Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment

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$869 raised by 8 donors

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$10,000 Goal

The ACCE Institute works with tenants to develop meaningful housing policy solutions that protect tenants and homeowners from real estate special interest greed. Our year-round integrated voter engagement model is designed to increase turn-out in lower income communities of color.

A donation to the ACCE Institute is an investment in individual and systemic transformation. Every dollar we receive is put to work in the fight to create an equitable, inclusive, and just California. Your donation will help provide research, training, and education in support of powerful grassroots leadership.

Mission

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.

Needs

Biggest need is unrestricted funds.

As displacement and harassment are on the rise, we are building new tools to reach out to our community and collect stories; We are looking to create an online Tenant Toolkit to help respond to legal unlawful detainer paperwork if & when tenants don't have access to legal representation.

We have also set up a Tenant led rental unit self check program in English, Spanish & Farsi to support tenants with requesting repairs, defending themselves from the retaliation & ensuring that the slumlords are held accountable.

Further we are building out this tool to increase capacity of our door-to-door outreach to tenants in low income areas that often lack internet access or resources in their language.

Part of this work is mass engagement of affected community members & member led trainings & promotion of new & needed resources. This has to be led by community members who are directly affected in a creative & strategic campaign. Community members share their stories while building relationships with community, other nonprofits, and elected officials to highlight resources & move toward the creation of new policy & system changes.

Equity Statement

ACCE is a POC-led organization with a powerful multi-racial team, made stronger by our ability to collaborate and leverage our diversity across gender, age, upbringing, education, talent, and life experience. We are committed to high standards, high impact, and working with deep respect for one another, our members, and our partners.

As a multi-issue organization, ACCE is helping community members fight for racial equity, worker's rights and benefits, sustainable communities, access to affordable housing, a strong safety net system, and progressive revenue to fund the services and programs we all rely upon.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment

other names

ACCE

Year Established

2010

Tax id (EIN)

27-1487442

Mission Category

Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Operating Budget

$250,001-$500,000

Organization Need

Funding: Unrestricted, Funding: Program, Technology

Demographics Served

Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx, Low-income individuals/families, Black/African American

BIPOC Leadership

Both the Executive Director & Board Chair

Local Counties Served

Sacramento

Equity Statement

Equity Statement

Address

4600 47th Ave suite 206
Sacramento, CA 95824

Service areas

Sacramento County, CA, US

Phone

916-288-8829

Email

Sdlott@calorganize.org

Website

http://www.acceinstitute.org

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