This grant will assist in the addition of a Bilingual Education Advocate to provide direct assistance to migrant families living in shelters who are experiencing barriers to a quality public education.
$225,000
to Advocates for Children of New York
$150,000
to Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York
This grant will aid in the expansion of its College & Career Success program, providing expanded college- and career-focused mentorship to underserved and first-generation scholars.
$150,000
to Partners for Justice
This grant will help to expand its Parent Defense Project, embedding a Family Law attorney in California Public Defenders Offices to provide legal support that ranges from advice and counsel to direct representation in criminal court proceedings, with a goal of keeping families together.
$150,000
to The Oakland REACH
The REACH Certified Tutoring and Family Success Coaching Pilot - This tech-enabled solution certifies the best high-impact virtual tutoring providers and connects them directly to lower-income families nationwide.
$200,000
to Integrated Brilliant Education
In Hong Kong, this grant will help establish a kindergarten to teach Hong Kong’s Chinese language curriculum to ethnic minority students who are marginalized and underserved by the public education system.
$200,000
to A Home Away from Homelessness
In San Francisco, this grant will expand access to mental health and structured support for teens facing housing insecurity or who were previously unhoused by combining the position of mental health provider with case management and wellness for weekly individual therapy and social-emotional learning opportunities.
$200,000
to Dream Project
In the Virginia/D.C. area, this grant will help launch a pilot program to offer undocumented immigrants scholarships and mentoring for community college certificate programs and/or trade professions training Career and Technical Education (CTE).
$225,000
to De Novo Center for Justice and Health
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, this grant will augment a program to provide coordinated legal assistance and ancillary mental health services for immigrant children and youth in the Greater Boston area who have survived violence, poverty, and severe abuse. This assistance will include helping them maintain legal status in the United States.
$100,000
to DC Central Kitchen
This grant will help double the reach of a contract awarded by the District of Columbia Public Schools to provide nutrition education, establish in-school food pantries, and provide meals in and out of school for children from low-income communities.
$150,000
to Scientific Adventures for Girls
This grant will help expand a 27-week afterschool STEM program for girls to three new Title 1 schools in the Oakland, California area that currently do not have access to STEM programming.
In addition to the large Special Project Grants, the Foundation will award
Black Girls Code;
TEN
$40,000
GRANTS TO:
Community Alliance for Special Education;
Lawyers for Children;
Minds Matter NYC;
Network for Victim Recovery;
Project Glimmer;
Roots & Wings;
Royal Institute for Deaf & Blind;
Starlight Children’s Foundation;
WY Equality.