Hispanas Organized for Political Equality Sept 2022 Website $100,000 To support communications, narrative work, and power building efforts to advance economic and political parity for Latinas in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
YR Media Sept 2022 Website $500,000 To develop substantive content that contributes the valuable perspectives of low-income youth to California media's coverage of pressing social justice issues. Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
La Cooperativa Sept 2022 Website $150,000 To support efforts to increase quality job training programs for farmworkers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Taller San Jose Hope Builders Sept 2022 Website $800,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
Common Counsel Foundation Aug 2022 Website $200,000 To support a planning process for the next phase of the Fund for an Inclusive California. Focus Area: Housing Affordability Term: 6 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Possibility Labs Aug 2022 Website $150,000 To design and launch a pooled philanthropic fund to support community ownership models in California. Focus Area: Housing Affordability Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
Building Skills Partnership Aug 2022 Website $200,000 To support training and career pathways for janitorial workers through strategic planning. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial
Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation Aug 2022 Website $315,000 To generate and implement new models for permanently affordable housing in Los Angeles County, through an entity such as ACT-LA. Focus Area: Housing Affordability Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Inclusive Action for the City Aug 2022 Website $400,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
RAND Corporation Aug 2022 Website $250,000 To support increasing visibility of public companies’ investments in low-wage workers in California and amplify worker power by increasing the degree to which these investments are valued by investors and philanthropies. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Riverside Community College District Foundation Aug 2022 Website $50,000 To support plans for organizational structure, fiscal sponsorship transition, and capacity building that will aid the progress of LAUNCH in scaling the services of a robust and community-engaged, apprenticeship intermediary. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Aug 2022 Website $2,500 To assess and analyze the current status and future workforce needs of the worker rights ecosystem. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Panorama Global Aug 2022 Website $600,000 To promote public-philanthropic partnerships that benefit low-income and vulnerable communities in California, through an entity such as Project Hyphen. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Chinese Progressive Association Aug 2022 Website $75,000 To support research, an organizational needs assessment, and partner engagement towards the formation of a Bay Area worker justice alliance. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Multiplier Aug 2022 Website $300,000 To explore the employee ownership ecosystem in Riverside, San Joaquin, Monterey, San Bernardino, and Fresno counties, and to expand employee ownership throughout California, through an entity such as Project Equity. Focus Area: New Initiatives in Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Hopewell Fund July 2022 Website $75,000 To support staffing and exploration of mechanisms to improve the health of worker rights organizations in California, and worker organizers specifically, through an entity such as All Due Respect. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation July 2022 Website $730,000 To strengthen backbone infrastructure for the Regions Rise Together Collaborative and update the RRT Salinas Investment Blueprint. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Action Council of Monterey County, Inc. July 2022 Website $770,000 To strengthen the capacity and influence of the Regions Rise Together Collaborative Community Engagement Working Group. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Sacramento Region Community Foundation July 2022 Website $160,000 To support an economic mobility reporter who will cover public policy issues and also surface solutions related to low-wage workers in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Public Policy Institute of California July 2022 Website $400,200 To conduct a statewide survey on Californians and their economic well-being. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide