CONTRATULATIONS COMMUNITY GRANTEES
Contra Costa Together is a growing network of community members, resident leaders, organizations, and systems partners united by a shared belief: lasting change happens when we work differently, together. Contra Costa Together builds on the strength of residents and local/regional partnerships while also recognizing that too many communities—particularly communities of color and those who have faced systemic barriers—have been left behind.
We believe that by centering belonging and civic muscle, we can bridge divides, block harms, heal past disinvestment, and grow conditions where everyone in Contra Costa has what they need to thrive. Together, we are advancing the Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being, which provide a shared framework for ensuring all people and places have equitable opportunity to flourish.
Contra Costa Together Community Grants
As part of this work, Contra Costa Together has launched Community Grants to strengthen the capacity of local organizations, teams, and coalitions. These grants are designed to support efforts that grow belonging and civic muscle — including practices of bridging across differences, blocking harms that undermine community health, healing divides, and expanding spaces of belonging.
Grant resources can also be used to fund projects that advance one or more of the additional Vital Conditions, such as thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, or reliable transportation.
ARTSCCC (Arts Contra Costa County)
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
FIERCE Advocates
Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY)
Love Never Fails
Monument Impact
People Who Care Children’s Association
Prison From-The-Inside-Out
Reimagine Richmond (Richmond Community Foundation)
Richmond Progressive Alliance
Urban Tilth
United Latino Voices of Contra Costa County
YES Nature to Neighborhoods
Hijas del Campo
How They Will Use the Grant
The grant will expand a set of community-developed supports for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, including wellness workshops, culturally rooted mental health circles, and leadership development for workers who want to advocate for safer conditions. Funds also strengthen their peer educator model, where trusted workers receive training to conduct outreach, connect families to essential resources, and help shape program priorities across East Contra Costa’s agricultural communities.
Who the Grant Serves
Low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers, immigrant families, rural workers, and Spanish-speaking residents who face language and resource barriers.
How Community Voices Are Centered
Programming is led by farmworkers themselves through listening sessions, worker-led committees, and direct input that drives the services offered and how they are delivered. Decisions are made by those closest to the conditions being addressed.
Impact
By strengthening leadership and improving access to care for agricultural workers who have long faced structural barriers, this initiative supports healthier, more stable communities across the region. It helps close persistent gaps in wellbeing by investing directly in those who have historically had the least access to resources and support.
Age/Demographic
Adult (25-64) / Immigrant and farmworker community members
Region
East County