The Partnership and affiliates share the goal of developing powerful local organizations that pursue and win campaigns that connect and enhance worker and community organizing, expand democracy and combat poverty by raising job standards and addressing the needs of low-income communities. We share a commitment to building labor and community power and base-building, developing new leaders and organizing strong regional and national alliances based on mutual self-interest and respect. We maintain a commitment to racial justice and belief that regional organizing around power-building agendas can help transform the poverty and inequality that are endemic to metropolitan regions.