Center for the Education of the Infant Deaf (CEID)
Berkeley
$ 7,500 to establish a community partnership with local early childhood service agencies to develop a training and consultation project that will improve access to quality inclusive child care services for children with special education needs.
Child Development Policy Institute (CDPI) Education Fund
San Francisco
$ 5,000 to fund public opinion research to evaluate public support for subsidized universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) in California and to present the results of the research to East Bay UPK stakeholders.
Community Child Care Coordinating Council (4C's)
Hayward
$ 6,000 for Parent Voices, to continue to support the efforts of Alameda County parent advocates to represent the interests of low-income young children and their families in response to proposed state budget cuts.
Eureka Communities ~ SF Bay Area
Oakland
$ 5,000 to the Tides Center for Eureka Communities to support the recruitment and training of one or more East Bay early childhood leaders as 2004 Eureka Fellows.
Family Resource Network
Oakland
$ 7,500 to BANANAS, Inc. for the Family Resource Network to mobilize parents, community members, and other special education advocacy organizations to address the critical systemic challenges facing young children with disabilities in the Oakland Unified School District.
Girls, Inc. of Alameda County
Oakland
$ 7,000 for the Pathways Counseling Center to bring the Preschool Mental Health Consultation Project to two child care centers in East Oakland to support the language development of non-English speaking preschool children.
Imagine Bus Project
San Francisco
$ 7,500 to bring the Art Bus, the Imagine Bus Project's portable art studio, to low-income Oakland neighborhoods that lack resources for early childhood arts education.
Monument Community Partnership
Concord
$ 3,000 to the Senior Action Team of the Monument Community Partnership to expand the Story Time Project, a literacy program for local children, and to develop the new Preschool Library that will be located in a subsidized housing complex in the Monument Corridor of Concord.
Oakland Public Library Foundation
Oakland
$ 5,000 to expand Books for Wider Horizons, which trains volunteers to read to young children in Oakland's Head Start centers.
Opera Piccola
Oakland
$ 5,000 to bring 20 free performances of Opera Piccola's multicultural folk tale theater productions to young children and their families in homeless shelters and libraries in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
World Arts West
San Francisco
$ 4,000 to provide free tickets and transportation for low income K-3 students in East Bay schools to attend 2004 performances of People Like Me, an interactive theatrical performance of world music and dance.
