On June 8, the Commerce Department (which oversees the Census Bureau) invited the public to comment on the paperwork associated with the 2020 Census. The public has 60 days – until August 7 – to submit comments.
**Update**
Since October 2017, the U.S. government has forcibly separated at least 2,400 children—including hundreds who are under four years old—from their parents as they arrive on our southern border seeking refuge.
The next Ventura County Funders Forum will take place on June 6, 2018.
Census 2020 is less than two years away; the time to act is now! Planning has started for a “Get Out The Count” campaign to reach hard-to-count populations in the communities you care about.
The City of Stockton, California, has experienced a sea change around the new confluence of community leadership, innovation, and political will to address what many thought were intractable issues.
Please join us for a full-day funders convening and Reinvention Tour in Stockton, where you will immerse yourself in the community at the street level and learn about transformative initiatives including the Stockton Scholars college promise scholarship initiative, the much-publicized Universal Basic Income pilot program, the South Stockton Promise Zone collective impact collaborative, the recently approved Advance Peace initiative to address community violence and trauma and other community initiatives and organizations addressing the cradle-to-career continuum.
For many immigrant and refugee families in the United States, schools serve as trusted entities—and this role has only been amplified in recent years.
Suzanne Bohan’s Twenty Years of Life shares the little-told stories of individuals across California who have been devastated by underperforming schools, polluted parks, over-policed communities and other health hazards in their areas.
Join the SCG Veterans Funders Group for a peer-to-peer discussion on what grantmakers are seeing, learning and funding in the southland veterans’ community.