Homes Before Highways Interactive Mapping Tool
The Homes Before Highways Interactive Mapping Tool from The Greenlining Institute visualizes where highway expansion projects across California are demolishing homes and businesses, while highlighting overlaps with environmental, housing, and community burdens. The tool helps communities, advocates, and policymakers understand the impacts of highway expansion and supports efforts to advance more equitable, people-centered transportation investments.
READ MORE >January 2026
The Greenlining Institute
community development, gentrification and displacement, public health, transportation
An Abundance Agenda for Transportation
This report, part of the 2026 Abundance Policy Report Series, examines how transportation policy can expand access to jobs, housing, services, and opportunities across California by increasing affordable, reliable, and multimodal mobility options. It outlines a people-centered approach to transportation abundance that addresses inequities between well-resourced “abundance hubs” and underserved “scarcity zones,” while shifting policy focus from moving vehicles to improving access for people.
READ MORE >January 2026
UC Berkeley Possibility Lab
community development, public health, transit-oriented development, transportation
Wildfire Recovery Fund – Rising Together: A Year of Impact
To highlight the reach of the Wildfire Recovery Fund, California Community Foundation released an interactive report entitled Rising Together: A Year of Impact. It offers an unprecedented, transparent look at how philanthropic dollars and community partnerships translated into real help for wildfire survivors in Los Angeles County. CCF has helped raise more than $100 million and distributed over $50 million through the Wildfire Recovery Fund to stabilize housing, support healing and begin rebuilding.
READ MORE >January 2026
California Community Foundation
climate investments, community development, wildfire
Adaptation Insights – Pathways to scale investments in Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation
This report from the Global Center on Adaptation shows that investing in nature-based solutions can provide eight dollars in benefits for every dollar spent on climate adaptation.
READ MORE >December 2025
Global Center on Adaptation
climate adaptation, climate change, economic opportunity
Carbon Dioxide Removal in California: A practical guide for policymakers and the public
This report is a practical guide for policymakers and the public in reducing emissions and also addressing the long-lived legacy emissions that continue to impact the climate.
READ MORE >December 2025
The Climate Center
clean energy, climate change
San Joaquin Valley Clean Water Advocates Overview
The San Joaquin Valley Clean Water Advocates (Power, Equity and Clean Water Collective) is a collaborative initiative that builds community power and leadership to advance safe, affordable drinking water and equitable groundwater management in frontline environmental justice communities across California’s San Joaquin Valley. Through funding, training, advocacy, and community engagement, the initiative supports local organizations and residents in shaping water policy, securing critical investments, and advancing the Human Right to Water.
READ MORE >January 2023
San Joaquin Valley Clean Water Advocates
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
