Looking Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities Under the New Administration
Watch part two of our series of expert-led debriefs on the significance of the November 2024 election outcomes for progressive community power building in California and beyond.
Election 2024 Debrief: What's Next for Progressive Policy Advocacy
Watch part one of our two-part series of expert-led debriefs on the significance of the November 2024 election outcomes for progressive community power building in California and beyond.
California Issues Forum: Fall 2024 Series
Co-sponsored by Scholars Strategy Network (SSN) and the California Explorations Project, the California Issues Forum brings together scholars and community-based advocates who are working on social and economic policy issues across the Golden State to discuss opportunities to better align in their efforts to promote improved opportunities and outcomes for California workers, families, and communities in need. Featuring SSN chapter leaders in conversation with members and allies of the California Explorations Project, the Fall 2024 series consisted of three dynamic webinars focused, respectively, on Housing and Homelessness, Immigration Policy and Immigrant Rights, and Youth Development and Criminal Justice.
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Building Inclusive Democracy and Power Through Youth Voting and Nonprofit Activism
Watch our roundtable on how nonprofits can engage and activate multicultural youth, including an overview of our 2024 Multicultural Youth GOTV Guide.
Guaranteeing the Common Good: Next Generation Strategies for Building Racial, Gender and Economic Justice
In April 2024, the Project hosted a national virtual roundtable featuring Oakland, CA-based leaders Natalie Foster of the Economic Security Project and Solana Rice of Liberation in a Generation. Foster and Rice discussed Foster’s new book, The Guarantee, which advocates for more aggressive next-generation public and private investment in core centers of human and community capital.
From Solidarity to Structural Reform: A Roundtable for Long Term, Progressive Change in the U.S.
In December 2023, in partnership with the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute, the Project hosted a national virtual roundtable on the case for focusing progressive organizing efforts on racial, gender, and economic inequality, with a special emphasis on the need to address structural reforms in state policy making and budgeting. Our featured guests included Shimica Gaskins of the GRACE/End Child Poverty in California campaign and noted USC political economist Dr. Manuel Pastor. Read coverage of the roundtable via Dan Walters of CalMatters.
Recent News
Opinion: Nonprofits Should Help Improve Voter Turnout
In a recent op-ed for EDSource, Institute Senior Fellow Henry A.J. Ramos and Robb Smith of our California Explorations Project highlight how nonprofits can help drive voter turnout—with a focus on students and multicultural youth. Read more >>
Opinion: How Anti-Immigrant Bigotry Hugely Misunderstands Our Economy
In this recent Los Angeles Times opinion, members of the California Explorations Project advisory board argue that the current anti-immigrant grandstanding fundamentally misunderstands the important role immigrants play in our communities and economy. Read more >>