Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Supplier Diversity: contracting with qualified vendors, including but not limited to catering companies, accounting firms, equipment rentals, and postproduction houses, owned and operated by individuals from socially and economically underrepresented groups to support production.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Prior to program participation, about one-third of LA:RISE participants had no job in the past five years, one-third were CalFresh recipients, under one-third had stable housing, and over half had been previously arrest ed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018