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
Asian Pacific Fund Aug 2021 Website $1,250,000 To address the impact of anti-Asian racism and COVID-19 on AAPI communities in the Bay Area and Southern California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino
Chinese Progressive Association Aug 2021 Website $700,000 To address rising anti-AAPI racism by expanding the statewide AAPI community organizing infrastructure, through an entity such as AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Multiplier Aug 2021 Website $1,500,000 To support equitable access to economic opportunity for Latinx immigrant farmers throughout the Salinas Valley region, through an entity such as Kitchen Table Advisors. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Pacific Gateway Workforce Partnership Aug 2021 $50,000 For capacity-building support to launch a scalable online hourly labor market tool providing workers with short-term or irregular employment an opportunity to earn a sustainable wage. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 3 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
San Diego Workforce Partnership Aug 2021 Website $250,000 To expand the Apprenticeship Readiness Collaborative to advance careers in building and construction trades for low-income Californians. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial
Dream Corps Aug 2021 Website $300,000 To provide Black and Brown members of the system-impacted community with technology job training. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
United for Respect Aug 2021 Website $300,000 To support expansion of a digital platform that increases access to services and know-your-rights information for low-income Californians, including farm workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino
North American Students of Cooperation Aug 2021 Website $250,000 To recruit low-income Californians to Guilded, a cooperatively-owned platform and hub for freelancers, through an entity such as the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide