Join us on September 30 in Richmond to learn more about what we can do, together, to create a community that everyone can call home. Our goal is to share information about the scope of the housing crisis countywide and…
Ensuring Opportunity
The Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa County
2017 Contra Costa Housing
HOUSING TOWN HALLS – SAVE THE DATE! Ensuring Opportunity and the Multi-Faith ACTION Coalition will co-host five regional Housing Town Halls in September and October. Every member of the County Board of Supervisors has committed to hosting a Housing Town Hall in…
Overview
The Ensuring Opportunity Campaign is a collaborative effort to end poverty in Contra Costa County by addressing structural causes at the policy level. We believe direct services are essential to addressing the impact of poverty but that services alone are not enough to…
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It is time for Contra Costa County communities to unite to ensure a just, vibrant, and compassionate quality of life for all of our residents. Ending poverty in Contra Costa can only happen when we take action! Join…
Ensuring Opportunity Updates
Act Today! Our Health Care is at Risk, Again
The new legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will mean millions of Americans may lose their coverage. Medicaid coverage for seniors, children, adults, and people with disabilities will be cut and capped, and people with pre-existing…
Join us on September 23 in Antioch
Housing Town Hall – Join us! September 23 at 10 AM at Grace Bible Fellowship of…
What – and whom – should our next District Attorney stand for?
What – and whom – should our next District Attorney stand for? The county’s choice of a new District Attorney can help end local poverty … or make it worse By Mariana Moore Ensuring Opportunity Campaign Director Following the resignation…
Ensuring Opportunity Blog: Aligning our advocacy work with our values
By Zuleika Godinez, Ensuring Opportunity Campaign I recently attended the national YIMBYTown conference in Oakland to learn more about what policies Yes In My Back Yard (YIMBY) housing advocates are supporting. While I learned lots of useful information about the housing…
Ensuring Opportunity Blog: Fact: The solution to homelessness is housing
By Lavonna Martin, MPH, MPA, guest contributor The ways in which communities across the country have addressed the complexity of homelessness over the past few decades is indeed varied, with mixed outcomes. In my more than twenty years of working…
