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
Riverside Community College District Foundation Dec 2020 Website $1,500,000 To support the next phase of growth and expansion for a regional apprenticeship model in the Inland Empire through the LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
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
UFW Foundation Dec 2020 Website $375,000 To provide direct cash assistance to Salinas farmworkers impacted by COVID-19, and to implement digital communications strategies to assess the needs of Salinas farmworkers. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution Dec 2020 Website $500,000 To strengthen organizational capacity and leadership in serving entrepreneurs of color in the Central Valley. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Engage R+D, Inc. Dec 2020 Website $35,000 To strengthen the field of evaluation and learning through knowledge development, convening, and dissemination. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Jobs With Justice Education Fund Dec 2020 Website $37,000 To support research that provides insights into the health and safety of farmworkers in Sonoma County. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Peralta Colleges Foundation Dec 2020 Website $110,000 To support Black and Latino entrepreneurs gain the competence, confidence, and capital needed to establish and grow successful small businesses in East Oakland, through an entity such as East Side Oakland Ventures. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Dec 2020 Website $200,000 To support the development plan of a self-supporting training program that offers low-income workers career pathways for growth through a designated fund such as Turning Basin. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Center for Story-Based Strategy Dec 2020 Website $105,000 To support worker organizations in California with narrative strategy, storytelling, and other forms of communications assistance. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Black Cooperative Investment Fund Dec 2020 Website $100,000 To provide microloans to Black-owned businesses in Riverside and San Bernardino. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Northern California Grantmakers Dec 2020 Website $250,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Statewide
Fresno Barrios Unidos Dec 2020 Website $110,000 To support organizational capacity for a youth development and racial healing organization in Fresno. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Crenshaw Subway Coalition Dec 2020 Website $110,000 To create housing opportunities that economically liberate marginalized and priced-out residents of majority Black communities in Southwest Los Angeles, through an entity such as Liberty Community Land Trust. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Accelerator For America Dec 2020 Website $100,000 To develop a California infrastructure playbook and landscape report to expand access to infrastructure jobs for low-wage workers in California. Focus Area: Strategic Partnerships Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Borealis Philanthropy Dec 2020 Website $100,000 To support REACH (Racial Equity to Accelerate Change), a philanthropic collaborative focused on advancing racial and intersectional equity and inclusion in the nonprofit sector. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Chinese Progressive Association Dec 2020 Website $25,000 To support ongoing digital security consulting, training, and monitoring, through an entity such as Black Futures Lab. Focus Area: Voter and Civic Engagement Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Ventures Dec 2020 Website $300,000 To support the planning and launch of the Futuro Cooperative, a worker-owned business structure in the Salinas Valley. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
AmPac Business Capital Dec 2020 Website $250,000 To expand training and capital access programs to small businesses in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
University of California, Berkeley Dec 2020 Website $300,000 To expand a research infrastructure that streamlines the use and linking of California's administrative data, and to develop a racial equity research agenda. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 15 months Region Served: Statewide