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Grants During Fiscal 2011
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| NAME OF GRANTEE | GRANT | PURPOSE OF GRANT | |
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$10,000 | Individual, group, and family therapy for at-risk teens and families in San Mateo County. | |
| Advokids | $20,000 | Training for advocates and professionals on meeting the needs of foster children, reducing systemic trauma, and achieving permanency for children who cannot be safely returned to parental custody. | |
| At The Crossroads | $15,000 | Counseling and outreach to homeless youth and young adults (16-25), who live in the Mission and downtown neighborhoods. | |
| Be A Mentor, Inc. | $10,000 | Friends for Life mentoring programs target Alameda and Contra Costa County foster youth and children who have one or both parents incarcerated. | |
| Believer's Gathering dba Hope 4 the Heart | $10,000 | One Saturday per month, food boxes are distributed to local families living in an unincorporated area of Alameda County. | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area | $10,000 | Community-based mentoring program matches youths with volunteer adult role models for a minimum 1-year commitment. | |
| CALICO Center | $10,000 | CALICO conducts forensic interviews with child abuse victims in Alameda County and provides support services to their caregivers. | |
| Centro Legal de la Raza Inc. | $10,000 | Keeping Immigrant Families Together (KIFT) is a comprehensive immigration legal aid, education, and advocacy project that supports, protects, and advances the rights of immigrant women, families, and communities. | |
| Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing, Inc. | $15,000 | Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing has two core objectives: on-site services for families living at Garden Park Apartments and the development of a new housing program for high-risk and homeless families. | |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates Program, Inc. | $10,000 | CASA will provide advocates for 40 more abused and neglected children from their waiting list in 2011-2012. | |
| DeafHope | $15,000 | DeafHope provides domestic violence peer counseling, support groups, and court accompaniement for deaf women and their children. | |
| Dolores Street Community Services, Inc. | $20,000 | Posada a Casa (Shelter to Home) provides emergency shelter for adult men in the Mission and supportive housing options for residents of the neighborhood. | |
| Donald P. McCullum Youth Court | $15,000 | Youth offenders complete a sentence that includes programming to build life skills, positive self concepts, greater self awareness, and better sense of social responsibility. | |
| Family Builders By Adoption | $15,000 | Family Builders supports children and youth in foster care to have permanent families; recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families; and supports parents and children with post-adoption services to sustain long-term family stability. | |
| First Place for Youth | $10,000 | First Place for Youth will strengthen their program infrastructure to ensure that more transition-age foster youth can successfully overcome disparities, attain self-sufficiency, and lead independent lives | |
| Food Runners | $5,000 | Food Runners collects perishable and prepared food from local businesses and delivers it to shelters and neighborhood food programs. | |
| Henry Ohlhoff House | $10,000 | Ohlhoff Recovery Programs helps positively redirect the lives of adolescents who are exhibiting at-risk behavior with drug usage or addiction. | |
| Homeless Prenatal Program, Inc. | $15,000 | The Family Resource Center provides case management and supportive services to low-income families with children. | |
| Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County/Winter Nights | $10,000 | Winter Nights is a rotating shelter for homeless families and seniors in Contra Costa County, providing a safe place to sleep and supportive services in local churches/synagogues during winter months. | |
| La Casa de las Madres | $10,000 | La Casa provides an essential safety net for local women, teens, and children escaping and overcoming domestic violence. | |
| Mary Elizabeth Inn | $10,000 | Operational support for MEI's permanent supportive housing program for homeless women, and other services provided through the drop-in center. | |
| My New Red Shoes | $10,000 | My New Red Shoes provides homeless, school-aged children residing in at least 30 shelters with brand new shoes and clothing. | |
| New Door Ventures | $20,000 | Jobs, training, case management, and educational support for low-income youth who are trying to get out of poverty and become self-sufficient. | |
| Northern California Family Center | $10,000 | General operating expenses for runaway, homeless, and abused youth, aged 6-17, in Contra Costa County. | |
| Novato Human Needs Center | $15,000 | Services for people in crisis situations include rental/mortgage assistance, emergency food, phone, shower usage, legal aid, and referrals to other care providers. | |
| Opportunity Junction | $15,000 | Job Training and Placement Program combines job and life skills acquisition for low-income and hard-to-serve participants from underserved communities. | |
| Project Avary, Inc. | $15,000 | Long-term social and life skills training, counseling, and family support for children of prisoners. | |
| Project Open Hand | $10,000 | HIV/AIDS Grocery Center program offers people with AIDS the opportunity to select a week's worth of groceries for free. | |
| Raphael House of San Francisco | $15,000 | Temporary shelter and support services for children and parents in the Residential Shelter Program. | |
| San Francisco Bar Association Volunteer Legal Services Program | $10,000 | Free legal and social services for low-income families facing life-altering Family Law matters (divorce, child custody, child support, etc,), with an emphasis on helping domestic violence survivors navigate the judicial system. | |
| San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center | $15,000 | Supportive therapeutic evaluations, care, early interventions, and education for children at risk for abuse or neglect. | |
| San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocate Program | $25,000 | Recruiting, screening, training and supervision of community volunteers who serve as advocates and mentors for abused and neglected children in foster care. | |
| San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center | $5,000 | Youth Meal Night provides hot, nourishing meals to LGBT youth, the majority of whom are homeless or marginally housed. | |
| SHELTER, Inc. of Contra Costa County | $15,000 | Shelter and supportive services for homeless families at Mountain View House, the only emergency family shelter in East and Central Contra Costa County. | |
| Sitike, Inc. | $5,000 | Women's Intensive Day Treatment Program serves women who are referred from Child Protective Services, Adult Probation, or State Parole Office. | |
| STAND! For Families Free of Violence | $15,000 | Trauma-focused therapy services for children and youth who have been victims of or exposed to domestic violence in Contra Costa County. | |
| Sunset District Community Development dba Sunset Youth Services | $15,000 | Low-income, at-risk San Francisco youth will participate in four programs: Youth Center, Juvenile Delinquency and Violence Prevention, Artistic Expression, and Life Skills. | |
| Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation | $10,000 | Supportive services help low-income individuals, families, and seniors meet their basic needs and increase their quality of life. | |
| The Mentoring Center | $10,000 | Transformative Mentoring program engages Oakland and Richmond at-risk youth in a long-term approach that fundamentally changes the mentality giving rise to destructive behavior and unhealthy life trajectories. | |
| Tides Center/Women's Community Clinic | $10,000 | The Women's Community Clinic operates Ladies' Night outreach program for homeless and marginally-housed women in the Mission who are at risk for HIV/AIDS and other diseases. | |
| Tri-Valley Haven for Women | $15,000 | Tri-Valley Haven's programs address domestic violence, sexual assault, and homelessness through prevention and intervention activities. | |
| Variety Club Blind Babies Foundation | $10,000 | Early intervention and developmental services at home for children who are blind or visually impaired and their families. | |
| Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent, Inc. | $18,000 | Domestic violence emergency services are provided to survivors through the Crisis Line Advocacy program. | TOTAL 2011 GRANTS | $543,000 |