$250K

$250K Awarded to New Door Ventures

First jobs are critical to helping 16-to-24 year-olds transition from childhood to adulthood. Opportunity youth struggle to get and succeed at first jobs, because of backgrounds of homelessness, foster care, justice system involvement and poverty. Over the next two years, New Door will create 600 first-jobs for opportunity youth and provide the personal support and training they need to succeed.

$250K

$250K Awarded to Life Learning Academy

We believe every kid, no matter what has happened to them or what they've done, can turn their life around. At Life Learning Academy, each student gets what they need to choose a different path towards a healthy life. We provide academics, jobs, college access, social-emotional support, and soon, housing in a safe place with reliable relationships kids can count on long after graduation.

$206.2K

$206.2K Awarded to Young Women's Freedom Center

Break cycles of incarceration, exploitation and intimate, community and state violence that girls, young women and TGNC youth of color struggle to survive by developing their confidence, self-worth and economic self-sufficiency to live self-determined, healthy and fulfilling lives while building their leadership in policy change toward decarceration, decriminalization and transformative justice.

$192.2K

$192.2K Awarded to San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates (SFCASA)

Build on our recent growth to ensure every youth in San Francisco’s foster care has access to the advocacy, support and mentorship they need to thrive.

$174.6K

$174.6K Awarded to First Place for Youth

Beyond expanding our Bay Area programming to provide holistic support to more foster youth and empower them with the tools to achieve self-sufficiency, we will leverage our positive outcomes to drive the foster care field to adopt policies and practices that will help all foster youth live healthy, productive lives so the disparities between them and the general population are eliminated.

$149.7K

$149.7K Awarded to 10,000 Degrees

Education is transformative. 10,000 Degrees’ mission is to achieve educational equity and to support students from low- ­income backgrounds to get to and through college in order to positively impact their communities and the world. 10,000 Degrees will double the number of college graduates from low-income backgrounds in the Bay Area, creating a new generation of change agents.