Great Communities Collaborative Resources
GCC’s Public Land Working Group is excited to present two new documents for government agencies, housing advocates, and community members to understand the Surplus Land Act (SLA), and how it can address CA’s affordable housing needs.
READ MORE >November 2021
Great Communities Collaborative
affordable housing
Fighting Redlining & Climate Change w/ Transformative Climate Communities (TCC)
The Greenlining Institute reports that TCC is a success, and could serve as a global model for equitable climate policies – but it’s not big enough and not funded anywhere near enough. Learn more about their five-year progress report.
READ MORE >November 2021
Greenlining Institute
affordable housing, climate change
California Mobility Justice Advocates Guiding Principles
In this document, the California Mobility Justice Advocates put forth a set of principles in the hopes of encouraging decision makers to center community voice and wisdom in mobility and transportation programs and projects.
READ MORE >November 2021
PolicyLink
transportation
Mismatched: The Philanthropic Response to the Call for Racial Justice
This report is the most comprehensive assessment of racial equity and racial justice funding to date. It helps correct a lot of misconceptions about the state of racial equity and racial justice grantmaking – and PSOs have a role to play.
READ MORE >October 2021
Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
racial justice
Pandemic Recover and Beyond Factsheets
Check out Local Government Commission’s factsheets on water accessibility, and resilient watersheds and fire management. Additionally, check out LGC’s post on curbing post-pandemic traffic.
READ MORE >September 2021
Local Government Commission
transportation, water, wildfire
Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts
US EPA published a report laying out the stark reality of how climate change disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations. EPA Administrator Michael Regan said that the report’s data will allow his agency to “more effectively center EPA’s mission on achieving environmental justice for all.”
READ MORE >September 2021
Environmental Protection Agency
climate change, racial justice
Measuring the Promise of Transit-Oriented Development: A Proposed Methodology for BART
While this report is a technical document and a grant deliverable, it is also an advocacy tool that expresses TransForm’s mission around transit-oriented development and right-sized parking policies. We hope it will prove useful to BART and stakeholders of the Lake Merritt and El Cerrito Plaza station developments and to public agencies, developers, and cities that support TOD in and beyond the San Francisco Bay Area.
READ MORE >June 2021
TransForm
transit-oriented development, transportation
#OurWaterOurVoice: Toward Equitable Implementation of LA County’s Safe Clean Water Program
The Safe Clean Water Program (SCWP), established in 2018 by Measure W, generates approximately $300 million annually for multi-benefit stormwater infrastructure projects across Los Angeles County. In response to challenges and opportunities early in the SCWP Regional Program, this report aims to illustrate a pathway toward equitable implementation and realizing the County’s early commitment to equity.
READ MORE >June 2021
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)
water
Changing the Landscape: People, Parks, and Power
Check out Prevention Institute and Alessandro Rigolon of the University of Utah’s approach to addressing park and green space inequities that prioritizes building power among people closest to the problem so that they can drive policy and systems change solutions.
READ MORE >June 2021
Prevention Institute
open space and parks, public health
Investing at the Frontlines of Climate Change: A Funder Toolkit on Climate, Health and Equity
This toolkit has been created to accelerate philanthropy at the intersection of climate change, health, and equity. The project is a collaborative effort by several philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs) to serve funders’ varied interests, as well as to facilitate learning and collaboration across funder communities.
READ MORE >May 2021
Biodiversity Funders Group, Climate and Energy Funders Group, Environmental Grantmakers Association, Grantmakers in Health, Health & Environmental Funders Network, Philanthropy CA, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders, The Funders Network
climate change, public health
Roadmap HOME 2030 Policy Priorities
Check out Roadmap HOME 2030’s package of 12 solutions to urge California leaders to take swift action during the 2021-22 legislative session.
READ MORE >March 2021
Housing California, California Housing Partnership
affordable housing
Dangerous by Design
The number of people struck and killed while walking has gone up 45 percent in a decade, and people of color, older adults, and people walking in low-income neighborhoods were killed at significantly higher rates. Download Smart Growth America’s new report.
READ MORE >March 2021
Smart Growth America
public health, transportation, walking and bicycling
Land Use Planning Approaches in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Community Wildfire Planning Center’s new report provides a synthesis of how California and other state’s land use planning addresses the wildland-urban interface, along with solutions that focus on improving state-level hazard planning legislation, increasing capacity-building and much more.
READ MORE >February 2021
Community Wildfire Planning Center
wildfire
California’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program FIVE YEARS OF INVESTMENTS
Enterprise Community Partners’s AHSC program invested $1.66 Billion in California to meet housing needs and reduce greenhouse gasses in five years.
READ MORE >January 2021
California Housing Partnership, Enterprise Community Partners
affordable housing, climate change
Community Foundations: Drivers of Inclusive and Meaningful Local Change
This report examines and surfaces key outcomes and lessons learned from TFN’s three community foundation partnership programs: (1) The Community Foundation Water Initiative; (2) Partners for Places; and (3) Philanthropic Preparedness, Resiliency and Emergency Partnership (PPREP).
READ MORE >January 2021
The Funders Network, Estalano Advisors
climate change, public health, racial justice, water
