About Pacoima Beautiful
Pacoima Beautiful (PB) was founded in 1996 by five relentless mothers who became distraught by the unpleasant sight of trash and toxic smells they endured while walking their young children to school. They knew that the only way to create a safer and cleaner community for their children and neighbors was through collective action, and so like good neighbors they joined forces to bring Pacoima some of its first major community clean-ups and tree planting events. The beautification projects of our founding mothers set the grassroots foundation that our historically women led organization has stood by for the past 25 years.
2025 Agua University
Join Agua University, a free 4-week summer program in the San Fernando Valley that educates high school students about water, environmental justice, and youth advocacy.
2025 Junior Field Rangers
Apply now for Junior Field Rangers, a paid outdoor opportunity where you'll gain hands-on experience in land stewardship, conservation, and environmental advocacy while exploring career paths in the great outdoors!
Volunteer in your Community!
If you have an interest in Environmental Justice and are available a couple of hours a week to get involved in cause based programs sign up today.
Our Work
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Arts & Culture
By way of our Arts and Culture team, our programs work to cultivate and showcase the creative talents of the community and proudly uplifting the cultural identity of the Pacoima community.
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Organizing
Through our organizing team, we strives to fortify frontline communities by understanding and addressing community identified issues and putting forward resident informed solutions.
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Planning
Our planning team conducts a community informed process for the design of land use, transportation and infrastructure, so community relevant planning projects get built in the San Fernando Valley.
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Policy
As equity and environmental justice advocates, our policy team is at the forefront of influencing the development, passage and implementation of statewide policy initiatives happening in our region.
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Youth Organizing
Cultivating young minds to become stewards of a sustainable future.
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Casa Esperanza
Casa Esperanza is a youth and family services center that aims to empower and uplift the families in Panorama City.
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Make a Contribution
Consider making a tax deductible gift to Pacoima Beautiful. Each contribution makes an impact at the grassroots level. We appreciate your ongoing support.
Featured Programs
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Shutdown Whiteman Airport
For 75 years Whiteman Airport has been more detrimental than beneficial to our community. We are calling on the County of LA to prioritize the public safety of Pacoima residents.
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Green Together Collaborative
GTC is an innovative alliance between public and private partners, who together work with Pacoima and Sun Valley residents in California’s San Fernando Valley to build a safe, healthy, socially inclusive/equitable, climate-resilient community.
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2025 Agua University
Immerse yourself in the world of environmental justice through a four-week intensive course on water science, habitat, land use, conservation, and community development.
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Sign the Petition to Shutdown Whiteman Airport
We are calling on the county of Los Angeles to shutdown whiteman. For 75 years Whiteman Airport has been more detrimental than beneficial to our community. There has been one to many crashes in the community. Prioritize the public safety of Pacoima residents, shut it down!
Join the Coalition
Join the fight for a safe, sustainable, green and healthy San Fernando Valley. The rate of airplane crashes in our community is alarming. Since 2020, there has been three airplane crashes in our community. Two of which have been fatal. The fatal airplane crashes are among the reasons why we are calling for the immediate shutdown of Whiteman Airport and are demanding that a thorough Environmental and Health Impact Assessment and Public Safety audit be conducted to better understand why planes departing and arriving at Whiteman Airport continue to crash into communities in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.
