University of California, Berkeley Sept 2021 Website $1,200,000 To advance learning on low-wage work and support worker organizations in California, through research and policy analysis, leadership development, student scholarship, and engagement on worker justice issues. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Reinvent Stockton Foundation Sept 2021 Website $2,950,000 To strengthen the youth development ecosystem in Stockton. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
California Budget & Policy Center Sept 2021 Website $800,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Jobs With Justice Education Fund Sept 2021 Website $525,000 To strengthen the operations and capabilities of Jobs with Justice Education Fund to engage workers and coalitions to improve employment conditions and opportunities for low-income workers in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Power California Sept 2021 Website $800,000 To build a movement of informed and engaged young people of color through nonpartisan voter and civic engagement across California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Third Sector Capital Partners Inc. Sept 2021 Website $500,000 To provide technical support to the four regional Better Careers Design Group backbone organizations and teams to implement their community-driven solutions Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino
PowerSwitch Action Sept 2021 Website $1,500,000 To support coalition work that expands engagement of low-income workers and elevates their voice in policy discussions that affect their lives and communities. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
East Bay Community Foundation Sept 2021 Website $500,000 To support entrepreneurs of color based in historically disinvested neighborhoods in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
PolicyLink Sept 2021 Website $1,000,000 To support the advancement of equity and inclusion through the California Winning on Equity initiative that integrates policy advocacy, research, strategic communications, and capacity building. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Chinese Progressive Association Sept 2021 Website $975,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus Sept 2021 Website $1,200,000 To defend and strengthen workers’ rights and benefits in California, especially among low-income, immigrant, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
New Venture Fund Sept 2021 Website $1,000,000 To develop an initiative to strengthen the immigrant justice movement in California, through an entity such as We Are Home. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
REDF Sept 2021 Website $2,000,000 To support expansion and capacity-building for Employment Social Enterprises focused on increasing the economic mobility of low-wage California workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Sept 2021 Website $750,000 To conduct research at the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative about the obstacles Latinos face in entrepreneurship and workforce participation. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Central Coast Innerfaith Sponsors Inc. Sept 2021 Website $300,000 To launch a broad-based power organization of community-based institutions capable of addressing economic and social inequity in the Central Valley, through an entity such as Central Valley IAF. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Mission Asset Fund Sept 2021 Website $300,000 To support investing in economic mobility, quality, and access in the childcare economy, through an entity such as Nurture. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Rockwood Leadership Institute Sept 2021 Website $300,000 To increase the capacity and resiliency of social justice leaders through trauma-informed coaching, through an entity such as Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Neighborhood Industries Sept 2021 Website $200,000 To provide training and employment opportunities in Fresno through the relaunch of a recycling program. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Equitable Food Initiative Sept 2021 Website $90,000 To develop a five-year strategic plan for expanding and credentialing the skills of agricultural workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Statewide
TechEquity Aug 2021 Website $150,000 To conduct research that highlights the disparity between lower-wage contract workers and full-time employees. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide