Helping To Support Meaningful Change
PIVOT’s mission is to build political involvement among communities who have lacked access to power historically. We support these innovative power building efforts by investing in the infrastructure that is needed to secure policy reforms.
PIVOT is a first-of-its-kind partnership between California’s leading organizations and funders. Together, we strengthen our state’s civic engagement through community work to make government more responsive to the needs of Californians.
California holds significant power and influence over the nation. The state can lead the way in fostering organizing and movement building across geography, race, and lived experience. The state is also a hotbed of civic engagement innovations at the local, regional, and statewide levels.
The Powerful Innovations in Voter Organizing and Transformation (PIVOT) Initiative is a first-of-its-kind partnership between leading organizers and funders to learn and act together through trust-based philanthropy to invest in organizations, coalitions, and networks that are building enduring civic engagement in communities.
We create opportunities for organizations and funders to learn and act together, creating a new form of participatory grantmaking where power is shared.
- PIVOT Value Proposition:
Relationship Building: Increase deep alignment and foster strategic, trust-based relationships between organizers and funders modeled by co-governance. - Powerbuilding Infrastructure: Develop a robust infrastructure for medium to long term power-building at scale to fuel transformative innovations across issues and geography not just during election cycles – but also year round.
- Growing Resources: Fundraise and grant flexible resources that will meet the needs of C3 and C4 power building organizations committed to multiracial democracy
Los Angeles’ low-income communities and communities of color have seen systemic underinvestment in the basic infrastructure that drives the internet, leaving those communities with slower, less reliable, and more expensive internet. CCF’s Digital Equity Initiative is focused on system-change solutions to the digital divide.
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Wildfires have a devastating impact on thousands of California residents each year. CCF’s Wildfire Recovery Fund supports intermediate and long-term recovery efforts for major California wildfires, as well as preparedness efforts.
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Real change for the Black community takes a real commitment. CCF’s Black Empowerment Fund supports Black-led and Black-empowering organizations across Los Angeles through long term infrastructure investments focused on power building and systemic transformations.
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When the nonprofit organizations that make a difference in our communities have access to capital, they can expand services and become stronger and more effective.
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The mission of Back to Eden Global is to address the need for economic empowerment, using entrepreneurial opportunities on the continent of Africa, and throughout the diaspora. It employs educational, agricultural, and ecological stewardship initiatives to activate agency and develop entrepreneurial opportunities at project sites in Uganda, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, and the USA. You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for Back to Eden Global. Checks should be mailed to: California Community Foundation 717 W Temple St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Contributions to the California Community Foundation represent irrevocable gifts subject to the legal and fiduciary control of the foundation’s board of directors. This charge will appear on your credit card statement as a payment to “Calif Comm Fdn – CCF”. In addition, California Community Foundation incurs a third-party administrative fee of 2.7 percent for credit card contributions. The foundation will charge the fee directly to the individual fund.
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