Leveraging Partnerships
The League of California Community Foundations and the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications (OCPSC) launched the Resilience, Capacity Building, and Community Engagement Grants program in April 2024.
This initiative seeks to fortify a network of local community foundations and grassroots CBOs dedicated to advancing community resilience by providing funds to small CBOs who serve as trusted messenger organizations to local populations facing significant health and social inequities. Community foundations will be given timely access to OCPSC and other state information to raise awareness of key priority issues.
The program is managed by the League of California Community Foundations. The grant portfolio is summarized below.
By The Numbers
In partnership with the League of California Community Foundations
Resilience, Capacity Building, and Community Engagement Grants
| Organization | Counties Served | Description | Grant Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amador Community Foundation | Amador | Build capacity of Amador Community Foundation to select grantees for the trusted messenger work. Amador is a remote area, with many community members struggling with poverty and mental health issues. | $19,120 | |
| Central Valley Community Foundation | Fresno | Offer sponsorship of housing stability initiatives, community engagement, mental health services, and data collection to guide work in Southwest Fresno in partnership with Southwest Fresno Housing and Community Development Collaborative. | $100,000 | |
| Inland Empire Community Foundation | Riverside | Enhance community resilience with a focus on disaster preparedness, environmental stewardship, and wildfire risk reduction through data-driven approaches to address their community needs. | $100,000 | |
| Community Foundation of Mendocino County | Mendocino | Engage Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and Tribal communities in disaster preparedness, focusing on seven regions within the County to bolster community engagement and localized volunteerism. | $100,000 | |
| Community Foundation of Merced County | Merced | Identify and implement effective resilience strategies by offering technical support in grant writing and channeling resources where they are needed most to CBOs in their communities. | $99,880 | |
| Community Foundation for Monterey County | Monterey | Support the Virus Integrated Distribution of Aid (VIDA) project focusing on African American/Black, Indigenous, and farmworker communities by distributing essential supplies and information, engaging in direct outreach, and facilitating in-person interactions. | $66,000 | |
| Community Foundation of the North State | Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama | Support Shasta, Siskiyou, and Tehama counties by enhancing the capacity of CBOs through technical assistance in grant writing and strategy, to organizations that provide crucial safety-net services such as healthcare, childcare, food security, housing, and trauma recovery. | $100,000 | |
| Placer Community Foundation | Placer | Provide a range of outreach and engagement efforts and social services to vulnerable communities, in partnership with five CBOs throughout the region, including disaster response and affordable housing advocacy. | $100,000 | |
| San Joaquin Community Foundation | San Joaquin | Support community health workers in their region to conduct education and outreach to connect vulnerable communities to services and build personal resilience. | $100,000 | |
| Santa Barbara Foundation | Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura | Strengthen the network of trusted messengers through coordination, collaboration, and training and by creating economic opportunities for community health workers who often come from the community they are serving. Project is in support of community health worker initiatives in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura Counties. | $100,000 | |
| Community Foundation Santa Cruz County | Santa Cruz | Disrupt the cycle of evictions and homelessness affecting countless local families through mediation, navigation services, and case management support to access back rent programs, community supports, housing, and benefits by working through the Eviction Defense Collaborative. | $100,000 | |
| Community Foundation Sonoma County | Sonoma | Support a cohort-based training for staff and board leadership for local nonprofits in areas of need as identified by trusted messengers working in the community. | $75,000 | |
| Stanislaus Community Foundation | Stanislaus | Support five grassroots organizations across Stanislaus County, many of which are all volunteer based, in outreach and engagement of vulnerable populations such as people experiencing homelessness, non-English speaking community members, and immigrants, to improve the lives of residents and the vibrancy of the unique and diverse communities throughout Stanislaus County. | $100,000 | |
| Ventura County Community Foundation | Ventura | Support trusted messengers with training, coordination, and collaboration on the Highest Quality Early Childhood Education campaign as part of their early childhood education initiative. | $100,000 | |
| West Marin Fund | Marin | Expand the Collaborative Impact Project to the Latinx community in West Marin to seven CBOs providing outreach and education focused on housing, health, and early childhood education. | $100,000 | |
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