After Jan 6th, Let’s Memorialize April 9 Ludovic Blain is the leading organizer of individual donors in California achieving progressive policy and electoral outcomes by investing in communities of color. As the Executive Director of the California Donor Table, California Donor Table Fund, and the Progressive Era Pac, Ludovic has…

Women’s history is everyone’s history, and while women make history every day of every month, each March our nation commemorates Women’s History Month to celebrate the vital role of women across history. We are grateful to all of the women-identifying leaders across the state who contribute to moving California from…

From Ludovic Blain, Executive Director of the California Donor Table. Over the last 17 years, CDT has raised, directed and distributed $48M dollars to community and political organizations that organize, educate, and turn out voters of color across California. This includes more than $4 million invested in Los Angeles progressive…

By Christopher Wilson from CDT partner Alliance San Diego Mobilization Fund Growing up in Detroit, my early life was one of struggle, revolution, and self-hatred. We struggled to survive poverty, a brutal social system built to tear black families apart, and government-sponsored mass incarceration. Black History Month is always an…

While we look forward to time with family and friends in the coming days to give thanks, we also are looking back to Election Day 2021 and how we prepare for 2022 and beyond. What a doozy. We spent the last couple of weeks debriefing with our grantees to get…

“I am all in if Karen Bass runs for mayor of Los Angeles, which she should! It would be a game changer moment for Los Angeles and the state. As a California Donor Table board member, we have a long history of investing in building power in communities of color…

20 Community Organizations Led Recall Defeat by Engaging 41% of California Voters Oakland, CA — The California Donor Table, a network of donors committed to building power in California’s communities of color and making lasting progressive political change, raised and distributed $3.5 …

By Ludovic Blain Who knew that 9 months after Georgians saved American Democracy, Californians would have to step up and do so, too. And that’s not hyperbole. With someone like Larry Elder as California’s Governor, not only would our state’s policies on social service, climate change, civil rights, labor, choice…

Molly, Tell us a little bit about yourself: I grew up in a loving and political household as the middle child and only daughter of my dad, a Haitian immigrant and physician, and my mother, a hippie from the South and a college professor. …