Latino Prosperity Apr 2025 Website $50,000 To support a strategic communications and advocacy campaign that upholds California’s charitable trust laws in the context of AI governance. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
Inland Empire Labor Institute Apr 2025 $30,000 To support executive transition-related consulting and leadership coaching. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Play Equity Fund Mar 2025 Website $100,000 To support the Alliance Sports Partnership Pathway to establish and evaluate a career readiness and internship program to increase diversity in sports leadership and address career development disparities within community colleges in the LA region. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Starting Over, Inc. Mar 2025 Website $400,000 To expand support for workers impacted by the criminal justice system in the Inland Empire through outreach, advocacy, workforce development, and community organizing. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Social Good Fund Mar 2025 Website $25,000 To support "A Better Next Big Thing" project, including a short PBS film on Lithium Valley centering community narratives. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 6 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Chinese Progressive Association Mar 2025 Website $40,000 To support fundraising capacity and organizational sustainability, through an entity such as Trabajadores Unidos Workers United. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 4 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Community Partners Mar 2025 Website $3,000,000 To support the Economic Liberation Project assisting undocumented low-wage workers in accessing workforce development and entrepreneurship services and support in Long Beach, through an entity such as ÓRALE. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Warehouse Worker Resource Center Mar 2025 Website $2,200,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Mar 2025 Website $1,500,000 To strengthen operations infrastructure and capacity of organizations serving low-income communities in California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
University Corporation At Monterey Bay Mar 2025 Website $2,000,000 To catalyze local efforts in Salinas as a model for equitable access to quality AAM and UAS Jobs of the Future, to be performed through an entity such as the Monterey Bay Drone, Automation, and Robotics Technology (DART) Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Mar 2025 Website $1,775,000 To improve working conditions for domestic care workers through outreach, leadership development, and advocacy, through an entity such as the California Domestic Workers Coalition. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
East Bay Community Foundation Mar 2025 Website $2,262,000 To support The James Irvine Foundation's Matching and Discretionary donor-advised fund Focus Area: Matching/Discretionary Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Mar 2025 Website $2,375,000 For general operating support Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy Mar 2025 Website $2,100,000 For general operating support Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Center for Community Advocacy Mar 2025 Website $125,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Statewide
University of California, Berkeley Mar 2025 Website $1,000,000 To generate research insights to improve the effectiveness of policies and publicly provided programs that support economic inclusion and equity for low-wage Californians. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
PICO California Mar 2025 Website $25,000 To support grantee participation in a site visit on the economic security and affordability challenges facing low-income workers and their families at the local, regional, and statewide level. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 6 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California Mar 2025 Website $40,000 To support staff transitions and organizational change processes through training and coaching. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 10 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Enterprise Community Partners Feb 2025 Website $130,000 To expand technical assistance and training, increasing tribal communities' capacity to secure and develop affordable housing resources through the California Tribal Housing Accelerator Academy. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Valley Public Radio Feb 2025 Website $360,000 To increase public understanding of the economic and equity issues in Fresno and the broader region. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley