The California Wellness Foundation is investing in healthy and safe communities, because individual wellness is dependent upon communities being economically and environmentally vital, socially connected, and civically engaged.
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:
CWF supports communities of color to actively engage and build power over the environmental policies and conditions that affect the places in which they live, work and play – paying particular attention to issues impacting air and water. They support organizations to build their effectiveness and support organizing, civic engagement, and public policy advocacy efforts to drive change.
What they Fund?
- Public policy and advocacy efforts that prioritize:
- Increased access to safe and clean water
- Reducing the impacts of air pollution.
- Efforts to increase the power of communities of color over environmental policies and conditions, specifically access to water and reducing the impacts of air pollution, that impact the places in which they live, work, and play, including community organizing, leadership development, technical assistance and training efforts to increase decision-making power.
- Limited funding for public policy and advocacy efforts to increase access to parks and other open spaces in park-poor communities.
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
- Physical activity or recreational and outdoor activities for adults or youth
- Food banks or food distribution activities, including those for seniors or persons living with chronic or debilitating diseases
- Nutrition, healthy-eating and active-living education programs
- Food systems issues (agriculture, community gardens, farmers markets, etc.)
- Obesity and diabetes prevention education
- Asthma prevention and education programs
- Organizations working to build or advocate for more affordable housing, or to improve the quality of substandard housing
- Transportation issues (transit justice, bicycling and pedestrian issues, etc.)
- Stand-alone conferences
- Individual degrees
- Other types of climate or environmental justice work not directly tied to building the power of communities of color.
For more information, visit CWF.
