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Region Served: Central Coast Region

La Cooperativa – 2021

To support efforts to increase quality job training programs for farmworkers.

Monterey Bay Economic Partnership – 2021

To complete an inclusive economic development plan for Salinas and a deeper dive on local economic data – with a COVID-19 lens – to illuminate inequities in the region.

PowerSwitch Action – 2021

To expand engagement of low-income workers in regions throughout California, while strengthening collaboration and the work of member organizations to improve workplace standards and access to quality jobs.

Small Business Majority Foundation – 2021

To support California’s small business owners, particularly business owners of color and other entrepreneurs impacted by historic and systemic discrimination, in accessing capital and business support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Action Council of Monterey County, Inc. – 2020

To support low-income, undocumented, and formerly incarcerated residents and families that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with direct cash assistance in the Salinas Valley.

UFW Foundation – 2020

To provide direct cash assistance to Salinas farmworkers impacted by COVID-19, and to implement digital communications strategies to assess the needs of Salinas farmworkers.

Ventures – 2020

To support the planning and launch of the Futuro Cooperative, a worker-owned business structure in the Salinas Valley.

Visión y Compromiso – 2020

To support the pilot of the Expanding Pathways to Employment for Promotores project that aims to formalize and strengthen a workforce development model for Promotores and community health workers in California.

Digital Nest – 2020

For capacity-building support, as a recipient of the 2020 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.

Social Good Fund – 2020

To coordinate and strengthen local and regional rapid response networks and legal services for California immigrants, through an entity such as the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice.