Article Source: San Bruno Community Foundation - CA
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Leslie Hatamiya
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SAN BRUNO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS $300,000 IN COMMUNITY GRANTS TO BENEFIT THE SAN BRUNO COMMUNITY
With $100,000 Grant from YouTube/Google.org, SBCF Funds 29 Programs Addressing Critical Community Needs
San Bruno, California, December 10, 2024 – The Board of Directors of the San Bruno Community Foundation recently approved
29 grants totaling $300,000 to local organizations providing
much-needed services and programs in San Bruno through the Community
Grants Fund. Ranging in size from $20,000 to $3,000, these
grants will support a diverse group of community organizations doing
meaningful work to benefit the San Bruno community.
This is the ninth year the Foundation has offered the Community Grants
Fund to invest in community organizations providing critical services
and programs in San Bruno. To fund the grants, the Foundation is
utilizing $200,000 in investment proceeds from a portion of the
restitution funds received from the City of San Bruno’s settlement with
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, following the 2010 gas pipeline
explosion that devastated San Bruno’s Crestmoor neighborhood. For the eighth year in a row, YouTube and Google.org made a generous $100,000 contribution to the program.
“With support from YouTube and Google.org, the San Bruno Community
Foundation invests in the local organizations that are the lifeblood of
our community and provide much-needed services throughout San Bruno,”
said Malissa Netane-Jones, President of the Foundation’s Board of
Directors. “This year’s 29 Community Grants will benefit a broad
cross-section of those who live, work, and engage in San Bruno, from
low-income, at-risk, transition-age youth seeking assistance from
Edgewood Center for Children and Families’ San Bruno facility to San
Bruno residents at risk of homelessness receiving legal assistance from
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County to San Bruno youth participating
in the San Bruno Library’s Summer Reading Program.”
"At Google and YouTube, we believe in the power of strong communities,"
said Drew Sherwood, Senior Director of Real Estate & Workplace
Services at Google and YouTube. "We're proud to support the San Bruno
Community Foundation to uplift organizations that are making a real
difference in the lives of our neighbors, especially young people."
The recommended grantees were selected from a competitive pool of grant
applications that were received by the program’s September 18, 2024,
application deadline. A review panel of volunteers, including
community members and individuals with grantmaking and nonprofit
experience, evaluated the applications and ultimately recommended that
the Board approve grants for the 29 programs. Most importantly in
its evaluation, the panel weighed the benefits of the proposed programs
to the San Bruno community. Other criteria the panel considered
include each proposal’s alignment with one of the Foundation’s
identified focus areas, program methodology and budget, the requested
grant amount in relation to anticipated community benefit, and the
applying organization’s track record, stability, and financial
health.
This year’s grant awards include:
• $10,000 to Capuchino High School Alumni Association
to support the Capuchino High School music program and its efforts to
provide students with high-quality music educaon and performance
opportunitieat an affordable cost;
• $15,000 to Circus Bella
to expose the San Bruno community to the beauty of circus arts through
free Circus in the Parks performances at San Bruno City Park;
• $16,500 to City of San Bruno
to promote reading and early literacy while working to prevent the
“summer slide,” where students lose some of the literacy gains they
achieved during the previous school year over summer break, through the
San Bruno Library’s Summer Reading Program;
• $10,000 to CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse) to
provide a confident and secure living space, safety, and
trauma-informed wrap-around services and resources for San Bruno
survivors of inmate partner abuse through the Safe House and Supportive
Housing Program;
• $20,000 to Each Green Corner
to empower students to address food insecurity and climate readiness
through sustainable urban agriculture by supporting a Food Systems
Educator to teach the Food Explorer Curriculum to students at Belle
Air, Allen, and Portola Elementary Schools at their school gardens;
• $10,000 to Edgewood Center for Children and Families
to provide low-income, at-risk, transition-age youth in San Bruno with
mental health services, peer support, basic sustenance and hygiene
supplies, transportation, computer and internet access, and life skills
to improve life outcomes, foster independence, and build resilience;
• $5,000 to Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc.,
to assist San Bruno youth in addressing the root causes of probation,
expulsion, and suspension through the Peer Point diversion program's
partnership with the San Bruno Police Department;
• $5,000 to HomeMore Project Inc.,
to deliver Makeshift Traveler backpacks, which are specifically
designed and outfitted to meet the needs of those experiencing
homelessness, to unhoused individuals in San Bruno and to connect them
to available resources and services;
• $9,000 to Junior Achievement of Northern California
to provide financial literacy, workforce readiness, and
entrepreneurship programming to San Bruno high school students,
cultivating the knowledge and skills needed to move toward college and
career success, through the Inspiring Economic Empowerment program;
• $15,000 to Lano Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services of San Mateo County
to provide culturally based mental and behavioral health services to
primarily Spanish speaking San Bruno residents in substance abuse
recovery and to provide support for healthy development into adulthood
through a bilingual/bicultural young women's empowerment program;
• $10,000 to Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
to provide legal assistance to San Bruno residents facing eviction or
living in substandard conditions with the goal of keeping them in their
homes, preventing homelessness through enforcement of legal rights, and
remedying inadequate living conditions through advocacy through the
HomeSavers program;
• $5,000 to Marine Science Institute to enable underserved San Bruno students to experience meaningful, hands-on marine science and environmental educaon programs;
• $20,000 to Mindful Life Project to
provide mental health and wellness support through comprehensive
in-person, full-me mindfulness-based social and emotional learning
programming at Belle Air and Allen Elementary Schools;
$6,500 to Mission Hospice and Home Care, Inc.,
to offer free monthly drop-in grief support with experienced
bereavement counselors for community members at the San Bruno Senior
Center;
• $15,000 to Music for Minors
to provide culturally relevant, standards-based, in-school music
education to TK-2nd grade students at San Bruno Park School District
elementary schools;
• $6,000 to Parkside Boosters
to strengthen the community of students, teachers, staff, and families
at Parkside Intermediate School by hosting schoolwide multicultural
events;
• $5,000 to Partners & Advocates for Remarkable Children & Adults (PARCA) to
support REACH, an inclusive, licensed day care program that provides
before- and aer-school care and summer camp programming for children
with and without developmental disabilities based at John Muir
Elementary School;
• $10,000 to San Bruno Improvement Group Inc.
to enhance the downtown San Bruno community by fostering local business
growth and promoting a vibrant, connected downtown area through the
organizing of community-focused events;
• $8,000 to San Bruno Lions Foundation to
support Second Harvest of Silicon Valley’s distribution of healthy food
to San Bruno families in need through the purchase and installation of
a container to store necessary supplies at Belle Air Elementary School;
• $20,000 to San Mateo County Community College District
to catalyze economic and community advancement within under-resourced
communities in San Bruno by supporting Skyline College students
conducting community benefit and improvement projects through the
Accelerate Fellowship Program;
$10,000 to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley to serve San Bruno families and individuals at risk for hunger through the distribution of healthy food;
• $10,000 to The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Parcular Council of San Mateo County, Inc.,
to provide rent, utilities, and food assistance to San Bruno families
and individuals at risk of homelessness through the Peninsula Family
Resource Center;
• $3,000 to Society of West-Coast Artists to host a month-long exhibition of visual artwork by art students at Skyline College at its gallery in downtown San Bruno;
• $10,000 to Sonrisas Dental Health, Inc.,
to improve health equity in San Mateo County by removing systemic
barriers to care, providing prevention education, and increasing dental
utilization for adult residents of San Bruno;
• $7,000 to Spindrift School of Performing Arts
to support performance arts opportunities in San Bruno Park School
District schools through the purchase of a traveling lighting system to
enhance production quality at performances, offer technical theater
training to students, and bolster community engagement through a more
compelling audience experience;
• $9,000 to StarVista
to provide support to San Bruno families facing difficult challenges
with interactive, educational workshops for parents, children, and
caregivers to strengthen families’ bonds and connect them to community
resources through the Early Childhood Services Program;
• $7,500 to Via Heart Project
to treat cardiac arrest and prevent unnecessary deaths by providing
hands-only CPR and AED training to 7th and 8th graders at Parkside
Intermediate School;
$12,500 to Wings Learning Center
to empower autistic students, enhance their quality of life, and
promote long-term success by providing school-based music therapy and
offering music events to the broader San Bruno community of ausc and
neurodiverse students and their families; and
• $10,000 to YMCA of San Francisco
to increase access to comprehensive human and social services and
emergency safety case management assistance to San Bruno residents at a
satellite site at Belle Air Elementary School.
“Bringing together local business owners, residents, and community
leaders, the San Bruno Improvement Group Inc. was formed to transform
downtown San Bruno into an active destination for shopping, dining, and
gathering through community-driven projects,” said Sadana Traxler,
President of San Bruno Improvement Group Inc. “Funding from the
San Bruno Community Foundation will support our efforts to organize
annual events that aim to reshape downtown San Bruno into a bustling
center of social and economic activity that breaks away from outdated
narratives and highlights San Bruno as a forward-thinking, vibrant
community. We deeply appreciate the Foundation’s support.”
“Each Green Corner is dedicated to empowering communities to increase
food sovereignty and climate resiliency through sustainable urban
agriculture,” said Sandie Zuniga Nierenberg, Each
Green Corner’s CEO and Board President. “With a Community Grant
from the San Bruno Community Foundation, we will be able to continue
our efforts in San Bruno’s public elementary schools through our Living
Campus Program, which is a comprehensive garden program that installs
and maintains gardens, provides school-based and community-wide
education around nutrition, food security, and climate resiliency, and
provides fresh, healthy produce to residents experiencing food
insecurity.”
Since 2016, the Foundation has awarded 215 Community Grants totaling $2.6 million.
The San Bruno Community Foundation is the nonprofit
organization created by the City of San Bruno to administer the $70
million in restitution funds received from PG&E after the
devastating 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno’s Crestmoor
neighborhood. The Foundation serves the San Bruno community by
investing in projects, programs, services, and facilities that have
significant and lasting benefits. Through
making grants, leveraging partnerships, and taking advantage of other
resources, SBCF assists and enables the community to maximize shared
investments and realize their subsequent enhancements and benefits.
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