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In response [to the pandemic], a group of organizations has convened to advocate for creating a HE&RJ Fund that would provide funding directly to community-based organizations, clinics, and tribal organizations (CBOs) to identify the most pressing health and racial justice issues in their communities and develop solutions to address them.
Dear Gov. Newsom, Pro Tem Atkins, Speaker Rendon, and Chairs, On behalf of the undersigned nonprofit employers and our member…
On February 17, 2022, the Assembly and Senate Select Committees on the Nonprofit Sector held a joint hearing featuring panelists and public comment from nonprofit leaders across the state. The committees prepared a background paper and invited panelists to testify. On February 17, 2022, the Assembly and Senate Select Committees on the Nonprofit Sector held a joint hearing featuring panelists and public comment from nonprofit leaders across the state. The committees prepared a background paper and invited panelists to testify.
Isolation, economic stress, and community trauma – all of which have been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic – are proven…
We encourage you to tune in next week as state representatives hold their first-ever joint hearing on the state of the nonprofit sector.
On behalf of child and youth advocates, we are writing to share our strong concerns about the recent proposal from the cannabis industry regarding state cannabis tax rates and to express our opposition to this proposal. If the industry is successful in persuading state leaders to lower, suspend and/or eliminate the tax rates approved by voters in Proposition 64, we will see an immediate, negative impact on thousands of children living in poverty and children of color across our state.
that activated waves up to fifteen meters high, causing an unprecedented disaster to the island groups of Tongatapu, Ha’apai, Eua, and surrounding islands of the archipelago. To date, three people have died and villages, schools, churches, businesses, and all agriculture were destroyed. Families who lived along the coastlines were forced to flee inland for safety and have no home to return to. For many, they have lost their only source of income as all crops and fisheries have been ruined.
Independent Sector joins other nonprofit and for-profit organizations in supporting bipartisan legislation in the House of Representatives, the Employee Retention Tax Credit Reinstatement Act, which would restore the ERTC for the fourth quarter of 2021.
The organization’s eight-week Undocumented Mentorship Academy has resources for academic and professional development. The academy covers writing a resume, public speaking and understanding one’s rights. The program was co-created by other youths in the country illegally and is tailored to the experiences mentors have had in achieving their goals.
Through the Build Back Better Act, Congress is on the verge of making transformational policy change for babies by investing…
