Cali Dreaming In 2020: How We Fund Inequity Gap Solutions Storytelling
In convening the conversation around economic equality, poverty alleviation, and minority, small business access to capital as a throughline underlying our annual, crowd-sourced grants sprint, we have visibility into impact across a broad impact solutions — and the journalism and storytelling covering California’s working poor. Among our topics: Universal Basic Income (UBI), permanent supportive housing for homeless Californians, and nonprofit microlending for small businesses that have been targeted by predatory lenders.
Turning that visibility and access into real-time data points into a learning lab running through LA and California, we’re pulling insights and storylines connecting the experiments we fund — notably, the next iteration of CalMatters’ California Dream Project, a nonprofit, collaborative media newswire connecting newsrooms and languages across the state around the topic of poverty.
Our support of the full life cycle of “small bets” by providing seed money and microgrants of $100,000 is enhanced by our ability to share what’s working and what’s next in these equity experiments and examinations of equity venture philanthropy. In this session, with our partners and grantees as Opportunity Fund, CalMatters, and the Economic Security Project, we’ll teach you how we do it and how we bring our grantees’ stories together to activate Californians and support our for-profit journalism colleagues.
Suggested Speaker(s)
- Aparna Mukherjee
Entrepreneur in Residence, LA2050 - Neil Chase
CEO, CalMatters