Grants Made in FY14 Under MCF s Strategic Plan

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1 The grants listed below were made from the Leonard and Beryl H. Buck Trust to support Strategic Initiatives and Community Grants under the Foundation s Strategic Plan. Strategic Initiative: Closing Educational Achievement Gap 10,000 Degrees To support accessing post-secondary education. 2,700,000 Total 2,700,000 Aim High To support accessing post-secondary education. 45,000 Total 45,000 Bridge The Gap support middle/high school students in Sausalito Marin City 50,000 Total 50,000 Canal Alliance support middle/high school students in San Rafael 150,000 Total 150,000 Children Now To support research to encourage use of local control funding formula resources for early learning and development activities like Marin s Early School Success strategy, and provide community tools through workshops/webinars for Marin participants. 20,000 College Dream Team Program support high school students in San Rafael 65,000 Total 65,000 Conservation Corps North Bay support at-risk older youth county-wide 35,000 Total 35,000 Dominican University of California support middle/high school tutoring 40,000 Hannah Project Partnership for Academic Achievement support high school students in Sausalito Marin City 50,000 Total 50,000 Strategic Initiative: Closing Educational Achievement Gap Huckleberry Youth Programs, Inc. support middle/high school students in San Rafael 150,000 Total 150,000 Marin Community Foundation To provide consulting for Early School Success programs. 135,000 Total 135,000 Marin County Office of Education To promote early school success. 149,439 To support the Early Childhood Education Quality Improvement Project. 450,000 Total 599,439 Next Generation Scholars support middle/high school students in San Rafael 90,000 Total 90,000 Novato Unified School District To support an academically-focused summer learning program serving students from four target schools. To support transformation at Loma Verde Elementary School. 15, ,381 Total 198,381 Novato Youth Center support middle school students in Novato 75,000 Parent Institute for Quality Education support parent engagement in San Rafael and Novato middle/high schools 75,000 Parent Services Project, Inc. To support family engagement and leadership. 189,460 Total 189,460 San Rafael City Schools To promote early school success. 996,725 To support transforming Davidson Middle School. 187,020 Total 1,183,745 Page 1 of 12

2 Strategic Initiative: Closing Educational Achievement Gap Sausalito Marin City School District To support transforming schools programs. 310,400 Total 310,400 Shoreline Unified School District To promote early school success. 191,532 Total 191,532 Summer Search Foundation support high school students in Novato and Shoreline 40,000 Total Closing Educational Achievement Gap 6,392,957 Strategic Initiative: Ending Cycle of Poverty Adopt A Family of Marin To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 90,000 To support homelessness prevention for families in Marin. 20,000 Total 110,000 Bay Area Male Involvement Network To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 20,000 To support the Thriving Families Network. 8,000 Total 28,000 Canal Alliance To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 112,500 To support the Thriving Families Network. 30,000 Total 142,500 Canal Welcome Center To support the La Placita Community Open Air Market. 25,000 Total 25,000 Center Point, Inc. To support ending the cycle of poverty programs in Marin. To support Income Enhancement & Responsible Fatherhood. 30,000 7,000 Total 37,000 Community Action Marin To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 20,000 To support immigrant economic development. 5,000 Total 25,000 County of Marin Housing Authority To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 112,500 To support the Phoenix Project of Marin. 8,000 To support the Phoenix Project. 30,000 To support the Work Incentive Program. 30,000 Total 180,500 Earned Asset Resource Network (EARN) To build savings and financial capability of Marin low-wage workers. 325,000 Page 2 of 12

3 Strategic Initiative: Ending Cycle of Poverty Strategic Initiative: Ending Cycle of Poverty To support IDA and savings programs. 93,500 Total 418,500 Gilead House To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 30,000 To support the Gilead House Transformation Project. 7,000 Total 37,000 Upwardly Global To support ending the cycle of poverty programs in Marin. 30,000 To support the Thriving Families Network. 8,000 Total 38,000 Total Ending Cycle of Poverty 2,561,500 Homeward Bound of Marin To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 150,000 To support the Thriving Families Network. 30,000 To support workforce development programs. 100,000 Total 280,000 Marin City Community Development Corporation To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 135,000 To support the Thriving Families Network. 30,000 Total 165,000 Marin Grassroots To provide infrastructure and program support. 75,000 To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 40,000 Total 115,000 Novato Human Needs Center To support ending the cycle of poverty programs. 120,000 To support the Thriving Families Network. 25,000 Total 145,000 Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center To support programs to end the cycle of poverty. 600,000 Total 600,000 Single Stop USA To support financial education in Marin. 125,000 Total 125,000 Tides Center To support the Thriving Families Network. 90,000 Total 90,000 Page 3 of 12

4 Strategic Initiative: Increasing Affordable Housing Adopt A Family of Marin To increase affordable housing. 75,000 BRIDGE Housing Corporation To support Marinwood Village. 200,000 Total 200,000 California Human Development To support implementation of the Farmworker Housing Program. 175,000 Strategic Initiative: Increasing Affordable Housing Ritter Center To increase affordable housing. 200,000 Total 200,000 Total Increasing Affordable Housing 1,425,000 Total Strategic Initiatives 10,379,457 Total 175,000 Eden Housing To support affordable housing programs. 200,000 Total 200,000 Marin Community Foundation To conduct feasibility study of a Pay for Success (Social Impact Bonds) model in Marin, for homelessness and other social issues. To engage business community in the need for workforce housing. 100, ,000 Total 200,000 Marin Partnership to End Homelessness To support affordable housing programs. 75,000 Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California To support the Homes for Marin project. 100,000 Total 100,000 Resources for Community Development To support pre-development costs for a project to build 40 homes for low-income older-adults. 200,000 Total 200,000 Page 4 of 12

5 Community Grant: Arts and Culture Alternative Theater Ensemble To support The Fellowship by Ignacio Zulueta. 20,000 Bread & Roses To support audience development. 45,000 To support live music performances for isolated and institutionalized residents. 18,000 Total 63,000 California Film Institute To support audience development plans. 45,000 To support My Place/My Story. 30,000 California Poets in the Schools To support Marin Poets in the Schools. 22,000 Total 22,000 Canal Welcome Center To support Mayan dance performances. 11,000 To support Promoting and Preserving the Cultural Assets in the Canal Community ,000 Total 33,000 Circus Bella To support 2014 Circus in the Parks, Marin County. 7,500 Total 7,500 Dance Palace Community Center To support engagement with the arts. 10,000 Total 10,000 Dominican University of California To deliver visual art classes for students in the Canal neighborhood. 20,000 Enriching Lives Through Music To support El Sistema. 37,000 Total 37,000 Community Grant: Arts and Culture Gallery Route One To support the Latino Photography project in West Marin for Latino adults and youth. 10,000 Total 10,000 Hannah Project Partnership for Academic Achievement To support arts and cultural activities in the Marin City 5,000 gallery. To support the Hannah Gallery. 10,000 Total 15,000 Headlands Center for the Arts To support audience engagement inplementation. 55,000 Total 55,000 Larkspur-Corte Madera School District To support an arts demonstration project. 208,000 Total 208,000 Luna Dance Institute To support Marin City Family Dance. 9,450 Total 9,450 Marin Community Foundation To provide arts education demonstration project technical assistance. 197,200 To support arts consulting. 20,000 Total 217,200 Marin Museum of the American Indian To support a 360 assessment of the organization. 10,500 Total 10,500 Marin Shakespeare Company To support Play Power. 37,000 Total 37,000 Marin Theatre Company To support high school arts. 22,000 Total 22,000 Page 5 of 12

6 Community Grant: Arts and Culture Community Grant: Arts and Culture Mill Valley Philharmonic The Cedars of Marin To support audience development efforts. 22,000 Total 22,000 To support a textile arts program for low income seniors, where textile arts classes are led by master weavers with developmental disabilities. 10,000 Pacific News Service To support creative writing workshops for youth in Juvenile Hall. 10,000 Total 10,000 Performing Arts Workshop To support a poetry residency at Loma Alta High School. 14,996 To support Artists-in-Schools. 22,000 Total 36,996 Performing Stars of Marin To support capacity building. 5,000 Total 5,000 San Geronimo Valley Community Center To support the Revivir la Cultura & Handbook project. 20,000 Sausalito Marin City School District To provide teacher stipends for participation in the 2013 Summer Arts Institute. 5,800 To support arts programs. 78,200 Total 10,000 William James Association To support arts programming for inmates at San Quentin State Prison. 11,000 To support Prison Arts Project. 22,000 Total 33,000 Willow Creek Academy To support arts education. 40,000 Young Imaginations To support arts in public schools. 37,000 Total 37,000 Youth in Arts, Inc. To support Arts Unite Us. 32,000 Total 32,000 Total Arts and Culture 1,256,646 Total 84,000 Senior Access To support Daring Truths. 15,000 Total 15,000 TeamWorks Art Mentoring & Apprenticeship Program To support art programs for youth in Juvenile Hall and continuation high school. 20,000 The Beat Within To support art programs for youth in Juvenile Hall and Marin County school districts. 20,000 Page 6 of 12

7 Community Grant: Environment Community Grant: Environment Agricultural Institute of Marin Point Blue Conservation Science To conduct a feasibility study of a mobile farmer's market. 23,000 To support environmental literacy among local low-income youth and/or youth of color. 69,372 Total 23,000 Audubon Society Total 69,372 Promotores Verdes To support the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary Environmental Education Programs. 45,000 To support strategic communications training and development. 15,230 Total 45,000 Conservation Corps North Bay Total 15,230 Regents of the University of California To support the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden. 100,000 To support capacity building for community garden efforts in Marin. 57,299 Total 100,000 Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Total 57,299 Slide Ranch To support the Orchard Trailhead Improvement and Community Engagement project in Marin City. 100,000 To support environmental literacy among local low-income youth and/or youth of color. 39,000 Total 100,000 Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative To support environmental programs among local low-income youth and/or youth of color. 50,000 Total 50,000 Marin City Community Development Corporation Total 39,000 Strategic Energy Innovations To support implementation of conservation initiatives in low-income schools in coordination with Prop 39 funding. To support planning to increase readiness of school districts to utilize Proposition 39 funds. 60,000 22,000 Total 82,000 To support the Marin City Community Development Environmental Landscape Training Program. 77,954 Total 77,954 WildCare To support environmental literacy among local low-income families and/or families of color. 40,202 Marin Community Foundation To support a contract with Trust for Public Land to complete a Park Equity Map of Marin County. 5,000 Total 5,000 Marin Organic To support environmental literacy among local low-income youth and/or youth of color. 40,000 Total 40,202 Youth Leadership Institute To support the Environmental Youth Justice Project. 30,000 Total 30,000 Total Environment 824,057 NatureBridge To support a one-year learning community of Marin's environmental education organizations. 50,000 Total 50,000 Page 7 of 12

8 Community Grant: Equity in Legal Protection Brazilian Alliance To support mobile legal clinics for DACA applicants in Marin County. 5,000 Total 5,000 Canal Alliance To support legal services. 42,384 Total 42,384 Family and Children's Law Center To support family law services for low-income Marin residents. 35,400 To support family law services. 45,000 Total 80,400 Legal Aid of Marin To support legal services and education for low-income Marin residents. To support legal services for very low-income Marin residents. 85,000 82,600 Total 167,600 Total Equity in Legal Protection 295,384 Community Grant: Improving Community Health Coastal Health Alliance To improve community health. 90,000 Total 90,000 Community Action Marin To support healthy nail salons in Marin. 65,000 Total 65,000 Huckleberry Youth Programs, Inc. To improve community health. 115,000 Total 115,000 Legal Aid of Marin To improve community health. 50,000 Total 50,000 Marin City Health and Wellness Center To improve community health. 100,000 Total 100,000 Novato Youth Center To improve community health. 61,000 Total 61,000 Operation Access To improve community health. 20,000 Parent Services Project, Inc. To improve community health. 80,000 Total 80,000 Partnership HealthPlan of California To subsidize health insurance premiums for children ineligible for public health insurance. 297,527 To support Healthy Kids Insurance in Marin. 126,843 Total 424,370 PDI Surgery Center To improve community health. 10,000 Total 10,000 Page 8 of 12

9 Community Grant: Improving Community Health Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific To improve community health. 40,000 Ritter Center To improve community health. 75,000 RotaCare Bay Area, Inc. To improve community health. 20,000 Total Improving Community Health 1,150,370 Community Grant: Integration of Immigrants Bay Area Organizing Committee To support immigration programs. 40,000 Canal Alliance To support immigration programs. 269,300 To support the Canal Alliance Integrating Immigrants Project. 150,090 Total 419,390 Community Action Marin To support the Asian Access Resource Project. 15,000 Total 15,000 Educators for Fair Consideration To support immigration programs. 15,000 Total 15,000 Marin Literacy Program To support immigration programs. 25,000 Total 25,000 Novato Human Needs Center To support immigration programs. 40,000 West Marin Community Services To support immigrant programs. 27,000 Total 27,000 Total Integration of Immigrants 581,390 Page 9 of 12

10 Community Grant: Social Justice, Interfaith Understanding Bay Area Organizing Committee To build leadership and organizing capacity for issues of social and economic justice. 25,000 To support social justice programs. 50,000 Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center To support interfaith programs. 5,000 Total 5,000 Canal Alliance To support Voces del Canal Project. 25,000 Total 25,000 Congregation Gan Halev To support interfaith programs. 6,300 Total 6,300 Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative To promote an interfaith approach to the development of a just and sustainable food system. 15,000 Community Grant: Social Justice, Interfaith Understanding Marin Grassroots To support monitoring of the Municipal Advisory Council, and implementation of Board and Commissions Leadership Program. 15,000 Total 15,000 Marin Interfaith Street Chaplaincy To support interfaith programs. 20,000 To support the Marin Interfaith Street Chaplaincy programs and events. 10,000 Total 30,000 Youth Leadership Institute To advocate for school policy changes related to safe learning environments for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth. 22,500 Total 22,500 Total Social Justice, Interfaith Understanding 255,300 Total 15,000 International Association of Sufism To support Expressions. 20,000 To support two interfaith events that focus on the contributions and leadership roles of women in the development of faith traditions. 10,000 Total 30,000 Marin Child Care Council To engage parents impacted by the lack of available and affordable care options in local and state level advocacy. 25,000 Total 25,000 Marin Community Foundation To support the organizational assessment of Marin Grassroots. 6,500 Total 6,500 Page 10 of 12

11 Community Grant: Successful Aging Community Grant: Successful Aging Audubon Canyon Ranch To engage older adults in intergenerational environmental education. 10,000 To support environmental education. 20,000 Total 30,000 Episcopal Senior Communities To support senior volunteerism. 30,000 To support volunteer programs. 30,000 Total 60,000 Jewish Family and Children's Services To support Seniors At Home. 35,000 To support the Seniors-At-Home program. 42,500 Total 77,500 LifeLong Medical Care To support expanded Adult Day Health Center access in Marin. 25,000 To support expansion of ADHC access in Marin. 25,000 Total 50,000 LITA (Love is the Answer) To provide program support. 20,000 To support older adult volunteers. 10,000 Total 30,000 Marin Center for Independent Living To support the personal-care attendant registry. 10,000 To support the registry. 20,000 Total 30,000 Marin Community Foundation To support programmatic consultant work (Fund 2049). 389 Total 389 Marin Villages To support older adult volunteerism. 26,500 To support volunteerism. 14,000 Total 40,500 Novato Human Needs Center To support programs for seniors. 29,000 Total 42,000 SF - Marin Food Bank To support food assistance programs for seniors. 20,000 To support senior food programs in Marin. 20,000 San Geronimo Valley Community Center To support From Generation to Generation. 20,000 To support the From Generation to Generation program. 20,000 Senior Access To provide program support. 37,500 To support core services. 36,000 Total 73,500 Senior Services for Northern California To support AARP Experience Corps Marin. 20,000 To support AARP Experience Corps Marin. 20,000 West Marin Senior Services To support efforts to help rural seniors remain in their homes. 100,000 To support older adult programs. 50,000 To support volunteer opportunities for seniors in West Marin. 15,000 To support volunteers. 15,000 Total 180,000 Whistlestop To foster volunteerism for older adults. 8,500 To support Access to Healthy Nutrition, Socialization and Active Aging. 50,000 To support Engaged Older Adult Volunteers. 8,750 To support programs for older adults. 78,500 Total 145,750 YWCA of San Francisco & Marin To support the FiftyPlus Employment Support Program. 37,500 To support older adult services. 13,000 Page 11 of 12

12 Community Grant: Successful Aging To support the FiftyPlus program. 35,000 Total 72,500 Total Successful Aging 952,139 Total Community Grants 5,315,286 Total Grants 15,694,743 Page 12 of 12