ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY

Eastside for all (efa) expanded its base-building within bipoc communities in east king county, including outreach, education, and mobilization for affordable housing in bellevue, redmond, and kirkland as well as supported statewide mobilization for rent stabilization in wa for the upcoming legislative session. We completed a major community engagement process with the city of redmond for their comprehensive plan update, and had an additional 250 participants for that effort, totaling over 950 people from bipoc and immigrant communities who provided input to cities from 2023-2024. We continued to do voter education and registration at multiple tabling events and we hosted two candidate forums for state representative elections. In our equitable development work, formalized our coalition with 10 other bipoc led organizations in visioning and planning to operate a community hub in redmond at an affordable housing development that will open in 2027. Overall, we increased our capacity for equitable development and affordable housing advocacy with the hiring of a new full-time staff person in october of 2024. To increase communications and connection with more community members, efa started recording episodes for a new podcast called reimagining community: eastside voices for change that will be launching in early 2025. In total across all our programs in 2024, we had 56 events with 2,681 participants.

There are seven organizing other program services, one of which is battle creek. In 2024, the battle creek coalition for truth, racial healing, and transformation (bctrht) deepened its impact through over 20 community events and initiatives, engaging more than 1,200 participants across battle creek. We hosted our eighth annual national day of racial healing, a powerful envisioning dinner attended by 150 community members, and led a youth summit with 70 students from five high schools exploring racial healing and mental health. Our six community envisioning sessions uplifted diverse voices to imagine a battle creek free from racism. We launched the battle creek did not burn oral history project, producing a documentary and archival interviews capturing local civil rights history. Our "building equity" housing justice series featured national authors, panel discussions, and book clubs with over 150 attendees. We also supported two legal rights workshops in partnership with the naacp and the michigan department of civil rights. Throughout the year, our programming wove together community visioning, healing practices, policy advocacy, and intergenerational dialogueall in service of a more equitable battle creek where all can flourish.