The Economic Mobility & Wealth Creation grant supports efforts that advance workforce development and entrepreneurship for communities of color and low-income communities.
Donor Name: The California Wellness Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/30/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
All Californians should be able to get good-paying jobs, build businesses as entrepreneurs if they choose to, and be financially secure.
What they Fund?
- Comprehensive workforce development efforts that focus on systems-impacted communities, with attention to formerly incarcerated men and women and provide all of the following:
- Placement into living-wage jobs that offer robust benefits and pathways for career advancement;
- Job retention services; and
- Case-managed wraparound support services.
- Efforts that support and strengthen small businesses through culturally-effective advising services and access to trustworthy capital for owners and operators who are persons of color, immigrants and refugees, or low-income individuals.
- Public policy efforts that address one of the following:
- Advance comprehensive workforce development approaches described above; or
- Strengthen supports for small businesses.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be a nonprofit public agency, religious organization or tribal government. Cal Wellness does not fund individuals seeking funding.
- You must have Section 501(c)(3) status and be classified as a public charity.
- Your organization can’t discriminate by race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation or national origin.
- Your application is not for an annual fund drive, building campaign, major equipment or biomedical research.
- Your proposal would benefit those living in California. Cal Wellness does not provide international funding or fund organizations located outside the United States.
Ineligibility
- Workforce development efforts that focus on populations other than formerly incarcerated adults, or that emphasize resume writing, interview skills training, placement into low-wage jobs, or job training with minimal job placement or support services.
- An individual organization’s efforts to develop, build, or expand its in-house workforce or its own small business, including social enterprises.
For more information, visit CWF.
