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CA Rise | California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) CA RISE Launched in 2023, the California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprise (CA RISE) marks the nation’s first statewide capital and capacity-building investment in employment social enterprises. What is an employment social enterprise? An employment social enterprise (ESE) is a for-profit or non-profit organization that earns revenue through the sale of a good or service produced by employees overcoming barriers to work. Each entity should have a stated mission that they exist specifically for the purpose of providing employment, training, and supportive services to people overcoming barriers to work. Program outcomes are just as important as business outcomes to ESEs. CA RISE provides grant capital paired with technical assistance to support the growth of employment social enterprises in California. The ESEs selected for CA RISE through a competitive grant process received a one-time grant of between $100,000 – $500,000 to support investments related to the sustainable growth of their business or increased economic mobility among their participant employees. CalOSBA administers the program with national advocate and leader in the employment social enterprise field, REDF. REDF provides grantees with: cohort-based and one-to-one customized technical assistance; cohort-based training on two learning tracks: Sustainable Growth and Economic Mobility; a suite of tools and learning modules on REDFworkshop; assistance enrolling in additional government programs (for example, SNAP Employment & Training ) relationship management from a REDF staff member; and peer consulting from other local employment social enterprises. View List of Awardees Learn More California Office of the Small Business Advocate 1325 J Street, Suite 1800 Sacramento, CA 95814 Contact CalOSBA Speaker Request Form Stay informed. Subscribe: CalOSBA Small Business News State Funding Programs CA Grants Portal modal-check Lenny Mendonca Chair Lenny Mendonca is the former chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom. He is also a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School, and chair and primary owner of the Coastside News Group. He founded McKinsey's US state and local public sector consulting practice and led the firm's knowledge development efforts, overseeing the McKinsey Global Institute and the firm's communications including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council. Over the course of his career, he has helped dozens of government, corporate, and nonprofit clients meet their most difficult management challenges. He was formerly the chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, and chair of Fuse Corps. He is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute. He also previously served as the vice chair of Common Cause, the vice chair of the St