Tides Center June 2021 Website $600,000 To advance racial and geographic equity within the worker justice ecosystem through support for leaders in under-resourced regions of California, through an entity such as The LeadersTrust. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
CalMatters June 2021 Website $500,000 To support the California Divide, a statewide media collaboration to raise awareness and engagement about poverty and income inequality. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
AlliedUP June 2021 Website $750,000 To support providing low-wage, allied health workers with union scale wages, benefits, and upskilling. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Capital Public Radio Inc. June 2021 Website $200,000 To support The Forum, an expanded model of deeply reported, community-based journalism that brings residents together to discuss community challenges, highlight solutions, build awareness and empathy, and transform how individuals connect with each other. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees May 2021 Website $300,000 To promote learning and coordination among California funders to ensure the integration of low-income immigrants and refugees in California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California Berkeley Foundation May 2021 Website $300,000 To pursue research and policy projects that advance solutions to California's housing affordability challenges, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
La Cooperativa May 2021 Website $200,000 To support efforts to increase quality job training programs for farmworkers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
California Community Foundation May 2021 Website $100,000 To support the Los Angeles Arts Recovery Fund in assisting small and mid-sized arts and cultural organizations in Los Angeles County as they overcome the impact of COVID-19. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Monterey Bay Economic Partnership May 2021 Website $50,000 To complete an inclusive economic development plan for Salinas and a deeper dive on local economic data - with a COVID-19 lens - to illuminate inequities in the region. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 8 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Social Science Research Council Apr 2021 Website $100,000 To produce San Joaquin Valley and Inland Empire supplements to the statewide report, A Portrait of California 2021. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 16 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
Panorama Global Mar 2021 Website $300,000 To promote public-philanthropic partnerships that benefit low-income and vulnerable communities in California, through an entity such as Project Hyphen. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Entertainment Industry Foundation Mar 2021 Website $290,000 To continue the management, implementation, and development of the Entertainment Industry Foundation Careers Program (EIFCP). Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Goodwill Industries of Southern California Mar 2021 Website $750,000 To engage manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and logistics sectors to expand career pathway training programs. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino
Foundation for California Community Colleges Mar 2021 Website $1,000,000 To support apprenticeship readiness and expansion throughout California, especially with community colleges. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
JVS Mar 2021 Website $3,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
San Diego Workforce Partnership Mar 2021 Website $1,500,000 To support the CyberHire San Diego initiative, a pipeline that aims to increase the number of unemployed/underemployed and low-wage workers in quality cybersecurity careers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial
National Skills Coalition Mar 2021 Website $1,000,000 To develop and advance workforce development policies through policymaker education and analysis, that help more Californians access good jobs that require skills training, with a focus on increasing racial equity in skills training. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Small Business Majority Foundation Mar 2021 Website $750,000 To support California's small business employers through the COVID-19 pandemic and into recovery. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
PowerSwitch Action Mar 2021 Website $2,300,000 To expand engagement of low-income workers in regions throughout California, while strengthening collaboration and the work of member organizations to improve workplace standards and access to quality jobs. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
LeadersUp Mar 2021 Website $2,000,000 To optimize LeadersUp's capacity and programmatic impact to advance California’s next generation of BIPOC talent toward economic mobility and better career outcomes across their full employment continuum. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide