About SAJE

SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy) was established in 1996. Our mission is to change public and corporate policy in a manner that provides concrete economic benefit to working-class people, increases the economic rights of working class people, and builds leadership through a movement for economic justice.

In the process, SAJE also creates models of economic democracy that are replicable and sustainable.

For the past thirteen years our mission has been expressed through a winning combination of community organizing, community-wide coalitions and partnerships, leadership development, and grassroots policy that gained significant benefits for low-income families.

Our accomplishments include:

• creating the nation’s first welfare-to-work bank account (2000);
  
• negotiating the nation’s most comprehensive Community Benefits Agreement with Anschutz Entertainment Group (through the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice) (2001); and,
  
• being instrumental in the City Attorney’s largest conviction of slumlords through SAJE’s high profile slum housing campaign against the owners of the Morrison Hotel (2006)

In 2009, we welcomed our second Executive Director, Paulina Gonzalez, and said farewell to our Founding Director Gilda Haas. Click here to read Paulina's welcome message.