Community Power Collective

What Community Power Collective does

Community Power Collective is a Los Angeles-based non-profit grassroots organization founded in 2020 that builds power alongside low-income renters, workers, street vendors, and transit-dependent community members. Its mission is to treat land, housing, food, work, and public transit as human rights rather than market commodities, and to advance that vision through collective action and mutual aid rather than individual advocacy.

The organization's delivery surface is a portfolio of three named programs supported by an overview page: Street Vending (advancing economic recognition and rights for informal workers), Transit Justice (advocating for accessible, welcoming public transit as a matter of freedom of mobility), and Community Lands / Tierras (promoting collective stewardship of community land). Each program is presented as a single-page website section under cpcollective.org; there is no commercial product, software platform, or API. Engagement is conducted through direct community organizing, a 'Get Involved' membership pathway, an 'In the News' earned-media section, and an organic Bluesky account at @cpcollective.bsky.social.

Community Power Collective operates on a donation and grant funding model with no commercial pricing or revenue. The only publicly disclosed funding event is a $50,000 grant received on 2022-08-03 from the Latino Community Foundation. Headcount is in the 11-50 range. No management team, board, parent organization, partnerships, subsidiaries, certifications, patents, M&A activity, or operating geographies beyond the Los Angeles regional footprint are disclosed in the available data.

Name

Community Power Collective

Legal name

Community Power Collective

Website

https://cpcollective.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Community Power Collective is a Los Angeles-based non-profit founded in 2020 that runs grassroots programs supporting street vendors, transit-dependent residents, and communities facing land dispossession through collective advocacy for economic rights, transit justice, and community land stewardship.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Advocacy Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Centers & Neighborhood Support Services (BPAGAEAL)

Keywords

• Community organizing
• Social justice advocacy
• Grassroots organizing
• Transit justice
• Street vending advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Community Power Collective is a Los Angeles-based non-profit collective that runs grassroots advocacy programs alongside low-income renters, workers, street vendors, and transit-dependent community members. Its work is organized into three core programs — Street Vending, Transit Justice, and Community Lands (Tierras) — that advocate for treating land, housing, food, work, and public transit as human rights. The organization supports these efforts through community organizing, direct member engagement, and donation-funded operations.

Product overview

Community Power Collective is a community organization offering a unified set of programs focused on social justice advocacy. The portfolio includes Street Vending, Transit Justice, Community Lands (Tierras), and a general Overview program. These programs work collectively toward the organization's vision that land, housing, food, and work are human rights, with an emphasis on public transit accessibility and collective care of community spaces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Street Vending Program Advocacy and organizing program supporting street vendors and informal workers in gaining recognition, rights, and access to economic participation. Targets street vendors and informal workers in Los Angeles.
• Transit Justice Program Advocacy program promoting accessible, affordable, and welcoming public transit for transit-dependent community members. Targets residents who rely on public transit and broader mobility-justice constituencies.
• Community Lands (Tierras) Program Organizing and advocacy program focused on community land rights, collective stewardship, and treatment of land as a human right. Targets communities affected by land dispossession in Los Angeles.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Public Counsel: Largest pro bono law firm in the U.S., based in LA, providing advocacy on housing, transit, and workers' rights. Comparable issue areas but operates as a legal-services incumbent rather than a member-led collective.
• Trust for Public Land: National nonprofit working on land conservation, community land access, and park equity. Comparable land-stewardship pillar but at much greater scale and with a broader geographic remit.

Direct peers

• Community Coalition: South LA grassroots organization addressing systemic issues affecting poor and working-class communities through organizing, advocacy, and leadership development. Closely comparable model of community-driven social justice organizing in the same metro.
• Bus Riders Union / PSOP-LA: LA-based transit justice organization fighting for affordable, accessible public transit for low-income and minority riders. Directly comparable to CPC's Transit Justice program in constituency and policy target.
• InnerCity Struggle: East LA youth and community organizing nonprofit focused on education equity, transit justice, and housing — a near-direct peer in both constituency and LA-specific policy domains including transit.
• LA Community Action Network (LA CAN): Downtown LA organization of low-income Skid Row residents organizing for housing, transit, and human rights. Comparable grassroots human-rights advocacy model serving adjacent low-income populations.
• Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE): LA-based nonprofit coalition organizing low-wage workers, including street vendors, and campaigning on transit equity and economic justice. Directly comparable in geography, constituency, and intersectional economic-rights frame.
• Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE): Grassroots LA organization building power among low-income tenants and workers through community organizing and policy advocacy. Comparable constituency (low-income renters/workers) and human-rights framing of housing and transit.
• East LA Community Corporation (ELACC): LA-based nonprofit developing affordable housing and community land, and organizing tenants — directly overlaps the Community Lands / Tierras and low-income renter pillars of CPC's work.

Emerging players

• Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Data-visualization and storytelling collective documenting displacement and tenant organizing. Comparable in mission around housing and land as human rights and use of community-led organizing, though more research/advocacy than service delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CPColectivo
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/community-power-collective

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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