We provide ongoing grant administration services that allows the USC Good Neighbors Campaign office to fund numerous small, grassroots efforts that serve neighborhoods near the university. Because many of these projects are more modest efforts without formal nonprofit status, USC relies on Community Partners to help some of their grantees with administration and basic bookkeeping, and to monitor grant expenditures to ensure that funds are spent as intended. Funds provided to roughly 30 programs are directed through a USC employee giving campaign.

Community Partners is serving as the administrative home for this multi-partner collaborative effort that will direct $23 million in state funding into a wide range of alternative energy, active transportation and greening projects in the Pacoima-Sun Valley area of northeast Los Angeles. Identified as a community burdened with higher-than-normal rates of air and other environmental pollutants, Pacoima will experience important environmental, health, workforce development and climate resilience benefits through this effort. Community Partners is providing administrative, contract compliance and network support infrastructure to ensure the success of this grassroots, community-led effort. The funding is part of a larger $46 million funding pool awarded by the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) to both Sacramento and Pacoima, part of its Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Program. It is the first time SGC has selected a nonprofit intermediary to manage the program.

Community Partners provides human resources services for community intervention workers employed through the City of Los Angeles’ GRYD (Gang Reduction & Youth Development) program. The community intervention workers provide rapid conflict de-escalation responses when gang violence erupts, and also maintain peace-building activities in communities that are not within pre-established gang reduction areas (GRYD Zones).

Community Partners is the intermediary for this $15 million fund, a strategic 4.5-year effort from First 5 that recognizes the need for greater advocacy for early childhood education policies to improve access to quality, affordable early education in LA County. Our role is to make and manage grants in three areas: partnership grants to key organizations to support policy work; field-building grants to enable both traditional and unexpected allies to participate in coalitions and advocacy efforts; and rapid response grants for special projects to address such needs as research, data collection, or communications. We also convene grantees to help them strengthen their relationships with each other and connection to the field, and oversee a learning and evaluation team.