Collaboration is more important than ever.

In a world increasingly divided, separated and suspicious of each other, finding purposeful ways to see, learn from and work with each other to pursue justice, focusing on our most marginalized makes a powerful statement to a hostile world.

Your contributions to Trellis helped make this kind of work possible.

In 2024, through your generous support we were able to...

Put on three holiday gift events serving more than 300 kids
Provide social services and resources to more than 500 folks experiencing economic limitations and homelessness
Stipend a group of migrant, unhoused and elderly men receiving deliveries and doing inventory management for food distribution through groceries and meals to hundreds of families in Brooklyn
Honor 12 more incredible humans through our collaborative community organizing art project, Commmunity Heroes

The work this year also included advocating for..

Fair housing for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they come back into community
Accountability to improve the Police Department's data-collection efforts and to prevent unlawful encounters with young people of color and other abuses
Street vendors to have adequate resources and support to do business in serving New Yorkers food

And now into into 2025, we are inviting your continued support in...

Building partnership with churches and non-profits in LA to provide holistic care to the unhoused, including clothing, laundry, meals
Working with organizations to provide supplies and financial support to families and individuals impacted by the LA Fires
Developing resources, including outreach materials to care for the unhoused through
Training leaders and organizations in community engagement, collaboration and outreach strategies in New York and Los Angeles
Providing mentorship and access to opportunity and resources for formerly incarcerated men in partnership with an amazing organization in Los Angeles
Doing ongoing street level care and advocacy for the unhoused in Los Angeles
Continuing to connect organizations to each other and opportunities around housing, food insecurity, criminal legal reform and advocacy, immigration advocacy and migrant care

And advocating for

Allocation of funds for affordable housing and more resources to care for and support the unhoused through Measure A that would raise an estimated $1.1 billion per year for housing and homelessness efforts by levying a 1/2 cent tax on every $1 of goods sold in L.A. County.
The amendment of California Constitution through Proposition 6 that would prohibit the state from punishing inmates with involuntary work assignments and from disciplining those who refuse to work. Instead, state prisons could set up a volunteer work assignment program to take time off sentences in the form of credits. It would let county or city ordinances set up a pay scale for inmates in local jails.
We are asking and inviting your continued support as we build up and build on our work in New York and into Los Angeles.

Your contributions can potentially go further with our non-profit matching tool where you can find out if your company does non-profit matching. There might be others you want to invite into supporting our work. Feel free to send along this update to anyone you think might be interested

You can also always stay update, see pictures and engage more in the work Trellis is doing through our social media @jointrellis on Facebook and Instagram

All of this happens through the encouragement, prayers, and financial contributions of so many who believe in the work Trellis is doing of building neighborhood collaborations that pursue justice together