Priority Areas

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Priority Areas

Input from the community determined the four priority areas for the Social Bond. To support powerbuilding, resources are most needed in the following four categories – power infrastructure, health, resilient communities and research and evaluation.

The California Endowment is proud to support “Good Troublemakers” in California who are building power to make healthy change for all. In this video you will hear from community organizers and power builders who are being supported to build a network of power throughout the state with resources from our historic $300 million Social Bond.

Power Infrastructure (8)
Health (7)
Resilient Communities (11)
Research & Evaluation (4)

Power Infrastructure (8)

Power Infrastructure

Strengthen and grow power-building infrastructure that centers organizing for transformative systems change

Outcomes / Impacts

Network of innovative regional and statewide centers
Capital that supports exponential growth
More BIPOC-led grassroots organizing groups

Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment $6,000,000

Liberty Hill Foundation $5,000,000

California Black Freedom Fund $5,000,000

Latino Community Foundation $5,000,000

Dolores C. Huerta Foundation $3,500,000

Possibility Labs $2,000,000

Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans $2,700,000

California Calls Education Fund $897,605

Health (7)

Health

A health system that advances racial equity by addressing prevention and coverage, strengthening community governance and building a diverse health workforce pipeline.

Outcomes / Impacts

Dedicated funding mechanisms to accelerate health system transformation and workforce diversity
Statewide and local infrastructure for policy advocacy and campaigns for community-centered and community-led health system reforms

California Primary Care Association $13,000,000

California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative $7,500,000

Foundation for California Community Colleges $3,700,000

Public Health Institute $3,500,000

Alameda Point Collaborative $3,000,000

Everyday Impact Consulting $570,000

Health Innovations Group $20,025

Resilient Communities (11)

Resilient Communities

Invest in communities most affected by the harmful impacts of climate change

Outcomes / Impacts

Practices and policies that prioritize racial equity, and honor tradition and culture
A galvanized climate justice movement that values marginalized voices and communities
Regional approaches that connect to a unified climate action agenda

CRLA Foundation $3,500,000

Humboldt Area Foundation $3,000,000

California State Wildlife Foundation $2,000,000

Possibility Labs $2,000,000

Allied Media Projects, Inc. $2,500,000

Sierra Health Foundation $1,804,500

Central Valley Agroecology Network $1,500,000

Asian Pacific Environmental Network $1,500,000

People’s Climate Innovation $1,500,000

Alianza Coachella Valley $1,500,000

CSB Consulting $175,000

Research & Evaluation (4)

Research & Evaluation

Grow strategic knowledge, learning capacity & data infrastructure to support powerbuilding for systems transformation

Outcomes / Impacts

Community-centered learning
Collaborative learning networks
Tested theories of powerbuilding
An expanded bench of the next generation researchers/evaluators
Sustainable statewide learning networks

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

The Johns Hopkins University P3 Lab $1,500,000

Providence Portland Medical Center $499,962

KEL Advising $65,000

California Primary Care Association $13million over 5 years

Invested
$13,000,000
Region
Statewide

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

Health

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

Invested
$7,500,000
Region
Statewide

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

Health

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

Invested
$6,000,000
Region
Los Angeles Statewide

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

Power Infrastructure

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

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Los Angeles

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

Power Infrastructure

California Black Freedom Fund – Advancing Health Equity

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Statewide

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

Power Infrastructure

Latino Power Fund – Rebuilding A Healthy Equitable California

Invested
$5,000,000
Region
Statewide

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

Power Infrastructure

California Medicine Program – Building Healthy Career Pathways

Invested
$3,700,000
Region
Statewide

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

Health

Supporting Drought Resiliency and Economic Stability for Farmworker Health

Invested
$3,500,000
Region
Central

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

Resilient Communities

General Operating Support

Invested
$3,500,000
Region
Los Angeles

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

Power Infrastructure

Advancing Public Health Leadership And Workforce In California

Invested
$3,500,000
Region
Statewide

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

Health

Promoting Climate and Community Resilience via Leadership, Health and Safety

Invested
$3,000,000
Region
North

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

Resilient Communities

Alameda Wellness Campus – Advancing Health Access Through Housing

Invested
$3,000,000
Region
Central

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

Health

Climate Science Alliance - Building Tribal Climate Resiliency and Health

Invested
$2,000,000
Region
Los Angeles South

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

Resilient Communities

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

Invested
$2,000,000
Region
Statewide

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

Power Infrastructure Resilient Communities

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

Invested
$2,996,357
Region
Statewide

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

Research & Evaluation

Decolonizing Wealth Project - Building Resilience and Health in California

Invested
$2,500,000
Region
Los Angeles Statewide

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

Resilient Communities

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

Invested
$2,700,000
Region
South

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

Power Infrastructure

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

Invested
$1,804,500
Region
Statewide

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

Resilient Communities

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

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Central

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

Resilient Communities

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

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

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

Research & Evaluation

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

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

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

Resilient Communities

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

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
Statewide

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

Resilient Communities

Supporting a Community Resilience Campaign for Health Equity

Invested
$1,500,000
Region
South

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

Resilient Communities

Designing A Power-Building Movement Infrastructure Center For Health

Invested
$897,605
Region
Statewide

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

Power Infrastructure

Advancing A System Of Health And Well-Being For All

Invested
$570,000
Region
Statewide

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

Health

Visioning Hope For Community Health And Wellness In California

Invested
$548,968
Region
Los Angeles

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

Hope Village

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

Invested
$499,962
Region
Statewide

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

Research & Evaluation

Communicating The Community Health Impact Of Social Bond Work

Invested
$397,440
Region
Statewide

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

Communicating Health And Race Equity

Invested
$185,000
Region
Statewide

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

Communications

Communicating Health Equity Impacts Of Social Bond Work

Invested
$177,300
Region
Statewide

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

Communications

Advancing Health Equity And Wellness For Resilient Communities

Invested
$175,000
Region
Statewide

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

Resilient Communities

Assessing The Power Building Landscape To Improve Community Health

Invested
$65,000
Region
Statewide

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

Research & Evaluation

Supporting Health Through The Development Of Hope Village

Invested
$48,000
Region
Los Angeles

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

Hope Village

Advancing Health Access For All Californians

Invested
$20,025
Region
Statewide

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

Health