CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE
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Mission Statement
Only social movements can create social change. That’s why, Center for Community Change, and its sister, Center for Community Change Action, work to build social movements. The Center’s mission is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better. Right now, we’re empowering the people most affected by injustice to lead movements to improve the policies that affect their lives. Our focus areas include jobs and wages, immigration, retirement security, affordable housing, racial justice and barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated individuals.
About This Cause
In 2018, the Center for Community Change will mark the 50th anniversary of its founding. Through almost 5 decades, we’ve employed an impressive range of strategies to advance our work, but our overriding goal is constant: to empower low-income people, particularly in communities of color, to make change that improves their communities and the public policies that affect their lives. Through every strand of our work, past and present, runs the conviction that those most affected by economic and social injustice are the best equipped to identify what change is necessary, and to make it happen. We carry this strategy forward as we reflect on our rich history today. Immigrant Rights: Fifteen years ago, grassroots groups gearing up to change welfare reform realized that economic justice could not be won without wage equality and worker protections for undocumented immigrants. The new millennium saw an increase in vitriol directed against immigrants, who often were blamed for the fact that – whether the economy was up or down – for most people, the opportunity for a solid middle-class life continued to recede. In 2004, the Center for Community Change and its allies created the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), now the largest national network of immigrant-led grassroots organizations. Many FIRM partners are immigrant-based organizations, but many are multi-issue and multi-constituency organizations. Arm in arm, they are fighting for compassionate, humane immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship and protection from unscrupulous employers that use citizenship status as a way to force workers to accept low wages and poor conditions. United around the most critical issues facing immigrant families, these organizations see the link between immigrant rights and workers rights, housing rights, and all the other things our communities need to lead healthy, sustainable lives. Our digital campaigns are driving hundreds of thousands to attend rallies and participate in the immigration reform movement, and we are enlisting DREAMers – those who came to the United States as children – to tell their stories of family sacrifice and dreams for a better life, stories that resonate in a nation of immigrants. In a movement that is transforming the immigration reform landscape, we’re joined by labor, civil rights, faith, education, LGBT, and many other communities. Economic Justice: In 2015, CCC launched Putting Families First: Good Jobs for All, a national economic justice initiative to guarantee that everyone who wants a job should have assured access to a good job that provides dignity, a voice on the job, fair wages, good benefits, and is consistent with family and personal needs and responsibilities. The core principles of this campaign include: Building a Clean Energy Economy. Using the large-scale investments required for transition to a clean energy future to create millions of good jobs that are accessible to workers of color, women, and economically distressed communities. Valuing Families. Ending the systematic devaluation of care work, which disproportionately keeps women in poverty, by making high quality child care available to all working parents, raising the quality of jobs in the early childhood education and care fields, transforming homecare and providing financial support to unpaid caregivers. Guaranteeing Good Wages and Benefits. Requiring every job in the United States to meet a minimum standard of quality – in wages, benefits, and working conditions – and offer unhindered access to collective representation and a real voice for workers. Unlocking Opportunity in the Poorest Communities. Investing resources on a large scale to restart the economy in places where racial bias and sustained disinvestment have produced communities of concentrated poverty. Taxing Concentrated Wealth. Funding new investments in job creation, care, and economic renewal by taxing those who benefit most from the current economic model – investors, financiers, wealth managers, and individuals in the highest income brackets. Partners: The Center for Community Change supports and strengthens partner groups and unites them in coalitions that can wield power. We work with grassroots organizations whose leaders and members come from the low-income communities and communities of color that are CCC’s constituents. Our partners are multi-issue, multi-ethnic and multicultural. They are rural, urban, and suburban. What they have in common is the conviction that regular people can change things, and that community organizations and grassroots leaders are best suited to lead that change.