The West Side Community Organization (WSCO) is an action oriented, neighborhood-based organization empowering our residents to participate in and advocate for solutions to West Side community issues. Growing out of a movement in 1973 to save Humboldt High School, WSCO remains committed to its activist roots, using organizing and community economic development principles as a foundation for all of its work.

The organization works with the 15,000+ residents and stakeholders on St. Paul’s West Side to increase the civic participation of residents by initiating organizing campaigns, providing leadership development opportunities for youth and adults and by educating and building the power base of residents to tackle civic issues. WSCO also acts as a vehicle to inform and shape issues concerning the “built” environment through community economic development planning, organizing resources to clean up urban blight and advocating for equitable development. Finally, the organization works to promote a healthy natural and social environment by addressing food security issues, promoting urban agriculture, recycling and responsible energy use.

Please make a donation of $10, $25, $50, $100 or more in support of WSCO. In the last year, your gifts helped us:

• Finalize a formal 10 year comprehensive plan for the neighborhood, which will be adopted by the City of Saint Paul and guide the work of the community and its partners for the next decade.
• Forge a new relationship with Live Nation Entertainment and the River’s Edge Music Festival which resulted in a direct benefit of over $40,000 for the West Side, including jobs for 20 West Siders.
• Worke with Ce Tempoxcalli and other to hosts the Chalchiutlicue Environmental Justice Summit, which provided educational opportunities to over 250 people on ways to protect the environment.
• Organize the second Annual West Side Art & Music Festival, which showcased local artists and musicians.
• Secure funds to conduct mass transit organizing for Robert Street in order to position the West Side for improved access to transportation options.
• Partnere with area youth serving organizations to save the West Side Circulator.
• Spearhead the Torre Leadership Skills Project to build resident leadership at Torre De San Miguel.
• Weigh in on land use issues including new industry at Barge Channel Road and how West Siders can get access to jobs.
• Support urban agriculture efforts to help start community gardens.
• Organize the Annual West Side Clean Up, which took over 20 tons of garbage and debris out of the community.
• And much much more

Thank You for your support!