California Forward Dec 2022 Website $1,000,000 To expand organizational capacity and programs to support the implementation of the Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) across the state. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Economic Policy Institute Dec 2022 Website $50,000 To support a report on funding of labor enforcement programs in California and nationally. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
San Francisco Study Center, Inc. Dec 2022 Website $500,000 To support a collective impact strategy to advance pay equity within San Francisco’s youth nonprofit sector, though an entity such as the Service Providers Working Group. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Dec 2022 Website $50,000 To support workforce development programming for young adults in environmental fields. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Asian American Futures Dec 2022 Website $500,000 To mobilize young AAPI people as emerging leaders through sustainable power-building and narrative change efforts in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Northern California Indian Development Council Dec 2022 Website $75,000 To support a comprehensive community needs assessment of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian CA communities for poverty-related needs, available resources, and feasible goals and strategies that inform agency and community priorities. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: North Coast and State, Statewide
Apprenticeships for America Dec 2022 $100,000 To support building regional and sectoral apprenticeship intermediary California Community of Practice to grow inclusive registered apprenticeships in California. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Hartnell College Foundation Dec 2022 Website $750,000 To develop paid work-based learning programs and a college-to-career system geared towards supporting students to find careers with family sustaining wages in the Salinas Valley. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
City Dibs Society Dec 2022 $250,000 To support the launch and implementation of a new model for Black-led, collectively owned community economic development in Oakland. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Voice of OC Dec 2022 Website $300,000 To support civic news focused on the information needs of low-income and communities of color in Orange County. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
Philanthropy New York Dec 2022 Website $76,300 To raise awareness amongst philanthropic funders with perspectives about low-income work and the economy, through an entity such as The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Focus Area: Media Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Neighborhood Funder's Group Dec 2022 Website $500,000 To design a regranting plan centered on community participation and racial equity, gender, and economic justice to advance a more equitable worker movement, through an entity such as the Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT) Fund. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
Milken Institute Dec 2022 Website $600,000 To support efforts to convene private and public partners to align on equitable development opportunities for low-income workers in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity Dec 2022 Website $312,000 To explore the feasibility and demand for union training pathways in Stockton. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Tides Center Dec 2022 Website $800,000 To support policy, narrative, and power building efforts on economic issues impacting low-income workers and their families in California, through an entity such as End Poverty in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
California Black Power Network Dec 2022 $1,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Pacific Community Ventures Dec 2022 Website $400,000 To support research to identify gaps and interventions in the small business ecosystem to improve job quality for low-wage, BIPOC entrepreneurs and workers. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Alliance for Justice Dec 2022 Website $150,000 To provide technical assistance and education to nonprofits engaging in advocacy and policy change, including Irvine grantees in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
NALEO Educational Fund Dec 2022 Website $250,000 To promote the economic advancement of Latinos by building their capacity and knowledge of the political and economic issues impacting them in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
UNITE-LA, Inc. Dec 2022 Website $500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide