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INFO on the ACT Meadowview Youth Leadership Conference HERE!

Download the flyer for the ACT Mayoral Forum
(click below)
Youth Speak Out: Mayoral Candidates Forum Flyer

Read More about
our "Sac VOTES!" initiative:
(click below)
Sacramento Bee article on Luther Burbank High School students "getting out the vote!"

Sacramento ACT creates innovative solutions to pressing community issues; equips local leaders to translate their faith into action; and raises a new vision for Sacramento.

Who We Are

Working with religious congregations, schools, and neighborhood institutions in the Sacramento Valley area, Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT) brings people together to strengthen families and improve communities. We represent more than 40 religious congregations and schools and over 35,000 families.

We believe that people of faith have a unique "prophetic role" to bring out the best from their neighborhoods and community institutions. Sacramento ACT unlocks the power of people to become agents of transformation in their neighborhoods and communities.

Recent Updates
YOUTH SPEAK OUT! : Mayoral Candidates Forum - Monday May 19th, 6:30 pm
Luther Burbank High School Auditorium (3500 Florin Rd, Sacramento, 95823)
Our next Mayor needs to make the needs of young people in Sacramento a priority in their administration! Youth from schools and congregations throughout Sacramento will be hosting the May 19th Mayoral Candidates Forum (Sponsored by ACT and The Meadowview Partnership).

Come Hear the Candidates Address Their Commitments to:

• Find more resources for youth programs and services
• Increase job opportunities for youth
• Improve high school graduation and college-going rates
• Support foster care youth through affordable housing

When: Monday, May 19, 2008  6:30PM
Where: Luther Burbank High School Auditorium (3500 Florin Rd, Sacramento, 95823)
Translation in Hmong and Spanish provided
For more information, contact the ACT Office at (916) 447-7959 ext. 41

Sacramento VOTES!

Over two Saturdays in January and February, more than 100 youth and 50 adults fanned out across Sacramento to talk to their neighbors about the importance of voting in the February 5th election. This non-partisan effort is part of a state-wide strategy to increase voting in communities where voter participation is extremely low, and part of ACT's overall commitment to increase political power in underrepresented populations. We believe that when traditionally underrepresented communities vote with greater frequency, their voices are heard and the issues affecting their families and neighborhoods recieve more attention from elected officials.

With precinct walk list and polling location cards in hand, more than 150 ACT volunteers visited over 2,500 homes and apartments throughout Sacramento to remind their neighbors to vote. Read more about some experiences of youth from Burbank High School in this January 26th SacBee article (click here). For this project, Sacramento ACT partnered with Project Sunday at Burbank High School, Genesis Church, the Just Faith group of the Sacramento Diocese, The Rock Youth Group in Elk Grove, the Hmong student group "HUSA" from Sac State, Power Forward, and many other ACT congregations and community groups in the Gardenland, Del Paso Heights, and Oak Park communities.

Sacramento ACT is part of a California-wide partnership with professors from Yale, CSU East Bay, and the Irvine Foundation to evaluate which "Get Out the Vote" methods are most effective. The results of the evaluation will help ACT become even more successful in turning infrequent voters into engaged participants in the local, state, and federal political process.

Sacramento Area Congregations Together is an affiliate of the PICO National Network and PICO California, the largest grassroots community organizing effort in California.