The Sacramento Public Bank project was started by the Sacramento Climate Coalition and Sacramento Area Congregations Together (Sac. ACT) and others formed in 2022 to generate the funds needed to help solve the intersecting crises of climate change, lack of affordable housing, climate injustice and the persistent scourge of Wall Street banks’ funding of fossil fuels, guns, and private prisons.
The Sacramento Climate Coalition (SCC) is a grassroots alliance of 36 Sacramento groups. It began in partnership with multiple organizations in 2016 to fight proposals to bring explosive crude oil through Sacramento neighborhoods on their way to coastal refineries. We won the fight and decided to expand our focus as the Sacramento Climate Coalition to the broader set of issues related to climate change as a whole. We have always had leadership from disadvantaged communities located near the rail lines and are deeply committed to environmental justice.
Over the years the Coalition has grown, and in 2018 we joined the international Climate Emergency campaign and have been the main force behind Climate Emergency Mobilizations, achieving Climate Emergency Declarations by the City, County and the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District with accelerated 2030 Carbon Zero timelines.
Sacramento ACT is a powerful multi-racial, multi-faith organization advocating a transformation of the community rooted in shared faith values. Sacramento ACT’s members include over 56 congregations, schools and neighborhood groups, representing 60,000 families in Sacramento County.
Sacramento ACT organizes to create a more just and fair community for everyone in the Sacramento region, with a particular focus on communities of color that have experienced historical discrimination and disinvestment. Our organizing is grounded in the conviction that equity—just and fair inclusion in society—must drive public policy.
For more information contact Dr. Glayol Sahba at gsahba@sacclimate.org.