Mujeres Unidas Y Activas

About Mujeres Unidas Y Activas

The defining feature of Mujeres Unidas y Activas is the scale of its support for the California Domestic Worker Coalition: a single 2025 grant of $3,833,615 to the Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund anchors its recent giving. That one award sits alongside a network of smaller coalition, outreach, and education grants to organizations working with domestic workers, employers, and immigrant communities. The foundation’s recent pattern shows a funder focused on domestic worker rights and protections, employer education on labor obligations, community-based outreach, and workforce information efforts. Mujeres Unidas y Activas also funds groups that serve specific worker communities in California cities. In 2024, it awarded $174,319 to Bend the Arc Hand in Hand for domestic employer education and outreach, while 2023 and 2025 grants to Dolores Street Community Services supported domestic worker coalition, education, and outreach work. Other awards went to organizations in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Burbank, indicating a consistent emphasis on local California infrastructure rather than a broad national grantmaking footprint. The organization’s own summary describes it as a group of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women working to build personal and community power for social and economic justice.

What Mujeres Unidas Y Activas Funds

Domestic worker rights and protections are central to Mujeres Unidas y Activas’ grantmaking. It gave $137,782 in 2023 to Dolores Street Community Services for domestic worker coalition, education, and outreach, and $134,838 in 2024 to Idepsca for the same general purpose. The foundation also supported Pilipino Workers Center with $133,886 in 2024 for domestic worker coalition, education, and outreach. Employer education appears as a distinct line of work. In 2024, Bend the Arc Hand in Hand received $174,319 for domestic employer education and outreach, followed by another $86,137 in 2025 for domestic employer outreach and education. Community education and outreach recur across the portfolio. Chinese Progressive Association received $78,295 in 2024 and $60,688 in 2023 for domestic worker education and outreach, while WERC Golden Gate University received $50,000 in 2023 for the same type of work. These grants show a consistent emphasis on information sharing and coalition support.

How Mujeres Unidas Y Activas Gives