Grant Recipients 2024 January - May
East Palo Alto
Academy Foundation
The East Palo Alto Academy Foundation supports students and graduates by providing academic, navigational, social-emotional, and financial resources, aiming to enable them to pursue meaningful careers and uplift their communities. They plan to use the funds to cover meals, lodging, and travel expenses for college and career exposure visits, including overnight trips to Southern California colleges for 70-80 10th grade students.
Minds Matter Bay Area
Minds Matter Bay Area is a college success program for low-income, motivated students in the Bay Area, known for closing the opportunity gap and achieving a 100% acceptance rate to 4-year colleges since 2010, with 78% attending competitive institutions and 97% graduating within four years. They intend to use funds to provide material resources for students, including summer programming, laptops, SAT/ACT test fee coverage, study materials, weekly session lunches, and home high-speed internet access, enhancing their comprehensive mentorship and support programs.
ScholarMatch, Inc
ScholarMatch supports first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds, providing personalized college success and career advising, financial support, emotional support, and mentoring. In the 2022-2023 program year, ScholarMatch served 480 students, helping them navigate the path to higher education. They intend to use funds to offer a free SAT/ACT test prep course for up to 25 first-generation, low-income students, covering the costs of 12-week classes and workbooks through a partnership with AJ Tutors.
Environmental Volunteers
To promote the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education. Environmental Volunteers provides science and nature programming for schools and the community through nature field trips, classroom programs, homeschool programs, public programs and community programs.
Pablove Foundation
The Pablove Foundation improves the lives of children with cancer through pediatric cancer research funding and the Pablove Shutterbugs art program. The Pablove Shutterbugs initiative provides therapeutic photography classes to over 500 children annually, enhancing their photography skills and offering emotional healing and a sense of normalcy during treatment. Funds are used to support the Shutterbugs program by providing photography equipment, program materials, instructor fees, class operations, outreach, recruitment, exhibitions, and program evaluation.
Future of Reading
Future of Reading ensures all students read at grade level by fourth grade through a K-3 tutoring program. University students are trained as reading coaches, providing personalized support. Schools receive technology and training aligned with the Science of Reading for effective individualized tutoring. Funds would be used for training university students and supervising teachers to deploy the reading program.
Canopy
Canopy is a nonprofit dedicated to growing urban tree canopies in Midpeninsula communities, enhancing green spaces and providing environmental education. They intend to utilize the funds to support their Teen Urban Forester (TUF) program, which offers 60 paid internships annually to low-income, BIPOC high school students, empowering them with arboriculture training, leadership skills, and community engagement opportunities.