PowerSwitch Action Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support a strategic reserve that advances future infrastructure and impact opportunities for the California Coalition for Worker Power. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 60 months Region Served: Statewide
Southern California Grantmakers Dec 2021 Website $600,000 To launch and conduct research on a guaranteed income pilot program in Los Angeles, through an entity such as the Center for Strategic Partnerships. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
University of California, Riverside Dec 2021 Website $1,800,000 To jumpstart the OASIS HUB Innovation Ecosystem by creating entrepreneurial opportunities in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Hartnell College Foundation Dec 2021 Website $500,000 To support a pilot Modern Life Skills Mentorship Program for first-generation immigrant youth in the Salinas Valley, as co-developed through the Better Careers Design Group process. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Public Policy Institute of California Dec 2021 Website $2,500,000 To produce timely, relevant, and widely accessible information on key policy issues facing California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Center Against Racism and Trauma Dec 2021 $110,000 To promote upward mobility and racial equity in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Internews Network, Inc. Dec 2021 Website $300,000 To provide coaching and capacity building support to civic media partners in the Inland Empire and Fresno. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
CHISPA Housing, Inc Dec 2021 Website $250,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Change Matrix Dec 2021 Website $112,000 To support capacity building for Expanding the Bench to increase awareness and knowledge of culturally responsive and equitable evaluation. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Center for Evaluation Innovation Inc Dec 2021 Website $250,000 To support transforming strategy, evaluation, and learning to advance racial equity in California, through an entity such as the Center for Evaluation Innovation. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
NEO Philanthropy Dec 2021 Website $300,000 To support strategic planning towards the formation of Black worker centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, through an entity such as the National Black Worker Center Project. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
California Arts Council Dec 2021 Website $250,000 To support the California Creative Corps community panel pilot program and convening. Focus Area: Media Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California Dec 2021 Website $100,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County
Southern California Grantmakers Dec 2021 Website $300,000 To increase funder engagement and build grantmaking practices in California that support vibrant and sustainable communities. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
RespectAbility Dec 2021 Website $150,000 To support high-road jobs for diverse, low-income Angelenos with disabilities through advocacy, partnership, and coalition. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Cooperatives for A Better World Dec 2021 $150,000 To support a racially just workplace democracy toolkit for worker advocates. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
UFW Foundation Dec 2021 Website $300,000 To leverage technology to improve farmworkers’ access to credible information and services at the state and federal level. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
CalMatters Dec 2021 Website $50,000 For the production and expansion of CalMatters’ Gimme Shelter podcast and related events about housing costs, production, and politics in California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
East Bay Community Foundation Dec 2021 Website $300,000 To support the ASCEND: BLO initiative in addressing systemic funding inequities and bolstering Black-led organizations. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Reinvent Stockton Foundation Nov 2021 Website $300,000 To support three youth media organizations to engage in collective planning to strengthen Stockton's youth media infrastructure. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley