Purpose of the Partnership:
The California-Brazil partnership emanated from the twelfth of a series of visits between California Legislators and Brazilian officials. This dynamic relationship seeks to expand trade and investment, exchange educational methodologies, address environmental concerns, create social programs, and communicate cultural practices. As California and Brazil rapidly move into a world without boundaries, we hope to promote the free-flowing exchange of ideas which can stimulate growth, competition, innovation and global citizenship
The Brazilian Capitol, Brasília
The California State Capitol, Sacramento
This partnership builds upon the potentials and parallels between Brazil and California. As Senator John Vasconcellos (ret., 13th District) noted in his introduction to Toward a California-Brazil Partnership: A Strategic Action Plan, "Despite Brazil’s dynamic composition, despite its having become the economic powerhouse of South America, it faces major challenges for its underprivileged children and adults, environmentalists, urban developers, and educators, again, not unlike California. All this creates enormous and promising opportunities for vision, insight, innovation, development, leadership and collaboration opportunities to make a difference in this world, many times over."
We hope to provide for California’s citizens and their legislative representatives a tangible, practical means by which we can extend and deepen our relationship with Brazil. We hope this relationship can become a catalyst for Californians to recognize and address critical observations and policy questions, with special emphasis on California’s role in international affairs as the most populous state in the United States and the sixth largest economy in the world. We owe it to ourselves to act boldly, now, to become partners leading the way into a shared future.
California-Brazil Partnership
1020 N Street, Suite 516 · Sacramento, California 95814
(916) 651-1515 · FAX (916) 323-7827
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Photo credits: Brazilian Government and the California Department of Tourism