Join over 250 economic, racial, and social justice groups, labor unions, and elected officials in supporting CalAccount. This program offers Californians a no-fee, no-penalty bank account and debit card.
Nearly 1 in 5 California households are unbanked or underbanked, relying on costly alternative financial services. This lack of access disproportionately impacts low-income families and communities of color, widening the racial wealth gap. Over 30% of Black and Latino/a households are unbanked or underbanked, and they make up 72% of California’s unbanked population.
CalAccount provides a zero-fee, zero-penalty public option for essential financial services, empowering all Californians to build wealth and stability. The CalAccount Community Coalition successfully advocated for AB 1177 (2021), mandating a state analysis and report on CalAccount, expected in July 2024.
Join us in demanding a public option to predatory banking practices. Access to affordable basic financial services is essential for all Californians. Support the CalAccount Program today.
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CalAccount is supported by racial, economic, and climate justice groups, faith-based organizations, businesses, labor unions, and elected officials. Easing the way for all Californians to participate in the California economy benefits us all.
CURRENT CALACCOUNT ENDORSERS:
California Public Banking Alliance [SPONSOR]
SEIU California [SPONSOR]
Rise Economy [SPONSOR]
Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE)
Active San Gabriel Valley
Alameda County Democratic Party
All Rise Alameda
Alliance for a Just Recovery, Sonoma County
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action (ACCE)
Alloy
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII)
Black Arts Movement Business District Community Development Corp. of Oakland (BAMBD, CDC)
Bay Area-System Change Not Climate Change
Beneficial State Foundation
Building the Base Face to Face
California Asset Building Coalition
California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity (CAMEO)
California Coalition for Worker Power
California Community Land Trust Network
California Democratic Party
California Democratic Party Delegates — 204 Delegates
California Employment Lawyers Association
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
California Low-Income Consumer Federation
California Progressive Alliance
California River Watch
Center for Farmworker Families
Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research (CLEAR)
City and County of San Francisco
City of Berkeley
City of Burbank
City of Long Beach
City of Los Angeles
Clear Beliefs Institute
Climate Protection and Recovery Fund
Cloverdale Indivisible
CodePink Women for Peace
Committee for Better Banks
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
Community Financial Resources
Community RePower Movement
Consumer Federation of California
Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety
Contra Costa Move On
Converging Storms Action Network
Cooperation Humboldt
Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union
Courage California
Culver City Vice Mayor Daniel Lee
DSA Ecosocialists
Democratic Socialists of America, San Francisco
Democrats of the Desert
Dreams for Change
Duende Consulting
EcoChoices
El Cerrito Progressives
Feel the Bern Democratic Club, Los Angeles
Feel the Bern San Fernando Valley
Feminists in Action
Fight For 15
Fight for 15 LA
Fight for 15 NorCal
Fossil Free California
Fresno County Democratic Party
Friends Committee on Legislation of California
Friends of Public Banking Santa Rosa
Friends of the Climate Action Plan
Friends of the Earth U.S.
Green Lining Institute
Green Party Humboldt County
Green Party of Santa Clara County
Greenpeace International
Ground Game LA
Hanmi Bank
Haven Neighborhood Services
Hillcrest Indivisible
HOPE for All: Helping Others Prosper Economically
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA)
Hull Professionals
Inclusive Action for the City
Independent Indivisible
Indivisible 30/Keep Sherman Accountable
Indivisible 36
Indivisible 39
Indivisible 41
Indivisible 43
Indivisible 52
Indivisible Auburn
Indivisible Beach Cities
Indivisible CA -7
Indivisible California Green Team
Indivisible California: StateStrong
Indivisible East Bay
Indivisible Lorin
Indivisible Los Angeles
Indivisible Marin
Indivisible OC 46
Indivisible of Sherman Oaks
Indivisible Petaluma
Indivisible Sacramento
Indivisible San Bernardino
Indivisible San Diego — Persist
Indivisible San Francisco
Indivisible San Jose
Indivisible Santa Barbara
Indivisible Sausalito
Indivisible Sebastopol
Indivisible SF Peninsula and CA-14
Indivisible Simi Valley Porter Ranch
Indivisible Sonoma County
Indivisible South Bay
Indivisible South Bay LA
Indivisible Stanislaus
Indivisible Ventura
Indivisible Windsor
Justicia Digna
LA Forward
Lassen County Democratic Central Committee
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area
Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
LITE Initiatives
Livermore Indivisible
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman
Los Angeles County Democratic Party
Malonga Arts Residents Association
March and Rally Los Angeles
Marin Sunshine Realty
Mayor Pro Tem G. Muir Davis, City of La Verne
Mayor Robert Garcia, City of Long Beach
Mayor Tim Sandoval, City of Pomona
Mayor Jennifer Stark, City of Claremont
McGee-Spaulding Neighbors in Action
Media Alliance
Mendocino County Public Banking Coalition
Mendocino Women’s Political Coalition
Mill Valley Community Action Network
Mobility Capital Finance, Inc. (MoCaFi)
Mothers Out Front CA
Mountain Progressives
National Domestic Workers Alliance
NextGen California
New Economics for Women
North Bay Jobs with Justice
North Bay Labor Council
North Coast Progressive Alliance
Northridge Indivisible
Occupy Sonoma Valley
Orchard City Indivisible
Orinda Progressive Action Alliance
Our Revolution Long Beach
Palms To Pines Democratic Network
Partnership for Working Families
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
People for Public Banking Central Coast
PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights)
Pomona City Councilmember John Nolte, District 1
Progress Noe Valley
Progressive Alliance of the Inland Empire
Progressive Asian Network for Action (PANA)
Prosperity Now
Public Bank East Bay
Public Bank Long Beach
Public Bank Los Angeles (PBLA)
Public Bank Pomona Valley
Public Counsel
Public Law Center
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center River Watch
Romero Institute
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Sacramento Climate Coalition
San Diego County Democratic Party
San Fernando Valley Young Democrats
San Francisco Berniecrats
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
San Francisco County Treasurer José Cisneros
San Francisco Public Bank Coalition
San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston
San Jose Nikkei Resisters
San Mateo Labor Council
Sanctuary Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Santa Cruz County Democratic Party
Santa Cruz Indivisible
SaverLife
SEIU 1021
SEIU 721
SEIU International
SFV Indivisible
Shoreline Study Center
Silicon Valley Rising Action
Sister-to-Sister 2
SoCal 350 Climate Action
Social Eco Education
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN)
Sonoma County Climate Mobilization
Sonoma County Democratic Party
Sonoma County Pachamama Alliance
South Bay Progressive Alliance
South Sacramento Seniors for Systemic Equality
SouthBayCan
Southern Poverty Law Center
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
Strike Debt Bay Area
Sunrise Movement LA
Tehama Indivisible
Thai Community Development Center
The Academy of Financial Education
The Climate Center
The Cobb Institute
The Future Left
The Greenlining Institute
The Phoenix Group
Together We Will — San José
Together We Will Contra Costa
Together We Will/Indivisible — Los Gatos
UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) Western States Council
UFCW Local 5
UFCW Local 770
United Farm Workers
UXO Architects
Vallejo-Benicia Indivisible
Venice Resistance
We The People SD
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Wild Solar
Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council
Women For: Orange County
Women’s Alliance Los Angeles
Working Group for Emergency Climate Action Now
Working Partnerships USA
Worksafe
Yolo Indivisible
350 Butte County
350 Chico
350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley
350 Marin
350 Silicon Valley
350 Sonoma
350 South Bay Los Angeles
California Public Banking Option Act (AB 1177) Legislative Endorsers:
Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, author
Assemblymember Ash Kalra, author
Assemblymember Alex Lee, author
Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, author
Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, author
Assemblymember Mike Gipson, author
Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, author
Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian, author
Assemblymember Phil Ting, author
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, author
Senator Maria Elena Durazo, co-author
Senator Ben Hueso, co-author
Senator Lena Gonzalez, co-author
Senator Josh Newman, co-author
Senator Scott Wiener, co-author
Assemblymember Laura Friedman, co-author
Assemblymember Luz Rivas, co-author
Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, co-author