University of Southern California Sept 2020 Website $500,000 To increase access to data and tools that support groups in California working to expand immigrant protection and benefits. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Sept 2020 Website $400,000 To continue developing the leadership and capacity of immigrant youth across California, through an entity such as the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
YR Media Sept 2020 Website $500,000 To develop a multimedia campaign that will teach low-income young adults journalism and content creation skills as they highlight the work of organizations across California working towards racial and economic justice. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade Sept 2020 Website $800,000 To support Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade's career training, job placement, and supportive services programs for young adults with multiple barriers to quality jobs. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
SkillUp Coalition Sept 2020 Website $650,000 To pilot a digital platform that connects unemployed California workers to resources that upskill and/or place them into better quality jobs. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Jobs to Move America Sept 2020 Website $750,000 To develop a career pathways program that creates high-quality manufacturing, infrastructure, and new technology jobs accompanied by hiring, training, and apprenticeship programs for low-wage workers in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Taller San Jose Hope Builders Sept 2020 Website $800,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
National Day Laborer Organizing Network Sept 2020 Website $600,000 To support low-wage day laborers in California through organizing, leadership development, strategic advocacy, and high-impact litigation. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Community Foundation for Monterey County Sept 2020 Website $1,000,000 For regranting to two organizations supporting revolving micro-loan funds and entrepreneurship training programs to increase access to capital, technical assistance, and education for low-income entrepreneurs of color in Salinas. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Urban Institute Sept 2020 Website $2,000,000 To support WorkRise, a platform to fill critical knowledge gaps about how to increase economic security, resilience, and mobility for low-wage workers. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Bitwise Industries Inc. Sept 2020 Website $1,000,000 To support Geekwise Academy launch cohorts, offering financial support and specialty courses to train unemployed and underemployed workers in the Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley for middle-wage jobs in the tech industry. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
California Community Foundation Sept 2020 Website $300,000 To protect and advance immigrant rights in Los Angeles County. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
SFMade Sept 2020 Website $120,000 To research existing training programs and map out skills needed in the manufacturing sector for the San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno, and Stockton in the next 1-3 years. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Sept 2020 Website $200,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Community Vision Capital & Consulting Sept 2020 Website $120,000 To design and develop a five-year initiative to expand the capacity of small and emergent local nonprofit real estate actors to drive community ownership of community assets. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California Sept 2020 Website $200,000 To protect the rights of immigrants in California and support the organization's leadership transition. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County
Immigrant Legal Resource Center Sept 2020 Website $300,000 To support the protection of immigrant rights in California through education, advocacy, and technical assistance. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
United We Dream Sept 2020 Website $300,000 To support leadership development, civic engagement, and deportation defense to protect immigrant communities in California. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Small Business Majority Foundation Sept 2020 Website $70,000 To support a polling project that examines the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on American small business owners, with a focus on the experiences of California-based small business owners of color. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center Sept 2020 Website $300,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino