Donate4Sacramento COVID-19 Regional Response Fund Awards

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
$15,000.00
To provide small grants to Filipino elderly, students, youth, migrant workers, frontline workers and others regardless of immigration status. The fund will assist with covering basic needs for kababayan (countrymen) who are experiencing the greatest need.

Center for Workers’ Rights
$40,000.00
To provide the Coronavirus Job Protection Helpline to answer questions and concerns from Sacramento residents whose jobs have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, at no charge, regardless of income level or immigration status.

First Step Communities
$15,000.00
To add a sleeping area in the services building to remove and place the medically vulnerable out of the main shelter.

Hire Hope Learning Academy (Fiscal Lead for Sacramento NAACP)
$10,000.00
To train members of the black communities to sew with the intention to produce and distribute face masks for communities of color in Sacramento.

Hmong Youth and Parents United
$22,500.00
To distribute culturally appropriate food items and essential supplies from April through June to Hmong and Southeast Asian families in North Sacramento and South Sacramento.

Philippine National Day Association
$10,000.00
To provide small grants to Filipino elderly, students, youth, migrant workers, frontline workers, and others regardless of immigration status. The fund assists with covering basic needs for our kababayan (countrymen) who are experiencing the greatest need.

PRO Youth and Families, Inc.
$15,000
To deploy relief efforts through the Fruitridge Community Collaborative in the South Oak Park neighborhood. This grant will assist in meeting the essential needs of those in the neighborhood most impacted by COVID-19.

Sacramento Area Congregations Together
$45,000
To provide emergency essential services such as rent, utility and food assistance to families affected by COVID-19, specifically targeting immigrant, undocumented, low-wage and uninsured communities.

Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce
$240,875.91
To provide grant support to minority-owned small businesses to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses and their employees.

Sacramento City Unified School District
$25,000.00
To provide stipends to essential lower-paid frontline workers who continue to physically report to work through the COVID-19 pandemic to serve students’ needs.

Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services
$169,134.00
To purchase food that is distributed through Black Child Legacy Campaign Community Incubator Leads.

Sacramento Region Community Foundation
$226,992.77
To deploy flexible resources to nonprofits impacted by COVID-19 or working with communities impacted by COVID-19.

Sacramento Steps Forward
$233,952.18
To provide services through area nonprofits to unhoused Sacramentans, such as emergency shelters, hygiene stations and other solutionsto meet their needs, with an emphasis on encampments.

United Way California Capital Region
$285,332.66
To provide family support grants in the amount of $500 to provide childcare, meals, rental assistance and other essential resources for families whose lives have been disrupted by COVID-19.

Voice of the Youth
$20,000.00
To purchase and distribute healthy food for the vulnerable populations in Sacramento. Food is packaged and distributed using all COVID-19 safety precautions.