Program Components of Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education

To accomplish its mission, SCOPE is composed of four program components:

1. AGENDA: Building Models of Grassroots Leadership and Vibrant Community Civic Participation
   AGENDA is an independent, membership-based organization that seeks to reverse the trend of declining civic participation in poor, disadvantaged, and largely people of color communities through community organizing, public policy education, grassroots leadership development, and community advocacy.
   
2. The Los Angeles Metropolitan Alliance: Developing Strategic Alliances and a Regional Economic Justice Vision and Agenda
   The Los Angeles Metropolitan Alliance represents a new voice for justice in economic and social policies in the greater Los Angeles region. Initiated by AGENDA in 1995, the Metropolitan Alliance seeks to reverse the neglect faced by poor and working communities and communities of color, and link local neighborhood problems to regional solutions. The Alliance is composed of community-based organizations representing inner city communities (such as South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, and Pico Union/Koreatown), and working class suburban communities (such as West Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley). The other critical participants in the alliance are organizations representing key countywide constituencies such as organized labor, faith-based institutions, and students.
   
3. Training and Policy Education (TPE) formerly CIPHER
   SCOPE's Training and Policy Education (TPE) Department contributes to building a more powerful social justice movement through the strategic development and management of SCOPE's research / analysis and training / technical assistance programs.
   
   
4. Strategic Initiatives
   The mission of the Strategic Initiatives (SI) department is to develop strategies, relationships, and organized power in expanding arenas that contribute to SCOPE's mission of reducing and eliminating the structural barriers to achieving social and economic justice in communities who suffer from discrimination and social inequities.