December 15, 2006

Grants Approved by The James Irvine Foundation Board of Directors

Arts

Artistic Creativity

The American Conservatory Theater Foundation
$400,000
To produce the world premiere of After the War, and to expand the core acting company, payable over 2 years.

Center for Cultural Innovation
$1,000,000
For a statewide initiative providing regranting, training, and project incubation to working artists in California, payable over 2 years

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio
$300,000
For the statewide expansion of a mentorship program and leadership initiative serving California's established and emerging choreographers, payable over 3 years.

Connection Through Cultural Participation

KQED
$450,000
To support Spark — a weekly television series, educational outreach program, and Web site showcasing artists and arts organizations in the areas of Northern California and the Central Coast, payable over 3 years.

WolfBrown
$300,000
To conduct a study of patterns of cultural participation, including informal arts participation, in the Inland Empire and San Joaquin Valley, payable over 1 year.

California Perspectives

Informing Californians

The CSLA Foundation
$250,000
For the Pat Brown Institute to share information and facilitate dialogues about critical public policy issues in California, payable over 2 years.

Pacific News Service
$1,000,000
To support professional development workshops on state policy reporting, newsmaker briefings, and multilingual polling, payable over 2 years.

Public Policy Institute of California
$1,000,000
To conduct the "California State Budget" and "Californians and Their Government" survey series and to produce an edited volume of expert authors, "California's Policymaking Constraints," payable over 2 years.

Infusing New Ideas and Perspectives for Effective Governance

Center for Governmental Studies
$500,000
To develop and promote nonpartisan governance reforms on redistricting, the ballot initiative process, and the campaign finance system, payable over 2 years.

Mobilizing Californians

Immigrant Legal Resource Center
$300,000
To conduct nonpartisan voter education activities within immigrant communities in the Central Valley, payable over 2 years.

California Votes Initiative

Southwest Voter Registration Education Project
$400,000
To conduct nonpartisan voter education and mobilization activities among Latinos in low income communities in Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties, payable over 2 years.

Special Projects

The Advancement Project
$400,000
To promote governing systems in Los Angeles that better serve low income residents and to conduct an organizational strategic planning process, payable over 2 years.

Youth

Improving Instruction

Foundation for California Community Colleges
$300,000
To provide technical assistance to California community colleges that are supporting college-bridge and career-pathway programs serving disadvantaged and disconnected youth, payable over 1 year.

Special Projects

Regents of the University of California
$200,000
To conduct a research project on the high-school dropout issue in California, payable over 1 year.

San Diego State University Foundation
$100,000
To conduct case studies of continuation high schools in Southern California and the Inland Empire as part of a larger study on the state's alternative education options system, payable over 1 year.

Stanford University
$175,000
To conduct case studies of continuation high schools in Northern California as part of a larger study on the state's alternative education options system, payable over 1 year.

WestEd
$175,000
To conduct a statewide scan and analysis of available data on California's alternative education options system, payable over 1 year.

CORAL

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
$1,200,000
For the final year of implementation of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) Initiative in San Jose, payable over 1 year.

Sacramento Children's Home
$1,200,000
For the final year of implementation of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) Initiative in Sacramento, payable over 1 year.

Cross Program

Joint Grantmaking: California Perspectives and Youth

Alliance for a Better Community
$500,000
To establish a network of five regional Education Collaboratives to engage community members on educational issues and policies, payable over 2 years.

Californians for Justice Education Fund
$200,000
To engage parents and young adults in policy discussions on K-14 education issues, payable over 2 years.

WestEd
$300,000
To support the establishment of a forum for California's urban mayors to discuss education and increase their leadership role in education, payable over 3 years.

Families Improving Education Initiative

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
$250,000
To engage Central Valley families in educational decision making at the school and district levels to promote more responsive and effective educational policies, payable over 2 years.

The Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin County
$175,000
To engage Stockton families in educational decision making at the school and district levels to promote more responsive and effective educational policies, payable over 2 years.

Community Services and Employment Training
$200,000
To engage Tulare County families in educational decision making at the school and district levels to promote more responsive and effective educational policies, payable over 2 years.

Families in Schools
$500,000
To serve as a facilitator, convener, and technical assistance provider for the Central Valley Families Improving Education Initiative grantees, payable over 2 years.

Fresno Center for New Americans
$250,000
To engage Fresno families in educational decision making at the school and district levels to promote more responsive and effective educational policies, payable over 2 years

Fresno Covenant Foundation
$250,000
To engage San Joaquin Valley families in educational decision making at the school and district levels to promote more responsive and effective educational policies, payable over 2 years.

Total

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, inclusive, and successful society. The Foundation’s grantmaking is organized around three program areas: Arts, Youth, and California Perspectives, which focuses on improving decision-making on the significant issues that are shaping California’s future. Since 1937 the Foundation has provided more than $900 million in grants to nonprofit organizations throughout California. With current assets of more than $1.7 billion, the Foundation expects to make grants of $69 million in 2006 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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