Aim High for High School

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Education
Amount: $5,000.00
Date: January, 2012

Founded in 1986, Aim High is the largest academic summer program provider for middle school students in the SF Bay Area. Aim High reaches youth at a critical point in their adolescent development Ð increasing academic and personal readiness during the summer months. The mission of Aim High is to inspire a life long love of learning and instill a sense of community, opportunity, and respect so that students are prepared for success in school and life.

Bridge the Gap College Prep

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Education
Amount: $12,500.00
Date: January, 2012

Now in its 15th year, Bridge the Gap College Prep (BTGCP) was founded to provide much needed academic support for struggling Marin City students, originally through twice weekly evening sessions of homework help, skills tutoring and mentoring. Since then, BTGCP has grown into a robust program with a broader mission: BTGCP seeks to provide comprehensive educational support for Marin City youth, with the goal that every Marin City child completes high school and graduates from college.

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Education
Amount: $12,500.00
Date: January, 2012

Dreamways is a comprehensive system of community based academic and social support programs for elementary, middle and high school students that builds confidence, characher and achievement.

Downtown College Prep

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Education
Amount: $20,000.00
Date: November, 2011

DCP’s target students are historically , underserved and primarily Latino, who will be the first in their family to graduate from a four-year university. In addition to academic challenges many of these students face difficulties at home that negatively impact their learning. DCP addresses all of these issues. The DCP program endeavors to provide students with emotional strength, personal discipline and self-confidence to make positive life choices.

Eastside College Preparatory School

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Education
Amount: $20,000.00
Date: November, 2011

Eastside is an independent, non-profit school founded in 1996 to offer East Palo Alto high school students a rigorous college preparatory education and widen their life opportunities. We have one central mission: the enrollment of every Eastside graduate in a four-year college or university. Located in a community where currently 65% of students drop out of high school, in contrast 100% of Eastside''s nine classes of graduating seniors have gone on to attend a four-year college or university. More than 95% of these students are the first generation in their families to pursue higher education.

First Graduates

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Education
Amount: $10,000.00
Date: November, 2011

First GraduateÕs mission is to help students finish high school and become the first in their families to graduate from college. To that end, we have built an effective college access and completion program that currently serves 210 San Francisco-based students each year utilizing a high-touch, long-term approach that is unique within the field.

Mission Graduates

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Education
Amount: $10,000.00
Date: November, 2011

Omega Boys Club

Region: UNITED STATES
State: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]
Type: Arts
Amount: $10,000.00
Date: November, 2011

The Omega Leadership Academy provides rigorous academic skill development infused with the Alive & Free Violence Prevention Prescription to help young people succeed in school, prepare for college, develop critical thinking, math and literacy skills, and live meaningful lives free of violence and incarceration.