CalMatters Dec 2020 Website $200,000 To support a collaboration to increase the sustainability and impact of California’s ethnic media outlets. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Kiva Microfunds Dec 2020 Website $250,000 To support the California Rebuilding Fund, a public-private partnership to address the capital and advisory needs of California’s small businesses. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Dec 2020 Website $124,959 To support the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity at Work to advance equity and support expanded organizing of Black workers in the Southern California region. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Kenneth L Maddy Institute Dec 2020 Website $45,000 To support Maddy Institute’s daily public affairs e-newsletter. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Year Up, Inc. Nov 2020 Website $50,000 To support the development of a technology-based tool to connect low-income young adults to contact tracing jobs and jobs in other sectors across California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
Miguel Contreras Foundation Nov 2020 Website $300,000 To protect the rights and expand access to quality jobs for low-wage and immigrant workers in Los Angeles County. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality Nov 2020 Website $100,000 To research the role Latinas play as economic drivers and civic leaders, and to support their inclusion in economic and civic policies in California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus Nov 2020 Website $100,000 To assist low-wage workers in California access wage replacement benefits. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
California Community Foundation Nov 2020 Website $300,000 To launch a pooled fund to support local planning and housing solutions, and promote equitable growth strategies across the Southern California region. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Neighborhood Funders Group Oct 2020 Website $200,000 To engage leaders on promising organizing models and broaden knowledge and support for worker centers in California, through an entity such as the Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT) Fund. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
The Workers Lab Oct 2020 Website $125,000 To support the development of an online resource center to share innovations that support and empower workers earning low wages. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Charitable Ventures of Orange County, Inc. Oct 2020 Website $200,000 To sustain a transformative youth organizing pipeline to impact immigration in Orange County, through an entity such as Resilience Orange County. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee, Inc. Oct 2020 Website $300,000 To protect the rights of immigrants in the Inland Valley region, through an entity such as the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Visión y Compromiso Oct 2020 Website $200,000 To support the pilot of the Expanding Pathways to Employment for Promotores project that aims to formalize and strengthen a workforce development model for Promotores and community health workers in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Public Health Institute Oct 2020 Website $100,000 To support a pool of resources that enhances state and local health agency efforts to reduce the community spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable populations and within highly susceptible communities across California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 14 months Region Served: Statewide
UNITE-LA, Inc. Oct 2020 Website $100,000 To educate and engage the business community on the economic impact of immigrant youth and their communities. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade Oct 2020 Website $10,000 To support grantee participation in the Better Careers Evaluation Advisory Group. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 15 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Anti-Recidivism Coalition Oct 2020 Website $10,000 To support grantee participation in the Better Careers Evaluation Advisory Group. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 15 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
JVS Oct 2020 Website $10,000 To support grantee participation in the Better Careers Evaluation Advisory Group. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 15 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Taller San Jose Hope Builders Oct 2020 Website $10,000 To support grantee participation in the Better Careers Evaluation Advisory Group. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 15 months Region Served: Orange County