Action Nc

“Members can be sustainers, associates, or provisional, depending upon their payment of membership dues. Sustainers pay full dues, associates pay partial dues, and provisionals join with the expectation that they will pay dues subsequently.”

“Members who have paid dues and participated in a required number of organizational activities, along with the members of the board, are eligible to elect the board at an annual meeting.”

“The executive director will review and then distribute to the full board for review.”

“The conflict of interest policy is monitored by the board chair and reviewed and signed at the beginning of the fiscal year by all staff and board members with significant decision-making authority. It is each signator's obligation to disclose any potential conflict as soon as it is known, or reasonably should be known.”

“The three most recent form 990s, the bylaws, articles of incorporation and conflict of interest policy are provided to the public upon request.”

“Action nc is a community organization and citizen action group that educates, organizes, and mobilizes residents of low-wealth communities to represent their own interests on issues of social and economic concern. Through grassroots outreach and base-building, training and leadership development, and strategic campaign planning and execution, residents work together to determine their priorities and make action plans to win concrete improvements. Our issues include but are not limited to public education, health care access, financial justice, employment and wages, affordable housing and tenant rights, immigrant rights, voting rights, and local investment and devlopment. Through house meetings, community meetings and forums, participation in public hearings, and direct action, residents take their concerns directly to public officials and private sector decision-makers and wage campaigns for specific reforms and a greater voice in decisions that affect them.”

“Economic justice we worked in 2018 to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, to enact workplace policies that support families like paid sick and paid family leave, and to increase affordable housing and tenant rights. While our options for higher wages remained restricted by our restrictive home rule laws and the inhospitable attitude of our legislature towards raising wages, we kept that fight and the fight for paid sick and paid family leave alive with a large lobby day at the general assembly in support of a three-step increase to a 15 per hour minimum by 2022, and participation in another lobby day on extending family-friendly workplace policies. Where we did have considerable 2018 success was in affordable housing and tenant rights. Charlotte passed a 50 million housing bond that we and the charlotte housing coalition we helped organize promoted persistently to city officials and voters. That increase from 15 million to 50 million has since led to a further affordable housing investment from public and private partnerships of 180 million. To ensure that plans to address charlottes serious affordable housing crisis, we have advocated for greater representation of residents from communities directly affected by gentrification and displacement. We also continued to organize tenants living in substandard conditions or facing mass evictions through redevelopment, and won a substantial fund for resettlement for the mostly latinx residents of a mobile home community in matthews being razed for highway expansion.”

“Civil rights we worked in 2018 for criminal justice reform and police accountability, immigrant rights, and racial and gender equity. During the year we helped lead the fight in charlotte to improve treatment of inmates in the mecklenburg county jail by eliminating juvenile solitary confinement and reinstating in-person family visits. We also helped lead the fight to eliminate our 287g agreement with ice, and to reduce the burden of cash bail requirements. Our non-partisan public education work in the sheriff and district attorney races included canvassing, media coverage, and candidate forums, and the elections delivered a new sheriff and district attorney who have enacted all of these reforms. We also continued our work to fight unjust deportations and family separations, and launched a campaign to ensure that immigrants facing deportation in mecklenburg countys immigration court have access to legal representation. In august we organized our fourth annual womens equality day march and rally in durham, which again attracted several hundred participants. We were also at the center of the creation of the durham mayors council for women in march 2018”

“Social safety net in 2018 a substantial focus of our organizing work was on protecting and expanding healthcare access, and preventing any further restrictions to reproductive health access. In anticipation of a better political climate for medicaid expansion in 2019, we continued our organizing in support of expansion. We also worked to protect the affordable care act from further attacks on the scope and quality of its coverage, and to promote even bolder measures to win healthcare justice like medicare for all and prescription drug regulatory reform. We made our case for greater healthcare access through numerous meetings, actions and earned media events, and supported it with story collection from those directly affected by their lack of healthcare access. We also continued to make senior organizing and protection of retirement security a large part of our organizing program in charlotte, and organized three public events in charlotte and two in durham in opposition to further federal and state tax cuts that would reduce healthcare and mental health services, and result in cuts to medicare and medicaid.”