Freedman Consulting, LLC Aug 2023 Website $500,000 To support the What Works Plus (WW+) collaborative to promote equitable distribution and implementation of federal infrastructure, climate, and economic development funding. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 10 months Region Served: Statewide
Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund Aug 2023 $370,000 To support strategic enforcement of labor protections for low-wage workers in the janitorial industry through the California Strategic Enforcement Partnership. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial
Blended Impact Aug 2023 Website $500,000 To advance alternative investments and asset management opportunities in the Inland Empire and other high need communities. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Tides Center Aug 2023 Website $10,000 To support the Listen4Good program and build organizational capacity to systematically listen and center client voices in decision-making, through an entity such as Fund for Shared Insight. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
TODEC Legal Center Aug 2023 Website $650,000 To support the El Centavito Aprende y Emprende Program, an entrepreneurship program enabling the achievement of economic self-sufficiency for immigrant communities in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Garment Worker Center Aug 2023 Website $200,000 To support strategic enforcement of labor protections for low-wage workers in the garment industry through the California Strategic Enforcement Partnership. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Friends of the Public Bank East Bay Aug 2023 Website $300,000 To support the launch of a community-governed public bank in Northern California's East Bay region. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Next Street Financial, LLC Aug 2023 Website $5,650 To support the launch of focus groups and a steering committee for a landscape study of California's small business sector in relation to the state's low-wage workers. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
Coro Northern California, Inc. Aug 2023 Website $25,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
Bright Research Group Aug 2023 Website $75,000 To support a developmental evaluation of Irvine's Better Careers initiative. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 5 months Region Served: Statewide
Coro Southern California, Inc. Aug 2023 Website $25,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino
California Forward July 2023 Website $75,000 To support an executive search for a new Chief Executive Officer. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
Radio Bilingue, Inc. July 2023 Website $550,000 To produce an economic advancement radio series for Latino essential workers. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, North Coast and State, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Friends Outside in Los Angeles County July 2023 Website $650,000 To strengthen the prison-to-employment re-entry job training and access program, creating viable pathways to quality jobs for justice-involved communities in Los Angeles. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Equitable Food Initiative July 2023 Website $500,000 To support workforce development training and credentials for farmworkers in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Capital Public Radio Inc. July 2023 Website $200,000 To support a new approach to engage with and expand access to essential, high-quality, in-language news and civic information to South Sacramento communities traditionally ignored by media. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro
Bet Tzedek July 2023 Website $500,000 To support strategic enforcement of labor protections for low-wage workers through the California Strategic Enforcement Partnership. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
The So'oh-Shináli Sister Project July 2023 Website $500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino
Jobs for the Future, Inc. July 2023 Website $140,000 To support the Workforce Transformation Corps (WTC) fellows by incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion training, and additional professional development opportunities and activities in the fellowship program. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Blue Lake Rancheria June 2023 $1,000,000 To support the Tribal Apprenticeship and Prevailing Wage Accelerator Project. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: North Coast and State