Action Alliance for Children
Oakland
$ 3,000 for a special bilingual edition of the Children's Advocate newsmagazine devoted to educating readers about the state budget process, explaining budget proposals that affect children and families, and providing strategies and resources for effective child advocacy.
BANANAS, Inc.
Oakland
Community Child Care Coordinating Council (4C's)
Hayward
Contra Costa Child Care Council
Concord
$ 6,000 to each of three East Bay chapters of 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. These grants enable parent representatives from each East Bay Parent Voices chapter to provide a unified message to state legislators regarding the importance of protecting quality subsidized child care for low-income working parents.
Bay Area Partnership/California School Age Consortium
San Francisco
$ 5,000 for the Afterschool Advocacy Project to train school age care educators how to be effective advocates for their programs and for the school age care field.
California Child Development Corps
San Francisco
$ 5,000 to United Way of the Bay Area, Working for Quality Child Care, for the East Bay activities of the California Child Development Corps, which organizes early childhood teachers and providers to speak out in public policy forums on behalf of their field and on behalf of the young children in their care.
Childhood Matters
Berkeley
$ 2,500 to Literacyworks for the Childhood Matters radio talk show to produce a series about parent/child advocacy regarding child care, health care, and education and to support the launch of Nuestros Niņos, a companion Spanish-language parenting radio show.
Children's Hospital
Oakland
$ 4,500 for the third annual Alameda County Early Childhood Mental Health Symposium, an interagency collaboration that brings together county policy makers and service providers to develop an early childhood mental health system that will meet the needs of young children and their families.
Foundation Center
San Francisco
$ 5,280, with a match from the Y & H Soda Foundation, to offer First Steps on the Road to Successful Grantseeking to 20 East Bay grassroots non-profit agencies that serve children and families. The Foundation Center provides First Steps participants with enhanced resources, peer models and support, and networking opportunities to ensure that they have both the tools and the training to become successful grantseekers.
Infant Toddler Consortium
Oakland
$ 5,000 for the Babies Can't Wait campaign, to focus public attention on the urgent need for immediate action in support of quality infant toddler care in California and especially in the East Bay.
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.
