GRACE ECPI

Join End Child Poverty CA California Cradle to Career Coalition StriveTogether & California Forward TODAY - 10 AM PST📢as we discuss California's Cradle to Career grant!

This grant program supports backbone organizations in our communities 🏡that focus on cross-sector partnerships to address generational poverty.
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"Under Gov. Gavin Newsom's leadership, CA has fought through as difficult a year as the state has ever faced. As he stated tonight, we are building back better - more equity and opportunity for all Californians. His policies are working to reduce poverty, save small businesses and support all Californians. No one could have saved us from the terrible toll of the pandemic or wildfires that ravaged the state. But through it all, the Governor has put us on a path to emerge as a stronger, safer, and more equitable state. We are very fortunate to have his leadership." ~Conway Collis, President & CEO, GRACE/ECPCA

"My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life....Today I join the Church in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and in the entire United States, in praying for the repose of the soul of George Floyd and of all those others who have lost their lives as a result of the sin of racism. Let us pray for the consolation of their grieving families and friends and let us implore the national reconciliation and peace for which we yearn." - Pope Francis

We are called to self-reflection, repentance, and action.

Read the Pope's full statement:
http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2020/06/03/200603a.html

General Audience

So proud to be with Hope Through Housing Foundation in last week! Amazing things are happening in San Bernardino County. Together we are stronger as we fight for a bright future for all kids and families!

"This American tragedy is an ignored one. Poor children neither vote nor hire lobbyists. It is also morally senseless, punishing children for the sins or misfortunes of their parents. It is economically pointless, too. Poor children who grow up to be poor adults have not just reduced incomes, but shorter lives and a higher risk of criminality."

Poverty in America has long-lasting, destructive consequences on children So targeting programmes at the younger generation makes the most sense

For so many CA families, basic needs like child care, housing, food, and transportation leave nothing (or less than nothing!) left at the end of the month.

Check out this stat from our partner Pathways LA.