Our Grants
Our active grantees are listed below, updated monthly. We hope you will engage with and support these inspiring organizations.
Past Year of Giving
$300+M
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Annual giving numbers updated as of 12/31/24. New grants made in 2025 are added each month and shown below. Please note that we cannot accept unsolicited grant applications.
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Behavioral Health grants strengthen the systems within behavioral health care, providing scholarships and training to build the workforce necessary to meet increasing need, and integrating behavioral health into the education system so that more children, families, and communities can access high-quality mental health care.
Ballmer Group’s first grants centered on the child welfare system – a network of services whose purpose is to ensure child safety and to strengthen permanency in families. These grants continue to support affected families and kids and to transform systems in order to improve prevention and to reduce racial disparities in care.
Our Community Impact grants strengthen local Place-Based Partnerships, including building leadership pipelines, to help communities working to address complex issues and achieve measurable results.
Early Childhood & Families grants build systems of support and care for our littlest ones in the most critical point of their brain development by promoting equity in prenatal and maternal health, as well as helping all families access high quality childcare and early education.
K-12 Education grants seek to reduce and eliminate inequities that shortchange student achievement, by strengthening both the in-school academic experience as well as wrap-around and afterschool support. We believe that all neighborhoods deserve strong schools and a more representative, racially diverse workforce of teachers and school leaders.
Public Safety grants support leaders and organizations working to advocate for and scale effective public safety initiatives.
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Our National Impact grants focus on opportunities to strengthen impact across the country, and partners with regional teams to advance key issues.
In the Ballmers’ home state of Washington, our grants focus on public systems transformation, with deep investments in child welfare, behavioral health, and education as levers for change.
In the home of the Clippers, the Los Angeles County grants support building more equitable public systems, focusing on education, criminal justice, and a community-led vision of safety.
The Southeast Michigan grants works across the tri-county area surrounding Steve Ballmer’s hometown, bringing philanthropy, government, and business together to tackle economic mobility, and focusing on education and community development.
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A New Way Of Life Reentry Project
Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors
Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors works to support parents as powerful agents of change in the lives of their children and communities. It builds parent leadership skills and knowledge through in-person and virtual trainings to promote family well-being and positive outcomes for children.
Acumen Fund
Acumen America invests in early stage companies with solutions to address poverty and inequity. Our grant funding will focus on early-stage companies working to improve the lives of low-income people in the United States, and help to fill the capital gap for the earliest-stage innovations; support underrepresented founders; and scale high-impact innovations across the country.
Aerospace Machinists Joint Training Committee
Aerospace Machinists Joint Apprenticeship Committee (AJAC) aims to help Washington state produce the most highly skilled and trained aerospace and manufacturing craftspeople in the world. Our grant supports AJAC’s efforts to continue promoting financial aid opportunities for apprenticeships.
aiEDU
The AI Education Project (aiEDU) is focused on preparing students and educators for a world in which AI is commonplace and ubiquitous in education and in life by bringing high-quality AI literacy by providing free curricula, professional development, and individualized resources to K-12 students and educators. Our grant supports aiEDU to massively scale access to AI education in underserved and historically underrepresented communities.
Akin
Akin works to disrupt systemic and multi-generational cycles of inequity by partnering with children, families, and communities to transform population-level health and wellbeing. The organization is on the leading edge of the “kin-first” movement in Central Washington, with the goal of making kinship the default placement option for children that cannot remain safely at home. Its services include early learning, parenting education, mentorship for parents in the foster care system, the management of eight Family Resource Centers, and more.
Alder Graduate School of Education
Alder Graduate School of Education trains and empowers excellent teachers to create long term success for schools across California. Our grant supports its work to recruit, prepare, and place 1,900 teachers in CA schools statewide to improve learning opportunities and lifelong success for students.
Alliance for Children’s Rights
Alliance for Children’s Rights works to protect the rights of children in poverty and those overcoming abuse and neglect by delivering free legal services, supportive programs, and systemic solutions. In addition, it fights to provide stability for children in foster care and those at risk of entering foster care by helping them obtain access to mental and medical healthcare, educational services, benefits, housing, and more.
Alliance for Early Success
Alliance for Early Success works with state-level, early childhood policy advocates, across all U.S. states, to ensure that every child, birth through eight, has an equal opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed. The Alliance provides connections, expertise, technical assistance, and targeted investments to maximize the impact of advocates in their home states.
Alliance for Education
Alliance for Education advances educational justice and racial equity for students in Seattle Public Schools. Our grant supports its Seattle Teacher Residency, which aims to accelerate student achievement through the preparation, support, and retention of exceptional teachers who reflect the rich diversity in Seattle Public Schools.
Alliance for Safety and Justice
Californians for Safety and Justice, a program of Alliance for Safety and Justice, drives reforms that replace costly over-incarceration with common-sense safety solutions, expands support for crime survivors, and reduces barriers to economic stability for people with past records. Our grant supports the organization’s work to replace over-incarceration, which disproportionately harms Black communities and men, with more effective public safety solutions.
Alliance for Safety and Justice
Alliance for Safety and Justice aims to replace over-incarceration with more effective public safety solutions rooted in crime prevention, community health, rehabilitation, and support for crime victims. Focused on the largest states in the U.S., the Alliance partners with state leaders and advocates to achieve safety and justice reforms through advocacy, organizing, coalition building, research, and communications.
Alliance Foundation
One of the largest and most successful public charter school networks in the country, Alliance College-Ready Public Schools works to close the opportunity gap for over 12,000 scholars attending its 26 middle and high schools in Los Angeles’ most underserved communities. Although students arrive at Alliance an average of three grade levels behind, nearly all Alliance seniors graduate, with 97% accepted to college and 84% admitted to a four-year college or university.
Amara
Amara has a bold vision to change the world when it comes to how we support and care for children, adults, and families experiencing foster care and considering adoption, in our communities. Amara partners with people and communities most impacted by our child welfare system, to address trauma, build connections, and ultimately ensure all children, adults and families feel safe and supported, with a commitment to equity.
Arab American and Chaldean Council
Arab American and Chaldean Council provides services to the Middle Eastern and mainstream communities in Southeast Michigan, delivering educational, employment and training services, behavioral health, youth recreational and self-enrichment services, cultural activities, and community revitalization projects.
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services
With 11 locations and over 120 programs serving metro Detroit, ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) provides a broad array of social, economic, health, and educational services to a diverse community. Our grant enhances ACCESS’s data capacity to assess the effectiveness of its family support programs.
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) promotes Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander participation and representation at all levels of the political process, from community service to elected office. Our grant supports an alumni outreach and engagement program and embedding the concepts of place-based partnerships and development of related competencies into the flagship programming of APAICS.
Aspire Public Schools
Aspire Public Schools aims to transform the disproportionate outcomes for predominantly Black and Latinx students that are a product of a system that does not adequately educate everyone. Aspire operates 36 community-based schools, serving over 15,200 students in California, and teachers and parents work closely together to ensure students are ready to succeed in college, careers, and life.
Basblue Inc
BasBlue’s mission is to create pathways and open doors for women and non-binary individuals by fostering connection and discovery through a diverse and inclusive community, educational opportunities, and culturally enriching experiences. Our grant supports the creation of youth programs in Southeast Michigan high schools that offer mentorship, scholarship opportunities, leadership, and career development to ensure that these students have access to the social capital and skills they need as they define their own pathways to success and economic opportunity.
Beeck Center for Social Innovation and Impact
The Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation improves systems that are the foundation for daily life by using data, design, technology, and policy as instruments for equitable societal change. Its Digital Benefits Network supports government in delivering public benefits services and technology that are accessible, effective, and equitable in order to ultimately increase economic opportunity.
Behavioral Health Catalyst
The Behavioral Health Catalyst is a collaboration of funders focused on improving the behavioral health system in Washington state. Our grant provides strategic and organizational support to the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Work Group, which provides recommendations to the Washington legislature to improve behavioral health services and strategies for children, youth, young adults, and their families.
Behavioral Health Catalyst
The Behavioral Health Catalyst is a collaboration of funders focused on improving the behavioral health system in WA state. Our funds support general operating expenses, staffing for the collaborative, and compensation for the time and talent of local leaders, national advocates, and people with lived experience to inform the development of potential funding opportunities presented to the group.
BellXcel
Grounded in the belief that all children can excel, BellXcel develops innovative solutions and supports for school districts and community organizations to advance quality within the out-of-school-time field. Their model has been proven to reduce the opportunity gap for underserved students, improve family engagement, positively impact teachers, and strengthen their practices.
Bing Youth Institute, Inc.
Bing Youth Institute provides mentorship and academic, emotional, and social wellbeing support for Black boys and helps them become the leaders of tomorrow. Our grant supports the organization’s construction and renovation of the Dave Bing Community Park in Detroit, which features recreational spaces, greenspace, and a playscape.
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc
Bipartisan Policy Center strives to ensure that policymakers work across party lines to craft bipartisan solutions. Our grant supports its work on the advancement of public policies that support broad access to affordable housing.
Black College Success
Black College Success is a South Los Angeles-focused initiative that partners with select colleges and universities to create pathways for college success, enabling more Black students from 10 South Los Angeles high schools to attend and graduate from four-year colleges.
Black Economic Alliance Foundation
The Black Economic Alliance Foundation helps diagnose the obstacles to Black economic mobility, and prescribes practical solutions to improve work, wages, and wealth for Black Americans. Our grant supports its Center for Black Entrepreneurship, designed to help Black business owners grow their enterprises via technical assistance, access to capital and markets, and policies promoting economic growth within Black communities.
Black Leaders Detroit
Black Leaders Detroit seeks to address disparities by offering what has been missing: financial support. Recognizing that Detroiters of African descent have always been rich in creativity, effective economic strategies, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovative business models, our grant will enhance Black Leaders Detroit’s operational capabilities to meet the increasing demand for services, supporting regional Black-owned businesses and emerging entrepreneurs.
Black Male Educator Alliance of Michigan
The Black Male Educators Alliance develops effective culturally-responsive educators who cultivate learning partnerships and grow independent thinkers into change agents for their communities. The Alliance partners with educational agencies at the local, state, and national level to support recruiting Black men into education, engaging Black male educators, and developing leaders to improve the education of youth.
Black Women for Wellness
Black Women for Wellness (BWW) advances the wellbeing of Black women and girls through health education, empowerment, and advocacy. Our grant will help BWW monitor, evaluate, and strengthen the implementation of the many policies it has assisted in passing, all of which aim to dismantle barriers to accessing healthcare and support the elimination of health disparities faced by Black women, birthing people, and girls.
Blue Meridian Partners Inc
Blue Meridian Partners’ Place Matters Initiative aims to improve economic and social mobility in communities across the U.S. Our grant provides foundational support for more significant investments in Place Based Partnerships, the needed ecosystem of supports, and to help promote effective implementation of this work nationally.
Blue Meridian Partners Inc
Blue Meridian Partners makes significant, performance-based investments to scale the most promising strategies that address key drivers of poverty and boost economic and social mobility for young people and families across America.
BMe Networks
BMe Community is an award-winning network of innovators, leaders, and champions who invest in aspiring communities. Our grant supports the BMe Vanguard Fellowship Program, an intensive leadership experience for Black leaders, focused on expanding their knowledge, networks, and influence.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Boys & Girls Clubs of America provides a safe place for kids and teens to learn and grow. Our grant supports 18 Boys & Girls Club organizations in Los Angeles County, serving more than 50,000 youth across 170 Club facilities.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan is a safe space for youth to learn and have fun, while providing them with the economic, cultural and social capital needed to become career, startup and homeowner ready. Our grant will help BGCSM expand their operations to support more children, young adults, and families to receive the economic, social, human, and cultural capital needed to become economically mobile.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Washington
Boys & Girls Clubs of Washington State Association aims to enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. Our grant supports operations and programming in the nearly 140 Boys & Girls Clubs across the state, with a special focus on youth and communities experiencing the highest socio-economic barriers to healthy lifestyles and academic success.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles
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.
Breakfree Education
Breakfree Education improves education in the juvenile and criminal justice systems by investing in the potential and dignity of all its students. Our grant assists Breakfree in its support for educators in juvenile facilities across the country, the launch of a teacher fellowship, a multi-year engagement with a special school district in Maryland, and a pilot project bringing together state offices of education and juvenile justice agencies.
BUILD Initiative
The BUILD Initiative helps state leaders develop an early childhood system – programs, services, and policies – tailored to the needs of the state’s unique young child population. Our grant supports BUILD’s internal operations, communications, and evaluation, as well as expands support of state leaders in leadership development and technical assistance.
BuildUS
BuildUS aims to leverage recent landmark federal investments (including the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act) to ensure that all communities—especially those that are often overlooked—experience their benefits. BuildUS is maximizing this historic opportunity to reshape how our economy supports American workers, healthy families, and clean air.
California Black Womens Health Project
California Black Women’s Health Project is committed to improving the health of California’s 1.2 million Black women and girls through advocacy, education, outreach, and policy. The organization inspires and uplifts Black women to adopt self-care and advocacy; partners with communities and health-related organizations to encourage change; and provides hands-on educational programs.
California Budget & Policy Center
California Budget & Policy Center is a research and analysis nonprofit, committed to advancing public policies that improve the lives of Californians who are denied opportunities to share in the state’s wealth and deserve the dignity and support to lead thriving lives in its communities. Our grant enables the organization’s focus on providing the most relevant analyses to advocates and leaders in the California to support policy advances in early learning and care.
California Coalition for Black Birth Justice
Cherished Futures—a joint initiative of Communities Lifting Communities, the Public Health Alliance of Southern California and the Hospital Association of Southern California —is a multi sector, collaborative effort to reduce infant mortality and improve maternal patient experiences and safety for Black moms and babies in South Los Angeles and the Antelope Valley, California. Our grant supports Cherished Futures to expand to a new cohort of 3 4 hospitals, share promising practices from communities nationally with other local hospitals, and provide graduate level Fellows that will help with implementation plans.
California Community Foundation
California Community Foundation leads positive systemic change to strengthen Los Angeles communities so all have the opportunity to contribute to the productivity, health, and well-being of the region. Our grant supports LA n Sync and the Center for Nonprofit Management to increase the output of capacity-building resources available to Los Angeles County nonprofits that have been historically left out of public funding opportunities.
California Community Foundation
California Community Foundation leads positive systemic change to strengthen Los Angeles communities so all have the opportunity to contribute to the productivity, health, and wellbeing of the region. Our grant supports its work related to LA4LA, an initiative focused on innovative solutions to address the city’s housing crisis. LA4LA is creating an Innovation Fellow position within the City of Los Angeles Office of the Mayor. This role will be a key player in transforming the city’s approach to homelessness and reducing the time and cost to deliver housing.
California Policy Collaborative
The California Policy Collaborative builds the policy knowledge, expertise of and connections between policy staff through accurate and relevant learning content coupled with engaging and enriching learning experiences, all for the ultimate benefit of California’s children and communities. Our grant supports a non-partisan Early Learning professional learning infrastructure to support early-career legislative staff.
California State Alliance of YMCAs
California State Alliance of YMCAs represents California’s independent charitable YMCA associations in advocacy and collaboration. The Alliance works to support these associations and leverage their collective impact in the areas of youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. It does this through advocacy, technical assistance, and facilitating collaboration and partnerships.
California State University Dominguez Hills
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) provides transformational educational experiences grounded in culturally sustaining practices, innovative research, creative activity, and community engagement for undergraduate and graduate students. Its teacher preparation program is the primary feeder program for teachers who go on to work in South LA school districts. Our grant supports Toros Teach LA, addressing the severe shortage of early childhood educators by preparing, graduating, and placing culturally competent, racially diverse teachers and leaders in schools across the LA region.
California State University Dominguez Hills
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) provides transformational educational experiences grounded in culturally sustaining practices, innovative research, creative activity, and community engagement. Our grant supports its California State University Young Males of Color Consortium, which is dedicated to making systemic changes in higher education to improve outcomes for young men of color.
California State University Long Beach
California State University Long Beach (CSULB) provides undergraduate and graduate educational opportunities through teaching, research, creative activity, and service for the people of California and the world. The School of Education at CSULB prepares the most teachers in the 23-campus California State University. Our grant helps California school districts meet the urgent need for 12,000-15,000 credentialed pre-kindergarten teachers by developing and implementing a new PK-3 Early Childhood Education credential at CSULB.
California State University, Northridge Foundation
California State University, Northridge Foundation (CSUN) is responsible for accepting, managing, investing, and disbursing all CSUN related philanthropic funds. Our grant supports CSUN to offer intensive training to 175 Los Angeles United School District teachers—serving predominantly Black and Latino K 2 students at the highest need elementary schools—for reading recovery and accelerated literacy growth through its highly successful Primary Promise program.
California State University, Northridge Foundation
California State University, Northridge Foundation (CSUN) is responsible for accepting, managing, investing, and disbursing all CSUN-related philanthropic funds. Our grant supports the CSU 5, a partnership between the five Southern California CSU campuses (LA, Pomona, Long Beach, Northridge and Dominguez Hills), to shape a more comprehensive and long-term approach to serve the needs of the region and ensure student success by identifying cross campus system challenges and solutions, sharing best practices and data, and integrating student supports.
California Volunteers Fund
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.
Camelback Ventures Inc.
Camelback Ventures is an incubator and accelerator that identifies, develops, and promotes early-stage underrepresented entrepreneurs in the K-12 space. Our grant supports the incubation of new charter school leaders of color through the Camelback Fellowship and provides targeted supports to lift the quality of incubator alumni schools.
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy c/o Pueblo Nuevo Education And Development Group
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) operates on the belief that every student deserves the opportunity to attend a great school, changing the trajectory of students’ lives and helping reverse educational and economic inequities in their communities. Currently, six CNCA schools across seven campuses in Los Angeles are educating 3,200 students from early childhood to high school, with graduates earning bachelor’s degrees at over three times the rate of low-income students nationwide.
Campaign for College Opportunity
The Campaign for College Opportunity works to ensure all Californians have an equal opportunity to attend and succeed in college to build a vibrant workforce, economy, and democracy. Our grant supports the organization’s work to implement equitable access to college, strengthen transfer pathways, expand financial aid, and ensure equity in higher education.
Career Connect Washington
Career Connect Washington is a statewide network of business, labor, education, and community leaders working to help young people connect directly to education, credentials, and career opportunities. It enables work-based and academic programs that allow Washington’s youth to explore, prepare, and launch themselves into college and careers.
CareMessage
CareMessage provides a digital platform for health care providers to engage with patients via text messaging, aiming to improve patient outcomes and access to care by delivering educational content and personalized support. Our grant enables the organization’s research and development into utilizing AI and SMS communication to address health care disparities among underserved populations; specific objectives include AI implementation to alleviate clinic staffing shortages, advancing health equity, and enhancing patient outcomes.
Catalyst California
Catalyst California strategizes with community partners to identify funding, services and opportunities in California’s statewide public systems that can be redistributed for more just outcomes, with the goal of promoting racial equity and building a foundation so that every Californian may thrive.
Catalyst:Ed
Catalyst:Ed works with state and local education agencies, schools, education nonprofits, youth-serving organizations, and foundations in all 50 states to address long-standing challenges and expand the limits of what they can accomplish. Our grant supports its efforts to develop and deploy a Talent Helpdesk for place-based partnerships. The Helpdesk will help organizations get answers to their questions, connect with consultants, and access curated resources.
Catholic Charities of Spokane
Catholic Charities Eastern Washington affirms the dignity of every person, partnering with parishes and the greater community to serve and advocate for those who are vulnerable, bringing stability and hope to people throughout the region. Our grant funds the Rising Strong program, a holistic, family-centered drug treatment and housing program that supports families in staying together while they begin to recover from addiction, heal from trauma, and rebuild their lives.
Center for Black Educator Development
Center for Black Educator Development aims to achieve educational equity and racial justice by rebuilding the national Black Teacher Pipeline. Its targeted interventions, teaching pathways, fellowships, and policy work are all designed to increase the number of Black teachers so that Black and other disenfranchised students can reap the full benefits of a quality public education.
Center for Employment Opportunities
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) offers individuals just coming home from prison the ongoing support necessary to build career capital and financial stability. CEO uses its scale, experience, and data – backed by participants’ feedback on what works – to change the way government invests in criminal justice and workforce development.
Center for Employment Opportunities
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) offers individuals just coming home from prison the ongoing support necessary to build career capital and financial stability. Our grant supports CEO’s work in Southeast Michigan that benefits justice-impacted individuals, using its scale, experience, and data to change the way government invests in criminal justice and workforce development.
Center for Law and Social Policy
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.
Center for Strategic Partnerships
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 the areas of child and family wellbeing, youth development and empowerment, health equity, and economic security.
Center for Urban Families
Center for Urban Families works to empower individuals and families in Baltimore, Maryland with the skills they need for long-term personal and economic success. Our grant supports the organization to build a model for increasing father/father-figure engagement in Head Start, with the goal of improving positive outcomes for children.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone—regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status—has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity. Our grant enables the institute’s work on advancing access to SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid through process improvements.
Centinela Youth Services, Inc.
Centinela Youth Services strengthens families and communities across Los Angeles County, California and helps build successful students and productive adults, leveraging the principles of restorative justice to empower peaceful conflict resolution. The organization is committed to ending the institutionalized practices in schools and justice systems that are primarily responsible for maintaining the school-to-prison pipeline, and disproportionately impact youth of color.
Charter School Growth Fund
The Charter School Growth Fund identifies the country’s best public charter schools, funds their expansion, and helps to increase their impact. The Fund makes multi-year, philanthropic investments in talented education leaders from around the country who are building networks of excellent public charter schools.
Chicago CRED
The mission of CRED and its partners is to create safer communities across Chicago by building a robust network of Community Violence Intervention (CVI) organizations that save lives and reduce violence-related trauma. Our grant will support CRED’s general operating budget, enabling cross-functional initiatives that enhance the effectiveness and scalability of the CVI ecosystem. This funding will strengthen CRED’s operational capacity and help attract additional support from other foundations, corporations, and government entities, amplifying the impact of their vital work in public safety solutions.
Chief Seattle Club
Chief Seattle Club envisions a future where the Native community is safe, healthy, housed, and connected to community that respects and celebrates Native cultures. At its Day Center in downtown Seattle, the organization provides food, primary health care, housing assistance, legal services, a Native art job training program, and opportunities for members to engage in cultural community-building.
Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles
The Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles is a unique and significant partnership of 10 partner agencies that deliver services to thousands of families and child-care providers. Our grant supports Workforce Pathways to improve on foundational infrastructure and systems to support early educators to increase their qualifications through an augmented and integrated advisement program.
Child Care Aware of Washington
Child Care Aware of Washington is a child care resource and referral program dedicated to ensuring that every child in Washington has access to high quality child care and early learning programs. Our grant will help Child Care Aware to lead advocacy efforts designed to effectively implement and fund best-in-class workforce policies, including improvements to teacher retention, pay, and professional development.
Child Poverty Action Lab
Child Poverty Action Lab rethinks how data can be integrated into public systems, community programs, and neighborhood life to break cycles of intergenerational poverty in Dallas, Texas. Our grant supports CPAL’s university pipeline pilot, a partnership with universities designed to give college students real-world applied data projects to increase the source of talent to Place-Based Partnership careers.
Child Welfare Playbook
Child Welfare Playbook works with experts from across the U.S. to identify and document practical, scalable strategies for improving child welfare. Our grant enables its efforts related to implementing a kin-first culture in Washington state.
Children Now
Children Now harnesses collective power to achieve transformational and systemic results for California’s kids. Our grant supports Children Now’s work to build a California that leverages every funding source and political window of opportunity to advance universal access to child care for families and children aged 0-3.
Children’s Bureau of Southern California
Children’s Bureau of Southern California works to reduce risk factors and increase opportunities for children, parents, and communities through prevention, treatment, and advocacy efforts. Their comprehensive services help thousands of at-risk children and parents annually from 20 community sites in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Children’s Campaign Fund Action
Children’s Campaign Fund Action builds non-partisan political power by helping elect lawmakers who will enact transformational policy change for children, youth, and families. Our grant supports the organization’s work related to the Washington Legislator Education and Action Project (LEAP) and expands partnerships to advance childcare.
Children’s Funding Project
Children’s Funding Project helps communities and states expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing. Our grant allows Children’s Funding Project to implement and spread learnings from 15 successful local ballot measures that approved children’s funds, which generate sustainable funding for high-quality early care and education.
Children’s Funding Project
Children’s Funding Project helps communities and states expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing. With hands-on technical assistance and a collection of resources, CFP helps advocates, policymakers, public agencies, and funders identify and align existing funding, generate new revenue, and implement strategies to administer funds in ways that maximize their impact. Our grant supports its efforts in building the foundational national and state capacity and standardized tools to support leaders in navigating and advocating for public funding for cradle-to-career programs.
Children’s Institute, Inc.
Children’s Institute (CII) is a partner in healing and growth for children and families in Los Angeles communities affected by underinvestment and racist policies that have led to trauma and diminished opportunities. CII offers high-quality early education and youth programs, counseling services, parenting supports, workforce and community leadership development, and advocacy for community investment where it is needed most.
Chrysalis
Chrysalis is dedicated to serving individuals who are navigating barriers to finding and retaining employment. It helps people connect to the workforce through individualized case management, job-readiness programs, and by providing access to supportive services.
Cities United
Cities United supports a national network of mayors who are committed to reducing the epidemic of homicides and shootings among young Black men and boys ages 14 to 24 by 50 percent. As one of four organizations leading our national work on Community Violence Intervention, this grant enables Cities United to support local governments to support the CVI ecosystem through data collection, measurement, and comprehensive engagement plans.
Cities United
Cities United works with mayors, leaders, and young people nationwide to reduce homicides and shootings among young Black men and boys by 50%, and build safe, healthy, and hopeful communities. Our grant helps a network of 60 cities and counties in the development and implementation of comprehensive public safety plans and provides assistance to local organizations that support young Black leaders. Cities United also receives additional support from us as a founding member of the Coalition Addressing Public Safety (CAPS) which seeks to create an ecosystem approach to reducing community violence.
City Teaching Alliance
Urban Teachers is a national teacher recruitment, preparation, development, and retention program serving Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, DC, and Dallas, Texas. Our grant supports Urban Teachers’ Black Educators Initiative to recruit, prepare, and retain over 800 Black educators in the teaching profession over five years, fostering their development through intensive clinical coursework and one on one coaching, and providing targeted support to make retention in the profession sustainable.
City Year
City Year improves student and whole school outcomes through partnering with AmeriCorps and placing young adults to serve as tutors, coaches, and mentors in schools with high needs populations. Its programs address the lack of access to learning environments and resources that students need to thrive in school and in life, due to systemic inequities that disproportionately affect students of color and students growing up in low income households.
City Year Detroit
City Year improves student and whole school outcomes by partnering with AmeriCorps and placing young adults as tutors, coaches, and mentors in schools with high-needs populations. Our grant supports City Year Detroit’s expansion to more Detroit Public Schools Community District schools to deliver interconnected services in grades 3-9 so that students reach the 10th grade on track and on time.
City Year Los Angeles
City Year Los Angeles partners with LA and Inglewood Unified School Districts to create equitable learning opportunities for all students, supporting educators to deliver instruction that is responsive to diverse racial, cultural, and linguistic needs. City Year Los Angeles Americorp members help the students of Los Angeles thrive by serving as tutors, mentors, and role models – and more than 76% of students working with City Year LA improved their test scores.
City Year Seattle/King County
City Year improves student and whole school outcomes through partnering with AmeriCorps and placing young adults as tutors, coaches, and mentors in schools with high needs populations. Our grant supports City Year Seattle/King County to continue its partnership with Seattle Public Schools to support students in 11 systemically under resourced schools, as well as provide more practical supports and focus on the well being of AmeriCorps members working in these schools.
Civil Rights Corps
Civil Rights Corps is dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the United States’ legal system, which is built on white supremacy and economic inequality. The Corps works to shift power to community-led movements, particularly those led by Black, Brown, and poor people who are most affected by the legal system, so they can build sufficient power to create structural change.
Clean Slate Initiative
The Clean Slate Initiative works to expand and automate the sealing of arrest and conviction records after people have completed their sentence and remained crime-free for a period of time. Our grant supports Clean Slate Initiative’s work through the Audacious Project to enact a 50-state strategy to increase access to record clearance for more Americans.
Coalition for Responsible Community Development
The Community Redevelopment Corporation of South Los Angeles (CRCD)’s mission is to better sustain, coordinate, and improve local planning, development, and community services that address the needs of low-income and working-class residents and small businesses in South Los Angeles. Our grant will support CRCD in scaling up job placement efforts for South LA residents, enhancing capacity building for grassroots community-based organizations, and strengthening operational infrastructure.
Code for America Labs
Code for America Labs uses insights and ideas from real people to guide solutions that break down barriers to meet community needs and improve government in meaningful ways. Our grant enables the organization’s work in advancing economic mobility by simplifying and streamlining the tax filing process.
Code Org
Code.org expands access to computer science in schools and increases participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups, so everyone has an opportunity to learn computer science in K 12. Our grant will increase the participation and achievement of students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups on AP computer science exams.
CodePath
CodePath brings together employers, students, and colleges to eliminate inequities in tech education, diversify the field, and provide underrepresented students with a path toward economic mobility and generational wealth. It centers the needs and success of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and low income Computer Science students, and strategically partners with Computer Science Departments at colleges and universities with the highest enrollment numbers for these groups.
College Advising Corps
College Advising Corps works to increase the number of low income, first generation college, and underrepresented high school students who enter and complete higher education. They do this by placing well trained, recent college graduates as full time college advisers for students in high schools across the nation, both in person and virtually.
College Match Los Angeles
College Match Los Angeles helps talented students from low-income families get into and graduate from top colleges and universities, providing counseling, tutoring, scholarships, and campus visits. Our grant strengthens the growth and sustainability of the program.
College Possible
College Possible empowers students to access higher education and thrive through college in the face of broader systemic challenges, working to close the college degree divide. Our grant supports College Possible to offer more students extensive guidance in high school, summer courses, and ongoing support through college, supporting them as they work to achieve their dream of a college degree.
College Possible Washington
College Possible empowers students to access higher education and thrive through college in the face of broader systemic challenges, working to close the college degree divide. Our grant supports College Possible in Washington state to offer more students extensive guidance in high school, summer courses, and ongoing support through college, supporting them as they work to achieve their dream of a college degree.
College Unbound
College Unbound (CU) is dedicated to providing accessible, innovative higher education opportunities for adult learners who have faced significant barriers to attending college. Our grant will support a partnership with EarlyEdU to deliver a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Change to experienced early childhood educators. It will also build the infrastructure needed for statewide and national expansion, enhancing CU’s capacity to serve more students and scale its impact.
Columbus Foundation
The Ignite the Classroom initiative is a partnership between Huntington National Bank and Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy (RCA), a nonprofit middle school recognized for creating a loving, dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence and fosters leadership. Ignite the Classroom will send 400+ Southeast Michigan educators to an immersive, two-day training to observe RCA’s best practices and to participate in hands-on workshops – all of which intends to give educators a spark in their approach and to discover new ways to make the classroom fun and impactful for students.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. Our grant supports the organization’s work to close the digital divide and help lower-income families access reliable, high-speed internet.
Communities In Schools
Communities in Schools improves graduation rates by establishing integrated student supports that meet the unique needs of children and families, and connecting students with a range of existing services, like tutoring, health services, or basic needs, to help them stay in school. Their work is building a powerful change movement made up of peers, students, and alumni committed shaping an equitable path to education for future generations.
Communities In Schools
Communities in Schools improves graduation rates by establishing integrated student supports that meet the unique needs of children and families, and connecting students with a range of existing services, like tutoring, health services, or basic needs, to help them stay in school. Our grant helps CIS meet its bold ambition to scale its model to 1,000 new Title I-eligible schools in America and to build a stronger system that better supports the 12 million students living in poverty.
Communities In Schools of Los Angeles (CISLA)
Communities In Schools of Los Angeles provides students in Los Angeles public schools the support needed to develop the emotional, social, and learning skills required to graduate high school ready for meaningful employment or higher education. Our grant supports CISLA’s five-year strategic plan to expand its post-secondary support and to develop summer programming to support the social-emotional learning needs of young people in communities facing systemic barriers.
Communities in Schools Washington
Communities in Schools Washington surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our grant will help expand Communities in Schools programs to high-needs schools in Washington state, increase state office capacity to strengthen and sustain growth of the network, and consolidate/align programs in King County.
Communities Rise
Communities Rise fosters movements to build power and create equitable systems in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, Communities Rise pursues cross-sector collaboration, and provides capacity building and legal services for community organizations and microenterprises.
Community Based Public Safety Collective
Community Based Public Safety Collective is a collective of experts in building neighborhood leadership to advance safety. Our grant supports the Collective to build the capacity of BIPOC run community based public safety organizations nationally and to position them as key players in an emerging public safety ecosystem that reduces violence while promoting racial justice and equity, with the goal of reducing gun violence by 20% in 12 cities.
Community Center for Education Results
Community Center for Education Results serves as the backbone organization for Road Map Project, a place based partnership working to increase equitable policies and practices so that 70% of South Seattle, Washington and South King County, Washington students earn a college degree or career credential by 2030. Our grant supports expanding a systematic process that builds and sustains family engagement practices in schools and districts, in order to support students’ academic learning and outcomes.
Community Center for Education Results
Community Center for Education Results serves as the backbone organization for Road Map Project, a place based partnership working to increase equitable policies and practices so that 70 percent of South Seattle, Washington and South King County, Washington students earn a college degree or career credential by 2030. Our grant will expand their ability to empower communities, center equity, and establish and grow place based partnerships.
Community Coalition
Community Coalition centers the voices and leadership of people of color in its work to upend systemic racism. The organization trains activists and organizers to support power building with Black, Brown, Indigenous, and people of color in South Los Angeles.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan creates permanent, positive change in southeast Michigan through thoughtful philanthropy. Our grant enables the organization’s transformation of its core IT infrastructure to better support its philanthropic efforts.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan creates permanent, positive change in southeast Michigan through thoughtful philanthropy. Our grant supports expansion of the Pontiac Funders Collaborative, which supports and funds leaders, nonprofits, business owners, and residents in Pontiac who are working to enact positive social and economic change.
Community Solutions International Inc
Community Solutions works with US cities to end homelessness and solve other persistent challenges using data, collaboration, and clearing out structural and systemic barriers. Our grant helps to build their capacity of their “Built for Zero” Network that is an exemplar for rigorous Place Based Partnerships nationally, as well as helping them apply their data driven methodology to address the root causes of homelessness.
Compass Working Capital
Compass Working Capital is working to end asset poverty for families with low incomes and narrow the racial and gender wealth divides. The organization is focused on expanding the scope and impact of the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, the only federal program that integrates a powerful savings opportunity into the delivery of HUD-assisted housing. It pursues this work by partnering with public housing authorities and private owners of affordable housing, delivering training and technical assistance to other FSS practitioners, and shaping policy solutions that expand access to FSS and dismantle barriers to asset building.
Compton Community College District
Compton College, which serves one of the highest percentages (22%) of Black students in LA County, aims to prepare the workforce and provide clear pathways for completing programs of study, transitioning to a university, and securing living-wage employment. Our grant will enhance student transfer success through a replicable model, helping students successfully earn degrees and certificates, transfer to four-year colleges and universities, or enter careers in flourishing industries.
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation advances the global Black community by developing leaders, informing policy, and educating the public. Our grant bolsters CBCF’s capacity to broaden recruitment, deliver training, and increase the number of participants in the existing internship and fellowship programs. It also helps build internal capacity to capture data on alumni through the recently created Alumni Network Council.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute provides leadership, public service, and policy experiences to outstanding Latino students and young professionals, and convenes Members of Congress and other elected officials, corporate executives, nonprofit advocates, and thought leaders to discuss issues facing the Latino community and the nation. Our grant supports augmented capacity to support programming/engagement for more than 4,500 alumni, as well as support their three primary leadership development programs.
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce partners with government, business, education, and community leaders to cultivate good jobs and the skilled workers to fill them. Our grant enables the organization’s efforts to develop Southeast Michigan’s regional workforce system staff and leadership capacity.
Council Of Chief State School Officers
Council of Chief State School Officers is composed of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, the Bureau of Indian Education, and the five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions. It is committed to ensuring that all students participating in the public education system—regardless of background—graduate prepared for college, careers, and life. Our grant supports the organization’s ongoing operations and expansion of its Digital Equity Collaborative Community, which is focused on topics including broadband infrastructure, sustainable implementation of federal funding, and the establishment of digital equity measurement and data standards.
Covenant House California
Covenant House California provides sanctuary and support for youth, ages 18-24, who are experiencing homelessness. Our grant supports the organization’s infrastructure and capacity-building needs.
Credible Messenger Mentoring
Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement helps youth and families break the cycle and long-term impact of justice system involvement. It provides a credible messenger mentoring model, training curricula, capacity building, technical assistance, and ongoing support to community-based organizations and their government partners in communities seeking to implement and advance credible messenger work.
Data For Good Fund
UpMetrics’ cohort-based programs, in partnership with Data for Good Fund, provide nonprofits with tools and training to collect and use data more efficiently to measure, improve, and report on their impact. Our grant provides a cohort of 30 nonprofits serving Southeast Michigan free access to UpMetrics’ data platform, professional services, and peer-to-peer learning sessions to drive and accelerate social change.
Degrees of Change
Degrees of Change Seed Internship program invests in the vibrant future of the Puget Sound region in Washington state by identifying exceptional college students and recent grads from underrepresented backgrounds and matching them with top, local employers. Our grant will support the expansion of the Seed Internship program over three years, scaling to 200 interns, adding employer partners, and growing into King County, Washington by 2025.
Delivery Associates
Delivery Associates helps government and social impact organizations translate ambitious goals into real, measurable impact for people all over the world. Our grant enables its continued work in the City of Orlando to ensure equitable access to critical services.
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Smart Factory Believers, powered by a Deloitte-led ecosystem, has a mission to empower STEM education opportunities in historically marginalized communities to inspire and build the manufacturing workforce of tomorrow. Our grant supports closing STEM equity gaps in Southeast Michigan by providing robotics kits, resources, and skills training needed to design, code, and build for the future.
Detroit Children’s Fund
Detroit Children’s Fund helps children in Detroit receive the quality education they deserve by making leaders stronger, teachers more effective, and school systems more successful. Our grant supports the Fund to build its team of education experts to support partner schools and local charter schools in improving student outcomes and managing educator talent development.
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation is the workforce agency for the city of Detroit, working in cross-sector collaboration to increase work-based learning opportunities for students and adults. Our grant supports the Grow Detroit’s Young Talent summer initiative, ensuring that 8,000 Detroit youth and young adults have meaningful summer work experiences that create pathways to future opportunities.
Detroit Justice Center
The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is committed to democratizing access to the law. It works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities. Our grant supports DJC in providing direct representation for legal clients in courts in Southeast Michigan.
Detroit Life is Valuable Everyday
Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday (DLIVE) is a hospital-based violence intervention initiative that provides evidence-based, long-term, holistic aftercare for youth and young adults who have sustained acute intentional violent trauma. DLIVE’s transformative interventions make communities safer by preventing re-injury and retaliation and breaking the pervasive cycle of violence.
Detroit Public Schools Community District
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is Michigan’s largest public education system, with a mission to educate and empower every student with the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to thrive, and to build a stronger Detroit. Our grant supports the launch of 12 Health Hubs at neighborhood high schools, ensuring that students and families are able to access primary physical and behavioral health services right in the neighborhoods where they live.
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, Inc.
The Detroit Regional Talent Compact is led by Detroit Drives Degrees, the Detroit Regional Chamber’s collective impact initiative that brings together business, philanthropy, government, and education to accomplish two goals: increase Detroit’s postsecondary attainment rate to 60% and reduce its racial equity gap by 50% by 2030. Our grant strengthens regional talent preparation by better-connecting students to career exposure, work-based learning, and credentials that lead to good jobs.
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, Inc.
The Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation’s Racial Justice and Economic Equity Initiative executes the Detroit Resident Voices 2023 survey that will help regional business, philanthropy, government, and non-profit leaders understand and respond collectively to the most critical equity issues affecting Detroiters. Our grant will provide support for survey execution, release of results, and facilitate resulting action.
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, Inc.
The Detroit Drives Degrees Community College Collaborative (D3C3) at the Detroit Regional Chamber supports the community college system in Southeast Michigan. D3C3 provides community colleges with financial resources and technical assistance to implement collaborative regional strategies to improve educational opportunities and strengthen the talent pipeline. The ultimate goal of this work is to increase postsecondary attainment in Michigan to 60% and reduce the racial equity attainment gap by half by 2030.
Develop Detroit
Develop Detroit strives to build and preserve high-quality housing that helps transform neighborhoods across Detroit. Develop Detroit plans to create pathways to assist renters in moving into homeownership opportunities through education and connections to other supports, pilot innovative construction methodologies to improve affordability, rehabilitate blighted and vacant properties, and provide access to jobs and workforce training for residents.
Digital Harbor Foundation
Digital Harbor Foundation unlocks opportunities and access by disrupting the root causes of the digital divide in our communities. Our grant supports Digital Harbor’s management of the Safety Net Product Studio, which seeks to source, support, and scale AI tools that improve access to and delivery of public benefits programs.
Diversity in Leadership Institute
The Diversity in Leadership Institute creates equitable outcomes for Black and Latinx students by building a movement of racially diverse and culturally competent public education leaders. Our grant supports increased capacity to build a strong and sustainable administrator pipeline reflective of California’s public school communities.
Downtown Emergency Service Center
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) envisions a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness. The organization provides comprehensive services and solutions to help individuals achieve their highest potential and effectively address challenges related to homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness.
E3 Alliance
E3 Alliance is working to transform education systems through data and collaboration so all students in Central Texas can succeed. Our grant supports its Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Initiative, which aims to strengthen pipelines into advanced manufacturing jobs that offer opportunities for economic mobility and improve career outcomes for young people.
E3 Alliance
E3 Alliance is working to transform education systems through data and collaboration so all students in Central Texas can succeed. Our grant supports E3’s efforts to strengthen its data talent pipeline by developing a pilot internship program with Texas colleges, placing the interns across network partners within the Place-Based Partnership ecosystem. The organization will also formalize a professional mentorship program for staff in hard-to-recruit roles.
Early Edge California
Early Edge California believes all children should have access to high-quality learning experiences so they can have a strong foundation for future success. It centers the voices of families, educators, and childcare providers to uplift their challenges and needs; educates lawmakers, leaders, and others about the need for investment in early learning and care programs; builds coalitions to recommend statewide funding levels and policy change; and promotes quality programs.
Early Educator Investment Collaborative
Early Educator Investment Collaborative helps all early educators achieve their full potential as professionals to ensure that each child is prepared for success in school and life. Our grant advances the organization’s 10 year vision of eliminating the opportunity gap via a stable and well-prepared early educator workforce.
Eastside Pathways
Eastside Pathways is a community wide partnership of more than 60 public, private, and nonprofit organizations that is transforming the way the communities in East King County work together to make a positive impact in the lives of children and youth. Our grant supports the place based partnership infrastructure, in particular strategic plan implementation and capacity building of partners.
Echoing Green
Echoing Green finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and sets them on a path to lifelong impact by funding, connecting, and supporting new generations of social impact leaders. Our funding will support Black-led organizations under two years old.
Economic Security Project
Economic Security Project connects thousands of low-income families to tax credits for which they are eligible, fostering financial relief and economic mobility. Our grant supports the “Claim Your Cash LA” pilot program to expand, improve, and build more durable collaboration between local government and nonprofit organizations to broaden benefits access more equitably.
Economic Security Project
Economic Security Project advocates for ideas that build economic power for all Americans, focusing on three key areas of work: 1) cash tax credits, 2) guaranteed income, and 3) shaping markets. Our grant supports its efforts to elevate awareness and usage of Direct File.
EdRedesign Lab (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
EdRedesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education seeks to ensure the social, emotional, physical, and academic development and wellbeing of all children and youth, especially those affected by racism and poverty. Our grant supports its launch of a visiting fellowship program for the next wave of leaders for cradle-to-career place-based partnerships.
Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach
Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach increases access to high-quality early learning across southern California. It is a hub to model how early learning programs can provide quality early education, partner with families, and advocate for education practice and policy.
Education Pioneers
Education Pioneers provides an entry point for skilled professionals to drive systems-level change in public education. Its fellowship program trains and develops high potential PreK-12 leaders who build bridges in polarized landscapes, lead inclusively, and amplify solutions for long-term change.
Education Service District 105
In Washington, educational service districts (ESDs) support school districts and communities. ESD 105, located in Yakima, WA, serves almost 70,000 students across 25 school districts in four counties. Our grant will build ESD 105’s capacity to universally assess students’ social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health and well-being; provide critical data for the early identification of students who may require additional support and intervention; and strengthen behavioral and mental health supports and referrals.
Education Service District 105
The mission of ESD 105 is to provide essential support and resources to school districts in Central Washington, enhancing educational outcomes for nearly 70,000 students across Kittitas, Yakima, Grant, and Klickitat Counties. Our grant will support the development of a sustainable, equity-focused leadership initiative in partnership with the Center for Educational Leadership. This initiative aims to empower 100 educators through the Aspiring Leaders program and co-develop a local leadership training model, ultimately improving equity-driven leadership and educational excellence in the region.
Educators For Excellence
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 teachers to stay informed, expand their leadership, connect with colleagues and decision-makers, and advocate for change.
Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Community Partners is organized around three central goals: to increase housing supply, advance racial equity, and build resilience and upward mobility. Our grant supports Enterprise in addressing the homelessness crisis in Southern California by scaling production and preservation of affordable homes.
Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Community Partners in Detroit leverages the city’s assets with capital, programs, and policy to advance racial equity and preserve affordable homes. Our grant supports the Community Development Organization Fund, to support the long-term capacity of community-based organizations in Detroit and their neighborhood residents.
Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise addresses America’s massive shortage of affordable rental homes through innovative solutions, capital investment, and community development. This approach transforms homes and communities into places of pride, power, and belonging, serving as platforms for resilience and upward mobility. Our grant connects Enterprise’s partners, programs, and solutions within Place-Based Partnerships to meet housing needs, ultimately enhancing cradle-to-career outcomes.
Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Community Partners makes home and community places of pride, power, and belonging, as well as platforms for resilience and upward mobility for all. Our grant supports Enterprise Pacific Northwest’s goal to increase housing supply by preserving and producing affordable housing via the coordination and capacity-building of developers.
Enterprise Community Partners
Equitable Path Forward, a multi-year initiative within Enterprise Community Partners, aims to dismantle the legacy of racism in housing. Our grant supports EPF’s mission to elevate developers and housing providers of color in order to diversify the commercial real estate industry and equalize power and profit within community development by providing loans, advisory services, and peer-to-peer networking.
Epidaurus
Amity Foundation operates with a commitment to fostering personal transformation, changing policy, and increasing public safety. Our grant will support its work to end mass incarceration through policy, to improve equity for individuals and families impacted by incarceration, and to bring people safely home to treatment, housing, and jobs.
Equal Justice Initiative
Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. It provides research and recommendations to assist advocates and policymakers in the work of criminal justice reform.
Equity Alliance of Michigan
Equity Alliance of Michigan, formerly Danett Associates Inc., holds the profound belief that every community member deserves not only equal opportunities but also tailored resources that reflect the rich tapestry of our society. Through a variety of programming—including workforce-preparation and job-readiness offerings— the organization endeavors to break down barriers for diverse people, foster understanding, and create pathways to success for all.
ExpandLA
The Expanded Learning Alliance (ExpandLA) is a countywide effort to reimagine where and when joyful learning happens by making the most of the time youth have beyond the school day. ExpandLA supports, connects, and advocates for expanded learning opportunities that provide equitable access for all children and youth in the LA area.
Families in Schools
Families in Schools works to involve parents and communities in their children’s education to achieve lifelong success. It provides capacity building to education staff, empowers families to support their children’s education, and advocates for policies and practices that promote authentic family engagement.
Family Assistance for Renaissance Men
Family Assistance for Renaissance Men helps fathers develop relationships with their children and assists them in securing living wage jobs for their families. Our grant supports three annual 10-week training programs that provide workforce development services, financial literacy, fatherhood responsibility training, mentoring, job placement assistance, and other related services.
Family Impact Network
Family Impact Network facilitates a better system that transitions under-resourced children and families from crisis to healing. Reaching 20 counties in Eastern and Central Washington, Family Impact Network smooths processes and builds stronger connections between service providers and government, so that families can get the care they need quickly and easily, and so social workers can spend more of their time helping families.
FareStart
FareStart transforms lives, disrupts poverty, and nourishes communities through food, life skills, and job training. Our grant helps rebuild and expand workplace development programs in the greater Seattle area.
Fast Forward
Fast Forward mobilizes the resources tech nonprofits need to create positive impact at scale. They operate three main programs, and several smaller programs as part of this work. The core programs include a Startup Accelerator focused on early-stage organizations, a Growth Accelerator focused on scaling promising organizations that have moved beyond the “startup” stage and can expand their impact with additional capital, and a light-weight “Pitch Camp” focused on helping organizations sharpen their storytelling and operations in the interest of more effectively raising funds. Our grant enables its support of economic mobility tech nonprofits through its Economic Mobility Portfolio.
Fines and Fees Justice Center
The Fines and Fees Justice Center is a national advocacy organization working to create a justice system that treats individuals fairly, ensures public safety and is funded equitably. The center works with affected communities and justice system stakeholders to eliminate justice system fees, ensure that fines are equitably imposed and enforced, and end abusive collection practices.
FIRST Clinic
FIRST Legal Clinic is dedicated to preventing unnecessary family separation by providing early legal intervention to pregnant individuals and parents at risk of child welfare involvement, with a focus on reducing racial disparities in child welfare outcomes. Our grant will support FIRST’s expansion efforts by funding key leadership positions, increasing contracted legal services, and enhancing data tracking systems. This investment will strengthen FIRST’s capacity to serve more families, expand into Pierce County, and build a sustainable funding model, ensuring that more families receive the support they need to stay safely together.
First Five Action Fund
First Five Action mobilizes and supports initiatives to ensure that all children from birth to age five have equal access to affordable, comprehensive, high-quality care and education. First Five Action drives policy solutions by educating Congressional offices about key policies and investments, connecting with campaigns focused on the significance of early learning and childcare issues, and demonstrating the necessity for increased federal investment in early learning and childcare.
First Place for Youth
First Place helps foster youth build the skills they need to make a successful transition to self sufficiency and responsible adulthood. Our grant supports work in Southern California to provide transition aged youth and teens with stable housing, support for higher education progress, and support to obtain employment.
Foster America
Foster America seeks to transform systems that serve children, youth, and families by innovating for a more just, equitable future. Our grant supports its work related to enhancing innovation capacity in Washington state, which ultimately aims to increase family wellbeing, safely decrease child welfare involvement, and determine the most effective capacity additions for Washington in the long term.
Foundation for California Community Colleges
Foundation for California Community Colleges works to reduce barriers to opportunity, strengthen communities, and accelerate paths to economic and social mobility for all Californians. The Foundation benefits, supports, and enhances the mission of the California Community College system, the largest higher education system in the nation. Our grant enables the organization’s efforts related to driving long-term success for higher-education systems and support for the development and implementation of the Master Plan for Career Education.
Foundation For Excellence In Education Inc
ExcelinEd supports state leaders in transforming education to unlock opportunity and lifelong success for every child. Our grant supports and advances state policies that bridge the digital divide – students’ and teachers’ lack of access to the internet and digital devices – which will offer students, schools, and teachers expanded learning and professional development opportunities.
Foundation for Health Care Quality
Foundation for Health Care Quality partners with clinicians, health systems, health plans, and others to improve appropriateness, quality, and safety of clinical care. Our grant supports its efforts to measure the impact of interventions and patient experiences on maternal health disparities and birth outcomes.
Foundation for Tacoma Students
Foundation for Tacoma Students is dedicated to ensuring the continuity, stability, and growth of Graduate Tacoma, a place based partnership focused on positive outcomes for students, especially students of color and those impacted by poverty. Our grant helps expand the use of disagregated data, cross sector collaboration, and data sharing.
Freedman Consulting, LLC
Freedman Consulting works with leading philanthropies and nonprofits to tackle the most challenging problems at the intersections of policy, philanthropy, and politics, creating lasting impact and innovations for the greater social good. Our grants support its philanthropic partnerships with the California Governor’s Office of Social Innovation.
Friends of the Children
Friends of the Children pairs youth facing the toughest systematic barriers with professional mentors who help prepare them for post-secondary education and/or employment, develop positive goals for the future, and develop a healthy lifestyle. The organization’s youth-development program works to break the cycle of poverty and violence through three primary prevention goals: school dropout, teen parenting, and involvement with the criminal justice system.
Friends of the Children – Seattle
Friends of the Children-Seattle pairs youth facing the toughest systematic barriers with professional mentors who help prepare them for post-secondary education and/or employment; develop positive goals for the future; and develop a healthy lifestyle. Friends of the Children commits to each child for 12-plus years.
Friends of Youth
Friends of Youth serves youth and young families facing circumstances of homelessness, foster care, and behavioral health challenges, and provides individualized care, mentorship, and community relationships to enable their personal growth and success. Our grant supports Friends of Youth in their work to prevent youth and young families from entering crisis situations and providing high-quality services tailored to meet their holistic needs.
Funders for Housing and Opportunity
Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a cross-sector, non-partisan, nationwide funder collaborative committed to strengthening the future of our nation by improving housing options and life opportunities for all Americans. FHO brings leading funders together to ensure stable housing, especially for those who have historically been denied access.
FUSE Corps
Fuse Corps increases the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone. Fuse embeds experienced professionals to lead year-long executive fellowship projects in city and county agencies.
Genesys Works
Genesys Works provides pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities through skills training, meaningful work experiences, and impactful relationships. Through its work, young adults are equipped and empowered with the knowledge and skills required to achieve career success, upward mobility, and a lifetime of economic self sufficiency.
GirlTREK Incorporated
With more than one million members, GirlTREK is working to ensure that Black women can live longer, healthier lives. Energized by the discipline of daily walking, GirlTREK aims to sustain and scale behavior change and improve health outcomes while healing intergenerational trauma, fighting systemic racism, mobilizing community members, and advocating for health justice.
Golden State Opportunity Foundation
Golden State Opportunity is dedicated to ending poverty by providing all Californians with the tools to build financial wellbeing. Our grant supports its outreach to more than one million low-income Angelenos, helping them to claim hundreds of millions of dollars from tax credits and improve their financial situations.
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit co-creates independence and dignity for people in the Detroit, Michigan area through the power of personal and workforce development. Our grant supports the organization to expand its Flip the Script program, which works to reduce recidivism and support the success and personal development of justice-involved people by providing life skills, education, job placement, financial coaching, and post-employment retention services.
Govern for America Inc
Govern For America bridges the gap between governments and emerging leaders to build a pipeline of diverse and dynamic public sector talent, building the next generation of public servants to create a more responsive government that better reflects and serves our communities.
GRACE
GRACE’s advocacy focuses on increasing cash resources for vulnerable families, enhancing the civic infrastructure that supports families by securing state funding for cradle to career networks that are serving families directly in their neighborhoods, and scaling up proven strategies. Our grant will support GRACE’s work to advance place-based poverty alleviation strategies and economic justice initiatives in Los Angeles County and California.
Great Public Schools Now
Great Public Schools Now (GPSN) catalyzes the transformation of Los Angeles’ public education system so that students of color and students living in poverty gain the knowledge, skills, and experiences to lead thriving adult lives. GPSN approaches this through school improvement, expanded afterschool and summer learning programs, and collective action to advance student-centered policies.
Green Door Initiative
Green Door Initiative (GDI), based in Detroit, aims to ensure that every person is environmentally literate, and capable of practicing and promoting sustainability as a lifestyle. GDI is organized into four program categories: Ensuring Environmental Justice, Environmental Technician Career Worker Training Program, Youth Speak Green and Solar. Our grant supports the expansion of GDI’s workforce initiatives including increasing the environmental technicians careers workforce development training to include clean renewable energy offerings.
Green Dot Public Schools California
Green Dot Public Schools is a network of charter schools in Los Angeles, California; Memphis, Tennessee; and Beaumont, Texas. Green Dot is focused on the reduction of poverty through college attainment. Students with GPAs lower than 2.5 are at the highest risk of experiencing chronic absenteeism, dropping out, and not attending college. Our grant supports Green Dot’s investments in advisors to support hundreds of Black high school students at five focus schools in earning GPAs above the 2.5 necessary to apply to and enroll in competitive colleges.
Harborview Medical Center
The Harborview Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) is a program of Harborview Medical Center that is dedicated to advancing innovation, research, and clinical practice in community behavioral health. Our grant supports the BHI, in partnership with Health Management Associates, facilitating the state-wide crisis redesign process.
Harborview Medical Center
Our grant supports University of Washington’s Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center to collaborate with community partners to create apprenticeship programs in behavioral health to help build a qualified, diverse workforce to meet the demand for care in the region.
Harlem Children’s Zone
Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) aims to end intergenerational poverty in Central Harlem with wraparound programming that builds up opportunities for children, families, and community members to thrive in school, work, and life. HCZ’s Wealth Builds program combines the organization’s holistic pathway of cradle-to-career services with financial education and capital investments at every stage of life to close the wealth gap.
Hazel Park Promise Zone Authority
Hazel Park Promise Zone and College Access Network helps to revitalize the Hazel Park, Michigan, community by offering its high school graduates a tuition-free path to an associate’s degree and providing college and career preparatory programs. Our grant helps expand coaching and mentoring programs.
Hazel Park Schools
Situated in Oakland County, MI, Hazel Park Schools is a preK-12 school district that serves nearly 3,000 students, 78% of whom are considered economically disadvantaged. Our grant will assist Hazel Park Schools in expanding its successful Community School model across the district to tackle educational, social, and health disparities in a high-poverty community.
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention helps heal communities affected by violence by fostering hospital and community collaborations to advance equitable, trauma informed care, and violence intervention and prevention programs. Our grant supports the Alliance to coordinate and collaborate with leading community violence intervention technical assistance providers and develop and deliver a comprehensive package of training and technical assistance that seeks to reduce gun violence in 12 U.S. cities by 20 percent in three years.
Healthcare Anchor Network
Healthcare Anchor Network is a national collaboration of more than 70 leading healthcare systems building more inclusive and sustainable local economies. Our grant supports the Network to establish exemplars and codify how healthcare institutions can effectively collaborate in cross sector Place Based Partnerships.
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Youth Inc.
Heart of Los Angeles offers youth in Los Angeles’ most overlooked neighborhoods exceptional, free, integrated programs and personalized guidance in a trusted, nurturing environment. Our grant supports expansion so more kids and communities can benefit from Heart of Los Angeles’ comprehensive array of after-school and summer academic, arts, athletics, and wellness programs.
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Youth Inc.
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) tackles systemic barriers by offering kids a comprehensive array of after school academic, arts, athletics, and wellness programs. Our grant helps support HOLA’s programming in south Los Angeles.
Henry Ford College
Henry Ford College is a community college in Dearborn, Michigan, serving 17,000 enrolled students. Our grant expands the college’s efforts to improve student degree completion by increasing the capacity to track student trends and identify needs for intervention, as well as restructure academic advising.
Henry Ford Health
One of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, Henry Ford Health (HFH), is developing a talent and education strategy to prepare and hire youth and young adults in Southeast Michigan for a wide range of high-growth healthcare careers. Our grant will support HFH in employing young people in healthcare pathway jobs, eliminating barriers to sustained career opportunities at HFH, and creating stronger pipelines from high school and college into employment—making a generational impact for families and children in Detroit.
Heritage University
Our grant supports Yakima Valley Partners for Education, a place-based partnership serving Yakima County, WA, and a program of Heritage University, to collaborate with schools and communities to improve educational outcomes for all youth, cradle to career.
Hispanas Organized for Political Equity-California
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) is a nonpartisan organization committed to ensuring political and economic parity for Latinas through leadership, advocacy, and education to benefit all communities and the status of women. Our grant supports increased capacity for the HOPE Leadership Institute (HLI) to provide education leadership training to Los Angeles-based Latina professionals and the establishment of a formal HLI alumni affinity network.
Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of the community. Each year, more than 10,000 former gang members from across Los Angeles, California come through Homeboy Industries’ doors and are welcomed into a community of mutual kinship, love, and a wide variety of services ranging from tattoo removal to anger management and parenting classes.
Homestart Inc.
Homestart Inc. works to end homelessness in Greater Boston by assisting individuals in obtaining housing and settling into the community, and by developing strategies to prevent homelessness before it starts. Our grant supports the scaling of its innovative eviction-prevention program, The Renew Collaborative, into three national markets.
Horatio Williams Foundation
Horatio Williams Foundation is dedicated to helping Detroit, Michigan youth realize personal success and achievement through a series of developmental leadership programs that engage students in education, sports, and community service activities. Our grant will support the Foundation to expand their family supportive services and educational programming.
Housing Authority of the City of Tacoma
Housing Authority of the City of Tacoma provides high quality, stable, and sustainable housing and supportive services to people in need. Our grant supports expanded access to the 2Gen program. The program will continue to develop family-centered coaching practices into a supportive services model that recognizes the natural assets of multi-generational families and the importance of a multi-layered support ecosystem. It will integrate mental and emotional well-being into the model through social-emotional learning, mental health partnerships, and family-driven goal setting.
Housing Connector
Housing Connector is a tech-for-good nonprofit that increases access to housing for individuals most in need. Housing Connectors works to solve financial and other challenges for property managers so property managers can open doors to more people in the community. Our grant enables Housing Connector to expand to five new markets and connect an additional 3,000 people to housing by the end of 2024.
Housing Partnership Network
Housing Partnership Network works to address affordable housing and community development challenges. Through practitioner-driven peer exchange, policy, and innovation, it leverages and mobilizes the collective power of its member organizations.
I AM ME
I AM ME provides wraparound support services for students and their families to increase post-secondary/college readiness, access to scholarship opportunities, and cross-cultural experiences. Our grant launches a pilot youth fellowship program for a cohort of selected students from Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Ideas42
Ideas42 uses insights from behavioral science to improve lives, build better systems and policies, and drive social change. Its work is helping people better understand, remember, and attend court dates, benefiting those most impacted by the judicial system: communities with low wealth and people of color.
Imagine Institute
The Imagine Institute supports affordable, high-quality care for every child in Washington State by building a development system that elevates and improves the lives of child care providers and professionals. Our grant bolsters Imagine Institute’s training, resources, professional development, and mentoring programs designed to help people start and expand their child care businesses.
iMentor
iMentor harnesses the power of long term, personal relationships to help students succeed. Our grant supports iMentor to build more partnerships with public high schools in communities which a majority of students served will be first generation college graduates, setting up long term 1:1 mentoring relationships that empower students to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions.
Impact Fellows Action Fund
Impact Fellows Action Fund provides funding and technical assistance to state-level advocates and grassroots organizations working on early-childhood issues. It provides crucial funding and support that helps to turn policy advocacy into political action for young children and their families.
Impact Genome Registry
Impact Genome Registry is a repository for impact data on more than 2.2 million global nonprofits and social programs, which catalogs standardized data on outcomes, strategies, beneficiaries, context, cost, and evidence quality. Our grant supports its efforts to scale the nonprofit benefits of an impact registry.
Inner City Education Foundation
Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) operates seven schools that educate over 2,500 students in grades TK through 12, welcoming a diverse student population (65% Black / 35% Latino) from culturally rich families seeking enhanced educational opportunities. ICEF has established itself as a leader in closing learning gaps for Black & Latinx/e students in California.
InnerCity Struggle
InnerCity Struggle aims to cultivate a vibrant, multigenerational, and civically engaged Eastside of Los Angeles that ensures racial justice, quality education, equitable economy, and a healthy built environment for residents most affected by systemic injustices. InnerCity Struggle builds power through community, training, and direct action campaigns to advance justice, life opportunities, and dignity in the Eastside.
Innovia Foundation
LaunchNW is an initiative of the Innovia Foundation, aiming to enhance post-high school training opportunities in Eastern Washington and North Idaho, ultimately leading to quality local jobs. Our grant will support the expansion of LaunchNW’s services by funding six post-high school navigator positions, which will provide critical support to students transitioning from high school to post-secondary education. This initiative aims to improve student persistence and credential completion, addressing regional workforce development needs and reducing educational inequities.
Institute for Educational Leadership
The Coalition for Community Schools based at the Institute for Educational Leadership engages leaders from across the country interested in implementing Community Schools to advocate for policies and funding to support Community Schools, while promoting high quality practice and knowledge sharing to increase quality and impact. Our grant enables the Coalition to promote the Essentials of Community Schools and lift up examples for those interested in this work to learn from and build upon.
Institute for Family Development
Institute for Family Development advocates for cost-effective and equitable policies and programs that keep children safe and families together. Its programs decrease the need to place children into foster care, residential treatment, and juvenile justice facilities. Families are served in their own homes and engaged as partners in change. The organization provides a range of family counseling programs and home-based parent education throughout Washington state.
Institute for Nonprofit Management
The Institute for Nonprofit Practice supports the most promising social impact leaders to transform communities by equipping them with the skills, networks, confidence, and the resources they need. Our funding supports The Black Leadership Institute in Detroit, Seattle, and Los Angeles, which connects, inspires, and uplifts senior-level Black leaders shaping social impact across the country and across sectors.
Institute for Workforce Development and Sustainability
Institute for Workforce Development and Sustainability equips Washington’s business community with tools and resources to establish a robust workforce. Our grant supports the organization’s work related to the Washington Legislator Education and Action Project (LEAP) which aims to build sustained education and engagement among policymakers and civic leaders about child care and early learning.
Jalen Rose Leadership Academy
Jalen Rose Leadership Academy is a public charter high school in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 2011, the school serves more than 400 students and over 600 alumni with its college success program. Our grant strengthens their college and career readiness programs and helps improve the school’s facilities.
JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation
Pritzker Children’s Initiative works collectively to increase investments in families with children prenatal to age three to address and eliminate disparities and to ensure equitable access and participation in culturally relevant, high-quality, responsive early childhood services.
Jobs to Move America
Jobs to Move America believes that public funds are our most powerful resource for shaping a better future for American workers. Through strategic research, policy advocacy, and coalition organizing, Jobs to Move America seeks to ensure that public funds foster a more inclusive democracy, equitable economy, and healthy environment for all communities.
Justice Innovation Lab
Justice Innovation Lab builds data-informed, human-centered solutions for a more equitable, effective, and fair justice system. Its team, composed of data scientists, human-centered design experts, prosecutors, policymakers, and community advocates, supports local leaders in identifying unfair practices and developing effective alternative solutions.
Juvenile Law Center
The Debt Free Justice campaign is dedicated to eliminating the financial burdens of juvenile fees and fines, advocating for fair treatment of youth and families across diverse jurisdictions. Our grant will support the campaign’s efforts to abolish these fees and fines in additional states, ensure the effective implementation of existing legislation, and broaden the initiative to address other monetary sanctions in municipal courts, schools, and the child welfare system.
Kent School Services Network
The Michigan Coalition for Community Schools is an emerging partnership with a shared vision: the people of Michigan collaborate to achieve educational equity by providing every young person and their families with what they need to grow and thrive. The Michigan State Coalition will support community school models by bringing together statewide partners to align resources and practices, organizing professional learning communities to share and enhance best practices, and advocating for educational policies that prioritize students and families.
Kindering Center
Kindering’s CHERISH program offers free screenings, therapy, and support services for the youngest children (ages zero to five) involved in the child welfare system to minimize trauma, stabilize placements, and facilitate healthy transitions. Our grant supports expansion to offer services to more children and families before they reach out-of-home care, helping more families in crisis and preventing removals.
King County Children, Youth, and Young Adults Division
A program under King County’s Children, Youth, and Young Adults division, King County Promise provides services that support young people from high school through postsecondary acceptance and completion. Our grant enables a comprehensive evaluation of King County Promise to identify learnings and shape strategic direction to optimize the program’s next phase of growth and scale.
KIPP Foundation
KIPP Public Schools is a network of 280 public charter schools with 15,000 educators and 175,000 students and alumni. Our grant supports the network’s growth.
KIPP SoCal Public Schools
For over 20 years, KIPP SoCal has been committed to providing equitable educational access to all students in Southern California. Through its rigorous, joyful, and academically excellent schools that respond to and embrace the aspirations of its students, families, and communities, KIPP SoCal has positively impacted more than 18,000 students from historically under-resourced communities.
Kitsap Strong
Kitsap Strong is a community initiative focused on improving the health and well being of all children, families, and adults in Kitsap County, WA. Our grant supports their role as a backbone, empowering collective efforts of over 100 partner organizations, and their capacity building efforts through the Collaborative Learning Academies (CLA) program, a year-long training experience for community teams to learn about the science of adversity & trauma, and techniques & strategies for building resilience.
Koreatown Youth and Community Center
Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) aims to serve the evolving needs of the Korean American population in the greater Los Angeles area as well as the multiethnic Koreatown community. KYCC is the leading multiservice organization in Koreatown, supporting children and their families in the areas of education, health, housing, and finances. Its programs and services are directed toward recently immigrated, economically disadvantaged youth and families, and promote community socioeconomic empowerment.
LA Local News Initiative
LA Local News Initiative aims to ensure that 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 things that accurately reflect the full spectrum of their lived experiences.
LA Partnership for Early Childhood Investment
The LA Partnership for Early Childhood Investment (PECI) invests in and promotes innovations that advance the lifelong health and well-being of LA County children ages 0-5. Our grant supports PECI’s efforts to involve, include, and amplify perspectives and voices of parents and childcare leaders to help inform the region’s early childhood policies and programs.
LA Partnership for Early Childhood Investment
LA Partnership for Early Childhood Investment is a public private collaboration that invests in and promotes innovations to advance the lifelong health and well being of children ages 0-5 in Los Angeles County, California. Our grant supports the Village Fund to ensure that the needs and experiences of those weathering and experiencing the most adverse birth outcomes – Black families – are involved in developing and driving solutions to birth equity.
LeaderIn
LeaderIn creates space and community for purpose-driven business, public, and social executives to improve their overall resilience and well-being. LeaderIn is a membership community formed to address leadership burnout and provide the holistic leadership development needed to navigate a rapidly changing environment successfully.
Leadership for Educational Equity Foundation
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.
Learning Policy Institute
Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and communicates independent, high quality research to improve education policy and practice. Our grant enables LPI to build on their groundbreaking work to help schools and school districts better understand how to implement high quality Community Schools and braid multiple sources of funding to ensure exemplars are sustained long-term.
Learning Policy Institute
Learning Policy Institute conducts and communicates independent, high-quality research to improve education policy and practice. Our grant enables the organization’s research related to supporting California’s investment in universal pre-kindergarten.
Legal Counsel for Youth & Children
Legal Counsel for Youth and Children protects the interests and safety of youth in Washington by advancing their legal rights. Our grant will expand access to legal aid for youth experiencing homelessness and youth impacted by the child welfare system in Washington state, and support systemic advocacy efforts.
Lever for Change
Lever for Change connects donors with problem solvers to provide large-scale, long-term funding and accelerate social change. Lever for Change builds the knowledge base of the philanthropy sector by identifying and vetting outstanding yet under-recognized leaders and organizations, raising their visibility, offering them ongoing support, and increasing their funding opportunities to grow their impact.
Lighthouse MI
Lighthouse builds equitable communities and alleviates poverty in southeast Michigan, in partnership with and in service to residents, families, and local organizations. Lighthouse focuses on responding to the basic needs and establishing longer term stability for those experiencing poverty; improving the broader systems contributing to poverty; and engaging, educating, and empowering communities so that all have access to a better quality of life.
Live6 Alliance
Live6 Alliance’s mission is to enhance the quality of life and economic opportunity in Northwest Detroit. Among its many services, Live6 helps to increase access to community health and human service resources, to provide assistance to entrepreneurs and small businesses, and to connect residents to job training and workforce opportunities – all working toward the vision of revitalized, sustainable neighborhoods.
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade, Black United Fund, Inc
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade is a grassroots organization with a vision of improving quality of life and meeting the unmet needs of low-income, underserved, under-represented and disenfranchised individuals. Our grant supports Proud to Be Me, its trauma-informed youth development initiative, which will provide leadership development, competency-based skills development, and more to Black male youth ages 14-29 from Los Angeles, Inglewood, Lynwood, Compton, and Pomona.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
A program of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) offers local youth free instruments, comprehensive music instruction, and opportunities to perform on stages in their communities and around the world. Our grant enhances the YOLA Center in Inglewood to reach more students through its after-school program and broaden access for high school students in South LA and Inglewood.
Los Angeles Room & Board
Los Angeles Room and Board works to ensure California’s community college students realize their postsecondary education goals by providing affordable transitional housing designed to end homelessness. The organization also offers a residential education program designed to promote persistence, retention, and completion of students’ degree programs.
Low Income Investment Fund
Low Income Investment Fund mobilizes capital and partners in support of the vision that everyone in the U.S. should benefit from living in a community of opportunity, equity, and well-being. Our grant supports its work related to increasing the effectiveness of California’s Infrastructure Grant Program, ensuring Los Angeles-based early childhood education providers receive support to successfully stabilize and grow the licensed supply of childcare where it is most critical.