Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities
This report includes a set of Healthy Planning Metrics that can be used to assess, measure, monitor and report progress toward healthy planning goals.
READ MORE >May 2017
American Planning Association
public health, social justice, transit-oriented development
Beyond Diversity: A Roadmap to Building an Inclusive Organization
This report looks at the readiness, recruitment, and retention practices of environmental NGOs and foundations in regards to diversity, as well as presents relevant research from diversity studies outside the environmental movement.
READ MORE >May 2017
Green 2.0
social justice
The Bay Area Greenprint
This tool reveals the multiple benefits of natural and agricultural lands, empowering users to inform land use decisions with better data. The Bay Area Greenprint identifies, maps, and measures the values that natural resources contribute to the ecosystem, the economy, and the local and regional community.
READ MORE >May 2017
The Nature Conservancy, Bay Area Open Space Council, American Farmland Trust, Greenbelt Alliance, and GreenInfo Network
open space and parks
Access: A Community Development Podcast from the Federal Reserve
This podcast highlights successful examples of organizations advancing opportunity for lower-income communities.
READ MORE >May 2017
The Community Development Departments of the Federal Reserve System
community development, social justice
Vision Zero Equity Strategies for Practitioners
This case study highlights context-sensitive equity strategies to achieve traffic safety, which is especially important considering low-income communities and communities of color carry a disproportionate burden of traffic-related injuries and fatalities.
READ MORE >May 2017
Vision Zero Network
social justice, walking and bicycling
Housing and Transportation: Building the Bay Area’s Vibrant, Sustainable, and Affordable Future Together
This report, “On Track Together,” offers solutions for how the Bay Area can take a regional approach to address its housing needs.
READ MORE >May 2017
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
affordable housing
Building Resilient States: Profiles in Action
This report highlights local, regional, and statewide efforts to build more resilient communities from the ground up, with California as one of the featured examples.
READ MORE >May 2017
Governor’s Institute on Community Design
climate change, community development, transportation
Affordable Housing Needs Analysis for California Counties
This is the annual county-by-county analyses of affordable housing shortfalls in counties across the state. The range of reports offer concrete steps that state and local representatives should take immediately to help lessen the burden on low-income renters.
READ MORE >May 2017
California Housing Partnership Corporation
affordable housing
MovingCalifornia.org Shows Cap-and-Trade Investments Across State
This website showcases how proceeds from the cap-and-trade program are funding a wide variety of ultra-clean and zero-emission trucks, buses, cars and low-carbon transportation projects throughout the state.
READ MORE >May 2017
California Air Resources Board
clean energy, climate change, transportation
How Funders Can More Effectively Use Philanthropy to Achieve Social Equity
This piece by Edgar Villanueva and William Cordery asks the philanthropic community to have some very uncomfortable conversations about who we are, what we believe, and how we could adapt our approaches in order to truly champion equity.
READ MORE >April 2017
Huffington Post
social justice
Market-Rate Housing Isn’t a Bad Word, and We Won’t Solve the Housing Crisis Without It
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener deconstructs the statement, “Yes, we need housing, but it needs to be affordable housing.” This piece looks at the shortfalls in housing creation in San Francisco and California, and makes the case for why the state needs to reform its housing creation process.
READ MORE >April 2017
Medium
affordable housing
Analyzing Public Opinion on Water with WaterPolls.org
This online resource is part of a collaborative effort to identify and activate promising water solutions through strategic philanthropic investments. The site covers a range of key water topics, including research focused on California.
READ MORE >April 2017
Water Funder Initiative
water
Rising Seas in California: An Update on Sea-Level Rise Science
This report, requested by the California Natural Resources Agency, provides a synthesis of the state of the science on sea-level rise in California and lays out expected ocean levels through 2150 for a number of locations and scenarios, which vary based on the amount of global greenhouse gas emissions.
READ MORE >April 2017
California Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team (OPC-SAT)
climate change
Shining Cities 2017: How Smart Local Policies Are Expanding Solar Power in America
This report shows how 20 cities are successfully promoting wide-scale adoption of solar energy systems by homes, businesses, and other institutions.
READ MORE >April 2017
Environment California Research & Policy Center and the Frontier Group
clean energy, climate change
Right Type, Right Place: Assessing the Environmental and Economic Impacts of Infill Residential Development through 2030
This comprehensive study models three different scenarios for California’s housing future through 2030: business as usual, where development follows the same patterns it did from 2000 to 2015; a “medium” infill scenario, featuring much more infill housing and more multifamily housing; and an infill “target” scenario where all new housing development happens in infill areas, which also features more multifamily housing than the business-as-usual scenario.
READ MORE >March 2017
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climate change, economic opportunity, transit-oriented development
