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A Home Within
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Child Welfare |
Well Being |
San Francisco |
$28,030 |
1 year |
August, 2005 |
To support Fostering Transformations, a 3-year pilot project by A Home Within, McKesson Corporation & the law firm of Morrison & Foerster. The project will train & support mentors employed by corporations to help young people emancipating from foster care.
URL: http://www.ahomewithin.org
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Alex Smith Foundation
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Child Welfare |
Educational Opportunities |
San Diego |
$50,000 |
1 year |
December, 2010 |
To support the Alex Smith Guardian Scholars Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) to provide former foster youth with supports to ensure academic success, encourage active participation in university life, develop career skills and become active community members.
URL: http://www.alexsmithfoundation.org
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Alex Smith Foundation
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Child Welfare |
Educational Opportunities |
San Diego |
$75,000 |
1 year |
September, 2009 |
To support the Alex Smith Guardian Scholars Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) that provides former foster youth with supports to ensure academic success, encourage active participation in university life, develop career skills, and become active and socially responsible members of the community. This program also provides a unique component for foster youth in high school to attend a course at SDSU and earn college credit.
URL: http://www.alexsmithfoundation.org
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Alex Smith Foundation
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Child Welfare |
Educational Opportunities |
San Diego |
$100,000 |
1 year |
December, 2008 |
To support a replication of the Guardian Scholars Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) that will provide former foster youth with supports to ensure academic success, support services that encourage active participation in university life, career development skills for post-graduation success, and experiences to nurture students into active and socially responsible members of the community. The SDSU Guardian Scholars program is also piloting a unique component for foster youth in high school to attend a course at San Diego State and to earn college credit.
URL: http://www.alexsmithfoundation.org
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Alex Smith Foundation
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Child Welfare |
Educational Opportunities |
San Diego |
$150,000 |
1 year |
November, 2007 |
To support a replication of the Guardian Scholars Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) that will provide former foster youth with supports to ensure academic success, support services that encourage active participation in university life, career development skills for post-graduation success, and experiences to nurture students into active and socially responsible members of the community. The SDSU Guardian Scholars program is also piloting a unique component for foster youth in high school to attend a course at San Diego State and to earn college credit.
URL: http://www.alexsmithfoundation.org
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Alex Smith Foundation
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Child Welfare |
Educational Opportunities |
San Diego |
$25,000 |
1 year |
June, 2007 |
To support the planning and early implementation phase of the Guardian Scholars Program at San Diego State University. The inaugural class of ten Guardian Scholars will enroll in Fall 2007.
URL: http://www.alexsmithfoundation.org
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Alliance for Children's Rights
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Child Welfare |
Well Being |
Los Angeles |
$100,000 |
1 year |
April, 2011 |
To expand Early Steps, a successful pilot program of the Alliance for Children's Rights. Early Steps ensures that vulnerable infants and toddlers in the Los Angeles County foster care system receive early intervention services such as speech therapy and therapeutic preschool. Expansion of the pilot program will double the number of pro bono attorneys representing the unique needs of infants and toddlers in court and will support training for caregivers to become better equipped to advocate on behalf of the young foster children in their care.
URL: http://www.kids-alliance.org
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Alliance for Children's Rights
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Child Welfare |
Permanency |
Los Angeles |
$75,000 |
1 year |
November, 2007 |
To support the final phase of the Adoption Project, a partnership of Public Counsel and The Alliance for Children’s Rights to address two remaining systemic roadblocks affecting the number of children adopted from foster care and to develop and author a "white paper" so that others in Los Angeles, the state and the country can learn from the experience of the past decade of adoptions system transformation.
URL: http://www.kids-alliance.org
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Alliance for Children's Rights
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Child Welfare |
Permanency |
Los Angeles |
$75,000 |
1 year |
December, 2006 |
To support the final phase of the Adoption Project, a partnership of Public Counsel and The Alliance for Children’s Rights to address two remaining systemic roadblocks affecting the number of children adopted from foster care and to develop and author a "white paper" so that others in Los Angeles, the state and the country can learn from the experience of the past decade of adoptions system transformation.
URL: http://www.kids-alliance.org
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Alliance for Children's Rights
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Child Welfare |
Permanency |
Los Angeles |
$100,000 |
1 year |
November, 2005 |
To support Public Counsel and The Alliance for
Children’s Rights to reform the adoption process for
foster children in Los Angeles County. Goals of the
reform process include: a decrease in the time to
complete adoption, early involvement by advocates in
the adoption process to remove barriers to adoption
finalization, and advocacy for children to receive the
benefits and services needed for their adoption to
succeed.
URL: http://www.kids-alliance.org
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Alliance for Education
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Education |
Education Leadership |
King |
$420,000 |
1 year |
June, 2010 |
To support the Superintendent's Initiative for Leadership Development to transform school and central office leaders into an instructional leadership cadre capable of implementing strategies to increase accountability for leaders, and to create a system of continuous improvement for Seattle Public Schools.
URL: http://www.alliance4ed.org
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Alliance for Education
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Education |
Education Leadership |
King |
$380,000 |
1 year |
July, 2009 |
To implement a strong, district-wide leadership system that strengthens Seattle Public Schools’ principal corps and key central office leaders in an effort to create a core group prepared to lead continuous improvement in Seattle’s schools.
URL: http://www.alliance4ed.org
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Alliance for Education
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Education |
Districts & Systems of Schools |
King |
$254,000 |
1 year |
September, 2008 |
To support Seattle Public Schools in redesigning its district hiring processes, and to overhaul the central office's performance evaluation system in connection with its overall performance management work, including teacher and principal evaluations.
URL: http://www.alliance4ed.org
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Alliance for Education
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Education |
Districts & Systems of Schools |
King |
$25,000 |
6 months |
September, 2005 |
To provide recommendations to the Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools on the development and implementation of short and long-term financial strategy to make every school a high-quality school.
URL: http://www.alliance4ed.org
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American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education
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Child Welfare |
Educational Opportunities |
California & Washington Statewide |
$30,000 |
1 year |
August, 2011 |
To support the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education to deepen its collaboration with California and Washington by providing technical assistance to state advocates and building greater awareness and sharing of promising practices between states that both enhance existing efforts in California and Washington as well as bring new models to other state and national partners.
URL: http://www.americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/fund_justice_education.html
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American Institutes for Research
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Education |
Districts & Systems of Schools |
Fresno
Los Angeles |
$75,000 |
1 year |
October, 2010 |
To support documentation and implementation of the Fresno-Long Beach Learning Partnership, a collaboration between two school districts sharing best practices and lessons in leadership, district operations, and teaching in order to improve student achievement. Documentation will also provide insights about the impact of greater flexibility in the use of state dollars as recommended in "Getting Down to Facts" studies and the Governor's Committee on Education Excellence.
URL: http://www.air.org
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American Institutes for Research
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Education |
Districts & Systems of Schools |
Fresno
Los Angeles |
$75,000 |
1 year |
January, 2010 |
To support documentation of the Fresno-Long Beach Learning Partnership, a collaboration of two California school districts sharing best practices and lessons in leadership, distriction operations, and teaching in order to improve student achievement. In addition, documentation will provide insights about the impact of greater flexibility in the districts' use of categorical dollars.
URL: http://www.air.org
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American Institutes for Research
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Education |
Districts & Systems of Schools |
Fresno
Los Angeles |
$50,000 |
1 year |
December, 2008 |
To support documentation of the Fresno-Long Beach Learning Partnership, a collaboration of two school districts to share best practices, challenges, and learnings in leadership, operations, and teaching in order to improve student achievement.
URL: http://www.air.org
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American Institutes for Research
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Education |
Statewide Impact |
California Statewide |
$39,100 |
1 year |
September, 2007 |
To convene a group of school district superintendents to provide their perspectives to the public on how the issues raised in the "Getting Down to Facts" suite of research studies on K-12 public education impact the system's effectiveness.
URL: http://www.air.org
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American Youth Work Center
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Child Welfare |
Youth, Family & Community Engagement |
California Statewide |
$25,000 |
1 year |
October, 2010 |
To deepen the coverage of California child welfare topics in Youth Today, a newspaper that informs the child welfare workforce on professional issues. A California-based beat reporter will propose story ideas on foster care topics, condense and amplify current research, and produce investigative pieces on agencies, approaches and events in the child welfare field.
URL: http://www.youthtoday.org
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