A regional equity report from The Fund for Santa Barbara, the UCSB Blum Center, and the USC Equity Research Institute, examining wages, housing, criminal justice, education, and environmental inequities across Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
Community of Practice Primer
This one-page primer lays out the objectives, shared values, and logistics of the Central Coast Community of Practice (CoP) — a cross-county collaboration spanning Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties. It covers the group’s goals (co-developing cross-county projects, sharing resources, and co-designing a shared policy agenda), its guiding values from the California Food Policy Council, background on California Jobs First (formerly CERF) and the Uplift Central Coast Coalition, and where and when the group gathers.