Better Careers

Connecting Californians to good jobs with family-sustaining wages and advancement opportunities

Everyone should have the access and opportunity to earn a family-sustaining wage and advance in their career. Yet too many workforce efforts in our state fail to connect jobseekers and workers paid low wages to good jobs that provide higher pay, benefits, and clear career paths.

Better Careers believes that Californians whose talent and labor have been undervalued can and should thrive in our ever-changing economy. The initiative aims to build a more equitable and inclusive workforce system by investing in efforts to prepare and connect low-income workers and jobseekers to quality jobs, improve workforce development services – and support what already works, and remove racial and gender barriers to economic opportunity.

Recent Grants

To expand Anti-Recidivism Coalition’s career pathways and civic engagement opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals.

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To impact and enhance the economic mobility of Californians who were formerly incarcerated.

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To support the scaling of Jobs to Move America’s Inclusive Procurement Policies toward building pathways to good jobs for all Californians.

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To support LA Brotherhood Crusade’s career training, job placement, and supportive services programs for young adults with multiple barriers to employment.

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For general operating support.

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To support high-impact projects and funder collaboration to increase access to quality, empowered jobs in the Bay Area.

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To support unanticipated costs for the organization’s work in California as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, for an entity such as the SEIU Health Careers Education Fund.

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