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Education Grants 2009
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.
111 grants totaling $2,594,760
Objective: Ensure the availability of quality early childhood education programs that promote school readiness. Total: $393,315
Action Alliance for Children
To publish a multilingual,
one-page Parent Voices newsletter in English, Spanish, and Chinese (in
hardcopy and online), on organizing and educational activities for
childcare providers, child resource centers, educators, parents, and
caretakers.
Oakland
$10,000
APA Family Support Services
To
improve the cognitive development of 130 non-English-speaking children,
from birth to five years old, to increase their level of parental
bonding and improve their early literacy development and school
readiness.
San Francisco
$20,000
Bay Area Early Childhood Funders
To
fund the design and distribution of an educational booklet for parents
and early care and education teachers on the importance of play for
early learning, based on the brief "Play in the Early Years: Key to
School Success" produced by the Early Childhood Funders.
El Cerrito
$15,000
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
To
support a collaborative effort with West Contra Costa County School
District to serve non-English-speaking mothers in north Richmond by
helping them to speak and read English and educating them to support
their children and families.
Oakland
$20,000
Coastside Child Development Center
To support the Project REACH program and to help with childcare scholarships for poverty-level/low-income families.
Half Moon Bay
$15,000
Coastside Children's Programs
To
provide preschool children with age-appropriate, creative, enriching
opportunities and supportive adult relationships, as well as to educate
parents about the developmental needs of and proper care for their
children.
Half Moon Bay
$20,000
Compass Community Services
To
support the Tenderloin Child Care Center, which provides early
childhood care and education for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
from homeless and very low-income families.
San Francisco
$25,815<
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
To
develop pre-literacy skills among Latino children, ages 13 months to
four years, and to improve family literacy and health to support the
development of children.
San Francisco
$15,000
Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California
To
build a foundation of language for children (ages three months to seven
years) with hearing loss, which will be the basis for their
intellectual and social growth.
San Francisco
$20,000
Link to Children
To
support on-site early intervention mental health programs at eight
child development centers and the Alameda County Family Justice Center.
Oakland
$12,500
Link to Children
To promote the healthy social and emotional development of children 0-5 years of age so they will learn readiness for school.
Oakland
$20,000
Mission Neighborhood Centers
To
renovate the site at 1337 Evans Street to meet licensing requirements
for 34 infant, toddler, and pre-school slots developed by Southeast
Families United's multicultural collaborative; and to strengthen and
educate marginalized and underserved working-class families in
southeast San Francisco.
San Francisco
$75,000
Portola Family Connections
To
support literacy programming/staffing for Pre-K, Homework Club, and
Summer Academic Enrichment programs, designed to improve children's
literacy skills, increase their enjoyment of reading and writing, and
improve academic performance.
San Francisco
$20,000
San Mateo County Office of Education
To
provide trainings for teachers and parents of preschool English
Language Learners with the goal of better preparing preschoolers to be
eager and ready to learn and to be successful in school and life.
Redwood City
$20,000
San Francisco State University's Children’s Campus Model Preschool
To
acquire necessary materials, supplies, and curriculum for the opening
of this center that will provide care and education for children,
training for pre-service teachers, and opportunities to improve
practice for current teachers in early care and education.
San Francisco
$50,000
South of Market Child Care, Inc.
To
provide core support to bring exemplary, affordable childcare and early
education programming to families, mainly low-income, living and
working in the South of Market neighborhood.
San Francisco
$15,000
Wu Yee Children's Services
To
provide early childhood education and family support services to
low-income, limited-English-proficient, recent-immigrant families.
San Francisco
$20,000
Objective: Increase the availability and effectiveness of child and youth development programs that reinforce success in school and success in life. Total: $569,315
Adolescent Counseling Services
To support its on-campus
counseling program in San Mateo County, serving students and families
with bilingual mental health therapy, supportive services, and
prevention education.
Palo Alto
$20,000
Advocates for Children
To
continue the Academic Success Project designed to improve educational
outcomes for middle and high school foster and delinquent youth in San
Mateo County through individual student and systems-wide advocacy.
San Mateo
$20,000
Aim High
To support program and operating costs for the Aim High summer school program at six sites.
San Francisco
$15,000
Alameda County, Office of Education
To
deepen the work of the five-county Region IV After School Program
Advisory Council by identifying and creating partnerships with
additional stakeholders, strengthening existing partnerships, and
addressing gaps in technical assistance and needed services.
Hayward
$25,000
Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc.
To hire an assistant for the program director in order to enhance the structure and impact of its youth programming.
Oakland
$15,000
California Tomorrow
To
support the Youth Development/Youth Leadership Initiative, which will
focus on youth from marginalized backgrounds and will provide technical
assistance, professional development, and student leadership training
for schools, afterschool programs, and community-based organizations.
Oakland
$15,000
Centerforce
To
provide continued funding of the Leaders in Future Environment Project,
which provides mentorship and life skills development for children of
incarcerated parents.
San Rafael
$15,000
Cleo Eulau Center
To
serve teachers and students in underperforming schools, to help
teachers establish caring and effective relationships with their
students, and to build students’ strengths, resiliency, and belief in
their ability to succeed.
Mountain View
$15,000
Downtown High School
To
move forward academic projects targeting 21st Century skills wherein
students will continue to earn graduation credits and develop workforce
development training and skills.
San Francisco
$15,000
East Bay Asian Youth Center
To support the expansion of community schools in Oakland in order to influence positive social change on whole communities.
Oakland
$25,000
First Place for Youth
To
provide core operating support for this organization, which helps
foster youth build self-esteem and self-reliance and forge the skills
necessary to live independently.
Oakland
$25,815<
Future Leaders Institute
To
expand its work in low-income, low-performing Oakland and San Francisco
high schools mentoring 75 youth to integrate service learning, social
entrepreneurship, and youth development.
Oakland
$20,000
Girls on the Run of the Bay Area
To provide a 10-week health and youth development program at New Highland, World, and Achieve Academies in East Oakland.
San Francisco
$20,000
Hispanic College Fund
To
support the 2009 Central Valley Hispanic Youth Symposium, enabling 20
students from the Peninsula and South Bay to participate in a 3-4 day
event to change their college trajectory and change their future.
Washington
$20,000
MacCanDo Tenderloin Youth Track Club
To support 2009 track and field season for at-risk youth in Tenderloin and other areas in San Francisco.
Vallejo
$20,000
Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center
To
assist in strengthening democracy education through nonviolence
leadership workshops and programming with law enforcement, elected
officials, and civic leadership for more than 50 parents and 90 youth
in Alameda County.
Oakland
$20,000
MetWest High School
To
continue the success of the internship program by expanding the network
of sites and mentors, providing support for mentors to develop skills
working with youth, and coordinating efforts to serve as a model for
other schools.
Oakland
$20,000
Mid-Peninsula Boys and Girls Club
To
enable youth within the Bayshore District 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
Niroga Institute
To
bring transformative life skills to vulnerable students in classrooms
to enable them to lower their stress levels, increase their focus, and
empower them for success in school and life.
Oakland
$20,000
Oakland Based Urban Gardens
To
build healthy communities through in school and afterschool programs in
urban gardening that increase children's knowledge and interest in
nutrition, life and earth sciences, and the environment, and to provide
West Oakland youth with safe and green-rich venues for learning and
physical activity.
Oakland
$15,000
Oakland Kids First
To
create a school-based culture change program that increases the number
of student graduations and improves college attendance rates by
actively involving 300 ninth grade leaders, 80 10th and 11th grade
leaders, and 100 12th grade leaders.
Oakland
$20,000
Oasis for Girls
To
help support program costs of three core youth development components -
Girl 2 Girl, Rise, and Oasis Leadership Institute - and to address the
needs of differing age groups within the client population of
under-served, at-risk girls.
San Francisco
$20,000
Omega Boys Club of San Francisco
To provide need-based scholarships to disadvantaged Bay Area youth pursuing college degrees.
San Francisco
$23,500
Opportunity Impact
To
hire and train college students to work part-time providing positive
role modeling, life skills training, and academic support to youth
growing up in public housing so that those youth are inspired and
encouraged to reach their full potential.
San Francisco
$10,000
Rec Connect Initiative
To
move to the program to the next level, help reconfigure it to reflect
learnings, help it be sustainable, and intensify community engagement
through leadership development for site staff and community
advisory/youth leadership groups.
San Francisco
$20,000
San Francisco Beacon Initiative
To
strengthen the work by developing Beacon Ladders of opportunity,
strengthening families through connection with more resources, and
providing greater accessibility to Centers through expanded evening
hours/services.
San Francisco
$25,000
Streetside Stories
To provide core support to ensure strategic and sustainable growth and strengthen organizational capacity.
San Francisco
$20,000
Tides Center
To
provide short-term support and liaison services to The San Francisco
Foundation's West Oakland Initiative, including the McClymonds Youth
and Family Center (MYFC), UCSF Evaluation of the MYFC, the MYFC Teen
Center, and related investments in early childhood.
San Francisco
$20,000<
Youth ALIVE!
To
support the implementation of a blended young adult and high school
peer leadership violence prevention model, in order to reach 1,000
additional middle and high school students and 3,300 students overall,
who attend school and live in Oakland’s most violent neighborhoods.
Oakland
$20,000
Youth Together
To
help support the development of leadership and organizing skills of
East Bay public high school students in advocating for and addressing
issues of educational and racial justice in their schools and
communities.
Oakland
$20,000
Objective: Provide for parent education and family support so that families remain the best supporters of their children's success. Total: $205,000
Ashland Community Center
To continue to provide residents with a wide variety of low- or no-cost programs and events that are designed to equip them with fundamental tools and skills that can lead to healthy, productive, self-sufficient lives.
San Leandro
$20,000
Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network
To expand and deepen training and capacity building programs, and to implement new leadership development and civic engagement efforts to effectively involve Bay Area parents with challenging life circumstances in systemic public school improvement.
Oakland
$20,000
Community Youth Center - San Francisco
To provide juvenile delinquency prevention and parent empowerment activities to high-need youth and parents through the Parent/Youth Empowerment Program.
San Francisco
$15,000
Family Service Agency of San Francisco
To support the Developmental Education for Parents Program, which provides at-risk, low-income families with parent education, culturally competent and linguistically appropriate support, and intensive case management for those most at risk.
San Francisco
$20,000
Family Support Services of the Bay Area
To strengthen and expand programs serving at-risk families, youth and children, especially the Kinship Support Services Program and OreMi Mentoring Program.
Oakland
$20,000
Holy Family Day Home
To provide core support for the early educational childcare program and family social service center, and to provide ongoing high quality services for 171 families, the majority of which are homeless and very low-income.
San Francisco
$15,000
Oakland Ready to Learn
To involve and include Native American families in school readiness, parent involvement, and intergenerational learning via culturally based education activities, books, and learning materials.
Oakland
$20,000
Parent Institute for Quality Education, Bay Area
To implement the Nine-Week Parent Involvement Education Program that will educate and empower 200 parents to take a proactive role in their children’s education.
Berkeley
$15,000
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco
To support two programs that build leadership and promote involvement for 500 San Francisco public school parents.
San Francisco
$20,000
Village Community Resource Center
To improve the quality of life for Latino families living below the poverty level by implementing a variety of supportive services and activities for children, youth, and their families with components of education, health, and social services.
Brentwood
$15,000
YMCA of the East Bay
To support the core activities of the 26-agency Building Blocks for Kids Collaborative, which focuses on the education of and community outreach to the parents with children ages birth to 13 years.
Richmond
$25,000
Objective: Increase the availability and effectiveness of programs that improve academic achievement and close achievement gaps. Total: $620,000
Architectural Foundation of San Francisco
To expand the
design studio approach for students who were not prepared to pass the
California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) in order to help them improve
their skills in literacy and mathematics through a series of design
challenges mapped to the CAHSEE blueprint.
San Francisco
$20,000
BUILD
To
increase the expansion of BUILD Oakland's programs, which will provide
youth opportunities to study and practice entrepreneurship while
developing academic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and professional
skills they will need to excel in college and beyond.
Palo Alto
$20,000
California State University, East Bay
To
provide continued core operating support to its Renaissance Scholars
Program, in which former foster youth are comprehensively supported in
their college endeavors.
Hayward
$20,000
Canal Alliance
To
provide 130 low-income middle school to college youth with the skills
to succeed in school, build confidence, and become contributing adults
while supporting their families through anti-poverty, workforce
development, and crisis intervention programs.
San Rafael
$25,000
College Track
To
support core services related to academic affairs, student life, and
college affairs for 350 public high school students at four centers in
East Palo Alto, Oakland, and San Francisco.
Oakland
$20,000
Developmental Studies Center
To
provide on-site professional development support in its Being a Writer
program for teachers, teacher leaders, and principals in all eight
elementary schools in the Newark school district.
Oakland
$25,000
Eastside College Preparatory School
To
support its Literacy Resource Program, which serves high school
students who enter the school below grade level, with a special
learning difference, and/or are at risk of not succeeding due to
difficulty with second language (English) acquisition.
East Palo Alto
$20,000
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County
To
support a program that integrates literacy development with other types
of learning and involves guardians and the larger community for 240
girls in grades K-3 in four schools.
San Leandro
$10,000
Greenlining Institute
To
develop a student-led movement for college affordability that spans
across 10 UC, 23 CSU, and more than 100 community college campuses in
California, through the development of a statewide student organizing
infrastructure and massive civic participation and youth voter
registration efforts.
Berkeley
$50,000
Junior League of Oakland-East Bay
To
support a comprehensive academic and social development daily
afterschool program to improve the academic and social development of
elementary school students with challenging life circumstances.
Lafayette
$20,000
Leadership High School
To
fully redesign the school's math program, write a four-year
project-based curriculum aligned to state standards, improve outcomes
in course grades and achievement tests, and prepare students for
college courses.
San Francisco
$15,000
Life Academy of Health and Bioscience
To
enhance the After School Collaborative and ensure improved structures
to develop the leadership capacity of staff, students, and parents;
ensure effective communication across parties; and maintain high
academic rigor during a time of transition.
Oakland
$20,000
Lighthouse Community Charter School
To increase student achievement by implementing a school-wide focus on literacy for 420 K-8 students and staff.
Oakland
$20,000
Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program
To improve academic outcomes and encourage math and science education among Bay Area disadvantaged students.
Oakland
$25,000
McClymonds Youth and Family Center
To support this collaborative of school-based support service providers located at the McClymonds Educational Complex.
Oakland
$200,000<
Ravenswood Cities in Schools, Inc.
To
provide general operating support for program services designed to give
middle school students in East Palo Alto the resources and tools they
need to succeed in school.
East Palo Alto
$20,000
Rosa Parks Collaborative
To
support the efforts of the Family Resource Center at Rosa Parks
Elementary to eradicate the achievement gap, through individual and
group counseling services for students and families and referral
services for health and human services.
Berkeley
$20,000
San Francisco School Volunteers
To
support school volunteers working with 36 priority schools where the
achievement gap for African American and Latino students is most
evident.
San Francisco
$20,000
Take Home Book Program
To renew materials in 100 kindergarten and first grade classrooms in San Mateo County.
Oakland
$10,000
Think College Now
To
support and strengthen its After-School Program, provide targeted
academic interventions through the College Prep classes, and provide
further integration with the growing Family Resource Center, fostering
stronger school-family connections.
Oakland
$20,000
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Center for Educational Partnerships
To
support 300 Oakland Unified School District high school students in
their transition into and through community college; and to increase
the first semester retention rate of 60 Transfer Scholars who enroll in
community college to 80%.
Berkeley
$20,000
Objective: Support systemic efforts to improve schools and school systems, especially those that improve conditions for learning. Total: $807,130
Cabrillo Unified School District
To expand social services coordination and delivery under the full-service community school model at Cunha Intermediate School.
Half Moon Bay
$25,000
California State University, East Bay
To provide core operating support for its new doctoral program in Educational Leadership for Social Justice.
Hayward
$25,000
Campaign for Better Nutrition
To
document Bay Area school districts whose school lunch programs single
out free/reduced price meal recipients; and to educate the district,
state, and federal decision-makers about the harm it does to students'
education and self esteem.
San Francisco
$15,000
Center for Sustainable Change
To
write, publish, and disseminate three educational handbooks; to develop
relationships with and offer subsidized training to five Bay Area
youth-focused organizations; and to conduct media efforts in order to
impact larger numbers of youth, educators, support staff, and families.
Palo Alto
$25,000
Community Network for Youth Development
To
address three critical field needs: educating about the community
schools movement, developing more complex cultural navigation skills
for youth workers, and strengthening the workforce development system
through a demonstration project that will create a professional
portfolio system for youth work.
San Francisco
$25,000
Contra Costa County Office of Education
To
enable all learners to achieve their highest personal, academic, and
career potential through state-of-the-art educational programs and
services.
Pleasant Hill
$15,000
Daniel Webster Elementary School
To
support a full-time Learning Support Professional who will implement
programs in conflict resolution, truancy reduction, mentoring,
non-violent communication, grief counseling, group therapy, middle
school transitioning, and healthful living.
San Francisco
$15,000
Emery Ed Fund
To
provide general operating support for its work to mobilize local and
regional resources to bring increased funding, innovative programs, and
strong partnerships to local schools.
Emeryville
$15,000
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
To provide core operating support for building school readiness and early literacy through its Kid’s Club.
San Francisco
$25,815<
Hillcrest Elementary School
To support the continued implementation of the Hillcrest Community School Initiative.
San Francisco
$16,316
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities
To
build on the successful Academy for Community Schools Development by
developing a long-term technical assistance strategy that supports the
implementation of full-service community schools, particularly in the
Bay Area.
Stanford
$45,000>
Korematsu Discovery Academy
To
support the development of a community school model through
strengthening of community relationships, facilitating home-to-school
partnerships, engaging parents in student learning, and building
collaboration across curriculum.
Oakland
$20,000
Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
To
support general operations for the implementation of programs that
directly support students, parents/guardians, teachers, and principals
of the Oakland public schools and its Open Dialogue: Community
Engagement Initiative.
Oakland
$20,000
New Leaders for New Schools
To support recruitment, training, and program expansion of its school change model.
San Francisco
$20,000
New Ways to Work
To
improve foster youth access to career technical education opportunities
that exist at the county, district, and school levels.
Sebastopol
$20,000
None But Ourselves
To
support its prototype project focused on creating strong, positive
networks of adults and peers to enable students to succeed in three
school communities in Oakland and Emeryville.
Oakland
$20,000
Oakland Community After School Alliance
To continue and improve coordination and collaboration among primary afterschool providers and organizations.
Oakland
$20,000
Oakland Small Schools Foundation
To
support the organization’s work to provide expanded, deeper, and
improved resources, operations, and communications services to 35
schools.
Oakland
$25,000
Partners in School Innovation
To
support a partnership with San Francisco Unified School District to
create systemic improvement in the quality of teaching and leadership
to close the achievement gap and create racial justice.
San Francisco
$20,000
Public Education Network
To
support its annual conference, to be held in San Francisco, gathering
representatives of 82 local education fund network members and marking
its 25th anniversary.
Washington
$25,000
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools
To
develop local school-to-school mentor relationships and professional
development between the school district's matured Small Schools by
Design (SSD) and its newer ones or design teams.
San Francisco
$25,000
San Francisco Education Fund
To support general operating expenses, including its Civic Index work.
San Francisco
$75,000
San Francisco School Alliance
To
redesign the recruitment, hiring, placement, and professional
development practices for San Francisco Unified School District
principals to ensure that every student in every classroom in every San
Francisco public school is given a world-class education.
San Francisco
$45,000<
San Francisco Unified School District
To
provide 30 teachers with the support and mentoring they need to apply
for National Board Certification, the rigorous process that recognizes,
rewards, and helps retain good teachers.
San Francisco
$15,000
San Francisco Unified School District
To
support senior leadership's participation in a year-long professional
development program that is aligned with the strategic plan and
designed to help build capacity to eliminate student achievement gaps
and reduce the predictive power of demographics.
San Francisco
$15,000
Sophia Project
To support the second year of design and implementation of its Outcome Measurement System.
Oakland
$20,000
Springboard for Improving Schools
To
build the capacity of education leaders from historically
underrepresented groups to lead the process of closing the achievement
gap in their districts and improve their opportunities to become
superintendents or other high-level district leaders.
San Francisco
$20,000
Teach for America, San Francisco Office
To support the growth and impact of its new teachers in San Francisco and Oakland.
San Francisco
$20,000
Tenderloin Community School
To
provide core support for capacity building for the Community School/
Comprehensive Youth Development Program, a targeted learning support
system whose purpose is to create safe, affirming, and equitable
learning environments for all students to succeed.To support the growth
and impact of its new teachers in San Francisco and Oakland.
San Francisco
$45,000
University of California at San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies
To evaluate the McClymonds Youth and Family Center programs at McClymonds Educational Complex.
San Francisco
$50,000
Walter T. Helms Community School
To
support the program director position during the strategic planning
period, which will focus on the implementation and program
sustainability of the school as a full service community school.
San Pablo
$25,000
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund
To
provide core operating support in a major transition year to help
maintain essential activities while embarking on a comprehensive
strategic planning process.
San Pablo
$15,000
< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.