San Francisco Foundation – 2020 June 19, 2020 To support high-impact projects and funder collaboration to increase access to quality, empowered jobs in the Bay Area.
The Shirley Ware Education Center – 2020 June 19, 2020 To provide rapid response trainings to address the COVID-19 pandemic, expand access to healthcare career pathway programs in the Central Valley and Inland Empire, and refine online training capabilities.
Worker Education & Resource Center – 2020 June 18, 2020 To establish a High Road Training Partnership for public sector careers working for the State of California through the Pathways to State Service (PASS) initiative.
Hartnell College Foundation – 2020 April 10, 2020 To develop apprenticeship programs and a college-to-career system geared towards supporting students to find jobs that provide family sustaining wages in the Salinas Valley.
Third Sector Capital Partners Inc. – 2020 February 3, 2020 To expand the scope of the co-design group focused on accelerating workforce outcomes by partnering with Better Careers grantees and public agencies on improvements to California’s public workforce funding system.
PolicyLink – 2019 December 19, 2019 To support the development and advancement of a vision and policy agenda defining the future of work in California for low-income workers and people of color.
East Bay Community Foundation – 2019 December 14, 2019 To support and enhance the long-term vitality of community organizations that create equitable opportunities and pathways for those who face the largest barriers to middle-wage jobs and enhance their sustainability, impact, and sense of community.
South Valley Industrial Collaborative – 2019 December 13, 2019 To develop a plan to grow the local region’s labor pool for higher paying industrial occupations that result in stable careers with living wages in the San Joaquin Valley.
Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative – 2019 December 13, 2019 To support the launch and testing of the first income share agreement program supporting low-income working adults earning a bachelor’s degree.