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GRANTS AWARDED 2001

State Volunteer Services
$30,000 for 1 year
To support the 2001 Governor’s Conference on Volunteerism, Sharing Aloha in the Global Village, which will have an international focus and bring together volunteers and volunteer leaders from all over the world to collaborate on issues of international scope, including education, service learning, universal values, liability issues and disaster preparedness.

Educators for Social Responsibility
$25,000 for 1 year:  2001
To support the Partners in Learning program in high schools to create peaceable schools by integrating social and emotional learning into curricula, breaking down barriers between students and teachers, and providing all students more leadership opportunities in the classroom and school community.

Institute for Global Ethics
$25,000 for 2 years
To support the development and implementation of a youth-administered survey in three distinct cultures that will engage youth from around the world as intellectuals and leaders in cross-cultural research and communication around ethics, values and service.

The Mentoring Center
$20,000 for 1 year:  2001
To support the continued operation, field-testing and outcomes evaluation of two new mentoring models for “highly at risk” youth (group and combination group and one to one mentoring) through the African American Males Transition Program, as well as the eventual adaptation of these models for other cultural and ethnic communities.

Youth Service California
$20,000 for 2 years:  2001-2003
To support the statewide Diversity Working Group in its work to increase the diversity of leadership in youth service and service learning; to provide technical assistance to youth service and service learning organizations; and to develop a network of allies who will join with them in advancing the issues of diversity within youth organizations, institutions and networks.

What Do You Believe?
$10,000 for 1 year:  2001
To renew support for the final stages of production of a documentary film about faith and American teenagers and an companying curriculum guide as tools for educators and others to begin to address issues of diversity and spirituality with young people.

Service Learning 2000
$71,100 for 2 years:  2001-2002
To renew support for the partnership begun with the Foundation two years ago to explore the spiritual, religious and cultural roots of service, to expand and deepen the work by directly involving youth in the next phase of the project.

International and National Voluntary Service Program At San Jose State University
$20,000 for 1 year:  2001
To support a two-year service learning leadership program in higher education designed to develop well-informed citizens who are trained as leaders to analyze and solve community programs.

The Volunteerism Project
$25,000 for 1 year:  2001
The support The Volunteerism Project’s two-year plan to get people involved in community life, to help 1) people lead full, productive lives connected to others; 2) community organizations meet their missions through involving people as volunteers; and 3) communities work together to build healthier places in which people can live and work.  This plan includes a specific focus on the value of diversity – ethnic, age and sexual orientation among volunteers.

Youth Together
$20,000 for 1 year:  2001
To support the development of an infrastructure that supports ongoing, even and sustainable development of multicultural Youth Together staff and youth members who engage in community change and service.

Elk Grove High School
$15,000 for 2 years:  2001-2003
To support the Service-learning program at EGHS, including the public service practicum, and the role of EGHS in the community-wide Character Counts initiative to raise youth of strong ethical character.

The Village of Elk Grove
$25,000 for 2 years:  2001-2003
The support the village-wide Character Counts initiative aiming to develop a community of individuals with strong ethical character, who base their decisions and actions on how they would be judged in relationship to any of the six pillars of character.

September 11th Fund
$100,000 for 1 year
To contribute to the fund established by the United Way an the New York Community Trust to provide immediate support to established emergency assistance agencies to bring together resources of other nonprofit health and human service agencies and to ensure that resources are deployed effectively in New York and other cities effected by these tragic events.