Rubicon Programs Mar 2021 Website $1,500,000 To empower East Bay communities for full economic and civic participation. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
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
College Futures Foundation Mar 2021 Website $5,000,000 To support a partnership with College Futures Foundation to increase bachelor's degree completion in California and provide students with access to a student-centered educational path to degree completion and economic opportunity. Focus Area: Postsecondary Success 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
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
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
REDF Mar 2021 Website $75,000 To analyze earnings and employment outcomes of social enterprise workers using California Employment Development Department data. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 6 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Center for Employment Opportunities Feb 2021 Website $300,000 To provide recently incarcerated individuals with economic mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Small Business Majority Foundation Feb 2021 Website $300,000 To support California's small business owners, particularly business owners of color and other entrepreneurs impacted by historic and systemic discrimination, in accessing capital and business support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 7 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
New America Foundation Feb 2021 Website $125,000 To support the expansion of non-traditional apprenticeships in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Youth Leadership Institute Feb 2021 Website $250,000 To position PolicyWise as a key podcast for policymakers to dialogue with young workers across the state. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
San Francisco Study Center, Inc. Jan 2021 Website $200,000 To pilot sustainability models with and for ethnic media in California to strengthen the sector and its ability to provide vital information to working Californians, through an entity such as Ethnic Media Services. Focus Area: Media Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Catalyst California Dec 2020 Website $300,000 For general operating support for Advancement Project California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Seattle Foundation Dec 2020 Website $204,000 To engage evaluation consultants and funders in advancing equitable evaluation practices, through an entity such as the Equitable Evaluation Initiative. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management Dec 2020 Website $300,000 To empower youth leaders in San Joaquin County to be the voices that speak to their communities through social media and outreach campaigns. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 6 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Public Equity Group Dec 2020 Website $125,000 To refine and disseminate an equity continuum framework and attendant toolkit to help organizations, particularly in California, advance racial equity in their internal and external work. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Dec 2020 Website $550,000 To support the design and pilot of a Public Health Councils program to curb the spread of COVID-19 in workplaces across Los Angeles County. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Inland Empire Community Foundation Dec 2020 Website $1,000,000 To support the Inland Empire Black Equity Fund, a pooled fund designed to resource and build the organizational capacity of Black-led and Black-empowering organizations in the Inland Empire, through an entity such as the Black Equity Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Organizational Research Services, Inc. Dec 2020 Website $725,000 To support learning focused on the engagement and mobilization of workers earning low incomes in California, including Fair Work grantees. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Action Council of Monterey County, Inc. Dec 2020 Website $375,000 To support low-income, undocumented, and formerly incarcerated residents and families that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with direct cash assistance in the Salinas Valley. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region