Community Partners Sept 2020 Website $800,000 To improve access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination and other barriers to employment, and strengthen staff and financial operations, through an entity such as the Los Angeles Black Worker Center. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund Sept 2020 $600,000 To expand leadership programs and industry engagement to address the challenges faced by low-wage janitorial workers in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial
Anti-Recidivism Coalition Sept 2020 Website $800,000 To expand career pathways and economic mobility for formerly incarcerated individuals through high-quality career pathway programs that include civic engagement components and awareness-building communications. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Workshops for Warriors Sept 2020 Website $750,000 To support and expand Workshop for Warriors' advanced manufacturing training program and job placement for young veterans in San Diego and Imperial counties. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial
Inland Empire Community Foundation Sept 2020 Website $2,700,000 To support regranting to a collaborative of community-based organizations in the development of a plan that improves economic conditions for low-income residents in San Bernardino, through an entity such as Just San Bernardino Collaborative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
National Immigration Law Center Sept 2020 Website $400,000 To support immigrants in California by protecting and advancing policies that promote their integration and safety through capacity-building, litigation, education, and advocacy. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Regional Access Project Foundation Sept 2020 Website $400,000 To protect the rights of immigrants in the Coachella Valley. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 18 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
University of Southern California Sept 2020 Website $497,931 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