California Partnership (CAP) is a statewide economic justice coalition building civic power among California’s low income, marginalized communities and communities of color. We do this by advocating for just state and local budgets and policies, and convening community based organizations and allies to combat poverty.
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California Partnership (CAP) is a statewide economic justice coalition building civic power among California’s low income, marginalized communities and communities of color. We do this by advocating for just state and local budgets and policies, and convening community based organizations and allies to combat poverty. Like Weingart, California Partnership is working to improve the access to social safety net programs. Many statewide advocacy coalitions include and invite grassroots partners but do not actively include them in decision making, planning and campaign activities until they need a consumer story for a media event or legislative visit. Our member organizations are service providers, immigrant rights, economic justice organizations, community based organizations, unions and other community groups. These groups represent In Home Support Service workers, homeless people living with AIDS, immigrants, people fleeing domestic violence, and formerly incarcerated people. CAP members define and drive our work by guiding our campaign process and lifting the voices of the individuals most affected. With our fifty community partners, we work to improve social safety net programs that serve low-income adults and senior residents living below the federal poverty level, people with disabilities, the undocumented, formerly incarcerated, in all ethnic groups. We empower these organizations through educational workshops to assist local collaborative efforts to identify housing needs and solutions to improve the quality of life and combat the multi-issues of poverty. Our objective is to identify state and local problems and lead targets (systems/decision makers) that can create solutions to poverty.
