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Prior Grants
Grants During Fiscal 2009
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$15,000 | Funding supports the Women's Resource Center, which helps stabilize 400 adult women and children residing in the women's shelter or living on the street. | |||
| Bread Project, The | $12,000 | Culinary program trains low-income individuals with multiple barriers to employment. | |||
| Center for Independent Living | $10,000 | Funding supports the Personal Assistant Services department, which connects people with disabilities with in-home attendants to assist with housekeeping and personal care. | |||
| Centerforce | $15,000 | Supports LIFE Empowerment Groups for adolescents impacted by parental incarceration. | |||
| Centro Legal de la Raza | $10,000 | Funding supports the legal services programs, which educates Spanish-speaking immigrants in the East Bay about their legal rights. | |||
| Children's Hospital and Research Center | $15,000 | Supports the Transition Program, which helps HIV-infected pre-teens and teenagers with medication adherance, healthcare decision making, and living skills. | |||
| City Youth Now | $15,000 | Funding provides youth in foster care and the juvenile justice system with job training, education funding, life skills, clothing, and other supports. | |||
| Community Initiatives/At the Crossroads | $20,000 | Funding supports street outreach and couseling for homeless youth in the Tenderloin and Mission neighborhoods of San Francisco. | |||
| Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing, Inc. dba Contra Costa Interfaith Housing, Inc. | $15,000 | Funding supports programming for formerly homeless children now living at Garden Park Apartments, in addition to other homelessness services. | |||
| Cornerstone Community Development Corporation dba Building Futures with Women & Children | $5,000 | Funding supports the Domestic Violence Outreach Program, which includes a 24-hour crisis line, support groups, counselor trainings, community education, and a leadership program for teens. | |||
| Family Emergency Shelter Coalition | $10,000 | Funding provides basic and supportive services to homeless families with children at the Banyan House transitional co-housing site. | |||
| Family Violence Law Center | $20,000 | Funding supports relationship abuse prevention program, which addresses the problem of dating violence among teens in Oakland. | |||
| Food Runners | $5,000 | Supports the pick up of donated perishable and prepared foods from business in San Francisco so they may be distributed to non-profit organizations. | |||
| Foundation for Hearing Research, Inc. | $10,000 | Funding supports the Early Intervention Program to promote self-sufficiency in profoundly deaf children. | |||
| Good Samaritan Family Resource Center | $15,000 | Supports low-income Latino families with intensive case management and individual/family therapy services. | |||
| Hamilton Family Center | $25,000 | Funding supports emergency shelter, eviction prevention assistance, housing help, children and youth programming, and other support services. | |||
| Homeless Prenatal Program | $15,000 | Funding supports the Community Health Worker training program, which prepares unemployed, formerly homeless women to become financially self-sustaining. | |||
| Huckleberry Youth Programs | $15,000 | Funding supports health education services for teens in San Francisco and Marin Counties. | |||
| JobTrain | $20,000 | Funding supports vocational training, skills upgrade, job placement, and support services for residents of the poorest areas of San Mateo County. | |||
| Larkin Street Youth Services | $20,000 | Funding supports Together Assisting Street Kids, an outreach program for homeless and runaway youth. | |||
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area | $15,000 | Funding supports the Homeless Rights Project, which recruits and trains pro bono attorneys to provide legal representation for homeless people. | |||
| Link to Children, The | $10,000 | Supports center-based early intervention mental health services for pre-school children. | |||
| Loaves & Fishes of Contra Costa | $25,000 | Funding will allow for purchases of food and supplies for feeding the hungry in Contra Costa County. | |||
| Magnolia Women's Recovery Program, Inc. | $10,000 | Funding supports trauma resolution for children and parenting skills for their mothers in the perinatal residential substance abuse treatment program in Hayward. | |||
| Marin Center for Independent Living | $15,000 | Funds will aid disabled youth as they transition from high school to college, and college to work. | |||
| Mary Elizabeth Inn | $20,000 | Funds support housing program for women, and housing placement, case management, and employment services for homeless women and children. | |||
| Monument Crisis Center | $20,000 | Funding supports food assistance and nutrition program for very low-income people in Contra Costa County. | |||
| My New Red Shoes | $15,000 | Funds clothing for low-income and homeless children in San Mateo County. | |||
| New Leaf: Services for Our Community | $15,000 | Funding supports substance abuse treatment program for young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. | |||
| Oakes Children's Center, Inc. | $15,000 | Funding supports after-school childcare for severely emotionally disturbed children. | |||
| Opportunity Junction | $15,000 | Funding supports job training and placement program, which is designed to move participants from poverty to long-term economic independence. | |||
| Partners in School Innovation | $15,000 | Funding supports a joint initiative with PSI and New Leaders for New Schools, which will train teachers and principals in Oakland to help close the achievement gap at underperforming schools. | |||
| Planned Parenthood Golden Gate | $20,000 | Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy educates teens about the consequences of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe sexual activity. | |||
| Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, Inc. | $10,000 | Supports food assistace program for impoverished residents of West Oakland. | |||
| Rape Trauma Services | $10,000 | Supports crisis intervention and support for child victims of sexual assault. | |||
| Raphael House of San Francisco, Inc. | $20,000 | Funds support temporary shelter and services for children and their parents. | |||
| The SAGE Project, Inc. (Standing Against Global Exploitation) | $15,000 | Funding supports a Transitional and Aftercare Counselor, to help women escape prostitution and trafficking in San Francisco. | |||
| San Francisco Bar Association/ Volunteer Legal Services Program | $15,000 | Supports the health, safety, and stability of low-income women and children who are victims of domestic violence and/or at risk of poverty-related health conditions. | |||
| San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center | $15,000 | Supports therapeutic child care for traumatized low-income children, and provides parents with appropriate parenting techniques. | |||
| San Francisco Women Against Rape | $15,000 | Supports peer program to educate middle and high school students about issues of violence against women and girls. | |||
| Shelter, Inc.of Contra Costa County | $15,000 | Funding supports the Mountain view Emergency Family Shelter, the only emergency shelter in East and Central Contra Costa County that serves homeless families with children. | |||
| Sophia Project | $5,000 | Funding supports two care and education centers for children and mothers who are at risk of recurring homelessness. | |||
| Stand! Against Domestic Violence | $20,000 | Funding supports Moving On From Violent Environments, a residential program for survivors of domestic violence, including vocational services and thereapeutic child care. | |||
| Sunset District Community Development dba Sunset Youth Services | $20,000 | Funding supports the Youth Development Programs for 600 high-risk, low-income youth in San Francisco. | |||
| Support For Families of Children with Disabilities | $15,000 | Funding supports the Outreach and Support Project, which helps families with disabled children gain access to support, information, and education services. | |||
| Swords to Plowshares | $20,000 | Funding supports the Pro Bono Veterans Legal Project, which helps vets obtain earned benefits and avoid homelessness. | |||
| Tides Center/Women's Community Clinic | $10,000 | Funding supports Ladies' Night outreach program for homeless and marginally-housed women in the Mission who are at-risk for HIV/AIDS. | |||
| Tides Center/Homeless Youth Alliance | $10,000 | Funding supports harm-reduction, preventative, and health services for homeless individuals in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. | |||
| Variety Club Blind Babies Foundation | $15,000 | Supports early intervention services for blind and visually impaired children so they can avoid institutionalization in the future. | |||
| Wardrobe for Opportunity | $25,000 | Supports career development services, financial literacy and savings program, and other life-skills services for low-income women. | |||
| TOTAL 2009 GRANTS | $762,000 | ||||