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
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
Philanthropy New York Dec 2022 Website $76,300 To raise awareness amongst philanthropic funders with perspectives about low-income work and the economy, through an entity such as The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Focus Area: Media Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Neighborhood Funder's Group Dec 2022 Website $500,000 To design a regranting plan centered on community participation and racial equity, gender, and economic justice to advance a more equitable worker movement, through an entity such as the Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT) Fund. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
Inland Empire Community Foundation Dec 2022 Website $100,000 To support Latino-led and serving organizations in the Inland Empire through the CIELO Fund. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Microenterprise Collaborative of Inland Southern California Dec 2022 Website $450,000 To support a small business development program for low and moderate-income residents of San Bernardino. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino
Tides Center Dec 2022 Website $800,000 To support policy, narrative, and power building efforts on economic issues impacting low-income workers and their families in California, through an entity such as End Poverty in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
PolicyLink Dec 2022 Website $500,000 To support the equitable implementation of the Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) across the state. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Milken Institute Dec 2022 Website $600,000 To support efforts to convene private and public partners to align on equitable development opportunities for low-income workers in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
NALEO Educational Fund Dec 2022 Website $250,000 To promote the economic advancement of Latinos by building their capacity and knowledge of the political and economic issues impacting them in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
UFW Foundation Dec 2022 Website $800,000 To support UFW Foundation's advocacy efforts to empower California's immigrant low-income workers to access information and services to improve their socioeconomic well-being. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Alliance for Justice Dec 2022 Website $150,000 To provide technical assistance and education to nonprofits engaging in advocacy and policy change, including Irvine grantees in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Jobs With Justice Education Fund Dec 2022 Website $175,000 To support the Worker Organizer Protection Fund, an effort that provides worker leaders' resources to continue their organizing work. Focus Area: Fair Work Term: 12 months Region Served: Riverside & San Bernardino, Statewide
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity Dec 2022 Website $312,000 To explore the feasibility and demand for union training pathways in Stockton. Focus Area: Priority Communities Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
UNITE-LA, Inc. Dec 2022 Website $500,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro, Statewide
Jobs for the Future, Inc. Dec 2022 Website $150,000 To build the operational capacity of Jobs for the Future to support the implementation of the High Road Training Fund. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 6 months Region Served: Statewide
California Calls Education Fund Dec 2022 Website $1,000,000 For the Million Voters Project, to strengthen statewide strategic alignment to lift up the socioeconomic issues and perspectives impacting low-income workers and their families in California. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Pacific Community Ventures Dec 2022 Website $400,000 To support research to identify gaps and interventions in the small business ecosystem to improve job quality for low-wage, BIPOC entrepreneurs and workers. Focus Area: Research and Development Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
California Black Power Network Dec 2022 Website $1,000,000 For general operating support. Focus Area: Just Prosperity Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide
Zocalo Public Square Nov 2022 Website $320,000 To explore and highlight the voices and experiences of low-income workers statewide, with a particular emphasis on Riverside, Fresno, and Salinas, through the journalism and event series, "What is a Good Job Now?". Focus Area: Media Term: 24 months Region Served: Statewide