Nicole Clavo, recently appointed by Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan to serve as the Manager of the Office of Violence Prevention for the city, oversees a budget of $1.7 Million. She previously served as one of fifteen Chief Labor Negotiators for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. The core purpose of her office is to […]

Perhaps you recall the movie, Gandhi.  India in the 1940s fought and gained independence from England.  But the Indian subcontinent split violently into Hindu and Muslim factions.  The separate states of India and Pakistan were forming painfully as fighting, looting, and murder tore apart every village. A summit meeting was held in the ornate Governor’s […]

This post by Jack Calhoun originally appeared here: https://citiesspeak.org/2020/08/10/how-santa-rosa-is-engaging-residents-and-reimagining-public-safety/ Reimagine public safety…defund the police…end systemic racism. The calls come from many directions and often end up at the doorstep of mayors, city council members, and city managers. As a point in time snapshot, Jack Calhoun, Founder and CEO of Hope Matters and Senior Consultant for the National […]

We all have roles to play and we play them at different times in our lives.  I began by working in Boston with vulnerable youth, their families and the fragile communities in which they lived.  Unknowing at the time, this became a lifelong commitment where I had the good fortune to manifest this commitment in […]