Advancing social, economic, racial equity and justice for the latino / a community and the los angeles region through power building and policy advocacy.
Education: multilingual learner successnow in its eighth year, abc continues to co-chair the consortium for multilingual learner success, advancing a values-based policy agenda to improve educational outcomes for english learners and multilingual learners (mlls) in los angeles. Since its inception, the consortium has coordinated data, research, community engagement, organizing, and communications efforts to ensure linguistically diverse students have access to a high-quality public education.abc also developed a narrative shift workgroup aimed at changing the messaging to an asset-based approach of multilingualism. Additionally, abc leads the consortium's grassroots organizing workgroup (grow), which centers community voices in shaping the consortium's local and statewide strategic direction. Over the past year, grow prioritized advocacy for increased mental health support for multilingual learners across school districts and advanced narrative change work to position multilingualism as a community asset.in fy24-25, the consortium completed a comprehensive policy agenda update building on its 2020 framework. The process included a consortium-wide convening, advisory committee meetings, grow meetings, and three community listening sessions ensuring multilingual learners and their families directly informed the final agenda. Abc staff led synthesis of community input, drafted framing materials, and facilitated cross-session analysis. The updated agenda was presented to the full consortium advisory committee in early fall and now anchors a renewed statewide and local strategy.voices of hope and multilingual education leadership awardsin april 2025, the consortium for multilingual learner success held its inaugural voices of hope celebration, launching the multilingual education leadership awards to recognize exemplary schools and school districts advancing multilingual learners through the state seal of biliteracy and biliteracy pathway recognitions. The event recogniz
Fuerza fundfuerza fund, an abc initiative, directs flexible capital to organizations and to families navigating urgent crises in los angeles. The fund operates from three pillars: response: rapid resources for families navigating urgent crises; recovery: sustained investment to stabilize families, strengthen coalitions, and rebuild community infrastructure; and resilience: long-term support for organizations to grow capacity, build leadership, and exercise civic power.in fy24-25, fuerza fund focused on recovery in the wake of the los angeles wildfires, prioritizing essential workers and uniquely impacted households.
Voter outreachabc continued its integrated voter engagement (ive) strategy under the sela votes! Initiative to increase latina/o voter participation across southeast los angeles region long defined as a civic desert with low, declining, or stagnant turnout despite a latina/o-majority population.