Grantees

The Endowment Issued $300 Million in Social Bonds in Early 2021 under the Social Bond Framework

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See how we’ve distributed those funds across our geographic regions and priority areas.

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Regions

To focus our efforts, we’ve broken up California into four distinct regions. Click on the regions to see our grantees for that region.

North

Alameda, Contra Costa, Delnorte, Humboldt, Sacramento, Shasta, Trinity

Central

Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mereced, Monterey, San Juaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare

South

Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, San Diego

Central (6)

Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mereced, Monterey, San Juaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare

Alameda Point Collaborative $3,000,000
Central Valley Agroecology Network $1,500,000
CRLA Foundation $3,500,000
FoodLink for Tulare County, Inc. $1,500,000
Fresno Building Healthy Communities $5,000,000
The Rios Company $145,990.63

Los Angeles (14)

Los Angeles

Allied Media Projects, Inc. $2,500,000
Balance Public Relations $102,000
California State Wildlife Foundation $2,000,000
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment $8,000,000
CTY Housing, Inc. $95,486.25
Dolores C. Huerta Foundation $3,500,000
Fenton Communications, Inc. $300,000
Hector De La Torre $37,375
Imprenta Communications Group $130,000
Kounkuey Design Initiative $643,208
Liberty Hill Foundation $5,000,000
Linc Housing Corporation $1,500,000
Self-Help Graphics and Arts, Inc. $100,000
Wall-Las Memorias Project $75,000

North (3)

Alameda, Contra Costa, Delnorte, Humboldt, Sacramento, Shasta, Trinity

Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice $2,000,000
Humboldt Area Foundation $3,000,000
True North Organizing Network $1,000,000

South (3)

Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, San Diego

Alianza Coachella Valley $1,500,000
California State Wildlife Foundation $2,000,000
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans $2,700,000

Statewide (51)

Statewide

Allied Media Projects, Inc. $2,500,000
Asian Pacific Environmental Network $1,500,000
BDO USA, P.A. $56,628
California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative $7,500,000
California Black Freedom Fund $5,000,000
California Calls Education Fund $897,605
California Community Foundation $5,000,000
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network $7,500,000
California Primary Care Association $13,000,000
Catalyst California $900,000
Center For Popular Democracy $200,000
Change Consulting $606,007.50
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment $8,000,000
Community Media Access Collaborative $1,500,000
Community Partners $7,500,000.00
CSB Consulting $175,000
Everyday Impact Consulting $1,389,000
Foundation for California Community Colleges $3,700,000
Grassroots Power Project $750,000
Health Access Foundation $6,350,000
Health Innovations Group $20,025
Humboldt Area Foundation $20,500
Intention 2 Impact, Inc. $599,985
Jane Reisman PhD $239,850
KEL Advising $65,000
Latino Community Foundation $5,000,000
M.Entertainment $353,166
Mixte Communications $511,243.75
NEO Philanthropy, Inc. $2,243,663
NEO Philanthropy, Inc. $412,104
New Breath Foundation $1,000,000
People’s Climate Innovation $1,500,000
Possibility Labs $2,000,000
Power California $500,000
Prevention Institute $5,000,000
Providence Portland Medical Center $499,962
Public Health Institute $3,500,000
RF Osmosis Films $199,669
Sacramento Advocates $390,000
Sierra Health Foundation $1,804,500
Silicon Valley Community Foundation $5,000,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc. $1,500,000
SPINX Digital $508,120
Teng and Smith, Inc. $250,000
The Johns Hopkins University P3 Lab $1,500,000
The TransLatin Coalition $2,200,000
The University of Southern California Equity Research Institute $2,996,357
Thomas Kelly, Jr. dba KEL Advising $129,795.82
Tides Center $2,200,000
University of California, Los Angeles $800,000
University of California, San Francisco $7,000,000

Advancing Health Reform

Invested
$7,500,000
Region
Statewide

To advance health reform strategies, build people power and advance narrative frameworks across California.

Health

Expanding Data Accessibility for Organizers for Health Equity

Invested
$900,000
Region
Statewide

To establish a preeminent research and data tool for racial justice organizers in California working on systemic change for health equity through partner and stakeholder engagement.

Research & Evaluation

Expanding Health Services and Housing for Underserved Populations

Invested
$95,486.25
Region
Los Angeles

To develop outreach materials for qualified building developers to construct affordable housing and service structures benefitting the health and well-being of underserved populations in the Downtown Los Angeles area.

Resilient Communities

Bay Area Health Inequities Initiative - Advancing Community Wellness

Invested
$5,000,000

To support an initiative that builds a connected infrastructure of power-building collaboratives throughout California advocating for and increasing long-term, durable funding for a racially-just system of supports for health equity and community wellness.

People's Climate Innovation Center - Building Power for Health

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

To develop a power and movement building infrastructure that develops, fosters and supports youth of color in California as a new wave of climate justice leaders, innovators and philanthropists working on addressing the root causes of climate injustice and transforming the health of their communities.

Power Infrastructure

California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative - Improving Health

Invested
$7,500,000.00
Region
Statewide

To support the scaling of a model that links health care systems, providers and health plans with public health, community and social services organizations, and residents across California.

Health

Central Valley Agroecology Network - Promoting Healthy Food Systems

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Central

To support development of a network of regenerative farms that provide healthy, local and sustainable produce to predominately Native American and immigrant communities in Tulare and Fresno Counties.

Resilient Communities

Building Power for Increased Community Wellness System Funding

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Central

Power Infrastructure

Planning for Social Bond Learning and Health in California

Invested
$239,850
Region
Statewide

To co-develop an evaluation plan of The California Endowment's social bond funding and provide guidance for implementation to align grantmaking with learning and evaluation goals that will promote health equity in California.

Research & Evaluation

Strengthening Movement Infrastructure to Achieve Health Reforms in California

Invested
$6,350,000
Region
Statewide

To strengthen the capacity for community organizing, policy advocacy, narrative and communications among coalitions and networks of community-based organizations seeking to transform California's health system.

Health

Assessing the Power Building Landscape to Improve Community Health

Invested
$129,795.82
Region
Statewide

To support a landscape assessment of power building models, structures and functions of a potential thinktank on community power, organizing and leadership that can promote improved health and wellness in California communities.

Research & Evaluation

Amplifying Environmental Health and Economic Development Issues

Invested
$130,000
Region
Los Angeles

To reinforce uplifting community voice on land use and the negative environmental health impacts of transit projects on underserved neighborhoods in Los Angeles' Chinatown.

Resilient Communities

Planning Development of Hope Village for Health and Equity

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Los Angeles

To support the planning and development of TCE property for an integrated trauma-informed, restorative campus of wellbeing and opportunity to advance racial equity and justice and address social determinants of health to increase quality-of-life for Californians, while embedding sustainable development principles and consciousness of long-term financial viability.

Power Infrastructure

Latino Coalition for a Healthy California - Advancing Health Reform

Invested
$2,200,000
Region
Statewide

To advance health reform strategies, build people power and advance narrative frameworks across California.

Health

Learning from Social Bond for Health Equity in CA

Invested
$599,985
Region
Statewide

To implement learning and evaluation activities to address learning questions, test hypotheses and generate emergent insights about the social bond's added value for accelerating core grantmaking, contributing to systems change, and supporting physical infrastructure and cross-cutting functions for health equity in California.

Research & Evaluation

Building Power for Increased Community Wellness System Funding

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Statewide

Power Infrastructure

Elevating Communities' Concerns Regarding Transportation Projects Impacting Health

Invested
$75,000
Region
Los Angeles

To support community organizing efforts in Los Angeles and galvanize residents to elevate concerns related to transportation projects that adversely affect their health, environment and safety.

Resilient Communities

Building Voice and Power Through Community Arts for Health

Invested
$100,000
Region
Los Angeles

To support narrative strategy through community informed art on the negative health impacts of transit development projects in Los Angeles' underserved Chinatown and surrounding neighborhoods.

Power Infrastructure

Healthforce Center at UCSF - Advancing Health Workforce in California

Invested
$7,000,000
Region
Statewide

To establish a health workforce policy center that creates community-driven research and policy change priorities, generates workforce knowledge, and informs advocacy and policy efforts for systems change in collaboration with community and advocacy stakeholders across California.

Health

Bringing Together Community for Learning on Health and Climate Resiliency

Invested
$20,500
Region
Statewide

To provide support to bring together organizations from across California working on climate resiliency and equity for deeper learning, sharing and relationship building.

Resilient Communities

Fostering Community Health Among Climate Justice Organizations

Invested
$250,000
Region
Statewide

To support a cohort of organizations advancing climate resilient solutions in California rural and tribal lands aimed at improving community health through facilitation, shared learning and networking.

Research & Evaluation

Supporting Drought Resiliency and Economic Stability for Farmworker Health

Invested
$3,500,000
Region
Central

To support farmworker health through an ecosystem of partners supporting movement building across California and working to build farmworker capacity in rural communities for long-term drought resilience planning, action and structural implementation.

Resilient Communities

Belonging Campaign 2022

Invested
$353,166
Region
Statewide

Belonging Campaign 2022

Power Infrastructure

The University of Southern California Equity Research Institute $2,996,357 over three years

Invested
$2,996,357
Region
Statewide

Strengthen California’s ecosystem of BIPOC and community-engaged researchers who are equipped with the skills and capacities to provide data and narrative that bolsters community power and power building for health equity.

Research & Evaluation

Advancing Health Access for All Californians

Invested
$20,024.99

To advance health access for all Californians by providing technical support for The California Endowment’s role in the Healthy California for All Commission.

Health

California Primary Care Association $13million over 5 years

Invested
$13,000,000
Region
Statewide

To bridge community clinics, health centers, and networks in communities through advocacy, education, and civic engagement to improve health equity across California.

Health

California Power Building Infrastructure Center - Implementing Health Equity

Invested
$412,104
Region
Statewide

To conduct health equity movement-wide implementation planning activities for future and long-term infrastructure in California, including governance, budget, resources, staffing and programming

Power Infrastructure

Promoting Climate and Community Resilience via Leadership, Health and Safety

Invested
$3,000,000
Region
North

To support efforts to create the first carbon-negative rural/Tribal region in the US by 2030 through accelerating climate resilience development while confronting inequitable health and safety impacts of rapid transitions in the Redwood Coast, Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte region.

Resilient Communities

The Johns Hopkins University P3 Lab $1.5 million over three years

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

Invest in the development of the scholar and field- based infrastructure to support deep, sustained learning within the field of organizing by strengthening tools and capacity for adaptive strategy.

Research & Evaluation

California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative, under fiscal sponsorship of Community Partners $7.5 million over 5 years

Invested
$7,500,000
Region
Statewide

To support the scaling of a model that links health care systems, providers, and health plans with public health, community and social services organizations, and residents across California.

Health

Climate Science Alliance - Building Tribal Climate Resiliency and Health

Invested
$2,000,000
Region
Los Angeles South

To strengthen California’s Native community-driven efforts to further equitable systems and practices for longer-term climate adaptation, recovery, and rebuilding by applying Indigenous wisdom and land management practices to heal landscapes, build climate-resilience workforce pathways and strengthen Tribal governance.

Resilient Communities

Center For Outcomes Research And Education – Improving California’s Health

Invested
$499,962
Region
Statewide

To help develop and strengthen the data infrastructure for building, tracking and evaluating community power in California to achieve health equity.

Research & Evaluation

Belonging Campaign - Central Valley locations

Invested
$145,990.63
Region
Central

Belonging Campaign - Central Valley locations

Power Infrastructure

California Black Freedom Fund - Advancing Health Equity

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Statewide

To support a pooled fund designed to help build and sustain the power of Black-led organizations, coalitions and networks and bolster the infrastructure of Black-led organizations working to build power, advance health equity and transform inequitable systems across California.

Power Infrastructure

California Medicine Program – Building Healthy Career Pathways

Invested
$3,700,000
Region
Statewide

To reduce health disparities for underserved communities by increasing the diversity of physicians who are trained and practice in California.

Health

Assessing The Power Building Landscape To Improve Community Health

Invested
$65,000
Region
Statewide

Research & Evaluation

Powerful Innovations for Voter Organizing and Transformation - Promoting Health

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Statewide

To advance the medium- and long-term power building infrastructure in California by engaging in collaborative, co-governed funding with the philanthropic field and community organizing field fighting for health and justice for all.

Power Infrastructure

Decolonizing Wealth Project - Building Resilience and Health in California

Invested
$2,500,000
Region
Los Angeles Statewide

To provide strategic support to over 12 diverse California Tribal land trusts as they further equitable systems and practices for longer-term adaptation, recovery, and rebuilding by applying Indigenous wisdom and land management practices to heal; transition built and natural systems and social infrastructure to be resilient and sustainable; and support community restoration, stewardship, health and ultimately ownership of land, soil and water through community ownership, governance and care.

Resilient Communities

Advancing Public Health Leadership And Workforce In California

Invested
$3,500,000
Region
Statewide

To establish and implement initiatives to advance the leadership and collective impact among public health educational institutions and strengthen connections and coordination between schools and programs of public health and local health departments to strengthen the public health workforce in California.

Health

Building Youth Power for Health and Justice

Invested
$2,000,000
Region
North

To support the construction of a space for young people to develop as leaders to create safety, healthy communities and advance justice for families in Alameda County.

Power Infrastructure

Alameda Wellness Campus – Advancing Health Access Through Housing

Invested
$3,000,000
Region
Central

To pioneer a new standard of care for unhoused adults with complex health challenges through the construction of a clinic that will provide short-term housing, recuperative care and health services for 400 unhoused Alameda County residents annually discharged from hospitals who have no safe place to heal.

Health

Community Economic Mobilization Initiative, Sierra Health Foundation $1,804,500 for two years

Invested
$1,804,500
Region
Statewide

Strengthen Health and Community Resiliency to strengthen the ability of BIPOC led and serving organizations in the use of public funds designated to reduce economic and environmental inequities.

Resilient Communities

Communicating Racial and Health Inequities in Los Angeles

Invested
$300,000
Region
Los Angeles

To raise the visibility of and continue to build a narrative on the transportation projects that negatively impact the health and wellness of residents in the Downtown Los Angeles area.

Power Infrastructure

FoodLink for Tulare County, Central Valley Agroecology Network $1.5 million for two years

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Central

Support regenerative agriculture to support healthy land stewardship and food sovereignty for predominantly Native American and immigrant communities in Tulare and Fresno counties.

Resilient Communities

Advancing A System Of Health And Well-Being For All

Invested
$1,389,000
Region
Statewide

To support the coordination and facilitation of a robust planning process, inclusive of community engagement, that leads to the development of a framework with strategies for advancing a system of health and well-being for all Californians.

Health

Resilience Hubs, Asian Pacific Environmental Network $1.5 million for two years

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

To improve community resilience and health against climate change disasters for BIPoC communities.

Resilient Communities

Advancing Health Access For All Californians

Invested
$20,025
Region
Statewide

To advance health access for all Californians by providing technical support for The California Endowment’s role in the Healthy California for All Commission.

Health

Training California Movement Strategists for Health and Racial Equity

Invested
$750,000
Region
Statewide

To build a multi-generational bench of long-term strategists equipped to move bold structural change, and to deepen alignment across community-based organizations in California strengthening social movement infrastructure to more strategically and effectively advance long-term change for health, racial, economic and social equity.

Power Infrastructure

Young Climate Leaders of Color, People’s Climate Innovation $1.5 million for three years

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

Support the development of Young Climate Leaders of Color, a power and movement building infrastructure that develops, fosters and supports youth of color in California as a new wave of climate justice leaders, innovators and philanthropists working on addressing the root causes of climate injustice and transforming the health of their communities.

Resilient Communities

California Power Building Infrastructure Center - Implementing Health Equity

Invested
$2,243,663
Region
Statewide

To conduct planning, piloting, refinement, and launch required to turn a power building infrastructure center from concept to real infrastructure for advancing health equity in California, including designing governance, a network of center hub core functions and overall programming, and a 5-10 year resourcing plan.

Power Infrastructure

Supporting a Community Resilience Campaign for Health Equity

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
South

To create a solid, aggressive, focused and diverse public-private-community hub in the Salton Sea region (Riverside County and Imperial County) to coordinate, plan, and advance projects that will increase the competitiveness and readiness of the region to capture public dollars that will strengthen the community's campaign for health equity.

Resilient Communities

Supporting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Health

Invested
$1,000,000
Region
Statewide

To build the power of marginalized, low-income and disenfranchised Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders by engaging in cross-racial solidarity, leadership development and resource capital organizing for a more democratic and healthier California.

Power Infrastructure

Advancing Health Equity And Wellness For Resilient Communities

Invested
$175,000
Region
Statewide

To support cross-departmental planning efforts related to The California Endowment’s social bond, including helping build a strategic framework, priorities and potential investments for resilient communities that aligns with the bond’s priorities and scoring criteria.

Resilient Communities

Assessing Narrative Powerbuilding Capacity and Infrastructure for Health

Invested
$500,000
Region
Statewide

To systematically assess narrative capacity and infrastructure needs of the power building ecosystem and develop a field-driven vision and plan for building narrative infrastructure, and training and aligning on-the-ground communications strategists to advance shared narratives of economic, racial and health justice to support long term structural reform in California.

Power Infrastructure

Investing in Models of Narrative Power for Health Equity

Invested
$390,000
Region
Statewide

To conduct research into the development of models of narrative power and narrative change infrastructure for long-term narrative capacity to benefit organizers, base builders and movement builders to increase health equity in California.

Power Infrastructure

To Produce 4 videos highlighting the social bond work.

Invested
$199,669
Region
Statewide

To Produce 4 videos highlighting the social bond work.

Power Infrastructure

Strengthening Movement Infrastructure to Achieve Health Reforms in California

Invested
$2,200,000
Region
Statewide

To strengthen the leadership development, community organizing and narrative capacity of a statewide network focused on the inclusion of transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex community members in efforts to transform the health system in California.

Power Infrastructure

Supporting a Tribal-Led Training and Retreat Center for Health

Invested
$1,000,000
Region
North

To establish a nature-based, Tribal-led center in the redwood forest on the North Coast of California, centering local Native governance, stories and voice to uplift Native health, racial healing and well-being in a space designed for community organizing groups to provide training, retreat and care for their leaders and staff.

Power Infrastructure

Luskin School of Public Affairs - Promoting Youth Well-being

Invested
$800,000
Region
Statewide

To transform higher education and the training pipeline for scholars and youth at universities and feeder institutions by supporting and institutionalizing community-engaged research that advances racial and health justice in California.

Power Infrastructure

Inland Empire Justice Lab - Advancing Health and Racial Equity

Invested
$1,100,000

To support the stability and capacity building of key regional power building institutions and the communities they support and organize for campaigns to address racial and health equity issues through the establishment of a network of community-owned and dedicated spaces in key sites across the South Region’s Inland Empire.

Power Infrastructure

Amplifying Impact of the Social Determinants of Health on Community

Invested
$102,000
Region
Los Angeles

To elevate the environmental impact concerns of the community residents residing in the historical neighborhoods surrounding Downtown Los Angeles.

Power Infrastructure

Advising on Infrastructure Center Operations for Health in California

Invested
$56,628
Region
Statewide

To support The California Endowment in considering key governance and financial questions related to the development of a new center that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, sustainability and health of California’s grassroots movements.

Power Infrastructure

The Forge - Supporting Organizing Strategy for Health Equity

Invested
$200,000
Region
Statewide

To foster connection and learning across organizing sectors and deepen alignment around organizing strategy through convenings and publications to achieve health and racial equity in California.

Power Infrastructure

Amplifying the Health Impacts of the Social Bond

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

To communicate the community impact resulting from social justice bond investments uplifting racial and health equity across California.

Power Infrastructure

Center for Community Organizing, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment $6 million for one year

Invested
$8,000,000
Region
Los Angeles Statewide

Support multi-faceted community power building to be scaled locally in LA, statewide, and nationally. CoCo is an organization at the center of the Los Angeles ecosystem with a long history of organizing, civic engagement, arts and culture, and resident leadership development in the region.

Power Infrastructure

Visioning Hope For Community Health And Wellness In California

Invested
$643,208
Region
Los Angeles

To support an inclusive, participatory process that will produce site development options and help catalyze The California Endowment’s broader Hope Village vision to promote improved health and wellness in California communities.

Hope Village

Bold Vision, Liberty Hill Foundation $5 million over three years

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Los Angeles

To support a philanthropic-community organization partnership project to strengthen the power building infrastructure in Los Angeles County to advance health and racial justice efforts to ensure that BIPoC youth have the resources and skills they need to thrive.

Power Infrastructure

California Black Freedom Fund – Advancing Health Equity

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Statewide

To support a pooled fund designed to help build and sustain the power of Black-led organizations, coalitions, and networks and bolster the infrastructure of Black-led organizations working to build power, advance health equity and transform inequitable systems across California.

Power Infrastructure

Communicating The Community Health Impact Of Social Bond Work

Invested
$508,120
Region
Statewide

To communicate the work and community health impact of The California Endowment’s 300-million-dollar Social Bond initiative.

Latino Power Fund – Rebuilding A Healthy Equitable California

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Statewide

To build the civic, political and economic power of Latinos for a stronger, healthier, more equitable California.

Power Infrastructure

Communicating Health And Race Equity

Invested
$511,243.75
Region
Statewide

To elevate communications on health, social justice and racial equity throughout California.

Communications

Communicating Health Equity Impacts Of Social Bond Work

Invested
$606,007.50
Region
Statewide

To support education and communication around The California Endowment’s social bond work, which includes efforts to support power building and transform systems grounded in justice, inclusion, equity and community health.

Communications

General Operating Support

Invested
$3,500,000
Region
Los Angeles

To support an organization that strengthens community organizing capacity and leadership among youth and adults and trains organizers to advance health equity and racial justice across the Central Valley and beyond.

Power Infrastructure

Community Ownership for Community Power, Possibility Labs $2 million over three years

Invested
$2,000,000
Region
Statewide

To provide capacity building and capital infrastructure for communities of color and immigrant communities across California to advance community ownership as a common model for equitable real estate preservation, working towards widespread housing affordability, intergenerational community wealth, and the right to health equity for all Californians.

Power Infrastructure Resilient Communities

Refugee Immigrant Cultural Hub, Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans $2.7 million for 18 months

Invested
$2,700,000
Region
South

To support land acquisition and development of the Refugee and Immigrant Cultural Hub in San Diego.

Power Infrastructure

Designing A Power-Building Movement Infrastructure Center For Health

Invested
$897,605
Region
Statewide

To support a design process for the development of a power-building infrastructure center to significantly enhance the strategic capacity to achieve transformative change across the movements for health equity and justice in California.

Power Infrastructure

Supporting Health Through The Development Of Hope Village

Invested
$37,375
Region
Los Angeles

To support The California Endowment’s leadership in their vision of replacing jail beds with health-related supportive services and housing in Los Angeles by connecting The Endowment to important local- and state-level public and private influencers and investors.

Hope Village

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