Program areas at OCCF
Discretionaryin alignment with our mission to catalyze sustainable Community impact, occf continued to direct its discretionary resources toward multiple initiatives: 1) workforce development initiative, $285,000 to connect educational institutions and workforce development programs to in-demand, middle-skills jobs within targeted sectors in Orange County via formalized pipelines; 2) oc veterans initiative, $261,600 toward assessment, referral, transition support, health, and career advancement for veterans returning to Orange County; and 3) oc opportunity initiative, $784,000 toward ensuring immigrants successfully integrate into the economic and civic life of our Community. These initiatives are much more than responsive grant programs. In each of these initiatives, occf is the trusted Community partner with the relationships to both assemble and leverage funding resources, and the capacity to facilitate stronger partnership between nonprofits to achieve collective impact. With a relatively modest investment of our discretionary grant funds, occf leveraged the contributions of a broad array of donors and funders to magnify our collective impact. In addition, occf continues to support local nonprofits though oc nonprofit central, a publicly available database of over 600 nonprofits located in or serving Orange County.
Donor advised and scholarship funds contributions to donor advised funds (endowed and nonendowed) were $91,282,000. Grants from donor advised funds were $90,148,000. Occf also has over 85 scholarship funds that helped more than 400 students with scholarships totaling $1,457,000. Other granting totaled $1,963,000. Occf facilitates customized programs for donors with special interests including the oc social innovation fund and the Orange County promise fund. In addition, we administer two countywide scholarship programs: 1) the hispanic education endowment fund and 2) the avid scholarship program.
Field of interest and legacy in alignment with our mission to faithfully steward the intentions of our donors, occf maintains several field of interest and legacy funds that award grants in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, special needs and nonprofit capacity building. Total grants made through a competitive selection process from unrestricted and field of interest funds were $3,198,000. This included $608,975 to protect endangered species and $384,000 to support the health, education, and social welfare of women in Orange County.