What We Do
BUILDING POWER
We believe there is a divine spark at the heart of all creation, which imbues people with dignity, and connects us all one to the other. All people have power and a voice, and when we come together across race, place, and faith, we can transform Los Angeles County into one that reflects our dignity and creates equity and abundance for all. We believe that we build power through organizing our people, ideas, and money.
We understand that the conditions that our people face are not accidental but are the result of decades of systemic racism and other forms of oppression, which primarily impact Black and Indigenous people. Power defines the rules, and we have a collective responsibility to use our power to compel more just conditions. Our government and our resources are being co-opted by the few at the expense of the many.
When we build power, we win. Learn more about our work below, and learn about ways to support LA Voice here.
ABUNDANCE FOR ALL
No matter who we are or where we come from, people from across LA county deserve to live in equity and abundance. Some corporations are creating loopholes to steal funding from our communities, and we’re not going to take it. Through our work in housing, income inequality, and transformative justice, we’re putting California working people, families and our communities first. It’s time we work together across race, place and faith to transform our economy into one that guarantees abundance for us all.
Our recent wins for Abundance for All include:
In January 2025, several wildfires broke out across LA County, creating the worst wildfire incident in its history, and burning over 40,000 acres of land. As we have always done in times of crisis, spiritual communities and community organizations are pouring abundance into LA County, and coming together across race, place, and faith to deliver local, regional, and statewide policy and resources that include everyone in Altadena and Pasadena’s restoration.
As people of faith, we believe that we can build a just society where everyone belongs. When we come together across our differences, we can use our voice to make real change. Our civic engagement program, known as FAITH VOTES, is our chance to come together as one community, to exercise our power during election season, and build a Los Angeles County that respects the dignity of all people.
Our 2024 voter impact:
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Empowering Lives
LA Conservation Corps empowers young adults with paid job training, education, and support services to help them build a brighter future.
Our Corps members gain hands-on experience in conservation, urban forestry, recycling, and disaster response while making a positive impact in their communities. Whether planting trees, restoring public lands, or responding to natural disasters, they’re transforming their environment—and their own lives.
FAITH IN HOUSING
Over the past 10 years, LA Voice congregations and teams have had over 350,000 conversations with voters through our Faith Votes campaigns. This has helped to pass a dozen key ballot measures, all of which re-direct funds and policies to put people first. We ended 30 day impounds of undocumented drivers’ cars in many cities and paved the way for drivers’ licenses for all. We ended the felony checkbox for employers in LA City and county. We won rent control in Inglewood and Baldwin Park, created a coalition that won pandemic relief for millions, and in Long Beach won a million dollar increase in the city justice fund, providing free legal counsel to immigrants facing deportation.
Most recently, we helped deliver key legislative and electoral wins to the people of Los Angeles County, including
DIGNITY FOR ALL
We in LA County are an amazing collection of communities and people—we are different races, different faiths and different generations, but we all call LA County home, and we look out for each other.
But hundreds of masked federal agents have forced their way into Los Angeles County, bringing brutal violence and sowing fear among our most vulnerable, trampling our Constitutional rights in the process. The Federal Government is spending billions on sending masked agents to abduct parents from their jobs, beat up elders and teenagers, and arrest U.S. citizens simply because they’re Brown, instead of what all Americans really need: healthcare, access to clean water and healthy food, and a safe space to call home.
Politicians in the pockets of wealthy billionaires think they can turn the power of the federal government against the people and get away with it.
They thought wrong.
When we come together, across race, place, and faith in soulful nonviolent resistance, we have the power to stop authoritarianism. We can work together to protect the constitutional rights we ALL hold, no matter who we are, or where we come from.
