West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center

West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center is the oldest Filipino-led organization in San Francisco, serving the city’s Filipino immigrant and Asian Pacific Islander communities in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood for more than 50 years. In 2020, with support from private and in-kind donations, including grant awards from the city of San Francisco and Community […]

REAL People’s Fund

The REAL People’s Fund (REAL) was created through a collaborative process over the last six years, and because of the dedication of many people, the fund will begin lending to small businesses in 2022. REAL– which stands for Revolutionizing our Economy for all Local People– directly addresses systemic failures that prevent entrepreneurs in Black communities, […]

Central Valley Empowerment Alliance

The Central Valley Empowerment Alliance (CVEA) was established as a nonprofit in 2019 and serves residents who live in Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, and Madera counties by promoting access to affordable housing, quality education, food, and health care, as well as creating civic engagement and leadership development opportunities. For nearly four years the organization operated […]

California Community-Owned Real Estate Program (CalCORE)

The California Community-Owned Real Estate Program (CalCORE) launched the first of three cohorts in April 2021, with 14 community-based developers. CalCORE consists of five key elements that create a comprehensive strategy for increasing locally-owned and controlled real estate with a focus on small and emergent developers of color who are rooted in their community. This […]

Black Cultural Zone

Creating Space for Community Wellness and Creativity “This lot is an example of what happened to our community. A once useful and vibrant space became overgrown with weeds and was a dumping ground. Now, as Liberation Park, this is a space where local residents are standing up and taking ownership of the assets in their […]

Back in Business

Supporting an Equitable Recovery Community Vision’s Back in Business program is a business development strategy to support equitable recovery efforts by providing loans and grants to BIPOC-owned and led small businesses and nonprofits. The program blended together two sources of COVID-related funding: a $2 million grant from Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund Program and […]

African American Equity Impact Scorecard

The racial wealth gap in the US is continuing to grow. This gap is not new. It is generational and a part of the ongoing legacy of structural racism and anti-Blackness weaved into the very fabric of our social, political, and financial institutions. A legacy that permeates the daily lived experiences, livelihoods, neighborhoods, and communities […]