Recent Grantees

Area 1: Protect Children from Injury (ages 0 to 5)

November 2007

International Children Assistance Network
$100,000 over 2 years
www.ican2.org
For Happy 5 (Nuoi Day Tre Vui Manh) Training the Trainers, to develop workshop leaders for a culturally and linguistically appropriate child abuse prevention program for Vietnamese families with children under the age of 5.

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara
$100,000 over 1 year
www.sccsuperiorcourt.org
For Unified Family Court Child Protection Project, a collaborative effort between the court, attorneys, and social workers seeking to prevent child abuse and neglect in high-risk families with children, ages 0 to 5, who are all in the court system.

Youth and Family Enrichment Services
$50,000 over 1 year
www.yfes.org
For Healthy Homes, a home-visiting program that provides counseling and advice for families with children under the age of 5 who have witnessed family violence.

June 2007

Family Connections
$95,000 over 3 years
http://www.familyconnections.org/
For the Parent Leadership Project, a comprehensive parent education program focused on teaching parents of children ages 0-5 basic child development knowledge, positive discipline techniques, and how to deal with anger or stress. Primarily serves San Mateo County.

Samaritan House
$190,000 over 3 years
www.samaritanhouse.com
For Samaritan House Family Resource Center, a program providing case management services focusing on families with children ages 0-5, linking families to social services, and coordinating abuse prevention workshops and parent education services. Additionally, to provide consulting services to increase the organization's capacity to expand its individual donor base.

Women's Recovery Association
$100,000 over 3 years
www.womensrecovery.org
For The Children's Program: Child Abuse Prevention and Parenting Services, a program in San Mateo County in which mothers of children ages 0-5 receive substance abuse treatment, parenting education, and other services needed to stabilize the family, such as counseling and housing assistance.

Area 2: Promote Behavioral, Mental, and Emotional Health in Preteens (ages 9 to 13)

June 2008

Asian A merican Recovery Services, Inc.
$220,000 over 2 years
http://www.aars-inc.org/
For Em-Power (Vietnamese for Sister Power), an after-school culturally focused pilot program designed to promote the developmental resilience of preteen Asian Pacific Islander girls at Morrill Middle School in San Jose.

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
$135,000 over 2 years
http://ccsj.org/
For El Toro Youth Center, which provides after-school academic, behavioral, recreational, and developmental support for preteens, primarily from very low-income, immigrant, monolingual Spanish-speaking homes in Morgan Hill.

Citizen Schools
$100,000 over 2 years
http://www.citizenschools.org/
For Leading the Way in A fter School Learning, to support partial salary and programmatic supply costs for after-school programming at six middle schools in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties serving low-income youth.

Coastside Children's Programs
$105,000 over 2 years
http://www.coastsidechildren.org/
For Preteen Youth Enrichment Program, to provide ongoing enrichment activities, special creative presentations and staff training at a comprehensive after-school program located on-site at three elementary schools in the under-resourced Coastside region.

Mexican A merican Community Services Agency
$135,000 over 3 years
http://www.macsa.org/
For Gilroy Zero Drop Out Leadership Academies, serving Latino preteens living in an extremely high poverty area and providing year-round programming to build leadership, cultural pride and academic skills.

Mid-Peninsula Boys and Girls Club
$100,000 over 2 years
http://www.midpenbgc.org/
For CORE Enrichment Programs, College Park, which offers school-aligned skill-building, enrichment and recreational programs to 4th and 5th graders at the College Park Clubhouse, located in the high-need neighborhood of College Park in San Mateo.

Sacred Heart Community Service
$115,000 over 2 years
http://www.shcstheheart.org/flash.html
For Turn the Tide Youth Education Program, which provides after school mentoring, academic support, social and cultural enrichment, and family support services to students in grades four through eight from the low-income Alma-Washington-Gardner neighborhoods south of downtown San Jose .

Santa Clara County Office of Education
$90,000 over 3 years
http://www.sccoe.k12.ca.us/
For Santa Clara County After School Collaborative, to strengthen and expand a network of after-school programs, which offers a central mechanism for programs to connect with each other, share information, leverage efforts, and access resources such as staff trainings. The collaborative also will implement strategies to address systemic shortages in qualified staff for after-school programs.

Third Street Community Center
$95,000 over 2 years
http://www.3street.org/
For After School Program, an enrichment program that aims to promote leadership, foster resiliency, and increased academic achievement in students (ages 8 to 11) who attend Horace Mann Elementary, an under-resourced school in downtown San Jose where 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

November 2007

After School All-Stars of Greater San Jose
$80,000
www.sjasas.org
For After School All-Stars Comprehensive Program at San Jose Unified School District, to support an extensive after-school program offering a variety of enrichment services to high-need middle school students in San Jose.

Bay Area Partnerships
$25,000
www.bayareapartnership.org
For Program Quality Learning Network, to support workshops and individualized coaching for new After School Education and Safety Program (ASES) grantees on research-based best practices in after-school programming, management, and youth development.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
$100,000 over 2 years
www.bbbsba.org
For School-Based Mentoring Program, to expand its programming for students in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

El Concilio of San Mateo County
$80,000 over 2 years
www.el-concilio.com
For Youth Adelante, a youth development after-school program that includes academic enrichment, recreational activities, health education and culturally sensitive programming for youth.

Mariposa's Art
$88,000 over 2 years
www.mariposasart.org
For Art and Leadership Development Program, an after-school enrichment program for 4th and 5th grade girls that builds self-confidence, health awareness, leadership, and conflict resolution skills within an intensive arts-based curriculum.

Mural, Music, and A rts Project
$100,000 over 2 years
www.muralmusicarts.org
For Health Education Through Art, which utilizes art to educate at-risk preteens about nutrition, healthy lifestyle choices, environmental justice, and physiology in a culturally affirming after-school environment in East Palo Alto .

Peninsula Family YMCA
$100,000 over 2 years
www.ymcasf.org/peninsula/
For Support for Moonridge and Main Street Public Housing Communities, a year-round, comprehensive after-school program for low-income, geographically isolated youth from immigrant farm-worker families, located on-site in two Half Moon Bay public housing communities.

Sports4Kids
$210,000 over 3 years
www.sports4kids.org
For Silicon Valley Expansion, which will bring a full-day sports program —taught from a framework of youth development— to 24 elementary schools in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in three years.

The Unity Care Group
$100,000 over 2 years
www.unitycare.org
For Youth After School Leadership Program for At-Risk Youth, to provide HipHop 360 (an after school, creative arts curriculum) and YTRIBE (an in-school program on life skills) for students in middle schools and in foster group homes in Santa Clara County .