Inclusive Action for the City

Communities across #LosAngeles need access to capital to run their businesses, deserve to own and steward land in their neighborhoods, and should be able to exercise power in the political systems that shape their lives. As we enter our 15th year, we’re sharing our three-year strategic plan to invite you into where we are headed and to join us in the journey! We’re focused on three problems affecting underinvested communities, and three interventions we will make to address them: Problem 1: Entrepreneurs and their families are still struggling to access capital and income inequality is increasing.  Intervention 1: Expand our small business lending, stabilize it with supportive infrastructure, and optimize our technical assistance. Problem 2: Capital assets, including land and real estate, are being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Intervention 2: Prototype integrated capital approaches - financial, physical, social - that grow wealth and build power for low-income communities. Problem 3: Community members feel powerless in the political systems that shape their lives Intervention 3: Deepen our commitment to policy advocacy to remove red tape, make budgets equitable, and create justice-centered investments.” Will you join us? 

🌿📈 Did you know? Landscapers in LA County average 10 years in the field & over 90% work full-time! 🚜 Despite their dedication, they face challenges like adapting to electric tools, upskilling, and equipment theft. Join our webinar on Wednesday, August 28th, 12-1P https://lnkd.in/gPz32rfq

🌟 Advocacy in Action! 🌟Inclusive Action teamed up with Public Bank LA, ACCE, and United Parents and Students for an inspiring day at LA City Hall. We met with council members to champion the cause of a Public Bank—a game changer for reclaiming funds and reinvesting them into the community projects we truly need. 🌱✨ #PublicBankLA

Inclusive Action and our small business clients teamed up with Public Counsel, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, CAMEO, and Small Business Majority for an advocacy day in Sacramento! We joined forces with Senator Caroline Menjivar to push for a YES on #SB1103. If passed, what will SB1103 do?  - Require lease agreements to be translated if negotiated in a language other than English to help small business tenants better understand their rights and responsibilities  - Eliminate hidden fees by creating basic standards for charging tenants building maintenance costs - Require commercial landlords to give small tenants more notice of a rent increase or termination of tenancy - Protect local small businesses and nonprofits that provide services to their communities You can help! Go to https://lnkd.in/gRbjfABg and tell your Assemblymember to vote #yes on the Commercial Tenant Protection Act! We are continuing our fight to #protect small businesses and small nonprofits and give them the protections they deserve. #lobbyday A huge thank you to Mesa Verde Group for their hospitality and organization of the event.

Our one-day Summit on Community Ownership isn't until November 14th but our team is working hard on organizing a rich set of sessions and speakers, while facilitating a working group with SBAN Members on Community Ownership that examines various methods, lessons learned, and shared resources. (stay tuned for registration!) In the spirit of that working group, we're highlighting a new opportunity co-led by two SBAN members and two other organizations, to focus on the intersection of community stewardship of real estate, racial equity, and environmental justice: Center for Community Wealth Building and Inclusive Action for the City present the 3rd webinar in their series, "Pathways to Community Ownership." When: Thursday, August 15th, 12:30 - 2:30 pm EST (9:30am for PST) ➡ REGISTER: https://lnkd.in/e_gwusuu ---- According to the event organizers, this session is for: > Advocates who are engaged in the intersections of housing justice and environmental work > Community-based organizations applying for the EPA Community Change grants and seeking to formulate real estate strategies > Funders who are seeking to understand new strategies for just relationships to land and housing > Government leaders who seek to partner with community-based organizations on climate resilience projects involving land and housing

Love everything about this Edwin's Story, shared by the great team at Inclusive Action for the City. It spotlights a great small business, and shows how organizations like Inclusive Action can provide meaningful, impactful wrap around services to the community. It's so clear from this story that at their agency, a community member is more than just a client. They are a person, with hopes and dreams, and yes, with problems that they need help resolving. In working with these individuals and families, Inclusive Action uplifts them while providing wrap around services. Bet Tzedek Legal Services is proud to partner with Inclusive Action, Public Counsel, and the many other organizations that support small business owners like Edwin as they realize their dreams, and we thank our colleagues at Inclusive Action for teaching us how to help uplift our communities. Sign up for Inclusive Actions newsletter, "Doing Capital Differently," here: https://bit.ly/4cn1Mnd Finally, point of pride as a Salvadoreño, love learning about how Edwin opened Jenny's Kitchen (https://bit.ly/3AgllA5). Looking forward to checking out their tasty pupusas!

We're proud to partner with AltaMed Health Services and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in this new pilot initiative that is meeting residents where they are and connecting them to the critical #services and #care they need. The pandemic highlighted the countless number of individuals and families being left out of important conversations that impacted their well-being, left to navigate the complexities of finding care on their own, and being deprived of life-saving #resources and services. Over the next 5 years, we’re invested in changing this reality for our underinvested #communities. Are you a resident in Bell, Cudahy, South Gate, or Huntington Park that needs help connecting to services and care? Would you like your voice heard in what your community needs? We want to hear from you. Fill out this registration form so one of our health promoters can get in contact with you: https://lnkd.in/gbEvVSyh Click here to learn more about the 9 community public health teams across LA County that are committed to helping you navigate the healthcare system and get connected to care and resources: https://lnkd.in/gUh8smFG

#Community development financial institutions (#CDFI) have come a long way since their origin 30 years ago. We were created to serve the underserved, and now there are 1,300 CDFIs across the US. CDFIs do #financialservices differently. But how? 🎉 Introducing the “Doing Capital Differently” series, offering stories, lessons, and tips to financial services and CDFI practitioners, from our experience at Inclusive Action for the City providing capital to underserved communities. 🙌 Read the first post in the series, More than a loan, a form of advocacy. Co-authored by Andrea Avila and Luis Moran. https://lnkd.in/dn2pepcd

Meet Manori Sumanasinghe, an architectural designer and founder of @Studio SUM Thing, specializing in architectural design, residential and commercial spaces, and products and design. 🌟 Since receiving a Semi’a loan from Inclusive Action for the City, she has transformed her passion for building communities into a thriving business. 🏘️ Read the blog! https://lnkd.in/gw89VKBg

Please join us + the National Equitable Recovery Alliance for the 3rd webinar in our series on Pathways to #Community Ownership, where we will focus on the connections between racial justice, environmental justice, and community stewardship. Many communities are facing extractive forces, such as the fossil fuel industry and #environmental racism.  And, at the same time, these very communities have organized to develop strategies, honoring their ancestors and evolving new, transformative ones, to move our systems from extractive to regenerative models.  Hear from advocates and community residents who are deeply engaged in the work – fighting the fossil fuel industry, building intentional environmental and healthy communities, effecting systemic change to address the twin legacies of redlining and environmental racism, engaging in cultural preservation for those communities who have experienced serial displacement, and working toward an equitable future with climate resilience strategies that center frontline communities.  Center for Community Wealth Building, Inclusive Action for the City, and Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, and Neighborhood Development Collaborative invite you to take this opportunity to connect with others as we collectively work toward transformative change that will move us from an extractive economy to a regenerative one where the collective is centered, while also helping individuals thrive, and while helping to heal our relationships with one another and with the land.  Register and learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gHVMj5hY