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.

Strategic Advising

Cultivo Consulting can help provide balanced and comprehensive information to allow you to make the right decisions at the right time when it comes to your public policy and advocacy needs.

After another series of deadly accidents in California's Central Valley where farmworkers lost their lives, the legislature took action and appropriated $20 million dollars to expand a farmworker vanpool program that could provide a safe and affordable alternative form of transportation to/from work. After its first grant cycle, only $5.2 million were awarded. Despite the need for such a vanpool, many local and county entities were not informed on the funding opportunity nor the successful demonstration vanpool project. Partnering with CALTRANS and the Kings County Agricultural Industries Transportation Services, we were able to identify counties and cities that could benefit from the project, bring stakeholders together and as a result application rates increased and grant awards doubled reaching $10.1 million. Cultivo has been able to facilitate conversations, match resources with needs and forge working relationships with partners across the state all seeking to provide safe and affordable modes of transportation for farmworkers and rural communities.