2025
2025
- CAUSE launches a new Lompoc chapter by engaging 150+ youth, conducting hundreds of community surveys, and forming a 20-member youth leadership committee to shape future campaigns.
- CAUSE along with Santa Barbara Tenants Union secures $5 million annually for affordable housing by increasing long-term funding for affordable housing development and homelessness services while advancing work toward rent stabilization in the City of Santa Barbara.
- CAUSE wins Ventura County’s first tenant anti-harassment ordinance in Oxnard by protecting tenants from retaliation, strengthening the right to organize, and securing $500,000 for housing enforcement.
- CAUSE stops a 45% rent increase for Santa Paula mobile home residents by organizing 150+ residents to save families a collective $500,000, form a permanent tenant association, and advance stronger protections against future rent hikes.
- CAUSE expands community air-quality monitoring by securing two new air-monitoring sites near schools and healthcare facilities in Santa Maria, providing communities with better data on local pollution.
- CAUSE holds corporate polluters accountable in Oxnard by securing $1.5 million for community air monitoring and $14.4 million toward dismantling harmful infrastructure at the Ormond Beach Generating Station.
- CAUSE helps to win $600,000 for immigrant legal defense from the City of Oxnard after the Glass House ICE raids by expanding access to legal representation for immigrant families facing detention and deportation.
- CAUSE expands worker rights education by reaching 1,200 farmworkers with information about workplace rights through strengthened partnerships with the California Department of Industrial Relations.
2024
2024
- CAUSE educates nearly 4,000 farmworkers through the California Worker Outreach Program, with 900 workers completing in-depth workplace health and safety training.
- CAUSE helps secure $30 million in state funding to permanently sustain the California Worker Outreach Program and ensure ongoing worker education across California.
- CAUSE, along with MICOP and Líderes Campesinas, launches Project MILPA to lay the foundation for farmworker-owned cooperatives that build long-term economic opportunity and community wealth in Ventura County.
- CAUSE celebrates the opening of the Santa Clara River Preserve after nearly a decade of community organizing and collaboration with The Nature Conservancy to expand access to healthy green space in Santa Paula.
- CAUSE convenes more than 250 community members at the inaugural CAUSE Power Assembly, creating new opportunities for grassroots leaders to shape organizational priorities and regional campaigns.
- CAUSE builds stronger regional partnerships by working with FLA, MICOP, and the FUND for Santa Barbara to launch Unidos 805, a collaborative civic engagement table that strengthens the political voice of communities of color.
- CAUSE engages more than 24,000 voters across the Central Coast, expanding nonpartisan civic participation and community engagement ahead of the November election.
- CAUSE secures $250,000 for tenant legal assistance in Santa Barbara, helping establish the Central Coast’s first right-to-counsel program for renters facing eviction.
2023
2023
- CAUSE’s advocacy and organizing helps launch the Farmworker Resource Center – Proyecto Campesino in Santa Barbara County, creating a mobile resource center that connects thousands of farmworkers with public services and labor rights support.
- CAUSE educates more than 1,300 pregnant and postpartum farmworkers about workplace protections and paid leave to reduce pesticide exposure and protect their health.
- CAUSE expands access to workers’ rights resources through monthly wage theft clinics with California’s Labor Commissioner, helping immigrant workers protect their earnings.
- CAUSE helps secure a landmark environmental victory by supporting California’s Advanced Clean Fleets Rule, accelerating the transition to zero-emission trucks and improving air quality in frontline communities.
- CAUSE wins stronger tenant protections against bad-faith “renovictions” across Santa Barbara, helping prevent families from being displaced by corporate landlords remodeling buildings as an excuse for mass evictions.
- CAUSE advances more representative local democracy by shifting Santa Paula City Council to district elections, giving neighborhoods and grassroots leaders a stronger voice in local government.
2022
2022
- CAUSE supports statewide Health4All victory of access to Medi-Cal for all ages regardless of immigration status
- CAUSE wins commitment from Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to begin process for Santa Maria River Trail
- CAUSE passes rent control and just cause eviction ordinance in Oxnard, giving the city the strongest tenant protections of any community between the Bay Area and Los Angeles
- CAUSE works with partners to organize tenants facing mass eviction in Ventura’s Westside, passing strengthened relocation assistance for future evictions
- CAUSE co-founds Ventura County Housing Coalition