March 31, 2025
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Los Angeles, CA — The California Community Foundation (CCF) Board of Directors, with gratitude to our longtime President and Chief Executive Officer Antonia Hernández, announces her plans to retire. After nearly two decades of leading and transforming CCF into a strong, vibrant advocate for Los Angeles, Hernández is ready to start a new journey.
The California Community Foundation (CCF) and the Weingart Foundation announce the launch of the Immigrants Are Essential Fund addressing the unique challenges faced by nonprofits in the immigrant rights sector in Southern California today. The fund was created in response to the findings of “From Burnout to Wellbeing Building a Sustainable Immigration Movement”, a report by CCF, Weingart, and The Raben Group, that found high levels of burnout, lack of mental health supports, and financial challenges amongst staff in the immigrant rights sector.
“Nonprofits in the immigration sector advance a powerful vision of justice and inclusion,” said Antonia Hernández, President and CEO of the California Community Foundation. “We know that to realize this vision, the sector and the people that power it, need to be healthy, strong, and adequately resourced. The Immigrants Are Essential Fund takes the necessary first steps to reimagine support for our community partners that is focused more on supporting the people who provide these critical programs and services.”
The California Community Foundation (CCF) Digital Equity Initiative and Digital Equity LA have released a report today that sounds the alarm on disparities in pricing for internet service in LA County. The report documents the prices offered to residents of diverse neighborhoods across the County. Findings include that Charter Spectrum, the monopoly internet service provider (ISP) in LA County, offers better pricing for high-speed internet in wealthier neighborhoods. While high poverty communities are being charged higher prices for the same or inferior service.
The California Community Foundation (CCF) has named 12 Los Angeles County artists as recipients of the CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists (FVA), totaling $480,000 in unrestricted grants. The announcement comes after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Fellows will each receive an unrestricted grant of $40,000, which is an investment in the artist’s career rather than a singular project. They also receive access to career development support and networking opportunities.
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The California Community Foundation (CCF) announced today its second transformative gift from author, advocate and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott in the form of two single-family residences located in Beverly Hills jointly valued at approximately $55 million dollars. This discretionary gift will allocate 90% of sale proceeds to the Foundation’s affordable housing grantmaking. The remaining funds will be allocated by CCF to support its immigrant integration program to advance opportunities for the millions of immigrants from throughout the world who call Los Angeles County home.
The California Community Foundation (CCF) announced today the 108 summer and yearlong expanded learning programs that will receive more than $7.8 million in grants through the final installment of the LA County Summer Learning Initiative. The grants support learning and enrichment programs for low-income and vulnerable students in TK-12 schools and community-based organizations and will reach more than 136,000 students across Los Angeles County throughout next year, including almost 86,000 students over the next three months.
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The LA Arts Recovery Fund (the Fund) is issuing two Request for Proposals (RFP) to a consulting team and/or agency(ies) to support the following activities: 1. Capacity Building RFP PDF Click to View Objectives Develop range of options to deliver a capacity building program for 90 small and mid-size arts organizations that; reflects the Fund’s guiding principles; and is tailored to the reported needs from grantees Timeline Services to be provided over remaining lifetime of the Fund; Spring 2022 through Spring 2024 Budget Budget estimates for range of options up to $1 million, which includes delivery of capacity building as well as all professional service fees 2. Evaluation RFP PDF Click to View Objectives Develop an evaluation plan guided by the evaluation framework and the need to inform capacity building efforts anchored in assessing the impact of the fund on grantees, and supporting learnings with and from grantees Timeline Services to be provided past the final spend-down of the Fund in the Fall 2024 Budget Budget estimates and/or ranges for professional service fees not to exceed $200,000 TIMELINE December 6 – Request for Proposals Opens December 6 -13 – Collect Questions from Prospective Applicants December 14 -15 – Post Responses to Questions from Prospective Applicants January 6 – Request for Proposals Closes at 10 am January 6-14 – Proposals Reviewed by Committee Members January 18-24 – Interviews Held with Top Contenders February 3 – Team Selected February 3 – 6 – Contract(s) Finalized February 7-11 – Orientation & Work Process Begin SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Combined proposal into PDF should be emailed to laarts@www.calfund.org. Teams and/or agencies responding to both RFPs may submit a single proposal but must address all items of both RFPs. VENDOR QUESTIONS View PDF by clicking here. GENERAL QUESTIONS We will be taking questions from applicants December 6-13, 2021. In an attempt to be fair to all parties, should a question surface that requires a clarification of the RFP process, the answer will be shared with all applicants. We will address them as quickly as possible. Please email all questions to laarts@www.calfund.org.