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Grantmaking Area: Priority Communities

Monterey Bay Economic Partnership – 2021

To complete an inclusive economic development plan for Salinas and a deeper dive on local economic data – with a COVID-19 lens – to illuminate inequities in the region.

Inland Empire Community Foundation – 2021

To support the backbone functions and build participation among community-based organizations for the Inland Economic Growth and Opportunity (IEGO) initiative.

Small Business Majority Foundation – 2021

To support California’s small business owners, particularly business owners of color and other entrepreneurs impacted by historic and systemic discrimination, in accessing capital and business support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inland Empire Community Foundation – 2020

To support the Inland Empire Black Equity Fund, a pooled fund designed to resource and build the organizational capacity of Black-led and Black-empowering organizations in the Inland Empire, through an entity such as the Black Equity Initiative.

Action Council of Monterey County, Inc. – 2020

To support low-income, undocumented, and formerly incarcerated residents and families that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with direct cash assistance in the Salinas Valley.

UFW Foundation – 2020

To provide direct cash assistance to Salinas farmworkers impacted by COVID-19, and to implement digital communications strategies to assess the needs of Salinas farmworkers.

Fresno Barrios Unidos – 2020

To support organizational capacity for a youth development and racial healing organization in Fresno.