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Black Empowerment Fund is sponsored by California Community Foundation. The Black Empowerment Fund supports Black-led and Black-empowering organizations in Los Angeles County. It aims to strengthen the infrastructure for Black-led organizations focused on power building and systemic transformations, reverse underinvestment, and support the ecosystem of organizations advancing Black equity.
Funding priorities include Black community organizing, policy advocacy, economic development, research, communications, and leadership development.
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Search similar grants →Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Black-led and Black-empowering organizations throughout Los Angeles County. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Ready to Rise is sponsored by California Community Foundation (in partnership with Liberty Hill Foundation and Los Angeles County Probation Department). Ready to Rise is a public-private partnership aimed at revolutionizing youth intervention by shifting from arrest and incarceration to a model grounded in positive youth development, rehabilitation, and opportunity creation.
Trauma Prevention Partnerships (ARPA funded project) is sponsored by California Community Foundation (contracted by the Department of Public Health, Office of Violence Prevention). This project aims to prevent violent incidents, implement crisis response, address factors contributing to gun and gang violence, increase access to trauma-informed care and healing-centered services, and invest in upstream youth programs, youth engagement, and youth leadership …
California Thriving Youth Initiative (CTYI) is a grant from California Community Foundation (in collaboration with the Stuart Foundation). California Thriving Youth Initiative - Stuart Foundation California Thriving Youth Initiative Collective support for the learning, leadership, and well-being of California’s adolescents. Isadora Kosofsky/CatchLight for Stuart Foundation Meeting a moment in California and the United States that holds both immense promise and significant challenges for public education and the adolescents that schools serve and support. In June 2024, the Foundation announced, with partners, two multi-year collaborative funds that comprise the California Thriving Youth Initiative , which leverages and integrates decades of related work in California.