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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.

  • Inclusive Leadership

Asian American Liberation Network

Building power in the Asian American community to advance social justice and collective liberation.
Sacramento
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • Multilingual Education

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • Inclusive Leadership

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
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Inclusive Leadership

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
  • Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV

Community Justice Center

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

Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District

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

Delhi Unified School District

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

Dyer-Kelley Elementary School

The Dyer-Kelley Elementary School serves students and families in Sacramento County.
Sacramento
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Multilingual Education

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
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • Multilingual Education

Firebaugh Las Deltas Unified School District

The Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified School District supports students and families in Fresno County.
Fresno County
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Multilingual Education

Galt Joint Union School District

The Galt Joint Union School District supports students and families in Sacramento County.
Sacramento County
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • #Allin4CV

KOFP-ONME News

The mission and purpose of The ONME Network is to collaborate with local California news outlets and distribute to the masses with the intent of keeping readers and viewers informed with the latest local, regional and state news information happening in black communities.
REGIONAL/STATE
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • Inclusive Leadership

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
  • Multilingual Education

Lindsay Unified School District

The Lindsay Unified School District supports students and families in Tulare County.
Tulare County
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership, Multilingual Education

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Multilingual Education

Robla Elementary School District

The Robla Elementary School District supports students and families in Sacramento County.
Sacramento County
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • Inclusive Leadership

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
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

San Joaquin Valley Water

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

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
  • Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • Community-Powered Local Journalism, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

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
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

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
  • #Allin4CV, Community-Powered Local Journalism

uSpark Valley – Community Media Access Network

An independent, community-led news organization that informs and mobilizes Millennial and Gen Z residents in the Central Valley.
REGIONAL
  • Multilingual Education

Washington Unified School District

The Washington Unified School District supports students and families in Fresno County.
Fresno County
  • Multilingual Education

Winters Joint Unified School District

The Winters Joint Unified School District supports students and families in Yolo County.
Yolo County
  • #Allin4CV

WomxnWise

Creating & collaborating for a new Central Valley.
REGIONAL
  • Multilingual Education

Woodlake Unified School District

The Woodlake Unified School District supports students and families in Tulare County.
Tulare County
  • #Allin4CV

Woven Coalition for Justice

Our mission is to build a coalition of individuals and families in Fresno County who are committed to making our community a healthier and more equitable place to live. Through authentic relationships, dialogue, and action, we equip and empower residents to be informed and engaged with local, social justice issues.
Fresno
  • Inclusive Leadership

YDN Nueva Epoca Latinx Leadership Program

Nueva Epoca is designed for members of Sacramento region’s Latino/Hispanic/ Latinx Community. The program builds leadership capacity in order to prepare and empower the next generation of Latinx leaders to influence business and civic policy decisions.
Sacramento
  • Multilingual Education

Yolo County Youth Civic Initiative

Yolo County Youth Civic Initiative (YCYCI) seeks to collaborate to build youth awareness and understanding in civic engagement by creating, promoting and enhancing school/community efforts that increase youth involvement in the civic process.
Yolo
  • #Allin4CV, Inclusive Leadership

Youth Development Network

Creates strength-based training that can help you identify areas of growth in staff to staff relationships, skill and strengths development, and organizational culture and climate.
REGIONAL/NATIONAL
  • #Allin4CV

Youth Leadership Institute

Youth Leadership Institute builds communities where young people and their adult allies come together to create positive community change that promotes social justice and racial equity.

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