To remove and/or help individuals overcome the barriers that deter their pursuit of success in life and facilitate opportunities for a better quality of life.

To enable African Americans and other underutilized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights.

To help transform the social and economic conditions in South Los Angeles that foster addiction, crime, violence, and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing, and changing public policy.

To promote and coordinate action programs in Southern California, related to human rights, economic and social development, and environmental justice.

To expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.

To advance the civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.

To promote healing, power, and opportunity for formerly incarcerated people, especially women, through housing, legal services, and leadership development.

To build the leadership of incarcerated people and their families to create new systems of safety and accountability.

To dismantle policies and institutions that have failed our youth, and to build a youth-led movement to challenge race, gender, and class inequality in Los Angeles County's and California's juvenile and criminal justice systems.

To revitalize low-income communities through human capital development, job training, and placement, and to reduce gang violence.

To provide hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of the community.

To build power among Black workers and the broader African American community to expand access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve jobs that employ Black workers.