Our Mission
Why we love LA CANThe mission of the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) is to help people dealing with poverty create & discover opportunities, while serving as a vehicle to ensure we have voice, power & opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting us.
Our Vision
Our overarching social change goals are to:Organize and empower community residents to work collectively to change the relationships of power that affect our community.
Create an organization and organizing model that eradicate the race, class, gender barriers that are used to prevent communities from building true power.
Eliminate the multiple forms of violence used against and within our community to maintain status quo.
Organizational Structure
LA CAN’s constituency consists of extremely low-income and homeless people, primarily those living in Downtown LA and South Central LA. LA CAN recruits organizational members and builds indigenous leadership within this constituency to promote human rights and address multiple forms of oppression faced by extremely low-income, predominately African-American and Latino, residents.
Core members comprise the majority of each decision-making body at LA CAN, and staff, interns and Board members are recruited from the core membership.