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Although the Greenville Foundation no longer makes grants, this page and the final grantmaking guidelines and instructions are available for your reference.

Education Funding Interests

The Foundation's Education Committee, believing strongly in the potential of young people, wishes to support educational efforts that ignite individuals so they learn to value and choose the academic and personal opportunities that will help them to become stronger, independent thinkers and individuals more capable of making good decisions and being self-reliant. Our vision is that these individuals would achieve a better personal quality of life as well as the ability and willingness to help create a just, equitable, and secure society for others. Organizations that incorporate this respect for personal empowerment in their philosophies, their structures, their operations, and their projects are attractive to us.

The Foundation seeks to serve high-risk and/or high-potential youth, ages preschool through secondary school, specifically west of the Rocky Mountains, via:

• Projects that ignite and inspire students, actively involve them in their own education, introduce new perspectives and inspire critical and independent thought.
  
• Projects that encourage grassroots, community-based efforts which take a creative and comprehensive approach to problems, encourage participation by parents, mentors and community, and exhibit the potential to create a significant, long-term impact on a child's life.

Education Grants, early 2003

A Home Away From Homeless, San Francisco, CA -- $10,000
To support The Mentoring Program, a program providing homeless children and youth in San Francisco with a stable and caring adult to help increase self-esteem and improve academic progress.

Arizona Quest for Kids, Phoenix, AZ -- $12,000
To support the Youth Enrichment Project, a program that offers enrichment activities/field trips to broaden life experiences, and is directed to low-income youth from inner-city Phoenix schools.

Barrio Logan College Institute, San Diego, CA -- $10,000
To support the expansion of the After-School College Preparation Programs that provide college preparation, motivation, and academic support services to 200 low-income elementary through high school students in inner-city San Diego.

Friendship Club, Nevada City, CA -- $15000
To support "Finding Our Voice," a project to bridge the digital divide for at-risk adolescent girls in rural Nevada County, CA.

Human Development Foundation,, Encinitas, CA -- $14,480
To support the OPEN GATE Program, a mentor/tutoring program designed to serve highly gifted and talented low-income elementary school children in the San Diego School District.

Jamestown Community Center, San Francisco, CA -- $10,000
For Youth Power, a leadership development program that engages middle school youth in addressing issues of concern in their Mission District community.

Streetside Stories, San Francisco, CA -- $10,000
To support the Arts, Literacy and Achievement Project, an arts education project that serves middle school students in the San Francsico School District through two linked programs: one in sixth grade classrooms and the other in an after-school setting serving seventh and eighth grade students at high risk of academic failure.

Lane Arts Council, Eugene, OR - $12,000
To support ArtsWorks, a collaborative, community arts-focused, teen training and youth development
program in Lane County.

Peninsula Bridge Program, Menlo Park, CA - $12,000
To support the Menlo Bridge Program, a summer academic achievement and theater arts program for
economically disadvantaged middle school students in the Ravenswood and Redwood City School Districts.

Phoenix Public Library Foundation, Phoenix, AZ - $18,000
To support the Youth Technology Internship Program, a pilot project to train youth as Technology Assistants for working with the community to utilize the Library's public access computers.

Schools, Mentoring and Resource Team, San Francisco, CA - $13,000
For the expansion of the After School Program that provides educational and youth development services to talented low-income middle school students in San Francisco.

Science & Math Investigative Learning Experience, Oregon State University Fdn, Corvallis, OR - $7,000
To support the Ecosystem Studies Program that provides opportunities for minority and low-income youth to be mentored in ecosystem science investigations, inspiring them in science and encouraging their college aspirations.

Seattle Arts & Lectures, Seattle, WA - $8,000
To support the expansion of Writers In The Schools, a comprehensive creative writing and reading program for Seattle middle and high schools during 2002-2003.

Treehouse, Seattle, WA - $10000
To support the Treehouse Tutoring Program that provides one-on-one professional academic tutoring to high risk foster children ages, 5-18 in Seattle public schools.

Education Grants 2002

Bay Area Teen Voices FA San Francisco Women's Centers, San Francisco CA - $10,000
To support the expansion of programs promoting literacy, critical thinking skills, community-building, and personal growth by providing credited, graded journalism classes to 70-85 young women.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA - $7,500
To support the "Playmaking Project," an intense participatory playwriting program serving at-risk public school and incarcerated youth ages 12-18 in Alameda County.

Charitable Council of Monterey County, Salina, CA - $25,000
To support "Education, Careers, Health, Opportunities," a program that works with at-risk, low-income teen women to encourage them to pursue post-secondary education, plan for careers, and avoid pregnancy, in Monterey County, CA.

Childsplay, Inc., Tempe AZ - $10,000
To support Childsplay's School Tour program, in elementary and middle schools around the state of Arizona.

Each One Reach One, Pacifica CA - $7,500
To support a theater-based mentoring program servicing low-income high school students involved in the juvenile justice system in San Mateo and San Francisco County.

El Nido Teen Center, Boyes Hot Springs CA - $7,500
To support and expand the Education Program at the Center to assist approximately forty teens meet their academic challenges.

Imagine Bus Project, Sausalito, CA - $10,000
To support the Art House, a program that provides low-income children with homework help, arts and crafts education and fun in the Potrero Hill District of San Francisco.

Literary Arts, Inc., Portland OR - $10,000
To support "Writers in the Schools," a comprehensive educational program that hires professional writers to teach long term writing residencies in Portland public schools.

Oakland Butterfly & Urban Gardens OBUGS, Oakland, CA - $15,000
To support an in-school and after-school gardening education program for low-income students that provides hands-on experiential learning, personal skill development, community service learning, and adult mentoring, in West Oakland, CA.

Oregon Zoo Foundation, Portland, OR - $15,000
To support the "Zoo Animal Presenters Program," a two-year internship program serving 20 at-risk teens trained in animal care, public speaking, presentation techniques and conversation issues, in Portland, OR.

School on Wheels, Malibu, CA - $15,000
To support the "Learning Room Project," that provides classrooms in homeless and abused women's shelters throughout Los Angeles County, and which uses 1000+ tutors and volunteers to provide children with an education.

Shakespeare San Francisco DBA San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support "Midnight Shakespeare," a program for at-risk Bay Area youth that provides participants the opportunity to improve literacy, develop communication, discipline and teamwork skills and serve as role models for their peers and other members of the community.

Stagebridge, Oakland CA - $10,000
To support the "Storybridge Project" a program providing classroom residencies by senior storytellers and professional storyteller/teachers, performances of literacy-based plays and curriculum materials, teacher training workshops, and creative writing contest.

Teton Science School, Inc., Kelly, WY - $15,000
To support the "Beverly Johnson Leadership Project," a unique high school experiential science and leadership program for low-income students in south central Los Angeles.

UP ON TOP After School Program FA Faithful Fools Street Ministry, San Francisco CA - $7,500
To support a partnership between the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco and the Central YMCA to provide an after school care and enrichment/educational program for children living in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.

West Valley Fine Arts Council, Litchfield Park AZ - $10,000
To support "Gallery 37 Summer Youth Employment in the Arts," an eight-week program providing on-the-job training working as apprentices with professional artists to identify career alternatives and motivate them to make the most of their high school education.

Education Grants 2001

Vector Theater Company, San Rafael, CA - $10,000
To support a youth theater company/public school collaboration, Conservatory At the Schools Theater (CAST), a year-round, nontraditional education program for low-income, at-risk youth in Marin County.

Streetside Stories Inc., San Francisco CA - $15,000
To support Storytelling Exchange, a program which fosters literacy, creativity, critical thinking, and community among 700 at-risk sixth-grade students in San Francisco's public middle schools.

Science Interchange Inc., San Rafael, CA - $15,000
To support the Environmental Media Exchange program, a project to train Bay Area youth in critical thinking and journalism skills while informing and educating on public environmental issues.

School on Wheels, Inc., Malibu, CA - $7,500
To support the School on Wheels tutoring program which brings education to children living in homeless shelters.

San Rafael Canal Ministry, San Rafael, CA - $10,000
To support the Youth Education and Development Program that provides academic and health education, language acquisition, and college/career development in a culturally responsive way to 200+ immigrant, low income youth and their families in the Canal neighborhood of San Rafael.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc., San Francisco, CA - $20,000
To support the Youth Theater Project, a two-phased program aimed at promoting literacy inter-group understanding, and the positive creativity of youth in which local teens create and produce their own plays.

PREHAB of Arizona, Inc., Mesa AZ - $10,000
To support the Youth Program component of La Mesita Family Shelter Program that provides approximately 200 homeless school-aged children with supervision, educational, recreational and social activities after school and during the summer months in Eastern Maricopa County, AZ.

Orange County Community Housing Corporation, Santa Ana, CA - $15,000
To support Tutor House, a program that offers free tutoring, computer training, self esteem building and general academic skill building for students of working families that earn less than $10 an hour.

Museum of Children's Art, Oakland, CA - $10,000
To support Project YIELD (Youth in Education and Leadership Development), an after-school arts-based youth development program offering visual, performing, literary, and public art opportunities to West Oakland youth ages 6-16.

Mission Housing Development Corporation, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To support the Home Link Mentor Program, a tutoring, mentoring and youth development program serving low/moderate income children in affordable housing developments in San Francisco's Mission District.

Healthy Community Consortium, Petaluma, CA - $20,000
To support the McNear Mentoring program which matches adult mentors with elementary-age children in need of academic and personal support in Petaluma, CA.

Giraffe Project, Langley, WA - $10,000
To support the development of Raising Giraffes, a guide for parents that will be produced as a component of the Giraffe Heroes Program, a service learning program that helps children build lifelong commitments to courageous compassion, active citizenship and service to their communities.

Edgewood Center for Children and Families, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support Circle of Care a replicable program providing enrichment, family support services, and early interventions for students and their families at Guadalupe Elementary School in San Francisco.

Accelerated School, Los Angeles, CA - $15,000
To support the After School Enrichment Program which provides 240 students with academic support and enrichment activities in a South Central Los Angeles charter school.

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Education Grants 2000

Athenian School, Danville, CA - $10,000
"Strong Point," a six-week summer academic and self-esteem program for at-risk primary grade youth in Contra Costa County.

Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula, Menlo Park, CA - $10,000
Support for the Center for a New Generation, a new after-school enrichment program for youth in the Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto.

Childsplay, Inc., Tempe, AZ - $10,000
To help subsidize the Spring 2001 School Tour, making sure 40,000 young people from more than 60 schools have Childsplay stagework included in their classroom lesson plan, no matter the school's economic situation. Our stagework will be used to help schools and students achieve benchmark levels of the Arizona Arts Standards.

Crow's Shadow Institute, Pendleton, OR - $ 8,000
"Native Youth Arts," a series of visual arts educational incentive projects for Indian youth from the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.

East Bay Institute, City of Oakland Cultural Arts Dept., Oakland, CA - $10,000
The "Careers in the Arts Apprenticeship Program," a 6-week summer intensive that provides career preparation, youth leadership, community service and arts creation to Oakland youth.

Indochinese Housing Development Corporation, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To support the Afterschool Program and Youth Development Center, a program that serves children and youth in our building and surrounding neighborhoods in the heart of diverse, and low-income Tenderloin District of San Francisco.

Lane Arts Council, Eugene, OR - $10,000
To support the Arts Reaching Youth Collaborative, a community outreach program for engaging, supporting and connecting in-risk and homeless youth to educational and community resources in the Eugene-Springfield metro area of Oregon.

Marin County Library Foundation, San Rafael, CA - $10,000
To support the Webstars Program, a nationally replicable model for providing low-income students with technological training through community service at local libraries.

McKinley Elementary, Petaluma, CA - $10,000
To support an early literacy and intervention program for low-income and non-English speaking elementary school students attending McKinley Elementary in the Petaluma City Elementary School District.

Peak to Peak Charter Schools, Inc. Lafayette, Colorado - $10,000
To support gifted children whose learning needs are clearly differentiated as two to four standard deviations above the norm of students at Peak to Peak Charter School, a K-12 liberal arts, college preparatory school in the Boulder Valley School District.

Roots and Wings, Winters, CA - $16,000
To support Youth and Sustainable Agriculture Project, a farm and garden-based education, job training and empowerment program serving economically disadvantaged and culturally diverse youth in Solano and Yolo Counties.

Sonoma State University Academic Foundation, Inc, Rohnert Park, CA - $15,000
To support the participation of 50 middle and high school students who would be the first in their families to attend college, in 16 "Academic Saturdays" during the 2000-2001 academic year.

St. John's Educational Thresholds Center, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To support St. John's Tutoring Center, a year round one-on-one academic mentoring and tutoring program for low-income children.

Stagebridge, Oakland, CA - $10,000
To expand the "Storybridge Project," serving 20,000 low income students in SF Bay Area elementary schools with classroom senior storytellers and guest artists, performances of literacy based plays and curriculum materials.

Summerbridge, Sacramento, CA - $10,000
To support a college-preparatory program serving academically motivated and diverse twelfth graders from low-income schools in the Sacramento area and a teacher-training program inspiring ethnically diverse high school and college students to enter the field of education.

Summer Search Vallejo - North Bay, Vallejo, CA - $10,000
To expand an experiential learning program for high school Latino youth in the rural areas of Sonoma, Napa, and Solano counties.

Volunteer Center of Tucson, Tucson, AZ - $10,000
Support for the Youth Volunteer Corps and Youth Boardsmanship Program, which offer significant volunteer work in a team-based environment and leadership training for at-risk 11-18 year olds in Pima County, Arizona.

Youth Enrichment/Talented and Gifted Programs, FA University of Oregon, Eugene, OR - $15,000
To develop and pilot a structured mentorship program for gifted grade five students from underserved populations that maximizes support for them as they make the transition from elementary to middle school.

YWCA of Central Orange County, Orange, CA - $15,000
To support Project HOPE School in its delivery of educational and support services to Orange County’s children and families who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness.

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Education Grants 1999

A Place Called Home, Los Angeles CA - $15,000
To support an academic one-on-one mentoring program for youth, ages 9-20, to assist students in completing high school and advance to post secondary educational environments.

Bay Area Community Resources, Palo Alto, CA - $10,000
To support a school-linked development service program which provides after-school recreation and leadership development, mentoring, and community service opportunities for middle school students.

Community For Youth, Seattle WA - $10,000
To support "Steps Ahead and Steps Behind," a dropout prevention program that matches adult mentors with at-risk low-income youth, grades 9-12

Community Resources for Science, Berkeley, CA - $10,000
To support "Community in the Classroom," a project which recruits, trains, and places volunteer scientists to do hands-on, age-appropriate presentations in elementary schools.

Community School Parents Association, Los Angeles, CA - $10,000
To support CATCH (Caring Adults Teaching Children How),a one-on-one academic mentoring program designed to help children at Community Magnet elementary school reach their maximum potential.

Edgewood Center for Children and Families, San Francisco, CA - $10,668
To support the Family Resource Center which assists families in San Francisco's Western Addition and Chinatown support their elementary school children's development.

Environmental Traveling Companions, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support and expand the Youth Leadership Schools, an outdoor adventure program providing experiential learning and educational inspiration for culturally diverse youth.

Intiman Theatre, Seattle WA - $5,000
To support "Living History," an arts-in-education program that provides at-risk students critical skills in decision making, goal setting, cooperation and a heightened understanding of great literature.

Leap Imagination in Learning, San Francisco, CA - $8,000
To support "My Pace in the Community," a collaboration between Leap and the Edgewood Center for Children and Families which will demonstrate how the arts play a fundamental role in fostering the growth of at-risk kinship youth (children raised by relatives other than their parents).

LEARN-ASAP FA West Costa Education Fund, Richmond, CA - $15,000
To support development of the "Parent Involvement Project" designed to encourage participation and involvement of the non-English speaking parents of low-income, at-risk, Laotian refugee youth in Richmond, California.

National Conference for Community and Justice, Los Angeles, CA - $15,000
To support "Will Power to Youth," a joint venture with Shakespeare Festival/LA, which provides full-time employment, accredited academic enrichment, and life skills training for low-income youth in Los Angeles.

Opera Piccola, Oakland, CA - $10,000
To support "Multi-Site Theme Residency Program," a multidisciplinary arts education program for students in the Oakland school district.

Performing Tree, Los Angeles, CA - $8,900
To support "ArtsCONNECT," a 15-week residency program serving gifted and talented children that integrates the arts into core curriculum, at Third Street Elementary School in Los Angeles.

PREHAB of Arizona, Inc., Mesa, AZ - $5,000
For seed funding to begin an after school youth program serving homeless families with minor-aged children primarily from Eastern Maricopa County

Puente Learning Center, Los Angeles, CA - $10,000
To support initial startup of educational programs for inner-city youth ages 3 to 18, at Puente's South Central.

San Francisco Ballet Association, San Francisco, CA - $5,000
To support "Dance in Schools," an experiential and interactive multicultural arts-in-education program for grade 2-4, in the San Francisco Unified School District.

Science Interchange Inc., San Rafael, CA - $15,432
To support the "Teen Environmental Media Network," a project-based environmental journalism training program for youth from communities underrepresented in the fields of science and journalism. 

Tertulia: A Learning Community, Phoenix, AZ - $10,000
To support a school-wide initiative which provides opportunities for low income students to explore career fields related to math and science at an inner-city charter school in Phoenix.

United Cerebral Palsy of San Diego County, San Diego, CA - $10,000
To support "Project SUCCESS," a program that teams youth with and without disabilities as service-learning partners where they learn from each other as they engage in community service and team building activities.

Washington Volunteer Corps FA Washington Wilderness Coalition, Seattle, WA - $10,000
To support the Wilderness Volunteer Corps, a conservation service and wilderness education course followed by a school year community service and leadership program for low-income youth in the Puget Sound Region.

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Education Grants 1998

Access Center FA Auxiliary Services Enterprise Inc, Los Angeles, CA - $7,500
To support "The Parent Empowerment and Involvement Project," a program focused on enhancing math, science and computer literacy, and increasing the number of parents that participant in their child's education.

Arizona Theatre Company, Tucson, AZ - $5,000
To support "Summer on Stage," an arts-in-education theatre training program for high school-aged youth.

Bio-Integral Resource Center, Berkeley, CA - $8,678
To support "Young Women in Sustainable Agriculture," a job training and self-esteem program in small-scale agriculture, animal husbandry, entrepreneurship, and nontraditional skills for economically-disadvantaged local urban and rural women, ages 14-20 in Solano and Yolo Counties.

Children's Television Resource and Education Center, Jemez, NM, - $13,000
Seed funding for "Getting Along Interactive," a social development and computer literacy program for low-income Native American preschoolers their families, and the early childhood educators who work with them.

Classroom on Wheels, Reno, NV - $10,000
To support "Classroom on Wheels," a mobile preschool program which provides services for at-risk families within the Washoe County School District.

Community Educational Services/REAL, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
Continuing support to train and support high school students of color who work in San Francisco's public schools as teacher-partners to facilitate improved learning in the classroom.

Dramatic Results, Long Beach, CA - $10,000
To bring "Dramatic Results," an educational arts-based life-skills program for at-risk youth to three elementary schools in Long Beach, California.

Enormous Changes, Inc., The Little School, San Francisco, CA - $7,000
To create a professional development program for the full-inclusion program at The Little School, a preschool serving children with language, social and emotional delays.

Espanola Public Schools, Espanola, NM - $7,500
Continuing support for a TV production class and the "Cultural Heritage Videos and Library Project," for low-income, at-risk, Native American and Hispanic students.

Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
Continued support of the "Explainer Program," an employment/education program that trains a diverse group of inner-city, Bay Area high school students to serve as informal guides to Exploratorium visitors.

Intiman Theatre, Seattle, WA - $5,000
For an arts-in-education program that provides at-risk students critical skills in decision making, goal setting, cooperation and a heightened understanding of great literature.

Jamestown Community Center, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
Continuing support for an educational enrichment after-school program and one-on-one tutoring for elementary school youth in the West Mission District.

KEET, Redwood Empire Public Television, Eureka, CA - $5,000
To support "Ready to Learn Service," an activity based, media literacy program for parents, child care providers and teachers in Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity counties as well as on the Hoopa Indian Reservation.

KQED, Inc., San Francisco, CA - $5,000
To support a series of community outreach events, to foster leadership networking, communication, and professionalism among Bay Area child care providers.

Mission Learning Center, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To expand a remedial reading program by providing year-round tutoring at the Valencia Gardens housing project in San Francisco.

Native California Network, Sebastopol, CA - $10,000
Seed funding for the Wukchumni Language Learning Center, California's first language immersion school for Indian children living in Visalia, California.

Sacred Heart Community Service, San Jose, CA - $10,000
To support "Turn the Tides," to provide a family- education program for economically disadvantaged children and their families in the Alma-Washington-Gardner area.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support "Midnight Shakespeare," an arts education program utilizing Shakespeare and theater crafts for low-income, urban youth in the Bay Area.

St. Mary's Center, Oakland, CA - $10,000
To expand a preschool and parent involvement program for recently homeless families.

Science Interchange Inc., San Rafael, CA - $14,822
To support a collaborative program which links Bay Area high school students with professional science and environmental journalists as mentors and trainers with a goal of increasing writing, research, communication and technology skills.

Education Grants 1993 - 1997

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