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The California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI), an ambitious effort to modernize the state’s health system and build a healthier California for all residents, is now underway in 15 communities across the state. To help support and strengthen their work, more than 120 people connected to the initiative gathered recently for an inspiring and informative two-day convening. READ MORE
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From Shredded Safety Net to Citizen Springboard
You’ve probably seen at least one local TV newscast where a camera pans a long line of weary, desperate people waiting outside a big arena to be tended by volunteer doctors, dentists and other medical professionals. READ MORE |
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Building Healthy Communities Long Beach
BHCLB will be honored with the City of Long Beach’s Human Dignity Award for their ongoing work that engages residents in efforts to improve community health overall. READ MORE
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STEAM:CODERS
Founder Raymond Ealey will receive the Digital Diversity Network’s Connector Award for his innovative solution to expose underserved children to STEAM learning. READ MORE
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Meet our new staff members:
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Dianne Debicella
As a new Program Director at Community Partners, Dianne Debicella oversees a portfolio of fiscally sponsored projects, manages re-granting programs for government clients, and assists on providing intermediary services to funder collaboratives, foundations, and government clients. READ MORE
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Chikako Yamauchi
As the Program Evaluator at Community Partners, Chikako is creating an evaluation framework for our fiscal sponsorship program as well as serving as a resource to our fiscally sponsored projects to help them assess and address their individual evaluation needs. READ MORE
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Inland Empowerment
The network of nonprofits actively advocates for policies and systems that are working to create a just, equitable and inclusive government and economy in the Inland Region (Riverside and San Bernardino counties). The member organizations in Inland Empowerment aim to build a culture of voting, civic engagement and increased regional grassroots leadership in communities throughout the region that are politically and economically underrepresented. LEARN MORE
Project Leader: Deborah Phares
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YouthWire
Engages young people between the ages of 14-24 in a statewide network of youth media hubs in four California locations: Eastern Coachella Valley, Long Beach, Fresno and Merced. YouthWire provides media training to disconnected youth, amplifies youth voices to influence policy at local and statewide levels through digital and print publications, and encourages civic engagement through storytellling. LEARN MORE
Project Leader: Tim Haydock
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Media Arts Santa Ana
Director Victor Payan spoke to the LA Times about the community-based digital arts organization’s upcoming film festival, and the unavoidable influence of the current political climate. READ MORE
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Nature for All
Formerly known as San Gabriel Mountains Forever, the environmental coalition has re-branded and re-launched as Nature for All, a better reflection of its mission to create equitable access to nature for all Los Angelenos. READ MORE
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Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network
The Chronicle of Social Change covered AIYN’s recent Create Justice summit, where all of the AIYN members (including WriteGirl’s Bold Ink Writers and Rhythm Arts Alliance) gathered to engage with youth justice advocates from around the nation. READ MORE
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The Dinner Party
Emily May of The People’s Supper, a program of The Dinner Party, is among the first cohort of the Obama Foundation Fellowships. The foundation interviewed Emily and made a visit to a supper, which brings people with diverse views together for a shared meal and intimate dialogue. WATCH HERE
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Building Forever Families Initiative
Executive director Esther Torrez is profiled in the UCLA Anderson Blog for her professional accomplishments and her latest endeavor, BFFI, which aims to improve visitation experiences and outcomes for children and youth in foster care. READ MORE
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Program officer Eric Medina from the Weingart Foundation (and former Community Partners program director) visited our offices recently for a Meet the Funders presentation and Q&A for leaders of Community Partners projects. With Weingart’s announcement of their new equity-focused priorities, Medina gave our project leaders an exclusive look into the foundation’s interests and criteria for identifying the projects they’re most interested in supporting.
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#GivingTuesday
(Psst – it’s 41 days away!) Reap the benefits of the most charitable day of the year with #GivingTuesday’s 2017 Communications Toolkit. READ MORE
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New Toolkit Puts Focus on Nonprofit Workforce
Fund the People, a project of Community Partners, aims to maximize funder investment in the nonprofit workforce. Fund the People Toolkit is a free, online resource to help you consider the myriad options, make the case, and develop a plan for talent investing. Fund the People will also host a series of webinars to support the toolkit. Sign up to receive notifications about the webinars on their website (fundthepeople.org) or contact them to request a presentation for your organization.
Grantsmanship Training Program
October 23-27
This grant proposal writing course is geared towards social advocates looking for a hands-on experience in finding and securing foundation, private and government funding for nonprofits. For over 40 years, The Grantsmanship Center has been offering trainings and publications to help organizations make better communities. LEARN MORE
Multicultural Communities for Mobility Anniversary Celebration
November 10
For five years, MCM a project of Community Partners has been advocating and creating more walkable, bikeable, and transit accessible neighborhoods with civic partners, government agencies, and community organizations. This event will celebrate the communities they've changed, the young leaders of color they've empowered, and the supporters, volunteers and staff who make their work possible. LEARN MORE
Noche de las Luminarias
December 2; 3:30pm-5:30pm
Local advocates, city leaders, and honorees will convene for an evening filled with good company, food and drink at Community Partners project, BikeSGV's annual awards event. Held at the transformed Jeff Seymour Family Center in the City of El Monte, the event will feature music, silent auction, raffle, and a festival format allowing attendees to socialize, explore, and celebrate the successes of community champions, volunteers and leaders. LEARN MORE
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7 Things You Can Do to Improve the State of Board Diversity
Nonprofit and foundation boards wield a tremendous amount of influence on this work. Whether it’s intended to or not, the lack of board diversity trickles down and has some wide-ranging consequences. READ MORE
INFOGRAPHIC: Corporate Sponsorship 101
Corporate sponsorships can be extremely valuable to both nonprofit organizations and for-profit businesses. Both parties can reach new audiences, enhance their brand, and ultimately accelerate impact. READ MORE
9 Self-Care Strategies in the Era of Trump
Those of us in the nonprofit sector are in the work to make the world better, and though it might at first glance seem indulgent to discuss self-care when many people are suffering, we must take care of ourselves in order to care for others. READ MORE
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