Global Policy Leadership Academy Dec 2019 Website $200,000 To educate, convene, and engage emerging regional California leaders and influencers about the housing crisis, its impact on low-income Californians, and paths forward to alleviate the crisis. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, San Diego and Imperial
Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative Dec 2019 Website $200,000 To support the launch and testing of the first income share agreement program supporting low-income working adults earning a bachelor’s degree. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Dec 2019 Website $300,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. Dec 2019 Website $30,000 To support the Fund for Shared Insight's Listen for Good program. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
West Oakland Job Resource Center Dec 2019 Website $200,000 To support the transportation, distribution, and logistics industry through a Career Pathing Workforce Pipeline that offers better wages and career advancement for disadvantaged job seekers in the Bay Area. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
REDF Dec 2019 Website $300,000 To identify, document, and plan a capacity-building program for Employment Social Enterprises focused on increasing the economic mobility of low-wage California workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Flintridge Center Dec 2019 Website $200,000 To provide pathways for formerly incarcerated adults through a pre-apprenticeship program that expands career opportunities and connects individuals with supportive resources. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
University of Southern California Dec 2019 Website $300,000 To engage researchers, organizers, funders, and others on a long-term vision for a California economy that addresses widening inequality. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Internews Network, Inc. Dec 2019 Website $300,000 To support the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside with improved access to information for all residents, and to support a local news project. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California Dec 2019 Website $210,000 To support multi-organization strategic planning and support to low-wage workers in Southern California, through an entity such as the Los Angeles Worker Center Network. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino
California Center for Cooperative Development Dec 2019 Website $240,000 To develop an analysis report that examines the landscape of cooperatives in California focusing on worker, housing, and childcare cooperatives. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Northern California Grantmakers Dec 2019 Website $300,000 To support Philanthropy California and increase funder engagement and impact in building and sustaining thriving and equitable communities. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development Dec 2019 Website $75,000 To support a successful executive director transition, executive and board leadership development, and strategic communications. Focus Area: Voter and Civic Engagement Term: 12 months Region Served: Orange County
Chinese Progressive Association Dec 2019 Website $75,000 To support a network of organizations working to increase the civic participation of Black communities in California, through an entity such as Black Futures Lab. Focus Area: Voter and Civic Engagement Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Families in Schools Dec 2019 Website $100,000 To develop, design, and implement a data management system to enhance civic engagement across Southeast Los Angeles, through an entity such as the SELA Collaborative. Focus Area: Voter and Civic Engagement Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus Dec 2019 Website $75,000 To increase participation in the 2020 Census by immigrants, limited-English speaking communities, and hard-to-count populations in California, with a special emphasis on Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Restaurant Opportunities Centers Dec 2019 Website $970,000 To support low-wage restaurant workers in California through expanded organizing, training, and outreach to employers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Working Partnerships USA Dec 2019 Website $800,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Housing California Dec 2019 Website $1,350,000 For the development of a statewide plan to advance solutions that end the housing affordability, stability, and homelessness crisis by 2030. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Aspen Institute Dec 2019 Website $400,000 To support the pilot of California Good Companies/Good Jobs in using business incentives to boost high-road employer practices and expand opportunity for frontline workers. Focus Area: Strategic Partnerships Term: 48 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide