PROGRAM GOAL: A state in which all Californians can fully provide for themselves and their families and fully participate in society.

The Foundation’s priorities for new grantmaking will be:

• Justice and Public Safety: Promoting changes in policies and practices that can reduce the state’s rates of incarceration and recidivism and increase formerly incarcerated people’s participation in the workforce and civic life.
• Immigrants' Rights and Immigrant Integration: Supporting efforts to improve the wages and working conditions of immigrants, with a special focus on the needs of California farmworkers.
• Accountable Development: Supporting efforts to make economic development in San Francisco, Oakland, and surrounding communities accountable to local needs for affordable housing and jobs that provide a living wage.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California
San Francisco, CA / $80,000 / 24 months
Multi-county research and planning project comparing incarceration rates by ethnicity, age, gender, and type of crime, assessing underlying causes of racial disparities, and recommending practical ways to reduce racial disparities and overall dependence on incarceration for addressing social problems.

The American Prospect
Washington DC / $40,000 / 12 months
Support for a special issue by The American Prospect on "Raising Earnings for African Americans: A National Challenge" and dissemination and outreach of the issue.

Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
San Francisco, CA / $25,000 / 12 months
Strengthening and promoting the capacity of Arab, Middle Eastern, and South Asian community advocacy organizations in the Bay Area through a collaborative funding project.

ACORN Institute
Washington DC / $16,250 / 3 months
Grant to the ACORN Institute, as fiscal sponsor, for support of charitable activities to increase resident engagement in redevelopment-related matters in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, currently being carried out by San Francisco ACORN.

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Oakland, CA / $75,000 / 12 months
General support for an organization engaged in accountable and equitable economic development in Oakland.

California Budget Project
Sacramento, CA / $250,000 / 60 months
Conducting research and public education to improve state and local policy regarding the wages and economic security of low-wage workers in California.

California Reinvestment Coalition
San Francisco, CA / $50,000 / 12 months
General support for an organization engaged in policy advocacy to end predatory payday lending practices in California.

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Sacramento, CA / $150,000 / 24 months
General support for an organization engaged in advocacy
on behalf of farmworkers.

Catholic Charities of San Diego
Sacramento, CA / $150,000 / 24 months
General support for an organization engaged in advocacy on behalf of farmworkers

Center for Third World Organizing
Oakland, CA / $15,000 / 3 months
Planning for year-long in-service organizer training program.

Center on Policy Initiatives
San Diego, CA / $175,000 / 36 months
Conducting research and analysis, public education, and supporting labor/community coalitions to advocate for living wage standards, accountable development policies, and community benefit agreements in San Diego.

Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy
Ventura, CA / $150,000 / 36 months
General support for an organization engaged in promoting regional economic and social justice in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.

Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice - California
Los Angeles, CA / $225,000 / 36 months
Strengthening the capacity of a new statewide interfaith worker justice organization to build a broad movement for economic justice in California through local and statewide campaigns involving labor, community, and faith communities.

Community Development Finance
Berkeley, CA / $150,000 / 24 months
Developing a low-fee non-profit alternative to usurious for-profit check cashing and payday loan operations in California, and providing financial counseling for the most vulnerable population of credit consumers.

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
Oakland, CA / $175,000 / 36 months
General support for an organization engaged in accountable and equitable economic development in Oakland.

Equal Rights Advocates
San Francisco, CA / $255,000 / 36 months
Impact litigation to increase the wages and opportunities of female low-wage workers at Wal-Mart stores and to set a standard throughout the retail industry in which many low-income women, minorities, and immigrants are concentrated.

Farmworker Justice Fund
Washington, DC / $530,000 / 24 months
General support for an organization engaged in improving the wages, working conditions and rights of farmworkers.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Sebastopol, CA / $25,000 / 12 months
Promoting greater economic, civic and social integration of immigrants through the California Immigrant Integration Initiative.

Insight Center for Community Economic Development (formerly known as The National Economic Development & Law Center)
Oakland, CA / $16,250 / 3 months
Providing legal advice to community organizations seeking to ensure that local redevelopment projects address the needs of longstanding Bayview Hunters Point community residents.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
San Francisco, CA / $230,000 / 24 months
Policy advocacy and litigation to strengthen immigrant's rights to higher education, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities.

The Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center San Francisco, CA / $240,000 / 24 months
Representing workers with limited English proficiency in litigation challenging language-based discrimination in employment.

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
San Francisco, CA /$150,000 / 24 months
General support for organization engaged in strengthening employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals.

The Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center
San Francisco, CA / $240,000 / 24 months
Representing workers with limited English proficiency in litigation challenging language-based discrimination in employment.

Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Project / A project of Community Partners
Los Angeles, CA / $50,000 / 12 months A grant to Community Partners, as fiscal sponsor, for support of charitable immigrant leadership development activities, which were carried out by the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network.

National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Los Angeles, CA / $132,000 / 24 months
Challenging local ordinances that restrict day laborers from soliciting work in Southern California.

National Employment Law Project
New York, NY / $150,000 / 24 months
Expanding employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated people in California through technical support and policy advocacy.

National Immigration Law Center
Los Angeles, CA / $150,000 / 24 months
Policy analysis and advocacy, litigation and technical assistance to protect the employment rights of low-wage immigrant workers.

National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement / A project of Agape Foundation
San Francisco, CA / $225,000 / 36 months
Grant to Agape Foundation, as fiscal sponsor, for charitable activities addressing discrimination against Middle Eastern/South Asian/North African people in California after September 11, 2001, which were carried out by the National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement.

Oakland Worker Center / A project of Centro Legal de la Raza
Oakland, CA / $80,000 / 24 months
Grant to Centro Legal de la Raza, as fiscal sponsor, for support of charitable activities to strengthen the Oakland Worker Center.

Partnership for Working Families
Oakland, CA / $125,000 / 24 months
Support for a manual and training on best practices in using a community benefits approach to military base re-use for community-based organizations, and a set of policy recommendations for public officials to make these processes more accountable.

People Organized to Win Employment Rights
San Francisco, CA / $16,250 / 3 months
General support for an organization engaging residents in redevelopment-related matters in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.

Public Interest Projects, Inc.
New York, NY / $180,000 / 24 months
Restoring affirmative action to California's public and private sectors through a collaborative funding project.

RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA / $110,000 / 24 months
Evaluation of a prosecutor-led diversion and reentry program.

United Way of Tulare County
Tulare, CA / $40,000 / 12 months
Providing emergency assistance to farmworkers and their families affected by the freeze in Tulare and Fresno Counties.

UC Berkeley - Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
Berkeley, CA/ $225,000 / 24 months
Increasing employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals in California by providing a clearinghouse of research and best practices, convening diverse stakeholders, and producing a report and recommendations to guide public policy reform.

UC Berkeley - Center for Labor Research and Education
Berkeley, CA
$200,000 / 12 months Development and promotion of report on causes and solutions to disproportionately high levels of unemployment, underemployment and joblessness amongst African Americans in California and throughout the United States.
$36,000 / 36 months
Support for the Kirke Wilson Labor Summer Internships to develop leadership skills of university students to engage in the worker justice movement, and strengthen the capacity of local worker justice organizations.

UC Berkeley - Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity
Berkeley, CA / $300,000 / 36 months
Identifying practical state and national strategies for using the courts and the legislative process to establish high-quality public education as a fundamental right.

Urban Strategies Council Oakland, CA / $37,500 / 3 months
Technical assistance, training, and coalition building support to organizations and residents in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco in order to improve the outcomes and benefits of economic development for neighborhood residents.

Ventura County Community Foundation
Camarillo, CA / $30,000 / 12 months
Providing emergency assistance to farmworkers and their families affected by the freeze in Ventura County.

Young Workers United
San Francisco, CA / $150,000 / 36 months
Improving the wages and working conditions of young workers in the restaurant and retail industries in the San Francisco Bay Area.


Current Grants - under $20,000

Applied Research Center
New York, NY / $10,000 / 12 months
Outreach and distribution of report on causes and solutions to disproportionately high levels of unemployment, underemployment and joblessness amongst African Americans in California and throughout the United States.

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
San Francisco, CA / $1,000 / 12 months
Promoting increased awareness in philanthropy of the needs of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

Association of Black Foundation Executives
New York, NY / $5,000 / 12 months
Promoting increased awareness in philanthropy of the needs of Black American communities.

Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy
San Francisco, CA / $1,000 / 12 months
Promoting increased awareness in philanthropy of the needs of Black American communities.

Center for Law and Social Policy
Washington DC / $10,000 / 12 months
Support for a foundation-led strategic initiative to stimulate a national dialogue and focus public attention on poverty and opportunity.

Center for New Community
Chicago, IL / $10,000 / 12 months
Seeking to change the public's concept of anti-immigration groups and to thereby strengthen the efforts of the immigrant rights movement.

Center on Policy Initiatives
San Diego, CA / $5,000 / 12 months
Distribution of materials to further Center on Policy Initiatives' long-term fundraising capacity.

Common Counsel Foundation
Oakland, CA / $2,500 / 12 months
General support for Common Counsel Foundation whose offices where destroyed this summer by fire.

Council on Foundations
Washington, DC / $6,800 / 12 months
Promoting effective philanthropy.

Equal Justice Society
Washington, DC / $10,000 / 12 months
Partial support for conference on immigrant rights and cultural alliances.

The Foundation Center
New York, NY / $18,000 / 12 months
National and Bay Area programs for publications and library services to assist grantseekers.

Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
New York, NY / $1,000 / 12 months
Promoting increased awareness in philanthropy of the needs of lesbian and gay communities.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Sebastopol, CA / $3,500 / 12 months
Promoting increased awareness within philanthropy of the needs of immigrants and refugees, and related policy issues.

Grants Managers Network
Metairie, LA / $1,000 / 12 months
Promoting effective grants management policies and foundation practices.

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising and Training
Oakland, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Support for a social justice fundraising conference.

Hispanics in Philanthropy
San Francisco, CA / $1,000 / 12 months
Promoting awareness within philanthropy of the needs of Latino communities.

Independent Sector
Washington, DC / $3,500 / 12 months
Promoting giving, volunteering, and responsible philanthropy.

Kovno Communications
Berkeley, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Distribution of a documentary film about the life of Cruz Reynoso, first Hispanic to be appointed to the California Supreme Court, and former Rosenberg Foundation trustee.

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund
Berkeley, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Examining the state of enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and challenging lingering barriers to residential integration.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Washington, DC / $7,500 / 12 months
Promoting responsiveness and accountability in philanthropic institutions.

Neighborhood Funders Group
Washington, DC / $3,000 / 12 months
Collaborating to strengthen the social and economic fabric of low-income communities, and supporting the Working Group on Labor and Communities.

Northern California Grantmakers
San Francisco, CA / $4,200 / 12 months
Promoting and improving organized philanthropy in Northern California.

Northern California Grantmakers
San Francisco, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Support for the Emergency Loan Fund assisting nonprofit agencies in five Bay Area counties whose programs are impacted due to delays and shortfalls in funding.

Northern California Grantmakers
San Francisco, CA / $1,000 / 12 months
Support for the Summer Youth Project collaborative effort among foundations and corporations to enhance summer programs for children and youth in eight Bay Area counties.

Public Interest Projects
New York, NY / $5,500 / 12 months
General support for an organization promoting racial and gender inclusion in the public sphere.

San Francisco State University Foundation
San Francisco, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Coordination of a conference to discuss the issues of Southeast Asian youth criminalization and incarceration from three perspectives: prevention, intervention, and re-integration.

Social Justice Fund of Ventura County / A project of the Ventura County Community Foundation
Ventura, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Promoting social change advocacy in Ventura County.

Tides Center
San Francisco, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Support for the Gathering for Justice's Oakland conference, to train students to develop and advance public policy agendas on the criminal justice issues facing impoverished communities.

UC Berkeley - Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
Berkeley, CA / $10,000 / 2 months
Support for the initial phase of a research project focusing on employment opportunities for the formerly incarcerated.

Urban Habitat
Oakland, CA / $10,000 / 12 months
Leadership capacity-building retreat for executive directors of color.

Women & Philanthropy
Washington, DC / $1,000 / 12 months
Promoting grantmaking to benefit women and girls and increase leadership opportunities for women within the field of philanthropy.