Novaworks Foundation Dec 2021 Website $575,000 To support designing and implementing greater career mobility and access to opportunities for hospitality workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County Dec 2021 Website $400,000 To strengthen career pathways into infrastructure careers through the launch of a career development portal. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Community Partners Dec 2021 Website $800,000 To strengthen the organizing and civic engagement capacity of Tribal communities and Native organizations in California, through an entity such as California Native Vote Project. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
University of Southern California Dec 2021 Website $1,000,000 To provide data and support for collaborative economic development efforts in Fresno and Salinas, using a solidarity economics framework. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Central Valley Community Foundation Dec 2021 Website $2,000,000 To build the capacity of grassroots organizations and residents in Fresno to engage in economic justice dialogue. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Engage R+D, Inc. Dec 2021 Website $605,000 To support a developmental evaluation of activities to advance inclusive economies in Irvine's priority communities. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
University of Southern California Dec 2021 Website $1,000,000 To provide timely, actionable research and narrative that support community-driven coalition efforts targeting economic, racial, and social inequities in California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Southern California Grantmakers Dec 2021 Website $600,000 To launch and conduct research on a guaranteed income pilot program in Los Angeles, through an entity such as the Center for Strategic Partnerships. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
PowerSwitch Action Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support a strategic reserve that advances future infrastructure and impact opportunities for the California Coalition for Worker Power. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 60 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Riverside Dec 2021 Website $1,800,000 To jumpstart the OASIS HUB Innovation Ecosystem by creating entrepreneurial opportunities in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Public Policy Institute of California Dec 2021 Website $2,500,000 To produce timely, relevant, and widely accessible information on key policy issues facing California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Hartnell College Foundation Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support a pilot Modern Life Skills Mentorship Program for first-generation immigrant youth in the Salinas Valley, as co-developed through the Better Careers Design Group process. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Center for Evaluation Innovation Inc Dec 2021 Website $250,000 To support transforming strategy, evaluation, and learning to advance racial equity in California, through an entity such as the Center for Evaluation Innovation. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Change Matrix Dec 2021 Website $112,000 To support capacity building for Expanding the Bench to increase awareness and knowledge of culturally responsive and equitable evaluation. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
CHISPA Housing, Inc Dec 2021 Website $250,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Internews Network, Inc. Dec 2021 Website $300,000 To provide coaching and capacity building support to civic media partners in the Inland Empire and Fresno. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
Center Against Racism and Trauma Dec 2021 $110,000 To promote upward mobility and racial equity in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
NEO Philanthropy Dec 2021 Website $300,000 To support strategic planning towards the formation of Black worker centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, through an entity such as the National Black Worker Center Project. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
California Arts Council Dec 2021 Website $250,000 To support the California Creative Corps community panel pilot program and convening. Focus Area: Media Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
RespectAbility Dec 2021 Website $150,000 To support high-road jobs for diverse, low-income Angelenos with disabilities through advocacy, partnership, and coalition. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro