The San Diego Foundation Awards $400,360 In Grants To The San Diego Community
December 22, 2000
The San Diego Foundation announced 43 grants to San Diego County at its Grant Awards Ceremony on December 15, 2000, at the Schaetzel Center in La Jolla, from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Twenty-nine grants from the Community Endowment Grants Program were announced, in the amount of $349,600. Fourteen Neighborhood Civic Fund grants were announced, in the amount of $50,760.
The Community Endowment Grants Program of The San Diego Foundation supports nonprofit projects that improve the quality of life of San Diegans. Twice a year, competitive grants are awarded in the fields of arts and culture, civil society, employment and economic development, education, environment, and health and human services. Grant amounts vary from $5,000 to $25,000. Community Endowment Grants were awarded to the following San Diego organizations:
Able - Disabled Advocacy
CAPEability
Able - Disabled Advocacy provides county-wide employment and training services to people with all types of disabilities, placing over 6,000 people into jobs over the past 25 years. Through the CAPEability project, Able-Disabled Advocacy will provide School-to-Career transitional employment services to 60 Special Education youth and their families. At least 20 students will be placed in jobs in their chosen career path.
Contact: Elaine Cooluris at (619) 531-5190
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $ 25,000
Access Center of San Diego
Wheelchair and Medical Equipment
The Access Center has been providing information, referral, and advocacy services to individuals with disabilities for 25 years. Each year the organization spends up to $125,000 on medically necessary wheelchairs and equipment for people whose Medicare claims have been denied. The Access Center is also home to the "Spoke Shop" that provides assistance to individuals in repairing and replacing wheelchair parts and accessories.
Contact: Bud Sayles at (619) 293-3500
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $19,710
ANGELS Foster Family Agency
Foster Child Matching Program
ANGELS is an organization that rescues abused, abandoned, and neglected children and then places them in foster homes. ANGELS matches foster babies with well-screened and trained foster families committed to caring for them until family reunification or adoption. ANGELS will recruit and train at least 20 foster families and place 30 infants with families in 2001.
Contact: Cathy Richman at (858) 492-5150
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $22,030
Assistance League of San Diego County
Operation School Bell
Assistance League of San Diego County has met the needs of seniors, high school students, and elementary students for 35 years. Operation School Bell will provide funding for the purchase of appropriate school clothing for over 1,800 children at 104 schools throughout the county. Each child is given two new outfits or uniforms in order to assist with the improvement in school performance and self esteem.
Contact: Marie Fogerty at (619) 437-0364
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $14,100
Bayview Baptist Church
Operation Ascend
Bayview Baptist Church, established in 1963, has a current membership of over 2,500 individuals. As a way to promote community participation Bayview Baptist Church led a partnership with teachers, parents, and residents to support a charter petition that resulted in the Nubia Leadership Academy in Southeast San Diego. Operation Ascend is an effort to strengthen the literacy and mathematical skills of 150 students at the Nubia Academy through a before- and after-school program linking mathematics with music.
Contact: Janedra Sykes at (619) 262-8384
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $7,300
Casa De Amparo
Technology Upgrade Project
Casa de Amparo, founded in 1978, has served over 5,000 abused and neglected children and families in North County since its inception. Currently, several services are offered, including a Residential Crisis Center, Family Support Services, Supervised Family Visitation Services, and a Child Development Center. Casa de Amparo will purchase ten computers and ten printers to enable the clinical and child care staff the ability to handle an increased number of cases.
Contact: Sandra Osborn at (760) 754-5500
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $14,450
Castle Park Middle School
Vocal Music Program
The Vocal Music program at Castle Park Middle School in South Bay has successfully created positive relationships through performances throughout the community since 1997. The Choir Program will purchase a new classroom piano for better and safer performances on campus and a new sound system to provide for performing opportunities off campus. This equipment will further build pride in over 100 students who are currently enrolled in the program and positive connections with the community.
Contact: Jeff Jenkins at (619) 691-5490
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $5,000
Citizens' Scholarship Foundation
San Diego Dollars for Scholars Chapter Expansion
Dollars for Scholars chapter volunteers have awarded over $108 million in scholarships to more than 215,000 students nationally since 1958. In San Diego, there are currently nine chapters. With the addition of a permanent staff member, the number of local students who will receive financial aid for college will increase. At least four new San Diego chapters will be added and at least two new Collegiate Partners will be added.
Contact: Katie O. Whalen-Elsbree at (858) 292-3828
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $15,000
Consensus Organizing Institute
Youth Leadership Institute
The goal of the Consensus Organizing Institute, established in 1994, is to help agencies, including schools, become catalysts for civic engagement. This initiative will provide 15 to 20 San Diego High School students with training and hands-on experience in asset mapping, community building, and problem solving. The students' work will enhance their civic skills, create new relationships among residents, and disseminate information about specific issues.
Contact: Elizabeth Crespo at (619) 299-9585
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $13,900
Epilepsy Society of San Diego County
Latino Community Project
The Epilepsy Foundation, in operation since 1954, is the only private nonprofit health agency providing epilepsy services in the County. The Latino Project will help individuals with epilepsy and their families overcome the physical, emotional, and social problems associated with seizure disorders. This project will provide outreach to over 1,100 individuals to encourage Latinos to obtain the information and assistance they need, and will provide them with a means to do so.
Contact: Jackie Vella at (619) 296-0161
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $12,370
Heritage of the Americas Museum
Educational Materials Publishing Project
The Heritage of the Americas Museum at Cuyamaca College, a cultural heritage and natural history museum, shows continued growth in attendance, volunteer support, and educational programs. The Museum serves San Diego County as the only facility of its kind in East County where educational opportunities expand with community growth. This project provides equipment for in-house publishing of educational study guides furnished free of charge on an annual basis to over 2,000 children between the ages of three to eight.
Contact: Bernard Lueck at (619) 670-5194
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $6,000
Human Development Foundation
Open Gate Program
The Human Development Foundation has provided educational resources to students through the Open Gate Program for highly gifted, low-income students in 20 elementary schools since 1998. Working in partnership with the San Diego City Schools, nearly 40 students are enrolled in the program this year. The objective is to raise students' basic academic skills to the 80 to 90 percentiles by the end of the fifth grade.
Contact: Marjorie Fox at (760) 944-9224
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $20,000
Intermountain Park and Recreation, Inc.
Children's Playground Equipment
Intermountain Park & Recreation, Inc., is run by volunteers to provide recreational, social, and cultural programs that build character and enrich the lives of all residents of the Julian area. The purpose of the Children's Playground Equipment project is to replace a much needed play structure that will create a safe and fun environment for the residents and visitors of Julian by providing equipment that is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Contact: Rebecca Hatch at (760) 765-2142
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $19,310
Jazz Artists Guild
Music-In-Schools
The Jazz Artists Guild has reached over 42,000 San Diego County school students with live in-school jazz musical performances. Over 3,600 students at 18 San Diego County schools will attend live jazz musical performances in 2001 to encourage them to learn about and appreciate music arts. The goal is to seek increased participation in school music programs and a lifelong heightened appreciation for all forms of music.
Contact: Mikole Karr at (760) 721-8251
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $5,000
Mama's Kitchen
2000 Critical Improvements
Mama's Kitchen has delivered over 1,000,000 meals to poor, disabled, and emotionally devastated AIDS patients and their children throughout San Diego County since 1990. The 2000 Critical Improvements project will allow for the purchase of a computer, a scanner, and other needed supplies for the staff that will allow for assistance in development and increased recruiting of volunteer staff.
Contact: Carloyn McFarlane at (619) 233-6262
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $2,860
Monarch High School Project
The Art Squad
Monarch High School provides an environment where homeless and at-risk teenagers can reclaim their lives through education. Monarch's academic programs lead students to a high school degree, teach job training skills, and enable personal development skills through arts and mentoring programs. Funding for the school's arts education program, known as the "Art Squad," will enable the hiring of peer educators and the purchase of other needed supplies for approximately 350 students.
Contact: Susan Armenta at (619) 920-0337
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $13,200
Museum of Photographic Arts
Exposure
The Museum of Photographic Arts, located in Balboa Park, encourages and develops creative activities and programs in the photographic arts. The Exposure project provides under-served students in-school and on-site sessions, stimulating creativity, visual literacy, and art appreciation. The project takes art into the classroom and then provides for transportation of students to visit the museum. The project will serve ten schools during 2001 and reach approximately 300 students.
Contact: Tamoko Maruyama at (619) 238-7559
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $10,000
North County Serenity House, Inc.
Graduate Aftercare
Serenity House was the first North County facility devoted exclusively to providing alcohol/drug recovery services to women. Recently added were eight homes, childcare facilities, and services to serve over 300 women and children annually. The Graduate Aftercare Program addresses a service gap by helping women graduates of alcohol/drug recovery programs to succeed for life through ongoing support and training. The goal of the program is that 80 percent of participating graduates will remain clean and sober at the completion of the first year. In the first year, 75 women and 125 children will benefit.
Contact: Kim Archuletta at (760) 741-5098
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $9,400
Partners - A United Methodist Church Mentoring Program
Youth Mentoring
Partners Mentorship Program provides one-to-one mentoring for at-risk and first-time youth offenders, ages ten to 17. Youth served have shown significant improvement in the areas of behavior, academics, and abstinence from drugs. The Youth Mentoring Project will support the addition of two Social Work Interns. Through this project, Partners expects to increase its youth/mentor matches to 120 per year.
Contact: Katie Edwards at (619) 584-5797
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $10,000
People For Trees
Plan to Plant
People for Trees has planted over 30,000 street trees, organized more that 30,000 volunteers, and channeled over three million dollars in funding back into local communities since 1989. The Plan to Plant Project will provide a new phone system, computer equipment, and mapping software needed to better plan and organize the activities and events of the organization.
Contact: Laura Limandri at (619) 231-5733
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $9,270
San Diego Black Nurses Association
Community Organ Donation
The San Diego Black Nurses Association, an organization of healthcare professionals and nursing students, has been in existence since 1976. The goal of the organization is to improve the health of African Americans in San Diego County. The Community Organ Donation project seeks to work with local clergy on increasing the outreach and awareness of African Americans on the enormous need for organ and tissue donations.
Contact: Mattie Allen at (619) 263-7124
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $13,000
San Diego Hospice Foundation
Information Management System
San Diego Hospice was the first hospice provider and remains as San Diego County's largest provider of end-of-life services. Since 1977, the organization has served the needs of residents of San Diego County. The Information Management System Project seeks to increase the capacity of the organization through the purchase of needed software programs that will better assist in development and volunteer tracking.
Contact: Cheryl Lane at (619) 688-1600
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $13,400
San Diego Region, California Regional Environmental
Education Community Network
Teacher Roundtables and Professional Development
San Diego Region, California Regional Environmental Education Community Network has connected hundreds of educators countywide with environmental education resources through educational convocations, interagency collaborations, online resources, information, and referral. The Teacher Roundtables and Professional Development Project provides trainings on important local environmental education topics for interested public school educators in five county school districts to over 4,500 students through five workshops in one year.
Contact: Betsy Leonard at (619) 232-3821
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $6,900
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Education Initiative: Peter and the Wolf
The San Diego Symphony, an organization that traces its roots to 1910, remains at the center stage as one of San Diego's major cultural institutions. The Peter and the Wolf Project is the first in a three-year initiative that will bring symphonic music to at least ten San Diego County Schools and over 5,000 students per year.
Contact: Judy Sjerven at (619) 235-0800
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $15,000
St. Stephen's Church of God in Christ
Youth Community Health and Social Education and Prevention After School
St. Stephen's has established over 30 outreach programs since 1962. The after-school program will provide education and support at three to five different sites for approximately 250 teens in the Southeast San Diego area. Teens will be educated through a series of workshops on a wide variety of topics, including sex education, drug and alcohol use, gang and domestic violence, and peer pressure.
Contact: Charlotte Stoudmire at (619) 262-2671
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $10,000
University of California, San Diego Cancer Center Foundation
Black Cosmetologists Promoting Health Program, Phase II
The University of California, San Diego Cancer Center has operated the Black Cosmetologists Promoting Health Program for the past seven years. The goal of the program is to provide outreach and education to the African American community via community educators located in hair salons throughout San Diego. Over the course of the next year, the program will continue to advance the health of the community which it serves by working with at least ten stylists.
Contact: Georgia Sadler at (858) 822-0070
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $12,500
Unyeway, Inc.
Video Project
Unyeway has been dedicated to enhancing and enriching the lives of persons with developmental disabilities by training, employing, and empowering them in their communities. This project will find employment for 30 individuals, and educate school children and the public on the advantages of working and living in a diverse community which includes people with disabilities.
Contact: Kim Metli at (760) 789-5960
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $7,000
Winston School of San Diego
Graphic Design and Computer Arts Program
In the last 12 years, the Winston School has helped hundreds of students struggling with learning differences to overcome their weaknesses and succeed in entering colleges and vocational schools. This program will further its mission by providing over 100 students with critical multimedia and graphic design skills and knowledge.
Contact: Bill Harris at (858) 259-8155
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $5,000
YWCA of San Diego County
Career Counseling Services
Young Women's Christian Association initiated job-training programs for women during 1920's, when such programs were otherwise unavailable. Career Counseling Services offers residents career/aptitude assessments, computer tutorials, and job readiness/retention modules. The goal of the project is to increase employment rates, gain higher wages, and promote greater independence for at least 350 women who are clients of the shelter.
Contact: Brian Biber at (619) 239-0355
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $12,900
The San Diego Foundation Neighborhood Civic Fund (NCF) is designed to challenge unincorporated neighborhood groups to support inclusiveness, civic participation, and neighborhood development activities in their own communities. For every $100 raised by the members of the local Neighborhood Civic Fund, The San Diego Foundation will award $1,000, up to a total of $5,000 per fund. NCF grants were awarded to the following San Diego neighborhood organizations:
Cherokee Point Neighborhood Association: to continue senior outreach, improve neighborhood appearance, and capitalize on current momentum in the Cherokee Point neighborhood in City Heights.
Contact: Barbara Stasukevich at (619) 285-1611
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $3,000
Crown Heights' Resident Association: to formalize the organization and participate in leadership trainings to improve the social and physical conditions of the neighborhood in Oceanside.
Contact: Rosa Toledo at (760) 754-0692
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $5,000
Cultural Recreational Center of El Toyon School: to provide an after-school program to children in National City focusing on building relationships between parents, children, and the El Toyon School.
Contact: Maria Silvia Yañez at (619) 264-7136
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $2,000
Dictionary Hill Citizens Association: to expand information outreach to empower residents to seek solutions and improve the sense of neighborhood in Dictionary Hill in Spring Valley.
Contact: Tom Hines at (619) 469-8465
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $5,000
Friends of Descanso Library: to bring residents of Descanso together to support the public library though the Community Arts Program.
Contact: Molly Jean Featheringill at (619) 445-8377
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $1,000
Friends of Hellhole Canyon Open Space Preserve: to bring residents of Valley Center together to support the efforts of Friends of Hellhole Canyon Open Space.
Contact: Rick Landavazo at (760) 751-1443
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $5,000
Holy Family Organizing Ministry: to unite and work with the families of the community in Linda Vista to improve conditions by listening, understanding, and acting.
Contact: Lilly Carrasco at (858) 495-1757
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $4,700
Old Escondido Neighborhood Group: to increase the quarterly circulation of a newsletter, to distribute Preservation Guidelines, and provide a "welcome wagon" information packet to new residents in Escondido.
Contact: Leticia Trujillo at (760) 739-9942
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $2,760
Residents for the Development of Canine Corners: to have residents, including seniors, work to establish a dog park in Harry Griffith Park in La Mesa.
Contact: Becky Rice at (619) 469-3748
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $4,200
Ridgeview Neighborhood Association: to continue to build a sense of neighborhood and community by completing area projects in the Ridgeview neighborhood in City Heights.
Contact: Diane McClure-Lott at (619) 263-5394
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $3,200
San Diego Streetscape: to create an intergenerational alley mural that will facilitate communication and storytelling between Asian and Latino elders and diverse youth in Otay Mesa.
Contact: Berenice Baudillo at (619) 429-7265
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $4,000
Stockton Neighborhood Council: to formalize the development and strategic planning process of the Stockton Neighborhood Council in Southeast San Diego.
Contact: Julia Le Blanc at (619) 702-7613
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $2,500
Working on Improving Together Teen Leadership Center: to establish an Advisory Board dedicated to taking an active role in supporting youth in Clairemont and Clairemont Mesa.
Contact: Adela Giessen at (858) 874-3074
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $4,200
Working Solutions: to create an inclusive neighborhood organization committed to safety, effective transportation, and quality of life in San Diego.
Contact: Dierdre Hesse at (858) 558-6954
Amount awarded by The San Diego Foundation: $4,200
The San Diego Foundation is San Diego's largest foundation and leading philanthropic organization. It is San Diego's only broad-purpose endowment built by hundreds of citizens and organizations committed to improving the quality of life in all our communities. The Foundation assists donors in building and preserving assets for charitable purposes in the greater San Diego region. It also monitors and assesses the changing needs of the region and meets those needs through financial awards and organizational support. The Foundation houses more than 600 funds and has over $385 million in assets. In its 25 years, The Foundation has granted more than $155 million to various programs and organizations.
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