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Building power through Coalition Building

We understand that it takes creating strong partnerships to create sustainable, healthy hoods. Our current bonds with labor, faith-based, LGBTQIA, immigration, and prison reform/abolitionist organizations allows us to work collaboratively to move us away from extractive systems of class oppression to build regenerative societies that puts equity at the forefront.​​

  • California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA): A statewide, community-led alliance that works to achieve environmental justice by advancing policy solutions Asian-Pacific American, Latino, and African American residents in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles, Inland Empire and San Diego/Tijuana area. The alliance combines organizing, movement-building, and strategic policy advocacy to advance its goals. Members and partners include:

    • Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)​

    • Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)

    • Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)

    • Environmental Health Coalition (EHC)

    • Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

    • People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER)

    • Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR-LA)

    • Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment (CRPE)

    • Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)​​

  • Regenerate California: A partnership between the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) and the Sierra Club My Generation Campaign that pushes the powering of 100 percent clean energy across the state and the retirement and shutdown of dirty gas plants.

  • Moving Forward Network (MFN): MFN is a national network of over 50 member organizations that centers grassroots, frontline-community knowledge, expertise, and engagement from communities across the US that bear the negative impacts of the global freight transportation system. MFN builds partnerships between these community leaders, academia, labor, big green organizations and others to protect communities from the impacts of freight.

  • THE Impact Project: The Trade, Health & Environment Impact Project is a community-academic partnership focused on reducing the impacts of international trade on health and community life.  THE Impact Project seeks to develop an information network to share knowledge on the health and community impacts of ports and goods movement and appropriate strategies for preventing and reducing those impacts.

  • Ontario Future Alliance: The Ontario Alliance is a diverse group of community organizations coming together to guide the process of economic, and social justice in underserved communities throughout the Greater Ontario Area. In doing so, the Alliance recognizes the importance of balancing development with the preservation of these historically overlooked areas and its inhabitants. Through collaboration, the Alliance is creating tangible and equitable solutions for these communities by listening to peoples’ needs and utilizing resources from local partners and governmental initiatives. Their mission is ultimately to develop sustainable socio-economic solutions and build pathways that can lift up disadvantaged groups within their communities. Together, we can make a real difference by ensuring that all our citizens have equal opportunities and quality of life. Members Include:

    • CCAEJ​

    • LULAC de Inland Empire

    • Arts and Science Cultural Center

    • I. E. United

    • NAACP Pomona Valley

    • Fair Ontario

    • Latino/Latina Roundtable

    • Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective

  • Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (IC4IJ): The IC4IJ, is composed of over 35 organizations that serve the immigrant community in the Inland Empire. The IC4IJ currently focuses on advocacy, changing the narrative, and capacity building. Our coalition engages in policy advocacy, community organizing and education, and rapid response to ICE and border patrol operations. We are collectively changing the narrative of the one million immigrants who live, thrive, and are a foundational part of the fabric of the IE. We are building organizational capacity through leadership development, cooperation, support networks, and shared regional strategies. Lastly, the IC4IJ provides resources such as training, technical support, and grants to coalition partners to further support their efforts and mission in the region.

  • The Shut Down Adelanto Coalition: The Shut Down Adelanto Coalition is a collective of over twenty organizations who have been working together since 2019 with the goal of achieving the just closure of the Adelanto ICE Jail. All organizations organize within the scope of immigrant justice but through different lenses, whether that is environmental, worker rights, or policy. 

  • Additional Coalitions: 

    • ​Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehousing (RNOW)

    • Anti-Warehouse Coalition

    • Housing Now!

    • Charge Ahead

    • California Green New Deal

    • CA Work and Family 

    • Climate Plan

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