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
Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco May 2018 Website $300,000 To support a rapid response network in the San Francisco Immigration Court to ensure immigrants have due process and "know your rights" resources, through an entity such as Northern California Rapid Response and Immigrant Defense Network. Focus Area: Protecting Immigrant Rights Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, North Coast and State, Sierra
Flourish Agenda Inc. May 2018 Website $75,000 To learn about barriers and opportunities for civic engagement among youth of color in the Inland Empire, and to understand the relationship between youth psycho-social well-being and their civic engagement. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Catchafire May 2018 Website $100,000 To conduct research on the capacity-building needs of small and midsize nonprofit organizations in California. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide