KQED: California Lawmakers Call for State Investigation Into Silicon Valley Bank Failure
By Scott Shafer As federal officials scramble to figure out more details about the sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week, some lawmakers in Sacramento are…
First-Of-Its Kind Tech-Focused Reentry Program and Live-in Career Campus for the Formerly Incarcerated Launches in Oakland
Creating Restorative Opportunities and Programs (CROP), a nonprofit organization designed and led by formerly incarcerated individuals to provide recently…
Blue Economy to Receive Massive Economic Boost Thanks to Beneficial State Bank and AltaSea
(Los Angeles, CA) – AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s leading destination for the blue economy, and Beneficial State Bank officially cut the ribbon on…
San Francisco Urban Indian Development Hailed as National Model
Mayor Breed and White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Rep celebrate The Village SF San Francisco, CA – The Village SF, a six-story development in the heart of San…
School Meals for All Celebration at LAUSD
On December 7th, Los Angeles Unified – the state’s largest school district – hosted California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond,…
If you bank with the Big 4, your money has an alarming carbon footprint
By Kat Taylor and Bill McKibben As the world warms, expect a lot more heat aimed at global banks, in particular at the biggest American ones. That’s because…
Meet the Heroes Nourishing California’s Students
Before School Meals For All and additional investments in related nutrition programming, California school districts were only reimbursed for feeding the lowest-income students. This…
LAUSD leaders push healthy meals for kids
Los Angeles Daily News By Marianne Love December 7, 2022 California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, education leaders and a dozen parents held a roundtable press conference in…
Billionaire activist uses her wealth to be an agent of change
By LA Stories Staff Billionaire activist and philanthropist Kat Taylor has made it her life mission to bring equity to underserved and underrepresented communities across the country. As…
Celebrating Farm to School Month
October is Farm-to-School Month – a time to celebrate the connections between local food producers, school nutrition programs and students. We recently traveled with the Center for…
Allensworth, a town founded by Black settlers, secures new funding and a better future
By Denise Kadara Sept. 26, 2022 Many of us living in the Central Valley have long known and experienced the effects of discrimination and divestment. Allensworth, California’s first…
Honoring Our Partners During Hispanic Heritage Month
In California, we are blessed to live and work alongside many talented, dedicated and courageous Hispanic American champions. Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15)…
A Historically Black California Town Honors Its Proud, Painful Past — and Fights for Its Future
By Lakshmi Sara Sept. 9, 2022 The town of Allensworth, located 30 minutes off Interstate 5 near Bakersfield, was a thriving Black community in the early 20th century.
TomKat MeDiA Developing Novels ‘Fateful Harvest’ And ‘The Death And Life Of Aida Hernandez’ For Film
Kat Taylor & Tom Steyer’s TomKat MeDiA has unveiled its slate of social justice-themed projects for 2022. The multi-platform media company has secured rights to Duff Wilson’s eco-thriller …
Honoring Coachella Valley Resilience
The communities of Coachella Valley are resilient. If someone is in need, a community member will find a way to help – throughout the pandemic, racial injustice and…
California Makes Vital Investments In Free School Meals
Final 2022-23 state budget includes more than $2 billion for school food infrastructure, staff training, and more freshly prepared, CA-grown school meals June 30, 2022 — (Sacramento, CA)…
Women of Influence 2022: Kat Taylor
Silicon Valley Business Journal By Michelle Boudit Title: Founder Company: TomKat Ranch/Growing The Table/TomKat MeDiA Location: Pescadero What is the biggest challenge facing women…
California can lead the nation by funding changes to school food program
Guest Commentary June 15, 2022 By Our schools play a crucial role in influencing our children’s health and learning. School cafeterias, which feed our…
California Coalition Urges Strong Investments in School Nutrition, California-Grown School Meals
School nutrition directors and school food advocates call for robust investments in enhanced state meal reimbursements, kitchen infrastructure, and more freshly prepared California-grown school meals June 7, 2022 – (Sacramento, CA) –…
Celebrate our Asian Pacific Islander American Partners
California Attorney General Rob Bonta Rob Bonta was appointed as California’s Attorney General in 2021. Born in the Philippines during a mission trip to help bring…
Kat Taylor Named Jefferson Award Winner
Kat Taylor was named a Jefferson Award winner for her efforts to help small-scale Black, Brown and Indigenous organic farmers feed communities in need during the…
School Meals For All Can Strengthen Farm to School
Sacramento, CA (Feb 10, 2022) – As California prepares to make good on its historic pledge to provide 6.2 million students with free school meals, a…
Celebrate All We Achieved Together in 2021
What a year it has been. While COVID, climate change, entrenched racial injustice, and corporate greed continue to undermine an equitable and resilient future, there are…
Growing the Table Provides Free, Organic Produce to People Experiencing Homelessness
Food insecurity in Santa Cruz is underpinned by the fact that the region suffers from some of the highest rates of individuals experiencing homelessness in California. Growing…
New program helps people eat local produce while supporting Fresno farmers. Here’s how
Sacramento Bee (November 25, 2021) – New program helps people eat local produce while supporting Fresno farmers. Here’s how By Nadia Lopez The pandemic has had disruptive…
Growing the Table Strengthens Connections in Salinas Farmworker Communities
Growing the Table, a program that delivers locally grown food to food-insecure families throughout the Central Coast, has donated more than 138,000 pounds of organic produce to…
Why charities can’t make ends meet when Americans are giving more than ever
I strongly urge others to support the ACE Act, so money moves more quickly from DAFs to working charities and the government has more oversight so it can better set its own agenda.
Firefighting Goats Deployed at TomKat Ranch
New research shows fuel moisture in vegetation across the South Bay at record lows, sparking concerns 2021 could bring more large wildfires April 14,…
Kat Taylor Explains School Meals for All on Fox 40
California adopts school meals for all, making it the first state in the nation to do so. Kat Taylor explains what that means for families across the…
Multi-ethnic Coalition Grows the Table in Los Angeles
A group of L.A. organizations has delivered more than 66,000 pounds of culturally relevant produce to…
Putting Black, Brown, and Regenerative Farmers First
Growing the Table aims to help small, racially and gender diverse, and regenerative/organic farms and ranches participate in market alternatives that provide these farmers with a…