Inspiring Conversations & Work-Based Learning Investments
East Bay Leadership Series | Sherrilyn Ifill inspired accountability and action
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Part 2 of the East Bay Leadership Series featuring Sherrilyn Ifill, presented by Kaiser Permanente. Ifill drew on her decades of experience serving as a national civil rights leader to share insightful lessons about racial justice and democracy in America.
Ifill emphasized that America is in fact a young democracy, with its true origins beginning with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. By understanding that we are still growing and shaping this democracy, Ifill’s mantra of “leave no power on the table” becomes all the more salient. We as citizens, and as community and business leaders, have the power to shape a country that is inclusive and just.
It was uplifting to hear Ifill highlight local initiatives like A3 in Contra Costa County and our very own candidate training program as powerful investments in a more just future.
Ifill was also candid about the dangers we are facing as a nation, which made her call to action all the more urgent. We hope everyone came away with a sense of the power we as individuals hold to make just and lasting change.
Thank you to all of our East Bay Leadership Series sponsors for making this event possible, and to Horace Green of Brother Smith LLP for moderating the conversation.
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Ending Chronic Homelessness | Webinar registration is now open
Join the East Bay Leadership Council for our third and final event in the 2023 East Bay Leadership Series for a conversation centered on ending chronic homelessness with the President and CEO of Community Solutions, Rosanne Haggerty.
Haggerty is an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness. Community Solutions assists communities throughout the US and internationally in implementing systems that measurably end homelessness and change the conditions that produce it. Their large-scale initiatives include the 100,000 Homes Campaign and Built for Zero. Rosanne also founded and led Common Ground Community, a pioneer in the development of supportive housing models and other research based practices that end homelessness and create healthy communities.
This is a must attend event for anyone ready to be part of the solution to chronic homelessness in the East Bay.
Registration is free for employees of EBLC member companies.
Date / Time / Location
Thursday, April 6
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Zoom Webinar
Cost
Employees of EBLC member companies — Free
Non-members — $25
2023 East Bay Leadership Series Sponsors
Sponsorship Opportunities
To learn more about the valuable sponsor benefits or to sponsor just one portion of the 2023 Series, email Mark Orcutt (mark@eblcmail.org).
Earn & Learn | Funding approved for career development program in Concord
Earn & Learn, operating in collaboration with EBLC's sister organization, was awarded ARPA funding through the City of Concord to support career exploration and a work-based learning program for Concord residents.
We are proud of all that Earn & Learn has done to expand equitable access to meaningful work-based learning opportunities for years and are thrilled that they will have the chance to deepen those efforts in Concord. We know the life-altering impact that these opportunities have on students and the urgent need it helps meet for employers that are seeking local and diverse candidates for quality job openings.
We appreciate the Concord City Council's thoughtfulness in allocating funding to a variety of worthy causes including a guaranteed income pilot program, food security investments, cancer support programs and more. We are honored that Earn & Learn was among those chosen.
Apply Now | Central San invites applications to fill board vacancy
Following the passing of Board Member David R. Williams, the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District Board of Directors is preparing to fill the District 3 (Walnut Creek) vacancy by appointment.
Central San’s mission is to protect public health and the environment through safe and effective wastewater collection, cleaning, and disposal. It also operates a household hazardous waste collection facility, provides recycled water for landscape irrigation, and promotes pollution prevention through various educational, informational, and inspection programs.
Application forms are available on Central San’s website at centralsan.org/vacancy or by emailing the Secretary of the District (kyoung@centralsan.org).
Applications will be accepted until 5:00 PM on March 27th.
Free Event | Celebrating the leadership of an American cultural icon
The Diablo Regional Arts Association, Kaiser Permanente, and the Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation are hosting a conversation with Virginia Johnson on social equity and her storied career.
Virginia's tenure with Dance Theatre Harlem includes twelve years as Artistic Director, preceded by a staggering 28 years as a company member, highlighted by her distinction as a founding member and as a Principal Dancer.
We are grateful that three East Bay Leadership Council member organizations have helped bring this unique opportunity to the community free of charge.
Date / Time / Location
Wednesday, March 15th
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
Cost
Free
Must Read | Will California’s misused environmental law finally be reformed?
Dan Walters in CalMatters: “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it” is an old quip attributed – probably erroneously – to Mark Twain.
It could be legitimately applied to the California Environmental Quality Act, a 53-year-old law originally meant to prevent government agencies from ignoring the impacts of their public works projects but later expanded, mostly by judicial decisions, to private developments as well.
CEQA’s use, or misuse, as a weapon in the state’s perpetual battles over housing has been well documented. Opponents of housing projects in their neighborhoods use it to stall construction and labor unions use it to leverage developers into agreements to use union workers.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown decried such uses and said reforming CEQA is “the Lord’s work” but was an agnostic about doing it, apparently convinced that opposition from environmental groups and unions, two of the Democratic Party’s most influential allies, would make reform impossible.
The Legislature has been willing to exempt specific projects, such as sports arenas, from the CEQA process, as well as some narrow categories of housing. But the broad reform that CEQA’s critics say is necessary has long been a non-starter.
The politics of CEQA may be changing.
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