Alameda County Library Foundation
Fremont
$ 5,100 for "Storytime Kits to Go," which bring library books and educational materials to family day care providers in Southern Alameda county.
Bananas
Oakland
$ 5,000 for 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.
Building Futures with Women and Children
San Leandro
$ 5,000 for the Children's Program at the Midway Shelter in Alameda to provide developmental assessments, child case management, and healing activities for homeless young children who reside with their mothers in the Shelter.
Contra Costa Child Care Council
Concord
$ 5,000 for the Child Care Volunteer Project, which trains community volunteers to support and expand the child care resource and referral services of the Council.
Friends of the Richmond Public Library
Richmond
$ 5,000 for the Families Reading Together program, a year long series of family literacy events that includes storytimes for families, distribution of children's books, workshops for parents, and intergenerational activities that promote families reading together.
Infant Toddler Consortium
Oakland
$ 5,000 to the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds to subsidize some of the costs of the Infant Toddler Consortium's annual conference so that conference fees will be affordable for low-income East Bay parents and child care providers who care for and about babies.
Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley
$ 3,500 to bring the Early Childhood Dance Outreach Project to CalSAFE, the teen parent program at Oakland Tech High School. Luna will provide consultation and training to design and implement a developmentally appropriate creative movement program for expectant and parenting teen moms, their children, and caregivers.
Northern California Grantmakers
San Francisco
$ 1,000 in continued support for the East Bay activities of the Summer Youth Project, which funds a variety of community-based summer enrichment programs for children.
Pact, An Adoption Alliance
Richmond
$ 5,000 for Project Growing Respect, a pilot program that combines early childhood literacy and multicultural appreciation for kindergarten children and and their parents at the Ernestine C. Reems Academy of Technology and Arts, a charter school in Oakland.
Parent Services Project
San Rafael
$ 10,000 in continued support to sustain and strengthen the network of eight child care and Head Start sites in the East Bay that integrate
PSP's award winning model of family support into their early childhood programs.
Work and Family Coalition of Alameda County
Oakland
$ 5,000 for the Campaign for Child Care Workers Health Care, a collaborative project committed to securing affordable health care coverage for all family and center-based child care providers in Alameda County.
