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
Central Valley Community Foundation Apr 2020 Website $250,000 To support the Central Valley Community Foundation's COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund for the San Joaquin Valley. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Community Foundation for Monterey County Apr 2020 Website $250,000 To support the Community Foundation for Monterey County's COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund, including support in the city of Salinas. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
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
Latino Community Foundation Apr 2020 Website $250,000 To support the Latino Community Foundation's Love Not Fear COVID-19 emergency response fund for the Central Valley and Inland Empire. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
Hartnell College Foundation Apr 2020 Website $300,000 To develop apprenticeship programs and a college-to-career system geared towards supporting students to find jobs that provide family sustaining wages in the Salinas Valley. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 32 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund Apr 2020 $25,000 To support employed and unemployed janitors in California impacted by the Coronavirus, with education and financial assistance. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 6 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial
San Diego State University Foundation Apr 2020 Website $220,000 To support a social equity news desk at KPBS to explore systemic inequality. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial, Statewide