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“Those who profess to favor freedom
and yet depreciate agitation, are people who
want crops without ploughing the ground;
they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean
without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one,
or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a
struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and
it never will.”
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Main Office:
235 Hill
Street
Santa Monica CA 90405
(310) 392-9700
info@power-la.org
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Invest in hope. Invest in
change. Invest in POWER.
POWER is a group that gets things
done.
In just the past 2 years, we have:
- Won over $100
million in affordable housing for low-income families in Venice and
Marina del Rey
- Written
and won the passage of LAUSD's
Cafeteria Reform Motion, which lowers the amount of sugar, salt,
and trans-fats in food served at cafeterias in all 700+
LAUSD public schools.
The
more money we have the more power we have to win more affordable
housing, improve our local schools and revitalize our communities.
Be a part of the change that brings hope to
local communities -- make an investment in POWER today!
(POWER is a government recognized -- but NOT goverment funded -- non-profit 501c3. All
donations are tax-deductible)
POWER
is an institutionally based community organization that works in
low-income areas of Venice, Mar Vista,
Marina del Rey, Inglewood
and Santa Monica.
POWER employs a community organizing model focused on relationship building
and direct action to effect positive change within low-income
communities. POWER’s implementation of this relational
organizing model unites neighborhood leaders with neighborhood
institutions to fight for social change and to build social capital.
POWER’s organizing base consists of three
non-profit social service agencies (Westside Children’s Center,
St. Joseph’s Center, and Venice Family Clinic), a non-profit
housing development corporation (Venice Community Housing Corporation),
two tenant associations (Holiday Venice Tenant Action Committee and
Mar Vista Tenant Association), and a neighborhood association (Venice
Neighborhood Action Coalition). POWER leaders and organizers also
partner with United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) to organize leadership
teams at 10 local elementary, middle and high schools within the LA
Unified School District (LAUSD).
POWER is unique in several different ways:
- POWER combines the
strengths of both institutional and neighborhood based
organizing. We have neighborhood institutions that pay dues and
link us to local leaders. Yet we also work in specific
neighborhoods providing a tight geographical focus to our work (very
necessary in low density Los
Angeles)
- POWER is one of a
handful of neighborhood focused organizations in Los Angeles.
This allows us to represent targeted community problems that
might fail to be addressed by larger, City-wide organizing
networks.
- POWER partners
schools with local social service organizations, unions and
tenant organizations bringing about a unique collaborative forum
for people who normally would not work together.
- POWER reaches
directly into low-income communities through individual
meetings, door knocking, public meetings and action to engage a
wide cross section of West Los Angeles.
POWER wins victories because we have created a team of leaders representative of our neighborhoods
true diversity in terms of class, race, religion and sexual
orientation.
POWER has won numerous organizational
victories since our founding in 1999. Over the three years, POWER has
increasingly taken the lead on such issues as preserving affordable
housing, education reform, childcare funding, welfare reform, and
boaters’ rights. For more information, download our brochure (pdf).
website updated
6/22/2008
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