October 6, 2010

Grants Approved by The James Irvine Foundation
Board of Directors

Arts

Arts Regional Initiative

Bakersfield Art Foundation
$325,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Central Valley Center for the Arts, d/b/a Gallo Center
$350,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Crocker Art Museum Association
$325,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Davis Art Center
$225,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Fresno International Grand Opera
$350,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Fresno Philharmonic Association
$300,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Sacramento Ballet Association
$300,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Sacramento Opera Association
$325,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association
$325,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society d/b/a Haggin Museum
$325,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Sierra Repertory Theatre
$350,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Stockton Symphony Association
$275,000
To increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, as part of the Arts Regional Initiative, payable over 36 months.

Cultural Participation

California Alliance for Arts Education
$400,000
To further expand the statewide arts education advocacy network into local communities across California and improve strategic communications infrastructure, payable over 36 months.

Community Youth Performing Arts Center
$225,000
For ¡Viva El Arte De Santa Barbara!, a series of free and culturally relevant performing arts residencies designed to reach the Spanish-speaking communities of Santa Barbara County, payable over 36 months.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
$300,000
To support the California Performances and Residencies initiative, a statewide touring program to underserved regions throughout California, payable over 36 months.

Radio Bilingüe
$300,000
To support Raíces: Art Moments on Radio, broadcasting Spanish-language radio features on multicultural traditional arts in California, payable over 36 months.

Santa Monica Museum of Art
$200,000
To implement a strategic outreach and marketing plan in support of audience growth, payable over 24 months.

California Democracy

Governance Reform

California Forward
$6,000,000
For core support, payable over 48 months.

Civic Engagement

East LA Community Corporation
$250,000
To design and promote a resident advisory commission within the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to inform post-transit project development on Metro-owned land in East Los Angeles, payable over 24 months.

Families in Schools
$2,250,000
To serve as the intermediary organization for the Families Improving Education Initiative, a regranting & capacity-building program to support Central Valley and Inland Empire organizations engaging the public in educational decision-making, payable over 20 months.

Youth

Linked Learning Policy

EdSource
$300,000
For core operating support, payable over 24 months.

Public Interest Projects
$375,000
For the Communities for Public Education Reform project in California, a funder collaborative to align statewide education organizing in support of education policies that prepare low-income students for college, career and civic participation, payable over 36 months.

Linked Learning Policy and Public Will for Linked Learning

UNITE-LA
$800,000
To increase understanding of, and build public will for, Linked Learning among key business/industry groups in California, payable over 24 months.

Linked Learning Practice

The Community Foundation
$350,000
To strengthen Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) opportunities for students in San Bernardino County, payable over 24 months.

Foundation for California Community Colleges
$800,000
To support the Career Ladders Project, payable over 24 months.

National Academy Foundation
$1,800,000
To increase capacity to support and expand the California Academies, payable over 24 months.

University of San Diego
$650,000
To support principal development in Linked Learning high schools across California, payable over 21 months.

Year Up
$650,000
To support capacity building and expansion of Year Up Bay Area, payable over 24 months.

Linked Learning Public Will

Oakland Community Organizations
$750,000
For a coalition of community-based organizations to strengthen parent and student engagement around Linked Learning in the Antioch, Oakland and West Contra Costa school districts, payable over 24 months.

United Way
$1,000,000
For a coalition of community-based organizations to strengthen parent and student engagement around Linked Learning in the Los Angeles Unified School District, payable over 24 months.

Special Opportunities

J. Paul Getty Trust
$200,000
To support communications and outreach activities for the Pacific Standard Time consortium, a collaboration of more than fifty cultural institutions throughout Southern California, payable over 15 months.

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About The James Irvine Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation dedicated to expanding opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful and inclusive society. The Foundation’s grantmaking focuses on three program areas: Arts, California Democracy and Youth. Since 1937 the Foundation has provided over $1 billion in grants to more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations throughout California. With $1.4 billion in assets, the Foundation made grants of $67 million in 2009 for the people of California.

For more information about the Irvine Foundation, please visit our Web site at www.irvine.org or call 415.777.2244.

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