{"id":77,"date":"2025-11-11T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/cahokia-heights-resources\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:02:48","slug":"grassroots-organizations-community-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/cahokia-heights-resources\/grassroots-organizations-community-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Organizations &amp; Community Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-94ece0df0ea81eac88ebceb296c9cfe2\">Community Orgs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ec06b554f7d4e7c5879f99944a312248\">Empire 13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2199aeeee6da6ef8d7e61804dff86b02\">JJK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-06ecca4ddc4ce6e5aac4f08d6582565a\">Cahokia Community Basket&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6676460957a7941aa175b5525232c1ee\">Heartland\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-1-color has-text-color has-link-color has-larger-font-size wp-elements-171fb44937a90b3f58a663f72d9f66cc\"><strong>Empire 13 community partners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-cbd7fb2c0b15285dcf5a4be11054a9ec\"> SIUE, Clean City Coalition, Loud For Liberation, PSL STL, Coffee Revolution, Build N The Foundation, Moms Demand Action, and City Of Joy Fellowship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-accent-1-color has-text-color has-link-color has-larger-font-size wp-elements-8c0ffc2fc177bbbd55bf8e19e1673c74\">Empire 13 Work: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-3df8043bd3af8c2f92a18fbb077c77fe\">Community service done by Empire 13:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Boots to the street (partner with SIU and SIUE student volunteers to carry out the campaign)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community clean-up ( cleaning up the community with volunteers, picking up trash and abandoned material)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tornado Clean-up ( cleaning up the aftermath of the STL tornado)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No king&#8217;s protest ( peacefully protesting against current political issues and the presidency)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fighting Environmental racism ( peacefully protesting and doing things such as cleaning up and refreshing predominantly black neighborhoods)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Earth Day clean-up ( cleaning up on Earth Day)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wear Orange Day (gun violence awareness, wearing the color orange to show support for gun violence awareness and gun violence victims)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help flood victims restore their homes ( restore 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GroupMe\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set up regular meetings to assess needs and distribute tasks, while also hosting meetings to come up with events, plans, and community service ideas\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create flyers or social media posts to raise awareness and invite open participation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organize donation drives or supply pick-up\/drop-off points<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Map out neighborhood needs and available resources for distribution\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create delivery systems or transportation\u00a0 for people without transportation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build systems to track inventory and requests (Google Sheets\/Google Forms)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coordinate collective action to demand systemic change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Document and challenge injustice or mistreatment in the community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help with job applications, resumes, or navigating legal systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Offer tech support for online schooling, work, or healthcare access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Orgs: Empire 13 JJK Cahokia Community Basket&nbsp; Heartland\u2019s Empire 13 community partners: SIUE, Clean City Coalition, Loud For Liberation, PSL STL, Coffee Revolution, Build N The Foundation, Moms Demand Action, and City Of Joy Fellowship Empire 13 Work: Community service done by Empire 13: Mutual Aid Ways to do this mutual 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