PowerSwitch Action Sept 2021 Website $1,500,000 To support coalition work that expands engagement of low-income workers and elevates their voice in policy discussions that affect their lives and communities. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Chinese Progressive Association Sept 2021 Website $975,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
PolicyLink Sept 2021 Website $1,000,000 To support the advancement of equity and inclusion through the California Winning on Equity initiative that integrates policy advocacy, research, strategic communications, and capacity building. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
New Venture Fund Sept 2021 Website $1,000,000 To develop an initiative to strengthen the immigrant justice movement in California, through an entity such as We Are Home. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Asian Law Caucus Sept 2021 Website $1,200,000 To defend and strengthen workers’ rights and benefits in California, especially among low-income, immigrant, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
REDF Sept 2021 Website $2,000,000 To support expansion and capacity-building for Employment Social Enterprises focused on increasing the economic mobility of low-wage California workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Sept 2021 Website $750,000 To conduct research at the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative about the obstacles Latinos face in entrepreneurship and workforce participation. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Central Coast Innerfaith Sponsors Inc. Sept 2021 Website $300,000 To launch a broad-based power organization of community-based institutions capable of addressing economic and social inequity in the Central Valley, through an entity such as Central Valley IAF. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Mission Asset Fund Sept 2021 Website $300,000 To support investing in economic mobility, quality, and access in the childcare economy, through an entity such as Nurture. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Rockwood Leadership Institute Sept 2021 Website $300,000 To increase the capacity and resiliency of social justice leaders through trauma-informed coaching, through an entity such as Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Neighborhood Industries Sept 2021 Website $200,000 To provide training and employment opportunities in Fresno through the relaunch of a recycling program. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Equitable Food Initiative Sept 2021 Website $90,000 To develop a five-year strategic plan for expanding and credentialing the skills of agricultural workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Statewide
TechEquity Aug 2021 Website $150,000 To conduct research that highlights the disparity between lower-wage contract workers and full-time employees. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. Aug 2021 Website $300,000 To support program sustainability, expansion, and strengthen capacity-building technical assistance to increase equity-based, quality feedback loops, through an entity such as Fund for Shared Insight. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
San Francisco Foundation Aug 2021 Website $200,000 To support the implementation of an action plan to build a more sustainable pipeline of construction workers in Alameda County that come from low-income communities. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Rancho Cielo, Inc. Aug 2021 Website $50,000 To support an executive leadership transition and search. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Tipping Point Community Aug 2021 Website $75,000 To support an employment cohort for equity-based evaluation and data measurement. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Institute for the Future Aug 2021 Website $500,000 To build new pathways for socioeconomic advancement of California's low-wage workers by promoting new forms of equitable enterprise. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Community Health Councils Aug 2021 Website $750,000 To expand a public-private funding structure designed to increase business ownership and middle-wage job opportunities in BIPOC communities in California, through an entity such as Everytable. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Silicon Valley Community Foundation Aug 2021 Website $2,000,000 To build and sustain the power of Black-led organizations, coalitions, and networks in order to realize equity and justice for Black communities in California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide