ACORN: Building Power for Low and Moderate Income Families and their Communities
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ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now Canada, is the nations largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over 15,000 member families organized into 19 neighborhood chapters in 3 cities across the country. Since 2004 ACORN has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to their members. Their priorities include: better housing for tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and regulation of payday lenders. ACORN achieves these goals by building community organizations that have the power to win changes -- through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation
ACORN Canada's goal is to represent and champion the interests of Canada’s low- and moderate-income urban communities
on the critical issues of social and economic justice. We believe that transforming the conditions that adversely affect millions
of Canadians can best be achieved with an active national membership – members deeply invested in their organization
and focused clearly on lasting socio-economic change.
With so many Canadians working harder and slipping incrementally
into increasingly precarious socio-economic conditions, Canada needs a broad-based, energized, national organization focused
on the critical issues of social and economic justice. The time is right for ACORN Canada, with our local offices in Toronto,
Vancouver and Ottawa, to build this truly grassroots, community-driven organization.
ACORN members participate in local meetings and actively work on campaigns, elect leadership from the neighborhood level up, and pay the organization's core expenses through membership dues and grassroots fundraisers.
