Action Council of Monterey County

The Action Council of Monterey County was created in 1994 to address unmet needs of low-income residents as a result of welfare reform. Since that time it has evolved into a hub for social innovation, incubation, and cross-sector collaboration in the region. Actions mission is to empower people to transform their communities and they do this by incubating leaders, innovative ideas, emerging organizations, and collaborative community action. This role presupposes a strong commitment to work with funders, policy makers and the community to facilitate change on critical issues. To this end it has incubated Building Healthy Communities, Mujeres en Accion and other grassroots organizations in the community. Building Healthy Communities (BHC) was a 10 year initiative of The California Endowment that cultivates assets in communities to improve health status and equity for all residents. East Salinas is one of the fourteen place-based sites within BHC that is looking at values and practic...