Our Commitment to Community Accountability
GROW Lincoln Heights strives to center our community in every decision, action, and commitment we make. We understand that the movement for the liberation of our community demands reciprocity, compassion, inclusivity, and trust from any organization that is privileged to represent our diverse community. To ensure that we can take the most meaningful steps forward and to empower as many historically underserved and marginalized community members within our organization’s decision-making as possible, we are committed to ensuring complete organization transparency by publishing all of our board member meeting agendas, minutes, and annual financial statements in both English and Spanish to keep our community informed at all times.
Every year, we will also ask community members who live in Lincoln Heights to vote on organization matters, to let us know what their main concerns and needs are within the community, and provide opportunities for new community members to join our Board of Directors to ensure our organization truly reflects the needs and people of Lincoln Heights in perpetuity.
We reject traditional top-down decision-making structures frequently used by other non-profit organizations and are committed to exploring new ways to create horizontal leadership and professional development opportunities for the Lincoln Heights community.
Financial Transparency
As a collective of organizers, we are tired of non-profits using donations from our community with no sense of how our community’s limited resources are being used to support us.
We are committed to releasing annual financial statements that clearly outline how every single dollar donated was used to achieve our organization's mission to empower and support the Lincoln Heights community.
Our By-laws
Our by-laws were developed over the course of 2023-2024 with the goal of creating an organization that can represent the most underserved community members of Lincoln Heights. We are committed to amending our by-laws to ensure our organization remains as a medium for community empowerment for all of Lincoln Heights’ immigrant and low-income community members.
We encourage all Lincoln Heights residents to provide us feedback on our by-laws at any time. Our board will review feedback and make amendments as needed.
Our Annual Community Survey
If you live or work in Lincoln Heights and identify as any of the following:
Low-income (individual annual income less than $30,000 per year)
Highly rent-burdened households (households that pay over 50% of their total annual household income towards monthly rent), community members experiencing eviction, or unhoused community members.
Immigrant, undocumented, or asylum-seeking households where the primary language is not English.
Long-term Lincoln Heights community residents (individuals that have lived in Lincoln Heights or in surrounding communities like El Sereno, Cypress Park, Chinatown, Boyle Heights, William Mead, Ramona Gardens) longer than 7 years; does not have to be within the same unit.
Short-term residents (individuals who have lived in Lincoln Heights and or surrounding communities for less than 7 years), but who identify as any of the former three qualifications.
We welcome you to submit this survey, which will help guide our work as an organization for the next year and beyond! Please contact us at info@growlincolnheights.org if you have any questions or concerns regarding this form.