About Us

The Community Leadership Project is a joint effort funded by three California foundations to strengthen grassroots organizations that serve low-income communities and communities of color. The David and Lucile Packard, James Irvine, and William and Flora Hewlett foundations have long traditions of supporting diverse and low-income communities and, despite the impact of the current economic downturn on our assets, believe that such grantmaking remains critical to our missions.

Underwritten with $10 million from the three foundations, the Community Leadership Project targets small and midsized organizations in three geographic areas: the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, and San Joaquin Valley. The funders selected the three regions based on interviews with a diverse group of leaders across the state, an analysis of demographic shifts and poverty rates, as well as the geographic priorities of each foundation.

The Project was launched in April 2009 and will continue through December 2012.

See a map of the target counties and the organizations serving these areas:

View the Community Leadership Project's geographic reach in a larger map