Summary

Activating resident-led movements through relationship-based organizing.

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SBCC Differentiator:

SBCC’s Community Organizing Venture is resident-led. In this model, residents lead the change and communities set their own agendas. This activation is about building a socially connected fabric of relationships that unites residents in a disruptive movement to challenge oppressive social norms and elevate the gifts and talents of ordinary people.

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The work that we do

Over the past twenty years, SBCC has built a powerful network of over 100 Neighborhood Action Councils (NACs) with more than 2,000 members throughout Los Angeles County to leverage participants' shared gifts and talents to tackle a wide-range of initiatives from early childhood education, access to food resources, the Census, and voter education and engagement.

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Since its inception, the Community Organizing Venture has evolved from working one-on-one with individual neighborhoods, to a countywide initiative with a powerful quorum of voices working towards a shared agenda. Resident members of the NACs work together to build their own neighborhood-based identity and mission. They then identify themselves as part of a countywide network of NACs that are all working on common goals that educate, engage and activate residents.

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The network of relationships within the NAC, and between the NAC and the larger community, serves as a resource to increase the efficacy of this work and ultimately contribute to the vitality and well-being of the neighborhood. SBCC has helped weave a socially connected fabric throughout neighborhoods across Los Angeles County.

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