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PropelNext Selects 15 California Grantees
July 28, 2015 In Foundation News, Local Grantmaking

The PropelNext California Partnership is excited to announce that fifteen nonprofits have been selected to receive PropelNext grants and join its first California grantee cohort.

Five foundations—the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Sobrato Family Foundation, Weingart Foundation, and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation—are partnering to deliver the PropelNext three-year program to local nonprofits serving economically disadvantaged youth in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California.

Each California PropelNext grantee receives a combination of unrestricted funding along with expert coaching, group learning sessions, and a peer learning community so that grantees are able to strengthen their ability to collect, use and apply data for ongoing improvement and learning. Each organization will receive up to $400,000 in funding over 3 years from one of the four California-based funders (noted in parenthesis below). EMCF will invest an equal amount in tailored coaching and consulting, facilitated group learning sessions and an online learning community…