Grant Recipients

Grant Recipients 2023

  • Digital NEST

    Digital NEST

    Digital NEST’s mission is to provide underserved Latinx youth with the skills, resources, and network to build confidence and launch successful careers.

  • Mission Bit

    Mission Bit

    Mission Bit inspires youth of color to explore the world of STEM with project-based computer science education that embraces their identities. Mission Bit programming helps keep our youth and residents part of the tech industry and prepares them for opportunities in tech and computer science they would otherwise not have access to.

  • Venture Free Foundation

    Venture Free Foundation

    Venture Free seeks to empower young people of all backgrounds to foster a connection with the natural world in an environment that promotes healthy physical and mental development, leadership, respect, and a life-long appreciation for nature!

  • Nine Lives

    Nine Lives Foundation proudly provides lifelines for at-risk cats and kittens and affordable, compassionate care for our feline friends and the people who love them.

  • Insights Science Discovery

    Insights promotes STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) education through exploratory, interactive learning experiences.Insights is a vital resource for the community by inspiring curiosity for STEAM ​subjects and promoting innovative, collaborative and cross disciplinary thinking.

  • Latino Outdoors

    Latino Outdoors

    Latino Outdoors’ mission is to inspire, connect, and engage Latino communities in the outdoors and embrace cultura y familia as part of the outdoor narrative, ensuring our history, heritage, and leadership are valued and represented.

  • Learn to Read

    Learn to Read

    To deploy a highly effective reading program available to address each student's individual reading challenges in grades K-3 as the first step in their journey to a successful academic career. The Future of Reading provides the tools and strategies necessary to learn to read with proven, individualized reading lessons and the support necessary to read at proficiency by the fourth grade.

  • Minds Matter

    Minds Matter

    Minds Matter Bay Area is trusted by families and high schools in the Bay Area as a transformational college success program for low-income, highly-motivated students. We are a best-in-class college success program because: We are closing the opportunity gap in the Bay Area; We deliver life-changing and measurable results; We are sustainably funded, an institution that will serve families for decades to come.

  • Post Carbon Institute

    Post Carbon Institute

    Post Carbon Institute’s mission is to lead the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises of the 21st century.

  • Propel

    Propel

    Propel's mission focuses on driving change in the social sector through the use of digital tools, with the aim of promoting and fostering the growth of social organizations. Vision: We want to be a vibrant, digital and articulated social ecosystem in Latin America.

Grant Recipients 2022

  • First Graduate

    First Graduate

    First Graduate partners with San Francisco middle schools to provide tutelage, coaching and mentoring to low income students to support their becoming the first in their family to graduate from college, which creates a path toward college graduation for others in the family unit.

  • Learn To Read

    Learn To Read

    Our mission is to address the crisis that 65% of all fourth grade students cannot read at grade level proficiency. We execute on our mission by deploying a reading program that will address each student’s individual reading challenges in grades K-3. The program teaches reading strategies with the individual training and support necessary to develop that student’s journey to literacy. We believe this system can reach students in those underserved and disadvantaged communities and we believe we can employ people from the community to be the reading pals and the reading coaches for those students.

  • Harmonious Home

    Harmonious Home

    Good design invokes happiness and soothes the soul. It can inspire confidence, security, and energy. Color, light, and texture in living spaces can induce feelings of warmth and safety. Furniture to place your belongings and a bed to sleep in improves your physical and mental well-being. Plants and flowers in the home improve and elevate mood.

    We partner with the Center Against Sexual & Family Violence, The MacGuire Center and the Reynolds Home to find our clients who are transitioning from a shelter, transitional living center, and aging out of the foster care system. Our mission is to transform their lives by transforming their living spaces with as much gently used items as possible lessening our environmental footprint.

  • Foundation For Excellence

    Foundation For Excellence

    The Foundation for Excellence (FFE) was founded with the mission to award college scholarships to students who, although financially constrained, showed great promise in the Engineering, Medical, BPharm and law programs, these being some of the most expensive higher education programs in India. Apart from FFE’s alumni, who support future scholars like themselves, donations come from all around the world from individual donors, corporations and foundations.

  • Environmental Volunteers

    Environmental Volunteers

    At Environmental Volunteers, we inspire people of all ages to learn about the wonders of the natural world. We train volunteers (like you!) to lead hands-on science and nature programs in schools, community organizations, and at the EcoCenter in the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve.

    We offer School Programs to K-6 classrooms in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Our hands-on curriculum meets State of California science education requirements. Our volunteers bring hands-on learning programs to over 10,000 students each year. In the classroom, our volunteers lead hands-on learning stations in small groups. On follow-up field trips, students discover natural science concepts through guided hikes to local nature preserves.

  • Youth Art Exchange

    Youth Art Exchange

    Our vision is that every public high school student in San Francisco has a voice and agency in our city. We believe being exposed to the arts at a pivotal age and developing a strong connection to the arts through learning, creating, and making give youth tools to express themselves, exchange with others, and shape the world around them. We want spaces buzzing with the creative energy of professional artists and youth working together to make art, hang out, and build community – which we believe will make our city more connected, resilient, and reflective of all those woven in its fabric. Simply said, art changes lives.

  • Canopy

    Canopy

    Canopy plants and cares for trees where people need them the most.

    Our mission is to grow urban tree canopy in Mid-peninsula communities for the benefit of all.

    Our vision is a day when every resident of the Mid-peninsula can step outside to walk, play, and thrive under the shade of healthy trees.

  • Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship

    Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship

    We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds and maintains great trails for everyone, and connects communities to nature through responsible outdoor recreation.

    We believe that trails are a gateway to the adventure, fun, exercise and sense of wonder offered by the great outdoors. Our work expands and enhances sustainable trail networks so everyone has a place in enjoying and protecting the Santa Cruz Mountains.

  • Nine Lives Foundation

    Nine Lives Foundation

    Nine Lives Foundation proudly provides lifelines for at-risk cats and kittens and affordable, compassionate care for our feline friends and the people who love them. Let’s save lives together!

    Our Vision: A community where all cats and kittens are spayed or neutered and safeguarded or sheltered.

Grant Recipients 2021

  • Learn To Read

    Learn To Read

    Our mission is to address the crisis that 65% of all fourth grade students cannot read at grade level proficiency. We execute on our mission by deploying a reading program that will address each student’s individual reading challenges in grades K-3. The program teaches reading strategies with the individual training and support necessary to develop that student’s journey to literacy. We believe this system can reach students in those underserved and disadvantaged communities and we believe we can employ people from the community to be the reading pals and the reading coaches for those students.

  • Kits Cubed

    Kits Cubed

    Here at Kits Cubed, we are a team of Oakland-based youth who are motivated to make a change in our community. Our founder, Ahmed Muhammad started Kits Cubed out of his garage in April 2020, and quickly assembled a team of other passionate and dedicated students, all committed to one common goal: to introduce youth to the wonders of science through fun, affordable, and accessible means. By providing access to hands-on learning, we look to inspire the young scientist that exists within every student.

  • Pablove Foundation

    Pablove Foundation

    The Pablove Foundation is a US pediatric cancer nonprofit organization founded by Jo Ann Thrailkill and Jeff Castelaz. The organization is named for Thrailkill and Castelaz's son, Pablo Thrailkill Castelaz, who, in 2009, at six years old died from Wilms' tumor, a rare form of childhood cancer.

  • Success through Technology Education Foundation

    Success through Technology Education Foundation

    Success Through Technology Education (STTE) Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on producing stories that inspire, building a future STEAM workforce, and fostering a startup ecosystem.

 Grant Recipients December 2020

  • Maitri

    Maitri is a free, confidential, nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps families and individuals, primarily from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives) facing domestic violence, emotional abuse, cultural alienation, or family conflict. Maitri’s mission is to empower South Asian survivors of domestic violence to lead lives of dignity and self-sufficiency through holistic programs, and enable healthy relationships and gender equity through community education, engagement, and advocacy.

  • Project WeHope

    WeHOPE’s Mobile Homeless Services meet the needs of the homeless where they are through initiatives that include access to free showers, laundry, safe parking for vehicle dwellers, virtual medical assessments and comprehensive case management to assist in securing permanent housing.

  • Loaves and Fishes

    Loaves and Fishes Family Kitchen prepares, delivers and serves over 100,000 meals a month to hungry families, children, seniors, students and disabled people in the Bay Area.

  • First Graduate

    First Graduate partners with San Francisco middle schools to provide tutelage, coaching and mentoring to low income students to support their becoming the first in their family to graduate from college, which creates a path toward college graduation for others in the family unit.

  • Healthier Kids

    Healthier Kids helps low income children in the bay area get needed healthcare including access to medicine, hearing, dental and vision screening by directly providing services and by helping navigate the complexities of the healthcare system to access available services.

 Grant Recipients July 2020

  • Environmental Volunteers

    The mission of the Environmental Volunteers (the EV) is to promote the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science and nature education. Our vision is that all people will learn about and be inspired by the natural world so that they become responsible stewards of the Earth. We achieve this by providing hands-on science and nature education to 1st to 4th grade students from Title 1 schools, by encouraging awareness of the interrelationships between people and nature, by fostering an attitude of stewardship for the environment, and by providing knowledge and skills to children so they can make informed decisions about the environment.

  • Maitri

    Maitri is a free, confidential, nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps families and individuals, primarily from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives) facing domestic violence, emotional abuse, cultural alienation, or family conflict. Maitri’s mission is to empower South Asian survivors of domestic violence to lead lives of dignity and self-sufficiency through holistic programs, and enable healthy relationships and gender equity through community education, engagement, and advocacy.

  • Project WeHope

    WeHOPE’s Mobile Homeless Services meet the needs of the homeless where they are through initiatives that include access to free showers, laundry, safe parking for vehicle dwellers, virtual medical assessments and comprehensive case management to assist in securing permanent housing.

  • Truckee Elementary Schools

    Truckee Elementary School would be grateful to apply for funding support for an after school math tutoring program to provide additional support to carefully selected third, fourth, and fifth grade students who are very close to but not yet meeting proficiency on state math standards. This math tutoring program is particularly special because we plan to identify local students from Truckee High School who would benefit from earning a scholarship for being a committed, successful tutor! We are a Title 1 public school within the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District.