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Our Grantee Partners

Empowering Change Through Collaboration

Our grantee partners are at the heart of our mission and have been part of our journey since 2021. We believe in the power of collective action and collaboration to drive meaningful change. Together, we are creating lasting, positive transformations in communities, environments, and lives.

Acacia Center for Justice

The Acacia Center for Justice is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that supports and partners with a national network of human rights defenders who provide legal defense to immigrants at risk of detention or deportation. Acacia fights for access to legal defense for all immigrants at risk of detention or deportation, regardless of age, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, race, the perceived strength of a case, previous interaction with the criminal system, or any other factor.
National

Asian American Liberation Network

Building power in the Asian American community to advance social justice and collective liberation.
Sacramento

Black Students of California United

To provide California’s African American youth with the tools, education and experiences to prepare them to become fully engaged participants in the state’s civic and economic life.
REGIONAL/STATE

Black Wellness & Prosperity Center

BWPC is unapologetically dedicated to the Black community in California’s Central Valley with the goal of improving Black Maternal and Infant Health outcomes.
FRESNO

Black Youth Leadership Project

Black Youth Leadership Project (BYLP) develops and implements educational programs for Black youth in areas of leadership development, youth empowerment, academic success, emotional intelligence, media development, cultural awareness and identity.
Sacramento

Breakbox Thought Collective

Breakbox Thought Collective aims to foster a holistic, arts-integrated approach to healing the community they serve. They provide a space for culturally responsive events, economic opportunities, and programs which create lasting impact in the Central Valley through cross-sector collaboration.
Fresno

California Center for Civic Participation

The California Center for Civic Participation is a non-profit civic education organization, engaging high school students by sparking their interest with exposure to real excitement of the democratic process.
Sacramento

California Humanities

Connecting Californians to ideas and one another in order to understand our shared heritage and diverse cultures, inspire civic participation, and shape our future.
STATE

California Immigrant Policy Center

The California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in California by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.
Regional/State

California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance

CIYJA creates a space for intersectional, system-impacted undocumented and refugee immigrant youth across California with an emphasis on underserved QTBIPOC communities. We organize through an abolitionist framework to close down detention centers and build up community power through providing holistic care, transforming communities, and cultivating leadership for liberation.
Regional/State

Californians Together

Californians Together leverages the recognized expertise of members to promote the use of students’ linguistic skills as a positive asset contributing to their success. They advise state and national policy makers and mobilizes communities to protect and promote access to quality education for the state’s English Learners.
Regional/State

Capital Public Radio

In conjunction with Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, CapRadio provides a trusted and indispensable source of information, music, and entertainment while strengthening the civic and cultural life of the communities we serve. CapRadio inspires others to look at the world from multiple perspectives and capitalizes on emerging opportunities to serve our audience and engage our communities.
SACRAMENTO

Central Valley Community Foundation

The Central Valley Community Foundation works with donors and nonprofits to advance effective philanthropy and build stronger communities. CVCF provides giving options for individuals, families, businesses and other foundations to invest in programs that address social and environmental needs.
Fresno

Central Valley Journalism Collaborative

The Central Valley Journalism Collaborative (CVJC) is a nonprofit infrastructure dedicated to keeping public service journalism thriving in California’s Central Valley, despite the collapse of the traditional media industry over the last 15 years, and the outright demise of independent, local news in many communities.
Merced

Central Valley Latino Leadership Academy

CVLLA’s primary objective is to elevate the collective well-being of Central Valley residents by cultivating and promoting leadership that is representative of the Latino community.
REGIONAL

Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño

The Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño works to achieve the well-being, equality and self-determination of the indigenous communities.
Fresno

Centro La Familia Advocacy Services

Providing services that empower and support families and individuals in our culturally diverse community.
Fresno

Communities for a New California

Promoting economic prosperity and community health for residents in the rural areas of California. We bring valley residents together to champion the needs of poor and working-class families through community organizing, integrated leadership development, and mass non-partisan voter engagement.
REGIONAL/STATE

Community Interventions

Creating, nurturing, and sustaining equity for the marginalized and most vulnerable in the Central Valley. Confronting social justice issues of mass incarceration, health, racial, economic, education and housing inequities through uplifting the voices of impacted communities.
REGIONAL

Community Justice Center

Community Justice Center seeks to cultivate individual and collective well-being, shared accountability, and healing through community-driven research.
FRESNO

Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District

The Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District supports students and families in Tulare County.
Tulare County

Delhi Unified School District

The Delhi Unified School District supports students and families in Merced County.
Merced County

Dyer-Kelley Elementary School

The Dyer-Kelley Elementary School serves students and families in Sacramento County.
Sacramento

EdSource

EdSource works to engage Californians on key education challenges with the goal of enhancing learning success. They provide information to education stakeholders and the larger public; advancing awareness of major education initiatives being implemented in California and nationally; and highlighting effective models and strategies intended to improve student outcomes, as well as identifying areas that are in need of repair or reform. Supported by NewsMatch, the largest grassroots fundraising campaign to champion nonprofit news in the U.S.
Regional

El Tecolote

El Tecolote is the voice of San Francisco’s “pueblo.” We answer questions and report on news that shape the lives of Latinx people who live or work in the city. Located in the heart of Mission District, we document and amplify the community’s vibrant role in the city’s political, art and cultural scene.
Regional

Emerging Bilingual Collaborative

The Emerging Bilinguql Collaborative is a joint effort of five funders: the California Community Foundation, Heising-Simons, Silver Giving, and Sobrato, working together with JBMF to strengthen the skills, knowledge, and capacity of California educators to more successfully support Dual Language Learners and English Learners in PreK through 3rd grade.
Regional/State

Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities

The mission of EMAC is to help build safe and thriving Southeast Asian communities within the larger Asian American and Pacific Islander diaspora. We seek to fulfill this mission through community advocacy and civic engagement, providing culturally relevant resources, and cultivating the development of social empowerment through the expression of our values: transformative justice, culturally rooted healing, communal resilience, and collective liberation.
Stockton

Faith In The Valley

Faith in the Valley is a faith-based grassroots community organization led by volunteer leaders in California’s Central Valley. They serve the people most impacted by equity issues in Fresno, Kern, Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties.
Fresno

Firebaugh Las Deltas Unified School District

The Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified School District supports students and families in Fresno County.
Fresno County

First Amendment Coalition

The First Amendment Coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression and the people’s right to know. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC works to advance government transparency and First Amendment protections for all.
Regional/State

FoodLink for Tulare County

FoodLink Tulare County aims to promote equitable and dignified access to nutritious, healthy food while also addressing the root causes of hunger through education, advocacy, and food systems change.
Tulare County

Fresno Institute for Media and Public Trust

The Fresno State Institute for Media and Public Trust works to find solutions to the fake news crisis and bridge the trust gap between news consumers and media outlets. The Institute is committed to being a vehicle that brings people and institutions together.
Fresno

Fresno State Center for Community Voices

The Center for Community Voices is an initiative to uplift and center the knowledge, stories, and deep wisdom of communities in Fresno and the Central Valley.
Fresno

Fresnoland Media

A nonprofit newsroom, Fresnoland serves the information needs of the local community, particularly those who have been historically excluded from policy and politics in the central San Joaquin Valley.
Fresno

Galt Joint Union School District

The Galt Joint Union School District supports students and families in Sacramento County.
Sacramento County

Helping Others Pursue Excellence

HOPE is a vocational training and entrepreneurship program of the Vision View Business Formation Center. Vision View is now one of the largest and most comprehensive entrepreneurship centers in the Central Valley. The motto for Vision View is “Where One’s Vision is Without Limits.”
FRESNO/REGIONAL

Hmong Innovating Politics

Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) is a grassroots organization whose mission is to advance social justice and build power with Hmong youth and families through leadership development and multi-generational community organizing.
Fresno/ Sacramento

Improve Your Tomorrow

Improve Your Tomorrow (IYT) was founded in 2013 with the mission to increase the number of young men of color (YMOC) to attend and graduate from colleges and universities.
SACRAMENTO

Ivanhoe Sol

The Ivanhoe Sol is a bilingual, community-run newsletter created to increase access to vital local and regional information for the community of Ivanhoe and Tulare County.
Ivanhoe/Tulare

Jakara Movement

The Jakara Movement is a grassroots community-building organization working to empower, educate, and organize Punjabi Sikhs, and other marginalized communities; to advance their health, education, and economic, social, and political power. We strive to create a Gurmat-inspired community, rooted in the struggle of our foremothers and forefathers, committed to gender equality and caste abolitionism to develop powerful, informed, and organized youth leadership, locally-rooted residential power, and community capacity that will be a key partner in building a better future for all.
Statewide

Kern Sol News

Kern Sol News is engendering a new generation of youth leaders and communicators engaged with the issues closest to them and their communities by engaging in conversations with decision makers and by questioning systems and policies that are oppressing communities of color.
Kern

KVPR

In conjunction with the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, San Joaquin Valley’s NPR station, features in-depth news and talk programs with a mission to expand our listeners’ world through voices and sounds that inform and inspire and a vision to bridge the artistic expression and diverse perspectives of our community.
FRESNO/BAKERSFIELD

Latino Community Foundation

Latino Community Foundation EXISTS TO UNLEASH THE POWER OF LATINOS IN CALIFORNIA. We fulfill our mission by building a movement of civically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in Latino-led organizations, and increasing political participation of Latinos in California
Statewide

Latino Leadership Initiative

An initiative of the City Ministry Network that strengthens the Modesto community by increasing the number of Latino Leaders serving the community through civic leadership.
MODESTO

Lindsay Unified School District

The Lindsay Unified School District supports students and families in Tulare County.
Tulare County

LOUD for Tomorrow

LOUD For Tomorrow is a grassroots youth-led organization based in Delano, California building youth power to transform our schools and communities through civic engagement, advocacy, and community healing. Founded in 2018, LOUD organizes young people to organize people power, register young voters, and win campaigns for a brighter tomorrow!
Kern County, Kings County, Tulare County

National Association of Black Journalists, Sacramento

The National Association of Black Journalists, Sacramento is a nonprofit organization who represents journalists and media professionals in the Greater Sacramento region. Our organization’s mission is to uplift, educate, and support local journalists as they help tell the stories of their community.
Sacramento

Northern California Grantmakers

NCG mobilizes philanthropy to build healthy, thriving, and just communities in Northern California. Our vision is for philanthropy to redistribute resources, capital, and power back to historically marginalized communities that lead transformative change.
REGIONAL

Opening Doors

Opening Doors’ mission is to enrich communities by supporting immigrants, refugees, and survivors of trafficking on their path to stability, self-sufficiency, and belonging.
Sacramento

Parent Institute for Quality Education

PIQE provides evidence-based programs to California families and schools. Serving nearly 420 schools from 136 school districts and more than 25,000 families annually, we work with English learners, immigrants, refugees and low-income families and help enable parents’ capacity to engage in their children’s education and strengthen parent-teacher-school collaboration.
STATE

Power California

Power California harnesses the energy of young voters of color and their families to create a state that is equitable, inclusive and just for everyone who calls California home.
STATE

Prospera

Prospera partners with Latina entrepreneurs to launch businesses that foster cooperation, economic independence and well-being in immigrant communities. Through our culturally-based programs, Latinas access the networks, tools and capital they need to become successful business owners and powerful community leaders.
REGIONAL

Radio Bilingue

The leading Latino public radio network and Spanish content producer in U.S. public media. In Spanish, English, Mixteco and Triqui, Radio Bilingüe fosters the kinds of inclusive dialogue needed for a healthy democracy.
REGIONAL/STATE/NATIONAL

Rapid Response Network of Kern

The Rapid Response Network of Kern is a collaborative of local organizations, community leaders, and immigrant rights advocates supporting our immigrant communities. The Rapid Response Network of Kern was established in February of 2018 to respond to the needs and challenges of our immigrant communities who are targeted by increased immigration enforcement activities.
Kern

Reinvent Stockton Foundation

Reinvent Stockton is dedicated to supporting students in their pursuit of higher education and supporting innovative ways to address poverty and violent crime. We are the nonprofit home of Stockton Scholars, Stockton Service Corps, and SEED, and collaborate closely with local nonprofit groups that promote economic, education, and public safety work – like the Stockton Strong COVID-19 response coalition, Stockton Youth Media Organizations, and With Our Words/ Restore the Delta.
STOCKTON

Robla Elementary School District

The Robla Elementary School District supports students and families in Sacramento County.
Sacramento County

Sacramento Area Congregations Together

Sacramento ACT is a multi-racial, multi-faith organization advocating a transformation of the Sacramento community rooted in shared faith values.
Sacramento

Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region with its funding.
Sacramento

Sacramento School Beat

Sacramento School Beat is a project of the California Scholastic Journalism Initiative, training Sacramento County high school students to become education reporters for their schools and districts to help compensate for the current shortage of professional education reporters and subsequent lack of coverage of schools and education in the region.
SACRAMENTO

San Joaquin Delta College

In conjunction with the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, San Joaquin Delta College actively and continuously strives to be a student-centered, anti-racist, equity-focused college that serves the educational and economic development needs of our communities. We believe in our students and act as a catalyst for knowledge growth, social equity, economic mobility, personal development, and life-long learning.
REGIONAL/STATE

San Joaquin Valley Water

SJV Water is an independent, nonprofit news site dedicated to covering water in the San Joaquin Valley. (Internship partnership)
REGIONAL

Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network

SIREN’s mission is to empower low-income immigrants and refugees through community education and organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy, civic engagement and legal services. We believe that all people regardless of legal status or nationality are entitled to essential services, human dignity, basic rights and protections, and access to full participation in society.
Regional/State

Sobrato Early Academic Language

SEAL supports California’s earliest multilingual learners. They foster systems change in two ways: by continuing to transform more classrooms, schools, and districts and by advocating for state-level changes that focus on English Learners’ needs.
Regional

Social Justice PolitiCorps

Defining social justice as a redistribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges to those who have not historically benefited from such investments so that we can all do well. We want Sacramento County to consider historical injustices and make decisions to right those wrongs. (sponsored by Public Health Advocates)
SACRAMENTO

Solving Sacramento

A journalism collaboration of seven nonprofit and for-profit local newsrooms and one civic engagement organization, together shining a light on our diverse communities’ most challenging issues.
SACRAMENTO

South Kern Sol

Kern Sol News is a youth-led media outlet located in Kern County. We elevate youth voices for health and racial equity.
KERN COUNTY

Stanislaus Community Foundation & McClatchy Media Lab Fund

Stanislaus Community Foundation works to improve the lives of the residents and the vibrancy of the unique and diverse communities throughout Stanislaus County. The McClatchy Media Lab Fund bolsters community journalism in Stanislaus in an innovative partnership with the nonprofit Report for America. Grants from this fund will expand the team of reporters at The Modesto Bee and support new models for journalism at the local level.
Stanislaus

The Sacramento Observer

The Sacramento Observer is one of the leading African American newspapers in America, honored with more than 700 local and national awards for journalism excellence and outstanding community service.
SACRAMENTO/NATIONAL

Training Institute for Leadership Enrichment

TILE believes that in order for urban communities, and African-American women in particular, to thrive, potential leaders must be identified and provided with the skills and tools of sustainable leadership.
REGIONAL/STATE

UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic

The UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic was one of the first of its kind in the United States. Given its proximity to the Central Valley, California’s agricultural center, the Clinic is in a unique position to serve the state’s large community of both documented and undocumented immigrants.
Regional/State