San Francisco Study Center, Inc. June 2020 Website $200,000 To strengthen the capacity of ethnic media to educate ethnic and immigrant communities about California's housing affordability crisis and the need to expand tenant protections, through an entity such as Ethnic Media Services. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Sacramento Region Community Foundation June 2020 Website $130,000 To create a beat reporter to cover policy and other issues related to low-wage workers from the state capital, through an entity such as the McClatchy Journalism Institute. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Retro Report June 2020 Website $20,000 To report on the housing affordability crisis through the lens of evictions in Fresno. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Statewide
Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation June 2020 Website $200,000 To advance equitable community planning and housing policy decisions, and ensure that the low-income communities most impacted by the COVID-19 economic fallout are protected and included in recovery efforts, through an entity such as ACT-LA. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Public Policy Institute of California June 2020 Website $300,000 To conduct the PPIC Statewide Survey on Californians and their Economic Well-Being, and research on labor markets and economic opportunities for low-income residents. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 7 months Region Served: Statewide
Capital & Main June 2020 Website $300,000 To support Capital & Main's coverage of economic inequality in California. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Partnership for Public Service May 2020 Website $235,000 To conduct research on entry-level federal positions that can be accessed by low-wage California workers without a four-year degree, and expand Partnership operations in California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Institute for the Future May 2020 Website $150,000 To develop a set of COVID-19 scenarios and a companion toolkit to help California nonprofits and funders build the future they want. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 8 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Berkeley May 2020 Website $50,000 To complete an analysis of the potential cost and time savings of industrial construction practices in Southern California, and to hold a series of roundtable conversations with major housing stakeholders. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 9 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
SaverLife May 2020 Website $100,000 To leverage data to evaluate economic policies and elevate the voices of low-income families. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Outside the Lens May 2020 Website $100,000 To support the design and implementation of PROJECT RE_LINE, a digital platform that elevates the voices of those in redlined communities and supports quantitative data collection. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, San Diego and Imperial
Tides Foundation May 2020 Website $500,000 To support the California Immigrant Resilience Fund, a COVID-19 emergency response fund for immigrant families, in partnership with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Cal OZ May 2020 $200,000 To provide targeted community building, training, and pipeline development for Opportunity Zone investments in inland California communities. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 20 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
California Calls Education Fund May 2020 Website $500,000 To support capacity building for grassroots organizations serving low-wage communities in response to COVID-19. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. May 2020 Website $18,056,817 For the Recession Resilience Project, providing financial resilience grants and technical assistance to support the health and sustainability of Irvine grantees. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Faith in Action Network May 2020 Website $500,000 To support PICO CA and low-wage workers and their families in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Asian Pacific Environmental Network May 2020 Website $250,000 For general operating support, as a recipient of the 2020 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award. Focus Area: Leadership Awards Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Tides Center Apr 2020 Website $110,000 To support a community of practice within the philanthropic sector that aims to identify scalable solutions for structuring project grants that cover the real costs of nonprofit organizations, through an entity such as the True Cost Project. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
United Ways of California Apr 2020 Website $150,000 To explore the effectiveness of using the Benefit Kitchen screening tool to help low-income working households in California understand and mitigate the benefits cliff. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Inland Empire Community Foundation Apr 2020 Website $250,000 To support COVID-19 rapid response efforts in the Inland Empire, through an entity such as the Funders Alliance of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino