OUR MISSION
Community Coalition works to help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence, and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing, and changing public policy.
CoCo was intentionally founded in 1990 as an intergenerational, African American, and Latino organization. The organization has been at the forefront of local efforts at the school board, city, county, state, and federal levels to advance racial and economic justice.
CoCo has developed three generations of leaders, including youth and adult member residents of South Los Angeles. Our members have improved the physical environments of L.A.’s schools with the highest needs, closed the achievement gap, and won numerous measures that are helping to change the material conditions in communities of color in South Central.