Just SB Project receives grant from James Irvine foundation for economic inclusion

The Just San Bernardino Collaborative (Just SB) has announced the award of a $2.7 million grant from the James Irvine Foundation to launch their People’s Plan for Economic Inclusion project.

The project aims to engage more than 10,000 residents in San Bernardino over the next year and will address the lack of economic growth of low-income communities through the lens of labor, housing, education, environmental justice, economic development, arts/culture, and healthcare.

The People’s Plan is a collaboration of organizations dedicated to the future economic development of the city of San Bernardino and will use a grassroots driven process that will include surveys, community listening sessions, and other creative events.

Pastor Samuel Casey, Executive Director of C.O.P.E. said, “I am extremely proud to be intimately associated with the work of the JUST SB People’s Plan. I firmly believe that those closest to the conditions that they find themselves in, are best equipped to inform this process and path forward.”

For morning information about the survey (coming in April) or Just SB’s work, go to www.justsb.org.