Advocacy and Policy

Once dubbed “America’s least sustainable city” for its record-breaking temperatures and water scarcity, Phoenix is taking on the challenges of climate change, rapid population growth, and water scarcity. How? By…

How often do you think about voting rights when it’s not an election year? The team at All Voting is Local is thinking about it all the time – every…

One of the most exciting things about food and ag right now is the potential for change. The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real.…

As we approach the November election Americans are overwhelmed with the amount of campaign ads flooding their television and social media feeds. It is estimated that by election day over $9.7…

Local officials in Tennessee, Illinois, New York, and Virginia are offering up hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans, Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills…

As nonprofits, we play a critical role in taking care of the people in our communities, and voter engagement is an important piece of this. Not only does voter engagement…

More than twenty years after Barbara Ehrenreich uncovered deep economic inequities and indignities endured by the working poor, America’s child care workers are sacrificing their own well-being to support the U.S.…

The planet is heating up as greenhouse gas emissions rise, contributing to extreme heat waves and once-unimaginable flooding. Yet despite the risks, countries’ policies are not on track to keep…

After decades of negotiations, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) have finalized a $1.9 billion water rights settlement that resolves thousands of tribal claims tied to waterways throughout western…

On a sunny and cool September Saturday in 2011, hundreds of activists and protestors took to Zuccotti Park in New York City’s Financial District. They set up tents, mutual aid stations, and…

This August, as schools reopened for the 2022-2023 school year, California welcomed many more students than ever before into its transitional kindergarten classrooms. The state is investing $2.7 billion in…

The Colorado River is the lifeblood for the Southern Ute and dozens of federally recognized tribes who have relied on it for drinking water, farming, and supporting hunting and fishing…