Our first playbook - the Board Diversity Playbook focuses on recruiting practices to increase gender diversity in boardrooms. Each page includes practical tools and tactical suggestions from those who have leveraged these strategies in their organizations, and insights linking you to further resources and readings to support and expand awareness to set your board up for success.

Thanks to a brilliant team and a broad coalition of generous collaborators, we have spent three productive years shining a spotlight on our state’s successes in these realms. We are proud to do our part to ensure that California continues to lead by example, partnering with talented creators that drive the world culturally and economically. After all, California values inspired innovations over ingrained habits, and is never afraid to go first in pursuit of a better way.

​​The California Partners Project is engaged in a statewide listening tour with mothers, parents, and caregivers to understand how they are navigating the integration of technology and devices into most aspects of their children’s lives. Online, multiplayer games are played by millions of young people. Many caregivers shared their deep concerns about the intensity with which their children and teens play online games and noted the difficulty they faced pulling their kids away from gaming. A mom of a 12-year-old boy in Oakland told CPP, “It became so much gaming and that is all he wants to do.” Another mom, from southern California, shared “For my teenager, he spends so much time gaming…he does all of his social activity gaming.” For parents today, the experience of socializing through gaming is new. A recent survey shows that youth report gaming is both helpful for their social lives and can present risks such as harassment. However, through conversation and connection, gaming can be part of a diverse set of developmental experiences if other recreational opportunities continue.