Action Alliance for Children
Oakland
$ 3,000 to support a forum on Early Childhood Social Emotional Development: Key to School Readiness and a companion issue of the Children's Advocate newsmagazine. The 2005 forum gathers early childhood leaders to develop strategies to ensure that policymakers and caregivers understand the central role of social emotional development in young children's learning.
Berkeley Chess School
Berkeley
$ 4,000 for the First Moves Program at J.O. Ford Elementary School in Richmond, which teaches chess to Spanish bilingual and English-speaking first graders. Chess play supports the development of creative and strategic thinking, concentration, memory, self-esteem, and good sportsmanship.
Early Childhood Funders
Bay Area
$ 10,000 ($ 5,000 annually) to the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds for staffing and resource support for the activities of the Early Childhood Funders in 2004 and 2005. ECF is an informal association of Bay Area foundations, public funders, and private donors who seek to enhance grantmaking in the early childhood field.
Go Kids, Inc.
Gilroy
$ 500 to support the attendance of Alameda County representatives at the March, 2004 Five County Legislative Forum, which informed local state legislators about the key funding and policy issues facing the early childhood community.
Habitot Children's Museum
Berkeley
$ 5,000 to bring Habitot's Art Reach preschool arts education program to Supporting Future Growth preschools in Oakland and Hayward.
Infant Toddler Consortium
Oakland
$ 8,000 to the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds for the Infant Toddler Consortium to offer its Beginning with Babies Novice Caregiver Training in five languages to 80 novice infant toddler caregivers in the East Bay.
Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay
Berkeley
$ 10,000 to provide sheltered-English training in Early Childhood Development and Education to limited-English-proficient child care staff at two West Oakland preschools in the Parent-Child Development Center, Inc. system.
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.
Our Family Coalition
San Francisco
$ 5,000 for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Early Childhood Education Initiative to provide three training sessions for early childhood professionals in the East Bay.
Parent Services Project
San Rafael
$ 5,000 in continued support to sustain and strengthen the East Bay Early Childhood Education Coalition, a network of nine child care and Head Start programs in the East Bay that integrate PSP's award winning model of family support into their early childhood programs.
The Link to Children (TLC)
Oakland
$ 5,000 in continued support to TLC, an early childhood mental health intervention and training program that enables child care providers to promote the social-emotional development of the children in their care. This grant allows TLC to pilot the use of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) and other specialized screening tools that identify developmental delay in young children.
Visual Arts/Language Arts (VALA)
Berkeley
$ 5,000 to the Tides Center to continue support to VALA, which will expand their work with West Contra Costa Unified School District to bring local artists into preschool classrooms in Richmond to work with teachers to provide multicultural creative arts and early literacy experiences.
