If I asked you who is COCO?  You might say, she’s the 15-year-old tennis player that beat Venus Williams, and you’d be right!  But I want to tell you about another COCO.  The Coalition of Community Organizations (COCO) is a nonprofit charitable organization founded by Rev. James Caldwell.

COCO’s mission is to educate, empower, and enhance lives so people make informed decisions.  The goal is for people to live in healthy and sustainable communities.  The four competencies that COCO advocates around include:

1) Environmental justice

2) Economic justice

3) Criminal justice

4) Democratic justice

Different organizations belong to COCO and are effective together by networking, learning who to contact, and learning how to take action on issues where they share a mutual interest.

On August 16, 2019, COCO had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new offices at 5901 Market Street in Houston.  The event was attended by 50 to 60 people.  Later, COCO had an open house in the evening.

Houston Sierra Club member and meeting greeter, Linda Mundwiller, met interesting folks at the open house like Katie Moore of the Environmental Defense Fund, Stephanie Thomas from Public Citizen, Bernard Sampson a COCO board member, Willie Glasgow from the North Forest News, and Rev. James Caldwell founder of COCO.

Go to COCO’s website, https://coalitionofcommunityorganizations.org/, and find out more about their programs.