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for Racial and Economic Justice in California

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Institute

The mission of ACCE is to foster transformative community change across California by engaging with low-income residents of all races in ground-up organizing centered in largely Black and Brown communities. Through leadership development, political education, and strategic issue campaigning, ACCE works to build an equitable and anti-racist society.

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We Are ACCE Institute

Hear directly from Executive Director Christina Livingston and ACCE leaders about how ACCE Institute is building power for racial and economic justice and transforming lives.

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Our

Strategies

Leadership

Development

At ACCE Institute we take seriously our commitment to bottom-up decision-making and to the leadership development of historically disenfranchised and under-represented community members. Through our training programs and daily leadership development activities, we encourage everyday people to take ownership of their neighborhood priority issue campaign plans and outcomes from the start.

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Policy

Development

All too often policy solutions are being developed by academics or think tanks who are not consulting those who will be affected by their proposed solutions. At ACCE, we partner with policy organizations that prioritize the input of community members. Together we gather personal stories to deeply understand how people are being impacted on the ground, get community input on solutions to those problems, and train interested residents to advocate for those solutions to their neighbors, elected officials, and other stakeholders.

Public

Education

We know that lack of access to information is one major stumbling block keeping community members from knowing and exercising their rights. That is why we dedicate energy toward increasing the public knowledge of the root causes of issues communities are faced with, existing laws and rights, and potential policy solutions being developed and debated.

Civic

Engagement

ACCE has spent the last decade working to shift the electorate to more closely match the demographics of the state. We focus on increasing participation among communities of color, low income people, young folks, and newly naturalized voters, talking to and turning out unlikely voters in our target communities.

Narrative

Development

ACCE Institute is working with allies to make headway on the meaning-making front of power building; redefining what is possible, co-creating with community members a clear and compelling vision of the future for California, and offering inclusive and justice-centered understandings of the world and our place in it.

Strategic

Alliances

ACCE Institute is proud to be part of a growing coalition of community, labor, civil rights, and faith-based organizations engaged in the long-term work of creating true liberty and justice for all Californians. Over the last decade, not only have we been able to secure significant victories for our members, but we have also greatly increased our capacity to create powerful impact by broadening and deepening relationships with our partners across the state.

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A donation to ACCE Institute is an investment in individual and systemic transformation. Every dollar we receive is put to work in the fight to create an equitable, inclusive, and just California. Your tax-deductible donation will help provide research, training, and education in support of powerful grassroots leadership.

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