These civic engagement partners foster inclusive collaborations that address pertinent local issues and strengthen under-resourced communities. We are honored to support each of these outstanding organizations:

• • Hmong Innovating Politics
    • Facilitating civic engagement, organizing, and leadership skill-building training for 15 youth and young adult leaders
    • Increasing civic participation in the Hmong, Southeast Asian America, and other historically excluded communities in Fresno and Sacramento

• • Parent Institute for Quality Education – Fresno
    • Engaging parent leaders and partners to discuss the impacts of the digital divide for students who are immigrants, low socioeconomic, and English Learners

• • Sacramento Area Congregations Together
    • Training community leaders in participatory budgeting to become well versed on the potential for impacting Sacramento budgets and increase voter turnout among low-propensity voters

• • Sol Collective
    • Training new media makers and further develop a community media to newsroom pipeline addressing the issues of lack of diversity in the newsroom

• • South Kern Sol
    • Building the foundation of a Central Valley-wide journalism collaborative bridging ethnic media and local outlets
    • Increasing youth in the youth journalism program
    • Producing a report on investigative editorial content to educate the community on their local governments

• • Yolo County Office of Education for the Yolo County Youth Civic Initiative (YCYCI) 
    • Drafting curriculum with teachers for grade twelve government classes to better prepare students to become active participants in civic life
    • Examining increases in student community engagement and voting

• • Faith in the Valley 
    • Building civic power with Generation Z and low propensity voters
    • Focusing on election engagement and the pandemic housing crisis