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CCF Regional Recovery Hubs (RRH)
The CCF Regional Recovery Hubs (RRH) represent an emergent model for collective impact that seeks to engage nonprofit organizations and their communities in a shared agenda for addressing the urgent and unprecedented needs across Los Angeles (LA) County due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has perpetuated itself in the hardest-hit communities among these regions, in part because of civic deserts and due to structural biases in our critical safety nets. Loyola Marymount University’s research (April 2021) on voter-turnout found that civic deserts are present in all areas of Los Angeles County and they share common demographics, such as an overrepresentation of Latina/o residents, younger populations, and languages other than English spoken at home. To mitigate the ongoing devastation in low-income, immigrant, black and brown communities, we must focus on strengthening place-based coordination and build-out community based nonprofit infrastructure around pandemic resiliency.
In 2021, CCF worked with partners and researchers to analyze and debrief the We Count LA Census 2020 Campaign; it was evident that one of the highlights of the campaign was the regional infrastructure that was built to coordinate and strategize at a local level. The Campaign established a network of nonprofit organizations from each of the six geographic regions in LA County: San Fernando, Antelope Valley, Southeast LA, South LA, and Long Beach, and the San Gabriel Valley. Together, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), Active San Gabriel Valley (SGV), Antelope Valley Partners for Health (AVPH), Centro CHA, Community Coalition, Pacoima Beautiful, and SELA Collaborative, have served as the Leads for the Regional Recovery Hubs building upon the work already done through the Census Campaign and initial phase of COVID-19 recovery funding.
Community Wealth-Building
Community wealth building is a systems-change strategy to economic development that centers community self-determination. As a reparative approach to addressing deeply entrenched systemic inequities and disparities across LA County, community wealth building may include leveraging grant funds to increase opportunities to hire directly from the community, workforce development training, and capital projects.
Civic Participation and Power-Building
Community Power-Building is both the desired outcome and a shared strategy among the RRH. Each organization and region will deploy different solutions to effectively engage community members as active and direct participants in decision-making processes that will determine the trajectory of recovery efforts beyond the next two years. Through a broad focus on civic engagement, grant funds may be used to train community members to advocate for transformative political agendas. RRH Leads serve a crucial role in creating bridges between traditional service delivery work and political advocacy.
Shared Governance
Shared Governance will necessitate building equitable structure for both decision making and for the potential for funding decisions and allocations. Organizations will need to leverage funds early in the grant-term to undergo a process of developing a long-term vision and strategy that will require a model for shared decision-making amongst the RRH organizations.
Strengthening Organizations
Strengthening internal organization capacity is a foundational program element that will ensure the long-term success and sustainability of the RRH efforts. RRH Leads will use grant funds to increase staff for human resources, finance and accounting, development, communications and outreach, project management, legal counsel, and data collection and analysis. Investment in capacity building is necessary to position organizations, and their allied partners, to successfully absorb government funding for greater impact
Over grant period, individually and collectively building upon these strategic deliverables, the network will have built significant capacity and infrastructure to support greater civic participation and power-building efforts across the regions.