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AWARDED IN 2000
Bay Area Youth Agency Consortium
$30,000 for 2 years
To renew support for Creating a Conscious Caring Community
Project – founded on values and practices that support
diversity, reflection, team building, service and
professionalism – by
continuing to develop and use common language to
be infused into all aspects of their trainings, meetings
and activities both with staff and AmeriCorps members that will
deepen a collective understanding and commitment to a common
vision of community.
Character Education Partnership
$50,000 for
3 years: 2000-2002
To support the development and dissemination
of the Eleven Principles Sourcebook & Workshops – a
comprehensive curriculum and companion training program based
on the principles and best practices developed and agreed upon
by the nation’s
leading experts in character education – to help teachers
nationwide support the ethical, social and intellectual
development of their students.
Cleo Eulau Center
$20,000 for 2 years: 2000-2001
To renew support for Resiliency
Consultation to Challenged Schools Project in middle
and elementary schools in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties,
using consultants to help teachers and administrators develop
more positive attitudes and behaviors that will build students’ strengths
and success, assist teachers in developing action plans that
target specific students in need, and initiate and support improvements
in the school community that promote resiliency for all students
and faculty.
Daly City Health Center
$20,000 for 2 years: 2000-2002
To support work with
staff, AmeriCorps Members and students at Thornton Continuation
High School in classrooms implementing a curriculum that creates
opportunities for youth to make a contribution to their communities
and develop life long learning skills through the experiences
of leadership, civic responsibility and ethical values, and to
support a mentoring program that promotes positive ongoing relationships
between students and adults in the community.
East Bay Conservation Corps
$30,000 for 2 year: 2000-2002
To renew support for the next phase of the curriculum
development process for a Charter School (k-12) which
will focus on five core principles of the school: academic
excellence: values, ethics and spiritual development necessary
to thoughtful citizen ship; service as a way of learning; participation
in the life of the school and the community through stewardship
of the environment; and creative partnerships in sustaining public
education.
Film Arts Foundation: What Do You Believe?
$15,000
for 1 year: 2000
To support a documentary film focusing
on the personal stories of teens representing diverse religious
and spiritual beliefs, including atheist, Catholic, Buddhist,
Native American, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish and Evangelical Christian,
as well as an accompanying interactive curriculum guide, reading
materials, bibliography and resources for adults to engage young
people in meaningful dialogue, research and inquiry into religion
and spirituality.
Linking San Francisco
$12,000 for one year: 2000
To support Understanding Through Reflection Project,
which will focus initially on the development of a series
of reflection guides designed for teachers engaged
in service learning, including recommended reflection activities
that promote a deeper understanding of community and what it
means to participate in one; a theoretical framework and a process
for teaching the ethics of social responsibility; and tools to
develop a students analytical thinking skills.
Hawaii Association
of Independent Schools
$8,000 for 1 year: 2000
To support the Teacher Preparation
Initiative, a new initiative focused on developing the future
generation of teachers in Hawaii – in
collaboration with the University of Hawaii College
of Education and local high schools – by creating high school
level education course work and a weekly seminar pilot program
for public and private high school students interested in teaching
in the Summerbridge Hawaii Program and are considering
future career teaching in Hawaii’s public schools.
Stanford University Graduate School of Education Service
Learning 2000 Center
$25,000 for 1 year: 2000
To renew support for an initiative co-sponsored by
Service Learning 2000 and the Foundation. “Exploring the
Cultural, Spiritual and Religious Roots of Service,” to
create a leadership group for planning future
work, convene monthly meetings and activities and hold a summer
retreat for participants from the service, education, youth
and faith communities to reflect on this topic as it relates
to their professional and personal lives.
State Volunteer Services
$8,000 for 1 year: 2000
To support State Volunteer
Services Conference in 2000, Living Aloha Through Community
Service, the third annual Governor’s
statewide conference on volunteerism for the state
of Hawaii with a particular focus on engaging practitioners
from the Bay Area and Hawaii in mutual learning, sharing of best
practices and reflecting on cultural values that support young
people’s
engagement in positive and meaningful service to
others.
Hawaii Community Foundation
$12,500 for 1 year: 2000
To support the Principals Leadership Initiative,
a collaborative fund focusing on the development of Hawaii’s Principals
Leadership Academy to improve the effectiveness of
Hawaii’s
public schools through increasing and enhancing the
leadership and management skills of principals; creating a collegial
network of principals who advise and support each other; and
creating partnerships between Hawaii’s business leaders
and school principals to their mutual benefit.
West Oakland Community School
$30,000 for
3 years: 2000-2003
To support the three-year pilot phase
of a Leadership Development Program, emphasizing character development,
practical leadership skills and community involvement for all
students at this newly established charter school (grades 6-8)
through a weekly leadership development class, curriculum development,
staff support and professional development and on-going program
assessment and evaluation.
Vision Youthz
$30,000 for 2 years: 2000-2002
To support the organization’s overall commitment to addressing
the emotional, developmental and spiritual needs
of at-risk youth, specifically adolescent boys in the juvenile justice system
through its programs working with youth while they are incarcerated and
after they are released and return to their communities.
Heartwood
Institute
$10,000 for 1 year: 2000
To support the development
of web-based resources and information for new and in-service
teachers on the seven Heartwood attributes – courage,
loyalty, justice, respect, hope, honesty and love – through
the development of such tools as sample lesson plans
and bibliographies, which will be included on the expanded website.
Partners in School Innovation
$10,000 for 1 year
To support the development and integration of training
and professional development opportunities throughout
the organization to focus on equity and diversity.
San Francisco Education Fund
$10,000 for 1
year: 2000
To renew support for the Peer Resources Program
with emphasis on developing and expanding opportunities for youth
to explore ethical issues in greater depth by integrating ethical
decision making into the curriculum, creating opportunities for
reflection and creating a youth council.
Lick-Wilmerding High School: Bay Area
Teachers Center
$30,000 for 2 years: 2000-2002
To support a public-private
collaborative teacher credential and masters degree
program designed to emphasize new and beginning teachers’ learning
through hands-on classroom practice; guidance from skilled
mentors at the school site; instruction by master teachers
and university professors in BATC classes; and regular opportunities
to exchange classroom observations in seminars.
Hawaii Association
of Independent Schools
$6,000 for 1 year: 2000
To support a series of week-long
summer Peace Camps for elementary school students from local public
and private schools on the island of Oahu to support young children’s
practice of tolerance, anger management, conflict resolution,
violence avoidance and the Hawaiian “aloha” spirit
through structured activities.
Northeast Foundation for Children
$60,000 for 3 years: 2000-2003
To renew the support for the completion of Strategies
for Teachers, a book series that articulates specific classroom
practices related to the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching and learning,
where the social context of learning is honored and
where the knowledge of children’s development informs all decisions.
Pacific News Service
$15,000 for one year: 2000
To support the first-ever
Youth Communications Expo at Juvenile Hall, expanding PNS’s
current programs serving incarcerated youth to include outreach
and expansion of their work to the institutional level and to
build bridges among juvenile halls, schools, community based organizations,
government agencies, the media and policymakers.
City of Yorba Linda
$15,000 for 2 years: 2000-2002
To support three current programs of the Department
of Parks and Recreation that will expand to include middle
school age youth to support their leadership, character and ethical awareness.
Placentia-Yorba
Linda School District
$45,000 for 2 years: 2000-2002
To support a focus
on middle school youth through training and professional
development focusing on building a culture of tolerance, respect
and unity at three of the district’s
middle schools.
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