Center for Story-Based Strategy Dec 2020 Website $105,000 To support worker organizations in California with narrative strategy, storytelling, and other forms of communications assistance. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Dec 2020 Website $200,000 To support the development plan of a self-supporting training program that offers low-income workers career pathways for growth through a designated fund such as Turning Basin. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Peralta Colleges Foundation Dec 2020 Website $110,000 To support Black and Latino entrepreneurs gain the competence, confidence, and capital needed to establish and grow successful small businesses in East Oakland, through an entity such as East Side Oakland Ventures. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Crenshaw Subway Coalition Dec 2020 Website $110,000 To create housing opportunities that economically liberate marginalized and priced-out residents of majority Black communities in Southwest Los Angeles, through an entity such as Liberty Community Land Trust. Focus Area: Racial Equity Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Chinese Progressive Association Dec 2020 Website $25,000 To support ongoing digital security consulting, training, and monitoring, through an entity such as Black Futures Lab. Focus Area: Voter and Civic Engagement Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Black Cooperative Investment Fund Dec 2020 Website $100,000 To provide microloans to Black-owned businesses in Riverside and San Bernardino. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Accelerator For America Dec 2020 Website $100,000 To develop a California infrastructure playbook and landscape report to expand access to infrastructure jobs for low-wage workers in California. Focus Area: Strategic Partnerships Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
AmPac Business Capital Dec 2020 Website $250,000 To expand training and capital access programs to small businesses in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Northern California Grantmakers Dec 2020 Website $250,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Statewide
University of California, Berkeley Dec 2020 Website $300,000 To expand a research infrastructure that streamlines the use and linking of California's administrative data, and to develop a racial equity research agenda. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 15 months Region Served: Statewide
Borealis Philanthropy Dec 2020 Website $100,000 To support REACH (Racial Equity to Accelerate Change), a philanthropic collaborative focused on advancing racial and intersectional equity and inclusion in the nonprofit sector. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Fresno Barrios Unidos Dec 2020 Website $110,000 To support organizational capacity for a youth development and racial healing organization in Fresno. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Santa Cruz Community Ventures Dec 2020 Website $300,000 To support the planning and launch of the Futuro Cooperative, a worker-owned business structure in the Salinas Valley. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
CALmatters Dec 2020 Website $200,000 To support a collaboration to increase the sustainability and impact of California’s ethnic media outlets. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Kiva Microfunds Dec 2020 Website $250,000 To support the California Rebuilding Fund, a public-private partnership to address the capital and advisory needs of California’s small businesses. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Dec 2020 Website $125,000 To support the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity at Work to advance equity and support expanded organizing of Black workers in the Southern California region. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Kenneth L Maddy Institute Dec 2020 Website $45,000 To support Maddy Institute’s daily public affairs e-newsletter. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Year Up, Inc. Nov 2020 Website $50,000 To support the development of a technology-based tool to connect low-income young adults to contact tracing jobs and jobs in other sectors across California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Los Angeles Metro
Miguel Contreras Foundation Nov 2020 Website $300,000 To protect the rights and expand access to quality jobs for low-wage and immigrant workers in Los Angeles County. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality Nov 2020 Website $100,000 To research the role Latinas play as economic drivers and civic leaders, and to support their inclusion in economic and civic policies in California. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide