Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sights and Sounds from the 2010 Convening

Long-Term Game Plan to Rockin’ Poetry Slam: The 1st Annual CA Alliance Convening Builds Knowledge and Synergy

Nearly 150 enthusiastic Alliance leaders — organizing staff, phonebank and canvass team leaders, volunteer neighborhood activists — converged in LA from August 21-22, for the first annual CA Alliance Leadership Convening. Joining the gathering were funder friends from Veatch, Ford, Irvine and Liberty Hill Foundations and the Progressive Era Project, as well as allies from…

An Exciting CAUSE Unites Labor, Business, Community

In November 2009, the Central Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) ran a hard-fought campaign to establish a moratorium on big-box retailers. After weeks of knocking on doors and making phone calls, the initiative to keep Walmart out of Ventura lost by less than 200 votes.  Community leaders and staff were crushed, according…