A Better Way
Berkeley
$ 8,580 to support A Better Way's integrated foster care, adoption, and mental health services that heal and protect abused and neglected children. Trio funds are directed to the development of a Parent Resource Center and to purchase audio-visual equipment to enhance parent-child therapeutic intervention.
Action Alliance for Children
Oakland
$ 4,000 for a special expanded bilingual election edition of the Children's Advocate newsmagazine to educate voters about children's issues in the campaigns and to provide resources to increase voter participation.
Alameda Point Collaborative
Alameda
$ 2,500 to provide an Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist to enhance the PLAY Point Program, an evening play-based activity group for young children and their parents who are rebuilding their lives in APC's supportive housing program after a period of homelessness.
BANANAS, Inc.
Oakland
$ 10,000 in continued support to Parent Voices, a parent-run, grassroots association that organizes parents to advocate for high quality child care that is affordable and available to all families with young children.
Bay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement (BAHIA)
Berkeley
$ 5,000 for the renovation of the playground at the Centro VIDA bilingual child care program.
Child Development Policy Institute (CDPI) Education Fund
San Francisco
$ 10,000 to build a cadre of practitioner leaders within Alameda and Contra Costa counties to participate in the development of Preschool For All systems both locally and statewide.
Childhood Matters
Berkeley
$ 15,000 to Literacyworks for the Childhood Matters radio talk show and Nuestros Niņos, the companion Spanish-language show, for "Get Out the Vote" radio shows and public service announcements in Spanish and English about "voting for kids' sake" and for a series that focuses on "Art and the Young Child."
Foundation Center
San Francisco
$ 500 in continued support for outreach to East Bay grassroots grantseekers.
Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley
$ 6,000 to continue support for the Early Childhood Dance Education Project at Saint Vincent's Day Home and Alice Street Learning Center in Oakland. Luna provides model classes, coaching and in-service training workshops to support early childhood staff as they implement a developmentally appropriate creative movement program for preschoolers.
The Perinatal Council
Oakland
$ 3,000 for child care services for teen mothers enrolled in the Adolescent Family Life Program support groups.
World Arts West
San Francisco
$ 6,000 to provide transportation and admission fees for low-income Alameda County K-3 students to attend the 2005 performances of People Like Me, an interactive theatrical presentation of world music and dance, and to provide curriculum materials and classroom visits by the artists to enhance the children's learning experience.
