$30,000 / 2010
3655 S. Grand Ave., Suite 250
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Peter Kuhns, Co-Director
Website: www.calorganize.org
The Los Angeles Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is a statewide community organization working with thousands of members in eleven counties creating transformative change by helping ordinary citizens to organize and take action. During the past five years, ACCE Leadership at ACORN built a base of over five hundred parent members in a number of Central and South LA communities. Many of these Latina/o and African American parents participated in leadership trainings and strategic planning sessions regarding education policy and organizing skills, and led successful efforts to change policy at the school site, district wide, and statewide level. Hazen’s 2010 $30,000 grant will support ACCE’s parent-led education organizing work to improve school funding, teacher training, parent engagement and school choice standards in Los Angeles.