Community Organizing

Pomona Hope is organizing neighborhoods to effectively address systemic issues that touch families. In partnership with area churches, and the industrial areas foundations (One LA), house meetings (groups of families in neighborhoods that come together to discuss public issues) are conducted annually in and around neighborhoods.

To date Pomona Hope has helped energize neighborhoods to enter the public life of its city with the intent of taking ownership of public issues such as the state of current neighborhood infrastructure (poor maintenance or lack of sidewalks and streetlights) as well as issues of crime and safety.

Blending a mixture of leadership from neighborhoods as well as clergy, Pomona Hope has worked with city hall, school board and economic institutions to effectively engage negative, systemic issues for change.

"...Never do for others what they can do for themselves."