Accountability
Compromiso a la Comunidad
GROW Lincoln Heights strives to center our community in every decision, action, and commitment we make. We understand 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 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. We are committed to exploring new ways to create horizontal leadership and professional development opportunities for the Lincoln Heights community.
Our Commitment to Accountability
GROW Lincoln Heights se esfuerza para incluir a nuestra comunidad en cada decisión, acción y compromiso que tomamos. Entendemos que el mejoramiento de nuestra comunidad exige reciprocidad, compasión, inclusión y confianza de cualquier organización que tenga el privilegio de representar a nuestra comunidad diverse. Para asegurarnos de que podemos dar los pasos más significativos y empoderar a miembros de la comunidad históricamente marginados, estamos comprometidos a garantizar la transparencia total de la organización mediante la publicación de todas las agendas de las reuniones de la junta directiva, actas y estados financieros anuales en inglés y español para mantener a nuestra comunidad informada en todo momento.
Cada año, también pediremos a los miembros de la comunidad que viven en Lincoln Heights que voten sobre asuntos de la organización, que nos hagan saber cuáles son sus principales preocupaciones y necesidades dentro de la comunidad, y brinden oportunidades para que miembros de la comunidad se unan a nuestra Junta Directiva para asegurar que nuestra organización realmente refleje las necesidades y personas de Lincoln Heights.
Rechazamos las estructuras tradicionales de toma de decisión utilizadas frecuentemente por otras organizaciones. Estamos comprometidos a explorar nuevas formas de crear liderazgo horizontal y oportunidades de desarrollo profesional para la comunidad de Lincoln Heights.
Nuestro Compromiso a la Comunidad
Financial Transparency / Transparencia Financiera
As a collective of organizers, we are tired of non-profits using donations from our community, and we have 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.
Como colectivo de organizadores, estamos cansados de que las organizaciones sin fines de lucro utilicen las donaciones de nuestra comunidad sin tener idea de cómo se utilizan los recursos limitados para apoyarnos.
Estamos comprometidos a publicar estados financieros anuales que describen claramente cómo se utilizó cada dólar donado para lograr la misión de nuestra organización de empoderar y apoyar a la comunidad de Lincoln Heights.
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 a medium for community empowerment for all Lincoln Heights’ immigrant and low-income community members.
We encourage all Lincoln Heights residents to provide feedback on our by-laws at any time. Our board will review feedback and make amendments as needed. Please email us to view our by-laws.
Nuestros by-laws fueron desarrollados a lo largo del 2023-2024 con el objetivo de crear una organización que pueda representar a los miembros de la comunidad más desatendidos de Lincoln Heights. Estamos comprometidos a enmendar nuestros by-laaws para asegurar que nuestra organización siga siendo un medio para el empoderamiento de la comunidad para todos los inmigrantes y miembros de bajos recursos de Lincoln Heights.
Animamos a todos los residentes de Lincoln Heights a que nos proporcionen comentarios sobre nuestros estatutos en cualquier momento. Nuestro grupo revisará los comentarios y hará las modificaciones necesarias. Para obtener acceso a nuestros Estatutos, por favor de enviarnos un coreo electrónico con su interes.
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.