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Grants paid by Wk Kellogg Foundation, tax year 2020
EIN 38-1359264 · Battle Creek, MI · Form 990-PF, Part XV · NTEE T21
In tax year 2020, Wk Kellogg Foundation (EIN 38-1359264) reported 1,683 grants paid totaling $295,080,632. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2020 · page 1 of 3
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Battle Creek Public Schools Battle Creek, MI | U | $9,762,580 | paid | transform Battle Creek Public Schools to address structural bias and segregation in Battle Creek, Michigan, by providing quality and equitable opportunities to students pre-K to 12th grade and their families to improve school readiness, early success and college and career preparation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI | U | $8,424,938 | approved, future | support the transformation in Battle Creek Public Schools by providing students college/career readiness opportunities, including teacher and health professions pipelines towards improved recruitment, preparation and retention of educators for the district and health professionals for the community | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Unidosus Washington, DC | B | $7,637,657 | paid | support the Racial Equity Anchor Institutions in advancing racial equity and racial healing thru increase civic engagement in communities of color and the development and deployment of effective multiracial narratives | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Borealis Philanthropy Minneapolis, MN | C | $4,567,500 | paid | transform racial equity, diversity and inclusion in the philanthropic field by building the strong sector's capacity to integrate racial equity within institutions serving the infrastructure of philanthropy through support of efforts of a funding collaborative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative Grand Rapids, MI | U | $4,450,779 | approved, future | expand an equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek, Michigan, including the launch of the Battle Creek Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative to increase access within neighborhoods to quality early childhood opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI | U | $4,058,061 | paid | support the transformation in Battle Creek Public Schools by providing students college/career readiness opportunities, including teacher and health professions pipelines towards improved recruitment, preparation and retention of educators for the district and health professionals for the community | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Public Schools Foundation Detroit, MI | U | $4,000,000 | paid | engage parents and caregivers to ensure equitable implementation of educational programs and policies to support school readiness and academic success | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Baoba Fundo Para Equidade Racial Sao Paulo, SP | U | $2,608,452 | paid | establish an endowment fund to support the sustainability of the advancement of racial equity approaches for social development of vulnerable children and communities in the Brazilian locus of the African diaspora | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Congress of American Indians Washington, DC | U | $2,470,000 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of protecting sovereignty through development/dissemination of educational materials and tribally driven research that promote the building of collective agendas and meet the needs of American Indian/Alaska Native leaders and their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Asian and Pacific Islander Amercian Health Forum Oakland, CA | U | $2,400,000 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of influencing policy, mobilizing communities and strengthening programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd New York, NY | C | $2,400,000 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of pursuing a more equitable economy, a vibrant and inclusive democracy, an empowered public sector and responsible United States engagement in the world by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Unidosus Washington, DC | B | $2,400,000 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of improving opportunities for Hispanic Americans through applied research, policy analysis and advocacy by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Race Forward New York, NY | D | $2,400,000 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of building awareness, solutions and leadership for racial justice through generation of transformative ideas, information and experiences by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Haitian Education and Leadership Program New York, NY | B | $2,399,999 | approved, future | provide high quality higher education and citizenship and leadership training opportunities to economically disadvantaged students in Haiti by increasing student enrollment, campus expansion as part of the implementation of the five-year strategic plan of the Haitian Education and Leadership Program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Catalyst Inc Boston, MA | C | $2,290,000 | paid | improve oral health outcomes for underserved communities by supporting narrative change, capacity building and community engagement to establish dental therapy practice | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Community College Board Jackson, MS | U | $2,285,000 | approved, future | advance credentials, employment and family economic security for low-income Mississippians through enrollment and completion of the Mississippi integrated basic education and skills training program in community colleges in Foundation priority places | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation for Mississippi Jackson, MS | B | $2,210,000 | paid | partner with organizations and community to improve outcomes in education and health equity by continuing transformation efforts of Jackson Public School, developing a principal evaluation tool and implementing a home visiting program to ensure infants have a strong start on life | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | U | $2,200,221 | approved, future | increase the number of Michigan vulnerable children and families that are thriving, and positively influence the number of quality food-related jobs linked to healthy food, by ensuring a sustainable, regionally integrated food system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Faith in Action Network Washington, DC | D | $2,133,334 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of creating innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for Detroits Future Detroit, MI | B | $2,000,000 | paid | support, in part, a proposed settlement to assist the city of Detroit in emerging from bankruptcy by helping the city satisfy its pension obligations to retirees and to assist in preserving the Detroit Institute of Arts | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Baltimore, MD | U | $1,866,800 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of ensuring the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminating racial hatred and racial discrimination by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Urban League Inc New York, NY | C | $1,839,866 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of assisting African-American and other underserved urban residents in securing economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hope Enterprise Corporation Jackson, MS | B | $1,821,930 | paid | increase investment in low-income communities by advancing authentic community engagement, rigorous data and policy analysis, strategic communications and robust partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Department of Education Jackson, MS | U | $1,779,315 | paid | address the achievement gaps in high poverty, high minority schools by improving educator preparation through residency- and performance-based teacher pipelines | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center On Budget and Policy Priorities Washington, DC | B | $1,690,000 | paid | support the advancement of strategies that make tax and benefit programs more accessible to low-income families; strengthen the State Priorities Partnership's efforts by heightening the focus on racial disparities in tax, budget and economic policy; and continue the State Policy Fellows program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Urban League Inc New York, NY | C | $1,669,933 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of assisting African-American and other underserved urban residents in securing economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Calhoun Intermediate School District Marshall, MI | U | $1,668,250 | paid | increase the quality, availability, access and coordination of early care services and education opportunities for vulnerable families with children from birth to age 8 in Battle Creek, Mich., by partnering with community to advance an early childhood system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Summits Education Boston, MA | B | $1,647,537 | approved, future | improve access to quality education and educational outcomes of children in central Haiti through continuation of a whole child approach, early childhood education programs, literacy and numeracy instructions, a pilot math and science program and adding of additional grades in selected schools | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Unlimited Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $1,643,000 | paid | acquire, demolish and prepare vacant and blighted properties that have been perpetual safety issues for the neighborhood adjacent to downtown by creating temporary green space and marketing the properties to key developers for a future charitable use that will benefit the surrounding neighborhood | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc Health Equity International Newton, MA | U | $1,600,000 | paid | improve access to high quality, maternal, neonatal, and child health care services for vulnerable mothers and infants in the Southwest corridor of Haiti by supporting the maternal and neonatal, post-natal care, obstetric surgery services, and maintaining quality patient data at St. Boniface Hospital | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Haitian Education and Leadership Program New York, NY | B | $1,500,001 | paid | provide high quality higher education and citizenship and leadership training opportunities to economically disadvantaged students in Haiti by increasing student enrollment, campus expansion as part of the implementation of the five-year strategic plan of the Haitian Education and Leadership Program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Advancement Project Washington, DC | U | $1,500,000 | approved, future | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of fulfilling America's promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy through the use of innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Department of Education Jackson, MS | U | $1,500,000 | paid | support the expansion of Grantee's quality early childhood education efforts | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans New Orleans, LA | B | $1,435,382 | approved, future | support and grow low-income entrepreneurs of color and create and strengthen inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems that address social and economic disparities in impoverished communities by providing services, resources, advocacy and results in systems change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative Grand Rapids, MI | U | $1,400,000 | approved, future | increase access to highly-quality learning opportunities in Grand Rapids, Michigan by engaging parents and deepening partnerships with providers and partner organizations to ensure that children have appropriate supports that prepare them for school success | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Notah Begay III Foundation Inc Santa Ana Pueblo, NM | B | $1,375,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of ensuring Native children achieve their full potential by advancing cultures of Native American community health by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Michigan Foundations Inc Grand Haven, MI | C | $1,350,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of strengthening, increasing and promoting philanthropy across Michigan by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Employment Law Project Inc New York, NY | B | $1,308,333 | approved, future | support low-wage workers in precarious work structures via technical assistance, legal support, and policy research to achieve improved working conditions as well as both increased wages and benefits | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Department of Education Jackson, MS | U | $1,279,743 | approved, future | support the expansion of Grantee's quality early childhood education efforts | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Futuro Media Group New York, NY | B | $1,250,732 | paid | support the work of Solidarity Council on Racial Equity members to advance racial equity and transformative solidarity efforts as a collective force for global change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fsg Inc Boston, MA | C | $1,248,337 | paid | accelerate BC Vision strategies that lead to improved job opportunities and economic development by providing facilitation support to engage community, reconstitute governance structures and refresh strategy and measurement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Congress of American Indians Washington, DC | U | $1,235,000 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of protecting sovereignty through development/dissemination of educational materials and tribally driven research that promote the building of collective agendas and meet the needs of American Indian/Alaska Native leaders and their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of New Orleans New Orleans, LA | U | $1,230,000 | approved, future | improve life outcomes of children by strengthening community engagement, coordinating a youth master plan and providing employment opportunities to support children, youth and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | North Mississippi Education Consortium University, MS | B | $1,215,641 | approved, future | improve kindergarten readiness rates by increasing the number of endorsed or certified teachers in pre-kindergarten settings and by providing supports and comprehensive services to licensed child care programs serving children in Jackson and Sunflower County | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd New York, NY | C | $1,200,000 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of pursuing a more equitable economy, a vibrant and inclusive democracy, an empowered public sector and responsible United States engagement in the world by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Unidosus Washington, DC | B | $1,200,000 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of improving opportunities for Hispanic Americans through applied research, policy analysis and advocacy by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Race Forward New York, NY | D | $1,200,000 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of building awareness, solutions and leadership for racial justice through generation of transformative ideas, information and experiences by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Asian and Pacific Islander Amercian Health Forum Oakland, CA | U | $1,200,000 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of influencing policy, mobilizing communities and strengthening programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fair Food Network Ann Arbor, MI | C | $1,200,000 | approved, future | increase access to Double Up Food Bucks by leveraging federal and state dollars to create a more equitable food system that decreases food insecurity, increases access to healthy food and supports local growers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Department of Education Jackson, MS | U | $1,193,877 | approved, future | address the achievement gaps in high poverty, high minority schools by improving educator preparation through residency- and performance-based teacher pipelines | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region Kalamazoo, MI | U | $1,180,000 | paid | ensure a robust safety net of critical support services and information/referral systems improve the well-being and stability of families, reduce racial and economic disparities and tear down barriers that inhibit the health, well-being and long-term success of Battle Creek's families and children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative Biloxi, MS | B | $1,172,463 | approved, future | create a system that leverages resources, streamlines processes and aligns workforce services that lead to employment equity for single moms by advancing training completion, credential attainment, employment and increased wages | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Everybody Ready Allen Park, MI | B | $1,166,650 | paid | increase access to high-quality early childhood education opportunities for Detroit children by incentivizing providers to engage in local quality improvement efforts and reducing the financial barriers to low-income parents/families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Biloxi Public School District Biloxi, MS | U | $1,161,000 | approved, future | improve educational outcomes of the district's most vulnerable students by supporting pre-K programming and adding teacher and technology supports to kindergarten through third grade to ensure that children have the greatest chance of reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Haiti Christian Development Fund Margate, FL | B | $1,160,000 | approved, future | enable Fonds des Blancs farmers to heightened income generation by supporting efforts to strengthen agricultural value-chains as well as scale production via land expansion, crop diversification, product transformation and both university and marketing partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fair Food Network Ann Arbor, MI | C | $1,125,000 | paid | increase the number of good food entrepreneurs and healthy food access for low income families in Michigan by increasing technical assistance, deepening producer connections and optimizing healthy food incentives to build equitable food systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Employment Law Project Inc New York, NY | B | $1,091,667 | paid | support low-wage workers in precarious work structures via technical assistance, legal support, and policy research to achieve improved working conditions as well as both increased wages and benefits | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nola Business Alliance New Orleans, LA | B | $1,085,000 | paid | catalyze job growth, wealth creation, and build an equitable and sustainable economic future for New Orleans through launching a new business model that merges and aligns economic development and workforce development functions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Faith in Action Network Washington, DC | D | $1,066,667 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of creating innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Secondmuse Bernalillio, NM | U | $1,058,036 | paid | increase entrepreneurship in Battle Creek, with a focus on woman and minority owned businesses, by providing early stage entrepreneurial support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Research Foundation for the State University of New York Albany, NY | C | $1,052,178 | paid | promote education, health and economic well-being of children and families in Akaye, Haiti, through completion of master/programmatic plans, determination of core team roles/responsibilities, establishment of university partnerships and structuring of the Sustainable Village and Learning Community | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fair Food Network Ann Arbor, MI | C | $1,050,000 | approved, future | increase the number of good food entrepreneurs and healthy food access for low income families in Michigan by increasing technical assistance, deepening producer connections and optimizing healthy food incentives to build equitable food systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Boston Foundation Inc Boston, MA | B | $1,048,716 | paid | assist local organizations in Haiti by developing capacity to address health, education and income generating opportunities for families and children via organizational assistance, coaching, financial advising, coalition building and access to philanthropic investments | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative Grand Rapids, MI | U | $1,036,397 | paid | expand an equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek, Michigan, including the launch of the Battle Creek Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative to increase access within neighborhoods to quality early childhood opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board Portland, OR | C | $1,032,889 | approved, future | create jobs and career paths that improve the community, increase oral health access and improve oral health outcomes throughout the Pacific northwest, starting in tribes, by expanding dental therapy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Barack Obama Foundation Chicago, IL | C | $1,025,000 | paid | reduce youth violence and grow the mentor pipeline for boys and young men of color in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Detroit, Michigan; and Loiza, Puerto Rico by leveraging communities and increasing participation in evidence-based mentoring programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Trust Inc Washington, DC | B | $1,022,784 | paid | support state-based coalitions to build understanding and demand for educational resource equity, teacher and leader quality and school diversity improvement strategies, with specific attention to low-income students and students of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Oxfam America Inc Boston, MA | B | $1,019,679 | paid | strengthen job quality, work support and worker competitiveness to advance jobs in Mississippi and New Orleans | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi Hernando, MS | B | $1,000,000 | approved, future | increase employment and economic security outcomes for low-income families in the Delta through aligning public-private employer training partnerships and workforce development in middle skill, career pathways in carpentry, construction, energy efficiency, and manufacturing | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Teammates Foundation Lincoln, NE | C | $1,000,000 | paid | provide endowment funding to support the Teammates Mentoring Program in support of its mission to positively impact the world by inspiring youth to reach their full potential | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Tides Center San Francisco, CA | C | $1,000,000 | approved, future | accelerate equitable both farm to school and early child and education efforts by advancing best practices and policies, enhancing multi-sectoral partnerships, catalyzing leadership, and supporting efforts in high need and underserved areas | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation Boston, MA | B | $1,000,000 | paid | improve infant and maternal health and decrease child malnutrition in the Mirebalais, Haiti, area through comprehensive clinical services, production of ready-to-use therapeutic food, data collection and early identification of high-risk pregnancies | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Eastern Market Corporation Detroit, MI | C | $985,328 | paid | support Detroit's Eastern Market to model equitable community development with establishment of the Eastern Market Employment Center committed to Detroit residents procuring increased quality jobs in food, expanded support for entrepreneurs of color and new healthy food access for their children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Eastern Market Corporation Detroit, MI | C | $981,283 | approved, future | support Detroit's Eastern Market to model equitable community development with establishment of the Eastern Market Employment Center committed to Detroit residents procuring increased quality jobs in food, expanded support for entrepreneurs of color and new healthy food access for their children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Community Foundation Battle Creek, MI | B | $956,214 | paid | advance the goals of BC Vision by creating a core supporting structure to provide management and oversight of the community change initiative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kellogg Community College Battle Creek, MI | C | $950,003 | paid | increase employment and education and reduce poverty and incarceration by providing accessible, high-quality workforce training tied to employer demand and developing key career pathways | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Indian Health Board Washington, DC | C | $950,000 | approved, future | improve oral health outcomes in tribal communities by building infrastructure and capacity to support implementation of dental therapists | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Third Sector New England Inc Boston, MA | B | $944,513 | paid | improve literacy, math, science and social studies skills of children throughout Haiti and increase pride and awareness of their culture and history through well-designed and culturally relevant educational technology media content | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Baltimore, MD | U | $933,400 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of ensuring the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminating racial hatred and racial discrimination by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association for the Education of Young Children Washington, DC | B | $920,190 | paid | improve the quality of the early childhood teaching profession by advancing and redefining the field of early childhood and professionalizing its workforce | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | US Chamber of Commerce Foundation Washington, DC | B | $907,150 | paid | support multi-state engagement of local business chambers on the importance of, and options to engage in, early childhood program expansion and improvement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Economic Solutions Detroit, MI | C | $900,000 | paid | encourage neighborhood-based small business development and the creation of new quality jobs for Detroit residents by strengthening and expanding entrepreneurship training, technical assistance and micro-lending opportunities through partnerships with community-based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board Portland, OR | C | $894,783 | paid | create jobs and career paths that improve the community, increase oral health access and improve oral health outcomes throughout the Pacific northwest, starting in tribes, by expanding dental therapy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Community Foundation Battle Creek, MI | B | $887,662 | approved, future | improve educational outcomes for Battle Creek, Michigan, children, ages 0-5, by strengthening child care centers' business and pedagogical leadership through the alignment and sharing of resources, services and supports | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | U | $870,600 | approved, future | pursue justice and racial equity for vulnerable children and families by preparing and incentivizing lawyers and other professionals to address social determinants of health by leveraging legal and public health systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Creative Leadership Greensboro, NC | B | $869,561 | paid | design and manage a premier fellowship program in the United States to build and develop world class leaders with a racial equity and community engagement lens resulting in a network of leaders focused on improving conditions for children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Operation Shoestring Inc Jackson, MS | C | $850,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of promoting health/self-sufficiency and extending the hand of hope/opportunity to empower the needy, uplift target neighborhoods and the larger community and brighten the future of children and their families by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Nations Development Institute Longmont, CO | B | $850,000 | paid | catalyze resources for Native communities to leverage their assets and build equitable food systems for the benefit of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Center On Law and Poverty Inc Albuquerque, NM | B | $810,000 | paid | transform the New Mexico public education system by supporting a strong, community-led project that addresses the issues raised in the Yazzie/Martinez vs. State of New Mexico case | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan League for Public Policy Lansing, MI | C | $800,000 | approved, future | advance access to early childhood education, expand career opportunities for low-skilled workers and enhance understanding of the impact of state budget and tax policies on Michigan's vulnerable citizens by cultivating community partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Linc Up Nonprofit Housing Corporation Grand Rapids, MI | B | $800,000 | approved, future | create more equitable community and economic development by organizing residents around community benefit agreements and connecting them to career opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Health Law Program Inc District of Columbia, WA | U | $800,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission to protect and advance the health rights of low-income and underserved individuals by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development Arlington, VA | U | $799,999 | approved, future | advance the national Food Systems Leadership Network, by increasing efficacy and impact, enabling communities to collaboratively solve challenges that improve the lives of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Trust Inc Washington, DC | B | $790,662 | approved, future | launch a regional model of technical assistance and supports for state-based, equity-driven coalitions of organizers, advocates, and education system leaders working to improve education system quality and equitable resourcing in southeastern states | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Jackson Jackson, MS | U | $785,000 | paid | increase employment opportunities for low-income families of color through a stratified framework of workforce and economic development, job creation and employer engagement to achieve family economic security and regional prosperity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Jackson Jackson, MS | U | $765,000 | approved, future | increase employment opportunities for low-income families of color through a stratified framework of workforce and economic development, job creation and employer engagement to achieve family economic security and regional prosperity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Summits Education Boston, MA | B | $752,463 | paid | improve access to quality education and educational outcomes of children in central Haiti through continuation of a whole child approach, early childhood education programs, literacy and numeracy instructions, a pilot math and science program and adding of additional grades in selected schools | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Community Reinvestment Coalition Inc Washington, DC | B | $750,004 | paid | strengthen efforts to remove barriers to access capital for small businesses using tools such as Community Reinvestment Act guidelines, small business testing and technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Way for Southeastern Michigan Detroit, MI | B | $750,000 | paid | expand innovative workforce solutions, employer engagement and a public-private system to connect low-/moderate-income Detroiters to career pathways and family-supporting wages and insure that Detroit participates equitably in the new economic growth of the future through support of a joint fund | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Advancement Project Washington, DC | U | $750,000 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of fulfilling America's promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy through the use of innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Compadres Network Inc San Jose, CA | B | $750,000 | approved, future | promote culture-centered healing from present and future trauma among young children by increasing awareness of the nature of childhood trauma, developing trauma-responsive skills for elementary educators and child-serving professionals, and sharing learnings with a broad community of stakeholders | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Black Belt Community Foundation Selma, AL | B | $750,000 | paid | advance a shared agenda in Selma, Alabama, that eliminates institutionalized racism through data-driven systemic change with a focus on narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, law, separation and economy by implementing the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Compadres Network Inc San Jose, CA | B | $750,000 | paid | promote culture-centered healing from present and future trauma among young children by increasing awareness of the nature of childhood trauma, developing trauma-responsive skills for elementary educators and child-serving professionals, and sharing learnings with a broad community of stakeholders | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Jackson Metro Sponsoring Committee Working Together Jackson Jackson, MS | D | $750,000 | approved, future | increase family economic security for low-income families through increasing outreach and enrollment of residents into MI-BEST in priority places and through working with immigrants and people of color to explore worker cooperatives to create their own wealth and do economic justice work | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Flint Flint, MI | U | $744,450 | approved, future | increase economic development opportunities for Flint residents by increasing the organizational capacity of municipal leadership and staff to plan, design and implement a comprehensive array of economic development strategies that support the city's revitalization and recovery | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Mexicana de Apoyo Infantil Ac Mexico, DF | U | $738,008 | paid | support capacity building of health committees in the Yucatan, Mexico, aimed at impacting local well-being while also connecting wider state-level initiatives that propel comprehensive attention and care of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Flint Flint, MI | U | $734,450 | paid | increase economic development opportunities for Flint residents by increasing the organizational capacity of municipal leadership and staff to plan, design and implement a comprehensive array of economic development strategies that support the city's revitalization and recovery | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Wayne State University Detroit, MI | U | $732,160 | paid | strengthen and expand the Detroit Equity Action Lab leadership development training to equip Detroit community-based organizations' leaders with understanding, skills and a network of support to utilize a racial equity lens throughout the implementation of their organizational and community work | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Child Care Aware of America Arlington, VA | B | $724,603 | paid | grow support for quality child care that meets the needs of diverse communities by developing the capacities of key local and state level child care advocates | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Community College Board Jackson, MS | U | $715,000 | paid | advance credentials, employment and family economic security for low-income Mississippians through enrollment and completion of the Mississippi integrated basic education and skills training program in community colleges in Foundation priority places | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Democracy at Work Institute Oakland, CA | C | $700,000 | approved, future | accelerate growth of minority-owned and minority-workforce businesses sharing ownership with employees and build funding streams to support growth, development and sustainability of worker ownership across the country | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative Grand Rapids, MI | U | $700,000 | paid | increase access to highly-quality learning opportunities in Grand Rapids, Michigan by engaging parents and deepening partnerships with providers and partner organizations to ensure that children have appropriate supports that prepare them for school success | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bd of Regents of Univ of Nebraska DBA Univ of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE | U | $700,000 | paid | create a comprehensive national birth equity project to equip public health professionals and community leaders in addressing birth outcome inequities within their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Partnership for Working Families Oakland, CA | C | $700,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of developing and promoting innovative strategies to build community power and reshape economies to transform the lives of workers and communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Secondmuse Bernalillio, NM | U | $694,455 | approved, future | increase entrepreneurship in Battle Creek, with a focus on woman and minority owned businesses, by providing early stage entrepreneurial support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation Espanola, NM | B | $694,189 | paid | strengthen the capacity of the Eight Northern Pueblos and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Council to develop and implement comprehensive early childhood care and education programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nexus Community Partners Saint Paul, MN | C | $690,000 | approved, future | build economic ecosystems within communities of color that create meaningful wealth-building opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities that work to shrink racial and economic inequalities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | African Methodist Episcopal Church Service & Development Agency Inc District of Columbia, DC | B | $686,027 | paid | increase families' nutritional awareness, agricultural productivity and food security in Haiti by providing training on the link between food and health, assisting smallholder farmers and strengthening connections between smallholder farmers and Sustainable Village and Learning Community partners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Alliance for Early Success Washington, DC | C | $684,998 | paid | increase the health and early education outcomes of low-income children by sustaining state advocacy efforts that improve state policies for children, starting at birth and continuing through age eight | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Cantaro Azul Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $681,502 | paid | improve families' access to clean water sources in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, by developing and implementing diversified technologies for sustainable water and sanitation services, accompanied by a capacity-building component to form local networks of leaders that can manage these systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, MS | U | $679,921 | paid | improve birth outcomes and ensure early breastfeeding for the most vulnerable newborns in intensive care units in Biloxi, Sunflower, and Jackson by structuring baby friendly neonatal intensive care unit practices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Borealis Philanthropy Minneapolis, MN | C | $675,000 | paid | enhance the economic security of vulnerable New Mexican families, grow low wage worker power and promote racial equity by strengthening organizational collaboration in support of concerted campaigns that improve the pay, benefits and protection of low-wage workers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Northern Great Lakes Initiative Marquette, MI | C | $675,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of, providing loans and business services to small business owners and entrepreneurs who create jobs and enable communities to thrive, by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Michigan Foundations Inc Grand Haven, MI | C | $670,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of strengthening, increasing and promoting philanthropy across Michigan by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Hartford, CT | B | $666,065 | paid | increase breastfeeding initiation and duration among vulnerable families by scaling up, enhancing and disseminating a systems' initiative linking baby friendly hospital transformation to community postpartum peer support across a 40-hospital maternity care network | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Policy Equity Group LLC Washington, DC | U | $666,000 | approved, future | advance farm to early childcare and education by supporting a community of practice, enhancing quality of early childhood learning environments, increasing access to good food for low income children, and disseminating best practices to local, state, and national networks | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Association for Enterprise Opportunity Washington, DC | C | $661,150 | paid | launch a trusted technical assistance program to help Black-owned small businesses grow and create jobs in low income communities using scalable and technology-centric solutions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation Detroit, MI | B | $660,000 | approved, future | increase employment opportunities for Detroit residents by building strategic leadership intended to achieve goals outlined by the Mayor's Workforce Development Board | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Detroit, MI | B | $651,647 | paid | expand the capacity of Detroit's newly established entrepreneurship eco-system to function as an advocate and anchor of employment equity and to strengthen its sustainability as a source for new jobs and careers for vulnerable families in all neighborhoods | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | U | $650,000 | paid | accelerate progress in achieving solidarity across difference by fostering spaces where bridging and belonging can occur and supporting research and advocacy in partnership with communities to address systemic issues | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Council for Community Development Inc New York, NY | C | $650,000 | approved, future | implement a flexible small-business loan program, in order to enable minority and women-owned small businesses to support an ecosystem of greater opportunity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Indian Health Board Washington, DC | C | $650,000 | paid | improve oral health outcomes in tribal communities by building infrastructure and capacity to support implementation of dental therapists | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rende Progress Capital East Lansing, MI | B | $650,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of eliminating the racial gap through small business loans to excluded entrepreneurs by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Schools for New Orleans New Orleans, LA | B | $650,000 | paid | increase student literacy and numeracy proficiency rates by supporting the adoption and implementation of Tier I curriculums and building a sustainable teacher pipeline through targeted recruitment and retention strategies | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc Health Equity International Newton, MA | U | $650,000 | paid | set up a triage and treatment center for COVID-19 at St Boniface Hospital and support the preparedness response of nearby health centers in Haiti's Southwest corridor | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Council for Community Development Inc New York, NY | C | $650,000 | paid | implement a flexible small-business loan program, in order to enable minority and women-owned small businesses to support an ecosystem of greater opportunity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Human Impact Partners Oakland, CA | U | $650,000 | approved, future | build capacity to advance health equity among lower resourced local health departments nationally and in Michigan | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Irving S Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Kalamazoo, MI | B | $639,748 | approved, future | enable children and families in Battle Creek, Michigan, to receive music education, literacy and instruction with enrichment opportunities by providing piano labs, family concerts, jazz series, community festivals and young artist recitals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Libertys Kitchen Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $638,933 | paid | increase employment equity opportunities in New Orleans by supporting Liberty's Kitchen's Youth Development Program to increase employability skills and connection to career pathways for 200 young adults | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Tides Center San Francisco, CA | C | $635,000 | paid | accelerate equitable both farm to school and early child and education efforts by advancing best practices and policies, enhancing multi-sectoral partnerships, catalyzing leadership, and supporting efforts in high need and underserved areas | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nonprofit Finance Fund New York, NY | C | $633,333 | paid | support internal training and practice enhancements in order to demonstrate how Community Development Financial Institutions may integrate racial equity analysis and practice into core operations that support economic justice and reduce inequities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Community College Board Jackson, MS | U | $625,000 | paid | increase the rate of postsecondary education and credential attainment among high school dropouts and non-traditional students by scaling integrated career pathway programs statewide among Mississippi Community Colleges | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hope Enterprise Corporation Jackson, MS | B | $625,000 | approved, future | make access to fresh, healthy and affordable food in COVID-19 impacted and divested communities of Sunflower County possible through a pilot fresh food delivery program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Motown Historical Museum Inc Detroit, MI | B | $625,000 | paid | increase entrepreneurship and career opportunities for economically disenfranchised residents, especially in the Northwest Goldberg district of Detroit, by providing early stage entrepreneurial support and career development training | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Goodwill Industries of Central Michigans Heartland Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $619,908 | approved, future | expand financial literacy, provide jobs/training for the unemployed and provide needed technology systems for Battle Creek jobs partners to track and monitor those entering the Battle Creek jobs system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rogosin Institute Inc New York, NY | B | $619,333 | paid | increase access to and opportunities for low-income young people and their families in and around Sunflower County to gain equitable, socially mobile healthcare industry-related employment by providing career/workforce pathway training linked to real employment opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Community College Board Jackson, MS | U | $614,244 | paid | increase employment and earning opportunities among Mississippians seeking middle-skills jobs by aligning community college programs of study curricula with competency requirements of national-level certifications to ensure graduates meet current industry needs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Goodwill Industries of Central Michigans Heartland Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $612,904 | paid | expand financial literacy, provide jobs/training for the unemployed and provide needed technology systems for Battle Creek jobs partners to track and monitor those entering the Battle Creek jobs system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Teachers College Columbia University New York, NY | B | $607,722 | paid | produce high-quality, solutions-oriented journalism about educational inequity issues in Mississippi and New Orleans, including the reporting and production of regular pieces - both editorial, feature and news stories, along with radio programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Neighborhood Development Center Inc St Paul, MN | C | $600,001 | approved, future | to provide technical assistance to low income communities desiring to retain existing or have new small businesses that provide goods, services, and creation of new jobs in their neighborhoods | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Schools Fund Oakland, CA | C | $600,000 | approved, future | strengthen school system's pipeline of Black and Latino educators and leaders and support early-stage education entrepreneurs of color represented in the Diverse Leaders Portfolio | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Workers Lab Oakland, CA | U | $600,000 | approved, future | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice Detroit, MI | B | $600,000 | approved, future | increase economic opportunities by building cross-sector coalitions between Detroit residents, developers and labor representatives through the establishment of the Community Benefit Resource Center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Civic Policy Albuquerque, NM | B | $600,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of increasing civic engagement among traditionally disenfranchised communities through strategic engagement campaigns, fostering a culture of disciplined collaboration and nurturing leadership networks by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Equity Project Oakland, CA | B | $600,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission and bridge the revenue loss from COVID-19 economic impacts by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi Hernando, MS | B | $600,000 | approved, future | improve the health outcomes of infants and pregnant women through a breastfeeding care coordination model, parent interventions and provider training in the Mississippi Delta | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Family Values at Work a Multi-State Consortium Milwaukee, WI | B | $600,000 | approved, future | build grassroots capacity, centering leaders of color, to raise awareness about the need for equitable and inclusive paid leave policies for all families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Common Market Philadelphia Inc Philadelphia, PA | B | $600,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of connecting communities with good food from sustainable family farms by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Public Schools Grand Rapids, MI | U | $600,000 | approved, future | improve third grade reading outcomes for children in Grand Rapids, Michigan by providing linked K-3 summer learning and academic year experiences and opportunities focused on literacy instruction for children transitioning between kindergarten and third grade | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Investigative Reporting Emeryville, CA | C | $600,000 | approved, future | develop investigative reporting around economic mobility barriers that low-income workers and workers of color face and support a fellowship program that increases the pipeline for journalists of color in local markets with strong investigative skills | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Washington, DC | B | $600,000 | approved, future | continue to credibly engage politically conservative leaders and constituencies on the importance of early childhood, with particular emphasis on infants/toddlers, child development and health and the importance of state level leadership and innovation to strengthen early childhood systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universite Quisqueya Portauprince | U | $600,000 | paid | enable an organization to achieve its mission of leveraging knowledge and action to serve humanity and Haitian society by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Borealis Philanthropy Minneapolis, MN | C | $600,000 | approved, future | enhance the economic security of vulnerable New Mexican families, grow low wage worker power and promote racial equity by strengthening organizational collaboration in support of concerted campaigns that improve the pay, benefits and protection of low-wage workers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Capital Impact Partners Arlington, VA | B | $600,000 | paid | increase access to employment and entrepreneurial opportunities and leverage relationships in food systems for low-income Michigan residents by strategically utilizing the capital in the Michigan Good Food Fund | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthrophy Jackson, MS | D | $600,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to serve, build capacity and foster collaboration among and between Mississippi's nonprofit and philanthropic communities, with the ultimate goal of improving results for children, families and communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Nations Development Institute Longmont, CO | B | $600,000 | approved, future | catalyze resources for Native communities to leverage their assets and build equitable food systems for the benefit of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Popular Democracy Richmond Hill, NY | D | $600,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of creating equitable communities through deep engagement with multi-racial and community-based organizations by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $600,000 | approved, future | increase employment equity opportunities for children and families in New Orleans by supporting the collection, analysis and distribution of data on economic, youth, and education outcomes | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | U | $596,258 | approved, future | improve the health, educational and economic well-being of vulnerable Native American children and families by enhancing capacity to conduct budget and policy analysis specific to Native American communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Michigan Foundations Inc Grand Haven, MI | C | $595,000 | paid | build momentum for racial equity and racial healing in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing and Flint to change human value hierarchy beliefs to sustain healing and narrative change and build community practices for structural change to endure using the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Washington County Opportunities Inc Greenville, MS | B | $589,000 | approved, future | increase the quality of Head Start in our priority places by focusing on early language development of children in Early Head Start and improving the reading skills of children in Head Start programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kore Foundation Inc Gallatin, TN | B | $585,250 | paid | expand income-generating opportunities for smallholder farming families and increase students' access to nutritious food in the Central Area of Haiti through training and implementation of an egg-laying and distribution initiative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kore Foundation Inc Gallatin, TN | B | $585,250 | approved, future | expand income-generating opportunities for smallholder farming families and increase students' access to nutritious food in the Central Area of Haiti through training and implementation of an egg-laying and distribution initiative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Washington Seattle, WA | B | $580,330 | paid | increase maternal and children health care and the quality of health information in Yucatan, Mexico by evaluating community and hospital interventions and improving the classification of causes of death | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Organizations Unifying Resources for Community & Employees Grand Rapids, MI | D | $577,000 | approved, future | increase economic security for low-wage healthcare workers in southeast Grand Rapids neighborhoods by providing support for career recruitment, retention and advancement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Creative Learning Inc Washington, DC | D | $575,091 | paid | improve income generation of artisan women in the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by providing specialized technical assistance to improve the quality of their products and diversify their access to fair markets | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Food Network Inc Jackson, MS | B | $571,341 | approved, future | improve health equity and literacy rates of children by maintaining the evidence-based OrganWise Guys Program, an early childhood curriculum centered on food and nutrition education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Iff Chicago, IL | B | $562,065 | paid | improve the quality of early childhood education programs by investing in improvements to facilities to support brain development, decrease environmental hazards and stabilize enrollment | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Center On Law and Poverty Inc Albuquerque, NM | B | $562,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to advance economic and social justice through education, advocacy and litigation and to improve living conditions, increase opportunities and protect the rights of New Mexicans living in poverty by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Student Achievement Partners Inc New York, NY | B | $561,860 | paid | support accelerator learning pilot that builds districts capacity to sustain effective K-1 literacy instruction and structures that improve K-1 student literacy achievement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC | D | $561,625 | approved, future | support the National Museum of African American History and Culture to create programs and resources to empower, enrich and educate young children from birth to 8 years old around identity, race and the African American experience | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation Kalamazoo, MI | B | $559,000 | paid | promote an effective and equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek, Mich., to increase coordination, accessibility, quality and responsiveness through facilitation of cooperative planning and support of the transition activities and partnership | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universite Quisqueya Portauprince | U | $556,119 | paid | improve educational outcomes for children and measure educational performance in the central area of Haiti by coordinating and strengthening a Model School Network, piloting an educational data management system and creation of a data management team and center at InnovEd | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC | D | $551,176 | paid | support the National Museum of African American History and Culture to create programs and resources to empower, enrich and educate young children from birth to 8 years old around identity, race and the African American experience | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi Hernando, MS | B | $550,000 | paid | increase employment and economic security outcomes for low-income families in the Delta through aligning public-private employer training partnerships and workforce development in middle skill, career pathways in carpentry, construction, energy efficiency, and manufacturing | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute New York, NY | U | $550,000 | paid | influence popular narratives and inform policy debates through research and analysis and stakeholder engagement that prioritizes solutions and analysis that seek to close the racial wealth gap and increase worker stability and agency | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Motown Historical Museum Inc Detroit, MI | B | $550,000 | approved, future | increase entrepreneurship and career opportunities for economically disenfranchised residents, especially in the Northwest Goldberg district of Detroit, by providing early stage entrepreneurial support and career development training | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center of Southwest Culture Inc Albuquerque, NM | B | $547,600 | approved, future | improve the economic well-being of low-income families and their children by incentivizing and supporting New Mexico businesses to adopt family-friendly policies and procedures, supporting job seekers' access to family friendly workplaces and scaling and sustaining the family-friendly initiative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Community Capital Albuquerque, NM | C | $546,368 | paid | improve the economic security and business success of lower income Native American families through targeted and culturally-competent training, mentorship, networks and other supports | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Boston Foundation Inc Boston, MA | B | $545,391 | approved, future | assist local organizations in Haiti by developing capacity to address health, education and income generating opportunities for families and children via organizational assistance, coaching, financial advising, coalition building and access to philanthropic investments | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development Arlington, VA | U | $535,001 | paid | advance the national Food Systems Leadership Network, by increasing efficacy and impact, enabling communities to collaboratively solve challenges that improve the lives of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Creative Learning Inc Washington, DC | D | $532,311 | approved, future | improve income generation of artisan women in the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by providing specialized technical assistance to improve the quality of their products and diversify their access to fair markets | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Partners for Common Good Washington, DC | C | $530,373 | paid | strengthen the capacity of community development financial institutions to measure, assess and communicate their impact of data and metrics to describe their community impacts and discover gaps in services and lending in communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Madison, WI | U | $527,920 | paid | support state-regional-district partnership to improve teaching quality through professional development leveraging high-quality instructional materials in the state's 9 Equity Districts serving approximately 65% of WI's students of color and students living in poverty | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Michigan Foundations Inc Grand Haven, MI | C | $525,000 | approved, future | build momentum for racial equity and racial healing in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing and Flint to change human value hierarchy beliefs to sustain healing and narrative change and build community practices for structural change to endure using the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute Inc Bronx, NY | C | $525,000 | approved, future | provide capacity building and research for coalitions in North Carolina, Michigan and a third state to advance policy reforms that will improve job quality of direct care workers and advance public understanding of the current status of the workforce | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Agroecology Network Santa Cruz, CA | C | $524,877 | approved, future | increase income generation of families in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, through the improvement of agricultural models and the connection of short value chains, strengthening production groups and marketing collectives that impact solidary economies under an agroecological framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation Little Rock, AR | B | $520,600 | paid | improve livelihoods and income generating opportunities of smallholder farmers in the Central Area of Haiti through training and market linkages, seedling production and distribution, and locally sourced school feeding programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | U | $519,667 | approved, future | improve practice and increase supports for districts, schools, teachers and children/families by supporting the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative to implement a classroom observation study of the impact of the Read by Grade Three Law on practices occurring inside Michigan's classrooms | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Canyon Trust Flagstaff, AZ | B | $518,853 | paid | strengthen the ability of lower-income Native American families in and around the Navajo Nation to improve their economic well-being and create wealth by providing geographically-focused and year-round entrepreneurship and business support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Families for Kids Jackson, MS | B | $515,000 | paid | support the healthy development of children by implementing the Help Me Grow model to connect children and families to multiple resources including education, health and mental health services | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region Kalamazoo, MI | U | $512,500 | paid | support the creation of self-determined philanthropic efforts for Battle Creek, Mich., communities of color by increasing fund generation, priority setting and grantmaking to community-based organizations through targeted giving models and technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc New York, NY | C | $500,000 | paid | create and promote authentic, just narratives of people of color, immigrants, refugees and Muslims in partnership and collaboration with entertainment and media industries by supporting the Pop Culture Collaborative funder resource | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Jackson Jackson, MS | U | $500,000 | paid | assure that more Jackson preschoolers enter kindergarten ready to learn by piloting pre-kindergarten services and best practices to arrive at a city-wide definition of pre-kindergarten to share and implement across all early childhood education providers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Schools for New Orleans New Orleans, LA | B | $500,000 | approved, future | increase student literacy and numeracy proficiency rates by supporting the adoption and implementation of Tier I curriculums and building a sustainable teacher pipeline through targeted recruitment and retention strategies | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Arkansas Little Rock, AR | C | $500,000 | approved, future | improve the health outcomes of Native Indian and Alaska Native children and their families by developing a comprehensive strategy to procure nutritious, adequate and culturally appropriate food through federal nutrition and feeding assistance programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Lansing, MI | U | $500,000 | paid | impact vulnerable children in Michigan by building new, stakeholder-informed processes that ease access to health and social services and increase the numbers of poor children of color gaining access to programs that will improve their physical, economic and social well-being | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation Kalamazoo, MI | B | $500,000 | paid | increase access to employment and decrease barriers for the unemployed by developing employment hubs in neighborhoods with high unemployment | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bipartisan Policy Center Inc Washington, DC | B | $500,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of advancing public interest in resolving critical economic challenges by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Childrens Cabinet Inc a Child and Family Resource Reno, NV | B | $500,000 | paid | improve the kindergarten readiness and third grade proficiency of children by strengthening the early childhood infrastructure to support alignment with the state's Every Student Succeeds Act plan regarding teacher preparation, planning and data reporting | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Red de Fundaciones de San Juan, PR | U | $500,000 | paid | support the recovery and wellbeing of families affected by hurricanes in Puerto Rico through strategic funding of local initiatives to support vulnerable communities and develop resilience strategies for the future | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for the Mid South Inc Jackson, MS | B | $500,000 | paid | ensure quality free public education for every Mississippi child and increase awareness about public education's positive effect in the communities by strategically increasing the communities engagement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Con Alma Health Foundation Santa Fe, NM | B | $500,000 | paid | establish and manage a fund providing direct assistance to New Mexicans who are immigrants affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and to create awareness about the structural barriers to their well-being | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc New York, NY | B | $500,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of ensuring respect, recognition and inclusion in labor protections for domestic workers by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education Montgomery, AL | U | $500,000 | paid | advance student success and narrow the achievement gap of low-income children by aligning educational experiences to create a seamless learning continuum from preschool to 3rd grade | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Steps Kent Grand Rapids, MI | B | $500,000 | approved, future | develop and coordinate a shared services initiative among early childhood providers in Kent County to improve services for children and families by promoting innovative, research-based early childhood practices and polices across the continuum of early care programs and settings | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Dearborn, MI | U | $500,000 | approved, future | enable the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services to achieve its mission of empowering communities to improve their economic, social and cultural well-being by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency Detroit, MI | B | $500,000 | paid | increase the capacity of Detroit residents and community groups to make positive change for vulnerable children and their families through efforts to promote high quality early childhood education and family economic security | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Pillars Fund Chicago, IL | C | $500,000 | paid | strengthen Grantee's capacity to support Muslim, Arab and South Asian children experiencing racial trauma and provide job training for parents by shifting narratives, building leadership capacity, advancing a racial equity agenda across communities and investing in community-based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Partners Los Angeles, CA | B | $500,000 | approved, future | advance good food procurement polices and practices by anchor institutions in order to increase access to good food by children and families living in low income communities and create living wage jobs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Lansing, MI | U | $500,000 | approved, future | impact vulnerable children in Michigan by building new, stakeholder-informed processes that ease access to health and social services and increase the numbers of poor children of color gaining access to programs that will improve their physical, economic and social well-being | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Proteus Fund Inc Amherst, MA | C | $500,000 | approved, future | build long-term and sustainable community engagement efforts across Muslim, Arab and South Asian organizations to bolster community mobilization and grow and develop community agency | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Policylink Oakland, CA | B | $500,000 | approved, future | advance health equity through a racial equity lens by amplifying community voice, promoting narrative change, and building institutional capacity for racial equity work within the field of philanthropy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Families USA Foundation Inc Washington, DC | U | $500,000 | paid | advance racial equity based health policies within system payment and delivery reform to aid in providing quality healthcare for the underprivileged | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mercy Health Chesterfield, MO | B | $500,000 | approved, future | increase people of color's access to health benefits in Mississippi by providing Medicaid consumer assistance and education to communities and advocates | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Skills Coalition Washington, DC | B | $500,000 | approved, future | plan and deploy a racial equity strategic plan focused on strengthening organizational capacity, policy development and assessment, and network building that will support the workforce development field in moving towards greater equity and tackling racial disparities in job access and mobility | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $500,000 | paid | support communications, research advocacy, partnership development and get out the count efforts at the national, state and local levels that prioritizes hard to count populations to ensure a fair and accurate count in the 2020 Census | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Immigrant Law Center Albuquerque, NM | B | $500,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to advance justice and equity by empowering low-income, immigrant communities through collaborative legal services, advocacy and education by providing general operating support. | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency Detroit, MI | B | $500,000 | approved, future | create a sustainable resident leadership development program to educate/empower Detroit families in low-income areas to plan/advocate for children/family well-being, including early childhood education reform, employment equity and equitable community development, through a funders' collaborative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc Washington, DC | U | $500,000 | paid | provide core support to the Families and Workers Fund and enable the fund to support organizations that will help workers and families access relief in response to COVID-19 | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation Detroit, MI | B | $500,000 | approved, future | provide general operating support to help the Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation fulfill its mission of globally marketing the Southeastern Michigan region, grow economic opportunities for all, and collaboratively support our economic foundation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Dearborn, MI | U | $500,000 | paid | enable the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services to achieve its mission of empowering communities to improve their economic, social and cultural well-being by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders San Antonio, TX | B | $500,000 | paid | create a more equitable environment for low-wealth business owners by strengthening nonprofits and advocating for polices in support of these businesses | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Proteus Fund Inc Amherst, MA | C | $500,000 | paid | build long-term and sustainable community engagement efforts across Muslim, Arab and South Asian organizations to bolster community mobilization and grow and develop community agency | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foodcorps Inc Portland, OR | B | $500,000 | approved, future | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Institute for Womens Policy Research Washington, DC | B | $500,000 | approved, future | create pathways to improve retention of women in the both skilled construction and manufacturing trades to mitigate the effects of occupational segregation that limits industry-wide equity and inclusion | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Policylink Oakland, CA | B | $500,000 | paid | advance health equity through a racial equity lens by amplifying community voice, promoting narrative change, and building institutional capacity for racial equity work within the field of philanthropy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency Detroit, MI | B | $500,000 | paid | create a sustainable resident leadership development program to educate/empower Detroit families in low-income areas to plan/advocate for children/family well-being, including early childhood education reform, employment equity and equitable community development, through a funders' collaborative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Childrens Literacy Initiative Philadelphia, PA | B | $494,762 | paid | ensure third grade success by strengthening literacy capacity of teachers and principals through a pre-K to third grade school improvement and professional development strategy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc Cleveland, OH | C | $494,757 | paid | help create new jobs and build local, sustainable communities by advancing national efforts to leverage the institutional assets of major healthcare systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Partners in Agriculture Inc Greenville, SC | C | $490,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of enabling human development in Haiti's Central Plateau by registering in Haiti, executing its strategic plan and restructuring a vocational school and three farms to aid students and smallholder farmer families by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Innovation Project Raleigh, NC | C | $482,446 | paid | enhance the academic achievement of students, Pre-K through Grade 3, by developing an inter-district network of Restart public elementary schools to redesign and transform school learning environments and by strengthening district systems of support that will enable the designs to flourish | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence Lexington, KY | C | $480,000 | paid | develop and implement strategies that increase access to infant-toddler child care and improve the quality and delivery of that care | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $479,800 | paid | increase employment equity opportunities for children and families in New Orleans by supporting the collection, analysis and distribution of data on economic, youth, and education outcomes | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for Louisiana New Orleans, LA | B | $479,742 | paid | build a community of practice for racial healing and relationships in New Orleans and Baton Rouge; support and expand existing community efforts and develop solutions to tackle structural barriers in separation, law and economy by implementing the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondation Connaissance Et Liberte Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libete Fokal Portauprince | U | $476,000 | approved, future | promote civic engagement, racial equity and collaboration with WKKF partners working on community visions in Haiti through education, family economic security and community engagement work at the Haiti/Dominican Republic border and a urban park in a challenging neighborhood in Port-au-Prince | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Partnership for Community Action Albuquerque, NM | C | $475,000 | approved, future | strengthen efforts to create quality manufacturing jobs, entrepreneurship training and professional development opportunities for early childhood educators by supporting the construction of a social enterprise center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Urban Advisors LLC Charlotte, NC | U | $475,000 | paid | address the challenges faced by entrepreneurs of color in Southeast as a result of COVID-19 by providing technical assistance to shift their businesses to essential services models, increase access to capital and connect them with professional services | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Local Initiatives Support Corporation New York, NY | B | $468,500 | paid | pilot a career development and wage advancement coaching strategy to help guide participants to financial stability and a $16 per hour wage within three years | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM | U | $467,630 | approved, future | accelerate systems change within the city's government to promote greater diversity and equity in the workforce, by supporting the Office of Equity and Inclusion | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | One Voice Jackson, MS | B | $467,277 | approved, future | build and support economic security for Mississippians by ensuring access to equitable employment opportunities for returning citizens, strengthening rural, electric co-ops and building budget and fiscal analysis capacity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Unlimited Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $466,700 | paid | develop a real estate investment program in downtown Battle Creek leading to more jobs created with local hiring and the revitalization and preservation of historic properties along the historic district | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Level Sports Battle Creek, MI | B | $466,683 | approved, future | expand an equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek, Michigan, including organizational capacity building support to launch the Battle Creek Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative that will increase access within neighborhoods to quality early childhood opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Museum of Art Inc Jackson, MI | U | $464,335 | paid | advance racial equity in Mississippi through exhibitions, artist residencies, community-based projects and productive dialogue that share new narratives, harness the unique ability of art to generate constructive conversations about contentious issues and expand and build relationships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Mexicana de Apoyo Infantil Ac Mexico, DF | U | $461,897 | approved, future | support capacity building of health committees in the Yucatan, Mexico, aimed at impacting local well-being while also connecting wider state-level initiatives that propel comprehensive attention and care of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Innovate Mississippi Jackson, MS | B | $460,000 | paid | create a network and provide technical assistance for low-income, minority and women-owned technology-based businesses, along with access to capital through the creation of a revolving loan fund | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Alaskans Institute Anchorage, AK | C | $456,167 | approved, future | dismantle human value hierarchy beliefs, identify/unpack systems-level issues in Alaska and advance systemic change that uplifts collective value/humanity supporting a transformational progress vision for the next 10,000 years by implementing the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Rural Affairs Lyons, NE | B | $450,000 | paid | strengthen efforts to promote child nutrition, healthy equitable food systems, and job creation opportunities across the food value chain so that vulnerable children and families benefit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Nations Foundation Washington, DC | B | $450,000 | paid | recover livelihoods of families affected by tropical depression Cristobal and COVID-19 in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by implementing community-led funding strategies to build resiliency and restore wellbeing | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Arkansas Little Rock, AR | C | $450,000 | paid | improve the health outcomes of Native Indian and Alaska Native children and their families by developing a comprehensive strategy to procure nutritious, adequate and culturally appropriate food through federal nutrition and feeding assistance programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Moore Community House Biloxi, MS | C | $450,000 | approved, future | support healthy prenatal outcomes and enhance the intellectual, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers to promote later success in school and life for East Biloxi, Mississippi, families by expanding Early Head Start slots | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $450,000 | paid | support grassroot initiatives to recover food systems and strengthen resilience of communities in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, impacted by tropical depression Cristobal through the launch of a regional agroecology fund | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Methodist Community House Grand Rapids, MI | B | $450,000 | approved, future | provide general operating support to increase organizational capacity and achieve the mission of increasing the ability of children, youth, adults and families to succeed in a diverse community | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rural Advancement Foundation International USA Pittsboro, NC | B | $450,000 | approved, future | strengthen the capacity of the Farmer of Color Network to advance movement-building for systemic change in North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina in confronting misinformation, structural prejudice, and farm viability | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc Gulfport, MS | B | $450,000 | paid | improve employment equity, quality early childhood education and health outcomes for children and families in East Biloxi, Mississippi, by completing an updated community needs assessment and executing recommended actions from the assessment | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association of Latino Elected Officials Educational Fund Los Angeles, CA | U | $450,000 | paid | educate leaders of color and diverse groups of policy makers with the governance skills, information, and content expertise required to develop and implement equitable education policies | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Colorofchangeorg Education Fund Inc Oakland, CA | U | $449,996 | approved, future | increase engagement, participation and representation of Black millennials and adults as well as decrease the undercount of Black and Brown children and families in the 2020 Census by leveraging national digital media resources and supporting state and regional efforts | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Washington Institute for Financial Security Seattle, WA | U | $446,650 | approved, future | increase employment equity, family economic security and organizational culture change in workforce and social service agencies through implementing and evaluating the family-centered, trauma informed coaching model and organizational assessment that puts families at the center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Childrens Literacy Initiative Philadelphia, PA | B | $444,079 | approved, future | ensure third grade success by strengthening literacy capacity of teachers and principals through a pre-K to third grade school improvement and professional development strategy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project Inc Summerville, SC | B | $441,100 | paid | improve math proficiency for students by providing intensive professional development to teachers, engaging community and building pipelines of support with historically black colleges and universities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative Biloxi, MS | B | $440,821 | paid | create a system that leverages resources, streamlines processes and aligns workforce services that lead to employment equity for single moms by advancing training completion, credential attainment, employment and increased wages | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Unlimited Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $439,100 | approved, future | develop a real estate investment program in downtown Battle Creek leading to more jobs created with local hiring and the revitalization and preservation of historic properties along the historic district | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Economic Policy Institute Washington, DC | B | $435,285 | paid | support analysis and production of southern focused reports in order to inform debates centered around improving financial stability for low-wage workers of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Delta Health Center Inc Mound Bayou, MS | B | $435,000 | approved, future | reduce barriers in accessing quality health care, for children in Sunflower County, MS, through the establishment of school-based health clinics | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | American University of Beirut New York, NY | B | $429,500 | approved, future | strengthen new experiential learning curricula and community engagement within global institutions of higher education in Mexico, Haiti and Honduras, by supporting the expansion of Key Elements of Success to promote the EARTH University model | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United States Chamber of Commerce Washington, DC | U | $428,745 | paid | engage and educate the business community in the imperatives of the business case for racial equity and research the perception and awareness of racial equity as an economic growth proposition | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondation Connaissance Et Liberte Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libete Fokal Portauprince | U | $424,000 | paid | promote civic engagement, racial equity and collaboration with WKKF partners working on community visions in Haiti through education, family economic security and community engagement work at the Haiti/Dominican Republic border and a urban park in a challenging neighborhood in Port-au-Prince | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | DC Public Education Fund Washington, DC | B | $423,159 | paid | ensure third grade success by strengthening teachers' instructional reading capacity through coaching and mentoring | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Virginia Early Childhood Foundation Richmond, VA | B | $420,682 | paid | improve access to, and affordability and accountability of, quality early childhood in Virginia for low-income families by improving the capacity and coordination of state level early childhood systems and by transforming the early childhood workforce | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | North Mississippi Education Consortium University, MS | B | $418,846 | paid | improve kindergarten readiness rates by increasing the number of endorsed or certified teachers in pre-kindergarten settings and by providing supports and comprehensive services to licensed child care programs serving children in Jackson and Sunflower County | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | U | $418,752 | approved, future | advance existing research and initiate new research to inform discourse about race, culture, leadership and reforms at the systems level impacting the early childhood workforce | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Iff Chicago, IL | B | $417,098 | approved, future | promote positive outcomes for young children and families by providing systems-level coordination, strategic direction and leadership of the Hope Starts Here early childhood initiative in Detroit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Due Process of Law Foundation Washington, DC | C | $415,018 | approved, future | strengthen capacities for the promotion and dissemination of the rights to territory, development and self-determination of indigenous peoples by supporting local networks of defenders to carry out efforts in the defense of fundamental human rights in the Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Patronato Pro Zona Mazahua Ac Miguel Hidalgo, DF | U | $413,199 | paid | advance children and families' well-being in Campeche and Yucatan, Mexico, via an integrated intervention model that increases access to water and local markets, while also supporting income generation, healthy food production, and the training of local teachers for improved school performance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Lee Pesky Learning Center Boise, ID | B | $412,500 | paid | improve early literacy outcomes by supporting effective teacher professional development, gathering outcome data and continuing to provide evidence for state level investment in the Idaho early childhood system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Iff Chicago, IL | B | $411,845 | paid | promote positive outcomes for young children and families by providing systems-level coordination, strategic direction and leadership of the Hope Starts Here early childhood initiative in Detroit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Equity Project Oakland, CA | B | $411,290 | paid | generate the institutional and structural changes necessary to advance racial equity within the workforce development and educational systems by developing leaders who can apply both a racial equity and systems-thinking lens to the organizations they lead and the systems in which they work | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Trust Inc Washington, DC | B | $409,338 | paid | launch a regional model of technical assistance and supports for state-based, equity-driven coalitions of organizers, advocates, and education system leaders working to improve education system quality and equitable resourcing in southeastern states | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Covenant House New Orleans New Orleans, LA | B | $407,919 | approved, future | expand their comprehensive services for whole families by providing individualize case management, physical/behavioral healthcare, educational/vocational services, parenting/life skills workshops, early childhood development, and trauma-informed family strengthening counseling for parent and child | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Womens Foundation of Mississippi Jackson, MS | B | $404,834 | approved, future | increase persistence and credentials at community colleges in Mississippi for low-income moms through wrap-around services, including quality early childhood care and education, while also creating pathways to employment through implementing employer engagement and a family-friendly toolkit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Jackson Medical Mall Foundation Jackson, MS | B | $403,991 | approved, future | create healthier outcomes for children and better economic opportunities for small farmers of color by leveraging the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program in support of the Double Up Food Bucks program in Mississippi | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | B | $403,295 | paid | increase the representation of women of color employed and serving as certified lactation consultants in vulnerable communities by establishing pipelines to employment that embed training programs into colleges and universities serving communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Resource Strategies Inc Watertown, MA | B | $400,001 | approved, future | create national infrastructure required to better support advocacy for increased resource equity in education systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mdrc New York, NY | B | $400,000 | paid | implement the Families Forward Demonstration project in Michigan to rigorously test new strategies around how to improve the earnings capacity and financial literacy of Non-Custodial Parents by leveraging child support resources | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Voices for Children Albuquerque, NM | B | $400,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of improving the status, well-being and racial/ethnic equity of New Mexico's children through child and family centered health, education and economic security by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer Ac Mexico, DF | U | $400,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of supporting women's groups that develop projects to promote the awareness and exercise of women's human rights and push for social change by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southern California Grantmakers Los Angeles, CA | B | $400,000 | paid | advance a shared agenda to eliminate institutionalized racism using data-driven systemic change resulting in a transformation of damaging narratives, racial healing and systems change in the law, separation and economy by implementing the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Center for Justice Jackson, MS | C | $400,000 | approved, future | reduce barriers to employment and increase economic stability at scale for low-income families of color through advancing expungement and consumer debt reforms | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Migration Policy Institute Washington, DC | C | $400,000 | paid | improve outcomes for immigrant children and families via supporting states with developing practices to expand jobs for parents and enhance education access for children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Development Fund Detroit, MI | B | $400,000 | approved, future | provide post-loan technical assistance to entrepreneurs of color who are borrowers under the Entrepreneurs Of Color Fund and who need training, skill sets and business expertise to keep their business growing and knowledgeable | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Childrens Finance Minneapolis, MN | B | $400,000 | approved, future | advance innovative solutions to finance early care and education through alignment within state-level systems that directly support child care businesses | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Race Forward New York, NY | D | $400,000 | paid | enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of building awareness, collaborating for solutions and building and amplifying leadership for racial justice by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sankofa Community Development Corporation New Orleans, LA | B | $400,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of building healthier communities for generations to come by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation Jackson, MS | U | $400,000 | paid | strengthen community efforts to transform systems through racial healing and equity strategies and make Mississippi more welcoming, stemming the "Brain-Drain" of younger generations who desire equitable and diverse communities with economic opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for Louisiana New Orleans, LA | B | $400,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of investing in people and practices that work to reduce vulnerability and build stronger, more sustainable communities statewide by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Nations Foundation Washington, DC | B | $400,000 | paid | accelerate the post-pandemic recovery of families and communities in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, through a multi-level resilient recovery strategy to support food systems, access to water sources and promoting economic reactivation of local organizations under the build back better principle | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Linc Up Nonprofit Housing Corporation Grand Rapids, MI | B | $400,000 | paid | create more equitable community and economic development by organizing residents around community benefit agreements and connecting them to career opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS | U | $400,000 | approved, future | improve student and family outcomes by enhancing efforts to connect data across different state agencies to better understand how a number of factors contribute to academic achievement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bd of Regents of Univ of Nebraska DBA Univ of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE | U | $400,000 | approved, future | create a comprehensive national birth equity project to equip public health professionals and community leaders in addressing birth outcome inequities within their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute New York, NY | U | $400,000 | approved, future | influence popular narratives and inform policy debates through research and analysis and stakeholder engagement that prioritizes solutions and analysis that seek to close the racial wealth gap and increase worker stability and agency | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Civic Policy Albuquerque, NM | B | $400,000 | approved, future | build a multi-racial, multi-ethnic movement of young people who are organizing and advocating at local and national levels for the dignity and justice of immigrants and communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Santa Fe Community Foundation Santa Fe, NM | C | $400,000 | paid | improve the health outcomes of children and families in target New Mexico communities in priority counties and strengthen the health equity network by increasing the communities' capacity to educate and make an impact through Health Impact Assessments and development of knowledge products | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Health Law Program Inc District of Columbia, WA | U | $400,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to protect and advance the health rights of low-income and underserved individuals by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rutgers the State University of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ | U | $400,000 | approved, future | advance the implementation of worker owner lead organizations using technical assistance, education and innovations to create a just economic ecosystem that benefits low income communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan League for Public Policy Lansing, MI | C | $400,000 | paid | advance access to early childhood education, expand career opportunities for low-skilled workers and enhance understanding of the impact of state budget and tax policies on Michigan's vulnerable citizens by cultivating community partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Council for Occupational Safety and Health Somerville, MA | U | $400,000 | approved, future | improve vulnerable workers health and safety in low-wage industries by providing technical assistance, communications and strategic support to organizations in southern states | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | De Beaumont Foundation Inc Bethesda, MD | B | $400,000 | approved, future | develop and implement a collaborative urban health policy agenda among the thirty largest city and county health departments that will guide policy, practice, and investments to improve public health and welfare | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Anchorage, AK | B | $400,000 | paid | train and deploy Dental Health Aid Therapists to improve oral health for vulnerable Alaska Native children in rural Alaskan communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Resource Strategies Inc Watertown, MA | B | $400,000 | paid | create national infrastructure required to better support advocacy for increased resource equity in education systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $400,000 | approved, future | support grassroot initiatives to recover food systems and strengthen resilience of communities in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, impacted by tropical depression Cristobal through the launch of a regional agroecology fund | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation Jackson, MS | U | $400,000 | approved, future | strengthen community efforts to transform systems through racial healing and equity strategies and make Mississippi more welcoming, stemming the "Brain-Drain" of younger generations who desire equitable and diverse communities with economic opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council for a Strong America Washington, DC | U | $400,000 | approved, future | expand access to high quality early learning programs in Mississippi by building a diverse membership of business leaders across the state who will champion on behalf of children's early development and learning | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southern California Grantmakers Los Angeles, CA | B | $398,330 | approved, future | advance a shared agenda to eliminate institutionalized racism using data-driven systemic change resulting in a transformation of damaging narratives, racial healing and systems change in the law, separation and economy by implementing the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mathematica Policy Research Inc Princeton, NJ | U | $397,002 | paid | strengthen efforts to provide high-quality, culturally responsive child care to children in southwest Detroit by supporting community partners, families and informal caregivers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Institute for Democratic Education in America Jackson, MS | B | $396,325 | approved, future | improve the quality of public education by strengthening community-based leadership, changing narratives about our schools and community and supporting local networks to sustain transformative education change in Jackson, Miss. | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Silicon Valley Community Foundation Mountain View, CA | C | $396,247 | paid | identify scalable, evidence-informed methods for increasing social/emotional development among vulnerable children and identify effective strategies and structural changes needed for successful implementation of these methods through core support of the Parenting Through Pediatrics Initiative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force Albuquerque, NM | B | $394,584 | paid | strengthen breastfeeding support for low-income women and women of color in New Mexico by providing assistance to hospitals adopting baby-friendly practices, building capacity of the Breastfeeding Task Force and local chapters, and developing strategies to increase duration/exclusivity rates | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grantmakers in Health Washington, DC | B | $394,167 | paid | advance health equity through a racial equity lens and support the health of vulnerable children, ages 0-8, and their families by increasing and leveraging opportunities for philanthropic organizations to communicate, coordinate, learn, grow and collaborate to strengthen philanthropic practice | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rural Community Assistance Corporation West Sacramento, CA | C | $382,573 | paid | improve the economic security, health and well-being of Native Americans in New Mexico and Arizona by enhancing capacity, securing additional investments and improving Native client recruitment and support in coordination with Rainmakers Investment Collaborative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Haiti Projects Inc Accord, MA | C | $381,101 | paid | improve the academic performance/outcomes of children and increase income-generating opportunities for families in Fond des Blancs, Haiti, through educational enrichment, library services, teacher development and skill training at a newly constructed community library/multi-purpose training center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families Washington, DC | B | $377,484 | paid | strengthen the capacity of leaders in target states to improve access to early childhood programs, specifically those serving infants and toddlers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grow Dat Youth Farm New Orleans, LA | B | $375,000 | paid | improve healthy living opportunities for children by enhancing youth capacity for leadership and self-realization through direct engagement in building a more racially and economically just food system in New Orleans | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Popular Democracy Richmond Hill, NY | D | $375,000 | paid | anchor an effort of reducing forced arbitration via policy advocation and raising public awareness of impact on low-wage workers and vulnerable consumers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Development Finance Agencies Columbus, OH | C | $375,000 | approved, future | advance opportunities to leverage existing capital financing streams to scale local and regional food systems to increase access to good food for children and families living in low income communities and create new living wage jobs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | De Beaumont Foundation Inc Bethesda, MD | B | $375,000 | approved, future | create sustainable infant mortality reductions and increased breastfeeding durations by building systems to address upstream social determinants affecting the context of mother and infant health | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA | U | $375,000 | paid | increase the number of diverse, highly qualified educators in the early childhood education workforce through implementation of a seamless career pathway model focused on current and future educators | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, MS | U | $374,288 | approved, future | improve birth outcomes and ensure early breastfeeding for the most vulnerable newborns in intensive care units in Biloxi, Sunflower, and Jackson by structuring baby friendly neonatal intensive care unit practices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Families As Allies Inc Jackson, MS | B | $372,381 | paid | ensure that children with disabilities and/or mental health challenges have access to high-quality early childhood care and education supporting their specific needs in Jackson, Sunflower County and East Biloxi and that their families are supported in working with their children with special needs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Earth University Foundation Atlanta, GA | B | $371,651 | paid | promote youth leadership in the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by providing access to professional education and linking them to implementation opportunities in their regions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | President and Fellow of Harvard College Havard Law School Cambridge, MA | D | $370,850 | paid | develop a set of policy recommendations that reimagines American labor law in support of an economic agenda that supports low-wage and vulnerable workers through convenings, consensus building, research, community engagement and leadership development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Philadelphia Hospital & Health Care District Philadelphia, PA | U | $370,404 | approved, future | develop an early childhood education apprenticeship by creating career pathways focused on the child development associate credential | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Leading Educators Inc New Orleans, LA | U | $370,000 | paid | improve proficiency rates of student literacy and numeracy by providing schools with high quality instructional materials, providing equity-centered professional development to teacher-leaders and supporting charter network leaders to align and organize systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Texas Southern University Houston, TX | B | $368,981 | paid | advance health equity and improve kids' natural environments by leveraging/expanding the Gulf Coast Equity Consortium, a collaboration of historically black colleges/universities and community based organizations, to address health/racial inequity and vulnerability of Gulf Coast kids and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Families for Kids Jackson, MS | B | $365,000 | approved, future | support the healthy development of children by implementing the Help Me Grow model to connect children and families to multiple resources including education, health and mental health services | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Yale University New Haven, CT | U | $361,928 | paid | promote whole child development and increase equitable outcomes by implementing a place-based systems change model that includes families, city government, teaching preparation programs, social work interns and the Comer School Development Program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $360,000 | approved, future | provide small businesses in the Bronx and Brooklyn with technical assistance that will improve their ability to secure vertical supply chain business with major anchor institutions in New York resulting in increased revenue and creation of jobs for low income workers in the surrounding communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | U | $359,211 | approved, future | promote an effective and equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek to ensure the needs of the most vulnerable children and families are met by expanding the capacity and quality of the system through engagement of local stakeholders in shared learning, cooperative planning and group action | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Alliance for Excellent Education Inc Washington, DC | C | $355,542 | paid | enable states to better support schools and create equitable learning opportunities for children by ensuring the Every Student Succeeds Act equitably measures the performance of historically underserved students | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Breastfeeding Network Lansing, MI | B | $355,000 | paid | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force Albuquerque, NM | B | $352,244 | approved, future | strengthen breastfeeding support for low-income women and women of color in New Mexico by providing assistance to hospitals adopting baby-friendly practices, building capacity of the Breastfeeding Task Force and local chapters, and developing strategies to increase duration/exclusivity rates | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Student Achievement Partners Inc New York, NY | B | $351,184 | approved, future | support accelerator learning pilot that builds districts capacity to sustain effective K-1 literacy instruction and structures that improve K-1 student literacy achievement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hope On a String Inc Bedford Hills, NY | U | $350,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of fostering an environment of social transformation in Haiti through community participation in music by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta Atlanta, GA | C | $350,000 | paid | provide pathways to business ownership for African Americans in metropolitan Atlanta with a focus on improving owner outcomes and financial security for employees, neighborhoods and the broader economy in order to become a platform for community wealth building | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hispanics in Philanthropy Oakland, CA | C | $350,000 | paid | support communities' resiliency in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by implementing an online crowdfunding strategy to receive funds for both recovery and resiliency initiatives led by local organizations and collectives | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for the Mid South Inc Jackson, MS | B | $350,000 | paid | develop community visioning processes, healing methodologies, evaluation and a strategic plan to prepare for fully implementing the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework in Mississippi | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc New York, NY | B | $350,000 | approved, future | improve the economic security among low-income families, particularly people of color, by targeting key policies and practices that institutionalize the racial wealth gap and working to remove barriers that disempower generations of families with children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Economic Solutions Detroit, MI | C | $350,000 | paid | increase access to career pathways for Detroit residents who are long-term unemployed and/or who face multiple barriers to equitable quality employment through education and technical training | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Economic Solutions Detroit, MI | C | $350,000 | approved, future | increase access to career pathways for Detroit residents who are long-term unemployed and/or who face multiple barriers to equitable quality employment through education and technical training | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Partnership for Working Families Oakland, CA | C | $350,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of developing and promoting innovative strategies to build community power and reshape economies to transform the lives of workers and communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc New York, NY | U | $350,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of supporting litigation on poverty/justice, education, voting rights, fair employment, capital punishment and administration of criminal justice and increasing educational opportunities through scholarships by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Organizing Project Albuquerque, NM | B | $350,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of supporting communities to achieve racial and gender equality and social and economic justice by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere Inc Decatur, GA | B | $349,800 | paid | address inequities in breastfeeding rates among African American women by creating communities across the United States who promote and support breastfeeding through culturally appropriate capacity building of community members, public health professionals and healthcare systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Groundswell International Inc Washington, DC | C | $349,676 | approved, future | advance families access to healthy food by promoting resilient seed systems through experimentation, experience and practices exchange and documentation of models and tools with small-scale farmers in Oaxaca, the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Future Focused Education Albuquerque, NM | B | $349,500 | paid | increase the economic well-being of young children and their families by supporting high-quality internships for economically vulnerable young parents and adults and infrastructure development among the Leadership Schools Network, Albuquerque Public Schools, employers and other partners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Future Focused Education Albuquerque, NM | B | $349,500 | approved, future | increase the economic well-being of young children and their families by supporting high-quality internships for economically vulnerable young parents and adults and infrastructure development among the Leadership Schools Network, Albuquerque Public Schools, employers and other partners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | College of Our Lady of the Elms Chicopee, MA | B | $347,465 | approved, future | improve maternal and child health outcomes in the Central Area and Southwest Corridor of Haiti by enhancing clinical nursing skills, knowledge and attitudes through a partnership between the Elms College and the Episcopalian University of Haiti Schools of Nursing | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Pronatura Sur Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $345,500 | approved, future | promote collaborative innovative practices in the Highlands of Chiapas, by implementing a series of professional development programs for indigenous rural youth willing to reside within their territories and improve well-being in their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | La Semilla Food Center Anthony, NM | B | $345,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of working with children, youth and families to build awareness around food issues by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta Atlanta, GA | C | $345,000 | approved, future | provide pathways to business ownership for African Americans in metropolitan Atlanta with a focus on improving owner outcomes and financial security for employees, neighborhoods and the broader economy in order to become a platform for community wealth building | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Friends of Matenwa Inc Cambridge, MA | B | $340,002 | paid | improve educational outcomes in Lagonav, Haiti, and enhance the framework of the Mibale Model School Network by establishing a lab school at the Matenwa Community Learning Center, strengthening Network partnerships, increasing the number of mother tongue books and providing collaborative training | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir Ac Mexico, DF | U | $339,435 | approved, future | advance indigenous women health and their access to decision-making spaces in Mexico, by supporting network organizing and civic engagement, strengthening the knowledge of their rights and its enforceability to leverage their agendas to impact health systems and conditions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Community College Grand Rapids, MI | U | $334,054 | paid | increase employment rates and economic mobility for vulnerable families in neighborhoods of focus through technical training and certification in high-growth career pathways | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Policy Equity Group LLC Washington, DC | U | $334,000 | paid | advance farm to early childcare and education by supporting a community of practice, enhancing quality of early childhood learning environments, increasing access to good food for low income children, and disseminating best practices to local, state, and national networks | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nonprofit Finance Fund New York, NY | C | $333,334 | approved, future | support internal training and practice enhancements in order to demonstrate how Community Development Financial Institutions may integrate racial equity analysis and practice into core operations that support economic justice and reduce inequities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | El Hombre Sobre la Tierra Ac Merida, YUC | U | $333,125 | approved, future | improve children's nutrition in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico by implementing a three line strategy to reinforce local and sustainable food production via promoting adequate nutrition and wellbeing as well as fostering income generation activities to complement alimentary needs of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Food Network Inc Jackson, MS | B | $330,659 | paid | improve health equity and literacy rates of children by maintaining the evidence-based OrganWise Guys Program, an early childhood curriculum centered on food and nutrition education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sunflower County Consolidated School District Indianola, MS | U | $330,000 | paid | increase kindergarten readiness of children by repurposing the Rosser Elementary School to become a centrally-located, high quality early childhood hub | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Earth Island Institute Berkeley, CA | B | $330,000 | paid | leverage existing Mississippi Farm to School Network, which includes small farmers, to deepen focus on Early Childcare Education providers as new market opportunities in Jackson, Sunflower County and Biloxi, through technical assistance, capacity building and further relationship building | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Haiti Christian Development Fund Margate, FL | B | $330,000 | paid | enable Fonds des Blancs farmers to heightened income generation by supporting efforts to strengthen agricultural value-chains as well as scale production via land expansion, crop diversification, product transformation and both university and marketing partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Association Des Cadres Pour la Protection de L'environment Laborde Cayes | U | $328,891 | paid | increase income generation and food security for women and farmer families through strengthening agricultural production & productivity, ecological bio-diversity, food product transformation and partner capacity building to implement shared projects and ensure collective impact | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Way of Central Virginia Lynchburg, VA | B | $327,110 | paid | support regional, rural early education systems alignment project and professional learning network | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Community Foundation Battle Creek, MI | B | $326,204 | paid | improve educational outcomes for Battle Creek, Michigan, children, ages 0-5, by strengthening child care centers' business and pedagogical leadership through the alignment and sharing of resources, services and supports | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Advocacy Program Ann Arbor, MI | C | $325,000 | paid | improve the economic stability of immigrant families by promoting equitable policies and providing strategic legal counsel to immigrant workers that can lead to statewide reform | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation Detroit, MI | B | $325,000 | paid | enhance the healthy social-emotional development of children, ages 0-8, and strengthen efforts to advance culturally sensitive practices at the community and systems level by supporting the leadership development of immigrant parents living in Southwest Detroit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Human Impact Partners Oakland, CA | U | $325,000 | paid | build capacity to advance health equity among lower resourced local health departments nationally and in Michigan | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $325,000 | paid | expand access to automatic criminal record clearing through state and federal policy reforms, supporting grassroots advocacy organizations, and shifting narratives about the importance of providing economic opportunity for people with criminal records | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $325,000 | approved, future | expand access to automatic criminal record clearing through state and federal policy reforms, supporting grassroots advocacy organizations, and shifting narratives about the importance of providing economic opportunity for people with criminal records | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rural Advancement Foundation International USA Pittsboro, NC | B | $325,000 | paid | strengthen the capacity of the Farmer of Color Network to advance movement-building for systemic change in North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina in confronting misinformation, structural prejudice, and farm viability | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Advocacy Program Ann Arbor, MI | C | $325,000 | approved, future | improve the economic stability of immigrant families by promoting equitable policies and providing strategic legal counsel to immigrant workers that can lead to statewide reform | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | De Beaumont Foundation Inc Bethesda, MD | B | $325,000 | paid | create sustainable infant mortality reductions and increased breastfeeding durations by building systems to address upstream social determinants affecting the context of mother and infant health | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Unlimited Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $325,000 | paid | support small businesses, primarily those owned by women and people of color, in Battle Creek impacted by COVID 19 with vital resources to retain jobs through making payroll, paying rent/mortgage, utilities and other necessary expenses based on need | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Detroit, MI | C | $325,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of building self-reliance, food security and justice in Detroit's Black community by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Refill Cafe LLC Jackson, MS | U | $324,998 | approved, future | increase economic stability and security of working families through a social enterprise model that prepares young people for employment through on-the-job training, soft skills, internships, access to wrap-around work supports, coaching, financial literacy, and job placement and retention services | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Center for Teacher Residencies Chicago, IL | C | $324,683 | paid | improve the capacity of school districts to overcome educational disparities for students by supporting the Mississippi teacher residency program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Woods Fund of Chicago Chicago, IL | C | $319,492 | paid | build strong trust-building and rigorous truth-telling for the proliferation of healing and dissemination of new narratives and develop cutting edge research on racial bias and inequality fueling transformation that drives the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework in Chicago-Cook County | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi Hernando, MS | B | $314,199 | paid | improve the health outcomes of infants and pregnant women through a breastfeeding care coordination model, parent interventions and provider training in the Mississippi Delta | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Creative Learning Inc Washington, DC | D | $313,320 | paid | improve families' integrated development and wellbeing in Sitala, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a comprehensive collaboration strategy, to empower communities to center their actions on health and nutrition improvement, with a strong focus on organizing and alternatives development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Washington Institute for Financial Security Seattle, WA | U | $310,200 | paid | increase employment equity, family economic security and organizational culture change in workforce and social service agencies through implementing and evaluating the family-centered, trauma informed coaching model and organizational assessment that puts families at the center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nexus Community Partners Saint Paul, MN | C | $310,000 | paid | build economic ecosystems within communities of color that create meaningful wealth-building opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities that work to shrink racial and economic inequalities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National League of Cities Institute Washington, DC | B | $309,775 | paid | support systems building at the municipal and city level through strengthening the capacity of leaders to align efforts in support of young children and improve access to entrepreneurship for low income workers and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Enlace Comunitario (community Link) Albuquerque, NM | D | $307,993 | approved, future | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | U | $306,971 | paid | improve the health, educational and economic well-being of vulnerable Native American children and families by enhancing capacity to conduct budget and policy analysis specific to Native American communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ms Coalition On Black Civic Participation Jackson, MS | U | $306,000 | approved, future | increase family economic security for women of color by educating the community and policymakers about issues regarding pay equity, women's wages, paid family leave, pregnancy accommodation, expanded access to affordable healthcare, access to affordable child care, and other issues affecting women | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Business & Human Rights Recource Centre US Ltd New York City, NY | D | $305,505 | paid | promote human rights and shared benefits of Mayan communities in the Yucatan Peninsula by providing tools to strengthen their civic engagement and informed participation in decisions pertaining to renewable energy projects | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Voices for Children Albuquerque, NM | B | $305,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of improving the status, well-being and racial/ethnic equity of New Mexico's children through child and family centered health, education and economic security by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Area Community Services Employment and Training Council Grand Rapids, MI | U | $304,400 | approved, future | create structural changes in the hiring practices of local Grand Rapids employers, leading to more equitable employment opportunities, by implementing an evidenced-based selection process | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Amtel Chiapas Sc Work Chiapas Sc San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $304,312 | approved, future | improve children nutrition in Chenalho and Aldama, Chiapas, Mexico, through the promotion of agroecological production and consumption of locally grown crops towards food sovereignty and the improvement of productive infrastructure to promote financial health and sustain families' initiatives | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (college of the Southern Frontier) San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $303,400 | approved, future | strengthen productive and organizational capacities of beekeepers in southeastern Mexico to help improve the production system at the regional level that impacts income generation for families and children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Third Sector New England Inc Boston, MA | B | $303,165 | paid | improve the outcomes for low-income children and families by strengthening the nonprofit sector in New Mexico while addressing the intersection between wages, the race and ethnicity of workers, and avenues for advancement through research, cohort-based action planning, and disseminating the findings | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater Washington Community Washington, DC | C | $302,362 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center of Southwest Culture Inc Albuquerque, NM | B | $300,850 | paid | improve the economic well-being of low-income families and their children by incentivizing and supporting New Mexico businesses to adopt family-friendly policies and procedures, supporting job seekers' access to family friendly workplaces and scaling and sustaining the family-friendly initiative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Community Foundation Santa Fe, NM | B | $300,000 | paid | contribute to a fund providing grants for direct assistance to tribal governments, tribal communities and Native people in New Mexico who are disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC | C | $300,000 | paid | promote a culture of care and support for infants and toddlers by attending to the well-being of child care teachers so they are able to provide relationship-based care that meets their developmental needs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi First Inc Jackson, MS | B | $300,000 | paid | improve statewide access to high quality instruction by expanding publicly funded pre-K and improving the educator pipeline through research, communication strategies and policy implementation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | President and Fellows of Harvard College Boston, MA | B | $300,000 | approved, future | advance knowledge and understanding of effective application of racial healing frameworks, methods and practices across diverse organizations and communities used for capacity-building and change efforts to achieve racial equity and systemic transformation for vulnerable families and children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Public Schools Grand Rapids, MI | U | $300,000 | paid | improve third grade reading outcomes for children in Grand Rapids, Michigan by providing linked K-3 summer learning and academic year experiences and opportunities focused on literacy instruction for children transitioning between kindergarten and third grade | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Union for Reform Judaism New York, NY | B | $300,000 | approved, future | enable organizational change by implementing racial equity principles and practices across all organizational functioning to normalize racial diversity in the Jewish community, expand leadership opportunities to Jews of Color, and increase organizational capacity to equitably serve diverse families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Corps Network Washington, DC | B | $300,000 | paid | expand opportunities for sustainable career employment for youth and young adults in the fields of conservation and resource management through the implementation of a racial equity and healing framework and through the training of a cadre of corps partners to sustain this model over time | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Family Values at Work a Multi-State Consortium Milwaukee, WI | B | $300,000 | paid | build grassroots capacity, centering leaders of color, to raise awareness about the need for equitable and inclusive paid leave policies for all families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Common Market Philadelphia Inc Philadelphia, PA | B | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of connecting communities with good food from sustainable family farms by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Union for Reform Judaism New York, NY | B | $300,000 | paid | enable organizational change by implementing racial equity principles and practices across all organizational functioning to normalize racial diversity in the Jewish community, expand leadership opportunities to Jews of Color, and increase organizational capacity to equitably serve diverse families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ms Foundation for Women Inc Brooklyn, NY | B | $300,000 | paid | improve support for child care advocates toward affordable quality child care while addressing policy and systems change to improve economic security for women, workers and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Civic Policy Albuquerque, NM | B | $300,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of increasing civic engagement among traditionally disenfranchised communities through strategic engagement campaigns, fostering a culture of disciplined collaboration and nurturing leadership networks by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | State of Mississippi Office of the Governor Jackson, MS | U | $300,000 | approved, future | improve the quality of early childhood programs by implementing the Educare Best Practices Training series to center- and school-based program leaders, teachers and family engagement staff | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Parent Network Detroit, MI | B | $300,000 | paid | ensure kindergarten readiness and third grade reading proficiency for Michigan children by increasing awareness among families of early childhood education opportunities and Michigan's third grade reading law | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Parent Network Detroit, MI | B | $300,000 | approved, future | ensure kindergarten readiness and third grade reading proficiency for Michigan children by increasing awareness among families of early childhood education opportunities and Michigan's third grade reading law | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | President and Fellows of Harvard College Boston, MA | B | $300,000 | paid | advance knowledge and understanding of effective application of racial healing frameworks, methods and practices across diverse organizations and communities used for capacity-building and change efforts to achieve racial equity and systemic transformation for vulnerable families and children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Heart of West Michigan United Way Grand Rapids, MI | B | $300,000 | approved, future | increase effective and efficient data sharing for system wide analysis, planning and decision making by supporting the data capacity of workforce development partners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Santa Fe Community Foundation Santa Fe, NM | C | $300,000 | approved, future | improve the health outcomes of children and families in target New Mexico communities in priority counties and strengthen the health equity network by increasing the communities' capacity to educate and make an impact through Health Impact Assessments and development of knowledge products | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc Gulfport, MS | B | $300,000 | approved, future | improve employment equity, quality early childhood education and health outcomes for children and families in East Biloxi, Mississippi, by completing an updated community needs assessment and executing recommended actions from the assessment | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United for Respect Education Fund Brooklyn, NY | D | $300,000 | paid | advocate for solutions to protect jobs and promote quality employment for workers in the retail sector supply chain by engaging in high-impact public education and corporate campaigns | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Workers Lab Oakland, CA | U | $300,000 | paid | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Migration Policy Institute Washington, DC | C | $300,000 | approved, future | improve outcomes for immigrant children and families via supporting states with developing practices to expand jobs for parents and enhance education access for children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for Hope and Health in Haiti Uniondale, NY | B | $300,000 | paid | decrease maternal and 0-5 year old infant mortality and morbidity rates in Ile-a-Vache and Arcahaie, Haiti, through comprehensive prenatal, delivery and postnatal services and care, counseling and childcare training for pregnant teens and comprehensive pediatric care | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Cabrini Green Legal Aid Chicago, IL | C | $300,000 | paid | scale and evaluate collaborative legal services program with workforce development programs to provide legal representation for criminal record relief to justice-involved workforce training participants and monitor implementation and impact of criminal justice reform policies on economic stability | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Urban League of Louisiana New Orleans, LA | B | $300,000 | paid | implement and execute the career pathways programs for unemployed and underemployed individuals by pairing skilled crafts, healthcare and technology with work supports to prepare for success in the workforce and lead to family economic security | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Black Child Development Institute Inc Silver Spring, MD | B | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of improving and advancing the quality of life for Black children and their families by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Center for Justice Jackson, MS | C | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of advancing racial and economic justice and developing strategies to combat discrimination and poverty in Mississippi by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Promise54 Atlanta, GA | U | $300,000 | approved, future | expand tools, data-informed reports and case studies to accurately describe and measure the state of diversity, equity and inclusion within the education field while also enabling education organizations to better diagnose and advance their internal diversity, equity and inclusion practices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | A New Way of Life Reentry Project Los Angeles, CA | C | $300,000 | paid | promote improved life outcomes for women and mothers transitioning into community after incarceration by educating policymakers about the context and consequences of women's incarceration, systemic barriers to successful reintegration and the resources needed to improve social and economic stability | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Seiu Education & Support Fund Washington, DC | B | $300,000 | paid | create a national infrastructure to improve equity in early childhood education workforce and ensure children of color in low-income communities have access to high-quality early learning environments and a highly qualified workforce by identifying the most effective early care/education trainings | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Education Association Washington, DC | U | $300,000 | paid | increase equitable outcomes in schools, districts and states by training leaders and teachers to address implicit bias, cultural gaps and institutional inequities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Santa Fe Indian School Santa Fe, NM | C | $300,000 | approved, future | improve the educational outcomes of Native American children by engaging, supporting and mobilizing Native American communities' to comprehensively address the findings and opportunities of the Yazzie/Martinez education lawsuit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Democracy at Work Institute Oakland, CA | C | $300,000 | paid | accelerate growth of minority-owned and minority-workforce businesses sharing ownership with employees and build funding streams to support growth, development and sustainability of worker ownership across the country | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Neo Philanthropy Inc New York, NY | B | $300,000 | paid | strengthen capacity, representation and civic engagement of Asian American Pacific Islander communities in movement for racial equity through grants, leadership development, trainings and cross-racial partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | One Fair Wage Inc Cambridge, MA | B | $300,000 | paid | support the work of Solidarity Council on Racial Equity members to advance racial equity and transformative solidarity efforts as a collective force for global change by supporting increased wages and equity in the restaurants that participate in the Detroit High Road Kitchens program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Reconcile New Orleans Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of transforming the lives of young adults and the community through the ministry of reconciliation by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Solidago Foundation Northampton, MA | B | $300,000 | paid | advance partnerships for workers centers to build their capacity and effectively increase their voice and power by joining philanthropy, worker organizations, academia and other stakeholders | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Agenda for Children Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $300,000 | approved, future | increase the number of children ready for school by launching a new early childhood opportunity program to accelerate continuous improvement at early childhood centers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Corps Network Washington, DC | B | $300,000 | approved, future | expand opportunities for sustainable career employment for youth and young adults in the fields of conservation and resource management through the implementation of a racial equity and healing framework and through the training of a cadre of corps partners to sustain this model over time | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Schools Fund Oakland, CA | C | $300,000 | paid | strengthen school system's pipeline of Black and Latino educators and leaders and support early-stage education entrepreneurs of color represented in the Diverse Leaders Portfolio | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Anchorage, AK | B | $300,000 | approved, future | train and deploy Dental Health Aid Therapists to improve oral health for vulnerable Alaska Native children in rural Alaskan communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Community Based Enterprise Inc Detroit, MI | B | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of facilitating economic development in Detroit, Michigan, particularly among historically underserved communities, by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi First Inc Jackson, MS | B | $300,000 | approved, future | improve statewide access to high quality instruction by expanding publicly funded pre-K and improving the educator pipeline through research, communication strategies and policy implementation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Tewa Women United Santa Cruz, NM | C | $300,000 | approved, future | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Trust Inc Washington, DC | B | $300,000 | approved, future | increase student achievement by building a collective impact approach to improving recruitment and retention of diverse teachers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rural Community Assistance Corporation West Sacramento, CA | C | $300,000 | approved, future | improve the economic security, health and well-being of Native Americans in New Mexico and Arizona by enhancing capacity, securing additional investments and improving Native client recruitment and support in coordination with Rainmakers Investment Collaborative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Youth Empowerment Project New Orleans, LA | B | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of engaging underserved young people through community-based education, mentoring and employment readiness programs to help them develop skills and strengthen ties to family and community by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | A New Way of Life Reentry Project Los Angeles, CA | C | $300,000 | approved, future | promote improved life outcomes for women and mothers transitioning into community after incarceration by educating policymakers about the context and consequences of women's incarceration, systemic barriers to successful reintegration and the resources needed to improve social and economic stability | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Santa Fe Indian School Santa Fe, NM | C | $300,000 | paid | improve the educational outcomes of Native American children by engaging, supporting and mobilizing Native American communities' to comprehensively address the findings and opportunities of the Yazzie/Martinez education lawsuit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mission Asset Fund San Francisco, CA | B | $300,000 | paid | provide immediate relief to immigrant families and workers impacted by COVID-19 by deploying a rapid response fund | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundations Inc Mt Laurel, NJ | B | $300,000 | paid | increase the number of low-income children in Mississippi and other national communities to enter school prepared to learn and become reading proficient by third grade via implementing the Campaign for Grade Level Reading | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association for the Education of Young Children Washington, DC | B | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to promote high-quality early learning for all young children via connecting early childhood practice and research by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Investigative Reporting Emeryville, CA | C | $300,000 | paid | develop investigative reporting around economic mobility barriers that low-income workers and workers of color face and support a fellowship program that increases the pipeline for journalists of color in local markets with strong investigative skills | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Naca Inspired Schools Network Albuquerque, NM | C | $300,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of transforming Indigenous education by engaging communities, building networked schools of academic excellence and cultural relevance, and serving students from early learning to adulthood by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights Washington, DC | C | $300,000 | paid | generate greater awareness of the inclusion, participation and representation of Afro-descendant population in the 2020 Census Communications Campaign in Mexico | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Neo Philanthropy Inc New York, NY | B | $300,000 | approved, future | strengthen capacity, representation and civic engagement of Asian American Pacific Islander communities in movement for racial equity through grants, leadership development, trainings and cross-racial partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Aquinas College Grand Rapids, MI | B | $300,000 | paid | increase the number of qualified teachers of color in early childhood classrooms in Grand Rapids, Mich., by developing a hybrid early childhood education/teacher preparation program to maintain and grow the number of early childhood seats and improve school readiness outcomes for pre-K students | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Washington, DC | B | $300,000 | paid | continue to credibly engage politically conservative leaders and constituencies on the importance of early childhood, with particular emphasis on infants/toddlers, child development and health and the importance of state level leadership and innovation to strengthen early childhood systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Leading Educators Inc New Orleans, LA | U | $300,000 | approved, future | improve proficiency rates of student literacy and numeracy by providing schools with high quality instructional materials, providing equity-centered professional development to teacher-leaders and supporting charter network leaders to align and organize systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Keres Childrens Learning Center Pueblo, NM | B | $300,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of reclaiming the education of Keres children by offering a comprehensive cultural and academic curriculum that nurtures Keres-speaking, holistically healthy and community minded students by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Dual Language Education of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | B | $300,000 | approved, future | improve outcomes for multilingual children in New Mexico by supporting effective dual language education programs through fostering school-community partnerships, developing leadership and instructional capacity and strengthening Native linguistic community alliances to effect system change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Tecnologica del Poniente Maxcanu, YUC | U | $299,967 | paid | contribute to enhance income for Mayan families from Yucatan, Mexico, through a training program that builds capacities aimed to optimize milpas' production and the development of food products with high added value and nutritional benefits | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Tecnologica del Poniente Maxcanu, YUC | U | $299,867 | approved, future | contribute to enhance income for Mayan families from Yucatan, Mexico, through a training program that builds capacities aimed to optimize milpas' production and the development of food products with high added value and nutritional benefits | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Total Community Action Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $299,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of reducing poverty in the New Orleans community by providing human services, experiences and opportunities that move persons from poverty to self sufficiency by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Groundswell International Inc Washington, DC | C | $297,764 | paid | advance families access to healthy food by promoting resilient seed systems through experimentation, experience and practices exchange and documentation of models and tools with small-scale farmers in Oaxaca, the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Law Center Newark, NJ | B | $297,484 | paid | support development of equitable state-based education funding formulas via creation of more nuanced state funding report cards using state-level data and expansion of existing interactive state-level funding data on grantee's website featuring "Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card" | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nature Conservancy Inc Arlington, VA | B | $295,318 | paid | support the creation of five training centers for innovation in agriculture, livestock, beekeeping and forest management where producers in the Yucatan Peninsula region will develop technical capabilities that will boost the rural development of Mayan communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Harvest Christian Center Inc Battle Creek, MI | U | $294,500 | approved, future | support the expansion of an equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek by increasing family access to and engagement in early childhood opportunities within Battle Creek neighborhoods to grow a pathway that supports kindergarten readiness by getting families connected early | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Iberoamericana a C Mexico, DF | U | $294,198 | approved, future | advance indigenous children education in Chiapas, Mexico, through the implementation of a culturally pertinent model, focused on building teachers' capacity to teach with a context-based curriculum in the indigenous languages of their students, and develop adequate tools for such purpose | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Buffalo City School District Buffalo, NY | U | $294,000 | paid | support children's success in school by providing professional development focused on literacy to early childhood teachers in grades Pre-K to fourth | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Iberoamericana a C Mexico, DF | U | $293,565 | paid | advance indigenous children education in Chiapas, Mexico, through the implementation of a culturally pertinent model, focused on building teachers' capacity to teach with a context-based curriculum in the indigenous languages of their students, and develop adequate tools for such purpose | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Wings for Kids Charleston, SC | B | $292,587 | paid | provide intensive teacher and principal in-school professional development focused on adult skills and practices that create a school climate and culture where students' social-emotional learning can thrive | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities New Orleans, LA | B | $290,708 | approved, future | increase children's readiness reading skills and strengthen parent and child interaction by conducting a three-year impact study of the PrimeTime program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National League of Cities Institute Washington, DC | B | $290,225 | approved, future | support systems building at the municipal and city level through strengthening the capacity of leaders to align efforts in support of young children and improve access to entrepreneurship for low income workers and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | U | $290,154 | paid | scale equitable local and regional food systems that increase access to nutritious good food and create jobs by building procurement capacity of early childhood providers; promoting effective policies and structures for community food systems, and expanding partnerships | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Detroit, MI | B | $288,007 | approved, future | expand the capacity of Detroit's newly established entrepreneurship eco-system to function as an advocate and anchor of employment equity and to strengthen its sustainability as a source for new jobs and careers for vulnerable families in all neighborhoods | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Enlace Comunitario (community Link) Albuquerque, NM | D | $285,041 | paid | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for Louisiana New Orleans, LA | B | $285,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of investing in people and practices that work to reduce vulnerability and build stronger, more sustainable communities statewide by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | High Purpose Co Clarksdale, MS | U | $285,000 | approved, future | support Black-owned businesses in Mississippi impacted by Covid-19 with crisis funding and technical assistance (TA) and continue the ongoing networking, fellowship and TA for these owners as they focus on their economic security and entrepreneurial development in Mississippi | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM | U | $278,564 | approved, future | improve economic security and academic success of vulnerable families through institutionalization of the Working Families Success Network for Community Colleges' Three Pillars model throughout Dona Ana Community College's culture, programs and initiatives | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Meridian Institute Dillion, CO | U | $278,250 | paid | advance healthy food systems that benefit children and families both domestically and internationally by creating knowledge products that impact the local and global level as well as development of evaluation tools to assist stakeholders towards systemic impact on equitable and sustainable food | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Inc Denver, CO | U | $276,419 | paid | strengthen optimal child development by engaging alumni of the foundation's fellowship programs to collaborate and advocate on key policies, practices and programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Operation Spark New Orleans, LA | B | $276,000 | paid | increase family economic security by supporting workforce pathways for low-wealth individuals and increasing access to high-wage software engineering careers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Newcorp Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $275,000 | paid | increase the capacity of small businesses owned by people of color in New Orleans through technical assistance, training, counseling and advisory services and increasing access to affordable capital | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund New Orleans, LA | C | $275,000 | paid | improve young children and families access to healthy food by building a farm to early childhood education pilot, advancing systemic change and increasing local procurement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, MA | B | $275,000 | paid | elevate community voices to inform national food and agriculture policy that supports equitable food systems and healthful food that is available to all | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Louisiana Department of Education Baton Rouge, LA | U | $275,000 | paid | improve children's readiness for school by developing a cohort of center directors equipped to serve as instructional leaders and improve center quality | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kingsley House Inc New Orleans, LA | U | $275,000 | approved, future | help low-income families in the Greater New Orleans region to achieve employment and economic security by implementing a plan to build a career and employment pipeline | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Asian Family Center Albuquerque, NM | C | $275,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of providing culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies Inc New York, NY | B | $275,000 | paid | support efforts towards narrative change in digital and social media through the support of a documentary film highlighting modern day civil rights leaders and their struggle and work towards creating equitable communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Legal Aid & Defender Association Washington, DC | B | $275,000 | paid | build the capacity of civil legal aid organizations that support low-income families during the COVID-19 pandemic via information sharing across a network as well as in-depth technical assistance to organizations in both Mississippi and New Mexico | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental Ac Mexico Df | U | $273,115 | paid | strengthen a cadre of indigenous leaders in Campeche, Mexico, to ensure children's right to a healthy environment by implementing a capacity building/legal assistance program to promote participation in decision-making processes where they can advocate for the protection of their natural resources | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Canyon Trust Flagstaff, AZ | B | $272,976 | approved, future | strengthen the ability of lower-income Native American families in and around the Navajo Nation to improve their economic well-being and create wealth by providing geographically-focused and year-round entrepreneurship and business support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Grand Rapids, MI | B | $272,844 | paid | increase access to high demand careers for Latino residents in the foundation's Grand Rapids neighborhoods of focus by expanding Spanish language training and supports | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Catalyst Inc Boston, MA | C | $271,000 | paid | support capacity building and community engagement to establish dental therapy practice in several states across the country | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kha'p'o Community School Espanola, NM | U | $270,838 | approved, future | improve educational and socio-emotional outcomes for Santa Clara Pueblo Native American children by supporting Tewa language programming that includes immersion instruction, implementing curriculum, assessment, teacher pipeline and professional development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Organizing and Family Issues Chicago, IL | B | $266,667 | approved, future | support families in leveling inequitable systems and advocating for both access to quality child care and policies that foster authentic parent engagement in birth through 8 education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston, MA | B | $266,032 | approved, future | improve birth outcomes and ensure early breastfeeding for the most vulnerable newborns in intensive care by structuring baby friendly neonatal intensive care unit practices in hospitals in the Foundation's priority places | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston, MA | B | $263,213 | paid | improve birth outcomes and ensure early breastfeeding for the most vulnerable newborns in intensive care by structuring baby friendly neonatal intensive care unit practices in hospitals in the Foundation's priority places | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Creative Learning Inc Washington, DC | D | $263,043 | approved, future | improve families' integrated development and wellbeing in Sitala, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a comprehensive collaboration strategy, to empower communities to center their actions on health and nutrition improvement, with a strong focus on organizing and alternatives development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Educacion Cultura Y Ecologia Ac Merida, YUC | U | $261,069 | approved, future | propel community leadership to advance their own vision of well-being in Yucatan, Mexico, through a comprehensive accompaniment program focused on building local leaders capacity to guide actions directly responding to their visions and priorities and bring more partners to join their advocacy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Algiers Charter School Association Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $261,000 | approved, future | advance third grade reading by improving the quality of teachers, reducing teacher attrition rates, and providing high quality professional development that connects associate teachers and uncertified teachers to a path to certification via a school-based university preparation program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Algiers Charter School Association Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $261,000 | paid | advance third grade reading by improving the quality of teachers, reducing teacher attrition rates, and providing high quality professional development that connects associate teachers and uncertified teachers to a path to certification via a school-based university preparation program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Noble Minds Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $260,429 | paid | increase the percentage of children proficient in reading by third grade by building teacher capacity, cultivating a trauma-informed school climate and engaging parents to support curriculum | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Springboard to Opportunities Jackson, MS | C | $260,000 | paid | utilize a mixed method quasi-experimental evaluation to investigate the impact that guaranteed income has with no strings attached on economic security, education, and health and family well-being outcomes of mothers and their children as compared to cash supplements with conditions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Neighborhood Development Center Inc St Paul, MN | C | $259,999 | paid | to provide technical assistance to low income communities desiring to retain existing or have new small businesses that provide goods, services, and creation of new jobs in their neighborhoods | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Instituto Internacional de Recursos Renovables Ac Mexico, DF | U | $257,325 | paid | enhance food security and sustainable productive practices in Mayan communities of Yucatan Peninsula by installing an integral waste management system that contributes to improve families livelihood and support the creation of networks to share knowledge and strengthen local economy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hope Network Grand Rapids, MI | U | $257,274 | approved, future | increase reading proficiency by third grade by providing training, coaching and other instructional supports for teachers and tutors within Detroit Public School Community District | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Covenant House New Orleans New Orleans, LA | B | $257,081 | paid | expand their comprehensive services for whole families by providing individualize case management, physical/behavioral healthcare, educational/vocational services, parenting/life skills workshops, early childhood development, and trauma-informed family strengthening counseling for parent and child | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | La Semilla Food Center Anthony, NM | B | $255,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of working with children, youth and families to build awareness around food issues by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | One Voice Jackson, MS | B | $254,682 | paid | build and support economic security for Mississippians by ensuring access to equitable employment opportunities for returning citizens, strengthening rural, electric co-ops and building budget and fiscal analysis capacity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Community Foundation Santa Fe, NM | B | $254,500 | paid | prepare low-income young people of color for careers in journalism, policy, education and digital communications through a holistic and skills-based, experiential training program by providing core support for the Generation Justice Cultivating Leadership program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Washington County Opportunities Inc Greenville, MS | B | $251,500 | paid | increase the quality of Head Start in our priority places by focusing on early language development of children in Early Head Start and improving the reading skills of children in Head Start programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Irving S Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Kalamazoo, MI | B | $251,252 | paid | enable children and families in Battle Creek, Michigan, to receive music education, literacy and instruction with enrichment opportunities by providing piano labs, family concerts, jazz series, community festivals and young artist recitals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Benola Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $250,575 | paid | improve overall school quality and support stability of schools in New Orleans by deploying a community engagement, racial healing and racial equity approach working across schools and community-based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Caribbean Craft Port Au Prince | U | $250,115 | paid | increase local small artisans capacity to income generation through both job and market access via supporting the reopening, restructuring and repositioning of an anchor institution that will strengthen the Haitian arts and crafts value-chain | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Delta Health Center Inc Mound Bayou, MS | B | $250,000 | paid | reduce barriers in accessing quality health care, for children in Sunflower County, MS, through the establishment of school-based health clinics | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rising Tide Capital Jersey City, NJ | C | $250,000 | approved, future | leverage the power of entrepreneurship by providing technical assistance and accelerations services to small businesses resulting in increased financial security, self-sufficiency and economic opportunity for low-income families and children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Policy Academies C O Eaton House Washington, DC | D | $250,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of cultivating a pipeline of diverse public policy researchers so that policy solutions more effectively change narrative, expand opportunity and create an equitable and inclusive society by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sustainable Economies Law Center Oakland, CA | B | $250,000 | paid | provide better jobs and financial stability for families in low-income communities and communities of color by training and upskilling lawyers to provide expertise and resources critical to entrepreneurs as they transition to worker-owned enterprises | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Planned Parenthood of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | B | $250,000 | paid | protect access to healthcare for Title X populations throughout Michigan in an effort to reduce the disparity in health outcomes among women, children and men | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ndn Collective Rapid City, SD | B | $250,000 | paid | ensure a strong future for Native children and families by supporting a Rapid Response Project for essential services to Native communities during the COVID-19 pandemic | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hopewell Fund Washington, DC | B | $250,000 | approved, future | engage local and state grassroots and community organizations in the development of a shared narrative and cross-cutting framework to expand and modernize the Earned Income Tax Credit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Gallup-Mckinley County Schools Gallup, NM | D | $250,000 | paid | improve the quality of education for children in Gallup-McKinley County Schools by providing increased access to technology in rural areas while incorporating processes across the district for culturally responsive teaching by developing bilingual language instruction in a distance learning approach | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Five Years Fund Washington, DC | U | $250,000 | paid | educate and inform the public, advocates and leaders about the importance of additional support for high quality early childhood education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bold Futures Nm Albuquerque, NM | C | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to lead policy change, research, place-based community organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Public Health Institute Okemos, MI | B | $250,000 | paid | improve birth outcomes for women and babies in Detroit through the creation of Detroit's first freestanding birth center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | La Plazita Albuquerque, NM | B | $250,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of engaging New Mexico's youth, elders and communities in a comprehensive, holistic and cultural approach through traditional values of respect, honor, love and family by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Policy Academies Co Eaton House Washington, DC | D | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of cultivating a pipeline of diverse public policy researchers so that policy solutions more effectively change narrative, expand opportunity and create an equitable and inclusive society by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Now Albuquerque, NM | U | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of educating residents and advancing key issues that contribute to the success of New Mexico by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Five Years Fund Washington, DC | U | $250,000 | approved, future | educate and inform the public, advocates and leaders about the importance of additional support for high quality early childhood education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Institute for Womens Policy Research Washington, DC | B | $250,000 | paid | create pathways to improve retention of women in the both skilled construction and manufacturing trades to mitigate the effects of occupational segregation that limits industry-wide equity and inclusion | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rockefeller Family Fund Inc New York, NY | B | $250,000 | paid | support the establishment of a learning community of multiracial grassroots organizations and researchers in order to assess innovative power-building efforts and narrative strategies that will build capacity and demonstrate effectiveness of organizing practice by providing core support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Skills Coalition Washington, DC | B | $250,000 | paid | plan and deploy a racial equity strategic plan focused on strengthening organizational capacity, policy development and assessment, and network building that will support the workforce development field in moving towards greater equity and tackling racial disparities in job access and mobility | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Groupe Haitien D Etude du Sarcome Dekaposi Et Des Infections Opportun Port Au Prince | U | $250,000 | paid | setup a national epidemiological surveillance system at two official entry points near the Haiti border for accurate detection and mitigation of SARS-COV-2 in the community as well as reinforcement of COVID-19 prevention, testing, and triaging of suspected cases at hotspots in Haiti | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Detroit Mercy Detroit, MI | B | $250,000 | paid | develop a network of early childhood education champions and ambassadors to promote equitable access to quality early learning experiences by educating and influencing process, program and systems change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Accion the US Network New York, NY | U | $250,000 | paid | to provide a comprehensive level of financial services and assistance to support low to moderate income small businesses that have been impacted because of the mandatory closing of businesses to address the COVID 19 pandemic crisis | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $250,000 | paid | support the establishment of a participatory grantmaking fund that will strengthen the capacity and power of multiracial grassroots organizing groups and extend their impact beyond electoral cycles | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Native American Rights Fund Boulder, CO | B | $250,000 | paid | empower Native communities through increased civic engagement and capacity building that strengthens Native Nations to overcome structural barriers to voting rights | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund Washington, DC | B | $250,000 | paid | promote policies and programs that protect the economic security of families and communities by centering those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, low-wage workers and workers of color, in public education campaigns, policy analysis and coalition building. | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Inc Traverse City, MI | C | $250,000 | paid | increase access to healthy fresh food by vulnerable children in school and early childhood settings through sharing and disseminating findings and best practices from the "10 Cents a Meal" state pilot project | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Womens Funding Network San Francisco, CA | C | $250,000 | paid | improve employment equity outcomes for women with children by supporting a cohort of women's funds aimed at advancing an aligned agenda and by supporting a larger learning community to expand engagement and influence of women's foundations in two-generation work | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Detroit Mercy Detroit, MI | B | $250,000 | approved, future | develop a network of early childhood education champions and ambassadors to promote equitable access to quality early learning experiences by educating and influencing process, program and systems change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Prosperity Works Albuquerque, NM | B | $250,000 | paid | improve economic security of vulnerable children and their families in New Mexico target subgeographies by implementing and scaling asset building strategies, employer based lending models, savings products and services while building organizational capacity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fair Count Inc Atlanta, GA | C | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of partnering with Hard to Count communities to achieve a fair and accurate count of all people in Georgia and the nation in the 2020 Census, and to strengthening the pathways to greater civic participation by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Urban League Inc Grand Rapids, MI | B | $250,000 | paid | strengthen efforts to ensure that communities of color in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have equitable access to education, economic opportunities and healthy communities by supporting community engagement efforts of a network of community-based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Chalkbeat Inc New York, NY | U | $250,000 | paid | inform debates/decisions that affect low-income children in Detroit and statewide by providing quality, unbiased education reporting across the Pre-K-12 continuum, with a focused emphasis on early childhood education, by supporting the development, production and dissemination of news stories | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Womens Law Center Washington, DC | C | $250,000 | approved, future | promote solutions to build worker power for an equitable future of work that advances job quality and worker wellbeing focused on low wage workers and women of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mercy Health Chesterfield, MO | B | $250,000 | paid | increase people of color's access to health benefits in Mississippi by providing Medicaid consumer assistance and education to communities and advocates | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit Detroit, MI | C | $250,000 | paid | advance employment of low- and moderate-income individuals and advance company growth and personnel retention in Detroit, Michigan, by establishing an employer-led membership program to assist employers with best practice knowledge, collaboration, services and support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foodcorps Inc Portland, OR | B | $250,000 | paid | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Boyea Robinson LLC Capeq Advisors Dallas, TX | U | $250,000 | paid | develop and implement strategies and knowledge products to close the racial wealth gap by elevating meaningful racial equity investment benchmarks and goals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sustainable Economies Law Center Oakland, CA | B | $250,000 | approved, future | provide better jobs and financial stability for families in low-income communities and communities of color by training and upskilling lawyers to provide expertise and resources critical to entrepreneurs as they transition to worker-owned enterprises | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM | U | $250,000 | paid | increase the economic well-being of lower income families in Bernalillo County through better alignment and integration of the workforce and economic development systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ica Group Inc Northampton, MA | C | $250,000 | paid | improve the sustainability of child care businesses that serve vulnerable children by providing technical assistance and guidance to existing centers and centers looking to transition into worker ownership | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Creations Collaborative Albuquerque, NM | C | $250,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission to alleviate poverty and build economic and educational opportunity for women across generations by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Plus Fund Paid Leave for the United States San Francisco, CA | U | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of winning paid family leave for everyone in the United Stated by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Lincoln Community Foundation Inc Lincoln, NE | B | $250,000 | paid | narrow the achievement gap for low-income children in Lincoln, Nebraska, by making childcare more affordable to families in need, improving the quality of childcare and providing financial incentives for providers to enact quality-leading efforts | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rising Tide Capital Jersey City, NJ | C | $250,000 | paid | leverage the power of entrepreneurship by providing technical assistance and accelerations services to small businesses resulting in increased financial security, self-sufficiency and economic opportunity for low-income families and children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hope Enterprise Corporation Jackson, MS | B | $250,000 | paid | make access to fresh, healthy and affordable food in COVID-19 impacted and divested communities of Sunflower County possible through a pilot fresh food delivery program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Opportunity Finance Network Philadelphia, PA | C | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to lead Community Development Financial Institutions/their partners to ensure that low-income, low-wealth and other disinvested people/communities have access to affordable, responsible financial products/services by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hopewell Fund Washington, DC | B | $250,000 | paid | engage local and state grassroots and community organizations in the development of a shared narrative and cross-cutting framework to expand and modernize the Earned Income Tax Credit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | West Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Grand Rapids, MI | C | $250,000 | approved, future | increase the growth of Hispanic- and Latinx-owned businesses in the Grand Rapids area by providing financial capability technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Native American Rights Fund Boulder, CO | B | $250,000 | approved, future | empower Native communities through increased civic engagement and capacity building that strengthens Native Nations to overcome structural barriers to voting rights | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Zearn Inc New York, NY | U | $250,000 | paid | create and implement Zearn Math supports to aid more equitable instruction for vulnerable student populations nationwide during COVID-19 related school closures | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | La Plazita Albuquerque, NM | B | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of engaging New Mexico's youth, elders and communities in a comprehensive, holistic and cultural approach through traditional values of respect, honor, love and family by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sundance Institute Los Angeles, CA | U | $250,000 | paid | support Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination and racial healing by expanding career development opportunities for Native youth filmmakers, creating platforms for sharing Indigenous storytelling projects and convening spaces for Native filmmakers to work with established industry leaders | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Acequia Association Santa Fe, NM | B | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of protecting the use of water for traditional communities to grow healthy food and maintain their cultural heritage by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ole Education Fund Albuquerque, NM | B | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of enriching and empowering New Mexico's working families and children through developing their capacities to advance policies that improve their communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc New York, NY | B | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of ensuring respect, recognition and inclusion in labor protections for domestic workers by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Earth Island Institute Berkeley, CA | B | $250,000 | approved, future | leverage existing Mississippi Farm to School Network, which includes small farmers, to deepen focus on Early Childcare Education providers as new market opportunities in Jackson, Sunflower County and Biloxi, through technical assistance, capacity building and further relationship building | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sundance Institute Los Angeles, CA | U | $250,000 | approved, future | support Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination and racial healing by expanding career development opportunities for Native youth filmmakers, creating platforms for sharing Indigenous storytelling projects and convening spaces for Native filmmakers to work with established industry leaders | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place Albuquerque, NM | B | $250,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of engaging Latino immigrant families in educational opportunities that build skills for economic and social justice by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sesame Workshop New York, NY | B | $250,000 | approved, future | assist in mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences in young children by increasing their circle of care's awareness and acceptability of social-emotional screenings | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Womens Law Center Washington, DC | C | $250,000 | paid | promote solutions to build worker power for an equitable future of work that advances job quality and worker wellbeing focused on low wage workers and women of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Reconcile New Orleans Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $250,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of transforming the lives of young adults and the community through the ministry of reconciliation by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Arkansas Little Rock, AR | C | $250,000 | paid | increase access to healthy, nutritious food for children and families and create jobs in Indian Country by leveraging model code policies to scale equitable food systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Creations Collaborative Albuquerque, NM | C | $250,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to alleviate poverty and build economic and educational opportunity for women across generations by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Partners Los Angeles, CA | B | $250,000 | paid | advance good food procurement polices and practices by anchor institutions in order to increase access to good food by children and families living in low income communities and create living wage jobs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sesame Workshop New York, NY | B | $250,000 | paid | assist in mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences in young children by increasing their circle of care's awareness and acceptability of social-emotional screenings | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Public Health Institute Ridgeland, MS | B | $249,846 | approved, future | increase healthy birth outcomes and facilitate natural birth practices through a new partnership with the safer childbirth cities initiative focused on reducing cesarean delivery rates and providing community-based support to pregnant and post-partum women | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Edbuild Inc Jersey City, NJ | B | $248,242 | paid | increase awareness related to the broader implications of school district borders that impact cross-sector issues such as school funding | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Childrens Services Council of Florida Inc Tallahassee, FL | C | $248,000 | paid | implement a holistic model that mitigates the child care fiscal cliff through phase-out payments and preserves quality care, while advancing career readiness and coaching, service alignment, sector strategies and career pathways into middle-skill jobs for vulnerable families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Center for Teacher Residencies Chicago, IL | C | $246,239 | paid | improve distribution, quality and retention of prepared K-3 teachers working in high-need and low-income elementary schools using an approach that targets districts and universities working together to improve teaching and learning via a community-based teacher residency model | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Buffalo City School District Buffalo, NY | U | $246,000 | approved, future | support children's success in school by providing professional development focused on literacy to early childhood teachers in grades Pre-K to fourth | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Social Policy Research Associates Oakland, CA | U | $245,679 | paid | provide technical assistance to grantees in Battle Creek to create one workforce development system to increase employment outcomes for low income families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Community Foundation Grand Rapids, MI | B | $245,000 | approved, future | increase the number of Grand Rapids, Michigan, African American and Latino donors in priority setting through targeted giving models, technical assistance and establishment of identity focused funds | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater New Orleans Foundation New Orleans, LA | B | $245,000 | approved, future | support the deepening engagement and amplifying diverse philanthropy initiative for New Orleans' communities of color by increasing fund generation, priority setting and grantmaking through targeted giving models, technical assistance and advancing participation in philanthropy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | U | $242,817 | paid | improve educational outcomes for vulnerable children by engaging, training and empowering refugee parents to advocate for increased cultural competence, access and equity in their children's education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ascension St John Foundation Grosse Pointe Woods, MI | U | $242,164 | approved, future | create the first accredited academic lactation training program which will increase diversity and cultural sensitivity within the lactation field in southeastern Michigan and will decrease racial disparities in breastfeeding initiation and duration | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Meridian Institute Dillion, CO | U | $241,500 | approved, future | advance healthy food systems that benefit children and families both domestically and internationally by creating knowledge products that impact the local and global level as well as development of evaluation tools to assist stakeholders towards systemic impact on equitable and sustainable food | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Metropolitan Economic Development Association Minneapolis, MN | B | $240,480 | paid | strengthen efforts to enhance wealth in minority families and tackle economic inequality by expanding a business ecosystem model to catalyze and accelerate minority business growth | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Detroit Business Association Detroit, MI | B | $240,000 | paid | establish a Small Business Advocacy Center to increase the number of Detroit-based/owned businesses certified to bid on state and federally funded projects and to assist small business hiring by removing barriers to work preventing Detroit residents' full access to jobs created | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Good Work Network New Orleans, LA | U | $240,000 | paid | expand small business ownership and access to capital for minority owned firms by supporting technical assistance and capacity building for new and expanding enterprises or businesses and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in New Orleans | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwest Detroit Business Association Detroit, MI | B | $240,000 | approved, future | establish a Small Business Advocacy Center to increase the number of Detroit-based/owned businesses certified to bid on state and federally funded projects and to assist small business hiring by removing barriers to work preventing Detroit residents' full access to jobs created | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kc Healthy Kids Kansas City, MO | U | $239,567 | paid | strengthen/integrate families, communities and systems in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., so young children can thrive by building low-income parents' skills to advocate for their families and increase systems'/communities' capacity to respond to the needs of families with young children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Adaptiv Inc Beverly, CA | U | $238,000 | paid | support completion of master planning phase of a community development initiative that will improve education, health, and family economic security in Arcahaie, Haiti through a project feasibility studies, viability studies, implementation strategy, and community engagement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Minnesota Public Radio DBA American Public Media St Paul, MN | U | $235,107 | paid | create original journalism on the changing landscape of the American workforce by supporting a dedicated Workplace Culture reporter position | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans New Orleans, LA | B | $234,619 | paid | support and grow low-income entrepreneurs of color and create and strengthen inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems that address social and economic disparities in impoverished communities by providing services, resources, advocacy and results in systems change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM | U | $233,783 | paid | improve economic security and academic success of vulnerable families through institutionalization of the Working Families Success Network for Community Colleges' Three Pillars model throughout Dona Ana Community College's culture, programs and initiatives | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Market Umbrella Org New Orleans, LA | U | $233,000 | paid | improve access to healthy food by piloting farm to school program providing school food to 300 elementary school students from small local farmers and expand awareness of food access incentive programs for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Women, Infant and Children program participants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | St Cloud Area School District 742 Waite Park, MN | U | $232,235 | paid | improve student achievement through training teachers and principals in co-teaching, culturally and linguistically responsive instruction and family engagement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondo de Conservacion El Triunfo Ac Tuxtla Gutierrez, CHS | U | $231,999 | approved, future | improve children's nutrition in schools within the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a school nutrition program, aimed to provide nutritious local food to students, based on community organizing and local procurement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Pro Zona Mazahua Iap Pro Zona Mazahua Foundation Iap Ciudad de Mexico, DF | U | $231,778 | paid | advance comprehensive development of families in Tenejapa and San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing direct actions to build civic engagement, leadership and participation of communities in their own well-being, focused on actions towards local development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Futuro Media Group New York, NY | B | $231,358 | paid | increase media and public awareness regarding authentic narratives of immigrant families and the impacts of family separation and natural disasters on vulnerable communities of color by engaging local underrepresented communities in journalism that acknowledges their experiences and points of view | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan Battle Creek, MI | B | $230,600 | paid | improve the quality and access of early-childhood opportunities available for children in Battle Creek, Michigan, by addressing the shortage of early-childhood educators and building a diverse pipeline of professionals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Spruce Root Inc Juneau, AK | B | $230,000 | approved, future | support community engagement, access to capital, and narrative change through the continuation of the Sustainable Southeast Partnership | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nusenda Foundation Albuquerque, NM | B | $230,000 | paid | improve economic security of vulnerable children and their families by recruiting and supporting organizational partners to deploy a micro-loan program to increase access to affordable capital by and the economic stability of lower income families, particularly Native Americans and immigrants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Sprout Urban Farms Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $228,800 | paid | strengthen efforts to overcome barriers and create growth for the regional food shed by intentionally connecting the Battle Creek food system to economic development and small business development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Global Pediatric Alliance San Francisco, CA | B | $228,161 | approved, future | advance maternal health in Chiapas, Mexico, via capacity building of local health providers and midwives, development of local leadership and network growth of both partners and stakeholders supporting midwifery and maternal health | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Third Sector New England Inc Boston, MA | B | $226,803 | paid | improve access to and quality of early childhood education by developing and implementing the Equity Leaders Action Network and providing state technical assistance support to Michigan early childhood systems leaders | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Refill Cafe LLC Jackson, MS | U | $225,002 | paid | increase economic stability and security of working families through a social enterprise model that prepares young people for employment through on-the-job training, soft skills, internships, access to wrap-around work supports, coaching, financial literacy, and job placement and retention services | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New America Foundation Washington, DC | B | $225,001 | paid | advance approaches to support multilingual early childhood educator career pathways with a focus on the Grow Your Own model through analysis, knowledge development and expansion | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Northwest New Mexico First Born Program Farmington, NM | C | $225,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to support the health and wellness of first born babies by building strong relationships with families by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater New Orleans Foundation New Orleans, LA | B | $225,000 | approved, future | increase racial equity practices by providing training and ongoing engagement with multi-sector leaders across New Orleans, supporting development of racial equity practices and policies in their organizations and increasing public awareness through a citywide media campaign | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $225,000 | paid | develop strong partnerships with community based organizations in the state, particularly in the northwest and rural communities, to initiate strategies that will lead to equitable and community aligned economies | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Childrens Museum Jackson, MS | C | $225,000 | paid | increase early literacy through a campaign that builds awareness on oral language development beginning at birth as a foundation for learning to read and by funding a study on the feasibility of establishing a lab school to demonstrate best practices to strengthen the teaching profession | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Urban Core Collective Grand Rapids, MI | B | $225,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of uplifting historically marginalized communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater New Orleans Foundation New Orleans, LA | B | $225,000 | paid | increase racial equity practices by providing training and ongoing engagement with multi-sector leaders across New Orleans, supporting development of racial equity practices and policies in their organizations and increasing public awareness through a citywide media campaign | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Steps Kent Grand Rapids, MI | B | $225,000 | paid | ensure families in Kent County, Michigan, have access to appropriate care and services for children in the first five years by aligning early childhood stakeholders to develop a common vision for early childhood and increasing public will to support early childhood systems development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Congress of Communities Detroit, MI | C | $225,000 | paid | promote parent and community engagement in Southwest Detroit through increased access to early childhood education, advocacy, leadership and provider resources | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | History Making Productions LLC Philidelphia, PA | U | $225,000 | paid | provide lessons learned regarding the Grand Bargain for the residents of Detroit and Michigan as a whole in both an exciting and educational manner, including the impact on the neighborhoods, businesses and future for the community and its residents | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Urban Core Collective Grand Rapids, MI | B | $225,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of uplifting historically marginalized communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Congress of Communities Detroit, MI | C | $225,000 | approved, future | promote parent and community engagement in Southwest Detroit through increased access to early childhood education, advocacy, leadership and provider resources | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Methodist Community House Grand Rapids, MI | B | $225,000 | paid | provide general operating support to increase organizational capacity and achieve the mission of increasing the ability of children, youth, adults and families to succeed in a diverse community | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Moore Community House Biloxi, MS | C | $225,000 | paid | support healthy prenatal outcomes and enhance the intellectual, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers to promote later success in school and life for East Biloxi, Mississippi, families by expanding Early Head Start slots | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigans Children Lansing, MI | B | $225,000 | paid | enable Michigan's Children to achieve its mission of ensuring that statewide policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Instituto Para El Desarrollo Sustentable En Mesoamerica Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $223,762 | approved, future | propel community leadership to advance their own vision of well-being in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico, through a comprehensive accompaniment program focused on building local capacity to advocate for adequate initiatives to move conditions for socio-territorial resiliency and innovation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Level Sports Battle Creek, MI | B | $223,317 | paid | expand an equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek, Michigan, including organizational capacity building support to launch the Battle Creek Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative that will increase access within neighborhoods to quality early childhood opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families Washington, DC | B | $222,516 | approved, future | strengthen the capacity of leaders in target states to improve access to early childhood programs, specifically those serving infants and toddlers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Futuro Media Group New York, NY | B | $222,344 | approved, future | increase media and public awareness regarding authentic narratives of immigrant families and the impacts of family separation and natural disasters on vulnerable communities of color by engaging local underrepresented communities in journalism that acknowledges their experiences and points of view | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Way of the Battle Creek Kalamazoo, MI | D | $221,988 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Food Trust Philadelphia, PA | B | $221,539 | paid | increase access to healthy local food for young children, benefit the state's farmers and improve health equity and food literacy for underserved children and their families by promoting incentives for farm to early childhood education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Community Foundation Grand Rapids, MI | B | $221,450 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Xavier Universtiy of Louisiana New Orleans, LA | D | $220,055 | approved, future | improve child-well being, build leaders and advance community engagement and racial equity by establishing a policy and research institute focused on building stronger connections between community, policy and practice in education, health, and other issue areas | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hispanic Federation Inc New York, NY | B | $220,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of empowering and advancing the Hispanic community by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Latino Community Foundation San Francisco, CA | B | $220,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of unleashing the power of Latinos in California by building a movement of civically engaged philanthropic leaders and investing in Latino-led organizations by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Latino Community Fund of Washington State Seattle, WA | D | $220,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of improving the well-being of Latinos in Washington, especially those most in need, by supporting local organizations that improve the health, education, community and economic development of the Latino community by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Denver, CO | C | $220,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of influencing and engaging Latinos and others to be leaders and philanthropic investors to develop strong and vibrant Latino communities in Colorado by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Kansas City, MO | B | $220,000 | paid | develop Latinos to their fullest potential by providing core support for the Hispanic development fund | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Xavier Universtiy of Louisiana New Orleans, LA | D | $219,945 | paid | improve child-well being, build leaders and advance community engagement and racial equity by establishing a policy and research institute focused on building stronger connections between community, policy and practice in education, health, and other issue areas | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for American Progress Washington, DC | B | $217,469 | paid | advance research to build the case for investment in child care and early education through engaging communities impacted by child care policy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Public Schools Grand Rapids, MI | U | $215,883 | paid | improve school readiness outcomes for children in Grand Rapids, Michigan, transitioning from pre-school to kindergarten by supporting a summer enrichment and learning program focused on play, social and emotional learning and the development of classroom skills | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Springboard to Opportunities Jackson, MS | C | $215,000 | approved, future | utilize a mixed method quasi-experimental evaluation to investigate the impact that guaranteed income has with no strings attached on economic security, education, and health and family well-being outcomes of mothers and their children as compared to cash supplements with conditions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southern Bancorp Capital Partners Little Rock, AR | C | $214,058 | approved, future | build and support economic security and entrepreneurial development opportunities for small business owners of color in the Sunflower County, Miss. area by providing credit and financial counseling, supporting match savings, volunteer individual tax assistance and small business technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Child Care Services Association Chapel Hill, NC | U | $213,619 | paid | strengthen the teaching workforce by developing, implementing and sustaining programs and strategies that result in a well-educated, fairly compensated and stable early childhood workforce | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Due Process of Law Foundation Washington, DC | C | $212,759 | paid | strengthen capacities for the promotion and dissemination of the rights to territory, development and self-determination of indigenous peoples by supporting local networks of defenders to carry out efforts in the defense of fundamental human rights in the Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Haven Area Community Grand Haven, MI | C | $212,500 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Asset Funders Network Chicago, IL | B | $210,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of engaging philanthropy to advance economic opportunity, financial inclusion and asset development for low income people by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | El Hombre Sobre la Tierra Ac Merida, YUC | U | $203,570 | paid | improve children's nutrition in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico by implementing a three line strategy to reinforce local and sustainable food production via promoting adequate nutrition and wellbeing as well as fostering income generation activities to complement alimentary needs of children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology Grand Rapids, MI | B | $203,000 | paid | increase employment opportunities for residents in Grand Rapids' neighborhoods of focus by providing training in high demand health care fields and disseminating information learned and material created to community partners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | French and Montessori Education Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $203,000 | paid | increase access to high quality early childhood and K-3 seats by supporting the expansion of a high-performing school, including recruiting, hiring and training teachers to implement the Montessori and language immersion program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Law Center Newark, NJ | B | $202,989 | approved, future | support a multi-state network of grassroots organizers and legal organizations working to improve state financing of public education and building collaborative network structures that attend to power dynamics and other education systems change drivers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Community Change Washington, DC | B | $202,952 | approved, future | promote solutions to elevate the need for high-quality child care and support for the workforce through building grassroots organizing infrastructure to sustain a national movement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Law and Social Policy Washington, DC | C | $202,076 | paid | support state and local advocates pursuing child care and paid family and medical leave initiatives via technical assistance and knowledge development in the state and federal context | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Teaching Matters Inc New York, NY | B | $201,800 | paid | refine and pilot a scalable, blended, competency-based professional learning model that promotes effective K-3 literacy instruction | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Refugee Education Center Kentwood, MI | C | $201,471 | paid | increase access to quality/culturally appropriate early childhood education services for children and families by launching a new early childhood development center that provides center-based services and functions as a hub for individuals interested in becoming licensed home-based care providers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Mexicana Para El Desarrollo Rural Ac Mexico City, DF | U | $201,204 | approved, future | increase income for Mayan families in the Yucatan Peninsula by supporting activities aimed at strengthening collaboration, organization and networks that improve local economy, monitor nutrition in children and create access to better food for families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Human Impact Partners Oakland, CA | U | $200,771 | paid | advance health equity in communities by amplifying the voice of public health professionals using community organizing principles and leadership development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Law and Social Policy Washington, DC | C | $200,316 | approved, future | support state and local advocates pursuing child care and paid family and medical leave initiatives via technical assistance and knowledge development in the state and federal context | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education First Consulting LLC Seattle, WA | D | $200,100 | paid | refine and implement second cohort of Coherence Lab Fellowship model that supports state, district, and school-level leaders in target states to learn and practice skills and mindsets necessary to create a more coherent and equitable education system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Aspen Institute Inc Washington, DC | B | $200,000 | paid | increase employment equity and entrepreneurship opportunities for low-wealth young adults by providing ongoing support for the Opportunity Youth Forum in New Orleans and expanding support to rural communities in Mississippi, and tribal communities in New Mexico | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Lincoln Community Foundation Lincoln, NE | B | $200,000 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Georgetown University Office of Research Services Washington, DC | U | $200,000 | paid | strengthen state Medicaid advocacy that improves child health and promotes health equity through research, analysis and technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | International Funders for Indigenous Peoples San Francisco, CA | C | $200,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission to foster indigenous solutions and partnerships among Indigenous peoples and funders around the globe as a resource for solving social, economic and environmental challenges faced by indigenous peoples by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Nonprofit Legal Services of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | B | $200,000 | paid | develop and establish organizational infrastructure for the Yee Ha'oolniidoo organization so they may continue to lead the Navajo Hopi COVID-19 Relief Fund initiative aimed at providing direct relief to Navajo and Hopi Families affected by the pandemic | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Momsrising Education Fund Bellevue, WA | B | $200,000 | paid | eliminate barriers to breastfeeding and better maternal and infant health among families of color by supporting strategic communications, centered on community voices, on family-centered workplace policies to educate policymakers and the public about birth outcome disparities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council for a Strong America Washington, DC | U | $200,000 | paid | expand access to high quality early learning programs in Mississippi by building a diverse membership of business leaders across the state who will champion on behalf of children's early development and learning | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Development Finance Agencies Columbus, OH | C | $200,000 | paid | advance opportunities to leverage existing capital financing streams to scale local and regional food systems to increase access to good food for children and families living in low income communities and create new living wage jobs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Earth University Foundation Atlanta, GA | B | $200,000 | paid | contribute to the sustainable development of the Mexican micro-regions by supporting the leadership development of students responding to food insecurity and environmental regeneration through the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network Oakland, CA | C | $200,000 | paid | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Brothers Empowered to Teach Initiative New Orleans, LA | B | $200,000 | approved, future | strengthen the teacher pipeline in New Orleans by increasing the number of well-prepared, culturally competent African American males entering the profession via an extended alternative certification model which includes mentoring during first-year classroom placements | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Momsrising Education Fund Bellevue, WA | B | $200,000 | approved, future | eliminate barriers to breastfeeding and better maternal and infant health among families of color by supporting strategic communications, centered on community voices, on family-centered workplace policies to educate policymakers and the public about birth outcome disparities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Health & Education Alliance of Louisana New Orleans, LA | D | $200,000 | approved, future | promote health equity for vulnerable children by ensuring they have remediating services to overcome early health deficits to ensure ability to learn | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Agenda for Children Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $200,000 | paid | increase the number of children ready for school by launching a new early childhood opportunity program to accelerate continuous improvement at early childhood centers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Trust for Americas Health Washington, DC | B | $200,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority through science-based research, community partnerships education and advocacy by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Health & Education Alliance of Louisana New Orleans, LA | D | $200,000 | paid | promote health equity for vulnerable children by ensuring they have remediating services to overcome early health deficits to ensure ability to learn | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Yale University New Haven, CT | U | $200,000 | paid | conduct a program to determine how to safely re-open child care for children, child care workers, families and communities during the COVID-19 health crisis by providing core support to Yale University | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Council for Occupational Safety and Health Somerville, MA | U | $200,000 | paid | improve vulnerable workers health and safety in low-wage industries by providing technical assistance, communications and strategic support to organizations in southern states | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation Porcupine, SD | B | $200,000 | paid | strengthen efforts to promote Lakota language acquisition and the use of effective immersion pedagogy by supporting the Lakota Immersion Childcare Center's development of its instructional model, curricular materials and teacher preparation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Boyea Robinson LLC Capeq Advisors Dallas, TX | U | $200,000 | approved, future | develop and implement strategies and knowledge products to close the racial wealth gap by elevating meaningful racial equity investment benchmarks and goals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Childrens Finance Minneapolis, MN | B | $200,000 | paid | advance innovative solutions to finance early care and education through alignment within state-level systems that directly support child care businesses | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Justleadershipusa Inc New York, NY | C | $200,000 | paid | increase earnings potential for formerly incarcerated individuals by collaborating on a multi-state campaign aimed at limiting access to quality employment opportunities and by engaging private sector employers in hiring people with criminal records | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hopewell Fund Washington, DC | B | $200,000 | approved, future | support the strategic communications work of a coalition working in states and nationally to educate policymakers and the public about the critical importance of paid family and medical leave policy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Louisiana Green Corps Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $200,000 | approved, future | strengthen and expand work readiness and demand-driven career pathway training in four areas including: 1) academic readiness, 2) work readiness, 3) construction and green infrastructure skills; and 4) environmental awareness and stewardship while increasing employer engagement and hiring | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rutgers the State University of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ | U | $200,000 | paid | advance the implementation of worker owner lead organizations using technical assistance, education and innovations to create a just economic ecosystem that benefits low income communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Territory Las Cruces, NM | B | $200,000 | approved, future | improve the economic well-being of vulnerable families in Dona Ana County by providing coordinated services and support leading to increased employment and educational outcomes | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Haciendas del Mundo Maya Ac Merida, YUC | U | $200,000 | paid | support families' economic recovery during and post COVID-19 social distancing, by implementing a solidarity fund to support artisans in Mexico and build their financial resiliency strategy along the way | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Orleans College Preparatory Academies New Orleans, LA | D | $200,000 | paid | strengthen efforts to address the educational needs of a socioeconomically diverse population in New Orleans, ages 0-4, by developing a large, high-quality early learning center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Black Child Development Institute Inc Silver Spring, MD | B | $200,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of improving and advancing the quality of life for Black children and their families by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Families USA Foundation Inc Washington, DC | U | $200,000 | paid | explore and identify community-based models of care in states that will improve maternal and child health, promote health equity and reduce disparities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Leaders Inc New York, NY | C | $200,000 | paid | increase high-quality learning environments in rural school districts in Edgecombe and Vance Counties, North Carolina, by providing embedded professional development and support to teachers and principals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Baton Rouge Area Foundation Baton Rouge, LA | C | $200,000 | paid | improve early childhood systems in Louisiana by evaluating and documenting the work of the Ready Start Networks | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Public Education Support Fund Washington, DC | C | $200,000 | paid | improve grantee's organizational capacity to drive impactful systemic change needed to create a more equitable public education system in the US and increase strategic coherence of grantee's three networks | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | San Francisco Foundation San Francisco, CA | B | $200,000 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Acequia Association Santa Fe, NM | B | $200,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of protecting the use of water for traditional communities to grow healthy food and maintain their cultural heritage by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Educational Television Foundation Wixom, MI | D | $200,000 | paid | build educational assets for young children, families and informal providers through community engagement, programming, partnerships and professional development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Orleans Startup Fund New Orleans, LA | B | $200,000 | paid | increase equitable outcomes for children by creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem of technical assistance supports for small minority-owned businesses in New Orleans | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Nonprofit Association Lansing, MI | B | $200,000 | paid | increase participation in the 2020 Census among hard-to-count populations by developing a messaging campaign and communications strategy that mobilizes networks of nonprofit organizations and those they serve across Michigan through education, trainings and community engagement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Magnolia Medical Foundation Raymond, MS | C | $200,000 | approved, future | improve Black maternal and infant health outcomes in Jackson, Mississippi by increasing the capacity and access of doulas | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Uc Hastings Foundation San Francisco, CA | U | $200,000 | paid | eliminate barriers to breastfeeding faced by low-income and African-American mothers in the workplace and on campus by strengthening legal protections for nursing mothers, educating professionals and parents about lactation laws and providing legal support to advocates and organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Families USA Foundation Inc Washington, DC | U | $200,000 | approved, future | explore and identify community-based models of care in states that will improve maternal and child health, promote health equity and reduce disparities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Define American Louisville, KY | U | $200,000 | paid | advance a news media strategy that prioritizes working directly with the media industry to raise awareness and help journalists understand how to responsibly cover immigrant stories by designing training on how to provide balanced, unbiased coverage on immigration | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Brothers Empowered to Teach Initiative New Orleans, LA | B | $200,000 | paid | strengthen the teacher pipeline in New Orleans by increasing the number of well-prepared, culturally competent African American males entering the profession via an extended alternative certification model which includes mentoring during first-year classroom placements | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | De Beaumont Foundation Inc Bethesda, MD | B | $200,000 | paid | develop and implement a collaborative urban health policy agenda among the thirty largest city and county health departments that will guide policy, practice, and investments to improve public health and welfare | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Power Coalition for Equity and Justice New Orleans, LA | C | $200,000 | paid | support local residents' leadership capacity to self-organize and advocate on key issues in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana by providing education and data to citizens | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Development Fund Detroit, MI | B | $200,000 | paid | provide post-loan technical assistance to entrepreneurs of color who are borrowers under the Entrepreneurs Of Color Fund and who need training, skill sets and business expertise to keep their business growing and knowledgeable | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Naca Inspired Schools Network Albuquerque, NM | C | $200,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of transforming Indigenous education by engaging communities, building networked schools of academic excellence and cultural relevance, and serving students from early learning to adulthood by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Voces Battle Creek, MI | C | $200,000 | paid | enable Voces to achieve its mission of promoting an inclusive society by providing Latino/Hispanic families with opportunities and resources that lead to individual and community transformation by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Working World Inc New York, NY | D | $200,000 | paid | provide support to businesses in communities of color transitioning to worker-owned companies that promotes job growth and wealth creation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association of Worforce Boards Washington, DC | C | $200,000 | approved, future | support the design, implementation, and scale of measurable family centered strategies within Mississippi workforce development boards and participate in a national learning community that results in greater economic mobility for families and culture change in the workforce system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Pueblo of Jemez Education Department Jemez Pueblo, NM | U | $200,000 | paid | improve educational and socio-emotional outcomes for Jemez Pueblo Native American children by supporting an integrated Towa Language Immersion instruction system from early childhood to 2nd Grade and implementing curriculum, assessment, teacher pipeline and professional development supports | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rende Progress Capital East Lansing, MI | B | $200,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of eliminating the racial gap through small business loans to excluded entrepreneurs by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Seattle Foundation Seattle, WA | B | $200,000 | paid | create a pooled fund to better coordinate and mobilize investment in national, state, and local efforts to advance more equitable education system funding and outcomes in states impacted by COVID-19 by providing core support for the Seattle Foundation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute Albuquerque, NM | U | $200,000 | paid | improve economic security and academic success of vulnerable Native American families through support of the culturally-appropriate implementation of the Working Families Success Network for Community Colleges' Three Pillars approach throughout Grantee's culture, programs and initiatives | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Way of New York City New York, NY | B | $200,000 | paid | improve teacher and leader mindset in five target elementary schools in the Bronx, New York | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Brothers of Elders Network Oakland, CA | D | $200,000 | paid | enhance the capacity of Black boys and men to heal relationships and advance solutions to community challenges by training adult mentor figures to implement culturally centered healing strategies, and engaging participants in a process of personal reflection and personal leadership skill mastery | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion Detroit, MI | U | $200,000 | paid | facilitate the revitalization of neighborhoods within the 48208 lives project in Detroit through racial equity and social justice | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of New Orleans New Orleans, LA | U | $200,000 | paid | increase healthy living opportunities for children and families by supporting CeaseFire New Orleans in expanding their programmatic capacity and the number of community stakeholders participating in efforts to improve public health and safety in New Orleans | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Catalyst Inc Boston, MA | C | $200,000 | paid | advance strategies that center the engagement of Black, Indigenous and People of Color in state and local health care advocacy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Civic Policy Albuquerque, NM | B | $200,000 | paid | build a multi-racial, multi-ethnic movement of young people who are organizing and advocating at local and national levels for the dignity and justice of immigrants and communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI | U | $200,000 | approved, future | increase media, public awareness and engagement on inclusion/racial equity issues in Grand Rapids by developing content and providing media training/resources to organizational partners and individuals to engage in action-orientated activities to improve child well-being and communities for families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Efforts of Grace Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $200,000 | approved, future | improve early life outcomes for infants and their mothers by building a network of community supports and improve young children's readiness for and success in school through culturally relevant training supports to teachers and students | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Somos Un Pueblo Unido Santa Fe, NM | B | $200,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to build a community that does not discriminate based on people's national origin, institutes humane migration policies and protects the human rights of everyone irrespective of origin of birth or documents carried by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Jackson, WY | U | $200,000 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS | U | $200,000 | paid | improve student and family outcomes by enhancing efforts to connect data across different state agencies to better understand how a number of factors contribute to academic achievement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Center for Justice Jackson, MS | C | $200,000 | paid | reduce barriers to employment and increase economic stability at scale for low-income families of color through advancing expungement and consumer debt reforms | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI | U | $200,000 | paid | increase media, public awareness and engagement on inclusion/racial equity issues in Grand Rapids by developing content and providing media training/resources to organizational partners and individuals to engage in action-orientated activities to improve child well-being and communities for families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Jackson State University Development Foundation Jackson, MS | B | $200,000 | approved, future | plan and establish a Center of Excellence on Black Breastfeeding and Early Care and Nutrition at Jackson State University's School of Public Health to improve breastfeeding among Black women | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation for Mississippi Jackson, MS | B | $200,000 | approved, future | partner with organizations and community to improve outcomes in education and health equity by continuing transformation efforts of Jackson Public School, developing a principal evaluation tool and implementing a home visiting program to ensure infants have a strong start on life | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Campbell Institute Portland, OR | C | $200,000 | paid | ensure family voice, both provider and educator knowledge, and community driven data are utilized to inform local implementation of statewide early childhood education investments in Oregon, designed to improve services for children and families with low-incomes | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute Albuquerque, NM | U | $200,000 | approved, future | improve economic security and academic success of vulnerable Native American families through support of the culturally-appropriate implementation of the Working Families Success Network for Community Colleges' Three Pillars approach throughout Grantee's culture, programs and initiatives | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Educational Television Foundation Wixom, MI | D | $200,000 | approved, future | build educational assets for young children, families and informal providers through community engagement, programming, partnerships and professional development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | U | $200,000 | paid | develop a cohort of young journalists to engage in narrative change efforts by using a racial equity lens and storytelling in producing in-depth reporting that focuses deeply on civil rights struggles and environmental racism that disproportionately and negatively impact vulnerable families of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Define American Louisville, KY | U | $200,000 | approved, future | advance a news media strategy that prioritizes working directly with the media industry to raise awareness and help journalists understand how to responsibly cover immigrant stories by designing training on how to provide balanced, unbiased coverage on immigration | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hopewell Fund Washington, DC | B | $200,000 | paid | support the strategic communications work of a coalition working in states and nationally to educate policymakers and the public about the critical importance of paid family and medical leave policy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Deep South Center for Environmental Justice Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $200,000 | paid | improve children's readiness for and success in school by providing social emotional supports, trauma informed approaches and mental health services to young children and professional development to early childhood educators | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | City of Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM | U | $200,000 | approved, future | increase the economic well-being of lower income families in Bernalillo County through better alignment and integration of the workforce and economic development systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Our Voice Nuestra Voz New Orleans, LA | B | $200,000 | approved, future | increase parents capacity to champion change for children, including improving student outcomes, by building a new leadership training curriculum, organizing Black and Latino parents and fostering stronger partnerships with schools | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Empowerment Plan Detroit, MI | B | $200,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of breaking the cycle of generational poverty through employing and training homeless individuals by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Black Leadership Council Albuquerque, NM | B | $200,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of serving as a hub to create a viable and sustainable social profit sector designed to serve the black community in the state of New Mexico by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United States Breastfeeding Committee Inc Chicago, IL | U | $200,000 | approved, future | eliminate disparities in breastfeeding by supporting local, state, and national partners institutionalize a racial equity lens in the U.S. breastfeeding landscape | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Working World Inc New York, NY | D | $200,000 | approved, future | provide support to businesses in communities of color transitioning to worker-owned companies that promotes job growth and wealth creation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Learning Policy Institute Palo Alto, CA | C | $199,920 | approved, future | build and support state policymakers' capacity to equitably fund state public education systems by increasing their access to high-quality research and technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education First Consulting LLC Seattle, WA | D | $199,900 | approved, future | refine and implement second cohort of Coherence Lab Fellowship model that supports state, district, and school-level leaders in target states to learn and practice skills and mindsets necessary to create a more coherent and equitable education system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan Merida, YUC | U | $199,900 | paid | advance children nutrition and local economy in Yucatan, Mexico, by implementing a school food program, improving children's access to locally sourced fresh food, connecting with local economic opportunities through regional procurement and financial support to farmers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Tides Center San Francisco, CA | C | $199,797 | paid | expand job opportunities in the high-wage, high growth technology industry for individuals who are formerly incarcerated through skills training, social supports, and promoting equitable workplace practices and cultures | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Instituto Para El Desarrollo Sustentable En Mesoamerica Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $199,188 | paid | improve families' wellbeing in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, by supporting the development of local leaders skilled to propel their own vision of development and by supporting spaces for communities to engage in participatory decision-making | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Law Center Newark, NJ | B | $198,782 | paid | support a multi-state network of grassroots organizers and legal organizations working to improve state financing of public education and building collaborative network structures that attend to power dynamics and other education systems change drivers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Slow Food Bra, CN | U | $198,130 | paid | advance family economic security in the Highlands of Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula through the promotion of sustainable farming/transformation practices and the incorporation of farmer families into fair trade value chains | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities New Orleans, LA | B | $197,884 | paid | increase children's readiness reading skills and strengthen parent and child interaction by conducting a three-year impact study of the PrimeTime program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Community Change Washington, DC | B | $197,048 | paid | promote solutions to elevate the need for high-quality child care and support for the workforce through building grassroots organizing infrastructure to sustain a national movement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Womens Foundation of Mississippi Jackson, MS | B | $196,416 | paid | increase persistence and credentials at community colleges in Mississippi for low-income moms through wrap-around services, including quality early childhood care and education, while also creating pathways to employment through implementing employer engagement and a family-friendly toolkit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Diseno Y Capacitacion Para El Desarrollo Y Las Microfinanzas Sc Tuxtla Gutierrez, CHS | U | $196,320 | paid | improve income generation and families' well-being in San Juan Cancuc and Sitala, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a strategy to consolidate food production, build financial skills and support the creation of local organizations, for families to advance health, nutrition and sustainability | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Jackson Medical Mall Foundation Jackson, MS | B | $196,009 | paid | create healthier outcomes for children and better economic opportunities for small farmers of color by leveraging the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program in support of the Double Up Food Bucks program in Mississippi | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Caritas de San Cristobal de Las Casas Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $195,606 | paid | improve food security for families in Pantehlo and Chalchihuitan, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing sustainable productive models and by promoting collaboration among communities to develop exchange chains and establish learning-practice spaces | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Human Impact Partners Oakland, CA | U | $195,395 | approved, future | advance health equity in communities by amplifying the voice of public health professionals using community organizing principles and leadership development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Worklife Partnership Denver, CO | C | $193,268 | paid | increase employment retention and stability for working families through replication of a sustainable employer investment and cross-sector partnership model in select cities across the nation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | American Indian Chamber of Commerce of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | B | $192,500 | paid | increase the economic well-being of lower income Native American parents in New Mexico through economic and workforce development, job creation and support to new and existing entrepreneurs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Heifer Project International Little Rock, AR | B | $192,192 | paid | increase income generation opportunities for Mayan families in Yucatan by supporting a rural entrepreneurs model aimed to enhance the poultry backyard production and to strength value chain and access to markets | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondo de Conservacion El Triunfo Ac Tuxtla Gutierrez, CHS | U | $191,926 | paid | improve children's nutrition in schools within the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a school nutrition program, aimed to provide nutritious local food to students, based on community organizing and local procurement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Third Sector New England Inc Boston, MA | B | $191,666 | paid | create a vision for culturally relevant early childhood development and learning by engaging and mobilizing mothers and caregivers through neighborhood-based informal networks | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bassuk Center On Homeless and Needham, MA | U | $190,431 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | State of Mississippi Office of the Governor Jackson, MS | U | $190,000 | paid | improve the quality of early childhood programs by implementing the Educare Best Practices Training series to center- and school-based program leaders, teachers and family engagement staff | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Jackson State University Development Foundation Jackson, MS | B | $190,000 | paid | plan and establish a Center of Excellence on Black Breastfeeding and Early Care and Nutrition at Jackson State University's School of Public Health to improve breastfeeding among Black women | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Centro de Investigacione Y Estudios Superiores En Atropologia Mexico City, DF | U | $189,010 | paid | increase civic engagement and improve agro-ecological systems and Mayan communities' livelihoods in Hopelchen, Campeche, Mexico, by strengthening the capacity of community members to plan and participate in collective decision making | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Taos Pueblo Cms Administration Taos, NM | U | $187,500 | paid | improve educational and linguistic outcomes for Native American children from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico by supporting the planning and pilot implementation of a Tiwa language and culture revitalization system in early childhood, school and community settings | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Adf Haiti Inc Fort Pierce, FL | B | $186,920 | paid | develop a strategy to strengthen/improve children's education and enable community engagement/planning in Fond des Blancs, Haiti, through a comprehensive assessment of local schools and building organizational capacity to collect, analyze, manage and disseminate community level data | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Patronato Pro Zona Mazahua Ac Miguel Hidalgo, DF | U | $186,799 | approved, future | advance children and families' well-being in Campeche and Yucatan, Mexico, via an integrated intervention model that increases access to water and local markets, while also supporting income generation, healthy food production, and the training of local teachers for improved school performance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Legal Services Inc Philadelphia, PA | B | $186,616 | paid | expand scale of Clean Slate through outreach and public awareness of automated record sealing law in Pennsylvania and support legal services capacity and knowledge of national record sealing and expungement efforts | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Start Garden LLC Grand Rapids, MI | B | $184,100 | paid | expand access and opportunity for entrepreneurs of color in Grand Rapids, Mich., by providing targeted supports and removing barriers to entrepreneurship that lead to successful business ownership and employment for underserved residents in targeted neighborhoods | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondo Para la Paz Iap (fund for Peace Private Assistance Miguel Hidalgo, DF | U | $183,023 | paid | propel families' well-being in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico, through an integrated intervention model supporting direct actions around sustainable food production and establishing local networks for exchange and commercialization, advancing towards a model of food sovereignty | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondo Para la Paz Iap (fund for Peace Private Assistance Miguel Hidalgo, DF | U | $182,958 | paid | improve families' well-being in Pantelho, Chiapas, Mexico, through an integrated capacity building program for leaders as intergenerational legacies that can propel development initiatives towards health improvement, income generation opportunities, community organizing and sustainable practices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for American Progress Washington, DC | B | $182,531 | approved, future | advance research to build the case for investment in child care and early education through engaging communities impacted by child care policy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Center for Appropriate Technology Inc Butte, MT | B | $181,865 | approved, future | create healthier outcomes for children and better economic opportunities for families by integrating efforts to transform local Mississippi food systems, build local capacity and leverage federal dollars through authentic community engagement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Territory Las Cruces, NM | B | $181,645 | paid | promote the leadership of residents in the colonias of Dona Ana county to effectively participate in the policy decisions affecting their education, health, economic prosperity and neighborhood infrastructure through training, technical assistance and mentorship | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Arlington, VA | B | $181,263 | paid | build more resilient communities to improve child and family health outcomes by implementing a robust learning community/technical assistance model | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | U | $181,248 | paid | advance existing research and initiate new research to inform discourse about race, culture, leadership and reforms at the systems level impacting the early childhood workforce | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Centro de Investigacion Y Servicios Profesionales Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $181,225 | paid | strengthen income generation activities in Mitontic, Chiapas by diversifying local employment sources through a training and technical assistance program aimed to enhance agricultural systems, food security, access to water and that promote sustainable practices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Georgia Organics Inc Atlanta, GA | C | $178,673 | approved, future | increase the number of young children and their families accessing, eating and learning about fresh, nutritious local food regardless of income or zip code through the statewide scaling and recognition of farm to early childhood education as a key component of quality early care and education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc Greensboro, NC | C | $177,750 | paid | engage donors of color in the Greensboro, North Carolina community by expanding giving, increasing support for nonprofits serving children of color and building capacity of the organization to better support donors of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies New Orleans, LA | B | $176,255 | paid | achieve racial equity in birth outcomes and maternal health outcomes in New Orleans by engaging community and other key stakeholders in a human centered design process to define and implement systems change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Brooklyn, NY | B | $175,090 | paid | support a community-based effort, led by people of color, to scale farm-to-early childhood efforts citywide and provide leadership to influence broader impact by linking with city, state and national networks | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Economic Development Association of Michigan Lansing, MI | B | $175,000 | paid | strengthen/mobilize partnerships to provide recommendations to dismantle structures that maintain racial disparities of wealth in Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Detroit and state-wide including poverty, affordable housing, earned income tax credit usage and the lack of children's savings accounts | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Uc Hastings Foundation San Francisco, CA | U | $175,000 | approved, future | eliminate barriers to breastfeeding faced by low-income and African-American mothers in the workplace and on campus by strengthening legal protections for nursing mothers, educating professionals and parents about lactation laws and providing legal support to advocates and organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Array Alliance Inc Los Angeles, CA | C | $175,000 | paid | support social change for women and people of color by designing and executing a comprehensive narrative change effort for a diverse, inclusive workforce in the entertainment industry | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute Inc Bronx, NY | C | $175,000 | paid | provide capacity building and research for coalitions in North Carolina, Michigan and a third state to advance policy reforms that will improve job quality of direct care workers and advance public understanding of the current status of the workforce | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Albuquerque, NM | U | $175,000 | paid | improve access to quality home visiting programs in rural and underserved communities by developing a Quality Improvement Change Package that increases referral rates from hospitals and outpatient clinics in New Mexico, particularly in Dona Ana County | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Quality Care for Children Inc Atlanta, GA | C | $175,000 | paid | advance farm to early child education as a mechanism to increase access to good food for young children, improve the quality of early learning environments, and create markets for local and regional farmers growing good food | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ochsner Clinic Foundation New Orleans, LA | B | $175,000 | approved, future | improve breastfeeding rates, access to breastmilk and lactation support for vulnerable mothers and babies by strengthening community partnerships and increasing the capacity of the milk bank | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Voices for Georgias Children Inc Atlanta, GA | B | $175,000 | paid | advance farm to early child care and education to increase access to nutritious, fresh, local foods, creating both high quality learning environments for children and their families and new markets for small to medium scale farmers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of North Texas at Dallas Foundation Dallas, TX | B | $175,000 | paid | create a pipeline of highly trained, diverse, culturally competent and bilingual educators in the Dallas-Metro area through development of new marketing tools, community outreach efforts and local workshops | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Pronatura Sur Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $175,000 | paid | promote collaborative innovative practices in the Highlands of Chiapas, by implementing a series of professional development programs for indigenous rural youth willing to reside within their territories and improve well-being in their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Voices for Georgias Children Inc Atlanta, GA | B | $175,000 | approved, future | advance farm to early child care and education to increase access to nutritious, fresh, local foods, creating both high quality learning environments for children and their families and new markets for small to medium scale farmers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region Kalamazoo, MI | U | $175,000 | approved, future | support the creation of self-determined philanthropic efforts for Battle Creek, Mich., communities of color by increasing fund generation, priority setting and grantmaking to community-based organizations through targeted giving models and technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Quality Care for Children Inc Atlanta, GA | C | $175,000 | approved, future | advance farm to early child education as a mechanism to increase access to good food for young children, improve the quality of early learning environments, and create markets for local and regional farmers growing good food | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Independent Sector Washington, DC | B | $175,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of advancing the common good through leading, strengthening and mobilizing the nonprofit sector by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Invest Detroit Foundation Detroit, MI | C | $174,000 | paid | expand equitable community development, in the target areas of the joint Invest Detroit Foundation-City of Detroit Neighborhood Strategic Fund, through the greater use of Detroit-led developers, Detroit business-owners, hiring of Detroiters and effective resident engagement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Instituto de Investigacion Para El Desarrollo de la Educacion Ac Ciudad de Mexico | U | $173,423 | approved, future | improve learning outcomes of indigenous children in mathematics and reading comprehension by training both principals and teachers to build culturally relevant school improvement plans in primary schools in Oxkutzcab region in Yucatan, and monitoring outcomes by applying pre and post-testing | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Georgia Organics Inc Atlanta, GA | C | $171,327 | paid | increase the number of young children and their families accessing, eating and learning about fresh, nutritious local food regardless of income or zip code through the statewide scaling and recognition of farm to early childhood education as a key component of quality early care and education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Association Des Cadres Pour la Protection de L'environment Laborde Cayes | U | $171,009 | approved, future | increase income generation and food security for women and farmer families through strengthening agricultural production & productivity, ecological bio-diversity, food product transformation and partner capacity building to implement shared projects and ensure collective impact | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan Merida, YUC | U | $170,100 | approved, future | advance children nutrition and local economy in Yucatan, Mexico, by implementing a school food program, improving children's access to locally sourced fresh food, connecting with local economic opportunities through regional procurement and financial support to farmers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Spruce Root Inc Juneau, AK | B | $170,000 | paid | support community engagement, access to capital, and narrative change through the continuation of the Sustainable Southeast Partnership | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hope for Haiti Inc Naples, FL | B | $169,700 | paid | produce a plan to strengthen and improve primary school education in the Southwest Corridor of Haiti through a comprehensive assessment of an organization's key school network | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Northern Arizona University Foundation Flagstaff, AZ | B | $168,615 | paid | increase access to quality early childhood teacher education programs by supporting teacher preparation and infusing culturally responsive pedagogy for Tribal early childhood professionals in childcare, Head Start, and schools | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Pro Zona Mazahua Iap Pro Zona Mazahua Foundation Iap Ciudad de Mexico, DF | U | $168,226 | approved, future | advance comprehensive development of families in Tenejapa and San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing direct actions to build civic engagement, leadership and participation of communities in their own well-being, focused on actions towards local development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Benola Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $168,000 | paid | improve student outcomes by engaging community in building actionable recommendations to key areas outlined in the NOLA Public Schools Partnership study | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Digdeep Right to Water Project Los Angeles, CA | C | $167,435 | paid | pilot a scalable septic program with a community-managed utility alternative on the Navajo Nation that will benefit low income families and develop a training program for both water and solar technicians and plumbing apprentices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondo Para la Paz Iap (fund for Peace Private Assistance Miguel Hidalgo, DF | U | $167,042 | approved, future | improve families' well-being in Pantelho, Chiapas, Mexico, through an integrated capacity building program for leaders as intergenerational legacies that can propel development initiatives towards health improvement, income generation opportunities, community organizing and sustainable practices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Northern Arizona University Foundation Flagstaff, AZ | B | $166,919 | approved, future | increase access to quality early childhood teacher education programs by supporting teacher preparation and infusing culturally responsive pedagogy for Tribal early childhood professionals in childcare, Head Start, and schools | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondo Para la Paz Iap (fund for Peace Private Assistance Miguel Hidalgo, DF | U | $166,879 | approved, future | propel families' well-being in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico, through an integrated intervention model supporting direct actions around sustainable food production and establishing local networks for exchange and commercialization, advancing towards a model of food sovereignty | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Duke University Durham, NC | B | $166,800 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Delaware Department of Education Dover, DE | U | $166,666 | paid | expand access to high-quality early learning opportunities for young infants and toddlers by redesigning the state professional development system to ensure Child Development Associate acquisition through a partnership with the Delaware Association for the Education of Young Children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | George Washington University Washington, DC | B | $166,325 | paid | accelerate progress in achieving racial equity in employment and maternal and child health by developing and disseminating an innovative tool that ensures that program and policy implementation addresses the intersecting and negative impacts of race, class and gender on vulnerable populations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mission Investors Exchange Inc New York, NY | C | $165,000 | paid | strengthen/accelerate the use of a racial equity lens to increase the effectiveness of mission investing for all communities in the field through core operations, the support of specific programming and the 2020 National Conference | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grupo de Informacion En Reproduccion Elegida Ac Ciudad de Mexico, DF | U | $165,000 | paid | reduce infant and maternal mortality in Mexico, by analyzing and making visible obstetric violence affecting indigenous women, increasing state awareness and supporting the development of a network of stakeholders to positively impact these conditions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Louisiana Childrens Museum New Orleans, LA | B | $165,000 | paid | support the development of young students in grades kindergarten through second by providing social emotional play-based experiences in schools that enhances meaning-making and amplifies the voices of young learners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | University of Mississippi University, MS | U | $165,000 | paid | increase literacy outcomes for children in Mississippi by training pre-service early education faculty in Mississippi on the science of reading and reading instruction in order to ensure effective, evidence-based reading instructional models are used by our next generation of educators | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Jackson State University Jackson, MS | U | $164,750 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Agroecology Network Santa Cruz, CA | C | $163,991 | paid | increase income generation of families in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, through the improvement of agricultural models and the connection of short value chains, strengthening production groups and marketing collectives that impact solidary economies under an agroecological framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC | C | $163,659 | approved, future | conduct a consensus study to examine available evidence regarding the contributing factors and consequences of the opportunity gap for children from birth to age eight | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kinal Antsetik Ac (land of Women) San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $162,583 | paid | improve the economic status of families in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by supporting a network of artisan women in developing their financial, organizational and marketing skills to ensure fair access to diverse platforms while also strengthening their knowledge of women's rights | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir Ac Mexico, DF | U | $160,565 | paid | advance indigenous women health and their access to decision-making spaces in Mexico, by supporting network organizing and civic engagement, strengthening the knowledge of their rights and its enforceability to leverage their agendas to impact health systems and conditions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rainforest Alliance Inc New York, NY | C | $160,144 | paid | create culturally relevant educational tools on sustainable forestry management in tropical rainforests for youth and their teachers in the Calakmul region, to provide them with a pertinent education that will lead them to generate innovative solutions for their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Indignacion Promocion Y Defensa de Los Derechos Humanos Ac Merida Yucatan, YUC | U | $160,000 | approved, future | strengthen civic engagement via increasing Mayan people participation in decision making processes by providing legal support and implementation of a comprehensive educational process regarding indigenous rights to self-determination and access to water, land and territory | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rainforest Alliance Inc New York, NY | C | $159,856 | approved, future | create culturally relevant educational tools on sustainable forestry management in tropical rainforests for youth and their teachers in the Calakmul region, to provide them with a pertinent education that will lead them to generate innovative solutions for their communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Tides Center San Francisco, CA | C | $159,237 | approved, future | enhance access to healthy, nutritious, locally and regionally sourced food in early childhood and school settings for children living in low-income communities by advancing child nutrition policy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project Inc Summerville, SC | B | $158,400 | approved, future | improve math proficiency for students by providing intensive professional development to teachers, engaging community and building pipelines of support with historically black colleges and universities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Asian Family Center Albuquerque, NM | C | $157,500 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of providing culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Community Foundation Grand Rapids, MI | B | $157,500 | paid | increase the number of Grand Rapids, Michigan, African American and Latino donors in priority setting through targeted giving models, technical assistance and establishment of identity focused funds | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fondation Connaissance Et Liberte Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libete Fokal Portauprince | U | $157,500 | approved, future | engage donors across Haiti to more fully participate in democratic practices of philanthropy, through targeted giving models and grants to community based organizations serving vulnerable families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater New Orleans Foundation New Orleans, LA | B | $157,500 | paid | support the deepening engagement and amplifying diverse philanthropy initiative for New Orleans' communities of color by increasing fund generation, priority setting and grantmaking through targeted giving models, technical assistance and advancing participation in philanthropy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Real Christian Foundation Richland, MS | B | $157,500 | approved, future | engage Black residents and Black churches in Mississippi in fund generation and priority setting to improve the quality of life for Black Mississippians and support vulnerable families in rural communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund New Orleans, LA | C | $157,099 | approved, future | improve birth outcomes and ensure early breastfeeding for vulnerable newborns by structuring baby friendly neonatal intensive care unit practices in New Orleans, Louisiana hospitals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Coleman a Young Foundation Detroit, MI | C | $156,994 | approved, future | cultivate the next generation of philanthropist of color by providing a vehicle for collaborative grantmaking, priority setting and targeted giving models that increase youth development and college success | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund New Orleans, LA | C | $156,429 | paid | improve birth outcomes and ensure early breastfeeding for vulnerable newborns by structuring baby friendly neonatal intensive care unit practices in New Orleans, Louisiana hospitals | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Harvest Christian Center Inc Battle Creek, MI | U | $155,500 | paid | support the expansion of an equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek by increasing family access to and engagement in early childhood opportunities within Battle Creek neighborhoods to grow a pathway that supports kindergarten readiness by getting families connected early | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Hopelchen Hopelchen Campeche, CMP | U | $154,813 | paid | advance food sovereignty in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by supporting the collaboration of stakeholders promoting the conservation and exchange of native seeds | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $153,970 | approved, future | build grassroots strategy in New Mexico to reform fines and fees in the criminal justice system and strengthen national communication efforts detailing their impact on families and communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Tides Center San Francisco, CA | C | $153,554 | paid | enhance access to healthy, nutritious, locally and regionally sourced food in early childhood and school settings for children living in low-income communities by advancing child nutrition policy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Chicago Women in Trades Chicago, IL | B | $153,407 | paid | address barriers to women's employment in the skilled construction trades through advancing equitable hiring and retention practices, industry change, leadership development of tradeswomen, and the expansion of pre-apprenticeship training programs in three cities, including Detroit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Youthforce Nola New Orleans, LA | U | $153,288 | approved, future | increase career pathway employment opportunities for graduating high school seniors through ensuring they have the training, skills, supports and credentials needed by strengthening the ecosystem and capacity of training providers and deepening employer engagement towards hiring | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights Greenville, MS | B | $153,080 | paid | improve social conditions affecting the health of children by facilitating community's active role in creating transformative change and by ensuring community-and human-centered design and implementation of existing systems change opportunities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI | U | $152,578 | approved, future | support the advancement of student academic outcomes and success at Battle Creek Public Schools through an innovative pilot program aimed to improve math scores in the elementary grades | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Calhoun County Public Health Department Battle Creek, MI | U | $151,433 | approved, future | support the advancement of student success at Battle Creek Public Schools through a school nurse model that will provide students with access to care and improve student and family chronic disease management focused on reducing chronic absenteeism within the district | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Denver Foundation Denver, CO | C | $151,200 | approved, future | engage donors across the Denver region to more fully participate in democratic practices of philanthropy, through targeted giving circle models to increase knowledge of philanthropic tools and strategies in communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Parenting Place Inc La Crosse, WI | B | $151,024 | paid | educate and support early childhood education and care sites to add fresh, locally produced foods to menus, add activities to support healthy eating in their curriculums and engage families in the healthy eating effort | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Population Council Inc New York, NY | B | $150,778 | approved, future | improve the quality of life for disadvantaged indigenous female youth in Mayan communities in Yucatan, Mexico by providing a mentor training that increases leadership skills, life skills and promotes empowerment | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | South Valley Academy Albuquerque, NM | U | $150,045 | approved, future | increase job access through public-private partnerships for low-income residents of Albuquerque's South Valley by providing core support for the employment equity program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | South Valley Academy Albuquerque, NM | U | $150,045 | paid | increase job access through public-private partnerships for low-income residents of Albuquerque's South Valley by providing core support for the employment equity program | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Neo Philanthropy Inc New York, NY | B | $150,000 | paid | develop an anti-racism response network to strengthen and build the capacity of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during COVID-19 through the creation of a digital research hub | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Urban League Inc Grand Rapids, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | enable the Grand Rapids Urban League to achieve its mission of empowering African Americans and other People of Color to achieve economic self-reliance, parity and civil rights by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Martin Luther King Jr Center for Non Violent Social Change Inc Atlanta, GA | B | $150,000 | paid | provide a roadmap and tools necessary for individuals and communities to have challenging and difficult conversations to bridge the racial divide in America by addressing the pains and unrest of racism rooted in a historical context through national Beloved Community Talks | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc Detroit, MI | B | $150,000 | approved, future | provide funds to support a session at the annual Mackinac Policy Conference, to inform business, media, policy and philanthropic leaders about important issues impacting Michigan's children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Chicago, IL | C | $150,000 | approved, future | increase the number, diversity and knowledge base of physician and nurse breastfeeding champions in hospitals serving vulnerable populations resulting in an increased number of baby friendly-certified hospitals and an increased number of babies initiating breastfeeding | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Somos Un Pueblo Unido Santa Fe, NM | B | $150,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission to build a community that does not discriminate based on people's national origin, institutes humane migration policies and protects the human rights of everyone irrespective of origin of birth or documents carried by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association of State Boards of Education Alexandria, VA | B | $150,000 | paid | improve early childhood education workforce conditions by establishing expanding state networks tasked with supporting state boards of education in aligning early education and K-12 systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | U | $150,000 | approved, future | support community action and enhance the skills of leaders by providing core support of the Community Engagement Center | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies New Orleans, LA | B | $150,000 | paid | improve healthy living opportunities for children by addressing systemic racial inequities in the educational and mental health care systems in New Orleans | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | El Centro de Igualdad Y Derechos Albuquerque, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to work with Latino immigrant communities and allies to defend, strengthen and advance the rights of their community by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ounce of Prevention Fund Chicago, IL | U | $150,000 | paid | support the development and implementation of best practices quality improvement modules in utilization with community based child-care providers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Keres Childrens Learning Center Pueblo, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of reclaiming the education of Keres children by offering a comprehensive cultural and academic curriculum that nurtures Keres-speaking, holistically healthy and community minded students by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools New Orleans, LA | B | $150,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of supporting youth of color in New Orleans to become thoughtful and capable leaders through the process of rethinking their experiences in their school communities and taking action to make systemic improvements by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Efforts of Grace Inc New Orleans, LA | B | $150,000 | paid | improve early life outcomes for infants and their mothers by building a network of community supports and improve young children's readiness for and success in school through culturally relevant training supports to teachers and students | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Heart of West Michigan United Way Grand Rapids, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | increase effective and efficient data sharing for system wide analysis, planning and decision making by supporting the data capacity of workforce development partners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Burmese American Initiative Inc Springfield, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of empowering Burmese Americans through advocacy, community engagement and education by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc New York, NY | B | $150,000 | paid | improve the economic security among low-income families, particularly people of color, by targeting key policies and practices that institutionalize the racial wealth gap and working to remove barriers that disempower generations of families with children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Isaiah St Paul, MN | B | $150,000 | approved, future | strengthen efforts to raise public awareness about the importance of affordable, high-quality child care and the need for public investment to increase access and improve quality of child care programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Prospera Community Development Oakland, CA | C | $150,000 | paid | provide technical assistance to Latina women in the development of economic strategies that will support their cooperative worker owned businesses and to develop a model for replication, scale and sustainability of future programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Public Policy and Education Fund of NY Inc Albany, NY | C | $150,000 | paid | build capacity of New York grassroots organizers for education equity via campaigns to increase state education funding and access to high-quality Early Childhood Education in underserved communities, creating an implementation report of a state-local education equity agenda and advocacy strategy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Louisiana Green Corps Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $150,000 | paid | strengthen and expand work readiness and demand-driven career pathway training in four areas including: 1) academic readiness, 2) work readiness, 3) construction and green infrastructure skills; and 4) environmental awareness and stewardship while increasing employer engagement and hiring | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Public Policy and Education Fund of NY Inc Albany, NY | C | $150,000 | approved, future | build capacity of New York grassroots organizers for education equity via campaigns to increase state education funding and access to high-quality Early Childhood Education in underserved communities, creating an implementation report of a state-local education equity agenda and advocacy strategy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Isaiah St Paul, MN | B | $150,000 | paid | strengthen efforts to raise public awareness about the importance of affordable, high-quality child care and the need for public investment to increase access and improve quality of child care programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Community Foundation Grand Rapids, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Initiatives Oakland, CA | B | $150,000 | paid | support statewide dissemination and engagement via the Race and Rural Equity report and aligned activities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Education Trust Inc Washington, DC | B | $150,000 | paid | increase student achievement by building a collective impact approach to improving recruitment and retention of diverse teachers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children Albuquerque, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission in connecting with community groups, expanding collaboration, advancing equity and expanding programs and opportunities for Early Childhood Educators across the state by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ngage New Mexico Las Cruces, NM | C | $150,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of serving as a catalyst to advance the wellbeing of people of southern New Mexico by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association Santa Fe, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | strengthen New Mexico's food system during COVID-19 to ensure food security for New Mexican families by providing financial support to local farmers and producers as well as promoting statewide emergency food coordination efforts led by nonprofits, government agencies and community partners | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association of State Boards of Education Alexandria, VA | B | $150,000 | approved, future | improve early childhood education workforce conditions by establishing expanding state networks tasked with supporting state boards of education in aligning early education and K-12 systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Michigan Foundations Inc Grand Haven, MI | C | $150,000 | approved, future | ensure all Michigan students receive a best-in-class education by supporting a partnership and an alliance of education, labor, business and philanthropic organizations committed to establishing a shared education agenda | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Family Forward Oregon Portland, OR | C | $150,000 | paid | increase economic security for families with young children through public investment at the local, state, and national level | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Business Education Fund Auburn, CA | U | $150,000 | paid | improve access to affordable, high quality childcare by engaging small business owners, with a focus on childcare providers to build public awareness, educate stakeholders and foster alignment with state and local community-based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Arab American and Chaldean Council Troy, MI | B | $150,000 | approved, future | expand employment opportunities for Detroit residents by establishing a career pathway/bridge program model that integrates and focuses on skills attainment, occupational training, credentialing and career transition support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Dual Language Education of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | improve outcomes for multilingual children in New Mexico by supporting effective dual language education programs through fostering school-community partnerships, developing leadership and instructional capacity and strengthening Native linguistic community alliances to effect system change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Valley Community Interpreters Albuquerque, NM | C | $150,000 | approved, future | improve the economic security of lower income individuals in New Mexico through enhancing training and support for unemployed and underemployed bilingual persons to enter the interpreter profession and earn a high living wage in community interpretation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Territory Las Cruces, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | improve the economic well-being of vulnerable families in Dona Ana County by providing coordinated services and support leading to increased employment and educational outcomes | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Institute of the Black World 21st Century East Elmhurst, NY | B | $150,000 | paid | strengthen the capacity of Black helping professionals and first responders to provide culturally responsive and trauma-informed support to professionals most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing core support for the Black Family Summit Coronavirus Emergency Response Initiative | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico in Depth Inc Rio Rancho, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission to produce investigative and solutions oriented journalism that can be a catalyst for change by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Council of Michigan Foundations Inc Grand Haven, MI | C | $150,000 | paid | ensure all Michigan students receive a best-in-class education by supporting a partnership and an alliance of education, labor, business and philanthropic organizations committed to establishing a shared education agenda | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Foundation for the Mid South Inc Jackson, MS | B | $150,000 | approved, future | develop community visioning processes, healing methodologies, evaluation and a strategic plan to prepare for fully implementing the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation framework in Mississippi | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Business Education Fund Auburn, CA | U | $150,000 | approved, future | improve access to affordable, high quality childcare by engaging small business owners, with a focus on childcare providers to build public awareness, educate stakeholders and foster alignment with state and local community-based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Community Foundation Battle Creek, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Deloitte Consulting Llp San Francisco, CA | U | $150,000 | paid | strengthen philanthropic practices through research of impact of current approaches with communities and the development of potential models as individual organizations as well as a collective philanthropic sector | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Community Foundation Battle Creek, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Family Forward Oregon Portland, OR | C | $150,000 | approved, future | increase economic security for families with young children through public investment at the local, state, and national level | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Firstline Schools and Edible Schoolyard New Orleans New Orleans, LA | U | $150,000 | paid | improve school climate and overall student achievement by implementing an evidenced-based approach to social emotional learning throughout the charter network | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Grand Rapids Urban League Inc Grand Rapids, MI | B | $150,000 | approved, future | enable the Grand Rapids Urban League to achieve its mission of empowering African Americans and other People of Color to achieve economic self-reliance, parity and civil rights by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | U | $150,000 | approved, future | develop a cohort of young journalists to engage in narrative change efforts by using a racial equity lens and storytelling in producing in-depth reporting that focuses deeply on civil rights struggles and environmental racism that disproportionately and negatively impact vulnerable families of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Promise54 Atlanta, GA | U | $150,000 | paid | expand tools, data-informed reports and case studies to accurately describe and measure the state of diversity, equity and inclusion within the education field while also enabling education organizations to better diagnose and advance their internal diversity, equity and inclusion practices | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Alaska Community Foundation Anchorage, AK | B | $150,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of connecting people, organizations and causes to strengthen Alaska's communities by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Boat People Sos Inc Biloxi Biloxi, MS | D | $150,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission to empower, organize and equip Vietnamese individuals and communities in their pursuit of liberty and dignity, particularly in Biloxi, by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Mexico in Depth Inc Rio Rancho, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | diversify the local media landscape through fellowships supporting young journalists of color and influence policy makers and newsrooms on issues of early childhood policy, the impact of federal policy on immigrant families and racial discrimination in the criminal justice system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Community Foundation Battle Creek, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bloomfield Public Schools Bloomfield, NM | U | $150,000 | paid | improve the quality of education for children in San Juan County by creating a comprehensive plan for the development of a Navajo PreK-12 Dual Language pathway, a culturally relevant community-based PreK system, and identifying emerging job sectors | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Columbus Foundation Columbus, OH | B | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | San Francisco Foundation San Francisco, CA | B | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kids Forward Inc Madison, WI | B | $150,000 | paid | expand farm to early care and education in Wisconsin through education and partnerships, particularly in settings with large numbers of vulnerable children | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Valley Community Interpreters Albuquerque, NM | C | $150,000 | paid | improve the economic security of lower income individuals in New Mexico through enhancing training and support for unemployed and underemployed bilingual persons to enter the interpreter profession and earn a high living wage in community interpretation | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Kansas City, MO | B | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Links Foundation Inc Washington, DC | B | $150,000 | paid | develop a public relations and educational campaign to increase COVID-19 testing for underserved communities and decrease COVID-19 racial/ethnic disparities in the South | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Generations United Inc Washington, DC | B | $150,000 | paid | increase equitable outcomes for early education and K-12 students by strengthening a caregivers network in communities with high rates of grandparents raising grandchildren, recruiting under-represented Native and African Americans into the network, training and creation of key resources | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Arab American and Chaldean Council Troy, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | expand employment opportunities for Detroit residents by establishing a career pathway/bridge program model that integrates and focuses on skills attainment, occupational training, credentialing and career transition support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mothering Justice Detroit, MI | B | $150,000 | approved, future | build a coalition of mothers of color activists to address issues impacting working families including access to affordable, high-quality child care and paid family and medical leave | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Proyecto Impacto Consultores Ac (project Impact Consultants) San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $150,000 | approved, future | improve income opportunities for women in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, by integrating capacities on business, market, production and empowerment in a platform that connects microenterprises of Indigenous craftswomen and online sales of textile products in national and international markets | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Detroit, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | support the Michigan Justice Fund which is a philanthropic collaborative focused on building a program of support for safety and justice nonprofits | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Social Capital Makrets LLC Princeton, NJ | U | $150,000 | paid | build skills and develop actionable strategies within the impact investing and private sector business fields by embedding a racial equity track at a premiere, cross-sector, mission-investing forum as well as on-going, year-round message and tool distribution | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America Ames, IA | B | $150,000 | paid | connect early child care and education providers to both local and regional food systems in order to increase early child care access to healthy foods, enhance quality of the learning environment and create new markets for small scale farmers and local businesses | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Association of Worforce Boards Washington, DC | C | $150,000 | paid | support the design, implementation, and scale of measurable family centered strategies within Mississippi workforce development boards and participate in a national learning community that results in greater economic mobility for families and culture change in the workforce system | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Mothering Justice Detroit, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | build a coalition of mothers of color activists to address issues impacting working families including access to affordable, high-quality child care and paid family and medical leave | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Kingsley House Inc New Orleans, LA | U | $150,000 | paid | help low-income families in the Greater New Orleans region to achieve employment and economic security by implementing a plan to build a career and employment pipeline | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center of Southwest Culture Inc Albuquerque, NM | B | $150,000 | paid | provide high quality technical assistance to emerging rural family farms to increase household income and provide fresh fruits and vegetables for farm to school programs | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | 30 Day Fund Inc Charlottesville, VA | U | $150,000 | paid | increase prosperity in economically depressed communities by providing forgivable loans to minority and women-owned small businesses and economic stability to low-income families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Inclusive Recreation Inc Battle Creek, MI | B | $150,000 | paid | encourage the diverse community of Battle Creek, Mich., to reimagine and reinvent public spaces through a comprehensive community engagement campaign in communities of color and underserved neighborhoods | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | California Clean Energy Fund Innovations Oakland, CA | D | $150,000 | paid | collaborate with Navajo chapters in the northwest part of New Mexico to strategically convene and engage the community so they can begin positioning themselves to participate in the utility scale clean energy economy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Center for Community Based Enterprise Inc Detroit, MI | B | $150,000 | approved, future | enable the organization to achieve its mission of facilitating economic development in Detroit, Michigan, particularly among historically underserved communities, by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Dallas Foundation Dallas, TX | U | $150,000 | paid | support a donor-advised fund to carry out grantmaking through the use of mini-grants | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Build Health International Inc Beverly, MA | B | $149,997 | paid | execute a comprehensive COVID-19 rapid response plan for health delivery partner organizations Zamni Lasante and Health Equity International via clinical planning, infection prevention and control, equipment procurement and both the design and construction of temporary COVID-19 treatment centers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | George Washington University Washington, DC | B | $149,960 | paid | advance cross-sector, community-based partnerships to improve health equity by promoting dialogue among public and private funders and cataloging best practices of new and established Accountable Communities for Health across the country | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Consultoria Especializada Yaxalum Chiapas Ac (yaxalum Chiapas San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $149,721 | approved, future | promote community development in Chalchihuitan and Chenalho, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing an intervention strategy to enable sustainable human and productive development, led and owned by communities, integrating resources and skills towards improved living conditions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Ciudad Universitaria Coyoacan, DF | U | $149,512 | paid | strengthen management skills and knowledge of sustainable business development opportunities to enhance the economic security of rural families in the Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas by expanding the content and access reach of a rural business education model course | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Youthforce Nola New Orleans, LA | U | $149,261 | paid | increase career pathway employment opportunities for graduating high school seniors through ensuring they have the training, skills, supports and credentials needed by strengthening the ecosystem and capacity of training providers and deepening employer engagement towards hiring | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Consultoria Especializada Yaxalum Chiapas Ac (yaxalum Chiapas San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $148,815 | paid | promote community development in Chalchihuitan and Chenalho, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing an intervention strategy to enable sustainable human and productive development, led and owned by communities, integrating resources and skills towards improved living conditions | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Fundacion Mexicana Para El Desarrollo Rural Ac Mexico City, DF | U | $148,450 | paid | increase income for Mayan families in the Yucatan Peninsula by supporting activities aimed at strengthening collaboration, organization and networks that improve local economy, monitor nutrition in children and create access to better food for families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Centro de Investigaciones En Salud de Comitan Ac Comitan, CHS | U | $147,770 | approved, future | promote leadership for youth in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a comprehensive model of learning/engaging in communities based on Youth Collective Action, through which they can positively impact the wellbeing of the region and the creation of alternatives for development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Bronson Health Foundation Inc Kalamazoo, MI | U | $147,500 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Centro de Investigaciones En Salud de Comitan Ac Comitan, CHS | U | $146,970 | paid | promote leadership for youth in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a comprehensive model of learning/engaging in communities based on Youth Collective Action, through which they can positively impact the wellbeing of the region and the creation of alternatives for development | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Chicago Women in Trades Chicago, IL | B | $146,593 | approved, future | address barriers to women's employment in the skilled construction trades through advancing equitable hiring and retention practices, industry change, leadership development of tradeswomen, and the expansion of pre-apprenticeship training programs in three cities, including Detroit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New Venture Fund Washington, DC | B | $146,030 | paid | build grassroots strategy in New Mexico to reform fines and fees in the criminal justice system and strengthen national communication efforts detailing their impact on families and communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Lansing, MI | U | $145,923 | paid | support evaluation of the Families Forward Demonstration project, both nationally and locally in Michigan, to describe the program services implementation, assess outcomes for study participants and produce research that will inform policy and employment programs for non-custodial parents | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental Ac Mexico Df | U | $145,559 | approved, future | strengthen a cadre of indigenous leaders in Campeche, Mexico, to ensure children's right to a healthy environment by implementing a capacity building/legal assistance program to promote participation in decision-making processes where they can advocate for the protection of their natural resources | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy Oakland, CA | C | $145,500 | approved, future | transition from funding for a project to providing general operating support to enable the organization to achieve its mission | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Policy Institute for the Children of Louisiana Inc New Orleans, LA | C | $145,000 | paid | enable the organization to achieve its mission of advancing policies to ensure that Louisiana's young children are ready for success in school and in life by providing general operating support | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Dearborn, MI | U | $144,500 | approved, future | engage donors across Arab American communities around the benefits of collective strategic giving and priority setting to improve access to educational, heath and parent support services | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc Buffalo, NY | B | $144,500 | approved, future | engage Greater Buffalo's Communities of Color in fund generation, priority setting, and grantmaking through targeted giving models and technical assistance | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Poise Foundation Pittsburgh, PA | B | $144,500 | approved, future | engage and educate Black donors across Greater Pittsburg on the benefits of collective giving through individual giving fund generation and targeted giving circle models to impact the success of Black families and vibrancy of the communities in which they live, learn, work and play | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New England Blacks in Philanthropy Boston, MA | D | $144,500 | approved, future | engage Black Donors to develop a philanthropic ecosystem that supports communities of color and redefines Black philanthropic need and opportunity through targeted giving circle models, fund generation and grants to community based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Potlatch Fund Seattle, WA | B | $144,500 | approved, future | engage donors in the Native American community to build a network of support for organizations that are addressing issues most important to their community, through targeted giving models | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | 1000 Days Washington, DC | U | $143,963 | paid | improve breastfeeding, child nutrition and nutrition standards in daycare and early education by educating and mobilizing community, health, government and education partners to create consistent messages and improved implementation of policies and guidelines to benefit vulnerable populations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Laguna Community Foundation Laguna, NM | B | $142,863 | paid | initiate cross-sector partnerships and deploy a coordinated workforce strategy that will lead to diverse jobs, portable credentials, stackable certifications, and greater job mobility in and across industries, ultimately improving the lives of low-income families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc Greensboro, NC | C | $142,500 | approved, future | engage donors of color in the Greensboro, North Carolina community by expanding giving, increasing support for nonprofits serving children of color and building capacity of the organization to better support donors of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Rio Grande Community Development Corporation Albuquerque, NM | B | $140,843 | approved, future | improve economic security of vulnerable New Mexico families by providing training, technical assistance and other support to alternative business models | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Educacion Cultura Y Ecologia Ac Merida, YUC | U | $140,130 | paid | propel community leadership to advance their own vision of well-being in Yucatan, Mexico, through a comprehensive accompaniment program focused on building local leaders capacity to guide actions directly responding to their visions and priorities and bring more partners to join their advocacy | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Inc Albuquerque, NM | B | $140,000 | approved, future | challenge racial inequities and improve the well-being of Pueblo Native American children and their families by supporting leadership development and engagement, advocacy, self-organizing, data sovereignty and other programmatic priorities by the All Pueblo Council of Governors | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $140,000 | paid | provide small businesses in the Bronx and Brooklyn with technical assistance that will improve their ability to secure vertical supply chain business with major anchor institutions in New York resulting in increased revenue and creation of jobs for low income workers in the surrounding communities | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Kansas City, MO | B | $139,700 | approved, future | engage donors in Greater Kansas City area to increase higher education access in the Black Community, through targeted giving circles, priority setting and educating donors | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Santa Fe Community College Foundation Santa Fe, NM | B | $139,591 | approved, future | expand access and increase efficacy of evidence-based home visiting services by establishing a First Born training and technical assistance program at the Early Childhood Center of Excellence at Santa Fe Community College | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Givemn Minneapolis, MN | C | $139,500 | approved, future | increase the fundraising capacity of organizations led by and serving communities of color through coaching and peer learning opportunities to create sustainable organizations and create accessible vehicles for giving in support of communities of color | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan Merida, YUC | U | $137,423 | paid | support the development of community projects where faculty members, students from diverse disciplines and community members from Mayan towns in Yucatan create practical solutions to address community needs and strengthen civic engagement | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Hispanics in Philanthropy Oakland, CA | C | $137,090 | approved, future | engage Latino donors in digital giving campaigns that focus on improving conditions for vulnerable children and families and giving the opportunity to support issues such as migration, gender, health and education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC | C | $136,341 | paid | conduct a consensus study to examine available evidence regarding the contributing factors and consequences of the opportunity gap for children from birth to age eight | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Battle Creek Community Foundation Battle Creek, MI | B | $135,047 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Delta State University Cleveland, MS | B | $135,007 | paid | increase capacity and sustainability of the Healing With A Groove program by training alumni to be peer mentors and by creating a multimedia resource kit | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Health Net of West Michigan Grand Rapids, MI | C | $135,000 | approved, future | provide health equity training to early childhood and health professionals in Grand Rapids in order to improve the quality of services provided to children and vulnerable families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Health Net of West Michigan Grand Rapids, MI | C | $135,000 | paid | provide health equity training to early childhood and health professionals in Grand Rapids in order to improve the quality of services provided to children and vulnerable families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Keep Growing Detroit Detroit, MI | B | $134,876 | paid | build the capacity of Detroit early childhood providers to offer higher-quality programs in Detroit by implementing farm-to-school strategies | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Samaritan's Purse Boone, NC | B | $134,072 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan Ac (pronatura Yucatan Peninsula Merida, YUC | U | $133,476 | paid | improve indigenous communities wellbeing in Calakmul, Campeche, by promoting the implementation of sustainable productive practices and supporting a capacity-building process designed to strengthen community governance and inclusive participation mechanisms for youth and women | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Community Organizing and Family Issues Chicago, IL | B | $133,333 | paid | support families in leveling inequitable systems and advocating for both access to quality child care and policies that foster authentic parent engagement in birth through 8 education | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Red de Mujeres Y Hombres Por Una Opinion Publica Con Perspectiva Campeche, CMP | U | $132,954 | approved, future | create conditions for a healthy and secure environment for both women and children in Campeche, Mexico, by implementing a community peace school as the space to build capacities within community members to prevent violence, respond to conflict and advance the human right to live free from violence | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Ka Kuxtal Much Meyaj Ac Hopelchen, CMP | U | $132,646 | approved, future | strengthen food systems in Hopelchen, Campeche, Mexico by promoting both community organizing and sustainable agriculture as well as securing access to land and resources needed to advance food sovereignty under a culturally pertinent model, to benefit children and families | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Santa Fe Community College Foundation Santa Fe, NM | B | $131,633 | paid | expand access and increase efficacy of evidence-based home visiting services by establishing a First Born training and technical assistance program at the Early Childhood Center of Excellence at Santa Fe Community College | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Georgetown University Office of Research Services Washington, DC | U | $131,546 | approved, future | build capacity of state education agencies to effectively report and utilize school-level financial data mandated by the Every Student Succeeds Act, while also increasing capacity of local education leaders to advance equitable processes and outcomes in their local and statewide education systems | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Native Americans in Philanthropy Los Angeles, CA | U | $131,000 | paid | strengthen the leadership capacity of Native Americans in philanthropy to build a network of support and engage donors and funders on connected priorities, through targeted leadership training cultivating intentional spaces to learn | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Trusuccess Inc Grand Rapids, MI | U | $130,834 | paid | enable boys of color to succeed in school and life with essential social-emotional skills by providing training and educational opportunities through effective tools | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies New Orleans, LA | B | $130,495 | approved, future | achieve racial equity in birth outcomes and maternal health outcomes in New Orleans by engaging community and other key stakeholders in a human centered design process to define and implement systems change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Investigacion En Salud Y Demografia Sc Cuidad de Mexico, DF | U | $130,029 | paid | advance social transformation in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, by strengthening and improving nonprofit organizations' capacity to plan, implement and evaluate their work, to improve their work and elevate their impact | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Creative Learning Inc Washington, DC | D | $130,022 | approved, future | promote integrated development in communities of San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico, by developing a collaborative intervention to increase access to health attention, income generation and water, in effort to elevate their communities' vision and role in managing territory | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Communities Foundation of Texas Inc Dallas, TX | B | $130,000 | approved, future | enable communities of color to engage in broader relationship building, community organizing and decision-making; impact future work within the law, separation and the economy and transform how Dallas treats its citizens by implementing the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation framework | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Native Americans in Philanthropy Los Angeles, CA | U | $129,000 | approved, future | strengthen the leadership capacity of Native Americans in philanthropy to build a network of support and engage donors and funders on connected priorities, through targeted leadership training cultivating intentional spaces to learn | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Womens Foundation for a Greater Memphis Memphis, TN | B | $129,000 | approved, future | engage African American donors of Greater Memphis in collective giving to positively impact the lives of vulnerable children and families through fund generation, priority setting and grantmaking through targeted giving models | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health Lansing, MI | C | $127,984 | approved, future | produce knowledge products focused on key areas of maternal and child health in Michigan that will educate a broad audience of stakeholders and decision makers about opportunities to improve outcomes and promote health equity | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Wst Enterprises Inc DBA Little Ones Learning Center Forest Park, GA | U | $127,372 | paid | provide community leadership by lifting up demonstrated success of farm to early childcare and education in order to increase access to healthy food, enhance the quality of learning environments and create new markets for small to mid scale farmers | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | First Assembly of God Battle Creek, MI | U | $126,920 | paid | Matching Grant | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Creative Learning Inc Washington, DC | D | $126,459 | paid | promote integrated development in communities of San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico, by developing a collaborative intervention to increase access to health attention, income generation and water, in effort to elevate their communities' vision and role in managing territory | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Formacion Y Capacitacion Ac San Cristobal de Las Casas, CHS | U | $125,940 | paid | improve maternal health in Chiapas, Mexico, through the articulation and consolidation of a state-wide network of midwives, as a space for capacity building, networking and systems reflection towards change | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Dearborn, MI | U | $125,750 | paid | engage donors across Arab American communities around the benefits of collective strategic giving and priority setting to improve access to educational, heath and parent support services | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | New England Blacks in Philanthropy Boston, MA | D | $125,750 | paid | engage Black Donors to develop a philanthropic ecosystem that supports communities of color and redefines Black philanthropic need and opportunity through targeted giving circle models, fund generation and grants to community based organizations | 202101549349100405 |
| 2020 | Poise Foundation Pittsburgh, PA | B | $125,750 | paid | engage and educate Black donors across Greater Pittsburg on the benefits of collective giving through individual giving fund generation and targeted giving circle models to impact the success of Black families and vibrancy of the communities in which they live, learn, work and play | 202101549349100405 |
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