Hopewell Fund Oct 2023 Website $200,000 To support nonprofit organizations in Southern California to explore compensation standards for community organizers, through an entity such as All Due Respect. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
California Immigrant Policy Center Oct 2023 Website $250,000 To support research and field learning that informs efforts to improve job quality in low-wage industries. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Inland Southern California United Way Oct 2023 Website $250,000 To support a guaranteed income pilot in Riverside and San Bernardino. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Destination Crenshaw Oct 2023 Website $500,000 To support Crenshaw Creative Economy Programs to sustain a multifaceted creative economy in Crenshaw that supports the development and long-term employment of local Black workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Fenton Communications, Inc. Oct 2023 Website $188,000 To build the communications skills of Priority Communities sub-grantees through trainings and coaching. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
Flintridge Center Oct 2023 Website $300,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Year Up, Inc. Oct 2023 Website $750,000 To support the expansion and impact of innovative workforce development services in California for opportunity youth. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
Healthcare Career Advancement Program Education Association Oct 2023 Website $800,000 To build and sustain high-quality healthcare registered apprenticeships in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Community Partners Oct 2023 Website $450,000 To improve job quality for low-wage workers in California nonprofits by catalyzing understanding of and investment in the nonprofit workforce among philanthropic and public funders, through an entity such as Fund the People. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 15 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
LeadersUp Oct 2023 Website $500,000 To support transitioning LeadersUp from direct services to an intermediary model catalyzing inclusive economic growth in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
California Community Foundation Oct 2023 Website $450,000 To support learning and evaluation of efforts to strengthen grassroots leadership, narrative change capabilities, and revenue generation through the Powerful Innovations for Voter Organizing and Transformation (PIVOT) Pooled Fund. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. Sept 2023 Website $250,000 To strengthen nonprofit and foundation feedback practices to more systematically listen to and use constituent voice to improve nonprofit services and enhance impact in California, through an entity such as Fund for Shared Insight. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Sept 2023 Website $200,000 To support worker rights organizations in California to expand engagement of low-income workers, and devise mechanisms that lead to tangible financial benefits and stronger labor protections for workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
State Democracy Project Sept 2023 Website $250,000 To support existing projects of worker rights and labor organizations in California working on behalf of low-wage workers, while developing a strategic plan for long-term work in the state, through an entity such as Unemployed Workers United. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Alliance for Community Empowerment Sept 2023 Website $350,000 To support Pathways to Professions to increase access to vocational training and employment opportunities in the healthcare and human services sector for individuals impacted by the justice system. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Sacramento Area Congregations Together Sept 2023 Website $50,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro
Inland Empire Community Foundation Sept 2023 Website $1,200,000 To support the Inland Empire Black Equity Fund, a pooled fund designed to resource and build the organizational capacity of Black-led and Black-empowering organizations in the Inland Empire, through an entity such as the Black Equity Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
PolicyLink Sept 2023 Website $2,000,000 To advance racial and economic equity on behalf of low-income Californians, including infrastructure projects across the state. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
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