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. Better Careers invests in innovative, high-impact organizations serving Californians seeking middle-skill jobs – positions that offer higher wages and career paths for high school graduates who have additional training.

Due in part to structural, racial, and systemic injustices and barriers, middle-skill jobs are inaccessible to millions, including Californians in low-wage jobs seeking more skills, talented youth who are not working or in school, formerly incarcerated individuals, and workers who lost their job due to the pandemic.

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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