The National At-Risk Education Network

California

• Contacts, News & Initiatives
• Funding
• Laws
• Opportunities
• Noteworthy Programs
• Calendar
• Links
• State Coordinator

California At-Risk Education
Contacts, News & Initiatives

• Community Day School Network
• State Education Agency Website
• Education Resource Organizations Directory for California
• Schiff Helps Secure Funding for Local At-Risk Youth Programs

California At-Risk Education
Funding/Grant Funds Available

• Love Your Veggies Grants

  Encourages healthy eating habits.

• Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

  Encourages healthy living opportunities for children.

• Pacific Foundation Services, LLC

  Service grant for program assisting at-risk youths in San Francisco, Marin, and Napa Counties.

• Home Depot Foundation

  Encourages nonprofits to build affordable homes for low-income.

• Grants.gov

  Variety of grants and funding opportunities

• Louis R. Cappelli Foundation

  Funds for helping at-risk youths reach their potential.

• Dollar General Store

  Community grants to support youth literacy programs.

• Sierra Health Foundation's REACH Youth Grant Program

  REACH youth grant program supports healthy development of youth for their successful transition to adulthood.

• Creative Work Fund Invites Letters of Inquiry From San Francisco Artists Collaborating With Nonprofits

  Grants of up to $40,000 will be awarded for two-year projects featuring one or more performing or visual artists collaborating with a nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area...
  Posted on October 15, 2009
  Deadline: November 6, 2009 (Letters of Inquiry)

• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Arts Program Accepting Applications for Fund for National Projects

  Grants of up to $200,000 will be awarded to individual nonprofits and consortia working to strengthen the health of the dance, jazz, presenting, or theater arts fields....
  Posted on October 15, 2009
  Deadline: November 1, 2009, and May 1, annually (Letters of Inquiry)

• Youth Service America Seeks State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant Applications

  Grants of up to $1,000 will be awarded to school and community educators working to combine teaching and learning strategies that integrate community service and academics....

• MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship Seeks Nominations of Exceptional University-Based Community Outreach Programs

  Eight prizes of up to $5,000 will be awarded to university-based programs around the world that encourage active citizenship and student leadership....
  Posted on October 15, 2009
  Deadline: December 15, 2009

• Fund for Teachers Accepting Applications for 2010 Summer Education Grants

  Individual grants of up to $5,000 and team grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to teachers pursuing personal and professional interests through tours, conferences, and independent studies that are transferable to the classroom....
  Posted on October 15, 2009
  Deadline: January 29, 2010

• Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries Accepting Applications From School Libraries

  Grants of up to $6,000 will be awarded to individual schools working to update, extend, and diversify the book collections of their libraries....
  Posted on October 15, 2009
  Deadline: December 31, 2009

Laws & Regulations Affecting
California At-Risk Education

• Stay tuned!

California Educational Opportunities for At-Risk Youth

• Para Los Ninos

  Nonprofit service organization to bring children out poverty from community challenged areas in Los Angeles.

• Bay Area Wilderness Training

  Works to get at-risk, underprivileged youths outdoors.

Noteworthy California Alternative At-Risk Education Programs/Schools

• Project GRAD

• California Department of Education

• Teen Rescue

  Residential boarding school for troubled teen girls.

• Of One Mind

  After school intensive treatment program and resource center that provides for behavioral health and addiction as well as educational resources.

• Inside Out Community Arts

  Theatre Arts based program for at-risk youths

• SafeState

  California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center website also lists lots of ongoing funding opportunities

• PeaceBuilders

  This is a violence prevention program for changing school climates to a peaceful, safe learning environment for children, staff, faculty, and parents.

• Listening For A Change

  Promotes diversity acceptance and understanding through education, oral history, and the arts. Organization has partnered with Dominican University of California under a grant from State Farm Youth Advisory Board to address educational equity, access to education, and provide tutoring services to at-risk students.

California Calendar of Events,
Conferences & Workshops

April 17-18, 2008

• Youth Change — Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youths

April 20, 2008

• California Parent Center — Addressing the Gap: Using Parent Involvement to Increase Student Success and Academic Achievement (Pre-conference to the California Title 1 Conference, April 21-22)

April 24-25, 2008

• The College Board — A Dream Deferred: The Future of African American Education (Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, CA)

Pertinent Links for California At-Risk Education

• California Dropout Research Project

  Produces reports and policy briefs on the nature and potential solutions to the California Dropout Rate.

Contact Information for
California's NAREN Coordinator

• California Web Page Coordinator: Charlane Starks