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Project Description |
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Amount Funded |
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Afro Cuban Drum & Dance Academy
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The Whole (W.E.) Education project is a service
learning project focused on children 0-5 years old. Children
learn drumming, singing, art, dance and good nutritional habits.
Parents, guardians as well as the developmentally disabled are
encouraged and involve themselves in a culturally appropriate
project in the community. The W.E. project will provide a venue
for children and their parents to develop vital interpersonal
skills necessary during a child's development.
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$5,000.00 |
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West |
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| All Care Plus, Inc. |
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'Good Sense' is a project aimed at preparing
parents, guardians, and caregivers to recognize and respond
to life threatening hazards typically found in the 'In-Home'
care setting. |
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$5,000.00 |
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West |
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Antioch Church Family - Children's Department
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To sponsor a fair, addressing children's safety
concerns, providing home and car safety information, parent
education by enlisting community support and involvement, which
will promote positive interactions for parents and children
0-5yrs, heighten safety awareness and community participation
in a multi-cultural environment. |
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$5,000.00 |
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Near East |
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| ArtsChange |
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An educational project at Pittsburg Health
Center's WIC office will involve 20 families of children ages
0-5, WIC staff, and community artists in the development and
installation of a permanent exhibition promoting family meals
and the prevention of obesity, providing an inspiring visual
display encouraging healthy eating habits and transforming
the now drab WIC office. |
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$5,000.00 |
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West |
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| Bay Area Legal Aid |
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Bay Area Legal Aid will create a Children's
Corner in our new building at 1025 MacDonald Avenue in Richmond. |
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$2,320.00 |
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West |
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| Bay Point Pride |
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Our project is to purchase fixed playground equipment
geared to children under five to be installed at Anuta Park
in Bay Point, CA. Due to the removal of unsafe, outdated equipment
there is no longer adequate playground equipment geared to this
specific demographic located in the park. |
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$10,000.00 |
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Near East |
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| Brookside Community Involvement Group |
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This project will be a Healthy Kids Family Fun
Fest. The festival will feature a series of hand on activities
and physical activities that relate to healthy bodies and healthy
mind development. The event will also provide healthy foods. |
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$5,000.00 |
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West |
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Deer Valley High School Key Club
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A safety fair project that targets families with
children 0-5 years with an emphasis on car, water, and bike,
safety with a secondary focus on child proofing, health, and
development. |
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$5,000.00 |
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Near East |
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| Early Childhood Job Training Project |
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The Early childhood Job Training Project (ECJTP)
will provide Infant/Child CPR classes for 75 childcare providers,
babysitters and parents, including many English learners. An
American Red Cross-trained ECJTP staff person will conduct the
trainings. Primary language support for Mien and Spanish will
be provided; ESL support for other languages will be provided.
Refreshments and childcare will be provided. |
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$2,770.00 |
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West |
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| El Cerrito Preschool Cooperative |
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We propose two events about creativity, art,
music, play and young children's development: 1) A workshop
for adults: 'Creativity, Art, Music and Language' by Bev Bos,
an internationally acclaimed childhood educator. 2) Messy Art
Day for families hosted at ECPC. |
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$4,378.50 |
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West |
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| Grassroots Community Group |
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'Parenting Now' is a six-week positive strength-based
parenting workshop designed to meet the needs of parents with
young children. The curriculum helps parents identify and integrate
their values into daily and long range parenting, with an emphasis
on respecting their child as a unique individual and 'learning
as a family' as our needs and the needs of our children are
continually changing. Birth to Three - The Parenting Now program
helps parents build a positive, enjoyable and healthy relationship
with their children, providing a solid foundation throughout
their lives. |
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$4,794.00 |
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Central |
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| Greenbrook Mothers Group |
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It takes a village to raise a child. Our 'Village'
is the Greenbrook neighborhood and we want to celebrate its
strengths by having the 'Celebrating Greenbrook: Solid Community,
Solid Families, Solid Kids' Fair (the fair). The Fair will have
multicultural, parent education, and health education components. |
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$5,000.00 |
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South |
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| Head Start Male Involvement Committee |
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The Male Involvement Committee will sponsor a
Spring Multicultural Festival, planned for May 2006. The event
will celebrate the importance of diversity in young children's
lives with fun activities, speakers, education, and foods in
a family-friendly environment. |
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$5,000.00 |
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Central |
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| Heather Park Playground Committee |
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We would like to replace our existing play structure
due to the fact it does not meet the needs of the younger children
in our neighborhood and is also deteriorating. |
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$10,000.00 |
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Far East |
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| Kiwanis Club of Brentwood |
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To develop an awareness of the safety hazards
that face children ages 0-5. By bringing many safety organizations
together at one time we hope to educate parents, children and
community members about how to prevent those hazards and save
lives. |
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$5,000.00 |
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Far East |
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Lake Children's Center Parent Committee
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To erase the graffiti from our buildings. To
replace the playhouses and landscaping destroyed by vandals.
To add floodlights and security cameras to detour vandalism. |
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$2,060.00 |
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West |
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| Lamorinda Moms Club |
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A one-day CPR awareness training course for families
of the Lamorinda Moms Club. The course will follow the American
Heart Association curriculum for infant and child CPR training.
The class will be taught by CPR certified trainers, provided
by the Town of Moraga Fire Prevention District. |
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$3,355.00 |
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South |
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Lindsay Wildlife Museum
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We're hosting a free Community Festival in Larkey
Park to thank the community for 50 years of support and share
our message that every day actions of people of all ages can
make a difference. Museum admission, entertainment, information
stations, live animals, arts and crafts, and games will be available. |
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$4,000.00
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Central |
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Los Medanos Community Health Care District Subcommittee
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We plan to install a modular play system for
the 0-5 year age group and picnic table with a shade tree for
children and their families along the Delta De Anza walking
trail. The trail currently has no play equipment, benches or
shade. |
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$10,000.00 |
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Near East |
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| New Lifeline World Ministries |
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We will provide public awareness concerning water
safety for children ages 0-5. We will give away life jackets
to the first 200 children. We will have safety booths with pamphlets
and color books discussing water, canal and boat safety. A representative
from the Coast Guard will be available for safety training. |
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$5,000.00
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Far East |
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| Ninos Al Futuro 'Kids to the Future' |
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It is a project of learning and coexisting for
all the family. The participants will have safe activities according
to their age. With the aid of their parents they will learn
to seed, to prepare salads, to clean the park, origami decoration
and massages for kids. |
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$3,900.00
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Central |
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Papas Latinos (Latino Fathers) of Bay Point
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Papas Latinos will sponsor a free, one-day Parenting
School with 'classes' in Spanish and English geared to parents
of children age 0-5 in five key areas: Children's Health, Preschool
Readiness at Home, Reading Aloud, parental discipline and the
role of Child Protective Services. The Bay Point Family Heath
Center, Riverview Library, Head Start and other community agencies
will support the parents efforts and the Parenting School. |
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$4,000.00
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Near East |
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| Parents & Providers Partnering for Young
Children |
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The mission of the Family Skills Enrichment Program
is to empower families with relationship skills that encourage,
healthy, supportive and loving interactions - between husband
and wife, parents and children, and the greater community. |
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$5,000.00
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Far East |
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| Parents for a Cleaner Environment (PaCE) |
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The project will include a creek clean-up
with children 0-5 and their parents. After the clean-up we
will have a barbecue and hold a Kids Creek Fest. We will have
booths that will include earth-friendly activities such as
sampling organic foods, how to grow your own produce in healthy
ways via Integrated Pest Management techniques, plus multi-cultural
art projects using natural materials. We will also have family
& environmentally-friendly performers. |
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$5,000.00
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West |
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Parents, Resources and More (PRAM)
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We propose a celebration of children and their
developing minds and bodies in a sequence of two, family-oriented
fairs taking place in September 2005 and March 2006. The fairs
will be used to introduce families to PRAM, and expose parents
and children to an array of important life skills, while whetting
their appetite for more fun and learning. |
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$5,000.00
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West |
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Perfectly Babies Foundation
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Perfectly Babies Foundation wants to do its part
in the campaign to reduce childhood obesity & type II diabetes
in children through hosting a food consciousness fair parents
will become more knowledgeable about healthier food products
& learn to shop for healthier food items. Also to understand
how 'Junk Foods Impact Child's Body'. |
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$5,000.00
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West |
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| Pittsburg Recreation Department and Partners |
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The 'Staying Alive at Five' program provides
free swim lessons to 3 non-profit agencies who serve 0-5 year-old
low income clients. The program goal is to reach over 100 0-5
year old children who couldn't afford to take basic swimming
lessons because of the cost to their family. |
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$5,000.00
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Near East |
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| The Perinatal Council |
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The safety training project will be a one-day
event providing three separate workshops on car seat, crib,
and home and fire safety, with workshops concluding with free
give-away of safety items. About 50 low-income Richmond families
with young children will participate. The project will prevent
accidental death and injury. |
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$4,913.00
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West |
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Vestia
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To provide a series of parenting workshops and
'toolkits' for effective parenting to parents of 150 toddlers
& pre-kindergarten children in two of the lowest income
zip codes in Contra Costa County. Focus on effective parenting
skills and interactive play with children. |
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$5,000.00
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Central |
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Total |
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Up To $147,090.50 |
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