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2004 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Education

Forum for Youth Investment
Impact Strategies
Washington, D.C.
$100,000 over one year
To provide technical assistance to 11 district-community partnerships of a high school reform initiative.
 
Markkula Center/Character Based Literacy Project
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
$200,000 over three years
To continue implementing the Character Based Literacy curriculum, document student gains, and develop and implement a business plan.

Project Bridge
Peralta Colleges Foundation
Oakland, CA
$110,000 over two years
To expand community college intake of vulnerable youth, Counseling and support services and provide professional development for staff.
 
San Mateo County Office of Education
Redwood City, CA
$110,000 over two years
To provide math professional development to court and community school teachers.

San Mateo County Workforce Investment Board
Belmont, CA
$225,000 over two years
To implement the Gateway Project, a county workforce investment board/community college  initiative to provide career and educational pathways for vulnerable youth.

Youth

California Court Appointed Special Advocates
Oakland, CA
$115,000 over two years
To train CASA volunteers about the educational rights of youth in foster care.

Californians for Justice
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over two years
For its youth and parent leader organizing work on public education policies.

California School-Age Consortium
San Francisco, CA
$140,000 over two years
To pilot the development of an afterschool career pathway for at-risk youth with Workforce Investment Boards in 3 California counties.

Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
San Francisco, CA
$80,000 over two years
For its organizing work with juvenile probationers on juvenile justice policies.

Contra Costa County Employment/Human Services Dept.
Bay Area Academy
San Francisco, CA
$83,500 over two years
To train county social workers about the needs of older foster youth.

Each One Reach One
Pacifica, CA
$75,000 over two years
To support a diversion program serving 80 incarcerated teenagers at Hillcrest, San Mateo County’s Juvenile Hall.

Foundation Consortium,
Sacramento, CA
$95,000 over one year
To pilot and begin dissemination of a curriculum to train family resource centers to assess their services.
   
Oakland Kids First
Oakland, CA
$40,000 over one year
For its student organizing work at 3 Oakland high schools.

On the Move
Walnut Creek, CA
$110,000 over one year
For technical assistance and teacher professional development for San Francisco court and community schools.

People Acting in Community Together
San Jose, CA
$150,000 over two years
To promote alternative education programs in Santa Clara County for out-of-school and vulnerable youth.
 
Sonoma Court Appointed Special Advocates
Kenwood, CA
$100,000 over two years
To develop an aftercare program for youth exiting foster care.

Youth in Focus
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over two year
 For its youth organizing work in the San Francisco Bay area and in the Central Valley on educational and juvenile justice issues.

Youth Guidance Center Improvement Committee
Y-TEC Academy
San Francisco, CA
$156,000 over two years
To support the expansion of this court school from 25 to 100 youth.

Youth Law Center
San Francisco, CA
$346,500 over three years
For four county initiative to provide comprehensive services for foster youth who are aging out of care.

Youth Law Center
San Francisco, CA
$180,000 over two years
For foster youth advocacy work in Northern California and Washoe County, Nevada, and to staff a state project to reform California’s juvenile justice system.

Youth Services Provider Network
Linking Education and Economic Development
Sacramento, CA
$75,000 over one year
Continuing support for youth development training for youth serving agencies in the Sacramento region.

2004 GRANT RECIPIENTS - GRANTS UNDER $30,000