Monthly Archives: March 2010

California Alliance Expands to Historically Red Regions of the State

The California Alliance has grown to include two new critically important regions of the state, called “shifting” regions.  These are traditionally red counties where the demographics have significantly shifted with an influx of low income, working class and people of color residents, but the level of community-organizing infrastructure and civic engagement culture doesn’t yet match…

California Alliance 2010 Census Project: An Army of Neighbors Reaching Out to “Hard to Count” Californians

In preparation for National Census Day on April 1st, the California Alliance has blanketed the state’s most densely populated regions in a campaign to ensure that all Californians are counted. As home to the nation’s most populous state, California has the most at stake in this year’s decennial census.  More than $400 billion in federal…

Alliance engages 110,000 California residents in first Civic Engagement Program

Building a progressive base of power call by call, door by door Last fall, the California Alliance launched the first of many leading-edge, large-scale civic engagement programs to build a base of 500,000 Californians who support rebuilding and investing in California’s public infrastructure and programs. Equipped with a state-of-the-art database and phoning system, 13 organizations…