People Organized for Westside Renewal works to develop the power necessary to create change by recruiting and developing leaders in low-income communities who exceed their own expectation of themselves through direct action, negotiation, relationship building, and winning campaigns. Leaders who want to learn, work and win are the engine that drives social change, and are in the driver’s seat of our campaigns. We believe that no one organization will ever be large enough to win on the scale necessary to confront the challenges we face, so we believe in movement-building and developing a “progressive infrastructure” of allies with different strengths and areas of expertise to build a comprehensive justice movement. We win when we make a broad and deeply-felt change that our leaders not only negotiate for building power, but help to implement (wielding power) through work and self-discipline.
Your support keeps members canvassing their neighborhoods to build community solidarity, distributes free food to low-income households, and increases access to legal services, healthcare, and more.