KQED, Inc. June 2024 Website $400,000 To support The California Report’s statewide coverage of issues facing low-income Californians. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Equal Justice Society June 2024 Website $500,000 To support reparations efforts, reconciliation, and healing in California. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Grassroots Power Project June 2024 Website $1,000,000 To strengthen strategy and alignment among power-building groups in California working to improve conditions for low-wage workers and their families. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Warehouse Worker Resource Center June 2024 Website $1,000,000 To support worker organizing, improvements to job quality, and strengthened labor protections among low-income workers in Southern California, through an entity such as the Los Angeles Worker Center Network. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Rockwood Leadership Institute June 2024 Website $1,000,000 To increase the capacity and resiliency of social justice leaders in California through trauma-informed coaching, through an entity such as Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Tides Center June 2024 Website $50,000 To support strengthening staff, organizational strategic framework, and culture post-executive transition, through an entity such as LeaderSpring. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
University of California, Berkeley June 2024 Website $737,000 To support learning on the potential impact of artificial intelligence on low-income workers, strengthen leadership development for young workers, and support strategic planning among UC labor centers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Cooperacion Santa Ana June 2024 Website $300,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
Chrysalis May 2024 Website $100,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino
Creative Restorative Opportunities and Program May 2024 Website $350,000 To support Ready 4 Life (R4L), a holistic reentry program equipping justice-involved people with skills for a tech-focused career. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
Aspen Institute May 2024 Website $405,000 To support the Opportunity Youth Forum and its efforts inclusive economic development, workforce, and systems change strategies for young adults in Stockton. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Rubicon Programs May 2024 Website $600,000 To advance workforce opportunities to facilitate shifts in practices within public systems aimed at increasing service access for vulnerable job seekers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Capital & Main May 2024 Website $500,000 To broaden media coverage on the economic challenges facing millions of Californians, with a focus on communities of color. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Time for Change Foundation May 2024 Website $1,000,000 To support workforce and small business programs Positive Futures and the Black and Brown Opportunity for Profit Business Academy, to increase employability and economic mobility for Black and Brown justice-impacted women in San Bernardino. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Aspen Institute May 2024 Website $300,000 To support the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor in its efforts to collaborate with business leaders in CA and other states, promote worker empowerment, and advance worker rights. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights May 2024 Website $1,000,000 To support low-income immigrant workers and their families in California through policy advocacy, expanded member services, and strengthened organizational leadership. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees May 2024 Website $150,000 To expand learning and coordination among funders to lift up the socioeconomic issues and perspectives impacting low-income immigrants and refugees in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Southern California Grantmakers May 2024 Website $25,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
CalMatters May 2024 Website $50,000 To support in-depth coverage and informative events about California efforts related to reparations. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
PolicyLink Apr 2024 Website $500,000 To support reparations efforts in California, through an entity such as Liberation Ventures. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide