Watch this community conversation about harnessing local data for Safe & Just Communities, one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being.

Watch this community conversation about harnessing local data for Healthy Environments, one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being.

Watch this community conversation about harnessing local data for Thriving Families & Community Connectedness two of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being.

A few months ago, we experimented with a new CORE Institute format and formed a “Learn, Do, Share” community of practice focused on visual storytelling with data. Watch this video where we shared some highlights from the training and show you how we used what we learned. We shared examples of ways the webinar training shifted the ways we think about data visualization and storytelling, as well as specific tips, tools, and resources we found helpful along the way.

Watch this community conversation about harnessing local data for Economic Security & Social Mobility one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being.

Watch this video where two local interpreters, Beatriz Trujillo-Ortega (Tru Translations) and Jorge Valenzuela, shared their top 10 tips for making your own in-person and virtual meetings and materials shine in more than one language.

Watch this community conversation about harnessing local data to foster Lifelong Learning & Education, one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being.

Learn about California's goal for "Universal PreKindergarten" (UPK), options for Transitional Kindergarten (TK) and preschool, and tips and resources for enrolling your children in TK and preschool.

Watch this community conversation about harnessing local data to foster Health & Wellness, one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being.

In our CORE training and technical assistance, we often talk about budgets as stories that happen to use numbers instead of words to convey our vision, values, and priorities. Whether they’re budgets for a small grant or an entire County or nation, the stories they tell are important, yet often created in a way that makes sense to accountants but may leave the rest of us wondering: What story does our County’s budget tell? Watch the recording of this session to explore this question, and hear an overview of the County budget process, its relationship to the strategic and operational plans, opportunities for community input, and the County’s new online budget tool.

Even though the experience of poverty is common in American life, myths and misinformation about economic disparities and opportunities are incredibly stubborn. Hear from Dr. Bullock, Director of the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, & Participatory Governance, about her research and insights from a 2021 book she co-authored with Mark Robert Rank and Lawrence M. Eppard, Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty.

Watch this interactive session on how to use data and stories for continuous learning and improvement.