Have you listened to the newest episodes of our podcast? In Season 2 of the In Praxis, we explore Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes. We talk to community members, public health practitioners, and concerned parents that span across the country. You will hear about their phenomenal work and in what ways policy can be used to combat the health effects of sugary drinks and lead to re-investment our communities.
Denisa Livingston from Diné Community Advocacy Alliance and the Slow Food International Council discusses how the fight to reduce sugary drink and other unhealthy food consumption is a matter of reclaiming indigenous lifeways and foodways.
Xavier Morales, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, makes the case for a transformative systems approach to health inequities caused by sugar sweetened beverages.
We are excited to join our CA4LessSoda coalition partners and California Assemblymember Nazarian (AD-46) as we filed bill AB1838 to repeal the 2018 law that imposed a 12 year preemption of new local soda taxes.
“In 2018, the Beverage Industry took a page from the ALEC playbook and engaged in a shakedown of California's legislative process by forcing a 12- year preemption of local soda taxes. The soda taxes raised in Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco and Albany have given the local governments more flexibility to directly fund community efforts to address impacts from COVID-19. It's time to repeal soda tax preemption so that other California can be freed to raise funds to help their communities most impacted by COVID-19.” – Xavier Morales, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Praxis Project
Toolkit: NewEconomyCoalition's Rural Electric Cooperative Organizing Toolkit with resources on cooperatives, energy democracy, and how to get started.
Online Presentation: February 25, 2020 at 3:30-5:50 pm PST, join Mariame Kaba for a presentation on the "Criminalizing Survival Curricula" made in conjunction with Survived & Punished.
Black Liberation Pooled Fundpools resources to then allocate to the powerful ecosystem of Black-led social change organizations around the country. Multi-year general operating grants are due February 26. Learn more.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Systems for Action (S4A)funds new research to rigorously test and evaluate innovative solutions to the "wrong-pocket problem" that persists across health and social service systems. Applications are due June 9, 2021 and informational webinar will be held on March 17, 2021. Learn more.
Leonard-Litz LGBTQ Foundation provides grants for health and wellness, crisis intervention, social programs and support, racial justice, and advocacy and community for LGBTQ orgs in Northeastern U.S. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Learn more.
Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) provides grants to Asian-American women-led organizations and individual artists in NYC who are using arts and culture for progressive social transformation. Grants up to $15k. Applications are due March 12, 2021. Learn more.
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