The Greenlining Institute

10/06/2026

🚨 LESS THAN 48 HOURS TO REGISTER! 🚨

The Just Future Summit 2026 is almost here. So, if you’ve been thinking about joining us in San Francisco this Thursday, now is the time to register.

We’re excited to welcome Julián Castro, Secretary Rohit Chopra, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, Jane Kim, Linda Sarsour, Tommy Orange, Jeff Chang, and so many more to the Main Stage.

Whether you’re a longtime Greenlining supporter or new to the Greenlining family, there’s something for you:

🔥 50+ speakers bringing bold ideas and hard-won experience
🔥 3 Equity Labs for deeper learning, strategy, and connection
🔥 Main Stage conversations on movement building, arts & culture, and the federal landscape
🔥 Breakout sessions on climate resilience, Tribal sovereignty, AI and digital redlining, green jobs, and more
🔥 Live music, local vendors, great food, and plenty of opportunities to connect

Only 40 tickets remain. Don’t miss your chance to be in the room.

🎟️ Register now: https://cvent.me/14MzN3

10/05/2026

Governor Newsom signed AB 801 into law!

AB 801, the California Fair Lending Examination Act, strengthens California’s protections against mortgage discrimination against borrowers of color and helps hold lenders accountable to fair lending laws. For generations, communities of color have been deliberately denied opportunities to build wealth through redlining and discriminatory lending practices.

As Greenlining’s President and CEO, Max Vargas, said:

“Governor Newsom’s signature on AB 801 is a critical step towards holding lenders accountable to anti-discrimination laws and ensuring fair access to homeownership for communities of color.”

Thank you to Assemblymember Mia Bonta for her leadership, Governor Newsom for his signature, and our partners who helped make this possible.

Read the full press release:

Sacramento, CA – On September 31, Governor Newsom signed into law AB 801, the California Fair Lending Examination Act, authored by Assemblymember Mia Bonta

10/02/2026

Greenlining is seeking a dynamic, strategic, and impactful Senior Director of Development to lead our fundraising efforts to fully resource our work and advance our mission to ensure communities of color are healthy, wealthy, and ready.

Apply today! https://bit.ly/4rI4wEV

09/25/2026

For decades, Black and Latino borrowers have received home loans at roughly half the rate of white borrowers. Yet many mortgage lenders still operate without the oversight needed to catch discrimination.

AB 801, the California Fair Lending Examination Act, would strengthen fair lending oversight in California. It would require regular examinations of banks, nonbank lenders, and fintechs to ensure compliance with fair lending laws.

As Rami Ibrahim, Greenlining’s Program Manager of Economic Equity told CALÓNews:

“What we need to do is we need to realize our power, we need to fight for the things that keep us healthy, wealthy and thriving. And not allow all of this to happen without us fighting back.”

AB 801 is on Governor Newsom’s desk. He has until September 30 to act on this bill.

Read Andrea Valadez’s full piece here:
https://ow.ly/UaaJ50ZRxCh

09/24/2026

California’s property insurance crisis is deepening racial inequities, with communities of color facing greater climate risk, higher financial burdens, and fewer resources to recover from disaster.

Our latest blog, co-authored by Lolly Lim, Senior Program Manager of Climate Finance and Resilience, and Muizz Akhtar, looks at how the insurance crisis is affecting communities of color and highlights the Blueprint to A.C.T., developed by Greenlining and partners to help inform the priorities of California’s next Insurance Commissioner.

Read more about what’s driving the crisis and what California can do to build a fairer, more stable insurance market:

Homeowners insurance in California is becoming more expensive, harder to secure, and less reliable. But these growing costs and risks are not borne

09/23/2026

As AI data center development expands at a rapid pace, communities across the country are pushing back.

Read our latest blog to learn how Community Benefits Agreements be a key tool for protecting communities from inequitable tech expansion:

As communities nationwide push back against an influx of AI data center developments, CBAs offer an empowering tool for protection.

09/22/2026

The Greenlining Institute staff, board, and community honor the life and legacy of George Dean, Co-founder of The Greenlining Coalition and former Co-chair of The Greenlining Institute’s Board of Directors.

Read the full memorial from Co-founder and board member Ortensia Lopez here:

We honor the life and legacy of our late Co-founder of The Greenlining Coalition and former Co-chair of The Greenlining Institute’s Board of Directors.

09/17/2026

⚡ 150 tickets left — and these seats are going fast.

The Just Future Summit 2026 is coming to San Francisco October 8–9, and the room is filling up with exactly the people you want to be building alongside: movement builders, equity practitioners, and community leaders from across the country.

Two days of hands-on workshops, strategy labs, and partnership building. is the kind of gathering where you leave with collaborators, not just a tote bag. 👜😉

Register Now: https://cvent.me/14MzN3

09/03/2026

There are less than 230 tickets remaining for Just Future Summit 2026. Have you registered yet? 🎟️

This October 8–9 in San Francisco, Greenlining is bringing together movement builders, equity practitioners, and community leaders for two days built around a simple premise: achieving a just future will require more than just ideas and strategies.

It will requires us to power-build -- together. That's why this year's format is intentionally hands-on:

🔧 Working sessions, not lecture halls
🧭 Strategy labs to pressure-test real initiatives
🤝 Partnership building that continues long after the closing session.

If your work sits at the intersection of racial equity, economic justice, and systems change, this is a room worth being in. Register today before tickets run out! https://cvent.me/14MzN3

09/03/2026

As the AI data center boom accelerates, communities are being asked to absorb enormous demands on their water, energy grids, environment, and public resources — often without having a meaningful say in the decisions being made around them.

More and more, state and localities are turning to Community Benefit Agreements, as a way of giving communities an opportunity to negotiate enforceable protections, investments, and accountability from big tech and data center developers.

As Liza Paudel, Greenlining’s Sr. Program Manager for Tech Equity, told POLITICO's Kinnia Cheuk:

“There’s a lot of things that make it an imperfect solution, but an imperfect solution is still better than nothing.”

CBAs alone won’t solve every challenge created by the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. But as development moves faster than many existing protections and regulations, communities need tools to build power, set terms, and ensure they aren’t left carrying the costs while the benefits flow elsewhere.

Read more:
https://ow.ly/KbFM50ZIv1q