Welcome

NANDC is a self-governed, self-directed and independent organization empowered by the Los Angeles City Charter. This charter offers neighborhood councils a role in the City's decision-making process. We as citizens are given the opportunity and obligation to stay involved with developments in our area that affect us.  Come get involved!  After all, it's your community!

Take a few moments to find out who we are, what we do and how you can become involved.

What We Do

We promote public participation in city governance and decision making processes, to make government more responsive to our local needs and requests,  creating more opportunities to build partnerships with government and private entities to create more opportunities for our neighborhood.  We work with stakeholders to make a difference in the community with such projects as I Hablo U, the Pet Park Project, and the Community Involvement Program.



How To Get Involved

Anyone who lives, works or owns property in our boundaries is welcome to get involved. View the Boundary Map. Opportunities include:

Come to a meeting! We meet First Thursday of the month from 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Park gymnasium, 39th and Western Avenue, the building just south of the Exposition Park Library, entrance on the south side.

Join a committee: Go to the Committee list under What We Do on the top menu

Contact a board member

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Our mailing address is:
PO Box 77367
Los Angeles, CA 90007

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Elected Representatives

City Council District 1: Ed Reyes email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
City Council District 8: Bernard C. Parks email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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County Supervisor District 2: Mark Ridley-Thomas email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
State Assembly District 59: Reginald B. Jones-Sawyer
State Senate District 26: Curren D. Price, Jr.
US Congress District 37: Karen Bass

Local Neighborhood Councils

Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council
Empowerment Congress Central Area 81
Empowerment Congress West 79
Pico Union Neighborhood Council
Southeast / Central Neighborhood Council 78
United Neighborhoods
Voices of 90037 109
Vernon / Main Neighborhood Council 82

Map of Neighborhood Councils

City & County Links

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City of Los Angeles

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Los Angeles County

Local Organizations

BudgetLA

CityWatchLA
An insider look at LA. This site provides news about Neighborhood Councils, DONE and interactions with City Council.

Education Consortium of Central Los Angeles

Figueroa Corridor

Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce

Los Angeles Citywide Alliance of Neighborhood Councils

LA Conservancy

University of Southern California

West Adams Heritage Association

World Impact

 

Our Name

The early Eighth District Empowerment Congress, created by now Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas was a community-based education and mobilization program. It has been acknowledged as the model for the Los Angeles citywide neighborhood council system created by the change City Charter.

We still proudly carry the early moniker in our name as the 'Empowerment Congress North Area Neighborhood Development Council'.  You may call us NANDC for short!

Our Community

NANDC is located in West Adams, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with most of its buildings erected between 1880 and 1925. It was once the wealthiest district in the city, with its Victorian mansions and sturdy Craftsman bungalows home to Downtown businessmen and professors and academicians at USC. In the 1990s, three areas of West Adams were designated as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones by the city of Los Angeles, in recognition of their outstanding architectural heritage.