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California Criminal Justice Funders Group invites you to join us for a post-election processing space. The November elections will have huge implications for our work and our communities, especially for directly impacted organizers and community members who are central to our collective work to end prisons, policing, and criminalization.
In partnership with the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) and Northern California Grantmakers, MIE will be hosting at SOCAP a casual gathering of our members and invited guests including impact investors, foundation colleagues, and others on Monday, October 28, 2024 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Meet us at the S&R Lounge in Hotel Zetta to rekindle relationships and reconnect with fellow MIE members, leaders in the catalytic capital community, and other impact investing peers.
“We are the ones we have been waiting for” is true for almost everything we do in our fight for equity and justice here in the Bay Area and beyond. As we seek to dismantle some of the inequitable and short-sighted funding practices of philanthropy, the same sentiment is true. Many community leaders across Northern California have been calling for a system shift for decades. And now is the time to take action.
The Asian Pacific Islander (API) community is gravely impacted by both the criminal justice and immigration systems, yet we don’t hear enough about the challenges and needs of this population. The API prisoner population grew by 250% in the 1990s and API individuals incarcerated in California received life sentences at double the rate of the overall state prison population.
As we face the stinging backlash to progress and concerted efforts to challenge the movement for greater equity and inclusion, a new generation of organizers and leaders are defending these wins and building the power of communities to dismantle systems of oppression.
Earlier this year, Angie Junck, director of the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Action Fund attended NCG’s Funding Strategies to Accelerate Power-building Cohort.
The Community of Practice helped connect like-minded funders who wanted to expand their toolbox to strengthen democracy. Below Angie shares how investing in (c)(4) funding can build power for marginalized communities especially during an election year.
Midterm elections provide voters the opportunity to assess and signal if the current presidential administration, federal elected officials, and local elected leaders are meeting their needs. This November, California voters will have the opportunity to cast their votes and determine the make-up of the Senate and House through the next presidential election in 2024.