarmament, violence prevention and environmental health.

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Housing see also Community Development

The California Housing Law Project

An advocacy organization that lobbies the California State Legislature on affordable housing and tenants
rights issues. Resources include news and action alerts related to affordable housing in the state as well as statistics, links and pending legislation in California.

Esperanza Community Housing Corporation

Esperanza Community Housing Corporation works to achieve comprehensive and long-term community development in the Maple/Adams-Hoover/Adams neighborhood of South-Central Los Angeles.

Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty

The Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty, a project of the Weingart Center, is a non-profit, non-partisan, research and policy organization serving the research and networking needs of academics, government, community based direct service agencies, policy-advocacy organizations, the media, philanthropic organizations, policymakers and other members of the community.

Shelter Partnership

Develops resources and housing for the growing number of homeless families and individuals in Los Angeles County; also serves as a resource to public agencies, the business community, local and national media, and community members involved in the issues of homelessness and the creation of permanent, affordable housing.

Southern California of Association of Non-Profit Housing

The Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the development, preservation and management of permanently affordable housing for low-income people. SCANPH believes that the non-profit community development industry is the best vehicle of attainment of this goal.

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Human Rights see also Civil Rights and Workers' Rights

Institute for Global Communications

The Mission of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies.

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Media

Independent Media Center

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

LA Weekly

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Transportation

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC) is a membership based advocacy organization working to L.A. Bike Coalition improve the bicycling environment and quality of life in Los Angeles County. We represent those who bicycle both for transportation and recreation, promoting bicycling as a healthful, economical and non-polluting means of travel.

Metropolitan Transit Authority

MTA serves as transportation planner, coordinator, designer, builder and operator for Los Angeles county. More than 9 million people � nearly one-third of California�s residents � live, work, and play within its 1,433-square-mile service area.�

Southern California Transportation and Land Use Coalition

The Coalition seeks to promote joint transportation and land use decision-making at all levels of government within Southern California.

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Urban Environment

Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy, nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem.

Global Green

Global Green USA works in cooperation with individuals, industry, and government to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure

The Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative Administration, LANI

Established in 1994, LANI strives to restore a sense of community ownership and identity to neighborhood main streets located along transportation corridors.

National Resources Defense Council

NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 500,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

Planning and Conservation League

The Planning and Conservation League is a nonprofit, statewide alliance of nearly 10,000 citizens and more than 120 conservation organizations united to protect wildlife and restore the quality of California�s environment through legislative and administrative action.

Trust for Public Land

Since 1972, TPL has helped to conserve land for recreation and spiritual nourishment and to improve the health and quality of life of communities.

Tree People

The mission of this organization is to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for their environment, training and supporting them as they plant and care for trees and improve neighborhoods.

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Workers' Rights

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL-CIO

AFTRA represents actors and other professional performers, and broadcasters in television, radio, sound recordings, non-broadcast/industrial programming and new technologies such as interactive programming and CD ROMs

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO

The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, is the first and only national organization of Asian Pacific American union members.

California State Employees Association

Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates

KIWA's mission is to empower low wage immigrant workers and to develop a progressive constituency and leadership amongst low wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles that can join the struggle in solidarity with other underrepresented communities for social change and justice.

Labor Net

LaborNet was founded in 1991 to build a democratic communication network for the labor movement. LaborNet's founders believe that the new communication technology must be put to use to revitalize and rebuild the labor movement.

Los Angeles County Federation of Labor

The mission of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor is to build a more just, equitable and democratic society.

Sweatshop Watch

Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.

Resources

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Established in 1963, SCL documents and preserves the history of labor, women, communities of color, peace, civil liberties, civil rights, and other progressive movements in the greater Los Angeles area.

Improving the lives of families through child care services, research, and advocacy.

Established in 1983 as a nonprofit, APALC has become the largest organization in southern California that provides Asian and Pacific Islander (API) and other communities with multi-lingual, culturally sensitive services and legal education.

Dedicated to the empowerment and to the defense of the civil and human rights of Central Americans in Los Angeles, with a focus on building bridges between the Salvadoran community in the United States and the people of El Salvador.

Came into being in 1986 as a response to the federal Immigration Act (IRCA); brings together a multi-ethnic group of immigration-related organizations to promote the civil and human rights of immigrants.

The Feminist Majority Foundation works for social, political and economic equality for women by using research and education to improve women's lives.

Promote access to justice, strengthen communities, combat discrimination, and effect systemic change through representation, advocacy, and community education, especially for low-income people.

Founded in 1971, the L.A.G.L.C. is the largest organization of its kind in the world, offering the widest array of services to gay men and lesbians available anywhere in the world.

MALDEF's mission is to foster sound public policies, laws and programs to safeguard the civil rights of the 35 million Latinos living in United States and to empower the Latino community to full participate in society.

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan membership organization of the nation's Latino elected and appointed officials and their supporters.

NAKASEC seeks to empower and improve the lives of Korean Americans.

Dunbar EDC was founded by local community members to implement a holistic approach to addressing the lack of employment opportunity and prosperity existing in Vernon Central.

FAME Renaissance (FAME Assistance Corporation (FAC)) is committed to improving the economic livelihood of communities.

Concentrates its resources on activities in- conflict resolution, education, environment, family and community development, performing arts, population, and U.S.-Latin American relations.

Rock the Vote is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and empowering young people to change their world.

Since 1993, LAANE has advocated living wage laws, demanded responsible economic development, and supported union organizing.

SAJE is an economic justice and popular education center that has been building economic power for working class people in Los Angeles since 1996.

RESULTS is a nonprofit, grassroots citizens' lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.

Southland Farmers' Market Association serves member markets, local California farmers and consumers by promoting and protecting the integrity of certified farmers' markets in Southern California.

The mission of Los Angeles Regional Foodbank is to mobilize the resources of our community to fight hunger, the causes of hunger and the problems related to hunger.

Founded in 1926 to provide growers of fresh produce in California and Arizona with support programs.

A unique partnership of donors and community activists working to build a new Los Angeles based on a vision of social and racial equality, economic justice and a shared sense of social responsibility.

A strong supporter of social change efforts throughout Los Angeles and beyond.

Physicians for Social Responsibility represents more than 20,000 physicians, nurses and health care professionals devoted to nuclear disarmament, violence prevention and environmental health.

An advocacy organization that lobbies the California State Legislature on affordable housing and tenants rights issues. Resources include news and action alerts related to affordable housing in the state as well as statistics, links and pending legislation in California.

Esperanza Community Housing Corporation works to achieve comprehensive and long-term community development in the Maple/Adams-Hoover/Adams neighborhood of South-Central Los Angeles.

The Mission of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies.

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

MTA serves as transportation planner, coordinator, designer, builder and operator for Los Angeles county. More than 9 million people � nearly one-third of California�s residents � live, work, and play within its 1,433-square-mile service area.�

The Coalition seeks to promote joint transportation and land use decision-making at all levels of government within Southern California.

Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy, nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem.

Global Green USA works in cooperation with individuals, industry, and government to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure

Established in 1994, LANI strives to restore a sense of community ownership and identity to neighborhood main streets located along transportation corridors.

NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 500,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

The Planning and Conservation League is a nonprofit, statewide alliance of nearly 10,000 citizens and more than 120 conservation organizations united to protect wildlife and restore the quality of California�s environment through legislative and administrative action.

Since 1972, TPL has helped to conserve land for recreation and spiritual nourishment and to improve the health and quality of life of communities.

The mission of this organization is to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for their environment, training and supporting them as they plant and care for trees and improve neighborhoods.

AFTRA represents actors and other professional performers, and broadcasters in television, radio, sound recordings, non-broadcast/industrial programming and new technologies such as interactive programming and CD ROMs

The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, is the first and only national organization of Asian Pacific American union members.

KIWA's mission is to empower low wage immigrant workers and to develop a progressive constituency and leadership amongst low wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles that can join the struggle in solidarity with other underrepresented communities for social change and justice.

LaborNet was founded in 1991 to build a democratic communication network for the labor movement. LaborNet's founders believe that the new communication technology must be put to use to revitalize and rebuild the labor movement.

The mission of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor is to build a more just, equitable and democratic society.

Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.

An advocacy organization that lobbies the California State Legislature on affordable housing and tenants
rights issues. Resources include news and action alerts related to affordable housing in the state as well as statistics, links and pending legislation in California.