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@PIVOT_CA is live! This first-of-its-kind partnership between California’s leading organizers and funders will fuel transformative innovations in voter organizing. Learn more: pivotca.org

We are honored to have served as communications consultants for the campaign, leading communications strategy, messaging, earned media, and advising on digital and social media. Congratulations to our amazing client partners on this well-deserved recognition.

We are THRILLED to announce that @StopAAPIHate's #NoPlaceforHateCA campaign won not 1 but 2 prizes at PR Daily’s Nonprofit Communications Awards!

@CAPublicHealth's new report shows how social policies, structural racism & community & neighborhood conditions impact the health of Black birthing people & babies, & what we must do to advance health equity and #DeliverBirthJustice. Read the report today: go.cdph.ca.gov/centering-blac…

The Black Census Project reached a historic milestone, quadrupling total responses from the 2018 survey to more than 130K across all 50 states. Learn more at Afro News, and more coverage is linked on This Week With Change: bit.ly/3Lvnb2F #ClientNews

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Monica Martinez, program director for college success at the @HaasJrFund, argues for the continued value and importance of college in response to the growing narrative that obtaining a college degree is simply not “worth” it, in a new piece for Edsource. edsource.org/2023/college-r…

@politico talked with Ludovic Blain, executive director of the California Donor Table, about what is becoming a pattern of electing reform-minded DA’s only to recall them. politico.com/news/2023/08/1…

The study surveyed 1200 Black women across CA on their views of the current economic and social climate and their top policy priorities. More on the survey from CalMatters, KQED, CBS Bay Area, the Sacramento Bee, Richmond Pulse, Black Enterprise, and California Black Media.

In California, many Black women work more than one job, and 1/3 are the sole breadwinner in their household, according to groundbreaking new research from the @CABWCollective.

In a new piece for the @latimes, @aliciaolivarez from @powercaaction explains the urgent need for state leaders to pass tenant protections and rent control to ensure safe and affordable housing in Fresno, and across the state: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Black women in CA are overburdened and underserved according to a 1st-of-its-kind-survey from the @CABWCollective which found 37% of Black women work two or more jobs; 62% say the second job is essential. More on the survey @ocregister: ocregister.com/2023/08/11/bla…

@akonadi_oakland president Ray Colmenar chats with Malaika Parker, Executive Director of @BlackOrgProject about how her organization is equipping those closest to issues with the tools to build power and enact real, transformational change. akonadi.org/bops-malaika-p…

Seven months after taking the helm as President and CEO of @eastbaycf, Brandi Howard shares four ways EBCF is advancing equity and justice in the East Bay. ebcf.org/post/building-…

Last week, a diverse coalition rallied at the CA Capitol to support SB 846, which aims to increase election turnout and remove barriers to voter registration for millions of eligible but unregistered Californians. Learn more @SacObserver: sacobserver.com/2023/06/grassr…

@margoasnipe with @CapitalBNews looks at how "weathering" leads to dismal health disparities for Black communities. In Oakland, for people living in predominantly Black neighborhoods, life expectancy is 15 years lower than in the wealthy white areas. vox.com/health/2374432…

Did you miss @Colorlines' conversation with editor Dr. Charlene Sinclair and Dr. Claire Jean Kim? Hosted by @aapifund, it focused on how Asian Americans have negotiated their social and economic mobility in an anti-Black society. Watch at the link: colorlines.com/aapi-black-sol…

@zfforg has replaced their traditional evaluation plan with a learning agenda intended to sharpen their approach to supporting their grantee partners and evolve their response to community needs and changing circumstances. Learn more: zff.org/learning-agend…

The @B2FAction Public Policy Institute is back and now accepting applications for the 2023/24 cohort! The fellowship provides tools to transform Black communities into constituencies that wield political power. Apply at bit.ly/B2F_PolicyInst…. More at: essence.com/news/black-fut…

Recently, hundreds of Black organizers from throughout the state went to Sacramento to call for the state to #FundBlackFreedom. Read more about the investments they are calling for in this piece for the Sacramento Observer: sacobserver.com/2023/05/grassr… @CABlackFreedom