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BUILDING COLLABORATION.
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California Assembly
Majority Floor Leader, Chris Holden |
Jobs and the Economy Committee Chair, Eduardo Garcia, and Assemblymember Cheryl Brown
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President and chief executive officer of the CUP, Malaki Seku-Amen, opened the event saying “Here is our great moment to be solution-oriented. We’re going to take the ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ movement to a higher level!”
“Today we will join our HANDS together! We will use our minds to learn about, and create, meaningful solutions together. We will begin fighting and working together to meet the needs of our communities!”
California now has a drastically new and challenging environment for community economic development. While research and economists point to entrepreneurship, revitalizing distressed neighborhoods and building family wealth as solutions to help low-to-moderate income Americans rise into the middle class, all of California’s programs to help make that happen are weak, or have been eliminated.
“Today we will join our HANDS together! We will use our minds to learn about, and create, meaningful solutions together. We will begin fighting and working together to meet the needs of our communities!”
California now has a drastically new and challenging environment for community economic development. While research and economists point to entrepreneurship, revitalizing distressed neighborhoods and building family wealth as solutions to help low-to-moderate income Americans rise into the middle class, all of California’s programs to help make that happen are weak, or have been eliminated.
California Legislative Black Caucus Chairman, Reginald B. Jones-Sawyer
The CUP
forum was critically important for helping grassroots stakeholders and new
policymakers understand what resources are currently in place, what gaps need
to be filled, and how they can work together to make capital accessible and
adequate for the business development and affordable housing needs of low income
and communities of color.
Emerging from the presentations and panel discussions was the recommendation that the CUP focus on organizing partners and supporters to advocate for the following:
Emerging from the presentations and panel discussions was the recommendation that the CUP focus on organizing partners and supporters to advocate for the following:
- Create
a California New Markets Tax Credit program for the purpose of attracting
private sector investment to California’s low income neighborhoods.
- Greater
insurance industry investments in urban and economically disadvantaged communities through the
California Organized Investment Network (COIN).
- Funding
for increased technical assistance, financial literacy and coaching, and
capacity building for entrepreneurs and families.
THE CUP PARTNERS WITH STATE CONTROLLER JOHN CHIANG ON "MANAGE YOUR MONEY WEEK."
In partnership with the office of California
State Controller John Chiang, the CUP will organize financial survival workshops
connected to Manage Your Money Week (MYMW). During Manage
Your Money Week, state and local government agencies, non-profit
organizations, unions, schools, libraries, financial institutions, and financial
management associations will be working together in communities throughout
California to host free money management education events and promote the
importance of good money management practices.
On Saturday, October, 25, 2014,
the CUP will present MORE MONEY, LESS
PROBLEMS: a free workshop on how to
make dreams come true by managing money, stress and health, and creating partnerships
to build wealth.
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