Silicon Valley Community Foundation Apr 2024 Website $75,000 To support the LEAD (Legal Education, Advocacy, and Defense) for Racial Justice Initiative, which aims to provide strategic resources for California-based organizations and funders following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on affirmative action. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
PolicyLink Apr 2024 Website $500,000 To support reparations efforts in California, through an entity such as Liberation Ventures. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Apr 2024 Website $60,000 To support professional development and strategic planning during an executive leadership transition. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 8 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
United Way of Greater Los Angeles Apr 2024 Website $30,000 To support communications capacity and training to strengthen the efforts of the Our Future Los Angeles coalition. Focus Area: Housing Affordability Term: 17 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
One Fair Wage Apr 2024 Website $300,000 To advocate for policies that advance living wages, improve working conditions, amplify service workers' voices, and ensure workplace equity for women and people of color in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Apr 2024 Website $300,000 To support a workforce development program focused on upskilling and career pathways for Black working-age adults within a culturally relevant social enterprise in Oakland, through an entity such as Oakstop. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation Apr 2024 Website $50,000 To support communications capacity and technical assistance for social housing implementation efforts, through an entity such as ACT-LA. Focus Area: Housing Affordability Term: 18 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Social Good Fund Apr 2024 Website $110,000 To support the Just Transitions project, including a short film on Lithium Valley centering community narratives, though an entity such as Jacob Kornbluth Productions. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Jobs for the Future, Inc. Apr 2024 Website $50,000 To support inter-agency action planning to improve workforce outcomes of people with disabilities in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
State Democracy Project Mar 2024 Website $75,000 To engage low-wage temporary workers in Los Angeles County to inform organizational planning and future support, through an entity such as Unemployed Workers United. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 3 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
PICO California Mar 2024 Website $2,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, North Coast and State, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Catalyst California Mar 2024 Website $1,500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Community Foundation for Monterey County Mar 2024 Website $3,350,000 To support the Salinas Inclusive Economic Development Initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Tides Center Mar 2024 Website $200,000 To build organizing power for working class Vietnamese and immigrant communities in Orange County, through an entity such as VietRISE. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
YMCA of the East Bay Mar 2024 Website $25,000 To support YMCA of the East Bay Youth Apprenticeship programming. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
United for Respect Mar 2024 Website $40,000 To support strategic planning and professional development for new organization leadership. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide
Trans Can Work Mar 2024 Website $600,000 To provide Career Supportive Services programs for the economic empowerment and advancement of low-wage CA transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) individuals. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Feb 2024 Website $100,000 To support the 2024 GEO annual conference in May 2024 in Los Angeles. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 4 months Region Served: Statewide
Entertainment Industry Foundation Feb 2024 Website $850,000 To support Registered Apprenticeship expansion and continued coalition building in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment Sector in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Feb 2024 Website $100,000 To support SEO San Francisco in closing the educational and career opportunity gaps for underserved and historically excluded individuals in the Bay Area. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region