Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement

Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE) is a 501(c)3 faith-based organization, established in 2000 by a core group of pastors. Our mission is to “train and develop the capacity of religious and lay leaders in congregations and across the Inland Empire to protect and revitalize the communities in which they live, work, and worship. We recruit, train, and develop grassroots leaders, youth and adults, in the principles of community organizing to identify and develop systemic solutions to the conditions they face. As a multi-issue organization, COPE’s work addresses: 

• Educational inequity through various school reform efforts
• Access to quality health care for vulnerable populations through policy advocacy, community education, and special programs
• Housing justice to address housing discrimination, tenant rights, and to expand access to affordable/sustainable housing
• Mass incarceration through various justice reform efforts to end the cycle of incarceration that largely impacts poor communities of color.