Students in physical education class at Horace Mann Academic Middle School.
The following list of grants are those made or renewed in the
Education program
in the past year. Click on any grantee to view the details.
Future funding [denoted in italics] for multi-year projects is contingent upon fulfillment of the terms of the grant and review by the Fund. The list is divided into sections by category.
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Partnerships for School Improvement To engage parents, youth, and the broader community in activities to improve the quality of education in public schools.
Alternatives in Action -
$40,000
Comprised of a college preparatory charter school, an after-school leadership program, and a preschool, Alternatives in Action helps students who were unsuccessful or unchallenged in other school settings to succeed. The program has a 90% attendance rate, and 80% of its students go on to attend college. Last year, Alternatives in Action relocated to a new Alameda campus with a youth-designed community hub. The Fund's grant helps support program development at this new location. Grant Amount:
$40,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 05/31/2009 through 05/31/2010 Project Web Site:www.alternativesinaction.org
Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network -
$60,000
The Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN) addresses a lack of resources for parents working to improve public schools. PLAN prepares organizations to develop parent leaders, provides technical assistance to family support programs, and teaches low-income and immigrant families how they can participate in the public school system. As a result, participating parents with children in underperforming schools are able to work more effectively to improve the local education system. The Fund's grant provides PLAN with general operating support. Grant Amount:
$60,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 06/30/2009 through 06/30/2010 Project Web Site:www.parentactionnet.org
California Budget Project -
$85,000
The California Budget Project (CBP) produces timely, well-balanced research and analysis of how state budget policies affect low- and middle-income families. It produces easy-to-read reports, newsletters, and briefing papers on the state budget as well as on specific fiscal policies' effect on education, taxation, workforce development, and health and human services. CBP's work is frequently cited by policymakers, nonprofits, foundations, and the media. This grant is funded jointly by W&EHF's Education Program and by its mission-related grantmaking, which is providing general support. Grant Amount:
$85,000
[2008]
,
$85,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2009 through 07/11/2010 Project Web Site:www.cbp.org
Chinese for Affirmative Action -
$50,000
Chinese for Affirmative Action helps immigrant parents actively involve themselves in the educational issues that affect their children. Continued support from the Fund allows the group to improve training and to establish and strengthen the governance bodies that oversee academic programs for English language learners at more schools. These efforts help to provide immigrant students with quality education. Grant Amount:
$50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/23/2009 through 11/23/2010 Project Web Site:www.caasf.org
Coleman Advocates -
$60,000
Education organizing group Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth engages parents and youth in efforts to improve San Francisco public schools. In 2009, participants successfully lobbied for the adoption of a San Francisco Unified School District policy that requires every high school student to take the courses needed to attend the University of California or California State University. General operating support from the fund helps Coleman Advocates to monitor and support implementation of this new policy and to train parents at six focus schools with high percentages of African American and Latino students to become more involved in school-improvement efforts. Grant Amount:
$60,000 [2010]
Project Dates: 04/02/2010 through 04/02/2011 Project Web Site:www.colemanadvocates.org
Community Alliance for Learning -
$25,000
Community Alliance for Learning recruits and trains community WriterCoach Connection volunteers to work individually with students on writing assignments in the classroom. The Fund supports Community Alliance for Learning in planning and expanding its Oakland tutoring program so students can develop their writing and critical thinking skills. Grant Amount:
$25,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 12/22/2009 through 12/22/2010 Project Web Site:www.writercoachconnection.org/cafl.html
KALW Public Radio -
$50,000
Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Unified School District
The Public Interest Radio project at KALW Public Radio explores current issues through the voices and experiences of those individuals most affected. This grant supports in-depth reporting on wealth and poverty and public education. The grant is supported equally by the Fund's Economic Security and the Education programs. Grant Amount:
$50,000
[2008]
,
$50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2009 through 07/11/2010 Project Web Site:www.kalw.org
Oakland Small Schools Foundation -
$60,000
The Oakland Small Schools Foundation encourages small schools to fundraise and develop collaboratively. One of its key initiatives helps schools to strengthen their family engagement programs and share resources. As the number of schools participating in the initiative has grown, it has become more sophisticated, with staff from all schools meeting monthly to exchange ideas. The Fund's grant will help the Foundation strengthen this family engagement collaborative and work to improve academic outcomes for students. Grant Amount:
$60,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 06/30/2009 through 06/30/2010 Project Web Site:www.smallschoolsfoundation.org
Parent Advisory Council -
$45,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Community Initiatives
The Parent Advisory Council (PAC) provides a formal mechanism for parents to participate in shaping education policy in the San Francisco Unified School District. The Council engages parents in the school board's decision-making process, represents parents' concerns, and supports parents' participation in school governance. PAC membership includes families from diverse, historically marginalized communities. With Council support, parent representatives now sit on most district planning committees. The Fund's grant helps the PAC to strive to keep families invested in education. Grant Amount:
$45,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 05/21/2009 through 05/21/2010 Project Web Site:www.communityin.org
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco, Inc. -
$100,000
Many parents find it challenging to navigate the bureaucracy within a large urban school district. Parents for Public Schools has become a trusted source of information and assistance, encouraging families to enroll their children in public schools by helping with the application procedures and publicizing public schools and their programs. In recent years, the organization expanded its work to include extensive outreach to parents in underserved communities. This grant provides general operating support to Parents for Public Schools to focus on organizational capacity building. Grant Amount:
$100,000
[2007]
,
$100,000
[2008]
,
$100,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/27/2009 through 11/27/2010 Project Web Site:www.ppssf.org
Reading Partners -
$30,000
Reading Partners offers quality literacy intervention programs to low-income students in some of the most challenged schools in California. Last year, volunteer tutors assisted 855 students, bringing 64% of them up to grade level in reading. Reading Partners operates a dedicated classroom where volunteers provide individualized instruction to struggling readers using a structured, research-based curriculum and carefully selected books. The Fund's grant helps the organization provide tutoring in Oakland and San Francisco public schools. Grant Amount:
$30,000 [2010]
Project Dates: 02/23/2010 through 02/23/2011 Project Web Site:www.readingpartners.org
San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates -
$40,000
San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates trains volunteers to advocate for foster youth. Each volunteer partners with a child for a minimum of a year and a half to ensure the foster youth receives appropriate education, health care, and legal representation. This grant from the Fund helps provide volunteers with training about the San Francisco public school system and children's educational rights. Grant Amount:
$40,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 12/22/2009 through 12/22/2010 Project Web Site:www.sfcasa.org
San Francisco Unified School District, Office of School/Family Partnerships -
$25,000
The Office of School/Family Partnerships is the San Francisco Unified School District department overseeing parent outreach programs. With support from the Fund, the Office has developed take-home language arts and math activities that parents can use to help their children hone required academic skills. In 2009, the Office will expand its training program to teach parent liaisons to provide families with academic information and support, further strengthening communication between schools and parents and aiding student learning. Grant Amount:
$25,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 09/14/2009 through 09/14/2010 Project Web Site:portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=parent_relations
Small Schools for Equity -
$75,000
In fall 2003, Small Schools for Equity opened June Jordan High School for Equity, an innovative small public high school in southeast San Francisco that provides small classes, challenging curricula, teacher professional development and collaboration, and parent involvement. This grant supports service learning opportunities that build leadership skills, knowledge of community needs, basic work habits, and relationships with adult mentors. Major goals are to full integrate the service learning with core academics, strengthen relationships with mentors, and institutionalize the program. In addition, the organization will disseminate learnings and best practices to the broader education community through conferences, publications, and site visits. Grant Amount:
$75,000
[2008]
,
$75,000 [2009]
Project Web Site:www.jjse.org
Take Home Book Program -
$10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
The Take Home Book program boosts the literacy skills of kindergarten, first- and second-grade students by providing schools with a supply of quality books that are appropriate for reading aloud. Teachers send students home with a book each week. The Fund's grant provides new books, including bilingual titles, for 25 kindergarten and first-grade classrooms in San Francisco. Grant Amount:
$10,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 12/22/2009 through 12/22/2010 Project Web Site:www.takehomebooks.org/index.htm
School Leadership
Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools -
$75,000
Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES) recently shifted its focus from helping to establish small schools in the Oakland Unified School District to supporting targeted academic improvements in those schools. BayCES now trains principals and teachers to use data from assessments to help their middle and high school students become proficient in algebra and pre-college English by tailoring instruction to learning needs. Grant Amount:
$75,000
[2008]
,
$75,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2009 through 07/11/2010 Project Web Site:www.bayces.org
Center for Cities and Schools -
$100,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Regents of the University of California
Center for Cities and Schools facilitates collaboration between local governments and school districts to improve Bay Area public schools and their communities. Over the last three years, the Center supported partnerships in San Francisco, Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, and Richmond with research, education, and policy-making assistance. Projects included sharing school facilities with community members, involving students in city planning, and developing a school campus, adjacent to affordable housing, that offers comprehensive services. General operating support from the Fund helps the Center to extend its program to additional Bay Area municipalities and to deepen its work with current partners. Grant Amount:
$100,000 [2010]
Project Dates: 04/02/2010 through 04/02/2011 Project Web Site:citiesandschools.berkeley.edu
Internationals Network for Public Schools -
$60,000
In partnership with public school districts, Internationals Network for Public Schools operates schools that educate recently immigrated high school students who speak little English. The organization expanded to the Bay Area with the opening of a school in Oakland in 2007 and launched a second public high school in San Francisco in 2009. Support from the Fund helps train leaders and teachers at both Bay Area schools. The organization's skill in sharing educational resources, knowledge, and best practices across its schools contributes to their success. Grant Amount:
$60,000 [2010]
Project Dates: 04/02/2010 through 04/02/2011 Project Web Site:www.internationalsnetwork.org
Leadership Connection for Justice in Education -
$50,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Regents of the University of California
The mission of the Leadership Connection for Justice in Education (formerly the Center for Urban School Leadership) at the University of California, Berkeley, is to train a diverse cadre of high-quality principals to lead Bay Area public schools. The Leadership Connection's Principal Leadership Institute has placed 275 principals, assistant principals, and district-level leaders in schools. A three-year induction program and a coaching initiative give current principals additional job training, and an Aspiring Administrators program recruits and trains teachers considering becoming administrators. Other programs support district-level administrators to cultivate, support, and evaluate school-based leadership, and provide school district leaders with data to guide decision-making. With W&EHF funding, the Leadership Connection will hire a project director to work on continuity planning with the executive director, build infrastructure, strengthen new programs, and create a plan for documenting and evaluating its activities. Grant Amount:
$100,000
[2007]
,
$75,000
[2008]
,
$50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/27/2009 through 11/27/2010
New Leaders for New Schools -
$65,000
New Leaders for New Schools is a national organization that trains educators to become principals who serve urban public schools more effectively. Participating principals-in-training work in public schools with mentors for a year, and then receive five years of intensive support to head their own schools. New Leaders, with help from the Fund, aims to train enough area principals to see a district-wide improvement in leadership so more students perform at or above grade level. Grant Amount:
$65,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 06/30/2009 through 06/30/2010 Project Web Site:www.nlns.org/Locations_BayAreaCA.jsp
Partners in School Innovation -
$75,000
Partners in School Innovation has a strong track record of helping close the achievement gap in low-performing public schools by working with district leaders to plan district wide improvements; convening district administrators, principals, and teachers to guide implementation in all schools; and intensively coaching principals and teachers at selected schools on how to increase students' reading proficiency. Partners in School Innovation continues to collaborate closely with the San Francisco Unified School District in this work. Grant Amount:
$75,000
[2008]
,
$75,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2009 through 07/11/2010 Project Web Site:www.partnersinschools.org/
San Francisco School Alliance Foundation -
$50,000
San Francisco School Alliance promotes change in the city's public schools by building partnerships, recruiting community support, and advocating for policies that advance student achievement. This grant supports the Alliance's first major partnership, the Leadership Initiative for Equity, which aims to improve the recruitment, preparation, and support of principals. The Alliance coordinates the work of the San Francisco Unified School District and key community partners such as the Principal Leadership Institute at U.C. Berkeley and Partners for School Innovation to improve professionals' competence and encourage positive systemic change in the district. Grant Amount:
$75,000
[2008]
,
$50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/21/2009 through 11/21/2010 Project Web Site:www.sfschoolalliance.org
Teacher Quality To help teachers improve instructional skills to engage students in rigorous, academic pursuits.
826 Valencia -
$50,000
826 Valencia delivers instructional support to students, cultivating their passion for writing. Teachers credit the organization with helping to improve both the quality and quantity of in-classroom writing instruction. In 2009, the organization's more than 1,400 tutors provided one-on-one assistance to 6,100 students and 150 teachers. Receiving general operating support from the Fund, 826 Valencia also runs Writers Rooms in two public middle schools. Grant Amount:
$50,000 [2010]
Project Dates: 04/02/2010 through 04/02/2011 Project Web Site:www.826valencia.org
Aim High for High School -
$25,000
Aim High for High School provides summer education for public school students in San Francisco, Oakland, and the South Bay. Students participate in classes during consecutive summers and have year-round access to tutoring and support, better preparing them for future success. The program provides students with creative lessons that they can apply in real-world settings and offers teachers a lab in which they can learn innovative teaching practices. The Fund's grant will support a new math initiative at two San Francisco sites. Grant Amount:
$25,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 06/01/2009 through 06/01/2010 Project Web Site:www.aimhigh.org
Developmental Studies Center -
$100,000
The Developmental Studies Center helps teachers in schools and after-school programs to foster children's academic, ethical, social, and emotional development. The Caring School Community curriculum has been implemented in 20 elementary schools in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) over the last five years. Results demonstrate continued improvement in students' academic achievement, strengthened attachment to school, and reduced problem behaviors. SFUSD is committing funds to expand the curriculum to new schools and deepen its implementation in current schools. This grant supports both activities. Grant Amount:
$100,000
[2008]
,
$100,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2009 through 07/11/2010 Project Web Site:www.devstu.org
Exploratorium -
$60,000
At the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute, new science teachers learn from their more experienced peers, use museum exhibits as instructional tools, and access career-spanning support. More than 90% of Teacher Institute participants utilize resources made available through the program to improve science education in the Bay Area. The Fund's grant helps support the Institute's programs for new, intermediate, and seasoned teachers. Grant Amount:
$60,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 06/30/2009 through 06/30/2010 Project Web Site:www.exploratorium.edu/
The New Teacher Project -
$60,000
The New Teacher Project helps school districts provide excellent teachers to all students, particularly those in high-needs communities. The Project develops customized programs and policy interventions that enable schools to find, develop and retain great teachers. The Fund supports the New Teacher Project's work in San Francisco, where it helps the school district implement strategies for filling vacancies at its hardest to staff schools. The Project also trains principals in effective school hiring, including training in how to identify the best candidates, and provides onsite technical support during the interviewing and hiring process. Grant Amount:
$60,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/23/2009 through 11/23/2010 Project Web Site:www.tntp.org
On the Move -
$100,000
On the Move's Reach Institute for School Leadership (Reach) is a teacher-designed credentialing and leadership program. It emphasizes job-embedded coaching in which coaches and peers observe new teachers in the classroom and provide training them based on individualized learning plans. Reach also is piloting a Leadership Academy to support educational leaders who want to build state-of-the-art schools or other education nonprofits. Grant Amount:
$100,000
[2008]
,
$100,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2009 through 07/11/2010 Project Web Site:www.onthemovebayarea.org
Policy Analysis for California Education -
$25,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Stanford University
Policy Analysis for California Education has teamed with the San Francisco Unified School District to measure the impact of the Quality Teacher and Education Act (QTEA). QTEA increases and restructures teacher compensation. The Fund supports the group's three-year evaluation of how QTEA affects teacher recruitment and education quality so that public schools can continue to improve. Grant Amount:
$25,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 10/26/2009 through 10/26/2010 Project Web Site:pace.berkeley.edu/
Resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators -
$30,000
Resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators (RISE) helps fifty Bay Area schools in low-income communities attract and retain talented teachers. Teacher turnover costs the Oakland and San Francisco school districts close to $12 million a year. Attempting to reduce these turnover costs and benefit students through teacher retention, RISE screens and connects teachers with the high-need schools that will support them. The Fund's grant helps RISE continue in its placement and retention efforts. Grant Amount:
$30,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 06/01/2009 through 06/01/2010 Project Web Site:www.risenetwork.org
San Francisco Education Fund -
$100,000
Recently merged with San Francisco School Volunteers, San Francisco Education Fund focuses on teacher quality, post-secondary school success, volunteer engagement, and student conflict mediation. With general operating support from the Haas Sr. Fund, the organization launches its new San Francisco Urban Teacher Residency to recruit, train, place, and retain quality teachers in public schools. Grant Amount:
$100,000 [2010]
Project Dates: 04/02/2010 through 04/02/2011 Project Web Site:www.sfedfund.org
Teach for America -
$60,000
Teach for America corps members work throughout the Bay Area, having made a two-year commitment to teach in public schools after they finished college. Recently, Teach for America overhauled its training programs so that students in corps member led classrooms saw more regular improvement. With general operating support from the Fund, Teach for America will continue to strengthen its programs, produce more effective teachers and help students succeed educationally. Grant Amount:
$60,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/23/2009 through 11/23/2010 Project Web Site:www.teachforamerica.org
Teachers 4 Social Justice -
$15,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Community Initiatives
Teachers 4 Social Justice is a local grassroots effort providing peer-learning opportunities to Bay Area public school teachers and educators. It operates local study groups for teachers each year, offering each group of attendees an opportunity to improve their teaching practice. With support from the Fund, Teachers 4 Social Justice hopes to sustain and strengthen its work to improve the level of education in schools and to cultivate teacher leaders. Grant Amount:
$15,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 10/26/2009 through 10/26/2010 Project Web Site:www.t4sj.org
World Savvy -
$40,000
World Savvy educates and engages young people in community and world affairs in part by training teachers. In its Global Educators Program teachers learn one-on-one how to integrate age-appropriate, contemporary world affairs into middle and high school classrooms. World Savvy uses the best curricula available on contemporary global issues and creates original lesson plans as needed, including plans for English-language learners and students of varying abilities in each classroom. It is partnering with clusters of 10 teachers and their principals at five public schools in San Francisco. Grant Amount:
$40,000
[2008]
,
$40,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2009 through 07/11/2010 Project Web Site:www.worldsavvy.org
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