Organizations Filed Purposes:
SAJE builds community leadership and power for economic justice.
People's Control of Land - SAJE built resident leadership through popular education programs and meetings. With the coalition group, Alliance for Community Transit (ACT-LA), we successfully pushed for appropriate value capture and tenant protection measures in state laws. With the NOlympics Coalition we sent a staff member and tenant member to Tokyo, Japan to meet with academics and activists from around the world who seek to end the inequitable impacts of the Olympics on urban residents. With The United Neighbors in Defense Against Displacement (UNIDAD) coalition, we supported tenants successfully fighting for increased relocation benefits and negotiated a Community Benefit Agreement with a South Los Angeles developer. SAJE also won a Technology Innovation Award from the Tech Forward Conference for developing OWN IT!, a web-based system that allows residents to access information about their housing from multiple government sources.
People's Right to Housing - We served over 530 families in our tenant clinics, reached out to hundreds of households through the City of Los Angeles' Rent Escrow Account Program, and educated 468 families about saving money and improving the environment through energy efficiency and water conservation efforts. We informed 1,355 households about the importance of the United States census. We also organized residents to attend meetings of the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors as part of Unincorporated Tenants United (UTU). As a result of UTU's advocacy, the Board of Supervisors passed a permanent rent control measure covering 1.1 million people.
Right to Jobs with Dignity - We helped place local residents into living wage, unionized jobs through the Figueroa Corridor Jobs Coalition as part of our work implementing community benefit agreements by facilitating pre-screening and mock interview sessions with candidates and maintaining a job pipeline in partnership with local workforce developers. With the UNIDAD coalition, we also secured local hire commitments from a South LA developer through a Community Benefits Agreement.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Cynthia Strathmann | Executive Director | 48 | $88,000 |
| Erick Velasquez | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Orinio Opinaldo | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Jim Mangia | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Shoshana Krieger | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Jyotswaroop Bawa | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Eric Ares | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Mike Neely | Treasurer | 0.5 | $0 |
| Francisco Cendejas | Secretary | 0.35 | $0 |
| Nona Randois | Vice President | 0.35 | $0 |
| Jackelyn Cornejo | President/CEO | 0.5 | $0 |
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