Power Moves: Your Essential Philanthropy Assessment Guide for Equity and Justice
This philanthropy assessment guide for equity and justice is a complete self-assessment toolkit to determine how well foundations are building, sharing and wielding power and identifying ways to transform programs and operations for lasting, equitable impact.
READ MORE >May 2018
National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy
social justice
Indicators of Climate Change in California
This report presents 36 indicators that show how climate change is affecting California.
READ MORE >May 2018
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
climate change
Race Counts: Advancing Opportunities for All Californians
This online tool and report rank all 58 counties by seven issue areas critical to California’s future to paint a comprehensive picture of racial disparity in California.
READ MORE >May 2018
Advancement Project California, USC PERE, PICO California, and California CALLS
social justice
With or Without Autonomous Vehicles: 11 Strategies for a Better Transportation Future
This helpful piece highlights effective strategies to manage traffic and make it easier to get around even if autonomous vehicles never arrive.
READ MORE >April 2018
SPUR
transportation
Solving the Housing Crisis is Key to Inclusive Prosperity in the Bay Area
This report presents new data and analyses that illustrate how rising rents and stagnant incomes are jeopardizing the region’s diversity, growth, and prosperity.
READ MORE >April 2018
The Bay Area Equity Atlas: A Partnership between PolicyLink, The San Francisco Foundation, and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California (PERE)
affordable housing, economic opportunity
The California Healthy Places Index
This new tool can be used to explore and change those community conditions that predict life expectancy. It contains user-friendly mapping and data resources at the census tract level across California.
READ MORE >April 2018
Public Health Alliance of Southern California
public health, social justice
Mobility Equity Framework: How to Make Transportation Work for People
This paper proposes a framework designed to elevate social equity and community power within all transportation planning and decision-making. It’s focused on California, but is relevant anywhere.
READ MORE >March 2018
The Greenlining Institute
social justice, transportation
2018 Statewide Housing Needs Report
This report includes key findings and recommendations on the current housing crisis in California.
READ MORE >March 2018
California Housing Partnership Corporation
affordable housing, gentrification and displacement
A Pivot to Power: Lessons from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities about Place, Health, and Philanthropy
This publication assesses The California Endowment’s 10-year investment in building “people power” capacity in 14 diverse communities.
READ MORE >March 2018
USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity
community development, public health
UpliftCA.org Resource Finder
This online resource was created to help individuals, community groups, small businesses, tribes, and local government agencies more easily find information about programs and grants funded by cap-and-trade dollars.
READ MORE >February 2018
The Greenlining Institute in partnership with the California Climate Equity Coalition
clean energy, climate change, economic opportunity
Perspectives: Practitioners Weigh in on Drivers of Rising Housing Construction Costs in San Francisco
This is the first in a research series from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley examining the array of costs associated with building housing.
READ MORE >January 2018
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley
affordable housing
Safeguarding California Plan: 2018 Update – California’s Climate Adaptation Strategy
This plan updates the state’s climate adaptation and resiliency strategy for 2018, including 70 recommendations for actions across 38 state agencies.
READ MORE >January 2018
The California Natural Resources Agency
clean energy, climate change, open space and parks, public health, transportation
Gimme Shelter Podcast
CALmatters’ data reporter Matt Levin and Los Angeles Times housing reporter Liam Dillon chat about the latest developments in California housing policy.
READ MORE >January 2018
CALmatters
affordable housing
Strengthening Communities through Rent Control and Just-Cause Evictions: Case Studies from Berkeley, Santa Monica, and Richmond
This report investigates and challenges common arguments against rent control and just-cause evictions.
READ MORE >January 2018
Urban Habitat
affordable housing, gentrification and displacement
Filling the Void: The Value of New Technology to Reduce Air Pollution and Improve Information at Oil and Gas Sites in California
This report recommends that California’s air monitoring agencies start using available technology to measure local air quality, especially where people live close to facilities that emit harmful pollutants.
READ MORE >December 2017
Environmental Defense Fund
clean energy, public health
