Nonprofit Finance Fund Oct 2024 Website $514,500 To support California nonprofits seeking bridge financing for reimbursement-based public grants and contract receivables. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, North Coast and State, Riverside & San Bernardino
North Bay Jobs With Justice Oct 2024 Website $200,000 To increase access to workforce training and employment opportunities for low-wage immigrant and Indigenous farmworkers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, North Coast and State
California Black Power Network Oct 2024 Website $1,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Oakland Fund for Public Innovation Oct 2024 Website $300,000 To support strategic planning for Special Purpose Community Corporations (SPCCs) to secure public contracts and expand community-driven economic development in the East Bay, through an entity such as SPCC ONE. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Community Partners Oct 2024 Website $200,000 To improve the economic mobility of low-income families by expanding access to affordable child care, through an entity such as Parent Voices California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Equal Rights Advocates Oct 2024 Website $200,000 To address the intersecting barriers preventing low-wage families in California from achieving economic security through cross-sector advocacy. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Worker Education & Resource Center Oct 2024 Website $100,000 To support the development of equity-centered training and career advancement programs for behavioral health jobseekers and incumbent low-wage workers. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Workforce Development Board of Solano County Oct 2024 Website $25,000 To provide wellness initiatives for internal and community workforce staff to improve wellness and resilience. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
City of Richmond, California Oct 2024 Website $25,000 To develop a staff learning journey that incorporates holistic strategies to engage and support formerly incarcerated individuals, emphasizing employment services and personal development tools to facilitate a positive transition into the local workforce. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Alameda County Workforce Development Board Oct 2024 Website $25,000 To enable deeper exploration and relationship building with quality employers that can provide new economic opportunities for low-wage and low-income communities in Alameda County. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
University of California, Berkeley Oct 2024 Website $415,000 To support research and analysis on solutions to improve the wage claims enforcement process and expand workplace protections for low-wage workers in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas, Inc. Oct 2024 Website $400,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Statewide
Inland Empire United Education Fund Oct 2024 $600,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
City and County of San Francisco Oct 2024 $675,000 To support the Northern California Apprenticeship Network to address the widening regional equity gap by increasing access to high-road “new collar” apprenticeships for workers who have historically been excluded from the labor market. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Statewide
Community Partners Oct 2024 Website $125,000 To establish a transformative community of purpose-driven, diverse cross-sector national and California-based leaders through an entity such as LeaderIn. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Amalgamated Foundation Oct 2024 $300,000 To support capacity building among California's Tribal communities to engage California’s Truth and Healing Council, through the DWP Combined Impact Fund. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region, Central Valley - Northern Valley, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Metro, North Coast and State, Statewide
Linc Housing Oct 2024 Website $75,000 To support a trauma-informed affordable housing development in Los Angeles. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
City of Oakland Oct 2024 $25,000 To address disparities in the local workforce system, creating equitable access to economic and workforce resources for low-wage and low-income communities in Oakland. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
City of Anaheim Oct 2024 $520,000 To build workforce development staff resiliency and expand employer and community partnerships to support jobseekers in Anaheim. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Orange County
University of California, Los Angeles Oct 2024 Website $60,000 To support the Emerging Workforce Summit, a convening of leaders across growing industries in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 9 months Region Served: Statewide