Community Organizing

Our Strategies

We organize to keep people housed. We organize to ensure immigrants are treated with respect for their contributions to our cities and their civil rights are protected. We organize for all families to have access to living wage jobs, quality healthcare and education, and their voices shape policies to help residents build a better future.

Monument Impact’s organizing and advocacy campaigns are driven by community input and employ a number of strategies and tactics, including:

Door-knocking in key districts to identify community issues and supporters
Mailings to broaden our campaign reach
Tenant leadership trainings in apartment complexes
Outreach, including tabling at resource fairs with information about tenant rights, campaigns, and resources for residents
Direct Service, including Tenant Legal Clinics, assisting tenants in responding to landlords, and holding Know Your Rights trainings.
Leadership development

Antioch

Tenant Protections: Working with our allies, we won Rent Stabilization and landlord Anti-Harassment ordinances for Antioch tenants and are currently fighting for a Just Cause for Eviction ordinance.
Tenant Associations: Building tenant power is a key campaign and MI has worked with tenant leaders to launch the Delta View Tenant Association.

For more information and to get involved, contact:
Shagoofa Khan, Antioch Organizer, shagoofa@monumentimpact.org
Tony Bravo, Community Engagement Director, tony@monumentimpact.org

Concord

Tenant Protections: For over 7 years, Monument Impact has fought to stem the displacement of Concord tenants due to the rapid rise in rents–62% since 2011. We won an anti-harassment ordinance in 2022 and are now campaigning for rent stabilization and just cause ordinances. Our Success Begins at Home campaign sent staff and canvassers to multiple districts across Concord to talk with residents about the importance of stable housing for families to thrive and to ask for their support for a rent stabilization ordinance.
Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS): MI has been engaged in advocating for 25% of all housing developed at the CNWS to be affordable to very low and low-income residents.

For more information and to get involved, contact:
Vanessa Chena, Concord Organizer, vanessa@monumentimpact.org
Jennifer Morales, Community Organizing Manager, jennifer@monumentimpact.org

Regional Housing Bond

In November 2024, Bay Area voters will have the opportunity to pass a once-in-a-lifetime $10 to $20 billion regional general obligation bond to advance tenant protections, affordable housing preservation, and affordable housing production.

Monument Impact is a co-lead with East Bay Housing Organizations, Lift Up Contra Costa (LUCC), Nonprofit Housing Alliance of Northern California (NPH) and Resources for Community Development (RCD) on this campaign to build support in Contra Costa County among residents and elected leaders for the bond measure. MI is also working with Urban Habitat and other community-based organizations on what is being called A Framework for Counties and Cities to Develop High-Impact and Equitable Housing Bond Expenditure Plans.

For more information and to get involved, contact:
Tony Bravo, Community Engagement Director, tony@monumentimpact.org

Partners

Power-building requires collective strategy and action. Our current coalition and organization partners include:

Raise the Roof Coalition
Antioch Tenant Protections Coalition
Community Coalition for a Sustainable Concord
Regional Suburban Organizing Project
Bay Area Legal Aid
Centro Legal de la Raza
Contra Costa Central Labor Council
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)
East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO)
Ensuring Opportunity

Faith Alliance for a Moral Majority
Greenbelt Alliance
Rising Juntos
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)
Save Mount Diablo
UNITE HERE
Urban Habitat

Join us in supporting our campaigns!

Contact: Jennifer Morales, Community Organizing Manager, jennifer@monumentimpact.org or Tony Bravo, Community Engagement Director, tony@monumentimpact.org