Cultivo Consulting in Sacramento and Los Angeles, California – Policy Consultants for Non-profit and Community Organizations. Promoting policy that is socially, economically and environmentally just.

Coalition Building

Cultivo Consulting believes in enhancing and working with advocates with similar goals and vision. Coalition building with likely and unlikely allies, and sustainable partnerships are the key to long-term public policy success. Cultivo also has experience in managing and continuing to engage and build capacity, membership and activity of coalitions.

The issue of health care reform is a heated issue in California's public policy debate. As such a coalition was set up in 2007 to address the health care reform needs from the perspective of communities of color across California. Given the special needs, geographic challenges and social context of farmworkers and rural California, Cultivo Consulting helped develop relationships and alliances with Central and Coachella Valley advocates to ensure they had a voice and a place at the table with the only coalition of health care advocates representing communities of color in California. As a result, the coalition's steering committee provided greater capacity to local organizations to ensure that groups in rural California were able to actively participate and engage their constituents. In the summer of 2008 at the height of the budget crisis in California, advocates in the central valley built on their work around health care and advocated for a humane budget. The relationships and participation in the coalition have enabled groups to learn about related policy issues, build internal capacity, and provide community with a meaningful way to participate.