Grants Awarded in 2011

In 2011, The Stocker Foundation Awarded 64 Grants to Various Organizations, Totaling $1,873,545.

The Stocker Foundation implemented a new education-focused competitive grants program beginning in 2011. In sum, 64 grants totaling $1,873,545 were approved. All approved grants will help lessen the reading achievement gap for under-resources prekindergarten through fifth grade public school students. The Foundation's main areas of interest are Supplemental Reading Programs; Emerging Literacy Programs; Whole School Improvement/Teacher Professional Development around Reading Literacy; and Book Distribution Programs. A limited pool of dollars was awarded to help remove barriers toward reading success ("Other Services for Students").

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826 Valencia

San Francisco County, California
$10,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of a no-cost drop-in tutoring program, providing academic support to students from the Mission District in the areas of creative writing, expository writing, and/or English as a second language

Alameda County Community Food Bank

Alameda County, California
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the Children's BackPack program, designed to alleviate hunger over the weekends when access to nutritious food is limited

Albuquerque Public Schools Education Foundation

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$80,000 Awarded

Toward the continued implementation of a summer reading intervention program at 13 elementary school sites using the Triumph Reading Program

America SCORES Cleveland

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$10,000 Awarded

Toward an afterschool health and literacy program at eight under-performing elementary schools in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Arizona's Children Association

Pima County, Arizona
$5,000 Awarded

Toward the implementation of the Start to Finish Reading Intervention Program at the Nellie B. Covert School, a Title I day school for students unable to attend a public school due to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD)

Ben Archer Health Centers

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$35,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation and expansion of a bilingual children's literacy enhancement and book distribution program

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern New Mexico

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the School-Based Mentoring program benefiting disadvantaged students at 9 Las Cruces public elementary schools

Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of SPARK (Spheres of Proud Achievement in Reading for Kids) early learning initiative

Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Cruces

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the continued implementation of Project Learn during the summer months (partial salary support for 12 part-time youth development specialists and program supplies)

Boys & Girls Clubs of Lorain County

Lorain County, Ohio
$75,000 Awarded

Toward Project Learn, a comprehensive afterschool program strategy designed to enhance literacy as well as core academic outcomes for disadvantaged students age 6-12

Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco

San Francisco County, California
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the Sunnydale Boys & Girls Club Literacy Program (individualized reading plans that address reading skill gaps) serving between 5- and 80 students annually

Children's Book Project

San Francisco County, California
$10,000 Awarded

Toward the continued distribution of new and gently-used books to thousands of economically- disadvantaged students throughout San Francisco and Alameda counties

Children's Museum Tucson

Pima County, Arizona
$7,500 Awarded

Toward the Early Learning Program (ELP), designed to teach and reinforce early reading skills; enhance school readiness; and aid parents in their roles as a child's first teacher

Community Food Bank

Pima County, Arizona
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the purchase of food for Snak Pak for Kids, a program that provides healthy food over the weekends for school-aged children during the school year, helping to remove barriers to academic and reading success

Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland (CEOGC)

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$15,225 Awarded

Toward the implementation of 9 no-cost family literacy nights during the 2011-12 school year

Friends for the Albuquerque Public Library

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$12,500 Awarded

Toward Ready-to-Read, an early childhood literacy program designed to build critical early learning skills (print motivation, phonological awareness, vocabulary building, and letter recognition) so that children enter kindergarten ready to read

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

San Francisco County, California
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the 2011 Summer Reading Program, Power Your Mind: READ, a 9-week program offered at the Main Library and 27 neighborhood branches (special outreach efforts were made in underserved neighborhoods including Portola, Visitacion Valley, Bayview, and Chinatown)

Girls Incorporated of Alameda County

Alameda County, California
$20,000 Awarded

Toward GIRLStart, an early elementary literacy program that targets girls from underserved communities and diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds

Grafton-Midview Public Library

Lorain County, Ohio
$13,820 Awarded

Toward the implementation of Kindergarten Kick-Off (no-cost literacy assessments and take-home readiness kits) and toward the 2011 Children's Summer Reading Program

Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center at Cleveland State University

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$50,000 Awarded

Toward a summer pilot program, A Library in My Home, A Library in My Neighborhood, providing students in ten of the lowest performing/highest poverty elementary schools in CMSD with books of their own and encouragement to take advantage of books and other services offered by their neighborhood public library branches

Harrison Cultural Community Centre

Lorain County, Ohio
$16,200 Awarded

Toward Summer Reading is Fun in the Sun, a 6-week program benefiting students who are most at-risk for reading failure in the Central Lorain neighborhoods

Herrick Memorial Library

Lorain County, Ohio
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the distribution of Kindergarten Readiness and Literacy Kits and toward the 2011 Children's Summer Reading Program for elementary-aged students throughout Southern Lorain County

Horizon Activities Centers

Lorain County, Ohio
$18,000 Awarded

Toward the implementation of the Reader's Theater curriculum for six weeks at four sites during summer 2011. In addition, students will receive 3 books to take home and keep and teachers will receive specialized training around the curriculum

Las Cruces Public Schools Foundation

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$50,000 Awarded

Toward the creation of a children's reading area at the newly expanded community branch library at San Andres High School

Little Lighthouse Learning Center

Lorain County, Ohio
$18,065 Awarded

Toward a 10-week literacy rich program for preschool-age students (Summer with Seuss) and school-age students (Literacy Rocks) that compliments the organization's existing summer camp curriculum

Lorain County Office on Aging

Lorain County, Ohio
$10,000 Awarded

Toward Reading Tools for Kids and Kin, an in-school tutoring program that pairs RSVP volunteers with Elyria City School students at-risk for reading failure

Lorain Public Library System

Lorain County, Ohio
$35,680 Awarded

Toward the 2011 Summer Reading Program, One World Many Stories, an incentive-based reading program that runs for nine weeks every summer

MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS

Pima County, Arizona
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the 2011 Summer Reading Buddies, a program that pairs school-aged students (Big Buddies) with preschool students (Little Buddies) for book sharing sessions and other story-related activities, twice weekly, for six weeks during the summer

Merrick House

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$10,000 Awarded

Toward the Prekindergarten Early Language Arts Program, serving disadvantaged children in the Tremont area (Creative Curriculum to teach core subjects including reading literacy)

Midview Local School District

Lorain County, Ohio
$38,405 Awarded

Toward the implementation of Wilson Fundations Reading Program in all second and third grade classrooms throughout the district

Mission Learning Center

San Francisco County, California
$10,000 Awarded

Toward ongoing afterschool tutoring program for economically-disadvantaged elementary-aged students who are reading below grade level. Program focuses on comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, word recognition, and self-motivation to improve reading ability

National Dance Institute of New Mexico

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the implementation of the Dancing to Literacy residency program at 18 partner elementary schools in Dona Ana and Bernalillo counties

Neighborhood House Alliance

Lorain County, Ohio
$50,000 Awarded

Toward the Early Learning and Kindergarten Readiness Program, serving one classroom at the the Elyria Neighborhood Childcare Center and two classrooms at the City View Child Care Center (also serving homeless children residing at Haven Homeless Shelter)

New Mexico Lions Crane Reading Foundation

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$10,000 Awarded

Toward two sessions of a summer reading camp for students attending Las Cruces' MacArthur, Alameda, and Central elementary schools

New Mexico State University Foundation

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$25,000 Awarded

Toward Literacy Through Movement, an interactive dance program designed to promote reading comprehension via kinesthetic learning at Title I elementary schools during the 2010-2011 school year

Oakland Public Library

Alameda County, California
$35,000 Awarded

Toward the implementation of the 2011 Summer Reading Program, One World, Many Stories a 9-week reading incentive program for school age students

Oberlin Early Childhood Center

Lorain County, Ohio
$16,000 Awarded

Toward the Prekindergarten Emergent Literacy Project (replacement of and purchase of books for classroom libraries; purchase of multicultural books for literacy tote bags; family literacy events; and computer hardware and software

Ohio Dance Theatre

Lorain County, Ohio
$16,850 Awarded

Toward Kids in Motion (KIM), a 28-week residency program that uses kinesthetic learning to extend student learning around core academic subjects, including reading and language arts

Opening Minds Through The Arts Inc

Pima County, Arizona
$50,000 Awarded

Towards the Arts Integration for Literacy Initiative, designed to improve student achievement by pairing OMA-trained teaching artists with classroom teachers to develop and present lesson plans that support auditory discrimination in kindergarten and language acquisition in first grade

Our Family Services

Pima County, Arizona
$20,000 Awarded

Toward AfterSchool Education & Prevention Escuelita, a broad-based program that provides students attending Mission View and Ochoa elementary schools in South Tucson with a combination of academic enrichment and prevention activities

Powerful Schools

King County, Washington
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the Sound Partners, a supplemental tutoring program for kindergarten through second grade students who are having difficulty learning essential early reading skills (one-on-one tutoring, afterschool small group, and school literacy events)

Prevent Blindness Ohio - Northeast Ohio Chapter

Lorain County, Ohio
$5,000 Awarded

Toward Star Pupils, a vision screening, education, and eyeglass distribution program benefiting economically disadvantaged preschool and elementary-aged children in Lorain and Cuyahoga counties, helping to remove barriers to academic and reading success

Project Night Night

San Francisco County, California
$12,000 Awarded

Toward the purchase of new books for the Night Night Package Essentials program

Reading Partners

Alameda County, California
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the organization's core reading tutoring program at 12 of the lowest performing elementary schools in Oakland and San Francisco unified school districts

Reading Seed Inc.

Pima County, Arizona
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the organization's signature Reading Seed Children's Literacy Program (RSCLP), that pairs a trained adult volunteer with two students for weekly in-school, 30-minute, one-on-one tutoring sessions

Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of Food for Kids, a program that helps alleviate hunger among elementary-age students over the weekends and holidays when school is not in session

Roots of American Music

Lorain County, Ohio
$8,000 Awarded

Toward Literacy through Song, an in-school literacy enrichment residency created for elementary students struggling with basic reading and language arts skills at Lorain's Garfield Elementary School during the 2011-2012 school year

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach, Inc.

Pima County, Arizona
$7,500 Awarded

Toward the continuation of Kids' Closet, a program that provides new school wardrobes to economically-disadvantaged students throughout Pima County; helping to remove barriers to academic and reading success

San Francisco Food Bank

San Francisco County, California
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the expansion of the Morning Snack Program, providing fresh fruit and other nutritious snacks to students daily during the school year; helping to remove barriers to academic and reading success

Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio

Lorain County, Ohio
$30,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the BackPack Program, providing kid-friendly nutritious food for children at-risk for hunger over the weekends and holidays during the 2010-2011 school year; helping to remove barriers to academic and reading success

Solid Ground

King County, Washington
$15,000 Awarded

Toward Reading Corps, a program that provides one-on-one and small group tutoring at 21 King County elementary schools with the highest percentages of struggling reading during the 2010-11 school year

Soul To Sole

Lorain County, Ohio
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the distribution of new athletic sneakers for economically disadvantaged elementary students throughout the Lorain and Elyria public schools; a collaborative project with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lorain County

Super Stars Literacy

Alameda County, California
$20,000 Awarded

Toward an afterschool program that builds early literacy skills, encourages potential, and reduces the risk of academic failure in later grades for economically-disadvantaged students attending Title I schools in the Oakland Unified School District

Teach for America

Lorain County, Ohio
$450,000 Awarded

A multiyear grant toward the launch of Teach for America in Northeast Ohio during the 2012-13 school year (restricted to high-need Lorain County public schools)

Team Read

King County, Washington
$50,000 Awarded

Toward core tutoring that pairs high school students with 2nd and 3rd graders who are reading below grade level and toward Reading Leaders, a program designed for students who are facing significant barriers to reading success (1st-4th grade)

The Lorain County Urban League

Lorain County, Ohio
$70,000 Awarded

Toward the expansion of the year-round Read and Rise early literacy intervention program, serving students in Lorain, Elyria, and Oberlin (staffing and instructional materials)

The Seattle Public Library Foundation

King County, Washington
$18,000 Awarded

Toward the 2011 Summer Reading Program at neighborhood branches where significant numbers of economically-disadvantaged families live and English is not the primary language spoken at home

Thomas Branigan Memorial Library

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$10,000 Awarded

Toward an early literacy pilot program for at-risk preschool children and their parents designed to increase awareness about the importance of incorporating early reading activities in the home

Tucson Festival of Books

Pima County, Arizona
$19,500 Awarded

Toward the Children's Venue at the 3rd annual festival (Lindley Lopez Literary Circus, purchase of books, and children's author's expenses)

University Circle Inc.

Lorain County, Ohio
$6,300 Awarded

Toward program enhancements related to the Early Learning Initiative (ELI), the organization's signature field trip program for preschool age students and their teachers

Voices for Education

Pima County, Arizona
$17,000 Awarded

Toward teacher professional development focused on improving K-5th grade literacy using the Critical Friends Group model in the Tucson and Sunnyside unified school districts during the 2010-11 school year

Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona

Pima County, Arizona
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of Experience Corps, an in-school reading tutoring program operating at seven area elementary schools in the Sunnyside Unified School District

W. Arthur Sewell Elementary School

Pima County, Arizona
$12,000 Awarded

Toward a library renovation project to commemorate the schools' 50th anniversary

Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio

Lorain County, Ohio
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of Arts for All (A4L) residencies at five elementary schools (fifteen 3rd grade classrooms) as well as teacher professional development workshops designed to augment student reading/literacy skill development and teacher capacity toward integrating effective arts-education strategies into the curriculum

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