Our organization was founded by an independent group of volunteers and entrepreneurs, mainly professionals from the legal, financial, and technology fields. Mirroring the business model of a technology start-up, we extend our reach and services by working with a wide variety of donors, sponsors, and partners.

A typical dictionary distribution is truly a community-wide event, involving volunteers from California Dictionary Project as well as a host of partners, service organizations, local corporations, city government representatives, and civic organizations.

Our goal is to keep, as nearly as possible, 100% of our funding for purchasing dictionaries. To that end, our entire staff serves on a voluntary and unpaid basis. We are actively seeking volunteers for our database who can offer one-time or on-going help with distribution as well as administrative and fund raising tasks.