Orange County Congregation Community Organization

Building Leaders. Winning Power. Making Belonging Real.

One Gift. Nearly 50 Years of Organizing. A County Where Everyone Belongs.

All families across Orange County need to have a voice and agency so that they belong. That is why OCCCO exists.

For nearly 50 years, OCCCO has developed transformational leaders within diverse, multicultural, interfaith communities who together shape equitable public policy and create belonging throughout Orange County. This year has show exactly what that looks like in practice.

Our leaders helped win a historic $1 billion annual state investment in California's Community Schools, bringing $35.5 million a year to Orange County schools. Parents and students we've trained — including families and youth organizers in the Anaheim Union High School District — testified, showed up, and helped shift policy so schools become places where students and families are treated as partners, not problems.

We are advancing our unconditional belonging narrative work, so communities often left out tell their own stories. We are shifting Orange County's story — from fear and division toward dignity, bridging, and belonging. 

And our staff team keeps doing the foundational work of democracy: over 8,000 conversations with low-income and undecided voters, and more than 500 faith-rooted, deep-canvassing conversations door to door in Anaheim, Fullerton, Santa Ana, and La Habra — building the civic muscle our communities need to be heard.

This Giving Day, our goal is $10,000 to advance our work of training leaders, shifting the narrative, and turning conversations into power. 

Here's how your gift helps:

• $50 – Bridge Builder: supports our door-to-door bridge building canvassing conversations
• $100 – Storyteller: supports our unconditional belonging narrative-training session
• $250 – Leader in Training: supports  leadership development for an emerging community leader
• $1,000 – Power and Belonging Builder: supports a future of belonging for all throughout Orange County especially in our core cities of Anaheim, Fullerton, and Santa Ana and expanding to other cities. 

This Giving Day, our goal is $10,000 to keep this organizing engine running: training leaders, shifting the narrative, and turning conversations into power.

Give today. Build belonging. Together, we belong.