MOP partnered with All Kids Covered to host an event celebrating 100,000 kids enrolled in Medicaid and Chp programs. more >>

OCCCO worked with over 10 community partners through a collaborative from Central Santa Ana called the Santa Ana Collaborative for Responsible Development (SACReD) to win significant improvements to their community. more >>

On Wednesday, June 23 over 800 PICO leaders in California converged on the State Capitol to call on state officials to make children a priority in our state budget. Beginning at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento, PICO leaders including hundreds of youth and clergy marched to the State Capitol, where they spoke to state legislators and Governor Schwarzenegger through a press conference. more >>

Over 500 community members joined PACT to urge the U.S. Treasury Department to hold banks accountable for modifying loans to stop the foreclosure crisis that continues to devastate our community and economy. more >>

Wendy Medina, a member of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church and co-chair of the action, said aEURoeBuilding a trusting relationship between the police and the community is key. Our families live here. Our friends live here. This is where we go to church and it is important to us that everyone here is safe." more >>

SDOP leaders and clergy cannot support shifting $6-billion to benefit downtown San Diego redevelopment and associated interests at the expense of programs and services needed by families throughout the entire city. more >>

Micah Project leaders, Paula Arceneaux and Gwen Payne, kept the presentations grounded with the top ten questions commonly asked regarding health care reform. Questions like "How can I get the $250.00 available to seniors with Medicare?aEUR? more >>

200 residents from Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, gathered in St. Stephens Lutheran Church to tell the U.S. Treasury department that changes need to be made to the Homeowner Assistance Modification Program. more >>

aEURoeNobody messes with Father Vien. He tends to get what he wants.aEUR? So said President Obama in a speech on May 24 after being introduced, just moments earlier, by Reverend Vien Nguyen, pastor of the Mary Queen Viet Nam Church in eastern New Orleans, [PICO Louisiana | MICAH Project] more >>

A group of faith and community leaders from San Jose, CA were physically locked out of by BofA executives last week as they tried to close their accounts at the grand opening of a new Bank of America branch in the city's hard-hit East Side neighborhood. more >>

People Acting in Community Together (PACT), an affiliate of the People Improving Communities through Organizing- (PICO) National Network, organized the event, and brought about a dozen people together who planned to divest from the Bank of America. more >>

On May 4, PICO faith leaders in Colorado celebrated a major victory in its multi-year effort to fight back predatory payday lending in the state, when the state legislature passed HB 1351, restricting payday lenders from making the sort of short-term loans with sky-high interest rates that have been proven to trap borrowers in a never-ending cycle of debt. more >>

At the event, children presented petitions with more than 200 signatures from residents in the area and officials responded. All three legislators committed their support to the libraries and the youth. Senator Peralta announced his pledge of $50,000 to the Queens Library System. more >>

Several Kansas City residents with Communities Creating Opportunity organizations were in Jefferson City on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to preserve summer school funding. Vibrant summer school programs should remain an essential part of the stateaEUR(TM)s education mission, CCO member Mary Ellen Boozer said. more >>

A delegation of religious leaders from PICO traveled to Arizona today to lift up testimonies from, and pray with, residents stricken with fear ever since Governor Jan Brewer signed legislation last week criminalizing being in the state without proper documentation. more >>

aEURoeThe business model of big banks seems to be to make money from squeezing their customers and Wall Street gambling without producing anything of value,aEUR? said the Rev. Dr. Mario Howell, clergy leader with Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization and the PICO National Network. aEURoeItaEUR(TM)s time banks become part of making the economy work, not just profiting off of our hard times.aEUR? more >>

As the Senate prepares to take up long-delayed Wall Street reform, thousands of religious leaders, small business people, homeowners and veterans are taking to the streets to demand tougher accountability on the nation's largest banks. more >>

Over 700 people attended the service, including members from Brooklyn Congregations United (BCU), Catholic Charities, Catholic Migration Office, and Queens Congregations United for Action (QCUA). more >>

Organized by leaders of New Mexico Comunidades en Accion y de Fe (CAFe), the forum was the largest mobilization of residents Anthony has ever organized. more >>

Hundreds of CCISCO and PICO leaders will join SEIU, AFL-CIO, ACCE, California Reinvestment Coalition, Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC), Tenants Together, to present a common set of demands to Wells Fargo. more >>

ECCO leaders worked with a state-wide Coalition of PICO members to help create several funding programs that would begin to shift the paradigm of state funding for violence issues away from building prisons toward funding violence prevention programs. more >>

In February 2010, PICO leaders from across the Bay Area met at St. PeteraEUR(TM)s Catholic Church for a CIR training and strategy meeting to understand the policy and political worlds that surround the reform conversation, develop a short term and long-term strategy for winning reform, and build our organizing and communication skills for the campaign ahead. more >>

"Do you know how it feels to be a kid and to think that drugs are more important to your dad then you are? I do." This is just one of the shocking sentiments shared in over 234 letters that have been sent to Camden officials. more >>

"I was proud to serve my country," said Iraq war veteran and CCISCO leader, "Rodrigo Peregrina, "I am here today as a veteran, a citizen and a voter. I am here to ask Senator Feinstein to stand with our veterans, our families and our community and support comprehensive immigration reform." more >>

CCISCO, in conjunction with the Diocese of Oakland and the Justice for Immigrants Campaign, hosted a Bridge-Building workshop at Immaculate Heart of March Church in Brentwood, California. more >>