March 6, 2008

Grants Approved by The James Irvine Foundation
Board of Directors

Arts

Communities Advancing the Arts

Community Foundation for Monterey County
$400,000
To increase individual giving to the arts in Monterey County, payable over 36 months.

Community Foundation Sonoma County
$500,000
To increase individual giving to the arts in Sonoma County, payable over 36 months.

Orange County Community Foundation
$500,000
To increase individual giving to the arts in Orange County, payable over 36 months.

Sacramento Region Community Foundation
$450,000
To increase individual giving to the arts in the Sacramento region, payable over 36 months.

San Diego Foundation
$450,000
To increase individual giving to the arts in the San Diego region, payable over 36 months.

San Francisco Foundation
$400,000
To increase individual giving to the arts and galvanize support for individual artists in the Bay Area, payable over 36 months.

Ventura County Community Foundation
$450,000
To increase individual giving to the arts in Ventura County, payable over 36 months.

Williams Group
$600,000
To provide strategic communications support and facilitate learning across California community foundations that seek to increase individual giving to the arts, payable over 36 months.

Arts Regional Initiative

TCC Group
$850,000
To provide technical assistance for the Arts Regional Initiative, an initiative to build the capacity of regional arts organizations in California, payable over 12 months.

Cultural Participation

Angels Gate Cultural Center
$150,000
For expanded public programs and the development of a communications plan to increase visibility and audience participation, payable over 36 months.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center
$300,000
For "Viva! Celebrating the Americas," a multiyear initiative focused on engaging the Jewish and Latin American communities of Los Angeles through the presentation of artists and programs featuring intersections between the two cultures, payable over 36 months.

New Conservatory Theatre Center
$150,000
For the geographic expansion of the YouthAware touring program into the Central Valley and rural Northern California, and for technology upgrades, payable over 36 months.

Pacific Asia Museum
$300,000
For the "Community-based Outreach Initiative" to diversify the museum's audience through targeted outreach and expanded programming, payable over 36 months.

California Perspectives

Informing Californians

California Budget Project
$525,000
To inform and expand participation in the state budget process and policy debates through analyses, briefings and trainings, payable over 36 months.

Mobilizing Californians

Environmental Health Coalition
$450,000
To provide opportunities for San Diego County residents to participate in public decision making on land use and environmental health issues, payable over 36 months.

Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee
$300,000
To provide opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents in Riverside and San Bernardino counties to engage with public officials on issues affecting their communities, payable over 36 months.

Orange County Congregation Community Organization
$300,000
To provide opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents in Orange County to engage with public officials on issues affecting their communities, payable over 36 months.

San Diego Organizing Project
$240,000
To provide opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents in San Diego County to engage with public officials on issues affecting their communities, payable over 24 months.

Youth

Academically Rigorous Career and Technical Education

National Academy Foundation
$2,000,000
For expansion and enhancement of career and technical education programs in California high schools based on the National Academy Foundation model, payable over 36 months.

The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning
$500,000
To strengthen the capacity of the teacher workforce to deliver academically rigorous career and technical education in California public schools, payable over 24 months.

Cross Program

Special Initiatives

The Center for Effective Philanthropy
$500,000
To establish a California office and expand programming in California, payable over 36 months.

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, successful and inclusive society. The Foundation’s grantmaking is organized around three program areas: Arts, Youth and California Perspectives, which focuses on improving decision making on significant state issues. Since 1937 the Foundation has provided over $1 billion in grants to more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations throughout California. With current assets of over $1.8 billion, the Foundation expects to make grants of $81 million in 2008 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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