Arizona Arizona

Organizing Organizing
Project Project

Fostering healthy and

sustainable communities
organized and led by
people emerging from
poverty.

Values:
Inclusiveness
Civility
Mutual Respect
Human Dignity
Optimism
Learning Arizona Organizing Project
Partnership
Visit our website at http://www.azop.org

1010 Community Center

1010 W. Adams St., Phoenix, AZ 85007

Phone: 602-761-4273
Email: info@azop.org
 Arizona Organizing Project
Programs
1010 Community Center
The 1010 Community Center is a peer-run center led by
formerly and currently homeless people that offers pro-
grams to help develop peer groups, Recovery Model
health services, micro-enterprise, nursing, creative
writing, dance and movement, career-development skills
training, help with securing public benefits, "Know Your
Rights" legal trainings, and camping for people not able
to stay in other shelters. We are developing new projects
and hope you will offer your skills and time. People
experiencing homelessness are encouraged to apply.
Neighborhood Leadership Institute
& Peer Group Organizing
We work with people currently living in chronic poverty
to develop the skills and virtues necessary to exercise
their power that creates and sustains prosperity, while
supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape
their own destiny. Through popular education, participa-
tory research, and cultural work, we develop leadership
and help create and support strong, democratic peer
group organizations that work for justice, equality and
sustainability in their neighborhoods and with the insti-
tutions impacting their lives.
Peer Groups We Partner With Include:
Jefferson Street Gentlemen’s Association, Women of
Wealth, Madison Street Veterans Association, Capitol
Mall Fellows, Phoenix Street Life and the Phoenix Com-
mittee of Homeless Campers
Social Enterprise Development
We view social enterprise development as a unique
opportunity for individual and collective leadership in Get in Touch with the Arizona Organizing Project
the area of economic social change. We work with
people currently living in chronic poverty with a Comments, Interests, and Questions:
desire and aptitude to be social entrepreneurs. The
work of these social entrepreneurs creates enterprises
that improve the common good and solve a social
problem in a new, more lasting and effective way than
traditional approaches, while lifting them to
sustainable prosperity.
Our Social Enterprises Include:
Name
Bicycle Cooperative * Community Garden Address
Fiber Arts Cooperative
Internship Program for Formerly Homeless People Email
Phone
The Arizona Organizing Project Internship Program is
designed to provide a stable living environment for
people who are currently or formerly homeless, while Arizona Organizing Project
incorporating hands on leadership development in
neighborhood organizing and public and private life
skills capacity development. Responsibilities include Visit our website at http://www.azop.org
conducting relational meetings throughout the
1010 Community Center
neighborhood, participating in peer support specialist
1010 W. Adams St., Phoenix, AZ 85007
and leadership development training and creating and 11th Ave. and Adams St. NE Corner
leading community service projects.
Please Support Our Programs
Recovery Education and Care
Sponsored by 501c3 Atwood Health Foundation —EIN: 86-
Recovery empowerment practices exercise a peer-run 0975231
(people with shared, learned experiences) approach to Make Your Tax-Deductible Checks payable to:
recovery from homelessness and all that it entails. Atwood Health Foundation - Arizona Organizing Project
Recovery is a choice-driven approach where people and mail to: 5025 N. Central Ave, #534, Phoenix, AZ 85012
can recover their wellness in a peer environment that
fosters greater personal and group accountability.
Phone: 602-761-4273
Email: info@azop.org