California Black Power Network Dec 2023 Website $734,000 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, Los Angeles Metro, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
Change Matrix Dec 2023 Website $75,000 To support capacity building for Expanding the Bench to increase knowledge and practice of culturally responsive and equitable evaluation in California. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Humboldt Area Foundation Dec 2023 Website $150,000 To support the Klamath River Restoration Fund, which aims to harness public funding to support Tribal- and local community-driven restoration and climate resiliency priorities in the Klamath River Basin. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: North Coast and State
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
Social Science Research Council Dec 2023 Website $100,000 To produce and disseminate a Portrait of Los Angeles County 2025 focused on equitable access to well-being and opportunity in LA County. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
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
Community Coalition Dec 2023 Website $300,000 To strengthen Community Coalition's organizational infrastructure to increase the leadership capacity of community residents dedicated to improving economic mobility for working families in South Los Angeles and communities across California. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 4 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Foundation for California Community Colleges Dec 2023 Website $50,000 To support grantee participation in the Better Careers Evaluation and Learning Workgroup, through an entity such as LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 20 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
University of California, Los Angeles Dec 2023 Website $300,000 To support UCLA Labor Center's evaluation of ORALE’s Undocumented Entrepreneurship and Microenterprise Project. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Pilipino Workers Center Dec 2023 Website $900,000 To support a network of worker-owned cooperatives for low-wage and immigrant homecare workers, and stronger enforcement of labor protections in the residential care industry. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial
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
National Immigration Forum Dec 2023 Website $200,000 To support English language learners in the workforce by providing industry-contextualized English language training in California. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
University of California, Berkeley Nov 2023 Website $187,000 To support research and analysis on opportunities to leverage federal policy commitments related to direct care on behalf of California workers and consumers. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
National Domestic Workers Alliance Nov 2023 Website $625,000 To support research, worker engagement, and education to strengthen public and private systems of care, including through an entity such as Caring Across Generations. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 13 months Region Served: Statewide
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Nov 2023 Website $300,000 To explore the workforce status and needs of worker rights and community organizing groups in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 18 months Region Served: Statewide
CalMatters Nov 2023 Website $250,000 To support a series of stories exploring public and private efforts to create new economic and social mobility opportunities in California. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Democracy at Work Institute Nov 2023 Website $550,000 To support worker cooperative development and viability in low-wage industries in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial
Inland Empire Labor Institute Nov 2023 $560,000 To advance workforce development, worker rights, quality job creation, and climate justice in the Inland Empire. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles Nov 2023 Website $750,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 36 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, Riverside & San Bernardino
La Cooperativa Nov 2023 Website $200,000 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, North Coast and State, Riverside & San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial