Our Work Together
The Center for Economic Justice and Action (CEJA), formerly the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance, is committed to alleviating poverty, reducing economic inequality, ensuring that the essential needs of all people are met, and engaging, training, and funding new generations of anti-poverty leaders.
- We specialize in community-engaged, anti-poverty research, particularly poverty alleviation, fiscal equity, and food and housing security. Much of our work focuses on experiences of women and families and UC students.
- We partner with community organizations, students, faculty, practitioners, and other stakeholders to develop scalable strategies for improving the well-being of low-income individuals and families, especially women and mothers, communities of color, people experiencing homelessness, and UC students.
- Our analyses illuminate community needs and assets, offer insight into program effectiveness, and provide tools and resources to challenge inequities and change systems.
- We are the home of the new UC Essential Needs Research, Training, and Promising Practices Consortium. Our community of practitioners, staff, faculty, and researchers is working to ensure that all students’ basic needs are met across the UC system.
