Fund for Santa Barbara, Inc. Aug 2024 Website $375,000 To deepen voter and civic engagement efforts among low-income workers and their families in underrepresented communities in the Central Coast, through an entity such as the Central Coast Civic Engagement Table (CCCET). Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade Aug 2024 Website $900,000 To support the Proud to be Me Young Adult Middle‐Wage Workforce Development and Career Placement Initiative. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Neighborhood Industries Aug 2024 Website $25,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
East Bay Community Foundation Aug 2024 Website $100,000 To ensure the health and sustainability of BIPOC nonprofit workers and the communities they serve by creating equitable access to healing justice through direct support of diverse BIPOC practitioners and organizational practices. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California Aug 2024 Website $25,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
California Immigrant Policy Center Aug 2024 Website $200,000 To support enhanced capacity and coordination amongst immigrant rights groups to protect low-income immigrant workers and their families across California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
West Oakland Job Resource Center Aug 2024 Website $50,000 To support occupational training pathways to prepare people for work in the transportation, distribution, logistics, and construction industries. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Riverside & San Bernardino
University of California, Los Angeles Aug 2024 Website $450,000 To support housing justice research at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Focus Area: Housing Affordability Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center Aug 2024 Website $400,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
California Forward Aug 2024 Website $250,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, North Coast and State, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Sierra, Statewide
PICO California Aug 2024 Website $20,000 To support grantee participation in a safety net protections and family supports site visit. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 6 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Tides Foundation Aug 2024 Website $1,000,000 To support voter and civic engagement efforts among low-income workers and their families in target communities in Orange County, through an entity such as the Orange County Civic Engagement Table Fund. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
Latino Community Foundation Aug 2024 Website $250,000 To support the growth of procurement opportunities for Latino and other minority- and women-owned businesses in California. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
NALEO Educational Fund Aug 2024 Website $150,000 To elevate the voices and needs of California's Latinos, including low-income workers, by developing a profile of California’s Latino electorate. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Sacramento Region Community Foundation Aug 2024 Website $180,000 To support an economic mobility reporter to cover issues related to low-wage workers in California, including public policy issues and solutions. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Statewide
Milken Institute Aug 2024 Website $1,000,000 To support the Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship to support underserved small businesses in California through more equitable access to capital. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Black Alliance for Just Immigration Aug 2024 Website $300,000 To support community organizing, legal advocacy, research, policy, and narrative building to improve the conditions of Black low-income immigrant communities in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
UAW Center for Manufacturing A Green Economy Aug 2024 $750,000 To develop a UAW high-road battery manufacturing apprenticeship program in California and scale it into a replicable model for battery manufacturers and other advanced green manufacturing sectors. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Rise Economy Aug 2024 Website $800,000 To support the development of a democratically governed state bank and a public consumer banking option, and capacity building for bank accountability in rural and tribal areas of California. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
UNITE-LA, Inc. Aug 2024 Website $750,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide