The California Wellness Foundation offers grants to support organizations to increase their assets, and recruit and retain talented staff of color.
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 leadership development and capacity building that will help people of color-led organizations, and organizations with a racial justice analysis, to be stronger and more resilient. For example, they will fund leaders to take sabbaticals while their organizations strengthen the next level of leadership.
What they Fund?
- Organized efforts and initiatives designed to increase the recruitment, development and retention of non-profit leaders of color in the social justice movement.
- Organizations that partner with organizations led by and centered on communities of color to strengthen their organizational infrastructure and capacity to advance the movement for racial justice.
- Initiatives and/or organized efforts to evolve philanthropy’s policies and practices that have historically excluded communities of color from sustainable philanthropic investments and leadership within philanthropic institutions.
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
Core support to individual organizations working to strengthen their internal diversity, inclusion and equity practices.
For more information, visit CWF.
