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
California’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program
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
Enterprise Community Partners, California Housing Partnership
affordable housing
Resilient California Report
California Climate and Agriculture Network’s report provides an overview of the past six years of state climate investments in land-use strategies aimed at increased in-fill development and related greenhouse gas emission reductions.
READ MORE >December 2020
California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN)
agriculture, climate change
Advocacy Toolkit for Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building
Prevention Institute’s toolkit supports CBO’s, their members and others who are building power to secure equitable investments in park infrastructure in disinvested communities.
READ MORE >December 2020
Prevention Institute
open space and parks, public health
Building Wildfire Resilience in the West Series
In this report, you’ll find an overview of what we learned from our six-part Building Wildfire Resilience Series; the next step in which we hope you’ll participate; and Zoom summaries, recordings, and learning materials.
READ MORE >September 2020
Philanthropy California
climate change, wildfire
Does state tax policy discourage housing production?
A new report from SPUR and California Forward concludes that tax policy is one driving factor that limits affordable housing production in California, and offers principles for policy options.
READ MORE >September 2020
SPUR, California Forward
affordable housing
Greenlined Economy Guidebook
Greenlining Institute’s report lays out a bold vision for a more equitable economy and call for a radical rethinking of community development.
READ MORE >September 2020
Greenlining Institute
economic opportunity, racial justice
Advocacy Toolkit for Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building
Prevention Institute’s toolkit supports CBO’s, their members and others who are building power to secure equitable investments in park infrastructure in disinvested communities.
READ MORE >September 2020
Prevention Institute
open space and parks, public health
Site Check
The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the Department of Housing and Community Development announced the beta release of Site Check, a new mapping tool designed to accelerate the production of housing in California by clarifying where regulatory streamlining under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) may apply.
READ MORE >August 2020
Governor's Office of Planning and Research, Department of Housing and Community Development
affordable housing
The Racial Equity Index: A New Data Tool to Drive Local Efforts to Dismantle Structural Racism
Check out this new tool that reveals significant racial inequities even in the most prosperous cities and metros and provides data to help leaders develop targeted strategies for inclusive prosperity.
READ MORE >July 2020
PolicyLink, University of Southern California
racial justice
