Jobs for the Future, Inc. Apr 2024 Website $50,000 To support inter-agency action planning to improve workforce outcomes of people with disabilities in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Social Good Fund Apr 2024 Website $110,000 To support the Just Transitions project, including a short film on Lithium Valley centering community narratives, though an entity such as Jacob Kornbluth Productions. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
State Democracy Project Mar 2024 Website $75,000 To engage low-wage temporary workers in Los Angeles County to inform organizational planning and future support, through an entity such as Unemployed Workers United. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 3 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Catalyst California Mar 2024 Website $1,500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Community Foundation for Monterey County Mar 2024 Website $3,350,000 To support the Salinas Inclusive Economic Development Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
PICO California Mar 2024 Website $2,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, North Coast and State, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Tides Center Mar 2024 Website $200,000 To build organizing power for working class Vietnamese and immigrant communities in Orange County, through an entity such as VietRISE. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
YMCA of the East Bay Mar 2024 Website $25,000 To support YMCA of the East Bay Youth Apprenticeship programming. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Trans Can Work Mar 2024 Website $600,000 To provide Career Supportive Services programs for the economic empowerment and advancement of low-wage CA transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) individuals. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
United for Respect Mar 2024 Website $40,000 To support strategic planning and professional development for new organization leadership. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Feb 2024 Website $100,000 To support the 2024 GEO annual conference in May 2024 in Los Angeles. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 4 months Region Served: Statewide
Entertainment Industry Foundation Feb 2024 Website $850,000 To support Registered Apprenticeship expansion and continued coalition building in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment Sector in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Feb 2024 Website $100,000 To support SEO San Francisco in closing the educational and career opportunity gaps for underserved and historically excluded individuals in the Bay Area. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
United Indian Health Services Feb 2024 Website $25,000 To support a trauma-informed, culturally specific, and evidence-informed care pathway to address the safety and support needs of Native clients and communities, children, youth, adults, and their families. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: North Coast and State
Northern California Grantmakers Feb 2024 Website $600,000 To support Philanthropy California to increase philanthropy’s impact to build a thriving, equitable, and inclusive California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
St. Joseph Health Northern California Dec 2023 Website $25,000 To support the Better Birthing Project to create stronger, culturally responsive perinatal care for local birthing families, in addition to training support for family and community members to be perinatal caretakers and advocates. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: North Coast and State
Funders Together to End Homelessness Dec 2023 Website $100,000 To support the Fund for Workforce Equity, designed to spark innovative strategies that center workers and learners of color in the design and implementation of workforce policies and programs, through an entity such as Workforce Matters. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Engage R+D, Inc. Dec 2023 Website $150,000 To strengthen the field of evaluation and learning through knowledge development, convening, and dissemination. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
University of Southern California Dec 2023 Website $1,500,000 To empower historically marginalized communities by providing actionable research and narrative that supports community-driven coalition efforts targeting economic, racial, and social inequities in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Ventures Dec 2023 Website $3,000,000 To facilitate growth and community ownership of Futuro Cooperative, a worker-owned business structure in the Salinas Valley. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Coast Region