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Grants During Fiscal 2008
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$10,000 | Funding supports the Food is Treatment Program, which includes 2 hot meals per day with adequate protein for indigent clientele at Vital Life's center in Oakland. | |||
| Alameda County Meals on Wheels | $10,000 | Funding supports ACMOW's collaborations with six county Meals on Wheels programs, and helps underwrite food and delivery costs. | |||
| Axis Community Health, Inc. | $15,000 | Funding will increase the capacity to provide health care services for low-income women and children who have no other access to health care in eastern Alameda County. | |||
| First Graduate | $15,000 | Funding supports case managers who work with students, families, tutors, mentors, and teachers and to ensure disadvantaged students will become college graduates. | |||
| Bay Area Legal Aid | $10,000 | Funding supports the Legal Advice Line which provides free legal advice in six languages to low-income Bay Area residents. | |||
| The Bread Project | $10,000 | Funding supports free culinary training and job referral assistance so low-income people can secure employment to support themselves and their families. | |||
| Centro Legal de la Raza | $10,000 | Funding supports Mujeres Tomando Pasos, the only bilingual immigration legal project in the East Bay for women and children who are survivors of domestic violence. | |||
| Charles Armstrong School | $15,000 | Funding provides tuition for low-income students who have profound difficulties with processing language. | |||
| Community Awareness and Treatment Services, Inc. | $15,000 | Funding supports A Woman's Place, a supportive and transitional refuge for chronically homeless women with special needs. | |||
| Compass Community Services | $15,000 | Funding will provide care for homeless and low-income families at the Tenderloin Childcare Center. | |||
| Contra Costa Alternative School dba Holden High School | $10,000 | Funding support the Transition Counseling program, which assists students with adjustment challenges in planning and transitioning into college, vocational programs, and/or employment. | |||
| Court Appointed Special Advocates | $10,000 | Funding supports community volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children, and assists the court in making more informed decisions in Contra Costa County. | |||
| Deaf Counseling Advocacy & Referral Agency | $10,000 | Funding supports DCARA's programs including independent living skills development, job development, community education, and legal services. | |||
| Dolores Street Community Services | $10,000 | Funding supports the Dolores Housing Program, which offers housing and social services to homeless day laborers in San Francisco. | |||
| East Oakland Community Project | $10,000 | Funding supports the Family Empowerment Program, which provides life skills, career development, and children's activities in order to strengthen homeless families. | |||
| Emergency Shelter Program, Inc. | $20,000 | Funding supports the Preschool Program, which helps increase children's readiness for kindergarten and lessens the learning achievement gap that children from distressed neighborhoods often experience. | |||
| Family Emergency Shelter Coalition (FESCO) | $15,000 | Funding supports transitional housing and support services for homeless families with children at Banyan House. | |||
| Fred Finch Youth Center | $10,000 | Funding supports the Turning Point Program, which provides job preparation services for homeless young adults in Alameda County. | |||
| French-American International School | $10,000 | Funding supports need-based student scholarships. | |||
| Greater New Beginnings Youth Services, Inc. | $10,000 | Funding supports the academic and enrichment program offered to judicially involved youth in a residential setting. | |||
| Head-Royce School | $10,000 | Funding supports need-based scholarships. | |||
| Head Royce School/Heads Up | $10,000 | Funding provides scholarships for a six-week summer academic enrichment camp for financially disadvantaged middle school students in Oakland. | |||
| Henry Ohlhoff House dba Ohlhoff Recovery Programs | $15,000 | Funding supports adolescent treatment programs, which serve primarily low-income and minority youth from San Francisco and Marin County. | |||
| Holy Family Day Home | $10,000 | Funding supports childcare costs for working poor and homeless families. | |||
| A Home Away From Homelessness | $15,000 | Funding supports after-school programs for homeless youth in San Francisco. | |||
| Homeless Prenatal Program | $15,000 | Funding supports the Community Health Worker Training Program, which prepares unemployed, formerly homeless women as they transition from welfare to work. | |||
| Huckleberry Youth Programs | $15,000 | Funding supports Health Education Services, which includes health education workshops in schools and community centers, community outreach, and one-on-one presentations. | |||
| Insight Prison Project | $15,000 | Funding provides general operating support to help break the cycle of recidivism among San Quentin parolees. | |||
| The Janet Pomeroy Center | $5,000 | Funding supports the Recreation Program for Children and Teens with Developmental Disabilities. | |||
| JobTrain | $15,000 | Funding supports general operating costs for the adult and youth vocational training and upgrade training programs. | |||
| Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, Inc. | $20,000 | Funding supports the Super Stars Literacy Program, which aids children in kindergarten through second grade who have significant delays in reading development. | |||
| La Casa de las Madres | $15,000 | Funding provides general operating support to help meet the immediate and ongoing needs of survivors of domestic violence. | |||
| Larkin Street Youth Services | $20,000 | Funding supports Together Assisting Street Kids (TASK), which provides housing, healthcare, education, and employment services to homeless and runaway youth in San Francisco. | |||
| Latina Breast Cancer Agency | $10,000 | Funding supports Mujeres Cuidando Mujeres/Women Caring for Women program, which offers education and prevention treatment services for low-income, mostly mono-lingual Spanish speaking women with little or no medical insurance. | |||
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area | $15,000 | Funding supports Legal Services for Entrepreneurs: Empowering Low-Income Communities, an economic justice program that assists low-to moderate-income entrepreneurs in developing businesses in disadvantaged neighborhoods. | |||
| Legal Community Against Violence | $15,000 | Funds will help LCAV conduct audits of gun laws for several Bay Area local governments seeking effective regulatory strategies to reduce gun-related injuries and deaths. | |||
| Link to Children, The | $20,000 | Funding supports the early intervention mental health program, designed to reach underserved families with young children who have acute mental health needs due to their socio-economic status. | |||
| Little Children's Developmental Center | $5,000 | Funding supports the Wellness Project, which is designed to address health risks associated with poverty. | |||
| Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen | $10,000 | Funding supports the meal program that helps feed very low-income residents in San Jose. | |||
| Loaves & Fishes of Contra Costa | $10,000 | Funding supports the operation of five dining facilities in Contra Costa County. | |||
| Marin Community Food Bank | $20,000 | Funding provides general operating support for MCFB's six programs to serve over 10,000 individuals facing food shortages in Marin County. | |||
| Megan Furth Academy | $10,000 | Funding supports a low-cost childcare program in mornings and evenings for residents of the Western Addition and Fillmore neighborhoods in San Francisco. | |||
| Mission Learning Center | $10,000 | Funding supports after-school literacy programs for children in San Francisco. | |||
| The Morgan Autism Center | $5,000 | Funding supports the Train the Trainer program, a collaboration with the San Jose Unified School District, which will expand outreach and education efforts. | |||
| National Alliance on Mental Illness Santa Clara County | $10,000 | Funding supports Peer PALS, which provides mental health support to individuals referred by the local faith community, Veteran's Administration hospital, and Judge Manley's Superior Court. | |||
| National Center for Youth Law | $10,000 | Funding supports NCYL's work with the Juvenile Mental Health Court in Alameda County. | |||
| Northern California Family Center | $10,000 | Funds supports operating costs of the runaway program for homeless youth. | |||
| Oakes Children's Center, Inc. | $10,000 | Funding supports the After-School Program, which provides free after-school childcare for low-income families of special needs children. | |||
| Omega Boys Club | $10,000 | Funding supports the Omega Leadership Academy, which combines rigorous academics with violence prevention programming to ensure young people develop the skills needed to succeed in school and life. | |||
| Opportunity Junction | $15,000 | Funding supports the Job Training and Placement Program, which secures career-track positions for low-income residents of Contra Costa County. | |||
| Opportunity for Independence | $10,000 | Funding supports the Speak Out program, in which a speech language pathologist works with developmentally disabled clients to improve language skills. | |||
| Options Recovery Services | $10,000 | Funding supports components of the Women's Program, which provides a safe place for women to focus on issues related to addiction, i.e., domestic violence, parenting, child abuse, and trading sex for drugs. | |||
| Parents Helping Parents | $10,000 | Funding provided for Parent & Family Education, Training and Support, which allows families to advocate for their special needs children. | |||
| Partners in School Innovation | $15,000 | Funding supports PartnersSI's work to improve the quality of teaching and close the achievement gap in 8 low-performing elementary schools in San Jose. | |||
| Planned Parenthood: Shasta-Diablo | $20,000 | Funding supports sexuality education in the communities of Pittsburg and Brentwood, where rates of teen pregnancy and STDs are high, and where there is a lack of access to health services and information. | |||
| Project Open Hand | $10,000 | Funding supports Grocery Centers in San Francisco and Oakland, where HIV/AIDS clients can select a week's worth of groceries for free. | |||
| San Francisco Suicide Prevention | $10,000 | Fund core services specifically for middle school students, and leverage funding from aditional sources. | |||
| Meals on Wheels of San Francisco, Inc. | $5,000 | Funding supports the Youth Risk Reduction Program, which provides risk reduction education and hotline counseling services to at-risk San Francisco youth. | |||
| San Francisco Women Against Rape | $20,000 | Funding provides assistance for support groups, self-defense demonstrations, adult-led education, and the training of youth peer educators. | |||
| San Mateo County Interfaith Hospitality Network | $10,000 | Funding supports the emergency shelter and three meals a day for homeless children and their parents. | |||
| The Shanti Project, Inc. | $10,000 | Funding supports the LifeLines Breast Cancer Program, which assists low-income, under-insured San Francisco women with breast cancer. | |||
| Shining Star Foundation/Star Academy | $5,000 | Funding provides assistance to low and middle income students with significant learning disabilities. | |||
| Sophia Project | $5,000 | Funding supports two care and education centers for children and mothers who are at risk of recurring homelessness. | |||
| Stanbridge Academy | $15,000 | Funding supports tuition for families of children with learning difficulties. | |||
| Stand! Against Domestic Violence | $10,000 | Funding supports staffing and services for teens and young adults to learn alternatives to violent behaviors. | |||
| Support For Families of Children with Disabilities | $15,000 | Funding provides access to disability support systems, information, and education services for low-and moderate-income families, and non-English speaking families. | |||
| Tenderloin Health | $15,000 | Funding supports an employment specialist for the Community At Work program, a 20-week, community healthcare education, training, and job readiness program for formerly homeless individuals at risk for AIDS. | |||
| Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation | $15,000 | Funding supports the Tenderloin After-School Program, serving ethnically diverse children from low-income families. | |||
| Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative | $10,000 | Funding helps support the Economic Self-Sufficiency Program, which aids low-income residents gain financial literacy, organizational, and entrepreneurial skills. | |||
| Tri-City Health Center | $10,000 | Funding assistsTCHC's Childhood Caries Prevention and Treatment outreach project, which is targeted towards children in grades K-3 who are low-income and lack dental insurance. | |||
| Ujima Family Recovery Services | $10,000 | Funding supports the Women's Health Education Program, which helps stop generational cycles of substance abuse and behavioral health problems. | |||
| Variety Club Blind Babies | $15,000 | Funding supports the Off to a Good Start program, which provides early intervention and education services to infants and preschoolers who are blind or visually impaired. | |||
| Wardrobe for Opportunity | $10,000 | Funding provides for professional clothing and career support for low-income job seekers in order to help them become economically self-sufficient and propel their families out of poverty. | |||
| Women's Cancer Resource Center | $10,000 | Funding aids the In-Home Support program, helping clients with meal preparation, transportation to medical appointments, grocery shopping, and emotional support. | |||
| Women's Recovery Association | $10,000 | Funding supports the Children's Program, which helps mothers with substance abuse problems strengthen the mother and child bond. | |||
| Yes Reading | $10,000 | Funding provides general operating support for the Oakland Reading Centers located on the campuses of Berkeley Maynard Academy and Lighthouse Community Charter School. | |||
| Youth Together, Inc. | $5,000 | Funding provides general operating support to address educational and racial injustice on six high school campuses in the East Bay. | |||
| TOTAL 2008 GRANTS | $910,000 | ||||