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Communities Creating Opportunity (CCO) Communities Creating Opportunity (CCO) organizes communities for racial justice and social change. campaigns to win at the ballot box! We register future voters.

Since 1977, CCO has organized and fought for racial justice and social change for Kansas City, the state of Missouri, and the nation as a whole. Founded in the Blue Hills neighborhood, today we are led by and serve residents of five low life expectancy zip codes in Kansas City: 64109, 64127, 64128, 64130, and 64132. These are majority black, low-income areas (median $26-28k), with large health and

life expectancy (15-year) discrepancies compared to wealthier, whiter areas nearby. Rooted in faith but open to all, our organization serves residents by fighting for public policy change at the local, state, and federal level, but also by connecting or even providing residents with direct services. CCO has six campaigns: healthcare access, racial equity, violence prevention, economic dignity, early childhood education, and civic engagement. A snapshot of our work would include: gathering signatures for the Healthy Homes inspection initiative, universal pre-K, Medicaid expansion, restrictions on predatory payday lenders, and a higher minimum wage -- followed by large G.O.T.V. We drive voters to the polls. We help at food banks. We connect people with vaccines. We educate. We tell stories. We organize events, phone and text banking, canvassing, rallies, digital awareness campaigns, and meetings with elected officials to push social justice forward, from helping save the Affordable Care Act to working toward a permanent Child Tax Credit expansion for families. We develop successful partnerships, such as with Our Revolution Kansas City, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City, mayors and councilpersons, local churches like Metropolitan Missionary Baptist, neighborhood associations like Santa Fe, and more. We believe, pace Margaret Mead, that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world!

22/05/2026

A Kansas City-area nonprofit is working to make sure that bus rider...

Saturday!
07/05/2026

Saturday!

Saturday, 5/9/2026 9:30am-Noon Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church (2310 E Linwood Blvd) Come help CCO put groceries in cars as they come through the food pantry! Volunteers are to park on the grass lot south of the church, accessed via Linwood Boulevard.

01/05/2026

❌ NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING ON MAY DAY ❌

Join Kansas City's mass rally on Friday, May 1st at 5:30 PM at Washington Square Park (100 E Pershing Rd, KCMO 64108)

29/04/2026

The "now-completed demolition" of the law could take us back to the Jim Crow era.

28/04/2026

Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdown

From the Missouri Workers Center:
22/04/2026

From the Missouri Workers Center:

30/03/2026

An estimated 8 million people took to the streets of cities across 50 U.S. states and more than a dozen countries around the world on Saturday in thousands of protests against President Trump under the banner “No Kings.” Organizers say it was the largest single day of protests in U.S. history. I...

30/03/2026

Proponents of the effort in Kansas City, Missouri, are disappointed with the level of engagement of residents and Mayor Quinton Lucas

Tomorrow is the next national No Kings protest. If it's anything like the previous two, it will be the largest protest i...
27/03/2026

Tomorrow is the next national No Kings protest. If it's anything like the previous two, it will be the largest protest in American history. There are various gatherings in the KC area, with the largest likely being on the Plaza (see poster). If you're sick of the Trump administration's assault on democracy, decency, and sanity, take a stand with millions of others across the nation tomorrow!

Go to one!
27/03/2026

Go to one!

Organizers across the U.S. are planning more than 3,000 local events tomorrow for No Kings Day of Nonviolent Action, including several in the Kansas City metro.

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