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Learn how The Maven Collaborative is working to create gender and racial equity via research, advocacy, and narrative change.

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Care work is skilled work that should be compensated. Care work allows all other forms of work to take place. Care work is vital to our economy.

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Shannon Riley and Lisa Quilan, leaders from Project SPARC, share their experiences reimagining CalWORKs.

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The STEPS program is a 14-week technical assistance program where participants learn about child development, understand bookkeeping and taxes, expand digital literacy, and market themselves.

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The Foundation recently updated its priorities with three new multidisciplinary tracks to turn California into the healthiest state and end domestic violence.

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Journalism can inform and empower communities, can lead to policy and business changes, and can bring more voices into the discussion.

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Healthier, happier childcare workers lead to better outcomes for the children they care for. These conditions improve childcare and provide a path for the workers to follow, leading to long-term careers.

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The fast pace of current events, dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic, and uncertainty about the upcoming November 2020 election, and the high stakes for health, equity, and economic recovery are dominating our waking hours and keeping us up at night.

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When I came to the Foundation just a few weeks ago, I was energized to help achieve our bold goal: to make California the healthiest state with the lowest rates of domestic violence. I didn’t know it...

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