Sector Leadership & Advocacy - 2022 Q2 Report
Imagine LA is proud to use our voice and platform to advance meaningful action, collaboration, and change around family poverty and homelessness at the local, state, and national levels.
Here’s just a sampling of our 2022 Q2 activity:
PRESENTATIONS
Jill Bauman, President & CEO, presented at Ascending Together: A Vision for the Future of Young Parent Families in LA County, a conference hosted by Ascend at the Aspen Institute
Brian Rosenbaum, Community Engagement Director, led a workshop on corporate volunteer engagement to the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Advancement and another on building strategic volunteering partnerships to the Texas Volunteer Management Conference
LOCAL LEADERSHIP
Provided counsel to a local homelessness services organization looking to grow their advocacy work
Hosted our Spring Salon with Sarah Dusseault on solving our homelessness crisis
Signed onto United Way of Greater LA letter to Blue Ribbon Commission on Homelessness as they prepare their Governance Report recommendations to the Board of Supervisors
STATEWIDE LEADERSHIP
Supported United Ways of California’s campaign for AB 2589, to get tax credits in the hands of more families with an expanded CalEITC and CA Child Tax Credit Payment
Aligned with SCANPH, submitted letter of support for SB 1336 (Wiener) to make building affordable housing easier, faster, & cheaper on land owned by faith-based institutions and nonprofit colleges by removing zoning/use restrictions
Submitted multiple letters of support for SB 914 (Rubio), to reduce gender bias and disparities in outcomes in California’s response to homelessness by embedding a focus on domestic violence survivors and other vulnerable populations into local homelessness plans, aligned with California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, Everyone In, and Downtown Women’s Center
Signed onto The Children’s Movement letter supporting child care and early learning systems that serve and meet the diverse needs of all children, families, and professionals via the following: increase child care provider wages and benefits; waive family fees and increase access; invest in infrastructure and workforce development grants; continue pandemic and economic recovery aid; and prioritize child care providers for emergency relief.
Signed onto Our Future LA’s SB 679 budget ask sign-on letter
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Became a partner organization of Our Homes, Our Votes, a nonpartisan national campaign to “register, educate, and mobilize more low-income renters and affordable housing advocates to be involved in voting. Renters, especially low-income renters, are underrepresented among voters. To ensure low-income housing interests are represented, it is critical that organizations engage these renters and other low-income people in the voting process.”
Digital support and a direct letter to Representative Jimmy Gomez to support OJJDP Youth Mentoring Grant, the only mentoring-specific line item in the federal budget, via MENTOR National Network (mentoring.org)
Signed onto National Low Income Housing Coalition letter urging Congress to work together to ensure affordable housing and community development programs receive the highest allocation of discretionary funds possible in fiscal year 2023.
Signed onto National Low Income Housing Coalition letter urging Congress to enact the bipartisan "Eviction Crisis Act" and its House companion bill "Stable Families Act" which would create a permanent emergency rental assistance program to provide financial assistance and stability services to low-income households facing an unexpected economic shock. If passed, the cost-effective tools established by this bill would ensure that households are stabilized quickly and effectively before facing the risk of eviction and, in worst cases, homelessness.
