Cities & People Advisors

As we move into the next administration, we must stay vigilant and do all we can to support and protect newcomers in this country, whether they identify as refugees, asylum seekers, or immigrants. It was such an honor to create space for advocates who are doing so day in and day out in partnership with . Thank you Refugee Advocacy Lab for giving us the opportunity to facilitate your all team retreat 2 weeks ago to strategize and plan for 2025.

Thank you so much to Lange Luntao and Esmeralda Marcial from @edtrustwest for the lovely shout out in their most recent article for @cepdata! We loved partnering with you all to develop your impact storytelling, and can't wait to see your work moving forward! Read more from this shout-out and about ETW's work on the CORE Collective here:

We are delighted to share information about Liberty Hill’s Environmental Leadership Initiative, a 2-year grantee fellowship program. Join the Liberty Hill Foundation for the upcoming informational webinars to learn all about the state-wide fellowship opportunity for emerging Environmental Justice leaders! Sign up today!! https://lnkd.in/e9UdPJTi

We are delighted to share information about Liberty Hill’s Environmental Leadership Initiative, a 2-year grantee fellowship program. Join the Liberty Hill Foundation for the upcoming informational webinars to learn all about the state-wide fellowship opportunity for emerging Environmental Justice leaders! Sign up today!! https://lnkd.in/e9UdPJTi

Thank you Dar'rell Jones from the BLU Educational Foundation for the wonderful testimonial!! "I had the absolute pleasure of working with Cities and People for the past few months! Such an incredibly professional, light hearted, welcoming and engaging group of facilitators and coaches! Being able to host 2 plus hour learning sessions through Zoom and keep everyone engaged with valuable information is no easy feat but they managed to do it with such grace! I thoroughly enjoyed my experience and would definitely work with them again in the future! Thanks again for all that you guys do! " #nonprofit #nonprofitorganization #advocacymatters #socialjustice #socialjusticeactivist #equityineducation #equityandinclusion #policychange #racialjustice

The core collective is a group of education equity grantee organizations of at EdTrust-West . We had the privilege of spending many months with these incredible organizations to offer them training and coaching in impact sharing and storytelling. We'll be sharing their culminating impact reports very soon. Thank you for partnering with us ETW, Black Educators Advocacy Network, BlackECE, BLU Educational Foundation, Central Valley Scholars, Calculus Roundtable, EMAC Stockton, Latino Education Advancement Foundation, Parent Organization Network, and High Expectations Here's what Dar'rell Jones of Blu had to say about us: "Such an incredibly professional, light hearted, welcoming and engaging group of facilitators and coaches! Being able to host 2 plus hour learning sessions through Zoom and keep everyone engaged with valuable information is no easy feat but they managed to do it with such grace!"

We recently closed out our work with First 5 Alameda County at a final debrief meeting with Carla and Liz. We want to share a big thank you to First 5 for inviting us to work with them and their incredible grantees. #citiesandpeople #nonprofit #nonprofitorganization #nonprofitsofinstagram #advocacymatters #socialjustice #socialjusticeactivist #equityineducation #equityandinclusion #policychange #racialjustice #publichealth

We had an incredible team retreat at the beginning of this month! We talked about our current projects, hopes and dreams, and shared knowledge to bolster our growth. As ever, we can't wait to bring our shared knowledge to our clients and community. Thank you so much EdTrust-West for letting us use your beautiful space. We enjoyed using it. A special thank you to Lange Parks Luntao for coordinating with us! #citiesandpeople #nonprofit #nonprofitorganization #nonprofitsofinstagram #advocacymatters #socialjustice #socialjusticeactivist #equityineducation #equityandinclusion #policychange #racialjustice #publichealth

We love working with funders who care deeply about how they show up for their grantees! Yesterday we shared Partnering for Impact, a compendium of stories of collaboration from the Policy Ecosystem grantees of College Futures Foundation. Today we'd love to share with you another outcome of our learning engagement with College Futures. Through the engagement, several themes emerged around the Foundation's strategy with its policy research and advocacy grantees. We learned lessons we felt were important to share with other philanthropic foundations on how they can support their grantees and help enhance their impact in movement-building, policy change, and systems change through breaking down silos and reducing competition as much as possible. It was an absolute pleasure for C&P to co-author this piece with the thoughtful, gracious, and passionate Ria Bhatt. Thank you again to all of the grantees, to College Futures Foundation, Theresa Esparrago Lieu, Williams Group, @Tanya Moore, and Regan Douglass for everything you all did to make this happen! And thank you again to Northern California Grantmakers for sharing this report out! Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/erE2RzSb #facilitation #strategicplanning #projectmanagement #facilitation

We are honored and filled with gratitude for the opportunity to work in partnership with College Futures Foundation for the past year on a learning engagement to dig deep into their strategy of convening research and advocacy grantees together over the past four years. Through this project, we were able to connect with 16 organizations who are spearheading higher education equity policy in California. The work they do every day is critical, but it is the people who do the work who inspire us and give us hope for a better future for all Californians. Today we are sharing a compendium we created with bright spots of collaboration among the cohort--stories of impact, learning, and connection that have had and will continue to have lasting effects on students and their families. Please check out Partnering for Impact: Propelling the Movement for an Equitable Higher Education System: https://lnkd.in/g-Jr6M93 Huge thank you's to College Futures Foundation for bringing us into your community. We especially thank Ria Sengupta Bhatt and Theresa Esparrago Lieu for your thoughtful partnership with us! Thank you to Tanya Moore for your support with bringing us into the space, and to Williams Group for the beautiful design. And we share our deep appreciation for the Policy Ecosystem grantees and all that they do: California Competes Campaign for College Opportunity EdTrust-West John Burton Advocates for Youth NextGen Policy Public Advocates The Institute for College Access & Success #facilitation #strategicplanning #projectmanagement #facilitation