Competitive Grant Programs
2013 Arts and Culture Grant Cycle - Goals to Fund
The Fresno Regional Foundation serves a dynamic and multicultural population. It is important that the Community Benefit Organizations (CBOs) we support are aware of and sensitive to the diversity of the Central Valley. Therefore, FRF will fund programs that:
- Support culturally relevant art forms that reflect and serve the Central San Joaquin Valley’s diverse population.
- Support arts and culture activities that engage underserved communities.
- Support arts and culture activities that improve achievement in core academic competencies such as literacy, math, and science for preschool to 12th grade students.
Selection Criteria
The Fresno Regional Foundation values collaboration with other organizations and agencies for greater results. Demonstrating how your organization works with other stakeholders through a shared vision, shared measurements, constant communication and building on the services and strengths of other stakeholders will cause your proposal to receive a higher ranking. We believe working together in this way will contribute to sustainable community change. For more information on this approach, Collective Impact, please click here.
The following factors will be considered when reviewing your proposal:
- Data supporting program impact
- Programs customized to target populations
- Proven expertise in the proposed field of work
- Strong organizational capacity
- Strong rationale for proposed program and/or approach
- Integration with other programs, organizations and/or systems
Grant Amounts and Duration
Of the $120,000 available, $35,000 is earmarked for those organizations whose offices are located within the City of Fresno. One grant of $50,000 may be awarded for a collaborative project. Remaining grant amounts range from $5,000 to $25,000. Funding will be awarded for a one-year period.
Cultural Data Project ( CDP )
It is optional to complete a Cultural Data Project Profile for your organization. This process is conducted online at the California Cultural Data Project (California CDP). If you have already begun using the California CDP and wish to submit an updated CDP profile to FRF, you need to ensure that you have completed the CDP for each of your two most recently completed fiscal years.
Grants Information Session Resources
2013 Arts & Culture Info Session Powerpoint (541 KB)
2013 Arts & Culture Informational Handout (95 KB)
Arts & Culture Grants Committee
2013 Arts & Culture Grantees
To review the Arts & Culture Goals to Fund from 2013, please click here.
Youth Orchestras of Fresno: $50,000 for Accent on Access, an afterschool violin program for children at Edison Bethune Charter Academy in West Fresno.
ImagineU Interactive Children's Museum: $11,651 to support Family Art Camps in Visalia.
New Conservatory Theatre Center: $10,000 for Pride on Tour performances and education on LGBT issues in Fresno and Merced.
Stone Soup Fresno: $10,000 for an intergenerational education program on Hmong language, art and cultural traditions.
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sequoias: $9,849 for a graffiti mural project and college career preparation for at-risk youth in Farmersville and Ivanhoe.
About Productions: $9,750 for two theatrical performances of Evageline, the Queen of Make-Believe, which was inspired by the Chicano Movement in east Los Angeles during the late 1960's, including performances by Grammy-award winning group Los Lobos. About Productions is partnering with two community colleges in Fresno and Merced to incorporate the production's themes and lessons into the humanities curriculum.
Kings Regional Traditional Folk Arts: $8,750 for student mariachi and Mexican folklore dance programs, as well as formalizing a volunteer program for the organization.
Valley Arts and Science Academy: $5,000 to provide integrated arts instruction to low-income students in Southwest Fresno. The students will create multicultural art murals and utilize process writing to improve literacy skills.
Parlier Unified School District: $5,000 for an afterschool ballet folklorico program.
2013 Youth Grant - Goals to Fund
To fund organizations serving children 4th to 12th grade addressing the social, education, and health challenges that impact youth in our region while working collaboratively with community partners to provide services.
Selection Criteria
The Fresno Regional Foundation values collaboration with other organizations and agencies for greater results. Demonstrating how your organization works with other stakeholders through a shared vision, shared measurements, constant communication and building on the services and strengths of other stakeholders, will cause your proposal to receive a higher ranking. We believe working together in this way will contribute to sustainable community change. For more information on this approach, Collective Impact, please visit our grantmaking page.
These items will cause the applicant’s proposal to receive a higher ranking:
- Data supporting program impact
- Programs customized to target populations
- Proven expertise in the proposed field of work
- Strong organizational capacity
- Strong rationale for proposed program and/or approach
- Integration with other programs, organizations and/or systems
- Programs that increase educational opportunities for youth in rural and unincorporated communities
- Programs that promote youth civic engagement and service learning
- Educational programs that focus on math and science
- Educational programs that increase student success for college or career readiness
- Programs that will trigger matching dollars or additional resources to the region
Grant Amounts and Duration
The Fresno Regional Foundation will be granting approximately $206,000 in the Youth Grant Cycle. Of this amount, $105,000 will be earmarked specifically for Dinuba, Cutler-Orosi, Orange Cove, and Reedley for youth and education, as outlined below. In addition, $10,000 will be earmarked specifically for charter school petition development. The grant amount range is $5,000 to $25,000.
Special Considerations - Dinuba, Cutler-Orosi, Orange Cove, Reedley ($105,000)
The Foundation will be granting $105,000 for youth education in Dinuba, Cutler-Orosi, Orange Cove, and Reedley. Funding will focus on educational projects and programs that support college attendance for youth in the 4th through 12th grades.
Special Considerations for Charter School Petition ($10,000)
The Foundation will be granting $10,000 for grant applications that demonstrate greatest capacity in the area of charter school programmatic innovation directed at low-income communities and communities of color in urban areas. Grant funding for charter school innovation will be awarded in two phases, in the amount of $5,000. For complete details, please read the youth grants addendum.
Grants Information Session Resources
2013 Youth Info Session Powerpoint (754 KB)
2013 Youth Informational Handout (340 KB)
Youth Grants Committee
2012 Youth Grantees
Community Services & Employment Training, Inc.: $25,000 for the Tech Connect program, which raises digital literacy in low-income, rural communities, as well as increased college access through transcript review, college campus visits and Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application assistance and tutoring.
California State University, Fresno: $23,200 for the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program’s Saturday Academies, which focuses on hands-on science, math, and engineering projects and college readiness activities for 6th-12th graders, most of whom are first generation college-bound.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Fresno County: $20,076 for three gang prevention and academic programs serving 155 youth at the Orange Cove and Reedley clubs.
Spring Valley School - Chawanakee Unified School District: $19,179 for iPads to link a digital middle school to the digital high school and to enable teachers to collect data for daily lesson planning.
Life Skills Training and Educational Programs, Inc. (LifeSTEPS): $10,000 for a California content standards-based after school program for 5-18 year olds living in Fresno public housing.
Community Youth Ministries (CYM): $9,993 for a partnership with Youth Multi-Agency Project (YouthMAP) to start a six-week summer day camp on three campuses in Reedley and Orange Cove to promote safety, social engagement, education, health, and service learning.
Encourage Tomorrow: $9,950 for a mentoring program that pairs 150 high school students mentor 150 grade school students at four Fresno elementary schools to improve academic achievement and attendance, as well as decrease suspensions.
Coalron Lyceum (Coalinga Huron Avenal House at Berkeley): $5,130 for tuition for six students from the Coalinga-Huron-Avenal area to attend UC Berkeley’s summer program offering advanced high school courses.
New this year: Letter of Interest (LOI) requirement for the 2013 Human Services Grant Cycle. Please read the information below carefully.
2013 Human Services Grant Cycle
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: The 2013 Human Services grant cycle is requiring a Letter of Interest (LOI) to be submitted as an initial step in the grant application process. From the LOI, FRF will “invite” a limited number of non-profit Community Benefit Organizations (CBOs) to submit applications. Letters of Interest must be two-pages and submitted by Wednesday, May 29 at 5 p.m. To view the guidelines, submission instructions and LOI template, please download the document below.
2013 Human Services Letter of Interest Guidelines and Template (46 KB)
2013 Human Services Grant Cycle - Goals to Fund
To support the goals of FRF’s High Impact grant cycle, the Human Services grant cycle will fund capacity-building strategies for organizations serving children 0-8. The funding will focus on board governance, leadership development, and/or fiscal management. Grant requests may include the costs associated with contracting outside expertise to support capacity-building activities. For more information on the rationale of the high impact grant cycle, please see below.
Selection Criteria
These items will cause the applicant’s proposal to receive a higher ranking:
- Serving unincorporated communities
- Serving low-income communities and communities of color
Grant Amounts and Duration
The Fresno Regional Foundation will be granting approximately $120,000 for Human Services. The grant range is $5,000 to $25,000. One two-year grant of up to $30,000 may be awarded.
High Impact Rationale
Helping Children Succeed – The Pathway Out of Poverty
Too many children in the San Joaquin Valley are growing up in poverty. In Fresno County alone, the poverty rate among school-aged children jumped from 27 percent in 2007 to 36 percent in 2010 – the highest in the state. Children in poverty face a host of disadvantages that, over time, become nearly insurmountable.
The future of the San Joaquin Valley depends on all children having a viable and permanent pathway out of poverty.
Research shows that a critical leverage period in a young person’s life is in the years leading up to and through the 3rd grade. The need is even more urgent for children who are also living in poverty; they face worse outcomes on nearly every measurement. Currently, 60 percent of Valley children are not reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade. Children who are prepared to succeed in school by the end of the 3rd grade are significantly more likely to have a life of opportunity.
Why is the 3rd grade such an important milestone? After 3rd grade, a child must transition from learning to read, to reading to learn. The 4th grade curriculum assumes children can read and expects children to use this skill to solve more complex problems. Children who read proficiently by the end of 3rd grade are much more likely to graduate from high school on time, attend college, and obtain higher-wage jobs.
We understand that multiple social determinants affect a child’s ability to become literate by the 3rd grade. For example, children need:
- Families who have sufficient income for decent housing, food, health and dental care, and books.
- Parents who know how to support their children’s learning in and out of school, and who are able to embrace their role as a child’s first teacher.
- Adequate family resources to support children to be at school on time, every day, and help children maintain what they’ve learned over the summer months.
- High-quality early childhood education, so that more children arrive in kindergarten with the language and social skills needed for learning.
- Schools that embrace and respect students’ home culture and serve as a community hub for services and opportunities for students, parents and families.
Fresno Regional Foundation will use the Human Services grant cycle funds to help strengthen and increase the capacity of organizations serving families and children 0-8. Therefore, by incorporating the High Impact priority to Human Services, FRF will be meeting its mission, “To improve the quality of life in the Central San Joaquin Valley through philanthropy.”
Grants Information Session Resources
2013 Human Services Info Session Powerpoint (1269 KB)
2013 Human Services Informational Handout (397 KB)
Human Services Grants Committee
2012 Human Services Grantees
Fresno Street Saints: $25,000 to provide board and staff leadership and governance training and support for organizations serving West Fresno. United Way of Tulare County: $25,000 to train the members of five rural water boards on governance, finance, and communications. Community Water Center: $25,000 to provide training and education for residents and water board members in unincorporated communities to address drinking water issues. Poverello House: $20,000 to develop a new strategic plan to best meet the needs of the homeless in Fresno. California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation: $20,000 to educate and engage rural residents in the implementation of SB 375, a state bill that requires regional planning agencies to develop greenhouse gas reduction targets for passenger vehicles. Nonprofit Finance Fund: $15,000 for financial management workshops for local community benefit organizations.
2013 Teen Pregnancy Prevention - Goals to Fund
- The program is:
- medically accurate, comprehensive and free from bias.
- gender appropriate.
- culturally and linguistically competent for its target population.
- providing referrals to a family planning service provider (as evidenced by a letter of cooperation with a service provider).
- Evidenced-based; For a list of programs, please visit:
- Programs that:
- Have high impact and focus on outcome
- Have a service provider referral system developed
- Have a youth development focus
- Involve parents or significant adult
- Define outcomes well
- Sustainability of programs
- Partner with other organizations doing related work
- Knowledge of other organizations doing related work
- The organization's long-standing and deep knowledge of a community.
- The organization's impact on long-term community change as it pertains to youth and their families
- The financial health of applying organization
- Grant specific budget
- If the selected curriculum was modified, please indicate how it was modified.
- It is important to provide clarity on why this intervention was chosen for the targeted population.
- Fresno Barrios Unidos: $100,000 for reproductive health education for the Fresno Unified high school students.
- Nuevo Comienzo: $100,000 for Aledante Latina, a teen pregnancy prevention program that combines reproductive health education and leadership development for teens in Culter-Orosi, California.
- Focus Forward: $40,000 for reproductive health education and an adult ally program to support incarcerated youth.
The Fresno Regional Foundation (FRF) will be awarding $380,000 in grants for Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) in Fresno, Tulare, Madera, Merced, and Kings Counties. Three types of grants will be offered: Pilot, Planning and Program. Pilot and Planning grants range from $10,000 to $35,000 and are one-year in duration. Program grants will support teen pregnancy prevention programs that are comprehensive, medically accurate, and provide access or referrals to clinical services. These grants are two-year grants and range from $50,000 to $100,000.
Focus of the Grants
To fund programs serving Fresno, Tulare, Madera, Merced and Kings Counties that reduce teen pregnancy either by providing reproductive health services, sexuality education or other youth development initiatives aimed at reducing teen pregnancy. Youth development initiatives should demonstrate working with young people and their families in such a way that allows them to develop leadership skills.
The grants will also fund planning; pilot projects; training and development of staff and/or volunteers; training and education of evidence-based curriculum; gender appropriate training and education for staff and volunteers; youth conferences that include reproductive health; parent engagement programs; and/or peer outreach teams.
Eligibility Criteria:
Theses factors are required
Selection Criteria
Additional Information
The Fresno Regional Foundation TPP Advisory Committee may conduct site visits for some of the top applicants for the larger awards. These site visits will be August 5-8, 2013.
Grants Information Session Resources
2013 Human Services Info Session Powerpoint (1269 KB)
2013 TPP Grant Informational Handout (159 KB)
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Advisory Committee
2012 Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantees
Please note: The 2013 Environment Grant Cycle Goals to Fund will be posted by August 16, 2013.
2012 Environment Grant - Goals to Fund
- Activities related to the acquisition of land for river restoration
- Activities to restore native fish (particularly salmon) populations and increase water flows
- Activities that support public access to the Valley portions of the rivers and education and awareness about the importance of the rivers
Selection Criteria
These characteristics will cause a proposal to receive a higher ranking:
- Collaboration with other organizations who are doing related work
- Programs that trigger matching dollars or additional resources to the region
Grant Amounts and Duration
The Foundation will be granting $75,000 for projects and programs working to improve the flow of the San Joaquin and Kings rivers and to enhance the fish population (particularly salmon). River restoration grants will range from $10,000 to $25,000 and will be awarded for a one-year period, although implementation of a program or project may be extended from one-year to 18 months.
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2012 Environment Informational Handout (293 KB)
Environment Grants Committee
2012 Environment Grantees
San Joaquin River Stewardship Program: $24,998 to engage 360 underserved Hmong and Latino youth through trips, clean-ups and restoration efforts along the river. California State University, Fresno; Biology Department: $23,633 to assess management actions needed to reduce the effects of juvenile Chinook salmon predation from warm water fish species in the San Joaquin River. Boys and Girls Clubs of Fresno County: $9,848 for two Boys & Girls Clubs in Sanger to engage 70 youth, ages 6 to 18, in hands-on activities to learn about the importance of river systems and riparian habitats. Fresno Chaffee Zoo: $6,300 to train 50 teens to serve as educational presenters for zoo guests. The teens are trained to share information that promotes stewardship through everyday consumer actions linked to improving water quality and reducing urban runoff pollution and reducing human impacts on aquatic habitats.
Please note: The 2013 High Impact Grant Cycle Goals to Fund will be posted by August 16, 2013.
2012 High Impact Grant Cycle
The Fund for the San Joaquin Valley
Local giving to solve the most pressing local problems.
How The Fund works
The Fund for the San Joaquin Valley is a partnership among local donors, the Fresno Regional Foundation (FRF) and The James Irvine Foundation. An advisory committee of community members guides The Fund and decides where The Fund’s grant dollars can have the most benefit for the region. The Advisory Committee will periodically assess our progress and adjust what we fund to make sure these dollars are having the most positive impact.
FRF is working to grow The Fund through the contribution of local donors. The Irvine Foundation has seeded The Fund with a $3 million grant, most of which will be regranted over the next three years. FRF aims to inspire local donors to build a permanent endowment that will make $1 million in grants each year, forever.
Although a permanent endowment, The Fund is also a flexible and responsive way for community-minded donors, residents, and leaders to support what works and improve the quality of life for everyone in the San Joaquin Valley.
Learn more about The Fund in our 2011 Annual Report.
Beginning in 2012 | Helping Children Succeed – The Pathway Out of Poverty
Too many children in the San Joaquin Valley are growing up in poverty. In Fresno County alone, the poverty rate among school-aged children jumped from 27 percent in 2007 to 36 percent in 2010 – the highest in the state. That’s one child out of every three. Children in poverty face a host of disadvantages that, over time, become nearly insurmountable.
We believe that our community can do better by its children. The future of the San Joaquin Valley depends on all children having a viable and permanent pathway out of poverty.
Research shows that a critical leverage period in a young person’s life is in the years leading up to and through the 3rd grade. The need is even more urgent for children who are also living in poverty; they face worse outcomes on nearly every measurement. Currently, 60 percent of Valley children are not reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade. Children who are prepared to succeed in school by the end of the 3rd grade are significantly more likely to have a life of opportunity.
Why is the 3rd grade such an important milestone? After 3rd grade, a child must transition from learning to read, to reading to learn. The 4th grade curriculum assumes children can read and expects children to use this skill to solve more complex problems. Children who read proficiently by the end of 3rd grade are much more likely to graduate from high school on time, attend college, and obtain higher-wage jobs.
We understand that multiple social determinants affect a child’s ability to become literate by the 3rd grade.
For example, children need:
- Families who have sufficient income for decent housing, food, health and dental care, and books.
- Parents who know how to support their children’s learning in and out of school, and who are able to embrace their role as a child’s first teacher.
- Adequate family resources to support children to be at school on time, every day, and help children maintain what they’ve learned over the summer months.
- High-quality early childhood education, so that more children arrive in kindergarten with the language and social skills needed for learning.
- Schools that embrace and respect students’ home culture and serve as a community hub for services and opportunities for students, parents and families.
Now is a unique moment in time for action in the San Joaquin Valley. We want to change what children living in poverty can expect from life. There are many bright spots such as promising new programs, heightened national attention on the San Joaquin Valley, and new school innovations.
We believe that the grant dollars in The Fund for the San Joaquin Valley can have a transformative effect on our community’s children if we focus our resources for the next several years on ensuring that:
- In-school and out-of-school programs prepare children to succeed in school by the end of the 3rd grade mutually reinforce and build upon one another’s strengths.
- New programs close gaps in the web of support for children and families living in poverty and directly impact a child’s ability to succeed in school by the 3rd grade milestone.
- Organizations think and work holistically to help children succeed in school by the end of the 3rd grade, and understand how their individual programs contribute to this larger goal.
- Organizations are able to track and measure their progress toward a shared definition of success, and have timely information about what works, and what doesn’t, so that they can course-correct along the way.
If we work together in this way, we believe that the sum of all our efforts can be truly greater than the parts.
Grant Opportunities | 2012
We plan to award $600,000 of grants in late 2012 to help children in the San Joaquin Valley succeed in school by the end of 3rd grade.
In choosing what we might specifically fund, we looked at bright spots in the San Joaquin Valley that might be amplified, as well as bright spots across the country to learn from their approaches. We studied data about the needs of children across the Valley, and looked at the many efforts that are focused on helping children and families move out of poverty and into a life of opportunity.
We believe that our grant funds will have the greatest impact by offering the following grant opportunities:
These grants range from $100,000 to $150,000 over two years. The grants are intended to support community-based organizations that are already serving children and families, reinforcing the work of other organizations, integrating services, and addressing gaps.
Funding could be used to:
- Accelerate program impact by reaching more children and families or expand into new geographic areas.
- Strengthen a program by deepening the services provided or adding new components of work.
- Work with another organization to strategically align services in a way that builds on each program’s efforts, creating greater benefit than either of the two programs alone could achieve.
These grants range from $100,000 to $150,000 over two years. They are intended to support community-based organizations that work directly with children and their families to redesign or rethink their programming so that the organization is able to reinforce and build on the work of other organizations and systems.
Funding could be used to:
- Adjust an existing program design to align services with another part of the educational pipeline, and pilot test the new program design.
- Develop a new program that addresses a critical gap in the pipeline.
- Collaborate with other organizations to integrate services and create a more seamless web of support for low-income children.
These grants range from $25,000 to $75,000 over one year. Connector grants are intended to fund organizations to coordinate, connect, and share information among the many promising programs and agencies that are working to help children succeed in school by the 3rd grade.
Connector grants are intended for organizations that are or can be at the hub of other initiatives and networks.
Funding could be used to:
- Help multiple stakeholders define success in a clear, concrete way.
- Help stakeholders identify their organizations’ contributions to the overall goal and identify gaps.
- Help others collaborate to close gaps or tap emerging opportunities.
- Work with multiple stakeholders to create shared vision and goals and communicate the vision and goals to the community at large and to potential donors.
These grants will range from $25,000 to $75,000 for one to two years. Advocacy grants are intended to help organizations identify a specific policy or procedural change that, if taken, could remove barriers or improve outcomes for low-income children to succeed in school by 3rd grade.
Funding would be used to support organizations to identify a specific change and to advocate for action on that issue.
Grant amounts and duration
We will award $600,000 of grants in late 2012. Grant requests can range from $25,000 to $150,000 and can be for more than one type of grant activity. In other words, an organization can apply to accelerate its work as well as to advocate for a specific policy change. Grant terms may be up to two years, depending on the type of project proposed and the timeline needed to accomplish the grant’s objectives.
Selection Criteria | Should your organization apply for a grant?
We are looking to support organizations that deeply understand the educational pipeline in the San Joaquin Valley, from birth to career, and that are looking for ways to align their services, close gaps, and remove barriers to children’s success in that pipeline in the critical years leading up to and through the 3rd grade.
As a threshold, applicants must:
- Work in low-income communities with low-performing schools.
- Predominantly serve or benefit children and families in the years leading up to and through the 3rd grade.
In addition, the most competitive applicants will:
- Have a clear understanding of relevant policy issues that impact their organization, field, and services.
- Be interested in or already coordinating and connecting with other organizations that are working with children and families in the years leading up to and through the 3rd grade.
- Understand the educational pipeline and, in particular, the age 0 to 8 continuum of services and be able to identify their unique contribution to that pipeline.
- Use data to demonstrate that their program is effective and to improve outcomes.
- Be able to tailor program approaches and offerings to the unique context and culture of different student groups and schools.
- Have proven expertise and a track record of success.
- Have strong operating capacity.
- Have an attitude of partnership and a desire to learn and improve.
- Offer a strong rationale for the program details being proposed.
- Demonstrate how alignment of programs and services has resulted in improved outcomes for children and families living in poverty.
Geography
We believe that this type of integrated approach will be most successful if we concentrate our resources in a few, specific communities. We recognize how important it is for organizations, families, and schools to work together to support one another’s efforts and address gaps, and we are mindful of spreading these relatively small resources too thin.
In this first round of grant opportunities, we invite proposals from individual efforts throughout the San Joaquin Valley, specifically, Fresno, Tulare, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, and Merced counties. We are interested in Valley-wide outreach so that we might identify bright spots and communities that are already beginning to coordinate, align, and mutually support the educational success of children living in poverty. In future funding rounds, we will likely deepen our partnership with specific communities based on this first round of grants.
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2012 High Impact Informational Handout (394 KB)
Click here to reference some of the research documents the High Impact Advisory Committee studied while developing the 2012 Grant Guidelines.
High Impact Advisory Committee
2012 High Impact Grantees
Community Services Employment Training, Inc.: $150,000 to expand its Families Improving Education program, which will increase the number of children reclassified from English Language Learners to English Language Proficient. This is a critical step in the school system to ensure that children are offered the courses they need to be ready for college. Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno County: $150,000 to work collaboratively with the Parent Institute for Quality Education and Reading and Beyond to expand their focus to children 0-4, their parents, and student success by the end of third grade. Reading and Beyond: $150,000 for Fresno Promise Neighborhoods. Inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City, Fresno Promise Neighborhoods is focusing on the Lowell neighborhood in central Fresno, where it will create a seamless support system for all children from birth to college and career. The grant from FRF will focus on children 0-8 and their families. Californians for Pesticide Reform: $75,000 to connect environmental health and justice groups with educational groups and agencies to make the connection between student success, environmental health hazards, and educate teachers and parents about health risks. Woodlake Family Resource Center: $75,000 to develop a shared community agenda for student success by the end of the third grade. Currently, partners include local health clinics and Woodlake Unified School District.