Approved Grants

Fiscal Year 2017


Total Grants Approved

161 Grants totaling $36,466,835

Strong Local Economies

38 Grants totaling $7,785,000


The American Prospect

Washington, DC - $125,000

General operating support, which includes support for The American Prospect's Writing Fellows Program. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Aspen Institute

Washington, DC - $150,000

To support the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program's engagement in a variety of strategies to better understand how employment is changing and ways to improve job quality. (1 year)

Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways


Aspen Institute

Washington, DC - $100,000

To support the Aspen Institute Forum on Latino Business Growth, a 3-day gathering that will bring together 28 leaders and practitioners from across sectors and disciplines to grapple with and generate ideas for high-impact interventions that will help stakeholders overcome obstacles to scaling Latino owned businesses. (1 year)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers

Baltimore, MD - $150,000

To support the creation of economic opportunities for Baltimore City residents through anchor institution economic inclusion strategies. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


B Lab Company

Wayne. PA - $250,000

To support the Best for NYC, a free, online tool to help business owners compare their business's impact on NYC workers, communities, and the environment against 8,000+ businesses and provides free resources to improve impact and rollout of Best for campaigns nationally; and the Future of Work Initiative. (2 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Camelback Ventures

New Orleans, LA - $75,000

To launch a pilot cohort that will focus on developing entrepreneurs in New Orleans to create more good jobs, particularly for women of color. (1 year)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Center for Innovation in Worker Organization

New Brunswick, NJ - $200,000

To support the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization's Co-Enforcement and Building the Bench projects. (2 years)

Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways


Chicago United Inc.

Chicago, IL - $250,000

To continue to build the momentum of Chicago United's Five Forward Initiative by accelerating the growth of selected minority businesses, strengthening the local economy and creating quality jobs. (2 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation

Cincinnati, OH - $300,000

To support the Minority Business Accelerator (MBA)'s vision of becoming a national leader in Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) development by optimizing the growth of its portfolio companies; building a high-growth MBE pipeline; and advancing a national replication strategy. (2 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Community LIFT

Memphis, TN - $550,000

To support the continuation of the Neighborhood Economic Opportunities initiative, which connects resource-poor Memphis neighborhoods to policy, incentives, and capital for equitable business development and acceleration and the Slim's Front Loan pilot program. (3 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Coro New York Leadership Center

New York, NY - $75,000

To support Neighborhood Leadership - a public/private partnership with the New York City Department of Small Business Services - that develops the skills and networks of leaders who are improving New York City's commercial corridors and Business Improvement Districts with a focus on low- and moderate-income communities. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Democracy Collaborative Foundation

Cleveland, OH - $450,000

To build community wealth by expanding employee ownership, creating a learning/collaboration network of health system anchor institutions, and launching a decade-long multi-prong agenda to create a next system rooted in democratic ownership. (3 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Didtechnology, Inc.

Atlanta, GA - $150,000

Program support to the BIG Accelerator program, a 26-week incubator program for black and Latina women tech entrepreneurs located in downtown Atlanta. (1 year)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Documentary Educational Resources

Watertown, MA - $75,000

To support the post-production and communications campaign for Councilwoman, a documentary feature film about a Dominican hotel housekeeper who sits on the City Council in Providence, RI and advocates for low-income workers. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Fair Work Center

Seattle, WA - $60,000

To establish a co-enforcement model of labor standards enforcement in Seattle, WA by bringing together stakeholders from government, worker organizations and business interests to build a culture of compliance with labor standards. (1 year)

Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways


Good Jobs First

Washington, DC - $600,000

General operating support as Good Jobs First continues to advance equitable economic development policies and practices across the country. (3 years)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Good Jobs First

Washington, DC - $75,000

To support the augmentation of Good Jobs First's Violation Tracker database with workplace fairness and employment discrimination data. Violation Tracker, unveiled in October 2015, is the first national search engine on corporate misconduct. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Good Work Network

New Orleans LA - $180,000

To assist Good Work Network in its development of strategic, market-driven technical assistance and policy-based advocacy. The goal is to increase the stability and growth of diverse small businesses and promote creation of higher-profit minority businesses. This grant also supports Good Work Network's efforts to develop a mini management program for artists and to strengthen the ecosystem of support for artists/art based businesses. (18 months)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Greenlining Institute

Oakland, CA - $100,000

To advance diverse business growth and the creation of quality jobs for people of color by pursuing a multi-sector supplier diversity strategy. (1 year)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Inner City Advisors

Oakland, CA - $300,000

General operating support to advance the creation and retention of good jobs by helping entrepreneurs to become good employers and investing in the capacity of ICA Fund Good Jobs to scale impact beyond the Bay Area. (2 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Interise

Boston, MA - $250,000

To further develop Interise's StreetWise 'MBA' curriculum elements focused on anchor procurement and to develop and scale Interise's Capacity, Contracts and Capital Collaborative (C3). (2 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation

Memphis, TN - $200,000

To support MLK50, a series of events and projects commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and to support the Justice through Journalism project. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Marxe School of Public and International Affairs

Baruch College, New York, NY - $100,000

To produce a series of policy briefings on issues of employment, labor markets and community economic development; small- and medium-sized local business infrastructure; and trends in income, poverty and inequality by race\ethnicity\national origin in New York City. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders

San Antonio, TX -$525,000

To support the ongoing performance of an innovative consortium of non-profit small business lenders and to disseminate best practices, research and policy proposals for opening access to capital for low- and moderate-income Latino and immigrant business owners. (3 years)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


National Black Worker Center Project

Raleigh, NC - $50,000

To support the Working While Black (WWB) campaign, a 12-month strategic communications and organizing campaign designed to articulate, capture and communicate the experiences, challenges, aspirations and achievements of Black workers. (1 year)

Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways


Nexus Community Partners

St. Paul, MN - $150,000

To support the 4th cohort of the Twin Cities Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI), further strengthen BCLI's alumni network and develop a sustainability plan for the program. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


New American Leaders Project

New York, NY - $170,000

To provide state and local elected officials with leadership training, skills building, and networking opportunities. The grant will also support the completion of a documentary film on a trailblazing legislator and related impact campaign. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


NewCorp, Inc.

New Orleans, LA - $150,000

To aid in the development of the New Orleans Black Mardi Gras Indian Co-Op to create opportunities for the Black masking Indians to monetize their trade through the sale of their suits and other items produced by co-op members. (1 year)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


The New York Women's Foundation

New York, NY - $150,000

To support the New York City Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color. (2 years)

Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways


Next City

Philadelphia, PA - $750,000

To support a journalism fellowship for writers of color and general operations for Next City's editorial team. The grant will allow Next City to continue offering its Equitable Cities Fellowship and publish reporting on community-engaged design and infrastructure. (3 years)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Nonprofit Knowledge Works

New Orleans, LA - $125,000

To develop a new Equity Index to specifically inform public dialogue around the history and future of New Orleans as it relates to race and equity, examining the current and historic drivers of inequity. (16 months)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


PolicyLink

Oakland, CA - $100,000

General operating support to help strengthen PolicyLink's capacity and build financial reserves through the Reserve and Growth fund which will also help PolicyLink weather funding fluctuations and respond rapidly to urgent issues. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


Raise the Floor Alliance

Chicago, IL - $150,000

General operating support for education, training, and advocacy to improve job quality for Chicago's low-wage workers, addressing on wage theft, racial unity "Know Your Rights" training, and anti-retaliation advocacy. (1 year)

Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways


Rising Tide Capital

Jersey City, NJ - $100,000

To advance the work of creating an anchor table in Jersey City, NJ and supporting a more developed anchor table in Newark, NJ as part of a broader collective impact initiative to build more inclusive, resilient and healthy local economies in the communities where Rising Tide Entrepreneurs live and work. (1 year)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Roadmap Consulting

Oakland, CA - $125,000

To provide capacity building for three of Surdna's Strong Local Economies grantee partners, as well as provide crisis response training to Surdna grantees. (1 year)

Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways


Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans

New Orleans, LA - $75,000

To provide impact accelerator and racial equity training to help build an equitable business ecosystem in New Orleans. (1 year)

Category: Business Development and Acceleration


Urban Manufacturing Alliance

Brooklyn, NY - $250,000

To advance research, thought-leadership and coalition-building on manufacturing policy and its relationship to the equity imperative under the auspices of Urban Manufacturing Alliance's new Equity Community of Practice. (2 years)

Category: Equitable Economic Development


World Business Chicago

Chicago, IL - $150,000

To enable Chicago Anchors for a Strong Economy (CASE), a program of World Business Chicago, to increase its supplier matchmaking and support offered to anchor partners. (1 year)

Category: Equitable Economic Development

Sustainable Environments

42 Grants totaling $9,360,000


Blue Green Alliance Foundation

Minneapolis, MN - $150,000

To support the Blue Green Alliance Foundation's joint work with Jobs to Move America (JMA) to advance the implementation of the U.S. Employment Plan to enhance quality job creation and environmental outcomes in the next generation of transit infrastructure. (2 years)

Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns


Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chicago, IL - $525,000

To support the next phase of RainReady Program, a multi-year approach for developing and scaling-up cost effective green infrastructure and property retrofit strategies that alleviate urban flooding. (2 years)

Category: Urban Water Management


Center for Popular Democracy

Brooklyn, NY - $200,000

To support Local Progress, the national network of progressive municipal elected officials, as it builds organizational capacity around: campaigns, communications, research, training, and fundraising. (1 year)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Center on Wisconsin Strategy

Madison, WI - $300,000

To provide project support to the Center on Wisconsin Strategy to coordinate and implement the Mayors Innovation Project. (2 years)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Ceres, Inc., Boston

MA - $75,000

To support the use of capital to finance green infrastructure through the creation of a credible bond market for green projects and by leveraging influence with institutional investors, capital markets and water utilities. (1 year)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Clean Energy Group

Montpelier, VT - $200,000

To support the Resilient Power Project which creates a market for clean, reliable, distributed energy systems in low-wealth communities by developing new tools and ownership models for communities. (2 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


Climate Interactive

Washington, DC - $500,000

To support the refinement of Climate Interactive's Green Infrastructure Decision Support (GIDS) tool and replicate its application in Atlanta, GA. (2 years)

Category: Urban Water Management


Climate Justice Alliance

Oakland, CA - $300,000

To support the Climate Justice Alliance to demand bold government and industry action that responds to frontline grassroots organizing around environmental and economic needs and confronts the root causes of climate change. (3 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


EcoDistricts

Portland, OR - $195,000

General operating support to continue EcoDistricts' acceleration of neighborhood-scale sustainability and community resiliency in coordination with city level infrastructure investment, community development and asset building ($145,000), and for regranting to five EcoDistricts ($50,000). (1 year)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Emerald Cities Collaborative, Inc.

Washington, DC - $300,000

To support Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) high road implementation tools in six cities with a focus on building community-based energy and water infrastructure projects in key markets. (18 months)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


Energy Programs Consortium

Washington, DC - $35,000

To support efforts for low- and moderate-income homeowners to access energy efficiency loan products without undue financial burden. (1 year)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


Eno Center for Transportation

Washington, DC - $150,000

General operating support to enable the Eno Center for Transportation to provide research, policy development and technical assistance expertise to the public and private sector at the state and city levels, in service of sustaining transformative equitable and sustainable transportation policies. (2 years)

Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns


Fair Food Network

Ann Arbor, MI - $150,000

To build the capacity of Fair Food Network's Fair Food Fund program to provide financing and business assistance to food entrepreneurs growing a sustainable, regional food system in the Northeastern United States. (2 years)

Category: Regional Food Supply


Foundation for Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA - $150,000

To support the Foundation for Louisiana and its partners to develop a community led process to co-design and inform the resilience strategies for Louisiana's coastal parishes. (2 years)

Category: Urban Water Management


Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

Coral Gables, FL - $400,000

To support seven areas of work: PLACES fellowship program; Stormwater Funders' Group; GREEN! Funder Working Group; Anchor Institutions Funders' Group; Restoring Prosperity in Older Industrial Cities Funder Working Group; 2017 Annual Conference; and federal transition efforts to ensure that federal programs and policies result in more just, sustainable, and inclusive communities and economies. (2 years)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Global Philanthropy Partnership

Chicago, IL - $1,000

,000

To support enhanced learning, collaboration and action among local governments to accelerate advancements in urban sustainability and social equity. (3 years)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Grassroots Global Justice

North Miami, FL - $225,000

General operating support. (3 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange

Philadelphia, PA - $200,000

To support ongoing activities of the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange, a city-to-city practitioner network and information center that seeks to accelerate research, innovation and implementation around green stormwater infrastructure. (2 years)

Category: Urban Water Management


ISAIAH

St. Paul, MN - $225,000

To support ISAIAH and Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) to build a Midwestern regional strategy grounded in state-based power building organizations for a fair economy, sustainable environmental policies, and racial equity. (1 year)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Kentucky Coalition

London, KY - $300,000

To support the New Energy and Transition (NET) program, an ambitious set of strategies and campaigns designed to shape and speed a just transition to a new economy, powered by clean energy. (2 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Los Angeles, CA - $300,000

To support the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy's research of Los Angeles County's watershed management needs and advocate for green water infrastructure solutions that promote drought adaption, quality jobs and environmental and community benefits. (3 years)

Category: Urban Water Management


Meridian Institute

Dillon, CO - $50,000

To enable AGree to: support education and advocacy for local/regional food systems and urban agriculture programs and investments; and positively influence immigration policy for the food and agriculture sector. (1 year)

Category: Regional Food Supply


Movement Strategy Center

Oakland, CA - $300,000

To support the Movement Strategy Center (MSC) to build its national Transitions Initiative which provides technical assistance, coaching investments and capacity building tools to local organizations while informing MSC's field building efforts to support Just Transition strategies across the US. (3 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


New York Energy Democracy Alliance

Brooklyn, NY - $200,000

To formalize New York Energy Democracy Alliance's organizational infrastructure and support its efforts to advance a just and participatory transition to a resilient, localized, and democratically controlled clean energy economy in New York State. (2 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


New York Energy Democracy Alliance

Brooklyn, NY - $75,000

To support the New York Energy Democracy Alliance's CoShare working group. CoShare working group members will raise funding to build community owned or controlled solar projects that are accessible to low-income communities and communities of color. (1 year)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


One America

Seattle, WA - $50,000

To build, in partnership with a core set of cross-sector allies, a long-term power-building strategy in Washington State grounded in a commitment to long-term organizing. (1 year)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Partnership for Working Families

Oakland, CA - $170,000

To provide support to build the internal capacity of In the Public Interests, a program of the Partnership for Working Families, to educate advocates and policy makers of the implications of infrastructure policy and project proposals and advocate for and secure economic, community and environmental outcomes in major infrastructure investments. (2 years)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


People's Action Institute

Chicago, IL - $300,000

To support People's Action Institute's Climate Justice program; deepening organizing activities and running climate justice campaigns that center around the interest of working class people and communities of color. (3 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


THE POINT Community Development Corporation

Bronx, NY - $300,000

To support The POINT's continued implementation of the South Bronx Community Resiliency Agenda (SBCRA). The SBCRA seeks to build power among residents, stakeholders, business owners and decision-makers while advancing a comprehensive community-led environmental and social resiliency plan. (3 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


The Reinvestment Fund

Philadelphia, PA - $20,000

To support local and national dissemination of the report, The Supply Chain Matrix: A Prospective Study of The Spatial and Economic Connections within New England's Meat Industry. (1 year)

Category: Regional Food Supply


Rockefeller Family Fund

New York, NY - $75,000

To support the Just Transition Fund (JTF), a philanthropic pooled fund initiative housed at the Rockefeller Family Fund. The JTF supports frontline coalfield and power plant communities as they make a just transition away from coal. (1 year)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


RSF Social Finance

San Francisco, CA - $100,000

General operating support to strengthen RSF's Food System Transformation Fund, which is dedicated to financing the development of regional food systems. (2 years)

Category: Regional Food Supply


The Solutions Project

Oakland, CA - $450,000

To support the Solutions Project's continued efforts to strengthen the ecosystem of clean energy advocates and to provide direct, rapid response grants to frontline leaders in key movement moments through the Fighter Fund. (3 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


Southeast African American Farmers' Organic Network

Sonoma, CA - $125,000

To support the general capacity building and organizational infrastructure necessary to grow the production capacity of the Southeast African American Farmers' Organic Network and to provide training that enhances the knowledge of individual members. (2 years)

Category: Regional Food Supply


Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc.

Albany, GA - $225,000

To improve the capacity of under-served farmers to strengthen value chain linkages by providing training, education and increasing opportunities. (3 years)

Category: Regional Food Supply


STAR Communities

Portland, OR - $75,000

To support the STAR Communities' national sustainability rating system that improves sustainability conditions in U.S. cities and counties. (1 year)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Sustainable Jersey A NJ Nonprofit Corporation

Lawrenceville, NJ - $280,000

To support Sustainable Jersey (SJ) to build sustainable and equitable communities by deploying data tracking systems that measure impacts to guide the development of emergent best practices. (2 years)

Category: Integrated Infrastructure


Transportation for America

Washington, DC - $10,000

To support scholarships for grassroots organizations to attend the Transportation for America biennial state transportation Capital Ideas II conference in Sacramento, CA. (1 year)

Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns


Transportation for America

Washington, DC - $250,000

To enhance Transportation for America's efforts to build capacity at the local level to advance more sustainable and equitable transportation policies and to drive policy change at the local, state, and federal levels. (1 year)

Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns


US Climate Action Network

Washington, DC - $200,000

To provide grassroots and frontline members with the resources to engage in relationship building and priority-setting aspects of the US Climate Action Network's new strategic plan. (2 years)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People


Winrock International

Little Rock, AR - $150,000

To support the Wallace Center's creation of equitable, economically viable community-based food systems through a Community of Practice in concert with USDA's Food LINC Initiative, and to raise awareness of this work among stakeholders. (1 year)

Category: Regional Food Supply


Working World, Inc.

New York, NY - $75,000

To support a partnership between The Working World and Cooperative Energy Futures to design a new mechanism for funding cooperatively-run, community-owned solar power. (1 year)

Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People

Thriving Cultures

59 Grants totaling $11,750,000


The Albert Jr. and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane School of Architecture

New Orleans, LA - $225,000

To support The Albert Jr. and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design so that it can continue to positively impact the people and places of New Orleans through its award winning public interest design programs. (3 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


Alliance for California Traditional Arts

Fresno, CA - $200,000

To support Alliance for California Traditional Arts' Living Cultures Grants Program, which provides grants to small and mid-sized organizations to sustain communities that foster traditional arts transmission, engagement, and sustainability in California. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Allied Media Projects

Detroit, MI - $75,000

To support the production of a collection of essays that look deeply at Detroit as a way to also look at the current national landscape. (1 year)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Alonzo King's LINES Ballet

San Francisco, CA - $75,000

To provide scholarship assistance to low-income students of color in LINES Ballet Summer Program. (1 year)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Amigos del Museo del Barrio, Inc.

New York, NY - $100,000

To support (is)land / in-land PROMESA's - a project by artist Miguel Luciano that addresses the social, political and economic crisis in Puerto Rico and its impact on mainland Puerto Rican communities in the U.S. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


ArtsEmerson

Boston, MA - $50,000

To support Community Curators, a program that engages Boston curators to envision and produce events in ArtsEmerson's downtown spaces. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Asian American Writers' Workshop

New York, NY - $200,000

To support three projects to incubate excellent artists of Asian American, immigrant, and Muslim descent and to engage communities of color with aesthetically rigorous cultural practice: 1) an online magazine, The Margins, and the Margins Fellowship; 2) an online editorial initiative, Open City, and the Open City Fellowships for immigrants and Muslim writers; and 3) a new prize in which Asian American Writers' Workshop and Simon & Schuster will publish the first novel by an Asian American writer anywhere in the U.S. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Association for Community Design

Norfolk, VA - $150,000

To support the research on racial justice and social equity in community-engaged design practice, with the goal of building the capacity of design professionals to use their work to fight systemic racism and refine practices in designing for equitable outcomes in the built environment. (2 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


AXIS Dance Company

Oakland, CA - $150,000

General operating support for AXIS Dance Company's artistic, engagement, and advocacy programming that will increase visibility, inclusion, and equity for people with disabilities in dance. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc.

Brooklyn, NY - $100,000

To support Dancing While Black (DWB), a program which will offer a fellowship for 14 artists, create a journal, and convene a series of dialogues, all of which will fortify the field of Black contemporary dance. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


buildingcommunityWORKSHOP

Dallas, TX - $25,000

To support the Association for Community Design's 40th annual conference and the affiliated Racial Justice + Design Summit. (6 months)

Category: Community Engaged Design


buildingcommunityWORKSHOP

Dallas, TX - $225,000

General operating support. (3 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


Center for Cultural Innovation

Los Angeles, CA - $100,000

To support the Center for Cultural Innovation as it develops strategies to advance the recommendations of its 2016 report, Creativity Connects: Trends and Conditions Affecting U.S. Artists. (1 year)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


CGDCNY, Inc

Yonkers, NY - $40,000

To support the Highland Hill Project, a community planning/design and organizing initiative aimed at creating opportunity, and empowering community members. (1 year)

Category: Community Engaged Design


Clinton Community Christian Corporation

Clinton, MS - $80,000

To support programming and design processes to inform the development of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, a cultural center that celebrates the agricultural and cultural products of Mississippi. (1 year)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Deep Center

Savannah, GA - $50,000

To support Deep Center's River Writes project within the Block by Block program to engage community, artists, and adult and youth writers in documenting, celebrating, and advocating for Savannah's long-oppressed and rapidly disappearing Gullah-Geechee coastal communities. (1 year)

Category: Community Engaged Design


Designing Justice Designing Spaces

Oakland, CA - $300,000

To support the Concept Development Fund at Designing Justice Designing Spaces (DJDS), which will provide research and development capital to support the design of new processes, building types, tools, spaces, and financial models that are of high impact to DJDS's restorative justice/economics partners and clients. (3 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


Efforts of Grace, Inc.

New Orleans, LA - $450,000

To support Efforts of Grace and the Ashé Cultural Arts Center's work to improve the quality of life, the economic standing, and the widening of opportunities for residents of New Orleans, specifically along the O.C. Haley Boulevard Cultural Corridor of Central City, where the organization is a pivotal actor in the efforts to rebuild and rebrand the neighborhood as a place distinguished by Community, Culture and Commerce. (3 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Enterprise Center

Philadelphia, PA - $200,000

To support the Enterprise Center's Philly Foods Innovation Marketplace efforts to create $1M in opportunities and contracts for culinary artists and small business owners in Philadelphia's food industry. (1 year)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Enterprise Community Partners

Columbia, MD - $250,000

To deepen diversity and equity as a core consideration of the programs led by Enterprise's National Design Initiatives, including through curriculum, events, tools, and the Rose Fellowship Program. (3 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


First Peoples Fund

Rapid City, SD - $600,000

To support capacity-building of Native community development financial institutions, their partners and community-based Native artists to establish and play leadership roles in building local creative economies through a number of arts endeavors. First Peoples Fund (FPF) will also build its own capacity, systems, tools and resources to more effectively work with these organizations and Native artists toward a common goal of increasing economic opportunity at the individual and community levels. (3 years)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

Burlington, VT - $160,000

To support three areas: animating conversations with artists and community catalysts; community engagement and access; and professional development on inclusion and diversity with multiple internal constituencies. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Foundation for Louisian

Baton Rouge, LA - $200,000

To support Phase I of the Claiborne Corridor Cultural Innovation District in New Orleans, a project that seeks to reclaim underutilized space for community economic development, cultural preservation, and recreation uses along a corridor that has shouldered the effects of disinvestment and inequitable development practices. (1 year)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Foundation for Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA - $200,000

To support loan loss reserves for the Creative Placemaking Fund and general operating expenses related to arts and culture in Louisiana. (2 years)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Grantmakers in the Arts

Seattle, WA - $25,000

To support of the 2017 Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Detroit, MI. (10 months)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Heart of Los Angeles Youth

Los Angeles, CA - $500,000

To support the Heart of Los Angeles Youth (HOLA)'s Visual Arts Department in its efforts to provide quality arts education to youth with the fewest resources, while supporting HOLA's mission of increasing its overall community impact. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Inc.

Brooklyn, NY - $300,000

To support the Youth Ensemble and the Rights of Passage programs for youth of African descent. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Junebug Productions, Inc.

New Orleans, LA - $150,000

To support Junebug Productions' focus on producing projects/events and deepening relationships in the Treme neighborhood as Junebug Productions transitions to new space at the Bell School ArtSpace; and for restructuring the staffing of the organization. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA)

Minneapolis, MN - $550,000

To support the development of JXTALab which employs low income youth, connects them to college & careers and helps them implement business plans. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Kiva MicroFunds

San Francisco, CA - $100,000

To continue Kiva's work in connecting and supporting traditionally underserved small business owners in the arts and culture sector with Kiva's crowdfunded, 0%-interest capital, made available on its web-based platform, Kiva.org. (1 year)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Kounkuey Design Initiative

Los Angeles, CA - $350,000

General operating support. (3 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


Laundromat Project

New York, NY - $150,000

General operating support. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


The Loft Literary Center

Minneapolis, MN - $75,000

To support the Loft Literary Center's artists' programs. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center

San Pablo, CA - $150,000

To support hands-on cultural arts immersion training for Latino teens built on role modeling and mentorship. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)

Boston, MA - $150,000

To support Artward Bound, MassArt's four-year college preparatory program. (2 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Massachusetts Institute of Technology Community Innovators Lab

Cambridge, MA - $225,000

To bring together the planning and design disciplines to create a suite of aesthetic tools to support community organizing and advocacy efforts around displacement and gentrification in Boston and the Bronx. (27 months)

Category: Community Engaged Design


National Association of Latino Arts and Culture

San Antonio, TX - $300,000

To support the Latino arts field through the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Fund for the Arts, leadership institutes and convenings, and to optimize NALAC's programs and strengthen its infrastructure and future succession planning. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


National Performance Network

New Orleans, LA - $60,000

To support the second phase of the Spiritual Technologies Project, which seeks to generate, document, and transmit performative practices that unify and shape individuals and groups of people. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Neighborhood Story Project

New Orleans, LA - $225,000

To create an equitable model for the publishing of collaborative ethnographies that tell the stories of art, music, ritual, and activism in New Orleans. (3 years)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Nonprofits Assistance Fund

Minneapolis, MN - $150,000

To provide capital and a support program for 20 arts/community focused nonprofits to strengthen the organizations' financial health, capacity and ability to be effective community leaders and agents of change. (2 years)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Penumbra Theatre Company

Saint Paul, MN - $300,000

To support the Summer Institute, Penumbra Theatre Company's artistic and leadership training program for teens. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Perseverance Theatre

Douglas, AK - $50,000

To commission five diverse writers to author plays, with support from dramaturges, directors, and actors, to showcase the value of new voices and the impact of theatre in Alaskan communities. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Project Row Houses

Houston, TX - $300,000

To support Project Row Houses' (PRH) Public Art program; and the community revitalization and development work of the Emancipation Economic Development Council (EEDC). (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


REBUILD, City of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA - $450,000

To support planning and early implementation for community engagement and capacity building efforts for Rebuilding Community Infrastructure, a $500 million program to revitalize neighborhood parks, recreation centers, and libraries in Philadelphia. (3 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


The Regents of the University of California/Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA

Los Angeles, CA - $250,000

To support CODA21, a pilot initiative lead by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA with participating scientists and designers from campus research centers including Silvalab; Hakwan Lau's Consciousness & Metacognition Lab; and the Design Media Arts Lab. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Roots of Music, Inc.

New Orleans, LA - $150,000

To provide general operating support for Roots of Music to provide free, year-round, after-school music education and mentoring to students from low-income households throughout New Orleans. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Soulsville Foundation

Memphis, TN - $100,000

To support the Stax Music Academy's SNAP! Afterschool Senior Academy Program, serving students ages 13-18. (2 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Springboard for the Arts

Saint Paul, MN - $750,000

To develop a new set of programs and tools that increase economic opportunities for artist-run businesses. (3 years)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Trustees of Indiana University

Bloomington, IN - $40,000

To enable the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) to undertake research and strategic planning for its future course, given changing circumstances and increasing spheres of interest in SNAAP's data. (1 year)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


UBW, Inc.

Brooklyn, NY - $200,000

General operating support for Urban Bush Women's dance performance, artist development, education and community engagement work. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning

Albuquerque, NM - $225,000

General operating support for the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute. (3 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


University of Virginia Institute for Environmental Negotiation

Charlottesville, VA - $125,000

To develop a social impact study template for housing (re)development that is holistic; grounded in evidence-based research; participatory and equity-focused; and actionable by a variety of key decision makers. (2 years)

Category: Community Engaged Design


Urban Word NYC

New York, NY - $225,000

To support the National Youth Poet Laureate, the only program of its kind that celebrates the intersection of artistic achievement and social justice. Urban Word will expand the program to 50+ cities and enhance the curriculum. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN - $80,000

To support the Walker Art Center's Teen Programs which facilitate youth arts skills development, self-expression and criticality with respect to the social issues that intersect with art. (1.5 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Working Classroom

Albuquerque, NM - $100,000

General operating support. (2 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

San Francisco, CA - $150,000

To support The Creative Ecosystem, a cultural incubator for community-driven and artist-led change. (2 years)

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change


Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

San Francisco, CA - $200,000

To support CultureBank, a new model for social impact investing that converts financial and non-financial assets into capital to invest in the enterprises of artists and arts organizations, which have a variety of measurable social returns (ROIs). (2 years)

Category: Artists and Economic Development


Youth Speaks

San Francisco, CA -$150,000

To support the leadership transition and development of mental health support programs for youth poets. (1 year)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement


Zaccho Dance Theatre

San Francisco, CA - $240,000

To support Zaccho's artmaking and overall organizational capacity in combination with program enrichment that targets teen and pre-teen youth and families in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point. (3 years)

Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement

Capacity & Infrastructure

4 Grants totaling $190,000


Alliance for Justice

Washington, DC - $100,000

To support Alliance for Justice's general operations, including its Bolder Advocacy and Justice programs. (2 years)


Council on Foundations

Arlington, VA - $10,000

To support the Council on Foundations' Human Resources Summit: Achieving Equity in the Workplace that will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota from August 16-17, 2017. (1 year)


Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Washington, DC - $75,000

General operating support. (1 year)


Grants Managers Network

Washington, DC - $5,000

Sponsorship for the Grants Managers Network 2017 National Conference in Hollywood, CA. (6 months)

Category: Other

Flexible Grantmaking Fund

12 Grants totaling $2,690,000


Blackbird, San Francisco

CA - $100,000

To support Blackbird's capacity to provide leadership and logistics support, additional communications infrastructure and movement building and policy leadership to the Black Lives ecosystem. (1 year)

Category: Institutional


CFLeads, Braintree

MA - $150,000

To create a Community Foundation Equity Action Network. (1 year)

Category: Presidential Fund


Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

New York, NY - $25,000

To revive The Great Hall at Cooper Union to its stature as a national center for discourse and debate that will celebrate free speech, promote social justice, and inspire transformative action. (1 year)

Category: Presidential Fund


Foundation for Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA - $5,000

General operating support in response to immediate needs of communities impacted by the police shooting death of Alton Sterling and the demonstrations that followed.

Category: Presidential Fund


Headwaters Foundation for Justice

Minneapolis, MN - $5,000

To support local organizing in Minneapolis being spearheaded by the Black Lives Matter - Minneapolis (BLM-MN) and Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC).

Category: Presidential Fund


Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting

New York, NY - $35,000

To provide capacity building and training for journalists of color in the context of the 2016 election. (1 year)

Category: Other


Living Cities

New York, NY - $1,500,000

General operating support for the next round of Living Cities' work. Over the next three years, Living Cities will work with its members, partners, and sites to build an economic opportunity roadmap that city leaders can use as a blueprint for building an inclusive economy. (3 years)


Mijente

Phoenix, AZ - $40,000

To strengthen Mijente's base-building and technical assistance support to local partners. (1 year)

Category: Other


Neighborhood Funders Group

Oakland, CA - $450,000

General operating support to engage more funders in supporting place-based, community-led efforts that target the root causes of economic and racial inequities and power imbalances in urban, suburban and rural places across the country. (3 years)

Category: Other


Project South

Atlanta, GA - $100,000

To organize young black people in the South to participate in leadership development programs and community-led initiatives that address state violence, build economic independence, and increase political participation. (1 year)

Category: Other


Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation

Porcupine, SD - $175,000

To support Thunder Valley CDC in gathering resources to continue the actions against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline; support the water protectors; and build the planning and organizing infrastructure for longer-term sustainability in the region. (1 year)

Category: Other


Vera Institute of Justice

New York, NY - $105,000

To support Vera Institute's Immigrant Representation Network, a network of cities and groups providing legal representation for people facing detention and deportation. (1 year)

Category: Presidential Fund

Centennial

4 Grants totaling $4,691,835


Center for Effective Philanthropy

Cambridge, MA - $61,835

To commission a white paper highlighting perspectives on the opportunities and challenges related to building and maintaining the practices and values required to sustain effective family foundation governance and practice over multiple generations. (6 months)


National Center for Family Philanthropy

Washington, DC - $100,000

o celebrate the National Center for Family Philanthropy's 20th Anniversary by implementing a teaching and learning agenda to help family philanthropists transform their values into effective giving. (1 year)


Neighborhood Funders Group

Oakland, CA - $30,000

To develop a comprehensive plan for the Democratizing Development Program that includes a national pooled fund. (6 months)


Common Counsel Foundation on behalf of Neighborhood Funders Group

Oakland, CA - $4,500,000

To help seed a national pooled fund focused on bolstering the ongoing efforts of residents in historically marginalized communities (low-wealth communities and communities of color) to make decisions about the policies, developments and public investments that impact their lives.

The funds will be regranted to community-based projects and technical assistance providers. (4 years)