San Diego's Small Business Relief Grant Fund
Due to COVID19, tens of thousands of San Diego businesses have had to close their operations, impacting the region’s economy in a critical way. More than 98% of businesses in San Diego have less than 100 employees—these are the businesses we know and love that need our assistance to help sustain their employees and keep their doors open. At Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s urging to provide grants and micro loans to small businesses impacted by COVID-19, the City of San Diego allocated $6 million to create the Small Business Relief Fund, to provide certainty and offer financial support businesses...

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Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs: Arts Emergency Relief Fund, Round Two for Artists and Small Ensembles
COVID-19 has had an unanticipated impact on Los Angeles artists and small arts groups who had planned public performances, only to have those events canceled in a city-wide effort to slow the spread of the virus. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and Community Partners aim to provide relief to this spectrum of LA-based performing artists who were financially affected by this disruption through Round Two of this emergency grant relief opportunity. Solo artists may request up to $400, and ensembles may request up to $1,200. Small ensembles must consist of no more than...

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California Immigrant Resilience Fund
The California Immigrant Resilience Fund provides direct cash assistance to immigrant Californians who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but are excluded from federal relief and ineligible for state safety-net programs. Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), a network of foundations focused on immigration issues, has committed to raising $50 million to support direct financial assistance to families of undocumented immigrants through the California Immigrant Resilience Fund, with initial lead investments of $5.5 million from Emerson Collective, Blue Shield of...

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Amalgamated Foundation: Families and Workers Fund
The Ford Foundation, Schmidt Futures, Open Society Foundations, The JPB Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Amalgamated Foundation, and others are partnering to create a rapid response fund dedicated to helping the workers, families, and communities most devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. With initial commitments over $7 million, the fund ultimately aims to raise $20 million to provide flexible funding to organizations working to prevent workers and families from sinking deeper into poverty during the initial months of the pandemic, and to support policy and...

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San Diego Arts & Culture Challenge Fund
The San Diego Arts + Culture Challenge Fund offers financial support to the individuals and organizations that make up San Diego County's creative workforce. Undertaken as a collaborative effort to support San Diego’s creative sector, the Fund is being launched by a cohort of local leaders and advocates committed to the health and recovery of the sector, including The San Diego Foundation, Clare Rose Foundation, San Diego Regional Arts and Culture Coalition, and the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture. The aim of the fund is to help stabilize the creative sector and lessen...

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MHF Immigrant Relief Fund
The Minority Humanitarian Foundation Covid -19 Immigrant Family Relief Fund provides grants of $250 for immigrants in San Diego County who have lost all or part of their income due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some immigrant workers are ineligible for certain federal and state benefits such as unemployment and food stamps. It is their goal to help the community members who most need these services. MHF has pledged $5,000 to the MHF Immigrant Relief Fund and one of their supporters has already matched our commitment, bringing the current fund to $10,000, enough for 40 individual one-time...

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Indigenous Environmental Network: COVID-19 Emergency Mutual Aid Fund
This rapid response support will be extended to community-based Indigenous peoples and organizations from the U.S. and Canada (Central and South America on a case-by-case basis), WHO EITHER ARE HELPING THE COMMUNITY WITH TRANSPORTATION AND ESSENTIAL NEEDS OR WHO HAVE LOST THEIR PRIMARY INCOME FROM A HOME BUSINESS. These small grants of UP to $2,000 are being offered to assist with the following 3 situations: FOR GROUPS/ORGANIZATIONS ONLY, WHO ARE HELPING OTHERS: Purchase of essential provisions: food, water, medication, diapers, cleaning supplies, pet food, etc. FOR GROUPS/ORGANIZATIONS ONLY...

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Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People, Inc.: COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund
We are raising and mobilizing funds for the Flicker Fund to direct critical resources to the most vulnerable in our already challenged communities. The Flicker Fund provides direct grant support to stressed Indigenous communities on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, where some are already facing issues of hunger, lack of access to water, and unable to secure basic hygiene and material supplies needed for everyday life. As the grandmother of Native philanthropy, our organization is a trusted entity that anchors the Indigenous movement and that generates and re-distributes support to...

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Native American Community Response Fund: COVID-19 Rapid Response Support
Native American Community Response Fund is a rapid response fund working to deploy trust-based funding to Native-led organizations serving individuals and families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, funding was focused on supporting the 78% of Native Americans that reside off-reservations – in urban centers, where the pandemic is having higher rates of infection. These 1.2 million individuals reside in 13 metropolitan areas and often do not benefit from federal benefits directed towards tribal communities. As the pandemic has spread to tribal communities, we are expanding our...

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