Chicanos Por La Causa Inc. This grant will enable Chicanos Por La Causa to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through their previous HEH grant, the organization implemented a Tenant Health and Housing Policy Academy to determine policy priorities of tenants. View Website Amount $40,000 Year 2022 Location Phoenix Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Maricopa County Department of Human Services This financial amendment will support the organization's continued work to advance racial equity and anti-racist work driven by a focus on social and economic mobility from one generation to the next. View Website Amount $10,000 Year 2020 Location Phoenix, Arizona Program Human Services Focus Area
Mijente With this grant, Mijente will build and scale campaigns on police and immigration enforcement and accountability to influence police reform in key cities; support its network with policy strategy and analysis, strategic communications and technical assistance to strengthen local organizing and campaigns; create a support network for Latinx families that have lost loved ones to police violence; increase Afro-Latinx leadership and representation within the organization; and engage in peer learning through a network of place-based and national racial justice organizations. Launched in 2015, Mijente builds the political power of Latinx and Chicanx communities seeking racial, economic, gender and climate justice through civic engagement, advocacy campaigns, narrative and culture shift, and leadership development. View Website Amount $375,000 Year 2020 Location Phoenix, AZ Program Focus Area
Arizona State University Foundation The foundation is serving as the fiscal sponsor and coordinator of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), a coalition of 11 public universities. This grant will provide general operating support to enable the UIA's membership expansion in 2020-2021. View Website Amount $350,000 Year 2020 Location Tempe, Ariz. Program Education Focus Area
Mijente This grant supports Mijente, a national civil rights and advocacy organization, to advance non-partisan civic education, engagement, and voter mobilization for underrepresented Latinx voters during the 2020 election cycle. View Website Amount $75,000 Year 2019 Location Phoenix, AZ Program Focus Area
Chicanos Por La Causa Inc. CPLC's mission is to drive economic and political empowerment, and offers the promise of opportunity through four core service areas: Housing, Economic Development, Health and Human Services and Education. With this funding, CPLS will convene a cross-sector table to drive investment in affordable housing as a health intervention in Maricopa County, Arizona. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2019 Location Phoenix Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Maricopa County Department of Human Services This grant will support Maricopa County Human Services Department to institutionalize a two-generation whole family approach across all its divisions by expanding the use of its family-centered coaching model and improving service delivery coordination across the agency. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2019 Location Phoenix, Arizona Program Human Services Focus Area Fostering the Next Generation of Human Services Organizations
Arizona State University Foundation Geography Served: Phoenix, Arizona Project: This grant supports Arizona State University (ASU) in the development of Creative Placemaking research and learning resources. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2018 Location Tempe, Ariz. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Arizona State University Foundation The foundation is serving as the fiscal sponsor and coordinator of the University Innovation Alliance, a coalition of 11 public universities. This two-year grant will be used to design and host a national convening, as well as develop an approach to expanding the alliance’s work in the higher education ecosystem. View Website Amount $1 million Year 2017 Location Tempe, Ariz. Program Education Focus Area Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success
Arizona Community Foundation Geography Served: Washington, D.C. Project: The foundation provides high-impact giving opportunities for donors, major funding for nonprofits and students and leadership around key community issues. This grant supports the Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce, a fiscally sponsored project of the foundation that mobilizes funders to improve the economic well-being of low-income families. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2017 Location Phoenix, Ariz. Program Human Services Focus Area Developing Supportive, Aligned Public Policy
Arizona State University Foundation Geography Served: Tempe, AZ Project: This grant will allow Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct an 18-month planning process to explore the feasibility of developing a Creative Placemaking Institute. View Website Amount $610,000 Year 2016 Location Tempe, Ariz. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Arizona Community Foundation Geography Served: Phoenix, Ariz. Project: The foundation provides high-impact giving opportunities for donors, major funding for nonprofits and students and leadership around key community issues. This grant supports the Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce, a fiscally sponsored project of the foundation that mobilizes funders to improve the economic well-being of low-income families. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2015 Location Phoenix, Ariz. Program Human Services Focus Area
Pima County Community Development and Neighborhood Conservation Part of Pima County’s Community and Economic Development, the agency works to improve the quality of life for residents, particularly in economically and socially disadvantaged communities. This grant covers consulting services to help develop a “Pay for Success” model for human services programs. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2014 Location Tucson, Ariz. Program Human Services Focus Area
Arizona State University Foundation The foundation is serving as the fiscal sponsor and coordinator of the University Innovation Alliance, a coalition of 11 public universities. This three-year grant underwrites the establishment and work of the alliance, which seeks to reshape the future of higher education by improving low-income and minority students’ educational attainment and economic prospects. View Website Amount $1 million Year 2014 Location Tempe, Ariz. Program Education Focus Area
North Country Healthcare Inc. One-third of North Country’s patients are uninsured, working poor, making it an important provider of full-spectrum medical and dental services to underserved residents in nine rural communities. This grant supports the development and advancement of the “Hermosa Vida”project, a collaborative initiative to provide low-income children with access to health information, fitness programs, nutrition counseling and healthy lifestyle supports, as part of the Safety-Net Enhancement Initiative, a cohort of eight communities around the country addressing health disparities through multi-sector collaboration. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2014 Location Flagstaff, Ariz. Program Health Focus Area
Sky Island Alliance The grassroots organization is dedicated to protecting and restoring the rich natural heritage of native species and habitats in the Sky Island region of the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The alliance is using this funding to implement a comprehensive, collaborative climate change adaptation strategy for the region, in partnership with academic, tribal, governmental and environmental advocacy partners. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2013 Location Tucson, Ariz. Program Environment Focus Area
Chicanos Por La Causa Inc. Committed to serving low-income urban and rural residents, the community-development corporation offers holistic social and human-services programs in addition to housing and economic-development assistance. Hurt by the economic downturn and government cutbacks, the agency is using this 36-month bridge loan from the Community Relief Fund – which offered program-related investments to high-performance human-service organizations that were providing food, shelter and other emergency services during the economic crisis – to help cover its current operating expenses. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2009 Location Phoenix Program Human Services Focus Area
Tucson Center for Women and Children Each year, more than 2,600 women and children who are victims of domestic abuse receive crisis and renewal shelter, education and counseling, case management and referrals, lay legal advocacy, and other assistance through the Tucson Center, now called Emerge! This 36-month bridge loan from the Community Relief Fund, which offered program-related investments to high-performance human-service organizations that were providing food, shelter, and other emergency services during the economic crisis, helps to maintain 120 shelter beds while a new program model is implemented. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2009 Location Tucson, Ariz. Program Human Services Focus Area
St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance In partnership with 500 human-service organizations, the alliance distributes more than 43 million pounds of food while promoting awareness, advocacy, and education to help eliminate hunger. The challenge-grant funded expansion and renovation of the Thomas Road facility provides space for the Kid’s Café, Community Kitchen, and agency food selection and distribution program. View Website Amount $1,000,000 Year 2009 Location Phoenix Program Human Services Focus Area
Sojourner Center With its 30-year track record, the center has proven to be a leader in developing long-term programs that extend beyond crisis intervention to help domestic-violence victims move forward in their lives. Grant funding enables the organization to maintain the services offered by its emergency shelter and transitional and supportive housing. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2009 Location Phoenix Program Human Services Focus Area