Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Dec 2024 Website $1,000,000 To strengthen security and operations capacity for nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities in California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
California Immigrant Policy Center Dec 2024 Website $250,000 To scale grassroots communications and messaging capacity to build immigrant narrative power in California and beyond, through an entity such as CoLAB. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
American Business Immigration Coalition Dec 2024 Website $150,000 To engage California businesses in policy advocacy and partner with community organizations to highlight the economic benefits of common-sense immigration solutions. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Brookings Institution Dec 2024 Website $500,000 To enhance public understanding of the impact of generative artificial intelligence on work and workers in California through research, storytelling, and convenings. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Public Policy Institute of California Dec 2024 Website $225,000 To conduct an annual statewide survey on Californians and their economic well-being. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Ecological Farming Association Dec 2024 Website $200,875 To support the Central Coast Resilient Food Systems community of practice in Monterey County, through an entity such as the California Food Policy Council. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Chinese Progressive Association Dec 2024 Website $154,000 To support a coalition of worker rights organizations conducting outreach, education, and enforcement of labor protections in the San Francisco Bay Area. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Grassroots Solutions Dec 2024 Website $350,000 To develop an evaluation plan that facilitates learning across worker rights organizations in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Amalgamated Foundation Dec 2024 $1,000,000 To provide resources to Tribes and Tribal entities across California supporting Tribal land sovereignty and recognizing land and waterways return as a form of reparative and economic justice, through the DWP Combined Impact Fund. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
NEO Philanthropy Dec 2024 Website $150,000 To provide research, training, and support to bolster the resilience of nonprofit and advocacy organizations in California against extremism, through an entity such as States at the Core. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
El Pajaro Community Development Corporation Nov 2024 Website $800,000 To support BIPOC farmers and food entrepreneurs to expand access to markets and improve long-term economic viability in Salinas and surrounding communities in Monterey County. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Common Defense Education Fund Inc Nov 2024 Website $100,000 To foster the civic engagement of low-income veteran workers across California through base-building and organizing. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Public Policy Institute of California Nov 2024 Website $300,000 To build a research base exploring ways to empower businesses and create jobs in California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Justice Action Center Nov 2024 Website $350,000 To advance legal and economic pathways and protections for low-income immigrant workers across California through narrative and high-impact litigation efforts. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Change Matrix Nov 2024 Website $100,000 To support capacity building for Expanding the Bench to increase knowledge and practice of culturally responsive and equitable evaluation in California. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Seattle Foundation Nov 2024 Website $200,000 To explore, co-create, and advance a new frame for evaluative thinking in philanthropy through the practice of the Equitable Evaluation Framework, through an entity such as the Equitable Evaluation Initiative. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
City of Santa Ana Nov 2024 Website $300,000 To develop an enhanced partnership strategy between Santa Ana WDB and EDD, collaboratively identifying shared goals, resources, and activities in order to improve coordination, service delivery, and support to low-income communities in Santa Ana. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
Inland Empire Community Foundation Nov 2024 Website $250,000 To support learning around community ownership models and strategies for the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center Nov 2024 Website $300,000 To deepen voter and civic engagement efforts among low-income workers in San Diego, through an entity such as Engage San Diego. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial
Catalyst California Nov 2024 Website $200,000 To build a grassroots power-building table in Los Angeles via the United Front to advance the economic and racial justice priorities of low-income workers. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro