Vision 2020

Moving East Los Angeles Forward

A social movement to address the underlying causes of poverty in the greater East Los

Angeles community through building

collaborations among all stakeholders groups

Vision 2020 - Moving East Los Angeles Forward

Background

SPA 7 Community Partnership 1st Stakeholder Summit Steering Committee The Issue of Poverty

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First Summit
Several group exercises

What is the compelling urgency for collaborative behavior?

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Obstacles to collaborative behavior

Different agendas, approaches, philosophy Need to economize Distressed economic times result in the need for more services Less funding available Less staff-need to leverage human resources Stronger collective voice Cross-referrals Sharing resources Learning from each other for less duplication of effort Lack of knowledge about each other Lack of trust Complex environments Jobs are more complicated/demanding/all consuming
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Visioning exercise

Headlines & Story Lines

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Community transforms itself

Law enforcement, child providers, health services, nonprofit social services and local government take collaborative work to new heights

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The Power of Collaboration

East Los Angeles successfully collaborates, and meets the needs of community residents

Vision 2020 - Moving East Los Angeles Forward

100% Graduation Rate in East Los Angeles High Schools

Education lifts families out of poverty

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East Los Angeles Gloria Molina Family Support Center celebrates fifth anniversary of providing services to the community
East Los Angeles has created a healthcare safety net for all families and unemployment has dropped below five percent

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Steering Committee

Monthly meetings Researched various models Expanding membership Need for staff coordinator

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The Issue of Poverty & Economic Inequality

Top 1% of the Americans own 40% of the wealth

Bottom 60% own 2% In 2010, 93% of income growth went to the top 2%

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The Rich and the Rest of Us

~Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West

50% of Americans live in or near poverty Poverty has not been a campaign issue since LBJ declared war on poverty in the 1960s The poor have no Super Pacs interested in their well-being

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An Uncomfortable But Necessary Conversation

~Nonprofit Quarterly

Three dangerous policy trends threaten the missions of nonprofits:

1) State and local governments are shifting their fiscal burdens onto nonprofits and foundations
2) 3) Policymakers still know little about nonprofit organizations Nonprofits are being marginalized from public policy processthis represses the voice of the American people

Stressed & Stretched: The Recession, Poverty and Human Services in Los Angeles

~UCLA Center for Civil Society

The most basic anti-poverty service providers failed in the past 10 years at twice the rate of mainstream services Those that have thrived have expanded their missions to include advocacy

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A Portrait of California
~The American Human Development Project Quantifies the wellbeing of people using the HDI

East Los Angeles is among the bottom 20 out of 233 communities in California
The Forsaken Five Percent

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Critical Need for Collective Impact

~Stanford Social Innovation Review

Commitment of a group of stakeholders for solving a specific social problem Moving beyond traditional collaboration:
Requires a centralized infrastructure, dedicated staff and structured process that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication and mutually reinforcing activities among all participants Key: large-scale social change results from better cross-section of individual organizations or even agenda specific collaborations
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Call to Action

Invite everyone to join Vision 2020 Steering committee will organize strategic planning task force to set short, intermediate andlong term goals and priorities Bienvenidos commitment:
Advocacy as a strategic initiative (will soon hire director of government and community relations East Los Angeles is focus of effort

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Five Critical Factors in Addressing Poverty

Health care Education Economic Development Jobs/Workforce Development Civic engagement/empowerment

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Vision 2020

Moving East Los Angeles Forward