Funding Opportunities

The Equity in Access portfolio champions health care coverage and access for all and defends the rights of immigrants to enjoy access to health services, coverage, and other benefits. Our portfolio also supports the rights of women to access comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services. Equity in Access funds focus on public policy, research, and communications efforts to supporting expansion of health coverage; culturally and linguistically appropriate health coverage outreach, education, retention and utilization activities for Medi-Cal and Covered California; research and communications activities to help build the case for universal coverage; project support for larger community health centers and clinics to address health-related social needs of patients; and core support for small community health clinics that provide a broad range of primary health care services to low-income individuals.

The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, states, and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals, families, persons fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness; to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and to optimize self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness.

The Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) provides funding to fair housing organizations and other non-profits that assist individuals who believe that they have been victims of housing discrimination. Currently FHIP provides funds to eligible organizations through competitive grants under several initiatives to carry out enforcement activities to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices and inform individuals of their rights and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act. The Initiatives are: the Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI), Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI) and the Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI). In addition, consistent with FY 2022 HUD appropriations directives, FHEO is publishing a separate NOFO for EOI-Tester Coordinator Training.

The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation provides grants to California-based nonprofit organizations for projects designed to provide education, skills training, and/or respite for family, professional, and volunteer caregivers. The Foundation supports efforts to train and relieve family caregivers, who provide most of the long-term care in the U.S. To increase the number of professional caregivers in the workforce, the foundation also provides support to nursing assistant programs at California Community Colleges.

Funds for initiatives that give women information and access to reproductive health care, contraception, and pregnancy termination to help broaden and enhance their options in life. The program offers support for programs that offer sexual and reproductive health education to women. It is interested in programs serving women disadvantaged by poverty, discrimination, geographic isolation, lack of comprehensive sex education, hostile public policy, or other factors leading to inadequate sexual and reproductive health. The ALB Program is particularly interested in supporting new programs, initiatives, or innovations in successful programs. Programs at new or small organizations, including those with a grassroots base capable of delivering excellent services, will also be considered. Priority will be given to new programs, initiatives, or innovations in successful programs. Programs at new or small organizations, including those with a grassroots base capable of delivering excellent services, will also be considered.

The CASF Broadband Public Housing Account provides grants and loans to build broadband networks offering free broadband service for residents of low-income communities including, but not limited to, publicly supported housing developments, farmworker housing, and other housing developments or mobile home parks with low-income residents that do not have access to any broadband service provider that offers free broadband service that meets or exceeds state standards for the residents of the low-income community.

The BLMF supports the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and other politically aligned organizations so that it can better shape policy agendas for Black communities, create alternatives to institutions that have been harmful to Black people, and build local Black community power. The fund provides a dedicated vehicle for funders to support the ecosystem of grassroots, Black-led power-building organizations working towards community safety, justice, and liberation. The fund is rooted in a commitment to intersectional feminism and the leadership of Black queer and trans people, as well as women/femmes/girls; funding organizations addressing the root causes of anti-Black racism, misogyny, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia; being adaptive, flexible and responsive; funding work that centers Black joy; resourcing anchor organizations in interconnected movement ecosystems, and solidarity, collaboration, and transparency.

The Equity in Access portfolio at the California Wellness Foundation champions health care coverage and access for all and defends the rights of immigrants to enjoy access to health services, coverage, and other benefits. The portfolio also supports the rights of women to access comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services. Equity in Access funds focus on 1) public policy, research, and communications efforts to supporting expansion of health coverage; 2) culturally and linguistically appropriate health coverage outreach, education, retention; 3) utilization activities for Medi-Cal and Covered California; 4) research and communications activities to help build the case for universal coverage; 5) project support for larger community health centers and clinics to address health-related social needs of patients; and 6) core support for small community health clinics that provide a broad range of primary health care services to low-income individuals.

The Del E. Webb Foundation provides support to Nonprofit Organizations located in the states of Arizona, California, or Nevada. The Foundation focuses its grantmaking primarily on child, youth, and health initiatives. Priority is given to projects and programs that offer a pathway to self-sufficiency. The Foundation prefers to fund results-based programs that will impact the future of society by allowing it to reach its maximum potential.

The primary mission of the Skatepark Project is to help underserved communities create safe and inclusive public skateparks for youth. Only organizations seeking to build free, public, concrete skateparks in underserved communities may apply for a construction grant from The Skatepark Project. The Skatepark Project Grants Committee primarily considers skatepark projects that are designed and built from concrete by qualified and experienced skatepark contractors, include local skaters throughout the planning, fundraising, and design process, and are in underserved areas.

The Common Good Community Foundation provides grants for non-profit organizations within Plumas County for activities and projects that are related, but not limited to, arts and culture, animal welfare, education and scholarships, senior citizen services and medical services. Applications must include a detailed narrative describing the project and/or services the grant funds will support, project goals and how they will be attained, the geographic area and population that will be served and the number community members that will directly be served.

The Agency Fund invests in ideas and organizations that leverage data, science, and technology to support people in poverty in the navigation of economic and life choices. Funding is provided for projects that pilot, experimentally test, scale, or improve specific innovations that advance human agency. Strong applications will demonstrate: 1) direct relevance to the planning and decision challenges of individuals, households, or communities in poverty; 2) a compelling hypothesis about specific informational or psychosocial barriers that can keep people from realizing their full potential; 3) a team that works at the cutting edge of social or technological innovation, follows an evidence-based approach, and has a deep understanding of the context it operates in; 4) path to scale, a framework for measuring cost and benefits at scale, and ambitious timelines.