Foundation for California Community Colleges Dec 2022 Website $2,000,000 To create systems of access and equity for socioeconomically disadvantaged communities through apprenticeship in the Inland Empire, through an entity such as LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 30 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund Dec 2022 $1,600,000 To support worker leadership and industry engagement that improves working conditions for low-wage, non-union janitorial workers in California. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Bay Area Region, Central Valley - Sacramento Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, San Diego and Imperial, Statewide
Seattle Foundation Dec 2022 Website $300,000 To engage evaluation consultants and funders in advancing equitable evaluation practices, through an entity such as the Equitable Evaluation Initiative. Focus Area: Impact Assessment & Learning Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project Dec 2022 Website $2,382,355 For general operating support. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 36 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Community Coalition Dec 2022 Website $425,000 To strengthen career pathways in carpentry by supporting the implementation of a partnership to enroll and retain African Americans in South Los Angeles into the Southwest Mountain States Carpenters job training programs. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Mission Asset Fund Dec 2022 Website $500,000 To support investing in economic mobility, quality, and access in the childcare economy, through an entity such as Nurture. Focus Area: Better Careers Term: 18 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
Race Forward Dec 2022 Website $125,000 To support the Government Alliance on Race and Equity's (GARE) network of local, regional, and state government members within California to advance racial equity in government across the state. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Brookings Institution Dec 2022 Website $400,000 To inform California's efforts to advance equity and climate resilience through the deployment of public infrastructure dollars. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 14 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Times Dec 2022 Website $400,000 To support an Irvine-branded reporting series on economic inequality and events about low-wage work and workers. Focus Area: Additional Grantmaking Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
California Community Foundation Dec 2022 Website $250,000 To support the equitable distribution of public funding by building the capacity of nonprofits and cities throughout Los Angeles County to secure and administer government funding. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Urban Institute Dec 2022 Website $1,000,000 To support and amplify WorkRise's research agenda and partnerships. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Community Partners Dec 2022 Website $250,000 To support the equitable development of a model Capital Infrastructure Plan for the City of Los Angeles, through an entity such as Investing in Place. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
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
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
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
Apprenticeships for America Dec 2022 Website $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
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