Dollars and Democracy: A Guide to the State Budget Process
This updated guide from the California Budget & Policy Center describes the budget process and timeline and looks at the roles of the Governor, the Legislature, and other key players.
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This updated guide from the California Budget & Policy Center describes the budget process and timeline and looks at the roles of the Governor, the Legislature, and other key players.
The United States has been at war for more than a decade, with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan representing the longest in our nation’s history. This post-9/11 veteran population has been making its way back to civilian communities. California is home to over 1.8 million former service members, making it the largest veteran population of any state in the United States, and Los Angeles County is the most populous.
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Thank you for attending Returning to Work Safely: Adapting to a new way of Working and Supporting your Employees. We sincerely hope you enjoyed the program.
A recording of this session can be accessed here. Please feel free to access the resources below provided by our presenters.
At the 2017 Public Policy Conference, the SCG community came together with leaders from across our region, our state, and our country to examine new and urgent questions: What does this new political landscape mean for our work? What changes can we expect in federal and state budgets--and in the laws of our country? How will these changes affect what we can do? How will they affect the communities we support?
Opening Keynote
Michael McAfee, President, PolicyLink
Equity: Paving the Way to a Thriving Southern California
The Department of Education has adopted a place-based approach recognizing that the federal government can support strategies to achieve better outcomes for kids and families by taking into account where investments are made and how those investments interact with other resources, policies, and programs.
Engaging a New Generation of Leaders: A blog by Connie Malloy, Portfolio Director, James Irvine Foundation, who moderated the “Innovative Civic and Voter Engagement Methods for a New Generation” session.
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Nonprofit Finance Fund's 2014 Annual Survey chronicles the challenges facing the nonprofit sector and calls out some of the targeted investments we can start to agree on as a society to salvage the investment we have collectively made in our social infrastructure. We believe that a coordinated intervention now will not only better prepare us for inevitable future economic crises; it can lead to a happier, healthier community for us all.
Research Brief - Early Development Instrument data collected from LA County communities measuring school readiness.
Praised by Joints Chiefs of Staff Chairman ADM Mike Mullen as "the most definitive policy work on the post -9/11 landscape", in Well After Service: Veteran Reintegration and American Communities, SCG consultant Nancy Berglass and co-author Dr.