The California fiscal crisis continues to wreak havoc on low-income communities and communities of color. The Bay Area Social Equity Caucus' Fall Quarterly Meeting, co-hosted with Alliance for Justice, brought together more than 60 individuals from non-profit, private and government sectors and labor, faith based and philanthropic organizations to discuss the local and regional impacts of the current state budget crisis and to strategize around engaging underrepresented communities in the movement for reform.

Participants learned about the current statewide efforts around tax and fiscal reform and how their organizations could connect local work to larger statewide campaigns. Panelist presented different strategies to fix California's broken system ranging from the grassroots movements being led by the California Alliance and the California Partnership, the legislative efforts from California Forward, and the Bay Area Council's call for a Constitutional Convention.