Part III: Implementation July 2019-June 2020

Background & Vision: Grantmaking and Evaluation

For over 100 years, California Community Foundation (CCF) has worked to ensure L.A. County’s vulnerable young people have an equitable opportunity for upward economic, social, and educational mobility. Vulnerable populations are those groups that have faced historic discrimination, exclusion, and exploitation; and for whom the current public and private systems perpetuates and further entrenches the historical disadvantages across generations.

CCF believes that systems can only change when communities are resourced and can advocate for what they know they need. This new public-private partnership is a very important shift in a system that has historically been risk averse. It aligns with CCF’s goal to build a system that replaces the traditional structures of punishment and incarceration with best practices centered on healing, learning, and opportunity. Going forward, grantees will receive funding for their critical work to strengthen education, mental health, cultural and workforce programs, while also benefiting from training and support to build capacity for growth and success.

- Antonia Hernandez, CCF, President & CEO

This comprehensive grantmaking and customized capacity building strategy aim to enhance organizations’ abilities to:

- Enhance Service Delivery: tailor and expand services to support highneeds youth who are juvenile justice-involved or whose conditions make them vulnerable to becoming justice-involved; - Advance a Positive Youth Development Framework: integrate a comprehensive youth development framework into their programming (inclusive of identify development, cognitive development, socioemotional development, and/or mental and physical health); and - Build a Countywide Youth Development System: develop the organizations’ capacity to identify, share and leverage promising practices to shape a stronger youth development system for L.A. County