What percentage of Californians …

• Experienced or witnessed a hate incident?
  

• Said their physical or mental health was harmed by wildfires and wildfire smoke?
  

• Had difficulties paying for their own or a household member’s medical bills?
  

• Could not afford enough food?
  

• Delayed or didn’t get medical care they needed?
  

• Worried about housing costs and accumulated credit card debt to pay for their rent or mortgage?

What were some of the challenges facing Californians in 2024, who was most affected, and how have health and health care needs changed in recent years?

These are just some of the topics that will be featured at the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) annual data release on Thursday, October 9, 2025.

Join us as UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) Director and CHIS Principal Investigator Ninez Ponce, CHIS Director Todd Hughes, and CHIS Senior Data Analyst Alex Bates share key findings from the 2024 survey, including a fact sheet examining Californians’ experiences with hate incidents.

Are you an emerging food systems professional? Are you in career transition, seeking a job in community food work?

This series is for you!

In this moment of shifting narratives, community food organizations can use storytelling to highlight the critical roles they play, the gaps they fill and the tangible contributions they bring to their communities. By developing clear, universally applicable narratives, these orgs can communicate their value to constituents, funders, and media alike. Join speaker Jerusha Klemperer, Director of FoodPrint, as she shares strategies for narrative development, and helps attendees troubleshoot building out a story that reflects their organizations values, goals, and impacts. 

The Los Angeles Food Policy Council will join us to share how they’re organizing against ICE and Federal takeover.

You can expect a presentation from LA Food Policy Council, followed by Q&A, then collective conversation on what we do now and where we go from here.

More funding freezes. Changes to federal grant processes. A possible government shutdown. These and more actions from the administration have a direct impact on nonprofits. Fortunately, our colleagues at the National Council of Nonprofits are offering some important information and resources to help you navigate what’s happening.

We encourage you to register for their upcoming national webinar happening Monday, Oct. 6th at 12pm PT/3pm ET: “What Nonprofits Need to Know About the Current Federal Grant Landscape.”

The Food Security Supplement (FSS) is a critical dataset. It provides the only nationally representative measure of household food insecurity, guiding policymakers, advocates, and researchers in shaping effective anti-hunger strategies. Yet, the future of this dataset is at risk. Decisions made in the coming months could determine whether this vital tool remains available to track food security and inform solutions. The data are collected through a supplement to the Current Population Survey, which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and sponsored by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS). On September 20, 2025, USDA announced the termination of this critical resource.

Join FRAC, dataindex.us, Association of Public Data Users, and Population Reference Bureau for a rapid-response webinar on Thursday, October 2 at 3 p.m. ET to learn what’s in the FSS and how it's used, why the FSS matters for hunger and nutrition policy, what’s at risk if the data stops flowing, and how you can take action to protect this critical public resource. Register here. 

✨ Join us for a workshop Building Strengths in Times of Uncertainty on September 30th, from 6-7:15 PM via Zoom to:

• 🌷 Discover how your body responds to stress 

• 🏡 Take the first step in your family safety plan

• 💖 Explore ways to care for yourself and those around you

• 📚 Connect with key resources and contacts

Please register — it’s optional! You can still attend even if you don’t fill out all (or any) fields. Registering helps us get a sense of attendance. The Zoom link is included in this form, so you can save it now, or return to this page to access it closer to the event. We’ll also resend the link the day of the workshop.

ZOOM LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88486091605 

Spanish interpretation will be available. If you have any questions, please contact jlopez@traumapartners.org.

Privacy Notice: Your information is private and will only be used to send you workshop reminders and resources. It will not be shared outside of our organization (PTR). We do not collaborate with ICE.

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✨ Únete a nuestro taller "Fortaleciéndonos en tiempos de incertidumbre" el 30 de septiembre, de 6 a 7:15 PM por Zoom para:

• 🌷 Descubrir cómo responde tu cuerpo al estrés

• 🏡 Dar el primer paso en tu plan de seguridad familiar

• 💖 Explorar maneras de cuidarte a ti mismo y a quienes te rodean

• 📚 Conectarte con recursos y contactos clave

Por favor, regístrese; ¡es opcional! Puede asistir incluso si no completa todos los campos (o ninguno). Registrarse nos ayuda a tener una idea de la asistencia. El enlace de Zoom está incluido en este formulario, así que puede guardarlo ahora o volver a esta página para acceder a él cuando se acerque la fecha del evento. También le reenviaremos el enlace el día del taller.

ENLACE de ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88486091605 

Habrá interpretación al español disponible. Si tiene alguna pregunta, comuníquese con jlopez@traumapartners.org.
Aviso de Privacidad:

Su información es privada y solo se utilizará para enviarle recordatorios y recursos de talleres. No se compartirá fuera de nuestra organización (PTR). No colaboramos con ICE.

In a funding landscape where relationships matter as much as resources, organizations can strengthen their future by cultivating deeper, more authentic connections with donors. By developing thoughtful strategies, small donors can be nurtured into larger supporters, annual appeals can be sharpened to reach wider audiences, and board members can be engaged as partners in donor development. This workshop will also explore how to align your story with donor interests while staying true to your mission—ensuring that growth in support reflects both your values and your community impact. Join speaker Eva Agudelo, founder of Full Bloom Futures, as she shares insights and strategies for building lasting donor relationships that honor organizational values while expanding capacity.

As preview for Far West Fungi’s Mushroom Daze and Mushroom Masquerade at the Ferry Building (October 1-2, 2025), join us at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market for mushroom-themed festivities at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on Saturday, September 27.

Getting your hands dirty helping to grow food is about as direct and rewarding as it gets. Join us on Friday, September 26th for an outdoors, in-person service-learning experience at San Francisco’s largest nonprofit food production site, Alemany Farm!

Congress just passed a Big Ugly Budget that takes away people's health care and food assistance in order to give massive tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. That's not right!

Now Congress is starting the annual appropriations process and planning to make more cuts to housing funds, education and other investments that working people need!

Join us for Tax & Budget Fight Phone banks, where we’ll talk to constituents in key congressional districts to have deep, meaningful conversations about how these funding cuts hurt our communities. Together, we’ll take action to pressure Congress to stop these cuts and ensure the rich pay their fair share.

No experience? No problem! We provide training at every phone bank to set you up for success. Whether you’re a seasoned volunteer or making your first call, you’ll be supported every step of the way.

Celebrate Booker T. Washington’s transformation and growth, honoring our 106-year legacy serving as an anchor institution for San Francisco! We’re raising funds to expand our programs and strengthen our commitment to helping more than 6,000 vulnerable San Franciscans thrive!

There will be lots of surprises along the way and we can’t wait to see how everyone has fun with our sneaker ball dress code — tux and Chucks, ball gowns and Uptowns!

The SF Immigrant Forum Regular Meetings are a space to:

• Convene San Francisco-based service providers that work directly with immigrant communities  

• Share valuable resources and information regarding immigration and topics that impact immigrant communities 

• Enhance immigrant community support efforts through regular communication

A combination of a grocery store and a farmers market, can a farm stop enhance your community’s local food system? As year-round, brick and mortar grocery stores that operate on consignment, farm stops offer one promising method to support local growers, and enhance access to fresh, local foods. In this lesson, hear from the author of How to Start a Farm Stop, the founder of Local Roots - the first ever farm stop, and an aspiring farm stop owner in New Orleans about the benefits and challenges of including a farm stop in your community.

The San Francisco Public Library is proud to present a special screening of Si Pudiera Quedarme / If I Could Stay, a powerful new documentary that offers an intimate look at the fight for dignity, safety, and justice in the face of deportation. This community event will be followed by a live panel featuring, the Executive Director of CARECEN SF, Lariza Dugan Cuadra, the Executive Director of the Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs, Jorge Rivas, filmmaker Theo Rigby, and will be moderated by Michael G. Pappas of the San Francisco Interfaith Council.

Congress just passed a Big Ugly Budget that takes away people's health care and food assistance in order to give massive tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. That's not right!

Now Congress is starting the annual appropriations process and planning to make more cuts to housing funds, education and other investments that working people need!

Join us for Tax & Budget Fight Phone banks, where we’ll talk to constituents in key congressional districts to have deep, meaningful conversations about how these funding cuts hurt our communities. Together, we’ll take action to pressure Congress to stop these cuts and ensure the rich pay their fair share.

No experience? No problem! We provide training at every phone bank to set you up for success. Whether you’re a seasoned volunteer or making your first call, you’ll be supported every step of the way.

Join CSPI on Tuesday, September 16th from 3:00 - 4:00 ET to unpack the contents of the MAHA Strategy Report, released to the public on Tuesday, September 9th. We will summarize the MAHA Commission's recommended strategies to address childhood chronic disease, discuss the extent to which they align with scientific evidence, and explore implications for US policy. Finally, we will offer resources, talking points, and model evidence-based policies to respond and take action as individuals, as organizations, and as a community of advocates.

Congress just passed a Big Ugly Budget that takes away people's health care and food assistance in order to give massive tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. That's not right!

Now Congress is starting the annual appropriations process and planning to make more cuts to housing funds, education and other investments that working people need!

Join us for Tax & Budget Fight Phone banks, where we’ll talk to constituents in key congressional districts to have deep, meaningful conversations about how these funding cuts hurt our communities. Together, we’ll take action to pressure Congress to stop these cuts and ensure the rich pay their fair share.

No experience? No problem! We provide training at every phone bank to set you up for success. Whether you’re a seasoned volunteer or making your first call, you’ll be supported every step of the way.

Established in 2022, La Ofrenda is a community-led hub, functioning as a food market, art gallery, and resource center. Founded to combat food insecurity and provide hope, it champions food justice by offering fresh, healthy, and culturally relevant food, often from local producers. La Ofrenda embodies community resilience, connecting neighbors, fostering creativity, and upholding the right to food and dignity, ultimately building a stronger, more just community.

Free School for Farmworkers presents: Climate Grief

Climate grief, eco-grief, eco-anxiety, solastalgia. There is a growing language and vocabulary to describe the experience of being part of a rapidly changing planet, and the sense of loss that arises from witnessing and anticipating this change. From increasingly severe hurricanes and wildfires to yet another summer of record-breaking heat, these wide-scale changes have local impacts that we are seeing and feeling every single day. Even with this growing language and vocabulary, it is difficult to make sense of these changes, and the scale, pace, and severity at which they are taking place.

Farmworkers are in particularly close contact with our changing environments, with the heat and extreme weather patterns, and with what this means for how things live, grow, or die. Experiencing these changes in isolation or without meaningful processing or support takes a deep toll on our hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits, leaving many of us chronically anxious, numb, hopeless, and burnt out as a result. And yet, there is infinite support and resources that we can turn to, that are available to us through our experiences tending land, growing food, and working intimately with the cycles of the natural world.

Congress just passed a Big Ugly Budget that takes away people's health care and food assistance in order to give massive tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. That's not right!

Now Congress is starting the annual appropriations process and planning to make more cuts to housing funds, education and other investments that working people need!

Join us for Tax & Budget Fight Phone banks, where we’ll talk to constituents in key congressional districts to have deep, meaningful conversations about how these funding cuts hurt our communities. Together, we’ll take action to pressure Congress to stop these cuts and ensure the rich pay their fair share.

No experience? No problem! We provide training at every phone bank to set you up for success. Whether you’re a seasoned volunteer or making your first call, you’ll be supported every step of the way.

• Glide is launching a new contingency management program!

• This program offers gift cards for stimulant free urinalysis {UAs) and completion of your goals related to other health behaviors.

• If you participate you can earn up to $585 in gift cards for up to 12 weeks of program participation.

• Groups will be held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 3pm-5pm starting Monday, September 8th

Are you an emerging food systems professional? Are you in career transition, seeking a job in community food work?

This series is for you!

The Food Security Task Force (FSTF) is an advisory body to the Board of Supervisors and is charged with the responsibility of creating a city-wide plan for addressing food security as detailed by the Administrative Code Article X. The group tracks vital data regarding hunger and food security including the utilization and demand for federal food programs, community-based organizations, meal programs, and programs targeting particular populations.

• Glide is launching a new contingency management program!

• This program offers gift cards for stimulant free urinalysis {UAs) and completion of your goals related to other health behaviors.

• If you participate you can earn up to $585 in gift cards for up to 12 weeks of program participation.

• Groups will be held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 3pm-5pm starting Monday, September 8th

GLIDE is very excited to be launching a Contingency Management program, which will reward clients for positive improvements in their substance use behaviors and provide community support through group meetings. If you know anyone who may be interested in the program, please let them know about the Open House we will be hosting Tuesday, September 2, 9 AM – 1 PM at GLIDE (330 Ellis Street). The flyer is attached.

After the Open House, there will be a 2-day enrollment event on 9/3 and 9/4 (9 AM – 1 PM) at GLIDE. Enrollment will occur on a rolling basis based on program capacity – first come, first serve – and a waitlist will be maintained. Groups will be held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 3 – 5 PM starting Monday, September 8.

For questions and referrals, please contact us:

Email: cm@glide.org_

Phone: (628) 219-9301

Address: 330 Ellis St., San Francisco, CA 94102

Come join GLIDE's Center for Social Justice for a special event dedicated to remembrance and raising awareness about overdose prevention. This event will shed light on the many complexities with experts in the field, and a moment to share, heal, and be with community.

With the passage of the federal reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) and the new California state budget, the eligibility rules for vital programs like Medi-Cal, Covered CA, Medicare, CalFresh, and others will change significantly in the coming years. During this training, we will provide a detailed overview of the expected impacts of these policy changes - particularly for different immigrant communities in CA. We will also discuss how community-based organizations (CBOs), service providers, government agencies, and Community Health Workers, Promotoras, Representatives, and other advocates can prepare and adapt to best support the communities we serve. This training will be delivered in English with live Spanish interpretation