Flintridge Center Nov 2021 Website $200,000 To continue to provide pathways for formerly incarcerated adults through a construction pre-apprenticeship program that expands career opportunities and connects individuals with supportive resources. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Love Never Fails Nov 2021 Website $150,000 To support low to no-income underserved populations, including survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence, with IT pre-apprenticeship program, tools, and wraparound supports to access sustainable IT careers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Peralta Colleges Foundation Nov 2021 Website $300,000 To develop the Capital in the Community Initiative, a revolving loan fund that supports Black and Latino entrepreneurs and sole proprietors interested in becoming employer enterprises, through an entity such as East Side Oakland Ventures. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Asian Pacific Environmental Network Nov 2021 Website $300,000 To support an input and feedback process for the development of a civic and power building infrastructure center in California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Engage R+D, Inc. Nov 2021 Website $70,000 To strengthen the field of evaluation and learning through knowledge development, convening, and dissemination. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Creser Capital Fund Nov 2021 Website $300,000 To improve organizational effectiveness through strategic planning, staff capacity building, and enhanced partnerships. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Economic Roundtable Nov 2021 Website $200,000 To support connecting at-risk community college students to a range of supportive services that lead to the attainment of high-road employment opportunities, through an entity such as Realization Project. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Social Impact Fund Nov 2021 Website $210,000 To design and begin implementation of a pledge with federal policymakers and local procuring agencies that will increase the share of procurement contracts small disadvantaged businesses receive in California, through an entity such as the HUB Initiative. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 3 months Region Served: Statewide
PolicyLink Nov 2021 Website $300,000 To establish a partnership with CA Forward that results in an infrastructure for the planning and implementation of a Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) program that delivers a robust, sustainable, and equitable recovery across California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Ventures Nov 2021 Website $75,000 To develop an organizational structure that ensures a democratic, participatory, and community-led model. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Partnership for Children and Youth Nov 2021 Website $300,000 To support women of color in the expanded learning workforce through an apprenticeship training pathway. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
The Shirley Ware Education Center Nov 2021 $50,000 To develop and assess effective ways to provide emotional wellness supports that build resiliency for front-line healthcare workers experiencing the sustained impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
South Bay Workforce Investment Board Inc. Nov 2021 Website $250,000 To support expanding career pathway opportunities to in-demand advanced manufacturing occupations for underserved communities in Los Angeles County. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
MIT Nov 2021 Website $300,000 To support CoLab’s work to narrow the racial wealth gap through coalition building and policymaker education in order to leverage growth in the health care sector in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
The Fresnoland Nov 2021 Website $250,000 To support reporting on economic equity in the San Joaquin Valley. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Oakland Public Education Fund Oct 2021 Website $300,000 To improve access to public benefits for Californians, through an entity such as AssistHub. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Central Valley Community Foundation Oct 2021 Website $120,000 To support the Education Lab, providing coverage of and engagement on education issues critical to the advancement of the Central Valley. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Partnership for Public Service Oct 2021 Website $300,000 To expand Partnership West, a network for California-based leaders and practitioners focused on enhancing federal leadership skills, bolstering talent pipelines into agencies, and creating community across levels of government and sectors. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Oct 2021 Website $50,000 To support the scaling and merging of a talent development agency that supports returning citizens access to livable wage work, through an entity such as Turning Basin Labs. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
California Forward Oct 2021 Website $300,000 To support organizational capacity and program expansion to advance efforts to assist in the planning and implementation of the Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) across the state. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide