San Francisco Foundation June 2020 Website $400,000 To support high-impact projects and funder collaboration to increase access to quality, empowered jobs in the Bay Area. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
United for Respect June 2020 Website $600,000 To support efforts to reach, educate, and organize low-wage retail and warehouse workers in California working towards family-sustaining jobs. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. June 2020 Website $750,000 To strengthen nonprofit and foundation feedback practices to more systematically listen to and use constituent voice to improve nonprofit services and enhance impact. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Warehouse Worker Resource Center June 2020 Website $600,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino
The Shirley Ware Education Center June 2020 $1,000,000 To provide rapid response trainings to address the COVID-19 pandemic, expand access to healthcare career pathway programs in the Central Valley and Inland Empire, and refine online training capabilities. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Tides Center June 2020 Website $4,500,000 To provide leadership and organizational development services and regrants to worker rights organizations, through an entity such as Haas Leadership Initiatives (HLI). Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Mission Asset Fund June 2020 Website $400,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
California Immigrant Policy Center June 2020 Website $600,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Latino Community Foundation June 2020 Website $4,000,000 To advance inclusive economic planning and quality job creation efforts that focus on Latinos in Fresno and Salinas. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
ACCE Institute June 2020 Website $500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Valley Public Radio June 2020 Website $360,000 To inform San Joaquin Valley residents about public policy issues through Valley Public Radio and digital platforms. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
KQED, Inc. June 2020 Website $400,000 To support the California Report’s statewide coverage of issues facing low-income Californians. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
United Way of Greater Los Angeles June 2020 Website $750,000 To build a coalition of supporters in Los Angeles that believe in and advocate for increased affordable housing. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
New World Foundation June 2020 Website $500,000 For the Quality Jobs Innovation Fund, a pooled fund supporting quality jobs preservation and creation in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
Central Valley Community Foundation June 2020 Website $15,007,000 To invest in the implementation of six core projects that improve economic mobility and job creation in Fresno as identified during the community's Developing the Region’s Inclusive and Vibrant Economy (DRIVE) initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Mujeres Unidas y Activas June 2020 Website $800,000 To strengthen the leadership, voice, and economic mobility of domestic care workers, through an entity such as the California Domestic Workers Coalition. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy June 2020 Website $700,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Statewide
New Venture Fund June 2020 Website $450,000 To expand the use of digital platforms that better enable California workers to become advocates and organizers in their jobs and workplaces, through an entity such as Coworker.org. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management June 2020 Website $500,000 To protect the rights of immigrants in the Central Valley. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
University of California, Los Angeles June 2020 Website $1,299,238 To support the California Workforce Development System Worker Equity Initiative, which will bring together key stakeholders to develop strategic recommendations for improvements to the public workforce system. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 15 months Region Served: Statewide