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What is SIEDI?

SIEDI (Salinas Inclusive Economic Development Initiative) invests in the collaborative capacity of community-based organizations so the people most affected by economic inequity have a voice in the decisions shaping the future of the Salinas Valley economy. SIEDI partners are trusted by the communities they serve and by one another. In addition to providing grant funding, SIEDI functions as a community of practice, a space for coordinated action, a relationship-building platform and a builder of civic infrastructure.

Priorities

SIEDI launched in 2021 with support from the James Irvine Foundation. To date, SIEDI represents a more than $9 million investment in building organizational capacity to bring community voice and influence to strategic priority areas:

  • High-Quality Education, Employment and Childcare Pathways
  • Healthcare Access and Workforce Stability
  • An Equitable and Sustainable Agricultural Economy
  • Community-Led Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Vitality
  • Affordable Housing as Economic Infrastructure

SIEDI partners move beyond individual programs toward coordinated efforts that shape the regional economy.

SIEDI Resources

  • Explore and understand the current economy; how it functions, who it benefits and how, and discover how it can be redesigned to benefit more of the families we represent
  • Explore our individual organization’s ability to influence how the economy serves the interests of the families we represent and discover ways we can strengthen that ability
  • Explore the ways that each of our organizations can act on behalf of a more inclusive economy and discover an effective plan of action we want to take over the next two years.
  • Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA)
  • Building Healthy Communities Monterey County
  • Center for Community Advocacy (CCA)
  • Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO)
  • Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA)
  • Digital NEST
  • The Epicenter
  • First 5 Monterey County / Bright Beginnings (core funding for Round 3)
  • Hartnell College Foundation
  • Hijos del Sol Arts Productions
  • Loaves, Fishes & Computers (LFC)
  • Monterey Bay Central Labor Council
  • Mujeres en Acción
  • New Hope Baptist Church
  • Rancho Cielo
  • Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce

To support our journey of Exploration and Discovery, we have entered into partnerships with:

  • The Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), The Everett Program for Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship and Dr. Chris Benner
  • First 5 Monterey County
  • Hartnell College

SIEDI will help us achieve our goals by becoming a space where we:

  • Gather, build strong relationships and share the powerful and urgent stories of why Salinas needs a more inclusive economy
  • Are motivated, inspired and equipped to take bold, effective action
  • Work with data and information, and transform it into knowledge that points to effective action
  • Build common platforms which allow us to efficiently deliver a narrative that supports our change efforts
  • Identify and organize investments we need in order to be effective change agents on behalf of a more inclusive economy
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