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Traditional business lending is tight these days following a series of recent bank collapses but one program is helping small businesses grow, focusing primarily on women or people of color. The ICA Fund offers a 12-week program called “The Accelerator at ICA” which focuses on strategy for growth, personnel,...
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Our house lost power a few nights ago, during one of 2023’s record-setting storms. For most people, losing power is a minor inconvenience. For our family, losing power is a medical emergency. People who use medical devices that depend on electricity need continuous access to electricity. Some of my...
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Manuela Tobias CalMatters Los residentes de casas móviles en California enfrentan un riesgo enorme de fallas en los sistemas de servicios públicos, inundaciones e incendios como resultado de una infraestructura que con frecuencia no ha sido actualizada o reparada en décadas. En 1984, California aprobó una ley para ayudar a remediar...
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Manuela Tobias CalMatters Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents...
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Jie Wang owns three rental properties in Oakland. Her whole family relies on income from tenants paying their rent. Many have lost their jobs during the pandemic. Eviction moratoriums protect tenants who can’t pay part or all of their rent. But small housing providers like Wang still have mortgages, utilities and...
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Natalia Angeles always knew she was going to college despite being undocumented, so giving up the chance to attend a four-year university straight out of high school was not easy. But when the acceptance came from the University of California at Riverside, she quickly realized that without being able...
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The County of Santa Clara SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF. — The County of Santa Clara Household Hazardous Waste Program is expanding access to a service that provides a simple and cost-effective way for small businesses to dispose of hazardous waste. The Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG) disposal program is a drop-off...
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A pioneering program for college students in California took another step forward last week when Governor Gavin Newsom swore in over 3200 fellows as the latest cohort in the state’s College Corps Fellowship. The #CaliforniansForAll program, launched in response to COVID-19, is the first of its kind in the...
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This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, which in California is part of Medi-Cal. The program has been wildly successful. As of 2020, just 3.6% of kids in the Golden State were uninsured. Medi-Cal and CHIP serve almost 5.5 million children in the...
Traditional business lending is tight these days following a series of recent bank collapses but one program is helping small businesses grow, focusing primarily on women or people of color. The ICA Fund offers a 12-week program called “The Accelerator at ICA” which focuses on strategy for growth, personnel,...
Our house lost power a few nights ago, during one of 2023’s record-setting storms. For most people, losing power is a minor inconvenience. For our family, losing power is a medical emergency. People who use medical devices that depend on electricity need continuous access to electricity. Some of my...
Manuela Tobias CalMatters Los residentes de casas móviles en California enfrentan un riesgo enorme de fallas en los sistemas de servicios públicos, inundaciones e incendios como resultado de una infraestructura que con frecuencia no ha sido actualizada o reparada en décadas. En 1984, California aprobó una ley para ayudar a remediar...
Manuela Tobias CalMatters Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents...
Jie Wang owns three rental properties in Oakland. Her whole family relies on income from tenants paying their rent. Many have lost their jobs during the pandemic. Eviction moratoriums protect tenants who can’t pay part or all of their rent. But small housing providers like Wang still have mortgages, utilities and...
Natalia Angeles always knew she was going to college despite being undocumented, so giving up the chance to attend a four-year university straight out of high school was not easy. But when the acceptance came from the University of California at Riverside, she quickly realized that without being able...
The County of Santa Clara SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF. — The County of Santa Clara Household Hazardous Waste Program is expanding access to a service that provides a simple and cost-effective way for small businesses to dispose of hazardous waste. The Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG) disposal program is a drop-off...
A pioneering program for college students in California took another step forward last week when Governor Gavin Newsom swore in over 3200 fellows as the latest cohort in the state’s College Corps Fellowship. The #CaliforniansForAll program, launched in response to COVID-19, is the first of its kind in the...
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, which in California is part of Medi-Cal. The program has been wildly successful. As of 2020, just 3.6% of kids in the Golden State were uninsured. Medi-Cal and CHIP serve almost 5.5 million children in the...
