The James Irvine Foundation Board of Directors approved 29 grants totaling $21.36 million last week. The grants will support a range of organizations expanding opportunity for the people of California.

Our Year in Review is an annual look at the Foundation's grantmaking, investments, and learning over the course of the year. We release it in the spring so that we can include financial statements.

Find out about events and conferences where you can connect with Irvine staff in the month of May.

Last fall, The James Irvine Foundation partnered with community organizations to hold 14 Community Listening Sessions in six regions across California. We spoke to more than 400 Californians (in 10 languages) to better understand their hopes, fears, challenges, and dreams.

Find out where Irvine will be this month.

Today we announced a new set of board-approved grants. We encourage you to read and share the below press release.

Find out where Irvine will be this month.

We are now a little over a year into our new strategic direction. Read an update from our President and CEO Don Howard on our progress.

Last week The James Irvine Foundation Board of Directors approved $7.35 million in grants to five organizations working within the Foundation’s new area of focus: increasing economic and political opportunity for Californian families and young adults who are working but struggling with poverty.

As the Chair of Irvine’s Board of Directors, it is my great privilege to welcome two outstanding new board members for 2017: Goodwin Liu, an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, and Ms. Sara Recktenwald, former regional head of the Securities Division for Goldman Sachs.