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321<p>Community organizing is not a moment — it&#8217;s a method. It&#8217;s the sustained, strategic work of building people&#8217;s capacity to come together, exercise power, and transform the conditions of their lives. It&#8217;s distinct from activism, from protest, from charity. And it has deep roots in this country&#8217;s history of people-powered change.</p>
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347<p>CJSF partners are building the leadership and civic power of young people, caregivers, and educators so communities can shape the systems that shape their lives. This work is intentional, intergenerational, and built for the long haul.</p>
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360<h3 class="smaller" style="margin: 0; color: #9b5de5;">Across generations</h3>
361<h3 class="smaller">Power that carries forward</h3>
362<p>Youth members become staff. Children grow up inside the work and carry it forward. When communities stay in the movement across generations, the power compounds in ways no single campaign can. Supported by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. Research by the Equity Research Institute at USC.</p>
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375                                                <div class="content-area"><p>&#8220;Building power starts on the ground, in communities, with folks that are organizing in communities. For me, power is the ability of people, organized people, to shift the conditions.&#8221;</p>
376</div>                                                    <div class="quote-credit" style="background-color:#9b5de5;">
377                                — Kesi Foster, Partners for Dignity &amp; Rights                            </div>
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397                                                            <h2 class="block-section-title" role="heading" aria-level="2">Partner Spotlight • Los Angeles</h2>
398                                                                                                                    <div class="content-area"><h3>Black Student Achievement Plan</h3>
399<p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-324" src="https://www.cjsfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/students-deserve-150.webp" alt="Students Deserve logo" width="150" height="90" /><br />
400Students Deserve and coalition partners organized for years to reduce LAUSD&#8217;s school police budget — and won. That sustained, strategic work unlocked over $175M now flowing to mental health services, restorative justice, and affirming spaces for Black, undocumented, and LGBTQ+ youth.</p>
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419                                                                        <div class="content-area"><h2 class="show-tab-marker" style="margin-top: 0;">No One Wins Alone</h2>
420<p>CJSF partners are forging alliances across movements, sectors, and geographies — connecting local organizing to statewide and national change. These relationships take time, trust, and resources to build. And they&#8217;re worth it.</p>
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432                                                    <h2 class="block-section-title">What kind of coalition 
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435<h3 class="smaller" style="margin: 0; color: #9b5de5;">Rooted &amp; Sustained</h3>
436<h3 class="smaller">Civic skills that stick</h3>
437<p>
437Not all coalition work is about a single fight. The most durable change comes from relationships built over time — ongoing spaces to share strategies, deepen trust, and grow collective power across movements, geographies, and generations.</p>
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440<h3 class="smaller" style="margin: 0; color: #9b5de5;">Organizers with organizers</h3>
441<h3 class="smaller">A stronger field together</h3>
442<p>Partners share toolkits, run joint campaigns, and convene nationally to build power across issue areas and state lines.</p>
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445<h3 class="smaller" style="margin: 0; color: #9b5de5;">Beyond the organizing world</h3>
446<h3 class="smaller">Coalitions that cross sectors</h3>
447<p>From hospitals to school boards to elected officials — CJSF partners build relationships across sectors to make community-driven visions a reality.</p>
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459                                                <div class="content-area"><p>&#8220;By creating mechanisms and pathways for communities most affected by systems to address solutions in those systems, we are creating both pathways for systemic change, but also empowering a community to understand its own power as people power.&#8221;</p>
460</div>                                                    <div class="quote-credit" style="background-color:#9b5de5;">
461                                — Geoffrey Winder, Coleman Advocates                            </div>
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481                                                            <h2 class="block-section-title" role="heading" aria-level="2">Partner Spotlight • Chicago</h2>
482                                                                                                                    <div class="content-area"><h3>Whole School Safety Framework</h3>
483<p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-317" src="https://www.cjsfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CU-Logo.png-copy-150x150.webp" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></p>
484<p>COFI, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, and Communities United spent years building relationships with district staff, students, families, and elected officials. The result: a board-approved framework rooted in healing, trust, and community-defined safety — not policing.</p>
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503                                                    <h2 class="block-section-title">Building Community</h2>
504                                                                        <div class="content-area"><h2 class="show-tab-marker">When the System Falls Short, Organizers Show Up</h2>
505<p>CJSF partners don&#8217;t just fight for policy change — they take care of people. Food, legal support, mental health services, shelter. Community organizers have become the safety net that government was supposed to be.</p>
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519<h3 class="smaller" style="margin: 0; color: #9b5de5;">Bay Area</h3>
520<h3 class="smaller">Civic skills that stick</h3>
521<p>Healing and wellness programming, case management for violence-impacted youth, mindfulness and mental health services for young people who need it most.</p>
522</div>
523<div class="list-item">
524<h3 class="smaller" style="margin: 0; color: #9b5de5;">South Central LA</h3>
525<h3 class="smaller">Campaigns built to win</h3>
526<p>A high school, a free legal clinic, a community garden growing food for neighbors — YJC meets young people where they are, with what they need.</p>
527</div>
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529<h3 class="smaller" style="margin: 0; color: #9b5de5;">New York City</h3>
530<h3 class="smaller">Power that carries forward</h3>
531<p>Free legal help for immigrants and workers — deportation, asylum, wage theft. DRUM shows up so no one faces the system alone.</p>
532</div>
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543                                                <div class="content-area"><p>&#8220;What I appreciate about this space is that we recognize the totality of how our people show up and really struggle… we are committed to having a vision of what it means to make sure that our solutions get to address the totality of what it means to be Black, queer, trans, experiencing houselessness.&#8221;</p>
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545                                — Erica Perry, Southern Movement Committee                            </div>
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557                                                    <h2 class="block-section-title show-tab-marker">Stand Up for the Movement</h2>
558                                                                        <div class="content-area"><ol>
559<li>
560<h3>Invest in What Holds Us Together</h3>
561<p>The movement is only as strong as the relationships holding it together. Coalitions, convenings, and cross-sector partnerships can&#8217;t sustain themselves without real investment.</li>
562<li>
563<h3>Stay Past the Win</h3>
564<p>Victories need defending and implementing. The organizing doesn&#8217;t stop when the policy passes.</li>
565<li>
566<h3>Fund for the Long Term</h3>
567<p>Measuring success by single campaign wins misses the point. Sustained, unrestr
567icted funding is what allows organizers to implement, protect, and build.</li>
568<li>
569<h3>Follow Community Leadership</h3>
570<p>Communities know what they need and what will work. The role of allies and funders is to resource and amplify — not direct.</li>
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583                                                    <h2 class="block-section-title">Funder Roadmap</h2>
584                                                                        <div class="content-area"><h3 style="color:#9b5de5;">How can funders embrace approaches to grantmaking that support community agency, co-governance models, and system transformation?</h3>
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588<p><span class="footnote">See Figure 4 on Page 48 of the report for the Funder Roadmap checklist.</span></p>
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600                                                    <h2 class="block-section-title">Tools and Resources From the Field</h2>
601                                                                        <div class="content-area"><p>CJSF partners don&#8217;t just organize — they document, research, and share what&#8217;s working. Dig into the resources they&#8217;ve built.</p>
602<ul class="single-arrow">
603<li><a href="https://www.gsanetwork.org/resource-library/coalition-building"><strong>Coalition-building toolkit for youth organizers</strong></a><br />
604GSA Network</li>
605<li><a href="https://dignityinschools.org/building-narrative-power-lessons-on-storytelling-for-education-justice/"><strong>Building narrative power</strong></a><br />
606Dignity in Schools Campaign</li>
607<li><a href="https://advancementproject.org/resource-library/"><strong>Resource library</strong></a><br />
608Advancement Project</li>
609<li><a href="https://www.tciamn.org/d4pg-2025"><strong>Data for public good — resource library</strong></a><br />
610Twin Cities Innovation Alliance</li>
611<li><a href="https://communityresourcehub.org/resource/freedom-papers-toolkit-dream-defenders/"><strong>The Freedom Papers</strong></a><br />
612Dream Defenders</li>
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