Nonprofits can go beyond providing services and basic needs. Nonprofits should be integrating nonpartisan civic engagement into their settings and support community and neighborhood leadership to help transform policies and systems that create barriers and challenges to get out of poverty. Also, nonprofits can help to develop the next generation of leaders who will work in partnership with policymakers and local governments to create comprehensive change on a local level.
Will Swaim is president of the California Policy Center, a nonprofit educational organization working to help all Californians prosper. Swaim began his journalism career as a business reporter in 1990, as managing editor and ultimately Read more…
Adam B. Summers is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He previously worked as an editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register and its 10 sister newspapers in the Southern California News Read more…
Mike Soubirous serves as a Riverside City Councilmember. Mike is a fourth-generation native Californian who attained the rank of Eagle Scout in 1976, joined the California Highway Patrol in 1982 and retired from the CHP Read more…