 Contact Program Officer Jolene S. Chavira today at (213) 413-4130 to learn more about this topic. |
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The foundation supports quality childhood learning opportunities that promote cognitive and social development; programs that increase parent involvement in children’s learning; and collaborative partnerships among elementary schools, school districts and nonprofit organizations that strengthen English language arts and math instruction to increase student achievement.
Goals:
- Increase school readiness for kindergarten among underserved children.
- Increase K–5 student achievement outcomes and reduce the achievement gap between population groups.
Objectives:
- Improve performance on school readiness pre-literacy and math tests for pre-kindergarten students, especially among children who are low-income, children of color or English language learners.
- Increase K–5 student achievement outcomes in reading and math on both state standardized and local tests.
- Increase parent knowledge of and participation in effective strategies to support children’s learning at home.
- Identify policy barriers to increased access to quality public education for underserved children and English language learners. Increase parent involvement in the decision making and advocacy efforts that affect these policies.
- Increase teacher, school and district use of effective practices that improve instruction and increase academic outcomes through collaborations among schools, school districts and nonprofit organizations. These practices include targeted teacher professional development, professional learning communities, analysis of student data and experiential curricula.
Priorities:
- Efforts that show a demonstrated track record of providing effective preschool or parent education programming to underserved populations.
- Efforts that reflect close working relationships among nonprofits, schools and school districts.
- Programs that attract funding from other public and/or private sources.
- Policy development and advocacy efforts that promote increased access to quality schools (i.e., schools with experienced, well-prepared teachers, effective curricula, adequate facilities).
- Collaborative groups of elementary schools (three or more) that work to improve student achievement in reading and math by equipping teachers with effective instructional strategies and the ability to use student data to improve classroom practice. For this collaborative grant program, applications will be limited to partnerships of schools, school districts and nonprofit organizations serving low-performing school communities and solicited through a separate Request For Proposal process.
Please contact Program Officer Jolene Chavira at ( 213) 413-4130 for more information about this program.
Grantees (July 2007-June 2008)
Organization |
Award Date |
Grant Amount |
Geographic Area Served |
Purpose |
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10/3/2007 |
$150,000 |
Los Angeles County |
Two-year core operating support for a policy and advocacy organization that promotes an improved quality of life for Latinos in the areas of education, health and economic development throughout the Los Angeles region. |
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7/23/2007 |
$100,000 |
San Gabriel |
Two-year city design project with about 1,500 students from the El Monte and Mountain View school districts to allow them both an educational experience in mapping safe school routes and an experience in participatory democracy. |
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10/3/2007 |
$100,000 |
San Fernando |
Two-year core operating support for an early child development center that provides high quality and hands-on learning opportunities for 175 children and their families in the Pomona and San Gabriel valleys. |
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10/3/2007 |
$200,000 |
South Bay/Harbor area |
Two-year support to develop and implement plans to increase parent participation in their children's education. |
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10/3/2007 |
$100,000 |
San Fernando |
Two-year core operating support for a family resource center that provides a comprehensive array of family strengthening and education programs serving almost 5,000 low-income families in the northeast San Fernando Valley. |
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10/3/2007 |
$150,000 |
Los Angeles County |
Two-year core operating support for a national organization that will recruit and train more than 200 college students to provide one-on-one tutoring to 780 preschoolers in low-income communities across Los Angeles County. |
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10/3/2007 |
$100,000 |
Metro L.A. |
Two-year core operating support for a multi-ethnic agency providing comprehensive programs that include early education, academic tutoring, youth development, affordable housing and mental health services to more than 25,000 low-income Latino and Korean . |
| Long Beach Day Nursery |
3/19/2008 |
$100,000 |
South Bay/Harbor area |
Two-year core operating support for an early childhood education center, which serves multiple neighborhoods in Long Beach and focuses on school readiness for 250 minority children of low-income families annually. |
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10/3/2007 |
$150,000 |
San Fernando |
Two-year core operating support for the Los Angeles chapter that partners with schools, universities, businesses and community organizations to provide academic support, teacher professional development, parent education and college awareness and access. |
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10/3/2007 |
$200,000 |
San Gabriel |
Two-year support for a group of elementary schools in Baldwin Park School District to provide coaching and professional development that helps teachers implement evidence-based instructional strategies and use student performance data to drive instruction. |
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10/3/2007 |
$200,000 |
Antelope Valley |
Two-year support to provide one-on-one coaching to Palmdale's elementary school principals to increase their capacity to be instructional leaders by implementing the structures and practices necessary to improve student achievement. |
| Teach For America |
3/19/2008 |
$150,000 |
Metro L.A. |
Two-year core operating support for the Los Angeles operations of a national organization that will recruit, train, place and support at least 475 new teachers in underserved and low- performing schools in the Los Angeles Unified and Lynwood school districts. |
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10/3/2007 |
$100,000 |
Los Angeles County |
Two-year core operating support for an agency that provides school readiness services, parent involvement activities, small learning community models and teacher professional development to 75,000 low-income students and 2,500 teachers in high-need communities. |
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10/3/2007 |
$100,000 |
Los Angeles County |
Two-year capital support to build a child development and family center in unincorporated East Los Angeles to provide child care and preschool and program services for low-income youth, adults, families and seniors. |
Total grants |
$1,900,000 |
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