Contribution Highlights:

• The Miriam and Peter Haas Fund granted support totaling $509,745 to a variety of initiatives, such as the San Francisco Dual Language Teacher Education Program, designed to assist primarily Spanish-speaking Head Start teachers with earning their baccalaureate degrees.
• The Family Acceptance Project (FAP), a Cesar Chavez Institute program, received a $381,345 grant from the California Endowment. The first project of its kind, the FAP explores the effects of family acceptance and rejection on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth health and mental health life outcomes.
• The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation granted support totaling $160,000 for the “Pop and Politics” project, designed to provide American journalism education programs with a new model for teaching students to generate current events content for their peers.
• The Guardian Scholars Program, designed to enhance college access and success for former foster youth, received a $150,000 grant from the Stuart Foundation. The program provides advising, tutoring, scholarships, priority registration, year-round housing and meal plans in campus residence halls, and other support.
• A gift of stock valued at $98,742 from Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Paff established the Shereen Paff Special Education Scholarship Endowment Fund in support of students studying in the Edelman Institute’s Early Childhood Education Program.

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