Join us on Friday, February 19th to unveil the Housing and Community Engagement Toolkit. The toolkit aims to provide resources and ideas for municipalities and community partners to improve their community engagement work given constrained local government resources. This toolkit is especially timely given the housing element…

Join us on Thursday, February 18th for The Inland Empire Black Education Agenda report release event! This report utilizes a mixed-methods approach to better understand the educational experiences of Black students and their parents in the Inland Empire. Major findings include the top priorities of Black students, preschool…

Social media polarizes us. Political propaganda deluges us. And misinformation and disinformation seem to spread as quickly as COVID-19. So where can we go to find stories, analysis, and messengers we can trust? Scholars say that high-quality, fact-based local news organizations—based in our own communities and staffed by diverse…

Join us this upcoming Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 at 12pm for a panel discussion on the significance of the Biden-Harris Inauguration and where we go from here.  Experts and leaders at UC Riverside will offer reflections of the unfortunate events that occurred at the Capitol, expectations around the Biden-Harris…

Join us on Wednesday, January 13th for a toolkit briefing on housing and community engagement. All too often community engagement is done in a way that is not truly inclusive, leaving certain marginalized community members and groups out.  Community engagement is an integral part of the planning process, helping…

Organizing and outreach on the 2020 Census has built a tremendous amount of social capital, policy expertise, and local area expertise in regions across the country. Importantly, these efforts have unified regions in various respects—across racial and geographic lines, and across sectors by building deeper relationships and…

Dear community partners, The 2020 decennial Census has official wrapped up and it is now time to reflect and celebrate the accomplishments that were achieved during this joint effort. We are grateful for all who participated including funders, nonprofits, businesses, government agencies, and education partners from the Inland…

The Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside will provide nonprofit organizations tools to thrive in the midst of challenges presented by COVID-19 and the quest to center racial equity for the region. San Bernardino County made a big step forward by becoming the first in California to declare racism a public health crisis, and…

Much of the intellectual bandwidth on progressive policy is currently preoccupied with dreams of court packing and eliminating the Senate filibuster. These national developments may indeed come to pass. Nevertheless, states remain essential for the advancement of civil rights, immigrant rights, worker rights, and environmental…

This stakeholder listening & design session invites stakeholders to help co-design solutions that create safer workplaces, that both protect workers and grow our economy in a sustainable and responsible manner.  State agencies will join us, and we welcome the participation of local government agencies, businesses, labor…