Ballmer Group shares its most recently announced grants as of 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.
NewSchools Venture Fund works to build a better education system by connecting people, resources, and ideas. Our grant enables its efforts to accelerate Black-led charter school development—and eliminate learning disparities for Black and Latino students, those experiencing poverty, and those with learning differences.
Leadership for Educational Equity Foundation supports the mission-driven charitable and educational activities of Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE), an organization that seeks to build a diverse, enduring movement of leaders to engage civically within their communities to end the injustice of inequity. The foundation provides grants to conduct LEE educational events, sponsor internships and fellowships, and develop various resources.
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. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a global nonprofit addressing climate change across issue areas and sectors. Our grant supports its efforts to mitigate methane emissions in the energy and agricultural sectors via EDF’s methane-detecting satellite and its advocacy and communications efforts.
Climate Reality Project was founded in 2006 by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to strengthen climate movements in the U.S. and globally. Climate Reality Project trains and mobilizes a leadership network to catalyze progress in critical areas, including reducing emissions, mobilizing finance for a just transition, and strengthening international cooperation. Our grant enables the Climate Reality Project to develop its global network further, increase the density of climate leaders in critical geographies, and deliver on its strategic vision of ambitious climate action by 2030.
Climate Arc provides much-needed unlocks the financing needed to transition to a greener, safer world. It addresses the acute needs around understanding corporate transitions, which are required to meet global climate targets and provide that much needed analysis to financial decision-makers. Our grant allows Climate Arc and its partners to scale their work, further develop methodologies and localized pathways, create an open and dynamic corporate assessment platform, and upskill people globally. The analysis and tools created will also be shared with key stakeholders on the broader climate movement to support corporate ambition, action, and accountability mechanisms.
Arapyaú fosters and incubates coalitions and scalable initiatives to propel fair, inclusive, and low-carbon development in Brazil. Through the coordination of government, private sector, civil society, and academia, Arapyaú’s initiatives promote a forest-based bioeconomy centered on sustainable development, environmental conservation, and the well-being of local populations and Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest. Our grant supports Arapyaú’s work in fostering networks, mobilizing business voices to the agenda of the bioeconomy, and implementing structural initiatives for restoration in Brazil.
Health In Harmony invests in community-designed, holistic solutions to protect and restore tropical rainforests. Through a radical listening methodology, Health In Harmony works with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to identify and implement these solutions, including delivering education and health services to communities that positively impact climate and community wellbeing. Our grant allows Health in Harmony to refine and scale its model in the Brazilian Amazon.
Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS) is a Brazilian strategic regranter that supports projects and institutions dedicated to tackling climate change in Brazil through a variety of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote climate resilience. In addition, iCS promotes dialogue between sectors, commissions knowledge, and establishes networks of information across Brazil. Our grant to iCS supports research and analysis in service of a national climate agenda, capacity building for civil society groups, and efforts to decarbonize Brazilian industries.
The Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (FUNBIO) provides strategic resources and delivers programs for biodiversity and forest conservation, sustainable land use, and preservation of forests in Brazil. FUNBIO complements the efforts of federal and state governments to designate critical, undesignated lands in the Amazon towards the generation of new protected areas and Indigenous territories. This guarantees the long-term occupation of local peoples, increases biodiversity protection, and reduces illegal deforestation in the region. Our grant supports FUNBIO’s work to promote and execute restoration and conservation projects across climate-critical ecosystems in Brazil.
Ballmer Group is pleased to share some of our newly released grants. Links to each grantee's website are below and on our Grants page.
Connie, Steve, and Sam Ballmer are pleased to announce the launch of a new climate philanthropy, Rainier Climate Group.
Ballmer Group is investing $175 million over the next seven years in StriveTogether to support their Vision 2030, designed to put 4 million more young people on a path to economic mobility. The investment recognizes not only StriveTogether's record of success but also the urgent need to address and scale efforts to grow economic mobility for kids and families in communities across the U.S., especially within communities of color where systemic inequities continue to create barriers.