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Promoting financial empowerment in our community

ELACC Community Wealth team

We introduced our Community Wealth Department in 2001 to help create pathways to homeownership for low-income families on the Eastside. ELACC created foreclosure prevention classes and resident capacity building as […]

ELACC Announces New President and CEO

On behalf of ELACC staff and our Board of Directors, I am thrilled to announce that, after an intense search, we have hired Monica Mejia to be ELACC’s next President […]

Our 25th Anniversary Newsletter

compilation image of 25 years of impact at ELACC

Dear Friends,  Earlier this year, amidst a global pandemic and civil unrest, the organization I co-founded quietly turned 25 years old. Since 1995, East LA Community Corporation has been dedicated to […]

Reflections On ELACC’s 25th Anniversary

By Maria Cabildo and Joaquin Bernal Has it been 25 years? Wow, it feels like last week that we signed our incorporation documents and prepared our first funding application. A […]

Celebrating 25 years of impact

By Manuel Bernal and Joaquin Bernal Dear ELACC staff, the board of directors and community, As the newly-appointed president of ELACC as well as the co-chair of the board of […]

Official Statement on Mariachi Plaza Development

I want to assure everyone who cares about the future of the plaza that our objective is to give community members more reasons to visit and offer more opportunities for performers, small businesses, and street vendors to showcase their talents and share their work.

Devastating Loss at Nuevo Amanecer

We were devastated to learn that our new affordable housing development for veterans and families, Nuevo Amanecer, was destroyed by a fire early this morning in East LA. Nuevo Amanecer […]