Grants Awarded 2003

Published February 2, 2004

Cal Corps Public Service Center
To support service learning opportunities to all of the service clubs and student body of U.C. Berkeley and the Berkeley community.

Communities In Schools – A Program of the Honolulu YMCA
To support a vision to nurture and develop a community of learners in the Micronesian population in Waipahu, Hawaii in seeking knowledge and mutually beneficial relationships that diminish the factors that place themselves and their families at risk through developing a community-based, culturally competent and culturally responsive model of kuleana (responsibility) utilizing the concept of “ohana,” or family.

Eastview Middle School
To support White Plains Public School in their International Youth Summit of Unity and Diversity, a global teleconferencing project, allowing the students, teachers and the community of Eastview Middle School to connect on with international communities on cultural, diversity and tolerance issues.

Haas Center for Public Service:  Stanford University
To support Stanford University’s Leaders for Public Service Program, which addresses service learning and leadership through a one year training and academic program for young adults at the college level.

Volunteer Resource Center of Hawaii
To support their Growing Character Education initiative, which provides support for the strategic development of character education in the local communities in Hawaii through planning and conferences.

The Volunteerism Project
To support disaster preparedness and readiness in the local communities, completion of the ethnic volunteering project and on-line technology for the local communities.

Youth Service California:  Exploring the Religious, Cultural & Spiritual Roots of Service Retreat
To renew support for the four-part project and retreat held in partnership with Youth Service California to explore the religious, cultural and spiritual components to service.  This project will hold a retreat for youth service providers each summer; while also integrating a year long study group, presenting a workshop at a national conference; and publications.