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Join Sacramento Racial Equity Alliance at their upcoming listening sessions with residents to discuss how we can partner with the City of Sacramento to be accountable for creating fair and equitable access, opportunities, and outcomes for all. Input from the listening sessions will inform the City's racial equity resolution.

Wed August 14, 2024 | 6pm-8pm
Hagginwood Community Center (North Sac)
3271 Marysville Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95815
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Wed August 21, 2024 | 6pm-8pm
Pannell Meadowview Community Center (South Sac)
2450 Meadowview Rd, Sacramento, CA 95832

Who is interested in Org Sac having a food canning training open to the community?

Click the link below to register for the Sacramento Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO’s Citizen & Candidate Academy on July 27th! This is a must-do for local candidates seeking endorsement by the labor council, and a should-do for ordinary humans who want to learn more and be involved in the labor movement!

2024 Labor 101 Candidate & Citizens Academy Get tickets online for 2024 Labor 101 Candidate & Citizens Academy here.

We have room for 2 more participants for our Fall Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute. If you missed the deadline to apply, know that we're extending the deadline through this weekend! Get your applications in. Details in the link below:

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We'd like to thank and acknowledge City Councilmember/ Vice Mayor Caity Maple for her "Poverty Slayer" Level sponsorship of our Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute Graduation event! Thanks to all of our sponsors, we had a wonderful event!

‘These are our neighbors’: Sacramento community provides water for homeless during heat wave.

Organize Sacramento provides the space, but Democratic Socialists of America, Sacramento is providing all the volunteers through their Mutual Aid Team.

They are SO COOL!

‘These are our neighbors’: Sacramento community provides water for homeless during heat wave Sacramento County stopped delivering water to homeless camps. Here’s the community members who are stepping up and providing water instead.

We are now accepting nominations for our 2024 Summer Mark Whisler Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute!

Deadline for applications is July 12th.

About BCLI:

The Mark Whisler Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) provides public policy training for our Sacramento area community advocates. It's time that neighborhood leaders have not just a voice, but a seat on the dais.

For our training institute, we seek out and recruit people from low-income communities and communities of color who have a proven track record of leadership as social justice advocates in their neighborhoods. They’re distinguished by a passion to change systems by learning the important aspects of public policy development from the inside. We deeply invest in each cohort through our 6-week BCLI fellowship, which teaches advocates how to understand complex and intersecting policy arenas, navigate the culture and language of commissions, and build effective relationships in and outside the commission.

Public policy topics covered by the BCLI:
Power, Privilege & Structural Racialization
Land Use and Affordable Housing
Robert's/Rosenberg's Rules of Order, Ethics & Storytelling
Health Equity & Environmental Justice
Education Equity
Transportation Justice
Workplace Equity/Labor 101

Time Commitment:
(6) Consecutive Saturdays

Launch Celebration: Friday, July 26th, 5:00 - 6:00pm via Zoom w/ Keynote Speaker TBD
Saturday Sessions: 10:00am - 4:00pm (a light breakfast & coffee will be provided at 9:30am & lunch at noon)

Session Dates: July 27th * August 3rd * August 10th * August 17th * August 24th * August 31st + Graduation Ceremony based on Cohort's schedules.

Each candidate should follow these steps in order to be considered as a BCLI Fellow:

1. Locate a Nominator. All BCLI Fellows must be nominated by either a BCLI alum, or by a community leader or organization with which the candidate has been affiliated.​

2. Have your Nominator complete & submit the Nomination Application via this link:

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We’re kicking off our Mark Whisler Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute Graduation ceremony tonight at 6pm. Special emcee Councilmember Katie Valenzuela will headline the show…Come eat BBQ with us! And thank you to our sponsors ❤️

Great big "Thank You's" to Councilmember Mai Vang for sponsoring our Mark Whisler Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute Graduation event on June 28th. Councilmember Mai Vang is also a BCLI graduate!

If you'd like to join us at our graduation celebration follow this link and get all the details --> https://rally.org/OSMixer

Today @ 1pm- The Sacramento Transit Riders Union meets via zoom! Join us as we discuss our advocacy adventures around saving funding for free student bus fares and other important stuff… find the zoom link on Sac TRU’s website here:

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Action alert! Tonight the Sacramento City Council will hear about their next year’s proposed budget, and the City Manager Howard Chan is recommending cutting city support for free student bus fares! Come down to City Hall at 915 I (eye) Street at 5:30pm and tell the Council and City Manager how important it is to have free transit to school!

Please donate if you can via our Rally donation page to help repair our office window that was broken last night. ❤️ Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Support our work empowering Sacramentans! | Rally.org Sacramento means a lot to all of us- from the distinct neighborhoods, culture and people, down to the City's form of governance- We're hooked! ​Live a little. Learn a little. Living and learning is what it's all about. Once you know something, you know it- and what you do with that knowledge is im...

We need your help! Learn more and Sign here—> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetjTz8Ty8rRuwawNGppOu8Fpb5UoXoEPEFR_TcX2_qOkMVuw/viewform

We are now accepting nominations to our Spring 2024 Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute. Learn more here:

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Resign now Councilmember Sean Loloee !

The nomination deadline has been extended to October 15th for our Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute!
Learn all about the Institute via the link below:

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REMINDER: Our Organize Sacramento Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute is accepting nominations for our Winter sessions. Details via th link below:

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Thanks to everyone who attended our 2023 Summer Mark Whisler Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute Graduation event on September 15th! Thank you also to our participants and presenters for making our 6 Saturday sessions so enjoyable and informative!

Special extra thanks to our sponsors- The CA Endowment, SMUD Partership Grants & the Sacramento Progressive Communities. Without you we couldn't sustain our work and we are grateful.

We are now accepting nominations for our Winter Institute. Deadline for nominations is October 6th. All session dates and other information can be found via this link --> https://www.organizesacramento.org/bcli

The nomination period is OPEN for the
2023 Winter Mark Whisler Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute. All information on how to apply & the dates of this Winter's sessions available via our website here-->

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A Week Without Driving is October 2-8, 2023

What if taking the bus, riding a bike, walking or asking for rides weren’t a choice you could make, but a necessity?

What would it be like getting around without driving yourself?

The Week Without Driving Sacramento partners (Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders STAR, Sacramento Transit Riders Union SacTRU, and Ridership for the Masses RFTM, with others to be added) has created a unique opportunity, the Ride
Along. This program pairs elected officials (or others who have stated their intent to run) in the Sacramento area with people who don’t drive, or usually don’t drive.

Though we are emphasizing people with disabilities (the program was started by Disability Rights Washington) and transit use, the persons paired can use transit, walk, and bicycle for a variety or reasons including low income.

We will offer the Ride Along to elected officials in mid-September, but are recruiting individuals who would like to be Ride Along partners from now through the Week Without Driving. You could do it once, or multiple times. The intent is
not to ‘educate’ the officials, though they may well need that, but to share the experience and thoughts, and then to jointly or individually write a story to be shared on the Week Without Driving website (https://weekwithoutdriving-sac.org).

If you are interested in joining, please contact Dan Allison,
[email protected], 775-997-4937 or Barbara Stanton, [email protected], 916-601-3641.

Register to join a meeting about developing a community Health Improvement Plan here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdfKngR6pmAeEhqsF08NhQ3XD3gDK3MsW0sOIHCsFBOko-GA/viewform

Good Public Heath policy requires your participation! Take this opportunity to do your part. Follow the link below and complete the survey please:

Sacramento Community Health Improvement Plan Use this form to RSVP to attend upcoming community meetings to help Sacramento County Public Health, Public Health Advocates, and other partners create a community health improvement plan that defines the vision for community health in Sacramento County. This collaborative process will address the s...

Cooling center resources are open for humans and humans with pets:

These cooling centers are open in Northern California for this week's heat wave — KCRA Cooling centers across Northern California are open again this week because of triple-digit temperatures that are forecast with the latest heat wave.

REMINDER: ​​​​Due to the extreme heat coming this weekend, the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance will open three cooling locations beginning Saturday, August 5 extending to Monday, August 7.

Sacramento Regional Transit District will be providing vouchers for free rides​, to and from the cooling centers for this event. Make sure to print or show it on a digital device.

The nomination period is OPEN for the
2023 Summer Mark Whisler Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute. Nominations are accepted via this Google form—> https://www.organizesacramento.org/bcli

We look forward to meeting all the candidates you recommend. We are !

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Our Director Tamie Dramer does a lot of things…and one of the important things she does is serve on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Housing Alliance. We need you and or your organization to join us to fight for more and better housing solutions for the Sacramento Region. Please- if you are able, add your name to the list of members of this organization.

Sacramento Housing Alliance is the only policy organization focused solely in the Sacramento region advocating for more affordable homes and healthy inclusive communities and we need your help! Without members and donors, we can't continue to fight for justice in places like Elk Grove, or encourage public participation in housing elements, or ask city councils for more local housing funds! That's what we do each day and we need your support to continue.

Our homelessness and affordability crisis continues to grow and we need your voice and participation now more than ever. If you are not already a member, please consider visiting our website or the link below and become a member today!

https://loom.ly/gUUrJ1I

It’s community action time. We need your help! Sign onto our Sacramento Investment Without Displacement support letter before Tuesday’s City of Sacramento Law & Legislation Committee meeting. that actually means something!

Link—> https://forms.gle/9AZQcy5zcwTSbRJG8

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Sacramento animal shelter is ‘overflowing’ with cats and dogs. You can adopt one for free!

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