PICO California

- We held a weeklong statewide leadership training at a retreat center with 106 leaders, clergy, tribal elders, and organizers across the state. It was the first in-person training since the start of the pandemic. - In coordination with the Millions Voters project we ran a six week nonpartisan voter engagement campaign across the state about the importance of peoples voice and their vote.- We contacted 140,909 low-propensity voters and voters of color, we identified 80,796 supporters and nearly 40,000 people opted in to receive more information about organizing. - PICO California spoke on the phone with 27,293 faith and spiritually-rooted Californians about housing as a basic human right, an economy that works for everyone - not just big industry and the wealthy - and the value of joining together across our differences to effect change in our communities. - We also reached 309,456 people online to amplify our on-the-ground organizing, utilizing a digital tool kit created in partnership with MVP. - As a network we also hosted 18 non-partisan sheriff, city council, school board, mayoral, and county supervisor candidate forums - attended by over two thousand people - where we presented stories of directly impacted people, outlined our policy and structural change priorities, and won commitments from candidates to work for racial and economic justice on behalf of families and communities.