Education Grants 2007

Goal: Support families and communities to help children and youth succeed in school and provide opportunities for them to become confident, caring, and contributing adults.

115 grants totaling $2,401,181

Objective: Increase the availability and effectiveness of programs that improve academic achievement, especially in critical foundation skills necessary to master reading and mathematics, graduate from high school, and transition to college. Total: $489,181

AlamedaCounty Library Foundation
To expand the "Write to Read" Youth Literacy Program in Alameda County's juvenile facilities for incarcerated youth.
Fremont
$19,981

AlamedaCounty Office of Education
To develop a Region IV After School Programs Advisory Council/Network and comprehensive two-year strategic plan.
Hayward
$24,900

BayshoreSchool District
To publish four issues of Roaring Tigers, the student newspaper at Bayshore School District's Robertson Intermediate School during the 2007-08 school year.
Daly City
$5,000

Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco
To increase the homework completion rates and academic skills of school-aged children on Treasure Island by providing tutors and recognition programs for academic progress.
San Francisco
$19,900

CaliforniaState University, East Bay
To provide core operating support for the Renaissance Scholars Program for foster and emancipated foster youth in the five Bay Area counties.
Hayward
$19,950

Chicana/Latina Foundation
To provide core operating support to continue the Leadership Institute for Latina college students and expansion of the pilot math/academic enrichment program for middle school Latinas.
Burlingame
$19,900

Children's Book Press
To provide core operating support for one of the nation's premier publishers of multicultural and bilingual picture books for children.
San Francisco
$15,000

Developmental Studies Center
To support the field testing of a new K-5 writing program, "Being a Writer," in the Newark school district.
Oakland
$20,000

East Bay Agency for Children
To support the Hawthorne Family Resource Center, which provides comprehensive education, counseling, and health services for students and families in the Fruitvale District.
Oakland
$20,000

Emery Ed Fund
To personalize and dramatically increase the success of its volunteer program.
Emeryville
$19,900

Emery Unified School District
To leverage the core instructional program at Emery Secondary School with a set of comprehensive afterschool services, including expansion of academic tutoring, enrichment activities, internships, mentoring, and family education.
Emeryville
$19,900

Foundation for a College Education
To support its two core programs: the College Bound Program and the College Success Program.
Palo Alto
$15,000

Girls Incorporated of Alameda County
To support a literacy program that increases the academic and social development of kindergarten, first, and second grade girls reading below grade level at Lockwood, Parker, and Wilson Elementary Schools.
San Leandro
$15,000

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
To create a college access, outreach, and program delivery regional hub for Latino students and their families in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$10,000

KIPPBayview Academy
To support the director of curriculum and instruction in providing direct coaching and mentoring support to teachers and teaching teams in the areas of curriculum development, lesson design, instructional strategies, and assessment.
San Francisco
$10,000

Latino Community Foundation
To support the Latino Literacy Network by focusing on the literacy needs of low-income Latino children and families, sharing best practices, and formulating policies that will be more responsive to the Latino community.
San Francisco
$20,000

Leadership Public Schools
To provide support for afterschool academic enrichment programs at Leadership Public High School in the Iron Triangle of Richmond for students in grades nine through 12 who are severely undercredited for their grade-level.
San Francisco
$15,000

Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program
To improve educational outcomes and college opportunities for 1,500 educationally disadvantaged Bay Area middle and high school students by establishing a network of field stations that will partner with 60 teachers and over 500 parents to provide community-based educational leadership and support.
Oakland
$20,000

MissionHigh School
To support the Athletic Scholarship Advancement Program in funding activities for up to 150 low-income, at-risk, underserved Mission High School athletes.
San Francisco
$19,900

OaklandAsian Students Educational Services
To support personalized academic tutoring, literacy, and leadership for recent immigrants to build self-esteem in small groups so they will have the confidence to succeed in public schools.
Oakland
$14,950

PacificaSchool Volunteers
To provide core operating support and to continue to provide academic tutoring for Pacifica's lowest performing students.
Pacifica
$40,000

PacificaSchool Volunteers
To provide core operating support for Pacifica School Volunteers to continue training and placing volunteers in Pacifica's neediest schools.
Pacifica
$14,950

San FranciscoCenter for the Book
To continue the Art of the Book in the Classroom Initiative.
San Francisco
$15,000

San FranciscoSchool Volunteers
To support efforts to build efficiency by developing a stronger volunteer model.
San Francisco
$14,950

San FranciscoState University, Guardian Scholars Program
To support the Housing Opportunity Gap Fund for former foster care students at San Francisco State University.
San Francisco
$20,000

San MateoCounty Office of Education
To improve the college readiness of young Latinas through direct academic support in key areas and through outreach to their parents on critical support issues.
Redwood City
$25,000

Take Home Book Program
Toprovide books through public elementary schools to families to read to their children and with their children and to provide parent education material on reading and writing at home that is integrated into classroom practice.
Oakland
$15,000

Objective: Ensure the availability of quality early childhood education programs that promote school readiness. Total: $174,700

Asian Perinatal Advocates
To support the Asian and Pacific Islander Early Child Development and Literacy Project for families with children aged 0-3 years.
San Francisco
$20,000

Bring Me A Book Foundation
To enhance literacy and educational opportunities for young children in low-income communities by addressing the lack of high-quality children's literature in needy preschools in San Francisco.
Mountain View
$15,000

Building Blocks for Kids/YMCA of the East Bay
To support core activities of Building Blocks for Kids during the 2007-2008 year, for the replication of the Harlem Children's Zone model in the city of Richmond.
San Pablo
$49,800

California School-Age Consortium
To support efforts in developing full-time positions for the afterschool/school-age care and preschool workforce through a feasibility study.
San Francisco
$20,000> 

Daly CityPeninsula Partnership Collaborative
To improve and develop education, direct services, referrals, and agency collaboration for families and children.
Daly City
$24,900

La Clínica de la Raza, Inc.
To conduct the Early Care and Preschool Education project.
Oakland
$20,000

Portola Family Connections
To support the Child Parent Drop-In and pre-kindergarten programs.
San Francisco
$15,000

Potrero Residents Education Association
To grow the Potrero Residents Association to become a force in reversing declining enrollment in the neighborhood schools and ensure diverse, high quality nonprofit preschool services for all children.
San Francisco
$10,000

Objective: Provide for parent education and family support so that families remain the best supporters of their children's success in school and life. Total: $261,900

AlamedaFamily Literacy Program
To support the Alameda Family Literacy Program in providing regular home visits to approximately 20 families that will supplement interactive play groups, parent education classes, and monthly family events.
Alameda
$14,950

Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network
To support leadership development, advocacy training, networking, and peer support for parents and organizations in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$15,000

ChildCare Law Center
To support state policy work to preserve and expand access to child care that meets the needs of low-income and vulnerable families and children.
San Francisco
$25,000

GoodSamaritan Family Resource Center
To support Good Samaritan Family Resource Center's Roots program, which provides a safe and nurturing afterschool environment for youth.
San Francisco
$19,900

Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
To continue the Family University Program, a parent and student engagement program.
Oakland
$19,900

Nuestra Casa
To support the implementation of Nuestra Casa's organizational and programmatic goals and objectives in the strategic plan
East Palo Alto
$17,500

Redwood City 2020
To support the Parent Involvement and Leadership program at four schools in the Redwood City School District.
Redwood City
$20,000

Redwood City Even Start
To provide bridge funding for Redwood City Even Start while federal funds are being substantially reduced.
Redwood City
$10,000< 

San FranciscoChild Abuse Prevention Center
To support the After School Support for Families program, which will enhance current services to provide coordinated support to low-income children and families during afterschool hours.
San Francisco
$20,000

San FranciscoOrganizing Project
To support its work of engaging leaders in member institutions to win new revenue to develop affordable housing, and to implement effective Get-Out-The-Vote strategies with regard to housing.
San Francisco
$20,000

San FranciscoState UniversityFoundation
To strengthen family literacy programs in the five-county Bay Area by launching the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Literacy Education.
San Francisco
$19,900

Sophia Project
To provide core support to design an outcome measurement system for the Sophia Project, which serves children and families who are stabilizing after having been homeless.
Oakland
$19,950

Treasure IslandHomeless Development Initiative
To support a community health and education coordinator position.
San Francisco
$19,900

Ujima Family Recovery Services
To support the Recovery and Family Education Program.
San Pablo
$19,900

Objective: Support systemic efforts to improve schools and school systems, especially those that help to close achievement gaps. Total: $316,950

Cabrillo Unified School District
To support the Community Schools Coordinator position at Cunha Intermediate School by providing sufficient hours to establish programs and support services for a community school and to begin expanding services to Half Moon Bay High School.
Half Moon Bay
$15,000> 

Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
To increase youth and parent participation in the decision-making process of educational opportunities in Contra Costa County.
Martinez
$20,000

Education Not Incarceration
To establish a staff organizer position and office to coordinate its projects, increase the capacity of existing members, and maximize its base building and outreach activities.
Oakland
$20,000

Fund for Teachers
To assist the Marcus Foster Institute of Oakland in rolling out their grant awards program to outstanding teachers for the purpose of personal renewal, opportunity, and professional development.
Houston
$20,000

Hatchuel Tabernik and Associates
To engage and sustain Healthy Start sites in building an East Bay Community Schools network.
Berkeley
$25,000

LeadershipHigh School
To support the year-long program of professional development for its teachers so that they may more successfully serve their students.
San Francisco
$15,000

New Leaders for New Schools
To close the achievement gap and pursue high levels of academic achievement for every child by focusing on leadership.
Oakland
$20,000

Oakland Small Schools Foundation
To build the capacity to provide more services to principals and maximize the resources available to small schools.
Oakland
$20,000

Parent Advisory Council to the San Francisco Board of Educ.
To improve the quality of public education by ensuring that parent voices are heard.
San Francisco
$14,950

Partners in School Innovation
To support its implementation of the Continuous School Improvement System in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District.
San Francisco
$20,000

San FranciscoCoalition of Essential Small Schools
To provide ongoing support to a cadre of school leaders who will meet regularly throughout the year in order to develop a support network, provide critical friends' visits to each others schools, and participate in a series of guided workshops to explore their own school and student data.
San Francisco
$15,000

San FranciscoEducation Fund
To support the Public Engagement Initiative to engage the San Francisco community in effecting changes in policy to ensure that all students in public schools have quality teachers and a supportive learning environment.
San Francisco
$85,000

Small Schools for Equity
To build its capacity to serve as the key intermediary organization between small-schools-by-design and the San Francisco Unified School District.
San Francisco
$20,000

Youth Development Peer Network
To support the operations of a peer-led Bay Area professional network of youth development workers.
San Francisco
$7,000

Objective: Increase the availability and effectiveness of child and youth development programs that reinforce staying in school and making constructive life choices. Total: $583,450

Alta Bates Summit Foundation
To increase the number of children in Alameda and Contra Costa counties served in the Pipeline Program.
Oakland
$19,900

Architectural Foundation of San Francisco
To expand the outreach of the Architectural Foundation to serve at risk students with a program of partnerships with successful adults and firms, utilizing a non-traditional, design-oriented, problem-solving approach to address both architectural projects and personal growth.
San Francisco
$20,000

Canal Alliance
To support the Youth Education and Development Program, which addresses the academic, personal, and social needs of students in Marin County's Canal Zone.
San Rafael
$14,950

Center for Sustainable Change
To build sustainability and depth into its current project, and begin expansion into neighboring communities and the greater region.
Palo Alto
$20,000

Center for Young Women's Development
To maintain its education support services that work to bridge the gap between jails and schools for young women who have been in the juvenile justice system and/or underground street economy.
San Francisco
$15,000

Citizen SchoolsCalifornia
To expand its afterschool programming to two new schools in San Mateo County in an effort to continue raising academic achievement, raise student aspirations, and spark interest in civic engagement.
Redwood City
$20,000

Community Matters
To implement the Safe School Ambassadors violence prevention program into seven or more of the most troubled, low-income schools in San Francisco.
Santa Rosa
$15,000

Community Network for Youth Development
To support activities of the Afterschool for All and the RecConnect initiatives, and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive workforce development system for youth workers.
San Francisco
$25,000

Community Works West
To support ROOTS, Community Works West's program for San Francisco youth impacted by incarceration in the Visitacion Valley, Bayview Hunters Point, and Excelsior neighborhoods.
Berkeley
$14,950

CommunityYouth Center- San Francisco
To continue to provide comprehensive gang prevention, juvenile delinquency, and parent empowerment programs to Asian and Pacific Islander youth and adults throughout San Francisco.
San Francisco
$15,000

Girls for Change
To continue expanding Girls For A Change's social change and leadership training for girls in schools throughout the Bay Area.
San Jose
$19,900

GirlVentures
To seek support in providing a progression of opportunities for diverse and primarily low-income Bay Area girls in grades 6-9 to develop and express their strengths.
San Francisco
$10,000

HispanicCollege Fund
To support Hispanic College Fund's Bay Area Hispanic Youth Symposium and its year-round activities toward developing the next generation of Hispanic professionals.
Washington
$19,900> 

Inner City Adolescent Network, Inc. dba Peninsula Omega Youth
To support a youth development program for girls who are at risk of entering the juvenile justice and foster care systems in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
San Francisco
$3,500

JamestownCommunity Center
To fund the full range of afterschool and summer youth development programs, including educational enrichment, academic tutoring, sports, youth leadership, youth employment, teen guidance, and parent programs.
San Francisco
$15,000

Juma Ventures
To fund the second phase of its Positive Transitions Program.
San Francisco
$20,000

KorematsuDiscovery Academy
To make it a community school in order to increase student learning, improve health and well being of the community as a whole, and increase civic engagement and leadership.
Oakland
$15,000

MacCanDo Tenderloin Youth Track Club
To support the costs for coaching staff, uniforms, printing and promotion, and other activities for the 2007 season in the Tenderloin.
Vallejo
$10,000

Mentoring Center
To support the search for an executive director for an organization that provides technical assistance, training, and direct service programs for at-risk youth.
Oakland
$15,000< 

Mid-Peninsula Boys and Girls Club
To enable youth within the Bayshore neighborhood of Daly City to succeed in school and increase their opportunities to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring members of the community.
San Mateo
$10,000

NationalCenter for Youth Law
To support the Education Advocates for Foster Youth Project.
Oakland
$22,500

Northern CaliforniaGrantmakers
To enrich and enhance summer programs for Bay Area children and youth.
San Francisco
$10,000

OaklandCommunity After School Alliance
To support the creation of a city-wide infrastructure engaging public outreach, consensus building, and advocacy to ensure high quality afterschool programs for Oakland Unified School District students.
Oakland
$25,000

Oasis for Girls
To support its free afterschool and summer educational programs and paid internships for girls in the Bay Area, supporting academic excellence, leadership development, arts education, technology, life skills, and health needs.
San Francisco
$15,000

Peacemakers, Inc.
To expand the program at Santa Fe Elementary School in West Oakland.
San Leandro
$15,000

Phelps Stokes Fund
To begin planning efforts for the Community Services Gateway Project in Oakland, which will work with ex-offenders and high-risk adolescents in service projects in order to encourage positive participation in family and community life.
Washington
$10,000< 

Presidio Community YMCA
To support the Bike Program, which provides safety skills training, exercise, and environmental education for middle school students.
San Francisco
$15,000

Refugee Transitions
To assist refugee youth in adapting to the American educational system and in achieving academic success by providing services that help immigrant families learn the English language and acquire the life, job, and academic skills they need to succeed in their new communities.
San Francisco
$15,000

RichmondYouth Center Project - The RYSE Center
To plan and secure resources for the conversion of a 6,000 square foot Contra Costa County building into a state-of-the-art, multi-service, multi-agency Youth Center.
El Cerrito
$15,000

Safe Passages
To expand its work within and beyond Oakland to other high need areas of Alameda County, specifically the unincorporated areas of Ashland/Cherryland in San Leandro and the City of Emeryville.
Oakland
$20,000

San FranciscoMaritime National Park Association
To provide scholarship funding for 3,500 low-income 4th-8th graders to participate in the Age of Sail overnight education program.
San Francisco
$10,000

Schools of the Sacred Heart
To support the Western Addition Teen Council to raise youth participation in advocacy, civic engagement, and social and community awareness.
San Francisco
$3,000

SouthCoast Children's Services
To continue the expansion of youth participation in the governance, management, and general operations in San Mateo County.
Pescadero
$14,950

Sunset Youth Services
To support case management services to help youth on probation stay in school and avoid risky behaviors.
San Francisco
$20,000

Vision Youthz
To acquire the talent and refine the skills needed to evaluate, revise, and operationalize an effective culture, mission, and set of strategies with a focus on strengthening infrastructure and forming strategic collaborations.
San Francisco
$20,000

Youth ALIVE
To support the Teens on Target violence prevention program at Castlemont and Life Academy High Schools and Frick and Madison Middle Schools.
Oakland
$10,000

Youth UpRising
To expand the career and education development programming and increase overall organizational effectiveness and sustainability.
Oakland
$24,900

West Oakland Initiative
The West Oakland Initiative supports the McClymonds Youth and Family Center (MYFC), a collaborative of school linked support service providers located at the McClymonds Educational Complex in the West Oakland neighborhood. Through the provision of coordinated support services that meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of students, MYFC seeks to improve student health, well-being, and connectedness; promote a safe and nurturing school environment; and improve students’ academic achievement. Total: $575,000

Academics for Success
To provide academic assistance in a safe and nurturing environment that fosters academic success to students of BEST and EXCEL before and after school.
Oakland
$75,000

Bay Area Video Coalition
To provide multimedia culture and expression activities.
San Francisco
$50,000

Kickin' Cultural Academics into Motion
To continue to build parent/family leadership and authentic parent, family, and community involvement.
Oakland
$25,000

Leadership Excellence
To provide youth at high risk of suspension, expulsion, or academic failure with a series of transformational camps, youth support groups, leadership training, and intensive case management services.
Oakland
$50,000

McClymonds Youth and Family Center
To provide 400 youth aged 11-20 years old with leadership training, educational workshops, cultural enrichment activities, emergency family services, and student-centered learning activities.
Oakland
$25,000

McClymonds Youth and Family Center
To support the oversight, monitoring, management, and administration of 22 youth and family center providers in a special partnership with Oakland Unified School District.
Oakland
$25,000< 

Museumof Children's Art
To support the continuation of its after school Arts Program at McClymonds Educational Complex.  MOCHA will offer programs to engage youth in after school visual arts that foster creativity, self expression, personal growth, the study of cultures, and community building through the arts.
Oakland
$25,000

Prescott-JosephCenter for Community Enhancement, Inc.
To provide core operating funds to strengthen the family support services and infrastructure.
Oakland
$35,000

Streetside Stories
To help KIZMET Academy students share their stories and build crucial literacy and arts skills.
San Francisco
$30,000

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Center for Educational Partnerships
To ensure the continuation and expansion of the relationship between the Center for Educational Partnerships and McClymonds Educational Complex/Youth and Family Center.
Berkeley
$20,000

University of California at San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies
To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the McClymonds Youth and Family Center.
San Francisco
$75,000

YMCA of the East Bay-Metropolitan Office
To work in a collaborative partnership to promote the importance of health, physical fitness, and leadership and eventually create a school culture of team building and community awareness.
Oakland
$55,000

Young Life
To continue the Nikao's Mentor Program, which is committed to providing year-round mentoring through contact work, clubs, and camping, to underserved youth 13-18 years old.
Oakland
$15,000

Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning
To support the Youth Leadership Program that promotes youth input and youth voices at BEST and EXCEL high schools.
Oakland
$40,000

Youth Speaks
To present comprehensive literary arts and spoken word education, performance, and youth development programs during the school day and in the after-school hours.
San Francisco
$30,000

< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.