New Leaders, Inc. ($50,000) for building early literacy capacity and curriculum into New Leaders’ leadership development continuum. National Head Start Association ($356,442) to create and pilot a validated tool to measure effective parent-family and community engagement practices, and for the creation of the technological infrastructure for the tool to be used nationwide.
Lotus Bloom Family Resource Center ($160,000) to offer parent-child playgroups with enriched play, and learning and literacy activities and to support training other community partners in the Lotus Bloom model. Literacy Lab ($424,087) to serve children and parents through three projects: A pop up pre-school pilot program with the Lighthouse Charter Community School that will serve pre-school children, parents/caregivers, and educators and an interactive learning and reading program in OUSD pre-schools and Increased access to literacy resources and expansion in OUSD Transitional Kindergarten. ($85,000) Funding to provide ten faith based organizations and nine new transitional kindergarten classrooms with early learning programs, such as parent workshops, quality bookcase libraries and a take home book bag program.
Lincoln Child Center ($150,000) for action research on chronic absenteeism in five Oakland elementary schools that will assess, capture data, and provide direct services for first grade students. Lighthouse Community Charter School($63,427) to support preschool students and their caregivers who will participate in an interactive learning and reading program (in partnership with Literacy Lab). Jumpstart for Young Children($20,000) for Jumpstart Oakland, a program that serves children in preschool classrooms, helping them develop the language, literacy and social skills needed for school readiness. Great Oakland Public Schools Leadership Center($250,000) to increase family access to high quality early childhood programs and the integration of early childhood and K-12 systems. Girls Incorporated of Alameda County($50,000) to support Girls Inc.’s Summer Literacy Program. The Rainin Foundation seeks to ensure that all children in Oakland develop the social, emotional, and cognitive skills they need to thrive in kindergarten and to become successful readers by third grade. We take a collaborative approach, working with community based organizations and schools to provide literacy supports for children, birth to 8 years old, and their families.Īspire Education Project ($10,000) for the Community Reading Buddies Program, which recruits and trains youth mentors/volunteers as literacy tutors.Ĭastlemont Community Transformation Schools ($60,000) for a five-week school readiness program in summer 2015 for Transitional Kindergarten students.Įast Bay Agency for Children / La Academia ($16,000) for training and accreditation of staff members in evidence-based Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) curriculum, which will support La Academia’s social-emotional and literacy outcomes for Mam (Indigenous Guatemalan) & Spanish-speaking families with pre-school aged children.Įducation for Change / Springboard Summer Collaborative ($179,474) to support a five-week summer school program with daily reading instruction for 480 students from both district and charter schools includes weekly workshops that train parents to teach reading at home, and an incentive structure that awards learning tools to families in proportion to student reading gains.įaith Network of the East Bay, Inc.($10,000) for reading clinics and to provide take home books and resources for schools and libraries.
The Rainin Foundation’s grant making supports strategies to reduce early disparities in language and literacy development, and support grade level reading by third grade.
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