L.A. Care Health Plan announced a new $1.22 million commitment to its Oral Health Initiative to support 10 organizations that are addressing the barriers to oral health care in low-income communities.
Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove secured back-to-back grants just in time for back-to-school by providing funds to revitalize economic empowerment and improve public housing in South Los Angeles.
Grants can help level the playing field by giving Black-owned businesses access to resources that they might not otherwise have, allowing them to expand their operations, hire workers and invest in infrastructure. Here are five grants that are looking to propel the Black dollar.
On Thursday, May 30, Community Partners held a special event at Alma Backyard Farms in Compton to celebrate community-based groups who received federally funded L.A. County grants to help in their work combating food insecurity in Southern California.
The LA84 Foundation has awarded more than $1.3 million in grants to advance foundation priorities including increasing access to sports, play and movement across Southern California to support childhood well-being and lifelong success.
SoCalGas announced today it has made a second $525,000 donation to the California Restaurant Foundation’s Restaurants Care Resilience Fund, which is designed to aid small eateries impacted economically by the coronavirus pandemic.
A national nonprofit organization is giving more than $650,000 in grants to help five historically Black colleges and universities to help preserve their campuses.
The Weingart Foundation today announced $8 million in grants and investments supporting organizations across Southern California addressing crucial needs in communities of color.
The investments strengthen nonprofit infrastructure in communities and target resources in addressing structural inequities and systemic racism, according to the foundation, which said the grants and program-related investments are the first round of funding for the foundation for fiscal year 2022.
It appears that some well known organizations are receiving grants and contracts because of their name recognition rather than a verification as to whether they can perform the needed task.
Wells Fargo today announced equity investments in six African American Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) as part of its March 10, 2020, pledge to invest up to $50 million in Black-owned banks.
BSCC Awards $37m in Anti-Violence Grants
From January through July, the 2-1-1 hotline received 256 calls reporting hate. In response the County is launching the ‘L.A. VS Hate’ Campaign. It is a 3-part strategy to bring the County under one mission of unity, create a system to make reporting hate crime easier, and finally to expand the capacity to act when faced with a hate crime. The campaign uses art inspired programs to uplift the unity in a diversified community. Artists are invited to participate in creative interventions to share a common passion with all residents.
With recent shutdowns, small businesses are at high risk of closing for good during this time. Garcetti announced another step forward in helping local businesses and their staff by providing funds, to help solidify their footing during the waves of closing and reopening of the economy. The mayor is working with Council member Curren Price, Council President Nury Martinez, and other public officials to invest an additional 10-million dollars in funds towards the L.A. Regional COVID-19 Team Recovery Program.
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 the city began receiving necessary aid and grants to house people who were experiencing homelessness. The formula that left so many people unsheltered is when trauma meets unmanageable living costs. Over 20,000 Angelenos were housed last year, nearly 430-million dollars of the city budget will focus on the needs of the unsheltered.
HBCU Presidents Request $25 Billion in Aid from The White House President Trump signed an executive order to focus more attention on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on Tuesday, February 28. Although HBCUs comprise just three percent of higher education institutions in the U.S., “HBCUs contributed 19 percent of the nearly 9 percent of all bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering awarded to Blacks in 2010,” according to American Institutes for Research (AIR). AIR also reported that “By 2010, approximately 33 percent of all Black students who earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and statistics attended HBCUs, and HBCUs produced