Context
In 2015, the local Rising alliances in Oakland, San Francisco, and Santa Clara County came together to found Bay Rising to share a bold, and increasingly winnable, vision for the Bay Area’s future.
Since then, we’ve shared learnings from our victories, challenges, and policy innovations tested in the Bay Area between organizers, researchers, elected officials, and other policymakers – from Sonoma to the South Bay, and from the Mission to Mount Diablo.
Our work
We’re now launching the Bay Rising Solutions Springboard, a resource and organizing hub that formalizes our shared priorities for policies to expand across the Bay Area.
We’ve presented our collection of solutions here to serve grassroots organizing efforts and amplify the impact of organizing throughout the region. Under each issue you will find a values-based framework, a list of local organizations leading work on the issue, actual organizing victories and current campaigns, examples of real policies passed, and an organizing story highlighting the learnings or personal stories that have gone into these hard-won victories.
Our hope is that organizers, researchers, elected officials, other policymakers, and everyday residents of the Bay Area can use the resources provided here as a “library of ideas” to not only learn about the work and impact of Bay Rising and our member organizations and allies, but also to amplify and replicate these solutions in more and more places across the region.
Resilience is built before disaster. With disasters becoming more frequent and more intense, we need deep investment in the systems and social supports that strengthen the social and economic fabric of our communities, and offer resources in times of crisis.
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What’s Next
Our hope is that organizers, elected officials, and everyday residents of the Bay Area can use the resources provided here to not only learn about the work and impact of Bay Rising, but to amplify and replicate these policies and efforts in more and more areas in our region.
Click here to see the policies outlined in our Solutions Springboard.
