October 18, 2004

Grants Approved and Ratified by
The James Irvine Foundation Board of Directors
October 12, 2004

Arts

Angels Gate Cultural Center

$150,000 For core operating support to expand and develop high-quality arts programs that engage the community's diverse residents, payable over 3 years. (San Pedro)

California Alliance for Arts Education

$150,000 For core support to provide training statewide and technical assistance to school districts in Los Angeles County to implement Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education, payable over 3 years. (Pasadena)

California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies

$160,000 For core operating support to provide networking and professional development opportunities to local arts agencies throughout California, payable over 2 years. (San Francisco)

California Association of Museums

$25,000 For core operating support, payable over 1 year. (Santa Cruz)

Center for Cultural Innovation

$200,000 To support training and benefits programs for artists in California, and for core operating support, payable over 2 years. (Los Angeles)

Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County

$150,000 For the Irvine Cultural Enhancement (ICE) regranting program, supporting cultural festivals that celebrate the diversity of Santa Cruz County, and providing professional development to small and mid-sized arts organizations in the region, payable over 3 years. (Aptos)

Foundation for World Arts

$100,000 To support the 2005 World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles and the development of sustainability plans for producing future festivals, payable over 2 years. (Malibu)

Heyday Institute

$350,000 For expansion of the Great Valley Book publication series and community outreach and for organizational development, payable over 3 years. (Berkeley)

L.A. Theatre Works

$150,000 For core operating support and a feasibility study in the Inland Empire to increase access to fine dramatic literature through radio and internet broadcasts, payable over 1 year. (Los Angeles)

Museum of Contemporary Art

$480,000 To foster and present the work of emerging Southern California artists, payable over 3 years. (Los Angeles)

Oakland Ballet Association, Inc.

$70,000 For core operating support, payable over 1 year. (Oakland)

Pacific Asia Museum

$250,000 To expand the museum's organizational capacity to serve an increasingly diverse constituency by enhancing its exhibitions and educational programming and by enhancing its marketing and audience-development efforts, payable over 3 years. (Pasadena)

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County

$75,000 To support an informal arts initiative focused on engaging broader and more diverse audiences, payable over 1 year. (Los Angeles)

Riverside Art Museum

$200,000 For core support to develop the museum's exhibitions and educational programming, scholarship, and audiences within the Inland Empire, payable over 2 years. (Riverside)

San Diego Foundation

$75,000 To support "Understanding San Diego: Arts & Culture," a collaborative regional process to strengthen the nonprofit arts and culture sector in San Diego County, payable over 1 year. (San Diego)

The San Francisco Foundation

$200,000 For collaborative efforts between the San Francisco Foundation and East Bay, Marin, and Peninsula Community Foundations to enhance support for individual artists in Bay Area communities through regranting and donor education, payable over 2 years. (San Francisco)

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California Perspectives

California Clean Money Campaign

$75,000 To support the first year of outreach activities designed to involve the Latino community in a campaign finance reform project, payable over 1 year. (Los Angeles)

Central American Resource Center (CARACEN) of California

$50,000 To increase the number of informed and active immigrant Latino voters in Los Angeles, payable over 8 months. (Los Angeles)

Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health & Welfare

$200,000 To provide low-income residents in Santa Ana with trainings regarding civic participation and opportunities to engage in civic activities designed to improve their quality of life, payable over 2 years. (Santa Ana)

Liberty Hill Foundation

$1,500,000 To support community-based organizations promoting economic equity and civic rights through regranting and support for voter education and mobilization activities, payable over 3 years. (Santa Monica)

Public Policy Institute of California

$25,000 To expand the scope of the eighth, and final, statewide survey on growth issues, focusing on the policy preferences of California's diverse ethnic groups and adding additional languages to the polling effort, payable over 7 months. (San Francisco)

Southern California Public Radio

$300,000 To expand KPCC's coverage of governance and politics in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, add a new reporting presence in Sacramento and the Inland Empire, and develop programming that facilitates civic action among KPCC's listeners, payable over 2 years. (Pasadena)

Southwest Voter Registration Education Project

$125,000 To increase civic participation among Latinos in California's Central Valley, Greater Los Angeles, and Riverside and San Bernardino counties, payable over 4 months. (San Antonio, Texas)

Stanford University

$75,000 To conduct a survey of 1,200 Latinos regarding patterns of political participation and to release the findings through regional briefings, payable over 18 months. (Stanford)

Town Hall Los Angeles

$150,000 For a planning grant to facilitate the development of a program plan and a strategic plan, payable over 5 months. (Los Angeles)

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Youth

Action Against Crime and Violence Education Fund

$250,000 For policy development and public education efforts aimed at expanding after-school opportunities for high school students, payable over 2 years. (Oakland)

California Charter School Consortium

$200,000 To support capacity-building activities for the youth, teachers, leaders, and communities associated with California's charter high schools, payable over 2 years. (Los Angeles)

Community Build, Inc.

$200,000 To support youth programs, including transition-to-high-school, high school outreach, college-bound, and career preparation programs, payable over 2 years. (Los Angeles)

CV Economic

$25,000 For a planning grant to develop a comprehensive new set of career pathways for low-income youth, payable over 4 months. (Palm Desert)

Eastside College Preparatory School, Inc.

$150,000 To support the establishment of an Alumni Network for graduates of Eastside College Preparatory School, payable over 3 years. (Palo Alto)

EdSource, Inc.

$400,000 For core operating support, payable over 2 years. (Palo Alto)

Fulfillment Fund

$200,000 To support comprehensive academic programs and services for economically disadvantaged and ethnically diverse students in Los Angeles, payable over 2 years.(Los Angeles)

Los Angeles Transition Corporation

$600,000 For ACME Network, to expand educational and career opportunities in arts and animation for low-income and diverse youth in California, payable over 3 years. (Los Angeles)

Omega Boys Club of San Francisco

$200,000 To support the Omega Leadership Academy, an academic program that promotes high school graduation, college preparation, and retention, payable over 2 years. (San Francisco)

Public Education Network, Inc.

$120,000 To build a public record of citizen voices on what impact the No Child Left Behind Act has had on youth, public schools, and communities throughout California, payable over 8 months. (Washington, DC)

Regents of the University of California

$40,000 For the Career Academy Support Network (CASN) at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, focused on providing supports for the structural transformation of high schools into effective smaller learning environments for low-income youth, payable over 6 months. (Berkeley)

St. HOPE Academy Foundation

$325,000 To plan and implement a pilot after-school program at Sacramento High School focused on academic achievement and college- and career-readiness skills, payable over 3 years. (Sacramento)

Stanford University

$100,000 To design a research study to inform the successful transition to and experience in community college for California students, particularly those from cultural and linguistic minority backgrounds, payable over 1 year. (Stanford)

The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute

$25,000 To increase understanding among policymakers of the critical role pre-college academic programs play in promoting equity of access to and enrollment in higher education for California's low-income minority youth, payable over 2 months. (Los Angeles)

SRI International

$12,000 To complete the 2003-04 evaluation of the CORAL Initiative, payable over 2 months. (Menlo Park)

WestEd

$750,000 For the Strategic Literacy Initiative, to develop and disseminate tools and provide services to improve access to and engagement with academic literacy for underserved youth, payable over 3 years. (San Francisco)

Whittier Educational Foundation

$75,000 For the TechFutures program, to support the implementation of the Counseling Wizard, an online counseling system, throughout the West Contra Costa Unified School District, payable over 1 year. (El Cerrito)

Williams Group

$25,000 To develop a plan to disseminate evaluation findings and lessons from the Museum Youth Initiative in California, payable over 4 months. (Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Long Beach

$1,600,000 For continued implementation of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) Initiative in Long Beach, payable over 1 year. (Long Beach)

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Special Opportunities/Cross Program

Cause Communications

$75,000 To support publication of a toolkit on nonprofit branding and strategic communications, with outreach to California-based organizations, payable over 1 year. (Santa Monica)

CompassPoint Nonprofit Services

$50,000 To support an executive transition and business planning process for the Resource Center for Nonprofit Management in Riverside, payable over 9 months. (San Francisco)

Orange County Performing Arts Center

$3,000,000 To support the construction of a new facility and the expansion of arts education programming, payable over 2 years. (Costa Mesa)

Resource Center for Nonprofit Management

$50,000 For core support during a process of executive transition and business planning, payable over 9 months. (Moreno Valley)

Totals

The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation, with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Foundation was established in 1937 by James Irvine, a native Californian who devoted most of his life to business interests in San Francisco and the development of his 110,000-acre ranch in Southern California, which was among the largest privately owned land holdings in the state. Since 1937, the Foundation has provided approximately $750 million in grants to more than 6,000 nonprofit organizations throughout California. With current assets of $1.4 billion, the Foundation expects to make grants of $56 million in 2004 for the people of California.