University of California, Los Angeles July 2024 Website $50,000 To support professional development and strategic planning post-executive leadership transition. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Opportunity at Work July 2024 Website $50,000 To support Opportunity@Work's leadership and expansion of the Tear the Paper Ceiling Coalition, building awareness and behavior shifts needed to help low-income, non-degree-holding Californians secure thriving wage careers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Silicon Valley Community Foundation July 2024 Website $148,000 To support the capacity and infrastructure of the California Black Freedom Fund to strengthen the leadership and power of Black-led organizations, coalitions, and networks serving the Fresno Black community. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 6 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Engage R+D, Inc. July 2024 Website $500,000 To support learning and strategy consultation among worker rights organizations, public and private stakeholders, and philanthropy. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
True North Organizing Network July 2024 Website $500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: North Coast and State
TechEquity July 2024 Website $400,000 To support a coalition of labor, civil rights, and civic organizations to advance an agenda for worker- and community-centered artificial intelligence through policy, rulemaking, and narrative change. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
CalMatters July 2024 Website $38,000 To support the merger between CalMatters and The Markup. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
National Immigration Law Center June 2024 Website $800,000 To support low-income immigrant workers and their families in California through policy advocacy to promote their integration and safety. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Third Sector Capital Partners Inc. June 2024 Website $250,000 To understand the governance, budgeting, procurement, and operations of California’s workforce development boards. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
One Degree June 2024 Website $100,000 To enhance and expand access to social services and public benefits for low-income Californians. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
California Workforce Association Foundation June 2024 $75,000 To support an executive search for the California Workforce Association to identify a qualified leader who can drive the organization's mission of addressing critical workforce issues and building local workforce development boards' capacity across CA. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Tides Center June 2024 Website $3,000,000 To support the CA statewide expansion of early childhood education registered apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships, through an entity such as Early Care and Education Pathways to Success. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
AmPac Business Capital June 2024 Website $2,000,000 To narrow the racial wealth gap by providing capital and technical assistance to women and minority-owned small businesses in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
University of California, Merced June 2024 Website $1,150,000 To support the Futuros Campesinos Project by assessing and addressing unemployed, undocumented farmworkers' unmet needs in the Fresno region. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Action Council of Monterey County, Inc. June 2024 Website $1,500,000 To strengthen the Community Leadership and Power Building Committee's ongoing power-building and inclusive economic efforts. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
National Employment Law Project June 2024 Website $1,140,000 To support enforcement of workplace protections and deepen legal expertise among nonprofit organizations in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Community Coalition June 2024 Website $1,000,000 To deepen and sustain grassroots civic engagement and organizing capacities to improve the quality of life for working-class residents in South Los Angeles and communities across California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
California Calls Education Fund June 2024 Website $50,000 To support an executive search for senior level and executive staff members. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California June 2024 Website $200,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
California Immigrant Policy Center June 2024 Website $1,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide