2019
Grants Awarded

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support workforce development program in San Francisco. The Jumpstart/EDvance Practicum connects future teachers with high-quality coaching, mentorship, and guided hands-on experience, resulting in better outcomes for children and a sustainable, well-prepared pipeline of early educators

This grant will support the execution of the workforce development objectives created through a multi-year expansion initiative that advances the goal of a universal, effective, and sustainable infant/early childhood mental health consultation (I/ECMHC) model and an expanded and qualified consultant workforce.

Building on the success of our Birth Equity Leadership Academy and energized by new leadership, this grant would support the launching of the Every Baby Our Baby Advocacy Network, including a new Advocacy/Policy Director, to increase our capacity for collective action and community-led advocacy for birth equity.

This grant will help maximize the use of the Illinois Risk and Reach Report as a go-to tool for stakeholders, continuing its dissemination strategy through June 2020, and beginning plans for the next iteration of the Report in 2021.

This grant will support Erikson’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and the development of a sustainable professional development system.

Council for a Strong America (CSA) will build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education and care, coupled with investments in a strong early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of members from law enforcement and business communities in Illinois, California, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for the Center for Study of Child Care Employment.

The BPS Department of Early Childhood will partner with the University of Massachusetts, Boston, to create an online, credit-bearing course for directors of preschool programs to support them as UPK programs as instructional leaders. There is a parallel course for teachers currently being created through another source of funding.

This is a general operating support grant

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports Youth on Board/YouthBuild USA’s work in its capacity as the co-administrators of the Boston Student Advisory Council (BSAC) and Listening Works Convening.

This grant will support for the Leadership Development Continuum, a series of after school and summer programs, internships, media production, and paid employment that enables young people to advocate for systemic change.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports Mikva Challenge’s Citywide Youth Council Program that promotes youth voice and youth leadership by providing young people with the knowledge, skills, agency, and access to have a meaningful impact on public policy decisions that significantly impact Chicago youth.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports Juvenile Law Center’s Youth Engagement projects that create opportunities for youth with experience in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to use their personal stories and experiences as a platform for social change in their communities.

FCYO will work with the Stone Foundation to develop recommendations to the Foundation to redesign their scholarship program in line with the current goals of their Youth Development portfolio. FCYO will conduct interviews and background research on how the program could support organizational leaders in the field of youth organizing.

This is a general operating support grant.

All Coro youth programs prepare young people to make NYC policy and practice more responsive and effective. The Participatory Budgeting Youth Fellowship, Coro’s newest program of this kind, is a partnership with the City Council that prepares high school students to increase youth involvement in NYC’s budget decisions.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports the Youth Justice Board, an after-school program that brings together young people to study and propose solutions to the public safety challenges that most affect them.

This grant will support the Calafia Fellowship Program which will make possible 1) the production of Calafia, a statewide youth policy journal; 2) close collaboration with youth advocates and data to set Calafia agenda; and 3) pairing Calafia Fellows with professional journalists for mentorship.

The project will mobilize youth voices as catalysts for change in practice and policies in New York City’s juvenile justice system. The first phase of the project will run from July 1 2019 through June 2020.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

Chicago Freedom School will continue to implement its trauma and healing informed curriculum which includes strategies, practices and tools to support the operationalizing of SB 100 within classroom settings. This will be achieved by developing curriculum and providing trainings for educators. school administration and staff, youth workers, students and youth.

 

 

The general operating grant will support C4Js work on youth empowerment and development through developing the skills of youth leaders to advocate for student-centered reforms, and lead campaigns to improve school systems for low income students of color.

This is a general operating support grant

This grant will advance local member-led campaigns for Dignity in Schools Campaign Solutions Not Suspensions, engage youth in leadership development and support collective national action.

This grant will support efforts to provide trainings and technical assistance to youth-led/youth-serving organizations in Philadelphia, expanding their capacity to empower students as change agents and deepening their understanding of the legal solutions available to address educational barriers facing students.