Ballmer Group Welcomes New Grantees for November 2024

Ballmer Group is pleased to share some of our recently announced grants:

• Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center serves children and families in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, by offering an array of programming, resources, and services. Our grant supports the organization’s plans for its Cora Whitley Family Center, which will house 19 childcare classrooms as well as a gym.
• The Center for Strategic Partnerships supports cross-sector collaborations that transform Los Angeles County systems, policies, and practices to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families using an equity lens. It works to create systems change in child and family wellbeing, youth development and empowerment, health equity, and economic security.
• California Volunteers Fund engages Californians in service, volunteerism, and direct action to tackle some of the state’s most pressing challenges, such as climate readiness and homelessness. Our grant supports its Corps to Career initiative and efforts to create more equitable workforce development opportunities for service members across Los Angeles.
• Educators for Excellence is a teacher-led organization that ensures teachers have a leading voice in the policies that impact their students and profession. The organization provides opportunities for educators to stay informed, expand their leadership, connect with colleagues and decision-makers, and advocate for change.
• The Village Family Services aims to protect children from abuse, preserve families, and build a stronger, safer community. The organization offers a full spectrum of trauma-informed programs and services, including vital support for homeless youth and those who identify as LGBTQ+. It also provides evidence-based behavioral health services to children, youth, and adults and has long been at the forefront of culturally sensitive foster care and adoption services. Across all their programs, the majority of people the organization serves are Latino or Hispanic.
• The Bridgespan Group works to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society’s most important challenges and opportunities. Our grant enables the Los Angeles expansion of two of its programs: Leading for Impact, a cohort-based experience for nonprofit executive teams, and Bridgespan Leadership Accelerator, a capacity-building program to help nonprofit leadership teams achieve their full potential.
• The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles aims to enable all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. The organization seeks to create a safe space that empowers all Club members to learn, explore, achieve, and dream by offering nationally recognized, research-based programs and activities in three core areas: Academic Success, Good Character and Citizenship, and Healthy Lifestyles. Our grant enables the Clubs’ expansion in Inglewood.
• Center for Law and Social Policy works to reduce poverty, promote economic opportunity, and address institutional and racial barriers faced by people of color. Our grant supports the organization’s work related to federal and state childcare and early education policy and advocacy.
• LA Local News Initiative aims to ensure all Los Angeles communities get the news and information they need. Its community-centered approach will foster civic engagement, increase accountability from decision-makers at every level, serve communities in LA that are traditionally not well-served by media and elevate their narratives; build trust between residents and unbiased news coverage; and lift up communities by sharing successes, arts, culture, and other stories that accurately reflect the full spectrum of their lived experiences.
• The Seattle Times is committed to providing principled, quality, public-service journalism—and continuing to innovate to ensure the future of the local, free press. Our grant enables its efforts to expand coverage of early childhood education issues, needs, and solutions and provide mainstream news content on under-covered topics.