Oakland
$10,800 to continue the publication and distribution of a bimonthly multilingual newsletter for the California Child Development Corps, which is available online and as a print section in the Children's Advocate newsmagazine.

Oakland
$10,000 toward the development of the Ancestor Project, a standards-based sequential arts-integrated curriculum based on the theme of heritage for grades K-3. The curriculum will be piloted in 10-week artist residencies in K-3 classrooms at Global Family School in Oakland.

San Francisco
$7,000 for the East Bay dissemination of the 2007 California Child Care Portfolio, a policy and advocacy resource that provides county-specific documentation of child care supply and demand.

San Francisco
$10,000 to support the production of informational briefs and reports for California legislators, policy makers, and child advocates that address legal and policy issues related to child care, such as disability funding and child care services to infant and toddlers.

San Francisco
$1,000 in continued general support for outreach to East Bay grassroots grantseekers and $2,400 to provide scholarships for Trio grantees to attend special Foundation Center training seminars

Oakland
$10,000 to Community Initiatives for the Infant Toddler Consortium to develop specialized training resources for low-literacy and non-English-speaking infant toddler caregivers. Resources will include CD's and written materials that that are produced in multiple languages and that deliver critical information about quality child care for babies.

Oakland
$10,000 to produce four interactive call-in radio shows, two in English and two in Spanish, that address the importance of the arts in early childhood development that will be broadcast on the Childhood Matters and Nuestros Niņos radio shows.

San Francisco
$10,000 to fund a mural artist residency at Global Family Elementary School in Oakland. Second grade students will participate in the creation of two large-scale mosaic murals for their school that illustrate social studies and science curriculum topics that are meaningful to the children and their community.

Berkeley
$7,500 to build a grassroots action committee comprised of unions, child advocacy organizations, parents, child care teachers and providers who will speak out on state-wide child care budget and policy issues.

San Francisco
$5,000 for community building programs in the East Bay that support LGBTQ families with young children and that engage parents as leaders in making their children's elementary schools safe and welcoming for children of LGBTQ parents.

San Francisco
$6,000 to provide classroom visits, admission fees, and transportation for low-income East Bay K-3 students to attend 2008 performances of People Like Me, an interactive theatrical presentation of world music and dance.