$30,000 / 2010, 2011
2811 Whittier Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90023
Maria Brenes Executive Director
Website: www.innercitystruggle.org
InnerCity Struggle (ICS) is an intergenerational community organization that works for educational justice through two organizing components: United Students (youth) and Familias Unidas (family/adult). Over the past five years, it has achieved significant victories in East Los Angeles, a heavily immigrant community. All of ICS’s education campaigns address racial injustice, bringing attention to educational inequities that disproportionately affect Latino and African American students. ICS has been a core grantee for Los Angeles. Hazen’s $30,000 renewal grants in 2010 and 2011 will enable ICS to continue its successful strategies for local and state-wide organizing.