In District 11, a groundswell of grassroots planning is paving the way to implement people powered community development. PODER and our allies in Communities United for Health & Justice, hit the streets with clipboards and mapping tools. Across culture
We are flipping the script! Instead of waiting for developers to make over our neighborhoods, neighborhood leaders in District 11 are doing it for themselves. Working class, inmigrante, and people of color folks are stepping forward to plan their own
PODER has been organizing for environmental justice in San Francisco for nearly 25 years. We have fostered the leadership of hundreds of youth from southeast San Francisco to organize in their
In 2012, PODER, the Filipino Community Center, and Coleman Advocates released Home Is Where the Heart Is: A People Powered Community Vision for the Balboa Station Upper
In April 2012, PODER with our partners in Communities United for Health and Justice released our People Powered Solutions for Neighborhood Jobs & the Local Economy report. Based
Even before the Great Recession in the late 2000s , San Francisco was a deeply unequal city, with immigrants — 37 % of the population — among its most vulnerable
