Power California Sept 2023 Website $2,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Asian Law Caucus Sept 2023 Website $2,000,000 To build economic security and justice for California workers, especially among low-income, immigrant, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
University of California, Berkeley Sept 2023 Website $1,800,000 To advance learning on low-wage work and support worker organizations in California through research and policy analysis, leadership development, student scholarship, and engagement on worker justice issues. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Sept 2023 Website $2,600,000 To support workers' rights organizations in California with research, policy analysis, and youth development at the UCLA Labor Center. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Working Partnerships USA Sept 2023 Website $2,600,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Silicon Valley Community Foundation Sept 2023 Website $3,500,000 To support the capacity and infrastructure of the CA Black Freedom Fund to strengthen the power of Black-led organizations, coalitions, and networks serving Black communities across California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
California Budget & Policy Center Sept 2023 Website $1,500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Freedman Consulting, LLC Sept 2023 Website $600,000 To support public-private partnerships in California by strengthening partnerships between philanthropy and state officials to deliver equitable outcomes, particularly for low-income Californians. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
GRACE Sept 2023 Website $1,600,000 To strengthen the capacity of the statewide CalEITC Coalition, advancing systems change and increasing cash support for low-income working households in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Sept 2023 Website $1,200,000 To conduct research at the Latino Policy and Politics Institute that advances policy solutions aimed to address the systemic barriers working-class Latinos face in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Foundation for California Community Colleges Sept 2023 Website $1,750,000 To support Grow Apprenticeship California to deploy effective tools for upskilling workers to access registered apprenticeships and for leveling inequities within the employment marketplace. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
University Corporation At Monterey Bay Sept 2023 Website $1,950,000 To catalyze local efforts to create new pathways to quality jobs and economic mobility in Monterey County, through an entity such as the Monterey Bay Drone, Automation, and Robotics Technology (DART) Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
San Joaquin Community Foundation Sept 2023 Website $7,550,000 To advance inclusive economic planning and pre-development in Stockton and the surrounding region, through an entity such as the Edge Collaborative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Reinvent Stockton Foundation Sept 2023 Website $4,425,000 To strengthen the youth development ecosystem in Stockton. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Inland Empire Community Foundation Sept 2023 Website $500,000 To establish the Inland Empire Journalism Hub. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
PowerSwitch Action Sept 2023 Website $2,000,000 To support the California Coalition for Worker Power to build greater capacity statewide for worker organizing and advocate for stronger labor protections for low-wage workers Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Institute for Local Government Sept 2023 Website $1,500,000 To improve diversity, equity, and access to local government jobs through registered apprenticeships. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
SEMI Foundation Sept 2023 Website $1,700,000 To support the SEMI Foundation to build capacity as an industry apprenticeship intermediary. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Bright Research Group Sept 2023 Website $479,000 To support the implementation of a developmental evaluation of Irvine's Better Careers initiative. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 27 months Region Served: Statewide
Amalgamated Foundation Sept 2023 $5,000,000 To support the creation of a new fund to build the internal capabilities of California's public workforce development agencies to more equitably serve and improve economic outcomes for low-wage workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide