ABOUT

MISSION STATEMENT

NATHA (Neighbors Acting Together Helping All) is a community association with a youth-focused perspective. NATHA’s mission is to sustain our neighborhood center to continuously provide resources, support and opportunities that promote self-sufficiency and enhances the individual capacities for a healthy, safe and vibrant community.

OUR 30 YEAR IMPACT

NATHA began as a neighborhood watch group in 1991 reacting to the problem of criminal activities that plagued its community. The neighborhood saw the need to involve children, youth, and their families in turning these problems around.

  • In 2001 NATHA opened
  • In 2006 NATHA became owners of our facility due to the generous support of; George, Ruri Sugimoto & Kamau O. Barr A Neighborhood Resource Center providing one stop services to the residents of our community.
  • We raised more then $3 million dollars in resources for our community
  • Ten Thousands of hours of community service
  • High School Achievement Scholarships * 60 in the last 3 years
  • Leadership in local, state, and national community improvement initiatives
  • CHP- Community Health Promoters
  • PHAT – Public Health Action Team
  • YLG – Youth Leadership Group and Enterprise
  • PAST – Parent Advisory Support Team
  • Youth Development - K- 12th Grade – empowering students and teachers while advancing youth agency partnership and programs on area school sites
  • Community Engagement: Neighborhood connectivity to address needs and find grassroots community based solutions to community issues and problems by organizing, actions, and facilitation.
  • 20 Years of Community Strategic planning and feasibility studies of consensus building toward long term solution and community action

Our Impact

Our organization’s collective impact approach relies on our long-standing cross-sector coalitions with law enforcement agencies, schools, religious establishments, local municipalities, and business organizations. Through this approach, we can enhance relationships and measure success along with shared objectives.

Our approach also creates a seamless network of opportunities for the youth. This network, in turn, allows us to reach more youth and share resources for cost-effective service delivery. Lastly, it helps in addressing a variety of issues, such as poor socioeconomic, educational, and public health outcomes.

How We Serve

Our impact starts with the people, and grows through partnership, purpose, and place.

NATHA has always grown with Lincoln Village. For years, we served as a cornerstone for youth development through programs like the Community of Organized Learners (COOL) and the Youth Leadership Group (YLG). Initiatives like the Lemonade Brigade, a teen-run lemonade business, taught young people entrepreneurial skills while raising scholarship funds and investing in their futures.

While we no longer run formal youth programs, youth empowerment remains in our roots, and we continue to ask how young people can lead and serve in the work of rebuilding their own community.

Today, NATHA’s mission centers on disaster relief, community resilience, and civic engagement. From supporting survivors of the Eaton Canyon fires to hosting healing gatherings and supporting grassroots initiatives, we stand for collective restoration.

We collaborate with local organizations to extend our impact and avoid service duplication. We also sustain our work through rental income from a commercial property adjacent to our center, helping offset facility costs and keeping our doors open to the community.

At our core, we believe when residents give their time, love, and skills, the community gives back.

That’s the NATHA way.

“I believe NATHA provides programs that pretty much target facets of life that other organizations don’t like how to live better, how to eat better, and teaching right from wrong from a early stage.”