California Forward

California Forward (CA FWD) brings people together across communities, regions, and interests to improve government and create inclusive, sustainable growth for everyone. The organization advocates for economic growth and transition strategies consistent with California’s overarching values of addressing climate risk and opportunity and promoting broadly shared prosperity across every region of the state. CA FWD envisions a California that demonstrates a more sustainable and equitable economy, one that could be a model for the world.

California Forward advocates for shared prosperity across all of California’s regions, and for improved government performance and accountability. California Forward hosts the California Economic Summit, a robust network that concentrates on ensuring all Californians have access to economic opportunity, stable housing, quality jobs, and a healthy environment. This grant supports California Forward’s ongoing efforts to generate solutions to the state’s wildfire crisis. (Substrategy: Wildfire)

California Forward will support Sonoma County’s recovery from the October 2017 wildfires by providing policy analysis and technical support to the County of Sonoma and the City of Santa Rosa as they develop a county-wide agenda for meeting the housing needs for economic and community recovery. California Forward will provide analysis of effective government structures for joint decision making by the city and county, which will be necessary to regionalize housing production; pool and leverage financing and funding; share risks and benefits of development; streamline environmental review; and make equity, affordability, and climate solutions central to the recovery.