About 3 — Lead Local

About Lead Local

Lead Local was a collaborative research project bringing together well-respected local power-building leaders in the fields of community organizing, advocacy, and research.

From 2018 to 2020, Lead Local sought to answer the question:

How does community power catalyze, create and sustain conditions for healthy communities?

GOALS

Deepen understanding of how community power operates in place and changes community conditions that lead to healthy neighborhoods;
Demonstrate how community power efforts support residents to better understand and shape the conditions that impact their health;
Identify innovations in community power-building that create comprehensive, system-wide change;
Elevate ways to measure and track the impacts of base building, as a core function of building community power.

Lead Local Grantees

Caring Across Generations

Ai-Jen Poo
Amy Smoucha
Janet Kim
Susannah Dyen

Change Elemental

Susan Misra
Natalie Bamdad
Natasha Winegar
Amy Dean

Human Impact Partners

Lili Farhang
Megan Gaydos
Jonathan Heller

Right to the City

Alia Trindle
Dawn Phillips

Vanderbilt University

Paul Speer
Jyoti Gupta
Krista Happanen

Johns Hopkins University Agora Institute

Hahrie Han

USC Equity Research Institute

Manuel Pastor
Jennifer Ito
Ashley Thomas
Madeline Wander

Power Building Field Partners

CITIES

Atlanta, GA (Georgia Stand Up, Housing Justice League, New GA Project)
Chicago, IL (Alliance for Retired Americans, Jane Addams Senior Caucus, Grassroots Collaborative, AFIRE)
Des Moines, IA (Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement)
Eau Claire, WI (Citizen Action WI)
Minneapolis, MN (ISAIAH, Inquilinxs Unidxs, Take Action MN)
Portland, ME (Maine People’s Action, Maine Worker Center)
Rochester, NY (Citywide Tenant Union of Rochester)
Miami, FL (Miami Workers Center, SMASH, FL Farmworks Alliance)
Santa Ana, CA (El Centro Cultural de Mexico, Resilience OC)
Santa Fe, NM (Chainbreaker, SOMOS)

METRO

Denver, CO (Our Voices Our Schools, United for a New Economy, 9to5 CO)
Detroit, MI (Michigan United, Detroit People’s Platform)

STATE

Kentucky (Kentuckians for the Commonwealth)
Oregon (Family Forward OR, Community Alliance of Tenants, PCUN)
Texas (Workers Defense Project, BASTA, Texas Organizing Project)
Washington (Washingtonians for a Responsible Future, Tenant Union of WA State, WA Community Action Network, Puget Sound Sage)

OTHER