Fund for Santa Barbara, Inc. June 2018 Website $50,000 To support internal capacity-building, including technology infrastructure, crisis preparedness, and participatory program assessment. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Korean Resource Center Inc. June 2018 Website $400,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Voter and Civic Engagement Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County
Latino Community Foundation June 2018 Website $1,350,000 To invest in and strengthen Latino-led nonprofits in the Central Valley. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Year Up, Inc. June 2018 Website $5,000,000 To scale up Year Up California, expanding operations in Los Angeles and the Bay Area to provide middle-skills opportunities for Opportunity Youth. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
Center for Employment Opportunities June 2018 Website $2,000,000 To expand CEO's scale and impact in California by adding career pathway programming to its core model, helping low-skilled adults earn higher-wage jobs faster. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
New World Foundation June 2018 Website $187,500 To support efforts to reach, educate, and organize California retail workers towards family-sustaining jobs, though an entity such as OUR. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Ford Theatre Foundation June 2018 Website $200,000 To strengthen organizational capacity and deepen arts engagement practices. Focus Area: Arts Engagement Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Orange County Community Foundation June 2018 Website $600,000 To protect the rights of immigrants in Orange County. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
Valley Public Radio June 2018 Website $360,000 To inform San Joaquin Valley residents about public policy issues via Valley Public Radio. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
KQED, Inc. June 2018 Website $400,000 For KQED reporting on economic and political opportunity for the statewide program The California Report. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center June 2018 Website $400,000 To empower diverse Californians to enjoy and influence civic and cultural organizations across the state. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 30 months Region Served: Statewide
Pivot Learning Partners June 2018 Website $1,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Linked Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Foundation for California Community Colleges June 2018 Website $800,000 To grow statewide capacity for systemic community college education reform, through an entity such as Career Ladders' Project. Focus Area: Postsecondary Success Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Mujeres Unidas y Activas June 2018 Website $700,000 To support low-wage domestic workers through education, organizing, training, and policy advocacy, through an entity such as the California Domestic Workers Coalition. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
New Venture Fund June 2018 Website $350,000 To improve labor conditions for low-wage workers in California, by strengthening access to legal protections and advancing accountability, through an entity such as Coworker.org. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Cornerstone Theater Company June 2018 Website $40,000 To support Cornerstone Theater's facility transition, including moving equipment to a new warehouse, relocating staff to a co-working space, and supporting an assessment and modest build-out of staff home offices. Focus Area: Arts Engagement Term: 6 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Mills College June 2018 Website $100,000 To support the transition of the Center formerly known as the Center for Socially Responsible Business at Mills College, to the newly launched Center for Transformative Action. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
JVS June 2018 Website $75,000 To support a national search for an executive transition. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 6 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Movement Strategy Center May 2018 Website $300,000 To build a more representative and participatory democracy for Oakland’s working-class people of color, through an entity such as Oakland Rising. Focus Area: Voter and Civic Engagement Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Partnership for Children and Youth May 2018 Website $50,000 To support organizational sustainability via increased communications capacity. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 7 months Region Served: Statewide