Khmer Girls in Action

A nonprofit organization

$8,576 raised by 209 donors

86% complete

$10,000 Goal

About

Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) is a community-based organization whose mission is to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for gender, racial and economic justice led by Southeast Asian young women. We envision a safe, healthy and just world where all people are free from oppression and are able to determine their lives and communities.

Major KGA accomplishments and community impact:

  • Youth Leadership Development
    • We provide culturally-informed programming and rapid response resources for youth leaders to navigate systemic barriers to education, economic stability, health and safety.  

    • Through our programs and campaigns, we have trained over 800 youth to be politically engaged community organizers who dismantle systemic oppression and advance equity

    • More than half of KGA’s full time staff are alumni of our programs; and 40% of staff who are alumni hold leadership and management positions

  • Civic Engagement

    • We consistently mobilize a young, progressive, multiracial voting bloc to turn out in record numbers during primary, general, and special elections

    • We hire alumni, transitional age youth, and community members to work as part-time seasonal canvassers who engage with up to 10,000 voters 2-3 times a year

    • We help pass policies that increase safety nets and public dollars; we expanded protections on statewide access to abortions and contraceptives; and we secured the first youth fund, language and living wage ordinances, decriminalized poverty and much more!

  • Shared Governance in Equitable Budgeting

    KGA leads and anchors the Long Beach Invest in Youth Coalition and celebrates

    • The pilot of the first citywide youth participatory budgeting process - over 800 young people voted on summer programs to fund this year with $300K of public dollars (allocated from voter-backed Measure US)

    • The first Long Beach Children and Youth Fund with a dedicated funding stream that brought forth the first Office of Youth Development

    • A citywide survey that informed the city’s budget priorities; the first Young People’s Budget Hearing in Long Beach, and the Long Beach Youth and Emerging Adults Strategic plan, which was  adopted by city council members as a blueprint on how to allocate spending for youth.


What will #GiveInMay contributions help support?


Your contributions will prepare us to launch our very first capital campaign, our biggest fundraiser yet– with the goal to move into and buy a bigger building that will meet the needs of our youth and growing community and help us launch the first Long Beach Youth Movement Center!


POPULATIONS SERVED

Cambodian : Thai : Hmong : Laotian : Other

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Khmer Girls in Action

Tax id (EIN)

27-3087079

Categories

Arts & Culture, Civic Engagement, Anti-Hate & Anti-Racism, Women & Girls, Youth Development

Populations Served

Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Thai, Vietnamese, Laotian

Address

1085 REDONDO AVENUE
LONG BEACH, CA 90804

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