PICO CALIFORNIA
PICO CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, CA, US
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501(c)(3)
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EIN
87-2249221
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Regional Funder
Women Led
BIPOC Led
PICO CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, CA, US
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501(c)(3)
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EIN
87-2249221
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Regional Funder
Women Led
BIPOC Led
Programs
Home Is Sacred
Home is the first place where we learn how to live in community, how to put the needs of others before ours, and how to share what we have with others. Home is the cornerstone of healthy, thriving communities. California must become a place that ensures every single person has a dignified place to call home. PICO California organizes campaigns to stem evictions and foreclosures and protect low-income renters from exorbitant rent increases. We are fighting to prevent displacement and homelessness through the state acquisition of currently unsubsidized rental housing and preservation of the housing as affordable rental housing or homeownership opportunities. We have also successfully organized campaigns for numerous local rent control ordinances, vacancy taxes that fund affordable housing, and programs that protect existing – and promote the creation of – affordable housing.GeographiesCalifornia, USADatesNot indicatedSourceUser-generatedCommunity organizing,Tenants' organizations,Leadership developmentReligious groups,Social and economic status,Work status and occupations250K–Restorative Justice
The U.S. policing and carceral system has a long history of threatening rather than protecting Black lives. And now, after more than half a century of commissions, reports, and broken promises, Black people and other marginalized groups continue to be killed, brutalized, and harassed by law enforcement in their own communities. We are organizing around a series of public policy changes that will protect the basic health, safety, and well-being of all people. These changes focus on replacing most policing functions with community-based alternatives and reconstructing remaining police functions to ensure community trust and legitimacy. We seek to end the victimization of Black communities and other marginalized groups by law enforcement, and to reallocate public funding away from policing towards schools and communities. PICO California and its coalition partners and allies have placed California at the vanguard of restorative justice policy reforms, helping to pass numerous pieces of legislation that raised the state standard for using police lethal force, improved accessibility and transparency in the pardon and commutation process, restored Californians’ right to know whether and how departments investigate and hold accountable officers who use force, plant evidence, or sexually assault civilians, and made it illegal for local police departments to collaborate with federal immigration authorities.GeographiesCalifornia, USADatesNot indicatedSourceUser-generatedCommunity organizing,Leadership developmentEthnic and racial groups,Religious groups,Social and economic status,Work status and occupations250K–Immigrant Justice
PICO California develops leaders within immigrant communities and addresses a range of local and national issues affecting immigrant families. We believe that full citizenship rights for 11 million aspiring Americans is the only response to our broken patchwork of immigration laws consistent with the American values of freedom, fairness and family. We seek to replace the dominant narrative of othering and criminalization with one that affirms all immigrants are deserving of protection from unjust laws. Our main purpose is to end the criminalization of undocumented immigrants and the detention/deportation machine. We promote pro-immigrant policies including affordable housing, living wage, and access to quality healthcare and education. Our local affiliates engage in fights that challenge the profiteering machine and private corporations that create and sustain racist systems and inhumane treatment of undocumented individuals. PICO California focuses on dismantling the mass deportation machine and immigrant detention, ending local contracts with ICE, and stopping the cooperation between local governments and ICE. In parallel, we pursue pro-immigrant legislation through local and staff efforts, as well as through holding officials accountable to an agenda of keeping families together. We are committed to the protection and security of immigrant communities through various means of resistance, including deportation defense, sanctuary advocacy, preserving asylum protections for those fleeing murderous regimes and domestic violence, and fighting for the rights of all immigrants including undocumented workers and families, Dreamers, and those with Temporary Protected Status.GeographiesCalifornia, USADatesNot indicatedSourceUser-generatedCommunity organizing,Immigrants' rights,Right to free movement and asylum,Immigrant services,Leadership developmentEthnic and racial groups,Religious groups,Social and economic status,Work status and occupations250K–
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