Growth Sector Dec 2021 Website $2,000,000 To support pathways to engineering and computer science degrees and careers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Community Coalition Dec 2021 Website $600,000 To launch a partnership to support the successful enrollment of African Americans into the Southwest Carpenters job training programs, and to implement an internal assessment focused on employment and job training pipelines. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 10 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
National Employment Law Project Dec 2021 Website $3,046,000 To strengthen recovery of low-income workers' wages and ensure other legal protections through support for the California Strategic Enforcement Partnership. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Dec 2021 Website $1,400,000 To support workers' rights organizations in California with research, policy analysis, and youth development that centers racial justice. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
National Domestic Workers Alliance Dec 2021 Website $4,200,000 To ensure labor protections and improved professional opportunities for domestic and home care workers in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Goodwill Industries of Southern California Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support a pilot program, Connecting Employers to Young Adult Workers facing system barriers in Los Angeles County, as co-developed through the Better Careers Design Group process. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
UNITE-LA, Inc. Dec 2021 Website $400,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles Dec 2021 Website $500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino
Housing California Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support an inclusive planning process to strengthen California’s affordable housing ecosystem to create change at scale. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Liberty Hill Foundation Dec 2021 Website $1,500,000 To support five grassroots members of the Los Angeles Community Land Trust Coalition to strengthen and scale community ownership of land and housing strategies in Central, East, and South Los Angeles. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Rubicon Programs Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support the implementation of a program for previously justice-involved individuals, as co-developed through the Better Careers Design Group process. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
San Francisco Foundation Dec 2021 Website $3,000,000 To support building worker power through workforce development and improving job quality for workforce practitioners of color, though an initiative such as ReWork the Bay. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Jobs for the Future, Inc. Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support planning for the High Road Training Fund in California. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
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
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
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
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