FIRM is supported financially by grants, contracts and gifts from many organizations, public and private. Our 2024 budget was $3.5 million.
Here is a partial list of those who have supported FIRM’s work over the past few years:
- ECDC (Ethiopian Community Development Council)
- The Urban Institute
- Kresge Foundation
- The City of Fresno
- California Department of Social Services, Refugee Programs Bureau
- National CAPACD: Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
- Anthem Blue Cross
- Kaiser Permanente
- The Sierra Health Foundation/San Joaquin Valley Health Fund
- Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
- Packard Foundation
- Presbytery of San Joaquin
- Presbyterian Women, Presbyterian Church USA
- Refugee Ministries, United Church of Christ
- Many Other Generous Churches and Individuals
FIRM also partners with a number of other organizations that we are proud to call “friends”:
- PICO National Network and Faith in the Valley
- Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice
- Stone Soup Fresno
- El Dorado Park CDC
- Hmong National Development
- Fresno Building Healthy Communities
- Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno
- Centro La Familia Advocacy Services
- Cultiva La Salud
- Jakara Movement
- A Hopeful Encounter
- Fresno Asian Business Institute & Resource Center – ABIRC
- The Fresno Center
- Boys and Girls Club of Fresno County
- Central California Legal Services
- Reading and Beyond
- Laotian American Community of Fresno
- Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum
- Central Valley Children’s Services Network
- California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

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