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GRANTS AWARDED 1997

Character Education Partnership
$25,000 for 1 year:  1997
To support a joint initiative between CEP and the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character that will determine the extent to which teacher education programs across the nation incorporate character education into the preparation of future teachers and the ways in which different programs define character education.

East Bay Conservation Corps
$30,000 for 1 year: 1997
To support the research and planning process for the development of school-wide philosophy and comprehensive curriculum based on universal ethics and service learning for a Charter School that will open in 1999.

National Helpers Network
$30,000 for 1 year:  1997
To support the second edition of Reflection, The Key to Service Learning, which will lay out the theory of reflection and its practical application for teachers in their classrooms.  Based on different modules, this guide will help teachers engage their students in meaningful service learning experiences using reflection to understand their service experience, to connect service to the academic curriculum and to deepen students’ understanding of themselves and their relationship to the world through their service to others.

San Francisco Education Fund:  Peer Resource Change Makers Project $50,000 for 2 years:  1997-1999
To support the Change Maker Project, a collaboration with schools, community agencies and Beacon Centers that involves high school and middle school age youth leaders as “Change Makers” in designing and implementing projects in their communities; and to encourage youth to serve a mentors or Peer Advocates for younger students in need of one-on-one support and guidance.

Bay Area School Reform Collaborative
$40,000 for 2 years:  1997, 1998
To support the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative 1997-1998 Summer Leadership Institutes.  Building on the foundation’s grant to support designated leadership schools from across the Bay Area to develop a shared vision of public school education, to build critical friendships with other leadership schools, to reflect on the challenges and opportunities in their reform efforts among colleagues and friends.

E.R. Taylor Elementary School
$20,000 for 1 year:  1997
To support the planning and pilot year implementation of a College Bound focus for the whole school that will support the academic, ethical, social and emotional needs of students at ER Taylor School so that they will achieve to their fullest potential and become successful, active and caring members of society.

Linking San Francisco:  San Francisco Unified School District
$25,000 for 1 year:  1997
To support the LSF School Network made up of 40 elementary, middle and high schools engaged in service learning programs and activities that support ethical and social outcomes for students such as teamwork, responsibility, civic concern and tolerance of cultural differences.

Northeast Foundation for Children
$17,500 for 1 year:  1997
To support the Annual Fund, which provides scholarship funds for economically disadvantaged students to attend the Greenfield Center School; and to support a classroom evaluation that will examine the potential causal relationship between social and ethical development in the Responsive Classroom and students’ academic achievement.

Pacific News Service
$30,000 for 1 year:  1997
To support in a special YO! (Youth Outlook) initiative to provide meaningful opportunities for incarcerated youth to learn how to communicate, reflect on their lives and develop prosocial skills through their relationships with youth writers and professionals in communications, through writing workshops and a short video production.

Quest International
$60,000 for 2 years:  1997, 1998
To support the Working It Out Initiative, a collaboration with the Lions Club, Sheridan Elementary School and Twenty First Century Academy to promote the social, ethical and emotional development of students by training teachers, staff, parents and other community members in a comprehensive conflict resolution program.

San Francisco Urban Service Project
$30,000 for 1 year:  1997
To support a comprehensive year long Training and Professional Development program with a focus on the values, skills and knowledge necessary for AmeriCorps members to engage in a full-time community service work with San Francisco public schools, community based organizations, Healthy Start sites and child development centers.