Regional Grants
Arts Education Programs
Bay Area Video Coalition
San Francisco, CA
For support of the expansion of a youth digital music production training program
(Collaboration with Performing Arts)
$500,000
Destiny Arts Center
Oakland, CA
For support of dance, theater, martial arts, violence prevention, and leadership instruction to young people as a means to end isolation, prejudice, and violence in Richmond, CA (Collaboration with Performing Arts)
250,000
Mayfair Improvement Initiative
San Jose, CA
For the use of a popular theater as a community-organizing and education tool in low-income East San Jose neighborhoods (Collaboration with Performing Arts)
250,000
Instructional Improvement and Parental Engagement
East Bay Community Foundation
Oakland, CA
For regranting of funds to encourage greater parent participation in the Hayward public schools and in their children's education (Collaboration with Education)
300,000
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
For providing systemwide professional development support to the Ravenswood City School District (Collaboration with Education)
1,000,000
Neighborhood Improvement Initiative
Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula
Menlo Park, CA
For support of an after-school literacy and math program for children in two East Palo Alto schools (Collaboration with Education)
200,000
Community Development Institute
East Palo Alto, CA
For support of Nuestra Casa's parent English literacy and leadership development in East Palo Alto
200,000
For support of the Pacific Islander Community Center's youth programs in East Palo Alto
25,000
For Nuestra Casa's youth program to increase new Latino immigrants' English language proficiency, help them adjust to a new society, and take action in the community
75,000
Fresh Lifelines for Youth
San Jose, CA
For preventing juvenile crime and incarceration through legal education, mentoring, and leadership training for East Palo Alto youth
200,000
One East Palo Alto Neighborhood Improvement Initiative
East Palo Alto, CA
For support of One East Palo Alto's coordination of after-school services at Cesar Chavez Academy, the expansion of its summer jobs program for youth, and leadership of the Crime Reduction Taskforce
246,000
Opportunities Industrialization Center West
Menlo Park, CA
For eight summer employment programs for East Palo Alto youth
620,000
Ravenswood City School District
East Palo Alto, CA
For the Ravenswood City School District After School programs
230,000
Opportunity Grants
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
San Mateo, CA
For an evaluation of the Foster Youth Housing Initiative
75,000
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
San Francisco, CA
For general support
50,000
Community Foundation Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
For the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund
25,000
One Economy
Washington, DC
For improving content on an online education Web site and to support a youth technology program benefiting the residents of affordable housing developments in San Francisco and San Jose (Collaboration with Education)
200,000
Peninsula Community Foundation
San Mateo, CA
For general support of the 2006–7 Holiday Fund
25,000
For support of the merger of Community Foundation Silicon Valley and Peninsula Community
Foundation into the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Collaboration with Special Projects and Philanthropy
San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds
San Francisco, CA
For general support of the Communities of Opportunity program
450,000
San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund
San Jose, CA
For general support
20,000
Team-Up for Youth
Oakland, CA
For general support
200,000
United Way Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
For a project to build the United Way's planning and evaluation capabilities
300,000
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
For an evaluation of the California Connected by 25 Initiative
210,000
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Bayview Hunters Point Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For general operating support of the Bayview Hunters Point Healing Arts Center (Collaboration with Population)
260,000
Jefferson Union High School District
Daly City, CA
For general operating support of the Daly City Youth Health Center (Collaboration with Population)
400,000
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
San Francisco, CA
For support of teen pregnancy prevention (Collaboration with Population)
740,000
Urban Planning and Environmental Education
Peninsula Community Foundation
San Mateo, CA
For the Center for Venture Philanthropy's support and capacity building for fifteen environmental programs in low-income communities in San Mateo County (Collaboration with Environment)
240,000
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Oakland, CA
For support of nine Bay Area groups working to alleviate environmental degradation and resulting negative public health impacts suffered by low-income communities (Collaboration with Environment)
200,000
San Francisco Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For support of the Bay Area Livable Communities Initiative to engage low-income residents in land-use planning and encourage responsible development practices (Collaboration with Environment)
100,000
Transportation and Land Use Coalition
Oakland, CA
For general support (Collaboration with Environment)
400,000
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