REDF Mar 2021 Website $75,000 To analyze earnings and employment outcomes of social enterprise workers using California Employment Development Department data. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 6 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Center for Employment Opportunities Feb 2021 Website $300,000 To provide recently incarcerated individuals with economic mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Small Business Majority Foundation Feb 2021 Website $300,000 To support California's small business owners, particularly business owners of color and other entrepreneurs impacted by historic and systemic discrimination, in accessing capital and business support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 7 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
New America Foundation Feb 2021 Website $125,000 To support the expansion of non-traditional apprenticeships in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Youth Leadership Institute Feb 2021 Website $250,000 To position PolicyWise as a key podcast for policymakers to dialogue with young workers across the state. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
San Francisco Study Center, Inc. Jan 2021 Website $200,000 To pilot sustainability models with and for ethnic media in California to strengthen the sector and its ability to provide vital information to working Californians, through an entity such as Ethnic Media Services. Focus Area: Media Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Catalyst California Dec 2020 Website $300,000 For general operating support for Advancement Project California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Seattle Foundation Dec 2020 Website $204,000 To engage evaluation consultants and funders in advancing equitable evaluation practices, through an entity such as the Equitable Evaluation Initiative. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management Dec 2020 Website $300,000 To empower youth leaders in San Joaquin County to be the voices that speak to their communities through social media and outreach campaigns. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 6 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Public Equity Group Dec 2020 Website $125,000 To refine and disseminate an equity continuum framework and attendant toolkit to help organizations, particularly in California, advance racial equity in their internal and external work. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Organizational Research Services, Inc. Dec 2020 Website $725,000 To support learning focused on the engagement and mobilization of workers earning low incomes in California, including Fair Work grantees. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Inland Empire Community Foundation Dec 2020 Website $1,000,000 To support the Inland Empire Black Equity Fund, a pooled fund designed to resource and build the organizational capacity of Black-led and Black-empowering organizations in the Inland Empire, through an entity such as the Black Equity Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Destination Crenshaw Dec 2020 Website $400,000 To help create a vibrant cultural and social infrastructure that facilitates economic security and entrepreneurship for Black South Los Angeles residents. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Local Initiatives Support Corporation Dec 2020 Website $400,000 To support opportunities for low-income Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to participate in the economic growth of the Los Angeles region and build wealth within their communities. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Dec 2020 Website $550,000 To support the design and pilot of a Public Health Councils program to curb the spread of COVID-19 in workplaces across Los Angeles County. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Riverside Community College District Foundation Dec 2020 Website $1,500,000 To support the next phase of growth and expansion for a regional apprenticeship model in the Inland Empire through the LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Action Council of Monterey County, Inc. Dec 2020 Website $375,000 To support low-income, undocumented, and formerly incarcerated residents and families that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with direct cash assistance in the Salinas Valley. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
UFW Foundation Dec 2020 Website $375,000 To provide direct cash assistance to Salinas farmworkers impacted by COVID-19, and to implement digital communications strategies to assess the needs of Salinas farmworkers. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution Dec 2020 Website $500,000 To strengthen organizational capacity and leadership in serving entrepreneurs of color in the Central Valley. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Engage R+D, Inc. Dec 2020 Website $35,000 To strengthen the field of evaluation and learning through knowledge development, convening, and dissemination. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide