This two-day briefing provided funders the opportunity to network with colleagues and learn about and discuss pressing policy developments, key battles and opportunities at the federal and state level, and emerging policy, communications and organizing strategies to advance worker justice, social protections and an economy that works for all.
- Federal and State Budget and Tax Outlook. Noted tax and budget policy experts Sharon Parrott and Erica Williams from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shared key battles and opportunities and what’s at stake and in play in 2020.
- Building Equity into the Tax Code: Jeremie Greer, Liberation in a Generation, Melissa Boteach, National Women’s Law Center and Michael Linden, Groundwork Collaborative shared the historic and current-day connection between tax systems and racial and gender equity, how the fields of policy and community engagement have been working to address equity through changing the tax code, how to talk about taxes, and how funders can best support these initiatives.
Many thanks to our 2020 Watch Party Hosts!
