Through its grantmaking, the Rosenberg Foundation supports leadership development, policy advocacy and grassroots organizing to dismantle barriers to opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color through the following priority areas.
2025-2027 Leading Edge Fellows
The Leading Edge Fund is a $2 million fund created to seed, incubate and accelerate bold ideas from the next generation of progressive movement leaders in California.
Learn more >Justice & Public Safety
Criminal justice reform is one of the most urgent civil rights issues of our day.
Learn more >Immigrant Rights & Workers’ Rights
An estimated 10 million immigrants, or a quarter of the population, call California home.
Learn more >Civil Rights & Civic Engagement
As recent events around the country have demonstrated, the nation’s work in civil rights is far from finished.
Learn more >How to Apply
The Rosenberg Foundation currently makes grants in four priority areas – Leading Edge Fund, Justice and Public Safety, Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Workers’ Rights, and Civil Rights and Civic Participation.
Learn more about our grantmaking process