American Academy of Arts and Sciences Dec 2023 Website $250,000 To support the Commission on Reimagining Our Economy exhibition. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Public Policy Institute of California Dec 2023 Website $215,000 To conduct an annual statewide survey on Californians and their economic well-being. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice Dec 2023 $350,000 To increase ICIJ's impact in economic justice spaces in the Inland Empire, centering low-income immigrant worker priorities in economic planning decisions and promoting good job creation strategies for immigrant entrepreneurs. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 36 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Golden State Opportunity Foundation Dec 2023 Website $400,000 To expand the impact of the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) program and strengthen Golden State Opportunity's (GSO) partner network. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, North Coast and State, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Sierra
University Corporation At Monterey Bay Dec 2023 Website $50,000 To assess and share findings on the impact of the Joby Aviation Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program in fostering an inclusive economic mobility model, through an entity such as Monterey Bay DART Initiative. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council Dec 2023 Website $150,000 To support learning related to land stewardship and potential models to increase related employment opportunities for Tribal citizens. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: North Coast and State
East Bay Community Foundation Dec 2023 Website $300,000 To support the East Bay Community Foundation to update its business model and strategic plan to advance a generative economy in California's East Bay region. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Earthlodge Center for Transformation Dec 2023 Website $250,000 To support low-income workers with programming that addresses trauma and advances healing towards improved work lives and careers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
California Strategic Growth Council Dec 2023 $50,000 To support the Connecting Communities program, which aims to build the capacity of under-resourced community-based organizations to access federal funding for climate resilience infrastructure development. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
ACCE Institute Dec 2023 Website $1,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Dec 2023 Website $475,000 To implement a pledge with California public agencies to increase the share of procurement contracts that small disadvantaged businesses receive, through an entity such as the Equity in Infrastructure Project (EIP). Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
California Calls Education Fund Dec 2023 Website $1,000,000 To support voter and civic engagement among low-wage workers in partnership with worker rights organizations. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Zocalo Public Square Dec 2023 Website $50,000 To continue to explore and highlight the voices and experiences of low-income workers statewide by expanding the focus to Orange County through the journalism and event series, "What is a Good Job Now?". Focus Area: Media Term: 12 months Region Served: Orange County
Action Council of Monterey County, Inc. Dec 2023 Website $1,000,000 To invest and build capacity for Black-led organizations focused on Black power building and economic mobility in the greater Monterey Bay region. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Inland Empire Community Foundation Dec 2023 Website $1,000,000 To support the capacity and infrastructure of Inland Economic Growth and Opportunity (IEGO) and promote good quality job creation as part of the California Jobs First initiative. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Foundation for California Community Colleges Dec 2023 Website $500,000 To expand inclusive apprenticeship programs and workforce development through an equity framework for historically under-resourced low-income Inland Empire residents, through an entity such as LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 18 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
University of California, Santa Cruz Dec 2023 Website $600,000 To deepen the Institute for Social Transformation’s work around inclusive economic development and racial equity in Salinas through capacity building and economic analysis. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
CivicMakers Dec 2023 Website $100,000 To support human-centered design in workforce development with the Workforce Transformation Corps Fellows to facilitate organizational and systemic or policy change within five California workforce development boards. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Southern California Grantmakers Dec 2023 Website $1,000,000 To strengthen the long-term sustainability of Black-led and Black-empowering organizations in Southern California, through an entity such as the Black Equity Collective. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino
Faith in the Valley Dec 2023 Website $500,000 To build the organizational capacity of Faith in the Valley to pilot a shared ownership model in a BIPOC-led climate enterprise. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley