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TYPE |
PROJECT & DESCRIPTION |
DATE |
AMOUNT |
| United States |
Sausalito Marin City School District Sausalito/Marin City, CA |
Health |
The project is designed to bring together community partners who will contribute to a unique nutrition education program in which the schools will host and integrate a school garden along with an inter-generational after-school element Click here to view website >> |
June, 2010 |
$75,000.00 |
Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health White Mountain Apache Reservation and Navajo Nation and Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM |
Health |
The program will engage Native community stakeholders in three southwestern reservation communities to promote school, family and community-based programming to teach children and families to grow, eat and distribute healthy foods. Outreach and support of local farmers will augment program success and strengthen local healthy foods systems. Local tribal stakeholders will ensure core curriculum and program activities are centered in indigenous cultural wisdom and strength. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2010 |
$65,000.00 |
Historic Lower 9th Ward Council for Arts and Sustainability New Orleans, LA |
Health |
Project Ujamaa will provide year-round, weekly activities designed to increase access to and foster an appreciation for good food among more than 300 underserved children in New Orleans, 7-14 years old, and their families. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2010 |
$20,000.00 |
The Edible Schoolyard NOLA New Orleans, LA |
Health |
The mission of ESY NOLA is to integrate organic gardening and seasonal cooking into the curriculum, culture and food programs of four New Orleans schools. ESY NOLA provides students with engaging hands-on learning experiences through weekly garden and kitchen classes, and school-wide seasonal events that promote the local food traditions of New Orleans. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2010 |
$40,000.00 |
The Hannah Project Freedom School Marin City, CA |
Education |
The CDF Freedom Schools program provides summer and after-school enrichment that helps children fall in love with reading, increases their self-esteem, and generates more positive attitudes toward learning. Children are taught using a model curriculum that supports children and families around five essential components: high quality academic enrichment; parent and family involvement; civic engagement and social action; intergenerational leadership development; and nutrition, health and mental health. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2010 |
$12,500.00 |
Sausalito Marin City School District Sausalito/Marin City, CA |
Health |
Additional support for GrowingGreat Marin City school garden and nutrition education project in the schools. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2010 |
$12,000.00 |
| ARGENTINA |
Todos Juntos Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Health |
Project Sonrisa is a dental program specifically adapted for the children and adolescents living in the slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2010 |
$20,000.00 |
| HAITI |
US FUND FOR UNICEF
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Health |
Disaster Relief for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti Click here to view website >> |
March, 2010 |
$20,000.00 |
| United States |
Marin City Health and Wellness Center Marin City, CA |
Health |
A Marin City community health clinic and wellness center, providing primary care and outreach, especially to youth.
Click here to view website >> |
March, 2010 |
$25,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Santuario de Luz Autlan Clinic Autlan, MX |
Health |
Carlos built this clinic in his hometown of Autlan. These monies would support continuing operating costs. The clinic is the only health clinic within miles and serves all surrounding village communities. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2010 |
$80,000.00 |
| United States |
Sunburst Projects Santa Rosa, CA |
Health |
Over the years, Camp Sunburst has provided social and educational experiences that have had a profound impact on the lives of hundreds of HIV/AIDS infected and affected children, youth, and their families. This program exposes at risk youth to experiences they may not have had prior access to, or have lost access from. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2010 |
$5,000.00 |
| CHILE |
Isabel Allende Foundation
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Health |
Disaster relief for the victims of the earthquake in Chile Click here to view website >> |
March, 2010 |
$10,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Santuario de Luz Autlan, MX |
Health |
Santuario De Luz is a clinic that Carlos Santana built in Autlan Mexico. Serving the health and education needs of five neighboring communities without services, the clinic serves as a community center as well. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$50,000.00 |
| United States |
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Free dining room is open 7 days/week to all hungry people in Marin. We serve approximately 400 meals per week. 30% are children. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
Three Square Food Bank Las Vegas, NV |
Health |
Three Square is a member of Feeding America, the umbrella organization for our national network of food banks. Established in 2007, Three Square''s mission is to “provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger-free community”.
Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$25,000.00 |
Marin County School Volunteers San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Marin County School Volunteers matches community volunteer tutors with the neediest students identified for academic assistance throughout the public schools of Marin County, grades K-12. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
Canal Alliance San Rafael, CA |
Education |
College readiness program Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
Eastside College Prep East Palo Alto, CA |
Education |
Eastside is an independent, non-profit school founded in 1996 to offer East Palo Alto high school students a rigorous college preparatory education and widen their life opportunities. We have one central mission: the enrollment of every Eastside graduate in a four-year college or university Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$10,000.00 |
Omega Boys Club San Francisco, CA |
Education |
The Omega Leadership Academy provides rigorous academic skill development infused with the Alive & Free Violence Prevention Prescription to help young people succeed in school, prepare for college, develop critical thinking, math and literacy skills, and live meaningful lives free of violence and incarceration. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
Parent Services Project San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Parent empowerment and leadership project primarily for low income parents. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$6,500.00 |
Phoenix Project Marin City, CA |
Health |
The Phoenix Project focuses on engaging young men between ages 13 and 25 in neighborhood and community activities as alternatives to the street. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
National Hispanic University San Jose, CA |
Education |
Scholarship assistance for undergraduate college students unable to access public financial aid sources. NHU is the only Hispanic University in the country. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$10,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Ubuntu Education Fund Port Elizabeth, SA |
Education |
Ubuntu Education Fund is a grassroots organization dedicated to working with the people of the Eastern Cape Province to develop quality education and healthy communities in the new South Africa. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Andre Agassi Foundation Las Vegas, NV |
Education |
This grant will directly impact children’s lives by helping the Foundation fund the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy (“Agassi Prep”) and deliver a quality education to its 600-plus K-12 students. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$15,000.00 |
| ISRAEL |
Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel
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Education |
Grant funds will support the first part of a three-year project period to evaluate the early childhood programs currently in place at the three Hand in Hand Schools, identify and integrate best teaching practices in early childhood education, and implement these findings through a top quality training program for Hand in Hand teachers. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
| MALAWI |
Netgain, Malawi Malawi |
Health |
NetGain-Malawi placed ITNs in 8 villages in southern Malawi in November 2006 (population ~ 3,000). Volunteer women followed the malaria status in these 8 villages for 6 months during the rainy season, as well as malaria status in 4 nearby villages without ITNs. In June, 2007 it was determined that malaria incidence had declined by 77% in the netted villages compared to the nearby non-netted villages. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2009 |
$10,000.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
Gokulam - Bhaktivedanta Children's Home
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Health |
Gokulam - Bhaktivedanta Children's Home is an orphanage just outside of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Since 1999 we have been serving children affected by the ongoing civil war and poverty. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2009 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Historic Lower 9th Ward Council for Arts and Sustainability New Orleans, LA |
Health |
Kellogg project: Project Ujamaa will provide year-round, monthly activities designed to increase access to and foster an appreciation for good food among more than 300 underserved children in New Orleans, 7-14 years old, and their families. The multilayered activities will include providing “Vegetable Vouchers” to program participants, allowing them to meet urban famers, listen to presentations from nutritionists, make their own healthy recipes and items to sell at the market, and develop skits, poems and songs that address the importance of healthful eating. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2009 |
$20,000.00 |
The Edible Schoolyard NOLA New Orleans, LA |
Health |
Kellogg project: The mission of ESY NOLA is to integrate organic gardening and seasonal cooking into the curriculum, culture and food programs of Green Charter School. ESY NOLA provides students with engaging hands-on learning experiences through weekly garden and kitchen classes, and school-wide seasonal events that promote the local food traditions of New Orleans. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2009 |
$50,000.00 |
Literacy for Environmental Justice San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
This project brings together a master artist with a group of young people in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood aged 14-17 to teach them basic skills in artistic design and casting for relief wall sculpture while directly integrating environmental studies into the casting process. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2009 |
$4,929.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
International Childcare Trust
|
Health |
The objective of this project is to support one of International Childcare Trust's partner, Shilpa Children's Trust (Shilpa) in Sri Lanka, who are working towards the long-term rehabilitation of children, their families and their communities in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka.
Click here to view website >> |
June, 2009 |
$3,500.00 |
| United States |
Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
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Health |
Kellogg project: Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health seeks to partner with the Milagro Foundation to create an innovative culturally-based nutrition promotion program with the most underserved and nutritionally at risk children in America, American Indians. The program will engage Native community stakeholders in three southwestern reservation communities to promote school, family and community-based programming to teach children and families to grow, eat and distribute healthy foods. Outreach and support of local farmers will augment program success and strengthen local healthy foods systems. Local tribal stakeholders will ensure core curriculum and program activities are centered in indigenous cultural wisdom and strength. The project will develop over three years, and include sustainability and dissemination planning to compound Milagro’s investment in this work.
Click here to view website >> |
June, 2009 |
$65,000.00 |
Sausalito Marin City School District Marin City, CA |
Health |
The project is designed to bring together community partners who will contribute to a unique nutrition education program in which the schools will host and integrate a school garden along with an inter-generational after-school element Click here to view website >> |
June, 2009 |
$65,000.00 |
Canal Alliance San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The Youth Development and Leadership program offers teens and young adults healthy alternatives to potentially unhealthy or harmful behavior. We use youth development best practices such as peer counseling, job skills and life skills training, leadership development, education, and recreation. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Stove Team International
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Health |
Upper respiratory disease, caused by smoky open fires in Guatemalan homes, is the leading cause of death in local children. Catastrophic burns are another preventable tragedy. This stove project in Guatamala provides safe, portable, locally-made cookstoves to replace open fires and reduce deforestation. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
College Track Oakland, CA |
Education |
Our mission is to help students who have the desire but lack the resources and support to attain higher education and fulfill their own best promise. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
Davidson Middle School San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Students that are involved in Challenge Day will have the opportunity to share their story, acknowledge similarities, appreciate differences and connect with their peers.
Challenge day helps students to break economic and racial barriers and to celebrate diversity.
Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$13,000.00 |
San Rafael High School Library San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Library books will be purchased for english language learners and spanish readers. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
| INDIA |
Shared Hope International
|
Health |
Partnering with groups worldwide to prevent human trafficking for forced labor and prostitution. Shared Hope rescues women and children by buying their freedom and providing shelter, healthcare, education and vocational training. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
VIP Community Mental Health Center, Inc. Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
The CMHC, located in East Los Angeles, serves children that have been abused, neglected, sexually assaulted and/or have witnessed the abuse of their mothers. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$20,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Autlan Medical Clinic-Santuario de Luz Autlan, Jalisco |
Health |
Carlos built this medical clinic in his hometown of Autlan. Mexico. These monies support continuing operating costs. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$30,000.00 |
| United States |
Circulo de Vida Cancer Support & Resource Center San Francisco |
Health |
The Children’s Program provides professional therapy in a group setting and individually to help the children of Latinos diagnosed with cancer cope with the confusion and stress caused by parental illness. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
Discovery Arts Tustin, CA |
Health |
Discovery Arts brings the healing power of music, art, dance and drama to children with cancer, serious blood disorders and life threatening illness while in the hospital receiving treatment. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
First Graduate San Francisco |
Education |
First Graduate offers after school support to students who are the first in their families to have access to college. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
Okizu Novato, CA |
Health |
A summer camp experience for children with all types of pediatric cancer. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$10,000.00 |
Outright Vermont Burlington |
Health |
Outright Vermont helps at-risk rural lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ ''queer'') youth in Vermont. As the only queer youth center and state-wide advocacy organization in Vermont, our goal is to make sure youth always have a place to turn. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2009 |
$5,000.00 |
A Keiki’s Dream Fun Day Foundation Wailuku, HI |
Health |
The Fun Day Foundation empowers and supports children in crisis from Maui County by giving them a "dream come true" on Maui Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
Abilities United Palo Alto, CA |
Education |
Our children’s programs are based on the premise that birth to 5 years of age is an extremely critical learning period for children with or without disabilities, and that the earlier a child’s special needs are addressed, the greater the skill base for future improvement. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Autlan Medical Clinic Autlan, MX |
Health |
Medical clinic in Carlos Santana's home town of Autlan, Mexico. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$30,000.00 |
| United States |
Hui Malama Learning Center Wailuku, HI |
Education |
Hui Malama is a program in Maui that works with underserved children in the areas of Home school enrichment, high school curriculum, GED classes and Homework help and remedial support. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Marin City Health and Wellness Center Marin City, CA |
Health |
A Marin City community wellness center, health clinic and outreach agency, especially to youth. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$20,000.00 |
Larkin Street Youth Services San Francisco, CA |
Health |
The TASK Program at Larkin Street Youth Services is the only San Francisco program that provides homeless and runaway youth, ages 12–17 (underage youth) with emergency and transitional housing, health screening and treatment, mental health and substance abuse services, case management, education, and family reunification services, in one comprehensive, wrap-around service delivery system.
Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$20,000.00 |
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center San Pablo, CA |
Arts |
The Mockingbird Youth Project is a community arts academy offering beginning to advanced level classes in Mexican forms of music, dance, crafts and writing to 200 students every week that also includes a youth development component. These classes are taught primarily by master artists of traditional art forms or techniques. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
Marin Community Clinic San Rafael, CA |
Health |
General support of primary medical services for pediatric patients Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
Ritter Center San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Ritter Center operates a number of programs that serve children including their Back-to-School backpack and school supply program. holiday programs for food distribution, a food pantry, healthcare enrollment and emergency rental assistance for families. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Slide Ranch Muir Beach, CA |
Health |
This program will target students from Bahia Vista Elementary School, San Pedro Elementary School, Martin Luther King Academy, and Venetia Valley Elementary School. The objective is to improve the choices students make in regard to food, nutrition, health and fitness. Our goal is to help develop healthier minds and bodies among low-income students. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
South Bay Children's Medical Clinic East Palo Alto, CA |
Health |
In an effort to reach more under served populations, SBCMC acquired a bus and converted it to a mobile clinic, complete with a fully equipped exam room and is staffed by volunteer Pediatricians, medical assistants, and interpreters. They now have expanded to serving high school students at risk in 3 area highschool clinics. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park, CA |
Health |
Over the years, Camp Sunburst has provided social and educational experiences that have had a profound impact on the lives of hundreds of HIV/AIDS infected and affected children, youth, and their families. This program exposes at risk youth to experiences they may not have had prior access to, or have lost access from. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
| ARGENTINA |
Todos Juntos Asociacion Civil Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Health |
Project Sonrisa is a dental program specifically adapted for the children and adolescents living in the slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
| United States |
Trips for Kids Marin San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Trips for Kids’ Earn-a-Bike Program provides skill-building workshops to low-income, inner-city, or otherwise at-risk boys and girls from ages 10-17 in the dense Canal District of San Rafael. Youth in these workshops have a chance to build and earn a bike while gaining valuable work experience. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
Bay Area Community Resources-The MYC San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
A youth center complete with an auditorium, commercial kitchen, art studio, meeting rooms, computer center and sound studio for teens. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Downtown College Prep San Jose, CA |
Education |
DCP’s target students are historically , underserved and primarily Latino, who will be the first in their family to graduate from a four-year university. In addition to academic challenges many of these students face difficulties at home that negatively impact their learning. DCP addresses all of these issues. The DCP program endeavors to provide students with emotional strength, personal discipline and self-confidence to make positive life choices. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Medicine Horse Program Boulder, CO |
Health |
This project pairs suicidal teenaged girls with Premarin foals (considered to be a by-product of the pharmaceutical industry) in order to restore a sense of hope, vision for the future, increased self-reliance for the girls. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Hannah Project Marin City, CA |
Education |
The Hannah Project is a collaboration to help improve graduation rates and college attendance of Marin City high schoolers. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| INDIA |
Little Stars School Varanasi, India |
Education |
Little Stars is a school educating hundreds of street children in the city of Vanansi in India. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| MALAWI |
NetGain, Malawi
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Health |
NetGain-Malawi places bed netting in remote villages in Malawi, training community members to install the nets and coordinate the research. In June, 2007 it was determined that malaria incidence had declined by 77% in the netted villages compared to the nearby non-netted villages. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
| United States |
Family Service Agency of Marin San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Familias Fuertes!, a project of Family Service Agency's Childhood Trauma Program, is Marin County's only culturally appropriate and comprehensive child sexual abuse prevention program serving low-income and vastly underserved Latino children and their families. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
Jeannette Prandi Children's Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Wrap around services provided to child victims of sexual assault Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
No Limits Theater Group Culver City, CA |
Arts |
The only theater group in the US for deaf children ages 5-15, who are learning to speak. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| PAKISTAN |
St. Paul Society Islamabad, Pakistan |
Education |
Computer training course for neglected poor girls and women Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
| CONGO |
US FUND FOR UNICEF
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Health |
Humanitarian aid and relief in the Congo and Darfur Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| HAITI |
Yele Haiti
|
Health |
Employing local women to prepare 14,000 hot meals a day for poor children in Port-au-Prince and Gonaives, the women will work in 12 new catering facilities that will be known as "Yele Cuisine." These women will supply hot meals for schools in their area without kitchens. An estimated ninety percent of schools in Haiti do not have kitchen facilities. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Novato Unified School Disrict Novato, CA |
Arts |
The project will bring students in poverty into a performing arts program. Students from NUSD's neediest elementary schools will be provided with instrumental, voice, and dance in collaboration with Marin School of the Arts at Novato High.
Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$25,000.00 |
Read-Aloud Volunteer Program San Pablo, CA |
Education |
Volunteer tutoring program for children in the Richmond School District. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$7,500.00 |
Mosaic Project/San Rafael City Schools & Reed Union School Districts San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The Mosaic Project, unites young children of diverse backgrounds, provides them with essential skills to thrive in an increasingly diverse society, and empowers them to strive for peace. It is the vision of this project that children from the same county, but who differ markedly in socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic make-up, can participate in the program together.
Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Bridge the Gap Tutoring Marin City, CA |
Education |
The mission is to improve reading skills, provide homework assistance and academic tutoring and engage parents in the education of Marin City youth in the program - so that students stay in school and improve academically. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$7,500.00 |
Eastside College Preparatory School East Palo Alto, CA |
Education |
Eastside is an independent, non-profit school founded in 1996 to offer East Palo Alto high school students a rigorous college preparatory education and widen their life opportunities. Their central mission is the enrollment of 100% of Eastside graduates in a four-year college or university. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$36,000.00 |
KIPP Bayview Academy San Francisco, CA |
Education |
KIPP Bayview is a middle school program following the KIPP model. Students tend to arrive at KIPP Bayview two grade levels behind academically on average. The goal is to turn them on to learning and support them as they excel beyond grade level so when they leave 8th grade they are competitive with all entering high school students, both public and private. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Center for American Indian Health Baltimore |
Education |
The project is called Celebrating Life. A key element of the program centers on rejuvenating relationships between elders and youth as an imperative strategy to curb the epidemic of suicide and drug abuse among Apache youth.
Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Marin Literacy Program San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Family Literacy volunteer tutors offer one-to-one instruction to parents of small children, in locations such as libraries, homes, and the isolated ranches of West Marin. The FATHERS Program at San Quentin State Prison provides family literacy and parenting instruction to incarcerated fathers and father figures, while the FLAGship mobile classroom provides school-readiness skills and health and wellness workshops to isolated preschool children and their families. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Youth in Arts San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Community Arts Partners is a model community engagement program for the Marin City/Sausalito School District, designed to be replicable in other underserved communities. Community Arts Partners will result in a trained corps of volunteers to help implement and sustain a comprehensive arts education program (YIA’s STARS program) in Marin City/Sausalito schools. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity (AHO) Mill Valley, CA |
Health |
AHO is the only nonprofit group providing a safety net of stable housing, guidance, and community connections to homeless young people, who at age 18 are without a caring adult or resources to build a healthy and meaningful life. AHO works with youth up to 5 years as needed to assist them in building a strong foundation for their lives. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
| CHINA |
American Red Cross
|
Health |
Earthquake relief in China Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Autlan Medical Clinic Autlan, MX |
Health |
Operating expenses for the Medical clinic, Santuario de la Luz, built by the Santana family in Carlos' birthplace of Autlan, Mexico. This clinic is the only medical clinic serving the poor in the surrounding communities of Autlan. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$37,000.00 |
| MYANMAR |
Doctors Without Borders USA
|
Health |
Disaster Relief for cyclone victims in Myanmar. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Home Away from Homelessness San Francisco, CA |
Education |
This project encompasses three programs for homeless children in SF and Marin County: Beach House, Mentoring Program and School House Program. Beach House brings children 5-17 from homeless shelters for day trips to a cottage in the Marin Headlands outdoors. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Marin County School Volunteers San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Marin County School Volunteers matches community volunteer tutors with the neediest students identified for academic assistance throughout the public schools of Marin County, grades K-12. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
National Hispanic University San José, CA |
Education |
Scholarship assistance for undergraduate college students unable to access public financial aid sources. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$30,000.00 |
Omega Boys Club San Francisco, CA |
Education |
The Omega Leadership Academy provides rigorous academic skill development infused with the Alive & Free Violence Prevention Prescription to help young people succeed in school, prepare for college, develop critical thinking, math and literacy skills, and live meaningful lives free of violence and incarceration. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Autlan Medical Clinic Autlan, MX |
Health |
These funds will support the hiring of a development consultant to begin professional fundraising activities to begin building capacity to support the clinic. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$25,000.00 |
| United States |
Parent Services Project San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Parent empowerment and leadership project primarily for low income immigrant parents. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| MYANMAR |
Save the Children
|
Health |
Disaster relief for the cyclone in Myanmar. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
| United States |
Sophia Project Oakland, CA |
Health |
Located in a low-income neighborhood in West Oakland, the Sophia Project is a direct service, community-based, care and education center for children and families at risk of recurring homelessness.
Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Spectrum LGBT Center San Anselmo, CA |
Education |
Rainbow''s End is Spectrum''s outreach and support program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth ages 14-19 years of age. It is the only support group for LGBT youth in Marin County. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
Image for Success San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Provides two weeks worth of play clothing and school outfits for children. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
| ISRAEL |
Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel
|
Education |
This grant supports bilingual bicultural schools in Israel serving Israeli Arab and Israeli Jewish children, breaking down barriers and teaching them about each other's culture. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Oasis For Girls San Francisco, CA |
Education |
The mission of Oasis For Girls is to cultivate self-esteem in girls and young women through arts, education and leadership development programs. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$2,500.00 |
Performing Stars of Marin Marin City, CA |
Arts |
The purpose of Performing Stars' programs is to create opportunities for children to overcome the limitations imposed by poverty so that they can follow their dreams and become actively engaged in a discipline of their choice. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
| INDIA |
Shared Hope International
|
Health |
Shared Hope rescues women and children from sexual slavery by buying their freedom and providing shelter, healthcare, education and vocational training. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Duffy Hughes Memorial Stove Project-Stove Team International
|
Health |
Upper respiratory disease, caused by smoky open fires in Guatemalan homes, is the leading cause of death in local children. Catastrophic burns are another preventable tragedy. This stove project in Guatamala provides safe, portable, locally-made cookstoves to replace open fires and reduce deforestation. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
First Graduate (formerly B.A.Y fund) San Francisco, CA |
Education |
This grant would provide year-round academic support for at-risk children from the Mission and Potrero Hill in San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Ubuntu Education Fund
|
Education |
Ubuntu Education Fund is a grassroots organization dedicated to working with the people of the Eastern Cape Province to develop quality education and healthy communities in the new South Africa. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
International Childcare Trust
|
Health |
The objective of this project is to support one of International Childcare Trust's partner, Shilpa Children's Trust (Shilpa) in Sri Lanka, who are working towards the long-term rehabilitation of children, their families and their communities in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka.
Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
VIP Community Mental Health Center, Inc. Los Angeles,CA |
Health |
The CMHC, located in East Los Angeles, serves children that have been abused, neglected, sexually assaulted and/or have witnessed the abuse of their mothers. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$30,000.00 |
Marin City Health and Wellness Center Marin City, CA |
Health |
A wellness center, health clinic and outreach, especially to youth. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$15,000.00 |
Circulo de Vida San Francisco, CA |
Health |
The program provides therapy in a group setting to help children & teens cope with the confusion and stress caused by their mother''s illness. Therapists also provide individual counseling and case management for the children and their mothers, as well as conduct home visits and assisting with referrals to other services. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$7,500.00 |
Canal Community Alliance San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The Youth Development and Leadership program offers teens and young adults healthy alternatives to potentially unhealthy or harmful behavior. We use youth development best practices such as peer counseling, job skills and life skills training, leadership development, education, and recreation. Click here to view website >> |
March, 2008 |
$2,500.00 |
Children’s Defense Fund Washington, D.C. |
Education |
New Orleans Freedom Schools Click here to view website >> |
November, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
| INDIA |
Little Stars School - Sri Sarveshwari Samooh Sonoma Yoga Ashram Varenesi, India |
Education |
Little Stars is a school educating 300 street children from the city of Vanansi in India. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2007 |
$5,000.00 |
| MALAWI |
NetGain
|
Health |
Provides bed netting as malaria prevention in small villages in Malawi. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2007 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Outright Vermont (ORVT) Burlington, VT |
Health |
The campaign to be developed by and for queer youth will provide HIV prevention messages, promote risk reduction, and (most importantly) be queer youth focused. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2007 |
$5,000.00 |
Family Service Agency of Marin San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Familias Fuertes!, a project of Family Service Agency's Childhood Trauma Program, is Marin County's only culturally appropriate and comprehensive child sexual abuse prevention program serving low-income and vastly underserved Latino children and their families. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2007 |
$6,500.00 |
| PAKISTAN |
St. Paul Society Islamabad, Pakistan |
Education |
Computer training course for neglected poor girls and women. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2007 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
A Keiki's Dream Foundation Wailuku, HI |
Health |
The Fun Day Foundation empowers and supports children in crisis from Maui County by giving them a "dream come true" on Maui with its signature, A Keiki's Dream Program. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2007 |
$2,500.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
Gokulam - Bhaktivedanta Children's Home
|
Education |
Gokulam - Bhaktivedanta Children's Home is an orphanage just outside of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Since 1999 children who have been affected by the ongoing civil war, poverty, and most recently the Tsunami of 2004 are being served. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$2,500.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Ingwavuma Orphan Care
|
Health |
Purchase of a video camera for the orphan care program. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$1,500.00 |
| United States |
Parent Services Project San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Parent empowerment and leadership project primarily for low income immigrant parents. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$2,000.00 |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park, CA |
Health |
General Support for Camp Sunburst, a residential summer camp for children infected with HIV/AIDS and their families. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
The National Hispanic University San Jose, CA |
Education |
Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$20,000.00 |
| ARGENTINA |
Todos Juntos Asociacion Civil Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Health |
Project Sonrisa is a dental program specifically adapted for the children and adolescents living in the slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$2,000.00 |
| United States |
Marin County School Volunteers San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Marin County School Volunteers matches community volunteer tutors with the neediest students identified for academic assistance throughout the public schools of Marin County, grades K-12. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$2,000.00 |
San Rafael High School Library San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Spanish books to add to library collection for Latino students. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$5,000.00 |
Marin Community Clinic Novato, CA |
Health |
General support of primary medical services for pediatric patients. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
Trips for Kids Marin San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Children come to learn basic bike mechanics, how to build and repair bikes, riding and shop safety and earn points to purchase their own bicycle. Trips in the outdoors are part of the program. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$2,000.00 |
| SUDAN |
US FUND FOR UNICEF*-Darfur Darfur Region |
Health |
Despite continuing and widespread insecurity in Darfur, UNICEF will continue to meet the urgent needs of children and plans numerous activities in 2007 and beyond. Programs will include health and nutrition, insecticide treated nets, water and sanitation services, education and protection programs.
Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Autlan Medical Clinic Autlan, MX |
Health |
Carlos and Deborah built this clinic in Carlos hometown of Autlan. These monies would support continuing operating costs. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$20,000.00 |
| United States |
Marin City Health and Wellness Center Marin City, CA |
Health |
A wellness center, health clinic and outreach, especially to youth.
Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$15,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Artists for a New South Africa
|
Health |
Challenge grant for Ingwavuma Orphan Care and Simelela Rape Center. Click here to view website >> |
July, 2007 |
$25,000.00 |
| United States |
Canal Alliance Youth Development San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The Youth Development and Leadership program offers teens and young adults healthy alternatives to potentially unhealthy or harmful behavior. We use youth development best practices such as peer counseling, job skills and life skills training, leadership development, education, and recreation. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
Cinnamon Girl Oakland, CA |
Education |
Our goal is to create a nurturing program for young girls that fosters leadership and positive gender identity, promotes healthy self-esteem, and provides opportunities for networking with accomplished women as well as peers from diverse backgrounds. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$5,000.00 |
Home Away from Homelessness San Francisco, CA |
Health |
This project encompasses three programs for homeless children in SF and Marin County: Beach House, Mentoring Program and School House Program. Beach House brings children 5-17 from homeless shelters for day trips to a cottage in the Marin Headlands outdoors. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
Loving Paws Santa Rosa, CA |
Health |
Loving Paws Assistance Dogs is the only organization in the country that focuses solely on providing professionally trained assistance dogs to children with disabilities nationwide. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
Performing Stars of Marin Marin City, CA |
Arts |
Opportunities for low income youth in the arts. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
| INDIA |
Shared Hope
|
Health |
Partnering with groups worldwide to prevent human trafficking for forced labor and prostitution. Shared Hope rescues women and children by buying their freedom and providing shelter, healthcare, education and vocational training. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
VIP Community Mental Health Center, Inc. Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
The CMHC, located in East Los Angeles, serves children that have been abused, neglected, sexually assaulted and/or have witnessed the abuse of their mothers. This center treats nearly 600 children each month. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$40,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Ingwavuma Orphan Care
|
Arts |
Ingwavuma is a community of families that are raising AIDS orphans as well as serving AIDS patients. The water cistern is miles away. This grant will buy and distribute Hippo Water Rollers to 100 families. http://www.hipporoller.org/ Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,080.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Duffy Hughes Memorial Stove Project
|
Health |
Upper respiratory disease, caused by smoky open fires in Guatemalan homes, is the leading cause of death in local children. Catastrophic burns are another preventable tragedy. This stove project in Guatemala provides safe, portable, locally-made cookstoves to replace open fires and reduce deforestation. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
| ISRAEL |
Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel
|
Education |
Bilingual Bicultural schools in Israel for Jewish and Arab children. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Ubuntu Education Fund
|
Education |
Ubuntu Education Fund is a grassroots organization dedicated to working with the people of the Eastern Cape Province to develop quality education and healthy communities in the new South Africa. Click here to view website >> |
January, 2007 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Gerard's House Santa Fe, NM |
Health |
Provides grief counseling for children and youth who lose a parent. Also included is support for Camp Rainbow, a camp for grieving children. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Jeremiah's Promise Palo Alto, CA |
Education |
The Jeremiahís Promise Program fills a dire gap by providing up to 24 months of transitional living services, academic support and mentoring to a long-neglected population of 18 to 22 year olds who were former foster children. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Parent Services Project San Rafael, CA |
Education |
We are requesting that the Milagro Foundation become a partner in this project by funding the child care component to include enrichment opportunities for the children in the creative arts, music and drama areas. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,000.00 |
Read Aloud Volunteer Program El Cerrito, CA |
Education |
Volunteer adults read to K-2 students enrolled in inner city schools in West Contra Costa (Richmond) USD for 1/2 hour twice/week. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Friends of the Children San Francisco San Francisco, CA |
Education |
FOTC SF matches each child with a professional mentor called a Friend who provides the child a nurturing and sustained relationship with an adult role model. Each mentor is a full-time staff member and works with no more than eight children of the same gender. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Image for Success San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Our Image for Success - KIDS program was born as a natural extension of our womenís program, since children in need of quality clothing are often from the same families as the women we assist. Providing for their children is yet another way we offer peace of mind to these courageous mothers seeking work outside the home in a tough job market. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy San Francisco, CA |
Education |
At KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy, Saturday School is mandatory for all students. The program helps our KIPPsters achieve the academic and social gains that will place them firmly on a college preparatory track and offers them choices as they strive for the success they deserve. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
Marin Community Clinic Larkspur, CA |
Health |
General support of primary medical services for pediatric patients who live within 200% or lower of the federal poverty level. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$30,000.00 |
Marin Literacy Program Olema, CA |
Education |
The Summer Reading Program was created to serve children of limited English speaking families living in isolated areas of West Marin County. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Marin School of the Arts Novato, CA |
Arts |
The culturally diverse Teachers in Residence Dance Program will teach authentic ethnic dances by teachers with deep knowledge of the dance and the culture from which the dance emanates. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Summer Search Napa-Sonoma Petaluma, CA |
Education |
Summer Search selects low-income high school students from Sonoma and Northern Marin counties who show potential for resiliency in the face of significant adversity.Summer Search makes a long-term investment in students, from their sophomore year of high school through college and even beyond. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
| ARGENTINA |
Todos Juntos Asociaion Civil San Isidro, Buenos Aires |
Health |
Project Sonrisa is a dental program specifically adapted for the children and adolescents living in the slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,000.00 |
| United States |
Marin County School Volunteers San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Marin County School Volunteers matches community volunteer tutors with the neediest students identified for academic assistance throughout the public schools of Marin County, grades K-12. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Rhythmic Concepts, Inc. Oakland, CA |
Arts |
Jazz Camp West provides jazz experiences for low income children to attend camp for a week in summer. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Youth in Arts San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
To provide in-depth, integrated, sequential student experiences in world music and visual arts at Willow Creek Charter school Academy in Marin City CA Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$10,000.00 |
Children's Defense Fund Washington, D.C. |
Education |
New Orleans Freedom Schools Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$64,000.00 |
Dream Tree Project Taos, NM |
Arts |
Our target population includes youth ages 16-24 who have an inability to live independently and have completed residential treatment center programs for drug and/or alcohol addiction; been released from juvenile detention facilities; are in teen or adult drug court; have aged-out of foster care; or have been estranged from their families due to safety issues such as domestic violence, drug or alcohol abuse. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Future Leaders For Peace Berkeley, CA |
Education |
Future Leaders For Peace addresses the problem of youth violence through a series of interactive workshops that target at-risk youth to provide them with the skills to break the cycle of violence. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Hannah Project Marin City, CA |
Education |
The Hannah Project is a recently formed collaboration to help improve graduation rates and college attendance of Marin City high schoolers. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$3,500.00 |
Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Loco Bloco's mission is to promote San Francisco youth's healthy transition into adulthood by engaging them in the creation and performance of music, dance, and theater reflecting the cultural diversity of the Americas. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
No Limits Theater Group Culver City, CA |
Arts |
The only theater group in the US for deaf children ages 5-15, who are learning to speak. These funds are to support an original production entitled, NO LIMITS’ ANGELS. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Oaktown Jazz Workshop Oakland, CA |
Arts |
Support for artist fees for a program perpetuating jazz among urban children in Oakland. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,000.00 |
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Santa Cruz, CA |
Education |
The Juvenile Hall Transisiton program provides a supportive, family atmosphere that encourages youth in their efforts to change past unproductive behavior. Planning for work and/or pursuit of higher education are also incorporated into the program. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,000.00 |
South Bay Children's Medical Clinic Los Gatos, CA |
Health |
In an effort to reaach more underserved populations, SBCMC acquired a bus and converted it to a mobile clinic, complete with a fully equipped exam room and is staffed by volunteer Pediatricians, medical assistants, and interpreters. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$40,000.00 |
| PAKISTAN |
St. Paul Society Islamabad, Pakistan |
Education |
Computer training course for neglected poor girls and women. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,500.00 |
| United States |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park, CA |
Health |
General Support for Camp Sunburst, a residential summer camp for children infected with HIV/AIDS and their families. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$20,000.00 |
Trips for Kids Marin San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Children come to learn basic bike mechanics, how to build and repair bikes, riding and shop safety and earn points to purchase their own bicycle. Trips in the outdoors are part of the program. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
Beyond Borders Corte Madera, CA |
Education |
A cross cultural leadership development program for children from around the county. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2006 |
$2,000.00 |
| ITALY |
Soccorso Clown Society Cooperative Sociale Onlus Florence, Italy |
Health |
The wards that are currently visited by our "hospital clowns" are the infectious disease and AIDS. These areas are our most important and special wards we work in, due to the type of illness found there. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$1,000.00 |
| PAKISTAN |
US FUND FOR UNICEF
|
Health |
Emergency assistance for its relief programs for survivors of the October 8 earthquake in Pakistan. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
VIP Community Mental Health Center, Inc. Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
The CMHC, located in East Los Angeles, serves children that have been abused, neglected, sexually assaulted and/or have witnessed the abuse of their mothers. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$20,000.00 |
Brooklyn Childcare Collective Brooklyn, NY |
Health |
To provide legal information and social services support to pregnant and parenting adolescents in New York Cityís under-resourced communities in order to prevent parent-child separations, episodes of child neglect and abuse as well as repeat pregnancies. The Brooklyn Childcare Collective places an emphasis on African-American and Latina girls in or aging out of foster care. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Canal Alliance (formerly CCA and Canal Ministry) San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The Youth Development and Leadership program offers teens and young adults healthy alternatives to potentially unhealthy or harmful behavior. We use youth development best practices such as peer counseling, job skills and life skills training, leadership development, education, and recreation. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$12,000.00 |
Dorcas Ministries Encinitas, CA |
Education |
Dorcas Ministries aka Casa Hogar Vida Joven is a foster home for children of prisoners in Tijuana, Mexico, founded in 1996. Until recently most of the children lived in the prison with their families. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Family Literacy Foundation San Diego, CA |
Education |
YOUTH READING ROLE MODELSĆ is a community service program that enables teens to read aloud with preschool children every week in neighboring childcare centers. The program is active at 37 youth sites in San Diego County and based on its remarkable impact on teens, we are expanding it to every Juvenile Court and Community School in the County. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Family Nurturing Center Florence, KY |
Health |
One of our most successful treatment programs is Tic Toc, a group-based treatment program for families impacted by child sexual abuse.
Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Family Service Agency of Marin San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Familias Fuertes!, a project of Family Service Agency's Childhood Trauma Program, is Marin County's only culturally appropriate and comprehensive child sexual abuse prevention program serving low-income and vastly underserved Latino children and their families. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
Free Arts NYC New York City, NY |
Arts |
Free Arts NYC is a volunteer-based non-profit dedicated to bringing arts and mentoring programs to youth and families who are affected by abuse, neglect, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, and the multiple and disabling risk factors associated with poverty by collaborating with community based organizations and public schools citywide. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Neighbors Together Pleasant Hill, TN |
Education |
Early Literacy Kits through collaboration with Head Start, Tennessee Early Intervention, Crisis Pregnancy Center, pediatricians, child abuse prevention and domestic violence centers, parents, churches, and retired professionals. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$1,500.00 |
Cinnamon Girl Oakland, CA |
Health |
Our goal is to create a nurturing program for young girls that fosters leadership and positive gender identity, promotes healthy self-esteem, and provides opportunities for networking with accomplished women as well as peers from diverse backgrounds. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
Institute for Community Health Outreach San Francisco, CA |
Health |
Our goal is to recruit 100 to 200 young women for HIV testing and follow up counseling. The communities we target all suffer from high rates of poverty, injection drug use and HIV infection. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
International Childcare Trust
|
Education |
The objective of this project is to support one of International Childcare Trust's partner, Shilpa Children's Trust (Shilpa) in Sri Lanka, who are working towards the long-term rehabilitation of children, their families and their communities in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka.
Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Jeannette Prandi Children's Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Provides medical services to child victims of sexual assault Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$10,000.00 |
Oakland Youth Chorus Oakland, CA |
Arts |
OYC provides after-school elementary school chorus programs in ten Oakland public schools, targeting low- and moderate-income students who would not otherwise have music education. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Performing Arts Workshop San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Performing Arts Workshop is attempting to expand the Artists in Community Homeless Shelter project by securing funds for six 15-week residencies to directly serve over 120 children and youth at the Hamilton Family Center facilities (The Center) Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Powerful Voices Seattle, WN |
Health |
Intervention program that provides girls in King County Juvenile Detention with information and support that they need to build strong lives. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$3,500.00 |
San Rafael High School Hayes Theater Renovation Committee San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
San Rafael High School Hayes Theater renovation Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Family & Youth Counseling Agency, Inc. Lake Charles, LA |
Arts |
While support and guidance are offered to all family members displaced by disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, special attention is given to the youngest victims. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
| ISRAEL |
Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel
|
Education |
Grant funds will support the first part of a three-year project period to evaluate the early childhood programs currently in place at the three Hand in Hand Schools, identify and integrate best teaching practices in early childhood education, and implement these findings through a top quality training program for Hand in Hand teachers. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Performing Stars of Marin Marin City, CA |
Arts |
The purpose of Performing Stars' programs is to create opportunities for children to overcome the limitations imposed by poverty so that they can follow their dreams and become actively engaged in a discipline of their choice. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$5,000.00 |
Bloomingdale School of Music New York City, NY |
Arts |
Project Bridge is a partnership initiative which supports existing instrumental programs in New York City public secondary schools. Students selected for the program are members of ensembles in their public schools who receive free private lessons throughout the year on their instrument at Bloomingdale. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2006 |
$2,500.00 |
Dress for Success Boise, ID |
Health |
A program to help women in transition break free of the cycle of poverty and government assistance by providing them with appropriate interview attire and coaching them in basic interview etiquette. Kids Kloset provides clothing for these women’s children. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,000.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Duffy Hughes Memorial Stove Project
|
Health |
Upper respiratory disease, caused by smoky open fires in Guatemalan homes, is the leading cause of death in local children. Catastrophic burns are another preventable tragedy. This stove project in Guatamala provides safe, portable, locally-made cookstoves to replace open fires and reduce deforestation. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$4,000.00 |
| United States |
Latino Educational and Cultural Foundation of Marin Kentfield, CA |
Education |
The purpose of the Mentorship Program is to ensure the success of the Latino High School students entering the junior college for the first time and as first generation college students. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
Outright Vermont (ORVT) Burlingon, VT |
Health |
The campaign to be developed by and for queer youth will provide HIV prevention messages, promote risk reduction, and most importantly be queer youth focused. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
| SIERRA LEONE |
PEACELINKS Freetown, Sierra Leone |
Arts |
A project in Sierra Leone that teaches ex-child combatants and underprivileged youth, skills to help them enter the work force. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$4,000.00 |
| United States |
Ritter Center San Rafael, CA |
Education |
This program provides school aged children (5-18) with new backpacks, lunch boxes, school supplies, new shoes, a department store gift certificate and dependent on funding, a gently used, but fully functional computer. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
San Francisco School of the Arts PTSA San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
The SOTA Creative Writing (CW) Department seeks to publish one big spring issue of our literary journal Umlaut during the 2005-2006 school year. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Ubuntu Education Fund
|
Education |
Ubuntu Education Fund is a grassroots organization dedicated to working with the people of the Eastern Cape Province to develop quality education and healthy communities in the new South Africa. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$7,500.00 |
| United States |
Volunteer Center of Monterey County Salinas, CA |
Education |
The main focus of the Caminos program is to help 100 expelled students complete their middle or highschool education while focusing on character building. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
WildCare San Rafael, CA |
Education |
This project is the only after-school program in Marin County that teaches students how to understand wildlife and its value for our habitat, the students' own role in this habitat, and their importance to a sustainable future. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
A Mother's Wish Foundation Santiago, Dominican Republic |
Health |
A rural medical clinic staffed by a doctor, a nurse and a receptionist, providing health care, vaccinations, medicine and consultations free of charge to the entire community. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$2,770.00 |
| United States |
Bay Area Youth Fund for Education (b.a.y. fund)* San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Year-round academic support for at-risk children from the Mission and Potrero Hill in San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
Gokulam - Bhaktivedanta Children's Home
|
Health |
Gokulam - Bhaktivedanta Children's Home is an orphanage just outside of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Since 1999 we have been serving children affected by the ongoing civil war, poverty, and most recently the Tsunami of 2004. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Guitars in the Classroom Santa Cruz, CA |
Arts |
This program provides direct services to children in grades 2-8, bringing them in groups to make music with senior citizens living in assisted living centers in their communities on six occasions during the coming school year. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$1,000.00 |
| INDIA |
Little Stars School - Sri Sarveshwari Samooh Sonoma Yoga Ashram
|
Education |
Little Stars is a school educating 300 street children from the city of Vanansi in India. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Marin Foster Parent Association San Rafael, CA |
Health |
MFPA is an organization comprised of licensed foster and adoptive parents in Marin County, California and members of the community interested in assisting foster parents in providing excellent homes to the abused and/or neglected children in the Marin County foster care system.
Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$4,500.00 |
Medicine Horse Program Boulder, CO |
Health |
This project pairs suicidal teenaged girls with Premarin foals (considered to be a by-product of the pharmaceutical industry) in order to restore a sense of hope and vision for the future, increased self-reliance for the girls. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
Oasis For Girls San Francisco, CA |
Education |
The mission of Oasis For Girls is to cultivate self-esteem in girls and young women through arts, education and leadership development programs. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
| NICARAGUA |
Sharing Resources Worldwide
|
Health |
In 2004, 180 wheelchairs were shipped to Matagalpa, along with 300 crutches, 62 walkers, and 13 boxes of wheelchair supplies and parts, all donated by U.S. health facilities. This project not only sends supplies, they provide jobs in Nicaragua for the local people to assist in putting the chairs together and fitting the supplies to the needs of the children. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Vector Theater Company Marin City, CA |
Arts |
Vector strives to serve underperforming students who do not receive high levels of arts education in their schools due to economic, language and/or other limitations. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$4,000.00 |
Willow Creek Foundation Sausalito, CA |
Education |
Willow Creek Academy (WCA) is a site-based public charter school serving elementary school children in the Sausalito Marin City School District. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
Youth In Arts San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Patron support for Italian Street Painting Festival benefitting the Youth In Arts programs for Marin County Schools. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
A Keiki’s dream Fun Day Foundation Wailuku, HI |
Health |
The Fun Day Foundation empowers and supports children in crisis from Maui County by giving them a "dream come true" on Maui. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Children's Book Project San Francisco, CA |
Education |
The mission of the Children's Book Project is to help economically-disadvantaged children learn to read by providing the children and the facilities that serve them with books and other resources. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,000.00 |
Discovery Arts Tustin, CA |
Health |
Through fun and creative programs, Discovery Arts meets the needs of children hospitalized with cancer and their families strengthening children's emotional health and positively impacting their treatment and recovery. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
GKIT-Visitacion Valley Community Resiliency Project San Francisco, CA |
Education |
G-Kit's mission is to enable young women to realize their unlimited possibility and potential.G-Kit provides an opportunity for young women to become unified and implement Health Realization into their community as well as communities surrounding them. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Home Away from Homelessness San Francisco, CA |
Health |
This project encompasses three programs for homeless children in SF and Marin County: Beach House, Mentoring Program and School House Program. Beach House brings children 5-17 from homeless shelters for day trips to a cottage in the Marin Headlands outdoors. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2005 |
$10,000.00 |
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Alexandria, VA |
Health |
In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Justice has asked the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to staff a hotline to take reports of missing children, missing adults, and children who have been separated from their families.
Click here to view website >> |
September, 2005 |
$25,000.00 |
America's Second Harvest Washington, D.C. |
Health |
America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest hunger-relief organization, distributing surplus food to more than 23 million hungry Americans each year. These specific funds are for Hurricane Katrina relief. Click here to view website >> |
September, 2005 |
$25,000.00 |
Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development Arcata, CA |
Education |
Building leadership development, technology training and respect and understanding of the Native American heritage among young people. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Someone Cares Soup Kitchen Costa Mesa, CA |
Education |
Soup kitchen and after school tutoring program. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,000.00 |
Timber Trails Children's Project Sedona, AZ |
Health |
Outdoor recreation and enrichment for at-risk Phoenix youth living below poverty level. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,000.00 |
Youth in Arts San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Multi cultural artists in residence for a Marin City school. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$4,500.00 |
| PAKISTAN |
St. Paul Society Islamabad, Pakistan |
Education |
Computer training course for neglected poor girls and women. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park, CA |
Health |
Camp Sunburst is a residential summer camp for children infected with HIV/AIDS and their families. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$10,000.00 |
Made for Angels Carlsbad, CA |
Health |
Creates custom designed quilts with personal photos for children who are suffering from cancer and other life threatening diseases. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,000.00 |
Women Helping All People Marin City, CA |
Education |
After school support for Marin City children. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$1,500.00 |
Worth Our Weight Healdsburg, CA |
Health |
A cooking school for teens is a comprehensive culinary training program teaching teens food service fundamentals in a supportive, hands-on environment. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,000.00 |
Canal Child Care San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Pre-school childhood obesity program to train families to make healthy choices. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
College Track Oakland, CA |
Education |
Encourage, mentor and support a college education for low income and immigrant teens. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
Five 4 Five Fairfax, CA |
Education |
Shoot Cameras Not Guns, an education project designed to use photography to speak about how they experience violence in their communities. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
| PHILIPPINES |
Great Kids, Inc. Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines |
Health |
Education for caregivers and foster parents in the Philippines. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Jamestown Community Center San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Jamestown provides a range of education and recreation services to young people and their families in San Francisco's mission district. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$4,000.00 |
Jeremiah's Promise Saratoga, CA |
Health |
Housing and services support for emancipated foster youth. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$10,000.00 |
M.A.R.E. Riding Center Bakersfield, CA |
Health |
Provides therapeutic riding programs for the disabled in Kern County. 90% are children. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,000.00 |
Marin Interfaith Youth Outreach (MIYO) San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The MIYO Teen Center provides underpriviledged youth with education, job training and leadership development programs. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Martinez Street Women's Center San Antonio, TX |
Education |
Girl World Project is a mentoring program for young Latino girls. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Men Can Stop Rape Washington, D.C. |
Health |
Male youth (ages 13-22) mentoring program designed to play a vital role in ending violence against women. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Practice Without Pressure Bear, DE |
Health |
Teaching and practice receiving services (dental work, blood work, haircuts, x-rays etc.) for developmentally disabled children and adults in order to avoid restraint during procedures. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Ascodimaya Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Education |
To continue the education of youg rural Mayan children into 7th grade. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
| United States |
Beyond Borders Corte Madera, CA |
Education |
Cross cultural leadership development program for children from around the Bay Area. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$7,500.00 |
Birthday Wishes Waltham, MA |
Health |
Provides birthday parties for children living in homeless shelters in the greater Boston area. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$1,000.00 |
Loving Paws Assistance Dogs Santa Rosa, CA |
Health |
The only organization in the country that provides professionally trained assistance dogs to children with disabilities nationwide. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
North Bay Children's Center Novato, CA |
Health |
A pre-school garden and nutrition program to combat obesity. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Read Aloud Volunteer Program El Cerrito, CA |
Education |
Volunteer adults read to K-2 students enrolled in inner city schools in West Contra Costa County. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2005 |
$1,500.00 |
Cesar Chavez Elementary School San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Guitars for schools instrumental music program, serving low income, mostly recent Latino immigrants. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$1,000.00 |
JVQ California, Inc. San Francisco,CA |
Health |
JVQ California will provide critical vision services for Marin County low-income children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
Marin County School Volunteers San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Marin County School Volunteers matches community volunteer tutors with the neediest students identified for academic assistance throughout the public schools of Marin County, grades K-12. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Oak Park Housing Authority Paso Robles, CA |
Health |
Oak Park Soccer League provides a soccer experience and anti-tobacco message to underprivileged children ages 4-14 in a subsidized housing complex. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,000.00 |
San Rafael Music Council San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Provides music to low income schools which allows for the same instruction for all children in the school district. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
UNICEF
|
Health |
Support for Tsunami victims in South East Asia Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
No Limits Theater Group Culver City, CA |
Arts |
The only theater group in the US for deaf children ages 5-15, who are learning to speak. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Pasadena Mental Health Center Pasadena,CA |
Health |
First Offenders Program is a unique, collaborative effort involving PMHC, the Pasadena Police Department and Pasadena Youth Accountability Board, to deter first-time nonviolent youth offenders away from crime and towards more productive life choices. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
Marin Community Clinic Larkspur, CA |
Health |
The Program will add a part-time bilingual Asthma Educator to the Clinicís pediatric program. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
Family Connections San Carlos, CA |
Education |
Family Connectionsí (FC) mission is to provide a tuition-free, parent participation preschool for low-income families where parents learn positive parenting skills and their children develop the skills necessary to succeed in Kindergarten and beyond. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$3,000.00 |
Homework Club San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The Homework Club provides after school small group tutoring services for struggling middle school students. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Aja Project San Diego, CA |
Arts |
Record of Truth is a participatory photography program for Burmese refugee youth from the Karen ethnic group, now living in refugee camps in Thailand. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,000.00 |
Friendship Club Nevada City, CA |
Health |
Mentoring and support for at risk girls. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$3,000.00 |
Gerard's House Santa Fe, NM |
Health |
Provides grief counseling for children and youth who lose a parent. Also included is support for Camp Rainbow, a camp for grieving children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$4,000.00 |
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc. Lac du Flambeau, WI |
Education |
Conflict resolution and diversity training for community of diverse students, with focus on understanding native american culture, in middle school and high school. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Huckleberry Youth Programs San Rafael, CA |
Health |
15 Deep is made up of 15 young men, aged 13-18, mostly Latino and from the Canal District of San Rafael, CA. They named themselves 15 Deep, to represent 15 young men deeply involved in their community.
Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Jeannette Prandi Children's Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Provides medical services to child victims of sexual assault Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$16,000.00 |
Barrio Logan College Institute San Diego, CA |
Education |
Programs that motivate third through twelfth grade students to pursue a college education and excel in their studies. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Bridge the Gap Marin City, CA |
Education |
Voluntary one on one tutoring program in Marin City. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$3,000.00 |
Loco Bloco San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Free in-school and after school and community based drumming and dance programs reflecting the cultural diversity of San Francisco and the Americas. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$3,500.00 |
| NIGERIA |
Open Doors for Special Learners
|
Education |
The establishment of poultry raising as one of the vocational training activities in the Open Doors Special Education Centre in Jos, Nigeria. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Sherman Heights Community Center San Diego, CA |
Arts |
Adelante Ballet FolklŰrico provides 5 hours of Ballet FolklŰrico instruction per week for 100 children, 15 adolescents and a dozen adults. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
| IRAQ |
The iMAGE Project
|
Health |
The Seasons Art School is a preschool/postschool program employing art, music, drama and creativity to help children deal with the trauma of war. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Tonya's House Pendleton, OR |
Arts |
Tonya's House outreach program offers runaway, homeless, at-risk youth, residing in a rural area, an adult mentor and "safe place" to provide support, access to education, employment, and a connection to counseling and health appointments. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$1,500.00 |
VIP Community Mental Health Center, Inc. Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
The CMHC, located in East Los Angeles, serves children that have been abused, neglected, sexually assaulted and/or have witnessed the abuse of their mothers. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$20,000.00 |
WMMT Mountain Community Radio/Traditional Music Program Whitesburg, KY |
Arts |
The "Passing the Pick and Bow" project offers free after-school traditional music classes to young people in communities across Central Appalachia. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2005 |
$2,500.00 |
Mariachi Una Voz Glendale, AZ |
Arts |
Instrumental music students in grades 5-8 throughout the Glendale Elementary District are invited to rehearse and perform Mariachi music under the direction of one main teacher/director and 3 assistant teacher/directors, all volunteering their time. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$1,800.00 |
Mexican Museum San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Street SmArt offers free after-school classes in a variety of art media, providing cultural enrichment and development opportunities to children and youth who would otherwise have little or no access to participatory arts activities - due to the lack of financial resources and limited arts programming in local schools.
Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe Buffalo, NY |
Arts |
Neto... proposes to conduct arts workshops for at risk youth in the city of Buffalo. The emphasis will be to the Native American community although the classes will be open to all. Neto... proposes six workshops each with a different focus on Native American craft and arts. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$3,000.00 |
Oyate Berkeley, CA |
Education |
Oyate is a community-based Native organization working to see that our lives, traditional arts and literatures, and histories are portrayed honestly, so that all people will know our stories belong to us. In our "Teaching Respect for Native Peoples" Community Workshops, we provide training for Native parents, imparting skills to help our children resist the negative influences and values of alien institutions. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
Parent Services Project San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Parent educational leadership and empowerment program in the schools. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
pARTners Unlimited Des Moines, Iowa |
Arts |
pARTners Unlimited provides experiential learning through the arts for individuals at risk of delinquency or criminal behavior. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Performing Arts Workshop San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Artist residencies for homeless chldren and youth residing in Hamilton Family Center facilities in San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project (LAMP) Los Angeles, CA |
Education |
A community-based nonprofit organization, LAMP strives to support and empower the people of South Los Angeles through a range of innovative programs and services. All of our classes and services are free, open to everyone, and run for nine months. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
| BRAZIL |
Amazon-Africa Aid
|
Health |
Support for Quilombos, communities of escaped slaves that live in isolation in Brazil..training for community health workers.Our goal in the regions we work is to ensure that every child has access and is provided with the proper health care and education experience that will enable him/her to lead a healthy and happy life. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$4,800.00 |
| United States |
Bay Area Youth Fund for Education (b.a.y. fund) San Francisco, CA |
Education |
This grant would provide year-round academic support for at-risk children from the Mission and Potrero Hill in San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
| UGANDA |
BBUKKA EDUCATIONAL CENTRES
|
Arts |
Uganda-Its a wireless internet project that intends to connect the five school to the Internet from one side that distributes to the other four. Its a cheaper means of getting these rural institutions access the Internet. The project will involve purchase and installation of equipment at 5 high schools that hold a population of 2,250 students of whom 95% are girls. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Children's Book Project San Francisco,CA |
Education |
The mission of the Children's Book Project is to help economically-disadvantaged children learn to read by providing the children and the facilities that serve them with books and other resources. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,000.00 |
CinnamonGirl, Incorporated San Francisco,CA |
Education |
Our goal is to create a nurturing program for young girls that fosters leadership and positive gender identity, promotes healthy self-esteem, and provides opportunities for networking with accomplished women as well as peers from diverse backgrounds. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Home Away from Homelessness San Francisco, CA |
Education |
This project encompasses three programs for homeless children in SF and Marin County: Beach House, Mentoring Program and School House Program. Beach House brings children 5-17 from homeless shelters for day trips to a cottage in the Marin Headlands outdoors. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Image for Success KIDS* San Rafael, CA |
Health |
We are the sole Marin agency providing wardrobes for the needy children of Marin. 23 social service agencies and Marin grammar schools refer to us. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,000.00 |
San Francisco School of the Arts PTSA San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Creative writing discipline produces published works by the students. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
San Rafael Canal Ministry San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Youth Education and Development Program to provide language acquisition, education, health education and college/career development for youth in San Rafael Canal area. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$7,500.00 |
Vision Youthz San Francisco,CA |
Education |
Through a mentoring and internship program, we serve youth who, because of their incarceration, gang-affiliation, or lack of family support , are at highest risk of long-term adult incarceration. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Bethany Brethren Community Center Chicago, IL |
Arts |
Funds to continue and expand music education program. Contracting with a local music instructor, last year we provided keyboard instruction to a total of 25 students. We plan to continue this instruction and add percussion lessons, including African drumming. These programs will complement our already-existing classes in drama and dance. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Marin Catholic High School Kentfield, CA |
Education |
Support for low income team from Houston to join in a basketball tournament in the Bay Area. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$1,000.00 |
Sonoma County Music Association Sebastopol, CA |
Arts |
Music program for kids at risk in court/community schools and child protective custody facilities in Sonoma County. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$3,500.00 |
South Bay Children's Medical Clinic Los Gatos, CA |
Health |
In an effort to reach more underserved populations, SBCMC acquired a bus and converted it to a mobile clinic, complete with a fully equipped exam room and is staffed by volunteer Pediatricians, medical assistants, and interpreters. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$7,500.00 |
Taking the Reins Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
Taking the Reins is dedicated to fostering the physical and mental well being of at-risk, teenage girls, ages 11-18, through after school and summer equestrian sports and activities. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Transition Learning Center San Pablo, CA |
Education |
The Transition Learning Center (TLC) is a school that is comprised of all the students who have been expelled from every public school in the West Contra Costa Unified School District for violence, street gang involvement or disruptive behavior. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Imagine Bus Project Sausalito, CA |
Arts |
Bus outfitted as an art studio that travels to various Bay Area inner city communities, making the arts and cultural experiences available to all children. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Integrative Therapies Program for Children with Cancer New York, NY |
Health |
A complementary support program, including nutrition, massage,yoga, reike, accupressure etc. to aid children with cancer going through the heaing process. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
| HAITI |
Light For All Corp. (LIFA)
|
Education |
Grass roots organization providing funds for teacher salaries and books for small schools in rural Haiti Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$9,000.00 |
| INDIA |
Little Stars School - Sri Sarveshwari Samooh Sonoma Yoga Ashram
|
Education |
Develop a music lab for a school educating 300 street children from the city of Vanansi in India Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$3,500.00 |
| SIERRA LEONE |
Peacelinks
|
Education |
A project in Sierra Leone that teaches ex child combatants and underprivileged youth skills to help them enter the work force. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Powerful Voices Seattle, WN |
Health |
Intervention program that provides girls in King County Juvenile Detention with information and support that they need to build strong lives and integrate back into society. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
Ritter Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Emergency assistance and services are provided free of charge to the working poor and homeless families of Marin County. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
San Rafael High School Music Boosters Association San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
A parent-run organization dedicated to supporting and enhancing the work of the schoolís music department, Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,000.00 |
SOUL, School of Unity & Liberation Oakland, CA |
Education |
Training center for a new generation of young organizers, especially young women, young people of color, gay youth and low-income youth-who will have the skills and vision to struggle for a world ofjustice for all people. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park, CA |
Health |
General Support for Camp Sunburst, a residential summer camp for children infected with HIV/AIDS and their families. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
Children's Center of Southwest Missouri Joplin, MO |
Health |
Children’s Center and sexual abuse clinic reduces the trauma of abused children by facilitating a multidisciplinary response in a child friendly environment. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$3,000.00 |
Friends of SOTA Foundation San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Four year public high school that provides students w/variety of educational opportunities in the arts Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$10,000.00 |
Timber Trails Children's Project, Inc. Sedona, AZ |
Education |
Timber Trails Childrenís Project provides outdoor recreation and educational enrichment at no charge for at-risk Phoenix youth living below poverty level. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Vector Theater Company San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Theater arts curriculum program at Martin Luther King School for all students tying into school curriculum. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$3,000.00 |
Young Women's United for Oakland Oakland, CA |
Health |
Creates new economic, educational leadership opportunities run by and for young women living in poor and working class communities. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$3,500.00 |
Youth in Arts San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
West African Dance instruction for Marin City school. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$3,000.00 |
Beyond Borders Corte Madera, CA |
Arts |
A cross cultural leadership development program for children from around the San Francisco Bay Area. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$10,000.00 |
College Track East Palo Alto, CA |
Education |
College Track works with students of color and low income students in Palo Alto and Oakland to help them successfully complete high school and enter and complete college. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
Geraldine Public Library Geraldine, AL |
Education |
Computer station, books and cds for small library in rural Alabama. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,000.00 |
Oakland Youth Chorus Oakland, CA |
Arts |
A program of youth choruses at eight inner city Oakland public elementary schools. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$3,500.00 |
The Center (Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of Colorado) Denver, CO |
Health |
Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual, Transgender Community Service Center of Colorado Rainbow Alley is an afterschool drop in center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender youth, their families and their allies. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Hana Youth Center Hana, HI |
Arts |
Hana Youth Center would like to offer a positive alternative by providing Hana youth with the chance to learn how to play the ukulele and revitalize this cultural art. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
| ISRAEL |
Hand in Hand
|
Education |
An integrated bilingual school for Israeli Arab and Jewish children who study together in the same classrooms, learning each other’s languages and cultures. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Homowo African Arts & Cultures Portland, OR |
Arts |
A program that builds leadership skills through drumming, oral history and storytelling for young African American males. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Hui Malama Learning Center Wailuku, HI |
Arts |
Offers a variety of youth services such as GED classes, youth mentoring, peer mentoring, job readiness etc. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Trips for Kids Marin San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Organization that provides mountain bike outing, job training and environmental education for inner city youth. Re-Cyclery program i one of first earn-a-bike programs in the country. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Canal Community Alliance San Rafael, CA |
Education |
The Youth Development and Leadership program offers teens and young adults healthy alternatives to potentially unhealthy or harmful behavior. This grant funds Radio Canal, a radio program run by and for Latino youth. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
WMMT Mountain Community Radio/Traditional Music Program Whitesburg, KY |
Arts |
The "Passing the Pick and Bow" project offers free after-school traditional music classes to young people in communities across Central Appalachia. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Jeannette Prandi Children's Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Provides medical services to child victims of sexual assault Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$10,000.00 |
LAC & USC Violence Intervention Program* Los Angeles,CA |
Health |
Support for after school mentoring and one on one companionship and activity program for young victims of sexual abuse and family violence. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$10,000.00 |
Cantare Con Vivo Oakland, CA |
Arts |
Music Choir program in West Oakland Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$1,000.00 |
Circus Day Foundation St. Louis, MO |
Arts |
A Circus arts program integrating youth of many cultural backgrounds, including Jewish and Muslim children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$1,000.00 |
El Nido Teen Center Boyes Hot Springs, CA |
Education |
After School homework center for teen club, the only drop in teen club in Sonoma County Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
Center for Young Women's Development San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
The Sisters Rising program is a well paid nine-month employment-training project run for and by girls who’ve lived and worked on the streets and/or who’ve experienced the juvenile justice system. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
Fish of Greater New Haven New Haven, CT |
Health |
Food delivery to people in need (80% are children.) Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$1,000.00 |
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc. (GLITC) Lac du Flambeau, WI |
Education |
This project helps to break down cultural barriers between Native American children and other students in the community. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$3,000.00 |
Korean American Family Service Center Flushing, NY |
Arts |
Creative Arts for Children‚Äů program, will provide children ages 6-12 with art activities to deal with the special social, psychological, or emotional issues that may result from struggling with adapting to a new country or from experiencing violence at home. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$1,000.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Open Windows Foundation
|
Education |
Library for children in Guatemala. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
San Francisco Mime Troupe San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Youth Theater Project teaches low income teens how to write and perform plays about the issues that concern them Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$3,000.00 |
Southern Arizona Community Diaper Bank Tucson, AZ |
Health |
The only diaper bank in the U.S. provides diapers for low income families Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Stege Elementary School - Third Grade Richmond, CA |
Education |
Individual Richmond classroom teacher’s dream of having her children experience culturally rich program focusing on Africa, using the Bay Area resources. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$2,000.00 |
Bridge the Gap Marin City, CA |
Education |
Voluntary one on one tutoring program in Marin City. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Family & Youth Counseling Agency, Inc. Lake Charles, LA |
Health |
Teen centers for youth in downtown Lake Charles. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$2,500.00 |
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) Boulder, CO |
Education |
Pairing of seniors with children for year long tutoring and mentoring committment. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$1,000.00 |
Rhythmic Concepts, Inc. Oakland, CA |
Arts |
Provides musical experiences for low income children to attend jazz camp for a week in summer. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$3,000.00 |
| BANGLADESH |
Khairunnessa Memorial School (KMS) Faridpur, Bangladesh |
Education |
School Supplies and Equipment for Rural Girlsí School in Bangladesh Click here to view website >> |
February, 2004 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Loco Bloco San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
After school arts programs that provides training and performance opportunities to approximately 100 at-risk youth in San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
No Limits Theater Group Culver City, CA |
Arts |
The only theater group in the U.S. for deaf children ages 5-15 who are learning to speak. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
San Rafael Canal Ministry San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Youth Education and Development program to provide language acquisition, education, health education and college and career development for youth in the San Rafael Canal area. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$9,000.00 |
Bahama Village Music Program Key West, FL |
Arts |
Program to provide free musical instruction to children whose families are unable to afford them. Teachers are adult volunteers and teenage music students. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Louisville Leopards Louisville, KY |
Arts |
Funds will help to purchase instruments for incredible student percussion group. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Marin Interfaith Youth Outreach San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Teen center programs to help youth in need in the areas of job readiness, creative arts, education and recreational programs run by a collaborative of 13 interfaith congregations in Marin County. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$6,000.00 |
| THAILAND |
AjA Project
|
Arts |
A photographic journalism project for refugee children in Burma, Thailand, Afghanistan and San Diego. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$4,000.00 |
| United States |
Coronado YMCA Richmond, CA |
Education |
Funding will allow opportunity to partner with local performing arts programs and instructors. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Community Clinic of Maui Kahului, Maui, HI |
Health |
Pediatric department provides early periodic screening and treatment, immunizations etc. Funding is for translation equipment. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
Global Education Partnership Oakland, CA |
Education |
An experiential after school program emphasizing entrepreneurship, work readiness, computer skills, global awareness and cultural understanding for children in the Oakland highschools. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Barry University
|
Health |
Yucatan Children's Project provides wheelchairs and medical equipment, as well as surgical services by doctors, for crippled children in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$4,000.00 |
| United States |
Children's Book Project San Francisco, CA |
Education |
The Read Aloud program is a book giveaway program to encourage home libraries and parents to read aloud to children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$3,000.00 |
Gerard's House Santa Fe, NM |
Health |
Provides grief counseling for children and youth who lose a parent. Funding is for Camp Rainbow, a camp for grieving children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Mission Learning Center San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Funds will support a remedial reading program at Sanchez Elementary School. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Music in Schools Today San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Funds will support music programs for the most at risk or incarcerated youth at Full Circle Residential Treatment Center and Glide Memorial church. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
North Carolina Lambda Youth Network Durham, NC |
Education |
Statewide leadership and organizaing network for social change and committed to ending homophobia. The group is led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and allied young people, ages 13-24. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Oaktown Jazz Workshop Oakland, CA |
Arts |
Support for artist fees for a program perpetuating jazz among urban children in Oakland. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Parent Services Project, Inc. San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Project trains parents to become partners and perform leadership roles at their children's schools and in the community. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Performing Arts Workshop San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Artist residencies for homeless children and youth residing in Hamilton Family Center facilities in San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2003 |
$4,000.00 |
Angel Harvest Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
AH collects food from over 1500 LA restaurants, events, movie studios etc. and distributes it to homeless shelters around the area. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
| BOSNIA |
Art Reach
|
Arts |
Purchase of used musical instruments and art supplies for workshops with Muslim and Croate teachers and children together. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
| United States |
Family Builders by Adoption Oakland, CA |
Health |
Forever Family Project provides services to families adopting special needs children to support the family's stabilization and growth throughout the adoption process. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$2,000.00 |
Hana Community Health Center Hana, HI |
Health |
Purchase of bicycles and helmets for the Health Center's adolescent health and wellness project. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
Kern County Youth Mariachi Foundation Bakersfield, CA |
Arts |
A Mariachi training program for children after school and during summer. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Oasis San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Oasis inspires young women and girls from the South of Market neighborhood to better their communities and enrich their lives through arts, education and leadership. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
Performing Stars of Marin Marin City, CA |
Arts |
Neighborhood programs focusing on performing arts and social skills development for 150 Marin City children. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$7,000.00 |
| NICARAGUA |
Project Esperanza
|
Health |
Project supports two full time teachers as well as shelter and meals for street children in Granada, Nicaragua. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,000.00 |
| United States |
School of the Arts (SOTA) San Francisco, CA |
Education |
General support for resident artist fees and other operating expenses for creative writing program in SOTA Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Sonoma County Music Association Sebastopol, CA |
Arts |
Music program for kids in court/community schools and child protective custody facilies as well as juvenile hall in Sonoma County. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Trips for Kids San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Organization that provides mountain bike outings, job training and environmental education for inner city youth. Their re-cyclery bicycle repair training program is one of the first earn-a-bike programs for youth in the country. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
Prominence Project Marin City, CA |
Arts |
This project exposes youth of all national, ehnic and racial backgrounds to music, arts and technology. This particular program focuses on giving music lessons to children who live in Marin City. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$2,000.00 |
Beyond Borders Corte Madera |
Education |
Beyond Borders is a cross cultural leadership development program. Funding is for supporting a diverse group of youth forom low income areas around San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$10,000.00 |
| ISRAEL |
Hand in Hand
|
Education |
An integrated bilingual school for Israeli Arab and Jewish children who study together in the same classrooms, learning each other's languages and cultures. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Little Wishes San Anselmo, CA |
Health |
Little Wishes grants "little wishes" (visit from a puppy, a game, a magical tent...) to children in a San Francisco hospital who have acute and/or terminal illnesses. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$1,000.00 |
Marin Community Clinic Larkspur, CA |
Health |
Community clinic that provides primary and preventive health care to uninsured and underinsured Marin County children. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,000.00 |
Summerbridge at the Town School New York, NY |
Education |
High school students teaching 7th and 8th grade inner city children an enriched and rigorous academic program w/opportunities to experience the cultural richness of NYC. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
| CANADA |
Western Canadian Pediatric AIDS Society
|
Health |
Art therapy program at a summer camp for children in Canada with HIV/AIDS. This camp is free of charge, including airfare for the children. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Barrio Logan College Institute San Diego, CA |
Arts |
Assistance and preparation to ensure low income, first generation Latino children attend and experience success in college. This program begins in middleschool and follows the children with mentors and role models. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Girl Source San Francisco,CA |
Education |
Funding for technology and leadership program which provides technology, life, leadership and job skills to low income young women, 14-18 years old. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
Youth in Arts San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Multicultural artists in schools program for Marin City school. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$4,500.00 |
Image for Success San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Image for Success KIDS provides free clothing for needy children. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$2,000.00 |
| ZIMBABWE |
IDEX-International Development Exchange
|
Education |
Chitungwiza Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Project trains Zimbabwe youth in basic carpentry, welding, dressmaking and micro-enterprise development skills and leadership and life skills to prepare them to become self sufficient. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
| United States |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park |
Health |
General support for Camp Sunburst, a residential summer camp for children infected and affected with HIV/AIDS Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Marin Horizon School Mill Valley, CA |
Education |
Grant will help extend the capacity for offering financial aid to diverse student applicants. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2003 |
$15,000.00 |
Jeannette Prandi Children's Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Children's center for child victims of sexual abuse. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$10,000.00 |
LAC & USC Violence Intervention Program Los Angeles |
Health |
Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$10,000.00 |
Alamo Area Center Resource Center San Antonio, TX |
Arts |
Jennifer's Camp is a free summer camp for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,000.00 |
Art Room Tucson, AZ |
Arts |
An expressive arts program for children living in domestic violence shelters and transitional housing. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Blue Gargoyle Chicago, IL |
Arts |
Programs for teen age parents and their children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Bread & Roses Corte Madera, CA |
Arts |
Outreach performances for sick, handicapped and disadvantaged youth. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Childhelp USA Knoxville, TN |
Health |
A Mobile children's advocacy center for child victims of sexual abuse in Appalachia. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Girls Incorporated of Los Angeles Pasadena, CA |
Health |
Provides girl focused programming and advocacy to help girls grow up "strong, smart and bold." Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Integrative Therapies Program for Children with Cancer New York, NY |
Health |
Alternative therapies for children with cancer to complement traditional drug treatment programs. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Marin Literacy Program San Rafael, CA |
Education |
A bilingual storytime project through the Point Reyes Station library. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
People's Grocery Oakland, CA |
Health |
Collards and Commerce Youth Program trains youth in social entrepreneurship and business management in the healthy food business. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$3,000.00 |
Project Avary San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Program for children of incarcerated parents. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$1,000.00 |
St. Vincent's School for Boys San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Equestrian program for healing sexually molested teen boys. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$3,000.00 |
Youth Speaks San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Creative writing workshop programs from fiction and poetry to performance, desktop publishing and slam for SF Bay Area youth ages 13-19. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Home Away from Homelessness San Francisco, CA |
Health |
Beach House program provides homeless children with recreational and artistic programs. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$5,000.00 |
Imagine Bus Project Sausalito |
Arts |
An art bus brings a fully equipped art studio to children in their neighborhoods. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$3,000.00 |
Marin County School Volunteers San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Program that recruits, screens, trains and refers community volunteer tutors and mentors to public school classrooms. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Ritter House San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Programs and assistance for homeless families of Marin. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$3,000.00 |
San Rafael Music Council San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Provides music programs for low income schools. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$3,900.00 |
School of Unity and Liberation Oakland, CA |
Education |
A leadership training center to build a new multi-racial generation of young organizers for social change. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Young Women's United for Oakland Oakland, CA |
Education |
Leadership training program for young women living in poor and working class communities. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$3,500.00 |
Youth Empowering Systems SAn Francisco, CA |
Education |
Part of Visitacion Valley Community Resiliency Project provides health realization training for young women and girls, ages 12-18. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2003 |
$2,500.00 |
Paul McNeff Kidsingers Anaheim, CA |
Arts |
An inner city, after school children's chorus for children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$2,500.00 |
| NICARAGUA |
Project Children's Health Santa Cruz, CA (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Funds to reopen a health clinic in Nicaragua offering a children's vaccination program for 4500 children under the age of 10. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Project Pathfinder, Inc. St. Paul, MN |
Health |
Treatment program for children exhibiting sexually abusive behaviors with emphasis on increasing service to Hispanic/Latino families. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$3,500.00 |
Unusual Suspect Theater Los Angeles, CA |
Arts |
Theater project where teens in gangs and high risk neighborhoods write about and act out their struggles. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$3,500.00 |
| MEXICO |
Barry University Miami Shores, FL (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Yucatan Crippled Children's Project provides funds for wheelchairs and medical equipment to help thousands of crippled children in Mexico. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
Bay Area Discovery Museum Sausalito, CA |
Arts |
Community Learning Initiative provides fully subsidized museum-based educational programming to low income elementary school children during non-school hours. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$3,500.00 |
the Center Denver, CO |
Health |
Rainbow Alley is an afterschool drop-in center for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender youth, their families and their allies. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$3,500.00 |
| KENYA |
Global Education Partnership Washington, DC (U.S. Office) |
Education |
Matching funds to provide desks and textbooks in communities in Kenya that have raised funds. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$5,077.00 |
| HAITI |
Light for All Corporation Louisville, KY (U.S. Office) |
Education |
Books for small school in Vieux Bourg d'Aquin, Haiti. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$6,000.00 |
| United States |
Community Clinic of Maui Maui, HI |
Health |
Pediatric Department provides early periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment, immunizations etc. Funding is for "zoo pals" pediatric examination tables for the clinic. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$4,800.00 |
El Nido Teen Center Boyes Hot Springs, CA |
Education |
After school homework center for the teen club. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$7,500.00 |
No Limits Theater Group Culver City, CA |
Arts |
The only theater group in the U.S. for deaf children ages 5-15, who are learning to speak. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$2,500.00 |
Performing Arts Workshop San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Artist residencies for homeless children and youth residing in Hamilton Family Center facilities in San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$4,000.00 |
| ITALY |
Piccola Societa Cooperativa a Responsabilitĺ Limitata
|
Health |
Soccorso Clown is dedicated to promoting the health benefits of laughter and humor to hospitalized children who are in the Aids Unit at the largest children's Aids facility in Italy. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$2,000.00 |
| ISRAEL |
SHAI
|
Health |
Recreational weekend and summer activities for low income, physically handicapped Palestinian and Israeli children in Israel. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Sierra Adventures Bishop, CA |
Education |
Outdoor nature trips for middle school students identified as "at risk." Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$5,400.00 |
Summit Assistance Dogs Anacortes, WN |
Health |
Work with children at-risk in middle schools to juvenile halls to train dogs as future companions for people with disabilities. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2002 |
$3,000.00 |
Canal Community Alliance San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Funds for Radio Canal are to purchase equipment and upgrade studio. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$2,750.00 |
| MEXICO |
Centro Mujeres Baja California Sur |
Health |
Project Copado is a teen pregnancy prevention project. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Families with A Future San Francisco, CA |
Health |
Parent visitations for children with incarcerated parents. These funds will help pay for transportation and administrative costs to get the children into the prisons. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
FISH of Greater New Haven New Haven, CT |
Health |
Food delivery to people in need. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$2,000.00 |
Friends of SOTA Foundation (School of the Arts) San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
San Francisco School of the Arts is the only public high school in the Bay Area specifically serving artistic and creatively talented high school children. These funds will pay for the repair and replacement of instruments for the school orchestra and jazz bands. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$15,000.00 |
Gerard's House Santa Fe, NM |
Health |
Provides grief counseling for children and youth who lose a parent. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
GirlSource San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Development of creative web-based projects for young women by low income young women in San Francisco's Mission District. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
North American Indian Cultural Centers Akron, OH |
Arts |
"An Elder Shall Lead" program serving American Indian children through use of culturally specific arts, crafts, dance. These funds are for a native drum to help teach children tribal music and dance. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$513.00 |
San Rafael Canal Ministry San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Youth education and development program to provide language acquisition, education, health education and college/career deverlopment for youth in San Rafael Canal area. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$7,500.00 |
| INDIA |
Shared Hope International Vancouver, WA (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Partnering with groups worldwide to prevent human trafficking for forced labor and prostitution, Shared Hope rescues women and children by buying their freedom and providing shelter, healthcare, education and vocational training for these girls. They also work in Jamaica, Nepal and the U.S. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Sonoma County Music Association Sebastopol, CA |
Arts |
Music program for children at risk in court/community schools, juvenile hall and child protective custody facilities in Sonoma County, CA. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
The Spot Denver, CO |
Education |
The Spot is an urban nightime gathering place in downtown Denver for adolescents at risk. Programs include GED preparation programs, web radio station, music recording studio, dance classes etc. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park, CA |
Health |
Support for music program at Camp Sunburst, a residential summer camp for children infected with HIV/AIDS and their families. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Tahoe/Colonial Collaborative for Healthy Children Sacramento, CA |
Health |
Dental screening and follow up by dental teams at local elementary schools. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,240.00 |
Turtle Mountain Housing Authority, T.D.H.E. Belcourt, ND |
Education |
After school activities for youth on the Chippewa Reservation. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$2,639.00 |
| AFGHANISTAN |
UNICEF New York, NY (U.S. Office) |
Education |
School supplies for young girls in Afghanistan who will be attending school for the first time. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Warren's Hope Midlothian, VA |
Health |
Medical equipment for low income children with special needs (wheelchairs, toilet chairs, hospital beds etc. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$3,000.00 |
Okizu Foundation Novato, CA |
Health |
A unique camp experience for children with cancer and their families. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
| BRAZIL |
Hope Unlimited International San Francisco, CA (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Hope provides medical care, counseling, etc. for Brazilian street children 8-18. Specific request is for a music program for the shelter. (www.hopeunlimited.org) Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$7,500.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Rotaplast Foundation San Francisco, CA (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Provides free reconstructive cleft palate and lip surgery for indigent children in South America and China-funding is for anesthesia monitor. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
Camp to Belong is a sibling reunification camp in Colorado for foster children separated during the process. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$10,000.00 |
San Francisco Mime Troupe San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Youth Theater project teaches low income teens how to write and perform plays about the issues that concern them. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2002 |
$3,500.00 |
Beyond Borders/Marin Country Day School Corte Madera, CA |
Education |
Beyond Borders, a cross-cultural leadership development summer program. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$7,500.00 |
Bread and Roses Corte Madera, CA |
Arts |
To assist with their outreach program with live performances for sick, handicapped and disadvantaged youth. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$7,500.00 |
Davidson Middle School San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Pan in the Schools Jamboree-brings together school steel pan bands in noncompetitive performance arena to learn from and with each other. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$2,500.00 |
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Richmond, CA |
Arts |
Arts education programs for low income inner city youth at more than 20 school sites. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$3,500.00 |
Canal Youth Soccer Academy San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Reading and Cultural enrichment programs in Spanish on Friday nights for Canal community residents & children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Huckleberry Youth Programs San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Health Education Services for teens (HIV prevention, drug/alcohol abuse, pregnancy prevention and life skills training.) Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$10,000.00 |
Imagine Bus Project Sausalito, CA |
Arts |
Bus outfitted as an art studio that travels to various Bay Area inner city communities. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$2,500.00 |
Mission Cultural Center San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Supports artists fees and materials for the Multicultural Arts Summer School serving children in the Mission area of San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Kid Stock, Inc. San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Performing arts workshops for children in low income communities through community centers. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$3,500.00 |
Purple Silk Music Education San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Purple Bamboo Orchestra and Chorus, a traditional Chinese instrument youth orchestra and chorus program for inner city, multiethnic youth. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Vector Theater Company San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Theater arts outreach program in Sausalito school district. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Sunny Hills Children's Garden San Anselmo, CA |
Health |
Therapeutic art program for over 400 abused, abandoned and traumatized children who live in 11 group homes in the Bay Area. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Trips for Kids Marin Mill Valley, CA |
Education |
Organization that provides mountain bike outings, job training and environmental education for inner city youth. Re-Cyclery program is one of first earn-a-bike programs in the country. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
LAC & USC Violence Intervention Program Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
Support for after school mentoring and one on one companionship and activity program for young Latino male victims of sexual abuse and family violence. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$12,000.00 |
Jeppeson VisionQuest, Inc. Sanford, FL |
Health |
Free eye exams and corrective eyeglasses for elementary school children who do not have eye care. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Mustard Seed Longwood, FL |
Health |
Beds for Kids gives 1000 impoverished Central Florida children a bed of their own. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Children's Storefront New York, NY |
Education |
Tuition free independent school in Harlem serving 160 neighborhood children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Early Education Program, Inc. Eugene, OR |
Arts |
Preschool children with disabilities-felt board sets to enhance the music program for mentally disabled children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$3,000.00 |
| ALBANIA |
O.S.A.A.B. Denver, CO (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Provide support to abandoned babies in form of supplies and medical care while they remain in the maternity hospital in Tirana, Albania. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Field Band Foundation South Africa |
Arts |
Organization of local field bands and dance corps in impoverished slums in SA townships. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$5,000.00 |
Artists for a New South Africa Los Angeles, CA (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Support for several of Archbishop Tutu's charities in the country. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$25,000.00 |
| United States |
Jeanette Prandi Children's Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Provides medical services to child victims of sexual assault. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$12,000.00 |
San Pedro School San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Support for children created video project celebrating the life of Cesar E. Chavez during his birthday month. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2002 |
$3,360.00 |
South Lake Tahoe Women's Center South Lake Tahoe, CA |
Health |
Services (hotline, emergency food/shelter, transitional housing) for victims of domestic violence; child abuse and/or sexual assault. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$2,000.00 |
Blue Gargoyle Chicago, IL |
Education |
To support their family learning project for teen parents, infants & toddlers and to include a music program. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
St. Vincent's School for Boys San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Equestrian program for healing sexually molested and physically abused boys. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$3,500.00 |
San Francisco Ballet San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Multi-cultural dance and music program for children in targeted S.F. public schools. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
| INDIA |
Little Stars School Sonoma, CA (U.S. Office) |
Education |
School for street children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
| BOSNIA |
ArtReach Atlanta, GA (U.S. Office) |
Health |
American art therapists train teachers in Bosnia to use art therapy in assisting children with war trauma recovery. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$6,000.00 |
| HAITI |
Light For All Corp. (LIFA) Jeffersontown, KY (U.S. Office) |
Education |
Grass roots organization providing funds for teacher salaries for small school in rural Haiti. www.lightforall.org Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$8,000.00 |
| United States |
Keshet Dance Company Albuquerque, NM |
Arts |
Mixed ability dance program that teaches dance and freedom of movement to physically disabled youth. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$1,000.00 |
Pasadena Mental Health Association Pasadena, CA |
Health |
Collaborative effort to prevent young, first time offenders from entering the juvenile justice system. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Los Angeles Music & Art School Los Angeles, CA |
Arts |
Weekly music instruction for inner-city preschool children in East Los Angeles. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$1,000.00 |
No Limits Theater Group Culver City, CA |
Arts |
Theater group for deaf children ages 5-15 who are learning to speak. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
World Drumming Ensemble Salinas, CA |
Arts |
Funds for continuation and expansion of the World Drumming Ensemble after school drumming program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School (1000+ students). Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$3,500.00 |
Sierra Adventures Bishop, CA |
Education |
Sierra Adventures is a series of Saturday outdoor nature trips for middle school students identified as "at risk". Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$5,400.00 |
Marin Community Clinic Larkspur, CA |
Education |
Pediatric literacy program bringing books and reading aloud to young children in waiting rooms of pediatric offices. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$3,500.00 |
Marin Literacy Program San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Provides literacy training program for parents and their children through the San Rafael Public Library. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$3,500.00 |
Mission Learning Center San Francisco, CA |
Education |
After school services to Mission District elementary school children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Music In Schools Today San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Brings artists into 10 inner city schools for classroom work comparing/contrasting contemporary culture of students w/ four cultures from around the world. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Oaktown Jazz Workshop Oakland, CA |
Arts |
Support for artist fees, program perpetuating jazz among urban children; programs in schools for outreach. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Performing Stars of Marin Marin City, CA |
Arts |
Music education program for Marin City youth. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Fremont Education Foundation Fremont, CA |
Arts |
Provide funds to repair old instruments to use in newly developed after school band programs. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$1,000.00 |
El Nido Teen Center Boyes Hot Springs, CA |
Education |
After school homework center for teen club. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Film-A-Lot Video Production San Pablo, CA |
Education |
Purchase of digital camera for student owned and operated video production business. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$4,278.00 |
Jeanette Prandi Children's Center San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Provides medical services to child victims of sexual assault. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$7,000.00 |
GirlSource San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Development of creative web-based projects by low income young women in San Francisco's Mission District. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
St. John's Educational Thresholds Center San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
San Francisco Sidewalk art project by youth in low income neighborhoods. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Young Women's Work Project for Oakland Oakland, CA |
Health |
Creates new economic, educational leadership opportunities run by and for young women living in poor and working class communities. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
24th Street Theatre Los Angeles, CA |
Arts |
After school theater arts program for inner city kids. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Operation Clean Slate Costa Mesa, CA |
Arts |
Hands-on grafitti and gang prevention program through environmental restoration and mural painting. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,000.00 |
The Spot Music Studio Denver, CO |
Education |
Urban nighttime gathering place for at risk adolescents: GED preparation program. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$7,500.00 |
West Oahu Family YMCA Wahiawa, HI |
Arts |
Funding for an after school music and dance program for low income youth. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Telpochcalli Elementary School Chicago, IL |
Arts |
Artists in Residence program that supports curriculum that integrates Mexican art and cultural heritage into the classroom. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$3,500.00 |
Children's Hope Foundation New York, NY |
Health |
Organization that provides services, childcare necessities and children's events for children with HIV/AIDS. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Turtle Mountain Housing Authority, T.D.H.E. Belcourt, ND |
Education |
After school activities for youth on the Chippewa Reservation. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Mother Oak's Child Salem, OR |
Health |
Grief support program for children and families who lose family member. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
| EL SALVADOR |
El Milagro San Salvador |
Education |
Purchase of school supplies for remote village in El Salvador. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,053.00 |
| United States |
Virtu Foundation Charlottesville, NC |
Arts |
Places donated string instruments into the hands of deserving, disadvantaged, at-risk youth by scholarship or loan. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Progress Center Longview, WA |
Health |
Hospital to Home Outreach for families at-risk beginning in hospital at birth. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Umpqua Valley Arts Assoc. Roseburg, OR |
Arts |
Arts in Social Services provides skills development to targeted artistically talented youth in trouble. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$3,500.00 |
| ISRAEL |
SHAI/P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc. Israel |
Health |
Recreational weekend and summer camp activities for low income, physically handicapped children in Israel. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Sunburst Projects Rohnert Park, CA |
Health |
Support for music program at Camp Sunburst, a residential summer camp for children infected with HIV/AIDS and their families. Click here to view website >> |
May, 2001 |
$6,200.00 |
Bluffton Elementary School Bluffton,SC |
Arts |
Guitar purchase and coordination for Friday music classes. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$1,671.00 |
Kids to the Country (Plenty International) Summertown, TN |
Education |
Provides at risk children, ages 6-12, an opportunity to build positive sense of community during summer camp. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Morton Elementary School Arlington, TX |
Arts |
Los Alegres, a Ballet folklorico group for children. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$2,730.00 |
| ALBANIA |
O.S.A.A.B. Denver, CO (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Provide support to abandoned babies in form of supplies and medical care while they remain in the maternity hospital in Tirana, Albania.
osaab@aol.com Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
| GUATEMALA |
Rotaplast International, Inc. San Francisco (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Provides free reconstructive cleft palate and lip surgery for indigent children in South America. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
| United States |
FISH of Greater New Haven New Haven, CT |
Health |
Food delivery to people in need (80% are children.) Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$2,000.00 |
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA |
Health |
Pediatric literacy program, bringing books and reading aloud to young children/parents in waiting rooms of pediatric offices. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$1,500.00 |
Wholistic Stress Control Institute Atlanta, GA |
Health |
Substance Abuse Teen Theater that teaches tobacco use prevention to inner city youth in Atlanta. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
San Rafael Canal Ministry San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Youth Education and Development Program to provide language acquisition, education, health education and college/career development for youth in San Rafael Canal area. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$7,500.00 |
Project Avary San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Provides emotionally and physically safe environment for children w/incarcerated parents. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$3,000.00 |
Purple Silk Music Education San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Purple Bamboo Orchestra and Chorus, a traditional Chinese instrument youth orchestra and chorus program for inner city, multiethnic youth. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Reach Out & Read Santa Rosa, CA |
Education |
Pediatric literacy program, bringing books and reading aloud to young children/parents in waiting rooms of pediatric offices. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$1,500.00 |
Huckleberry Youth Programs San Rafael, CA |
Health |
Health Education Services for teens (HIV prevention, drug/alcohol abuse, pregnancy prevention and life skills triaing.) Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$5,000.00 |
Gallinas School San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Instrument purchase for middle school band program. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Cross Cultural Environmental Leadership Program (XCEL) San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Environmental education program for culturally diverse youth. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$7,000.00 |
Canal Community Alliance San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Radio Canal focuses on training and providing a voice for at-risk youth through creative and innovative radio programming. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$2,500.00 |
Bayshore School District Daly City, CA |
Education |
Garnet Robertson School-restore instrumental music program in 6-8th grade school. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$3,750.00 |
Beyond Borders/Marin Country Day School Corte Madera, CA |
Education |
Beyond Borders, a cross-cultural leadership development summer program. Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$7,500.00 |
Bay Area Discovery Museum Sausalito |
Education |
Face to Face: Dealing with Prejudice and Discrimination exhibit Click here to view website >> |
February, 2001 |
$4,000.00 |
Children's Storefront New York, NY |
Education |
Tuition free independent school in Harlem serving 160 neighborhood children. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Children's Prison Arts Project Houston, TX |
Arts |
Theater shows and murals produced by incarcerated youth called "How Can I Cope". Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Teatro Humanidad Austin, TX |
Arts |
Production of after school bilingual Latino theater productions by and for children and youth "at risk". Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Youth Odyssey Corpus Christi, TX |
Health |
Promote youth development in at-risk youth through adventure challenge programs. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
Nelson Mandela Foundation Bellevue, WA (U.S. Office) |
Arts |
Assist in advancing freedom and democracy in Africa, resolve conflicts around the world and alleviate inequity and poverty in South Africa. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Salinas Center for the Musical Arts Salinas, CA |
Arts |
Music scholarship/outreach program for Latino children of farmworkers. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,742.00 |
San Pedro School San Rafael, CA |
Education |
English as a Second Language instruction for non English speaking newcomers' survival skills and literacy skills. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$10,000.00 |
Young Imaginations San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Rural Arts project provides for a bicultural Latino and Native American artist/educator to be artist in residence at 8 rural schools. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$3,000.00 |
LAC & USC Violence Intervention Program Los Angeles, CA |
Health |
Support for after school mentoring and one on one companionship and activity program for young Latino male victims of sexual abuse and family violence. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$10,000.00 |
Paul McNeff KidSingers Anaheim, CA |
Arts |
An inner city, after school children's chorus for 108 children in grades 3-9 in Santa Ana, CA. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$3,000.00 |
The Non-Violence Project Miami, FL |
Health |
Project to significantly change attitudes toward violence among young people and provide alternatives to violent behavior. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$3,000.00 |
Multicultural Advisory on Youth Alternatives (M.A.Y.A.) Fort Wayne, IN |
Arts |
Arts programs for students at Geyer Middle School providing interracial activites for children at risk and exhibiting racial and gang violence. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$3,293.00 |
Dance Palace Community Center Point Reyes Station, CA |
Arts |
Program of bilingual arts instruction and performance at a local community center in West Marin. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Edna Maguire School Mill Valley, CA |
Education |
Support for after school homework and tutoring center at Shelter Bay Apartment complex. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
National Latina Health Organization Oakland, CA |
Health |
Self empowerment program for Latina girls through mentoring and support groups. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Loco Bloco San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Drum and Dance Ensemble for youth celebrating and preserving the music, dance and theater traditions of the Americas. Click here to view website >> |
November, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
San Francisco Mime Troupe San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Youth Theater Project teaches low income teens how to write and perform plays about the issues that concern them. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$3,500.00 |
Fremont Education Foundation Fremont, CA |
Arts |
Provide funds to repair old instruments to use in newly developed after school band programs. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$2,000.00 |
Grupo Residentes de Castroville-Rondalla Music Program Castroville, CA |
Arts |
A grass roots neighborhood of parents who formed a group in their community to keep their neighborhood safe, grafitti free and establish a music group for children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$5,935.00 |
Coronado YMCA Richmond, CA |
Education |
Support for 50 weeks of Saturday open computer lab in South Richmond at Coronado Community Center. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$4,550.00 |
Children's Health Network Santa Rosa, CA |
Health |
Nos Ayudamos, a community based family education project designed to reach out to parents and publicize the health services available to their children with acute medical needs. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Hilltop Neighborhood House Valparaiso, IN |
Arts |
Provides 20 hours/week of art enrichment and mentoring for low income childcare children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$3,000.00 |
Gerard's House Santa Fe, NM |
Health |
Provides grief counseling for children and youth who lose a parent. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$10,000.00 |
San Diego Friends Parks & Rec. San Diego, CA |
Arts |
Instruments for the Mariachi Music and Culture Program at the Ceasar Chavez Community Center and the San Ysidro Activity Center. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$5,050.00 |
Youth in Arts San Rafael, CA |
Arts |
Support Artists in Schools program which provides artists-in-residence to schools in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$7,500.00 |
Students in Business Fremont, CA |
Education |
Mentoring program for two schools, an alternative school and a middle school w/children at risk in gang communities. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Vision Youthz San Francisco, CA |
Education |
A comprehensive community based youth development program to address needs of at risk youth who return to their communities after detention programs. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
World Drumming Ensemble Salinas, CA |
Arts |
Funds for continuation and expansion of the World Drumming Ensemble after school drumming program at Cesar Chavez Elementary School (1000+ students). Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
| ST. THOMAS |
Kidscope St. Thomas |
Health |
Provides services to child victims of abuse and sexual molestation with purchase of a med-scope. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$2,500.00 |
| MEXICO |
Project Concern International San Diego, CA (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Infant and Child Health Program in Tijuana, Mexico. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
| SRI LANKA |
International Childcare Trust London (Home Office) |
Education |
Sri Lanka child center for homeless, parentless street children who are war victims. Click here to view website >> |
October, 2000 |
$6,020.00 |
| HAITI |
Light For All Corp. (LIFA) Jeffersontown, KY (U.S. Office) |
Education |
Grass roots organization providing funds for teacher salaries for small school in rural Haiti. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
| HONDURAS |
M.E.D.I.C.O. Georgetown, TX (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Funds for the purchase of medicines for children under 6 years old in Honduras to be distributed during volunteer medical, eye and dental missions. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Centro Mujeres Centro La Paz |
Health |
Project Copado is a teen pregnancy prevention project. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
| United States |
Saturday Academy Portland, OR |
Education |
Provides educational outreach through workshops in math and science to Latinos, African Americans and American Indian youth by Math and Science professionals of color. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$6,000.00 |
Volunteers of America North Hollywood, CA |
Education |
Supports the Residential Summer component of Upward Bound Project in the North Hollywood barrio. It provides academic support services to assist high school students to complete their education and go on to college. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Families-Costa Mesa Costa Mesa, CA |
Education |
A mentoring program for low-income, high risk youth. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$2,500.00 |
The Spot Music Studio Denver, CO |
Arts |
Funds music studio assistant for an urban nighttime youth center founded in 1994 by gang leaders, homeless youth and graffiti artists for youth "at risk." Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$7,500.00 |
Sierra Adventures Bishop, CA |
Education |
Sierra Adventures is a series of Saturday outdoor nature trips for middle school students identified as"at risk". Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,400.00 |
Boys & Girls Club of Okaloosa County, Inc. Fort Walton Beach, FL |
Arts |
Funds to purchase 15 guitars for an after school Music Club on the school campus. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$2,550.00 |
Community Action for Drug-Free Youth Bishop, CA |
Education |
Sierra Adventures is a series of Saturday outdoor nature trips for middle school students identified as"at risk". Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,400.00 |
Bay Area Community Resources Larkspur, CA |
Education |
San Rafael High School-support and expand after school tutorial program. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Crockett Center Crockett, CA |
Health |
Home for 6 SED young children suffering from severe abuse. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$2,500.00 |
Music In Schools Today San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Brings artists into 10 inner city schools for classroom work comparing/contrasting contemporary culture of students w/ four cultures from around the world. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$4,000.00 |
Mission Cultural Center San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Supports artists fees and materials for the Multicultural Arts Summer School serving children in the Mission area of San Francisco. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
La Clinica de la Raza San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center Oakland, CA |
Health |
Funds to help purchase a new ultrasound machine for prenatal care for clinic serving low income women of Alameda County. Click here to view website >> |
June, 2000 |
$3,000.00 |
Mission Learning Center San Francisco, CA |
Education |
After school services to Mission District elementary school children. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$10,000.00 |
Bread and Roses Corte Madera, CA |
Arts |
To assist with their outreach program with live performances for sick, handicapped and disadvantaged youth. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$7,500.00 |
Compass Community Services San Francisco, CA |
Education |
For the Tenderloin Childcare Center to support their daycare program for low-income and homeless families. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$2,000.00 |
Harbor Conservatory New York, NY |
Education |
To support their Mentor Programs for at-risk children and youth. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Blue Gargoyle Chicago, IL |
Education |
To support their family learning project for teen parents, infants & toddlers and to include a music program. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Children's First Fund-Jose Clemente Orozco Academy Chicago, IL |
Arts |
For the Jose Clemente Orozco Academy to support their music center lab and new Mariachi Band. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$10,000.00 |
A Step Up Arvada, CO |
Health |
Intervention services to pregnant and parenting teens. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Clinica Tepeyac Denver, CO |
Education |
Nuestros Milagro Youth Group-training for outreach/peer educators/mentors. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Excelsior Youth Center Aurora, CO |
Arts |
Steel Pan Band for girls 12-18, res. Rehab. Center under courts. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$3,000.00 |
Sunburst Project Rohnert Park, CA |
Arts |
For Camp Sunburst to assist with their residential camp for HIV/AIDS infected children and families. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Bienvenidos Children's Center Altadena, CA |
Education |
To assist in sending ‘at-risk' children to summer camp for one week LA County. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
World Care Tucson, AZ |
Education |
Provide school supplies to disadvantaged children. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$2,000.00 |
Cranbury Arts Council Cranbury, NJ |
Arts |
Art education programs to youth shelters across state. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
| MEXICO |
Adanec Garza |
Health |
To assist with updating their laboratory in the pediatric hospital, Santa Maria. Click here to view website >> |
April, 2000 |
$5,000.00 |
Doctors Without Borders New York (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Specific funding for the flood victims in Mexico to assist with medical, housing and burial needs. Click here to view website >> |
November, 1999 |
$50,000.00 |
| CONGO |
Dikembe Mutombo Foundation Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Health |
Founded by Atlanta Hawks basketball player, Dikembe Mutombo, this foundation was established to build a hospital in Kinshasa. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$5,000.00 |
| ALBANIA |
O.S.A.A.B. Denver, CO (U.S. Office) |
Health |
Provide support to abandoned babies in form of supplies and medical care while they remain in the maternity hospital in Tirana, Albania. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$10,000.00 |
| United States |
Windsor Middle School Windsor, CA |
Arts |
Development of after school program of Brazilian style drum and dance ensemble. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$5,000.00 |
School of the Arts (SOTA) San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Four year public high school that provides students w/variety of educational opportunities in the arts. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$4,700.00 |
Neighborhoods United Fort Collins, CO |
Education |
Coordinates agencies and community to support youth "at risk". Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$2,620.00 |
Fort Collins Public Library Fort Collins, CO |
Education |
Purchase of Spanish books and materials to promote outreach efforts. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$7,500.00 |
Canal Child Care San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Educational program for low income children, ages 3-8, from predominantly immigrant families. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$10,000.00 |
Hawes School Family Guitar Class Redwood City, CA |
Arts |
Purchase guitars for after school guitar class for low income children at John Muir School. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$5,675.00 |
Placer County Office of Education Auburn, CA |
Arts |
Provides educational services to youths who have been incarcerated in juvenile hall, currently are on probation and/or expelled from public schools. Project HARP is blues musical instruction with harmonicas. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$1,000.00 |
Rodalla Alisal Salinas, CA |
Arts |
Teaches a children's guitar/mandolin ensemble for parents and children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$2,500.00 |
Hispanic Education & Media Group, Inc. Sausalito, CA |
Education |
Support for program "Cada Cabeza Es Un Mundo" for at risk Hispanic children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$7,500.00 |
Marin Literacy Program San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Provides literacy training program for parents and their children through the San Rafael Public Library. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1999 |
$6,000.00 |
Loco Bloco San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Development of theater component: launching Hip-Hop worshop for students, 9-13. Click here to view website >> |
June, 1999 |
$10,000.00 |
Library Foundation San Francsico, CA |
Education |
Expansion and improvement of the Spanish language collection of the Mission Library. Click here to view website >> |
March, 1999 |
$15,000.00 |
Family Health Centers San Diego, CA |
Health |
Provides comprehensive affordable healthcare to low income families. Funding specifically for fetal heart monitor. Click here to view website >> |
March, 1999 |
$6,638.00 |
Farmworkers Legal Services Ann Arbor, MI |
Health |
Provides free representation in civil legal cases to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and recently settled workers. Click here to view website >> |
March, 1999 |
$6,000.00 |
Bahia Vista School San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Outdoor Education Program. Click here to view website >> |
March, 1999 |
$10,000.00 |
Kids to the Country Summertown, TN |
Education |
Provides at risk children, ages 6-12, an opportunity to build positive sense of community during summer camp. Click here to view website >> |
December, 1998 |
$5,000.00 |
Music In Schools Today San Francisco, CA |
Education |
Support anti-violence initiative that supports band programs for at risk youth at Full Circle Family Treatment Centers in Dogtown. Click here to view website >> |
November, 1998 |
$6,000.00 |
San Pedro School San Rafael, CA |
Education |
Outdoor Education Program. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1998 |
$10,000.00 |
Mission Learning Center San Francisco, CA |
Education |
After school services to Mission District elementary school children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1998 |
$10,000.00 |
Hispanic Education & Media Group, Inc. Sausalito, CA |
Education |
Support for program "Cada Cabeza Es Un Mundo" for at risk Hispanic children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1998 |
$30,000.00 |
Hawes School Family Guitar Class Redwood City, CA |
Arts |
Purchase guitars for after school guitar class for low income children. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1998 |
$10,000.00 |
Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club San Francisco, CA |
Arts |
Program to develop creative expression through music. Click here to view website >> |
October, 1998 |
$7,500.00 |
| Historical Total: $4,225,213.00 |
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