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Build the Wheel is a collaborative initiative, coordinated by the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA), to help strengthen community empowerment efforts across the country. Buildthewheel.org is being designed as an online, interactive, learning community where staff and community leaders from diverse organizations, neighborhoods, cities and issue areas can come together to build upon each others’ practice, experiences and learning in popular political education and leadership development. This is a space where community leaders and organizations seeking to affect policy change through community organizing and civic participation strategies will gain access to tools, curricula and resources to more effectively educate ourselves and the community constituents, members and leaders we work with.

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The Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA) works to increase immigrant civic and political activism to strengthen democracy and advance social justice. Our work is inspired by the immense contributions that immigrants make to the economic, cultural and spiritual fabric of our communities. We envision a place where all people, regardless of citizenship status, have access to basic civil and human rights, and are empowered to take action on issues that impact all of our communities.

National Steering Committee
Monica Hernandez, Highlander Research and Education Center
Malachi Larrabee-Garza, Commuity Justice Network for Youth*
Le Tim Ly
Mateo Nube, Movement Generation
Jill Shenker, National Domestic Workers Alliance*

*organizations listed for identification purposes only

Mitchell Kapor Foundation [www.mkf.org]
Liberation Ink [www.liberationink.com]
Aepoch Fund [www.aepoch.org]

PILA Funders

The Akonadi Foundation [www.akonadi.org]
The California Endowment [www.calendow.org]
Evelny and Walter Haas Jr. Fund [www.haasjr.org]
The San Francisco Foundation [www.sff.org]
The Walter and Elise Haas Fund [www.haassr.org]
Omnia Foundation [www.omniafoundation.org]
The Zellerbach Family Foundation [www.zellerbachfamilyfoundation.org]