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GRANTS AWARDED 1996

Partners in School Innovation
$60,000 for 2 years:  1996-1998
To support the work of three AmeriCorps volunteers in creating a school-wide culture of respect and harmony at James Lick Middle School in San Francisco.

Character Education Partnership
$15,000 for 1 year:  1996
To encourage teachers, school administrators, educators, experts and policy makers to participate in a national conference with a central focus on how schools, families and communities develop ethical values in children and youth.

Developmental Studies Center
$50,000 for 2 years:  1996-1998
To support an initiative to train the future generation of teachers in child-centered, values-rich approaches to teaching elementary school children.  By providing materials, training and on-going assistance to teacher education programs at universities in California and nationwide, the Preservice Initiative will encourage integration of ethics into public school curriculum.

Bay Area School Reform Collaborative
$15,000 for one year:  1996
To provide a professional development Summer Institute for teacher leaders from designed “Leadership Schools” in the Bay Area.  The Institute will address the ways in which schools incorporate and assess the social and ethical as well as intellectual needs of all students and create schools that are caring and respectful.

White Plains School District
$75,000 for 3 years:  1996, 1997, 1998
To enable the district’s elementary and middle schools to implement the Child Development Project, a comprehensive curriculum and teacher training program that focuses on the development of the whole child – ethical, social and intellectual.

Burlingame School District
$75,000 for 3 years:  1996, 1997, 1998
To help schools (grades K-8) strengthen their work with the Developmental Studies Center.  This grant supports the training and implementation of Number Power curriculum, which supports children’s ethical development through math activities.

Galef Institute
$40,000 for 2 years; 1996, 1997
To work in elementary schools in the San Francisco Unified School District to introduce and implement Galef’s Different Ways of Knowing curriculum.  This arts and literature-based curriculum emphasizes cooperative learning strategies; students and their teachers work together to form a caring and thoughtful learning community where students learn to respect their teachers and each other.

San Francisco Unified School District
$30,000 for 2 years
To implement the Comer School Development Project in five elementary schools.  This program’s developmental approach aims to engage students, parents, teachers and administrators as partners in creating a safe, respectful, non-violent school environment.

The Foundation Center
$500 for 1 year
To contribute as a sponsor of the Foundation Center’s work in promoting access to and education about philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.