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
TMC Community Capital June 2023 Website $500,000 To create a competing financing product for BIPOC and women-owned businesses in California to the high-cost online lending market that leverages alternative and innovative underwriting models. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Black Worker Center June 2023 Website $980,000 To support shared research, technical assistance, fundraising and collaboration among Black worker centers in Southern California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Center on Policy Initiatives June 2023 Website $1,830,000 To support low-income Black workers in San Diego, through the Center on Policy Initiatives and its fiscal sponsorship of the San Diego Black Worker Center. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
San Diego Workforce Partnership June 2023 Website $1,400,000 To support the SkillCraft program to advance training pathways in manufacturing for low-income Californians and to build the capacity of the San Diego Workforce Partnership. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial
Common Counsel Foundation June 2023 Website $2,500,000 To support the second phase of the Fund for an Inclusive California. Focus Area: Housing Affordability Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Central Valley Community Foundation June 2023 Website $10,440,000 To invest in the implementation of five core projects that improve economic mobility and job creation in Fresno, as identified through the Developing the Region’s Inclusive and Vibrant Economy (DRIVE) initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Public Policy Institute of California June 2023 Website $2,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide