Fall Updates from CZI’s Community Team

Hello and Happy Fall from the Community Team! We hope you’re enjoying the cooler temperatures, end-of-year planning and more. 

We’re sharing a few exciting updates with you about our wonderful partners and their ongoing work in California.

CZI is thrilled to welcome our newest Community Fund grantees! These 39 nonprofits are making profound, long-term contributions to the local community and we’re excited to support them.

A new CZI blog dives into how our partners support their communities, address challenges, and create meaningful and sustainable change. Get to know the heroes behind Family Connections, Retraining the Village and Redwood City Together.

Our own Rosa Cabrera is featured in CZI’s Stay Close to the Work series, which spotlights staff’s work in helping build a better future for everyone. Learn more about Community’s newest Inclusive Entrepreneurship portfolio, Rosa’s inspiring journey at CZI and how her upbringing as a child of Mexican immigrants shaped her perspective on justice, fairness and equity. 

Our housing grantees, Tomiquia Moss, founder and CEO of All Home California, and Tommy Newman, vice president of engagement and activation at United Way of Greater Los Angeles, talked affordable housing and homelessness prevention with Andy Slavitt, host of the podcast, In the Bubble. During this dynamic deep dive, Newman and Moss discuss the decades of racial and economic disparities that have led to our current homelessness crisis and the solutions we should be prioritizing, including saying “yes” to affordable housing in all forms.

As always, thank you so much for supporting Community’s mission of creating a more equitable, inclusive and just California and being valuable partners in this work! 

- CZI Community Team