A Home Within
San Francisco
$5,000 for the Fostering Touch project to pilot the use of therapeutic infant massage workshops for East Bay teen mothers who are or were foster children and their new babies.
Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN)
Oakland
$10,160, which includes $7,500 for the East Bay Parent Outreach and Engagement Project, which provides grassroots leadership development, networking, capacity building and collective action opportunities for agencies that represent low-income East Bay parents of young children who wish to advocate for quality child care, family support and education equity. An additional $2,660 sponsors an Alliance for Justice "Worry-Free Lobbying for Nonprofits" workshop for East Bay member agencies of Bay Area PLAN.
Berkeley Chess School
Berkeley
$4,300 for the second year of the First Moves Program at J.O. Ford Elementary School in Richmond, which teaches chess to Spanish bilingual and English-speaking primary grade students. Research shows that chess play supports the development of creative and strategic thinking, concentration, memory, self-esteem, and good sportsmanship. The evaluation of the First Moves Program will measure how chess play affects academic and behavioral development and second language acquisition.
Early Childhood Funders
Bay Area
$5,000 to the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds for staffing and resource support for Early Childhood Funders in 2006. Early Childhood Funders is an informal association of Bay Area foundations, public funders, and private donors who seek to enhance grantmaking in the early childhood field.
Girls Inc.
San Leandro
$10,000 for the second year of the Language Development Intervention Project, which provides child language development consultation and training at two East Oakland preschools.
Harvey Green Elementary School
Fremont
$7,500 to the Fremont Unified School District for the Kindergarten Transition Program at Harvey Green Elementary School. This innovative child development program engages parents and teachers in the preparation of at-risk preschoolers for a successful elementary school experience.
Infant Toddler Consortium
Oakland
$7,500 to the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds for the Infant Toddler Consortium to produce "Our Babies Can’t Wait" policy papers that address how quality infant toddler care is essential to the success of universal preschool or other preschool expansion efforts.
MOCHA
Oakland
$7,500 to the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) for the Little Studio Artist in Residency Program, which provides arts education to child care centers in underserved Oakland neighborhoods.
Visual Arts/Language Arts (VALA)
Berkeley
$7,500 to the Tides Center to continue to support the work of Visual Arts/Language Arts (VALA) in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. VALA brings local visual and performing artists into preschool classrooms in Richmond and San Pablo to work with teachers to provide multicultural creative arts and early literacy experiences.
YWCA of Oakland
Oakland
$7,500 for the Young Families FLY program, which engages low-income teen parents in activities with their children, ages birth to 3 years, that strengthen the parent-child bond and foster the parents’ role as their child’s first teacher. Activities include parent education, home visits, multicultural art, music, movement, and early literacy experiences, and educational field trips.
