Fenton Communications, Inc. Oct 2023 Website $188,000 To build the communications skills of Priority Communities sub-grantees through trainings and coaching. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino
Healthcare Career Advancement Program Education Association Oct 2023 Website $800,000 To build and sustain high-quality healthcare registered apprenticeships in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
LeadersUp Oct 2023 Website $500,000 To support transitioning LeadersUp from direct services to an intermediary model catalyzing inclusive economic growth in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
Community Partners Oct 2023 Website $450,000 To improve job quality for low-wage workers in California nonprofits by catalyzing understanding of and investment in the nonprofit workforce among philanthropic and public funders, through an entity such as Fund the People. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 15 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Flintridge Center Oct 2023 Website $300,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Year Up, Inc. Oct 2023 Website $750,000 To support the expansion and impact of innovative workforce development services in California for opportunity youth. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
California Community Foundation Oct 2023 Website $450,000 To support learning and evaluation of efforts to strengthen grassroots leadership, narrative change capabilities, and revenue generation through the Powerful Innovations for Voter Organizing and Transformation (PIVOT) Pooled Fund. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. Sept 2023 Website $250,000 To strengthen nonprofit and foundation feedback practices to more systematically listen to and use constituent voice to improve nonprofit services and enhance impact in California, through an entity such as Fund for Shared Insight. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Sept 2023 Website $200,000 To support worker rights organizations in California to expand engagement of low-income workers, and devise mechanisms that lead to tangible financial benefits and stronger labor protections for workers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
State Democracy Project Sept 2023 Website $250,000 To support existing projects of worker rights and labor organizations in California working on behalf of low-wage workers, while developing a strategic plan for long-term work in the state, through an entity such as Unemployed Workers United. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Alliance for Community Empowerment Sept 2023 Website $350,000 To support Pathways to Professions to increase access to vocational training and employment opportunities in the healthcare and human services sector for individuals impacted by the justice system. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Sacramento Area Congregations Together Sept 2023 Website $50,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro
University Corporation At Monterey Bay Sept 2023 Website $1,950,000 To catalyze local efforts to create new pathways to quality jobs and economic mobility in Monterey County, through an entity such as the Monterey Bay Drone, Automation, and Robotics Technology (DART) Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
PowerSwitch Action Sept 2023 Website $2,000,000 To support the California Coalition for Worker Power to build greater capacity statewide for worker organizing and advocate for stronger labor protections for low-wage workers Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Freedman Consulting, LLC Sept 2023 Website $600,000 To support public-private partnerships in California by strengthening partnerships between philanthropy and state officials to deliver equitable outcomes, particularly for low-income Californians. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Foundation for California Community Colleges Sept 2023 Website $1,750,000 To support Grow Apprenticeship California to deploy effective tools for upskilling workers to access registered apprenticeships and for leveling inequities within the employment marketplace. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Amalgamated Foundation Sept 2023 $5,000,000 To support the creation of a new fund to build the internal capabilities of California's public workforce development agencies to more equitably serve and improve economic outcomes for low-wage workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Power California Sept 2023 Website $2,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
PolicyLink Sept 2023 Website $2,000,000 To advance racial and economic equity on behalf of low-income Californians, including infrastructure projects across the state. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
GRACE Sept 2023 Website $1,600,000 To strengthen the capacity of the statewide CalEITC Coalition, advancing systems change and increasing cash support for low-income working households in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide