2004 Grants
Last Updated: November 15, 2006
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All Saints’ All Day Child Care Center, MD
for a 15-passenger school bus to transport pre-schoolers, as well as school-age
children, participating in field trips and athletic programs, $30,000
Anacostia Coordinating Council, DC
to support the Ballou Senior High School Marching Band in the
national Home Depot High School Band competition in Carson, CA, $5,000
Capital
City Public Charter School, DC
for a capital campaign to convert a church at 15th and Irving Streets,
NW, to a permanent home for the school, $50,000
Center City Consortium,
DC
for capital improvements to inner-city Catholic elementary schools (second
payment of a three-year pledge made in 2003 totaling $300,000), $100,000
The
Child & Family Network Centers (VPP), VA
for organizational capacity building
in collaboration with Venture Philanthropy Partners (second and final payment
of a two-year pledge made in 2002 totaling $65,000), $25,000
DC College Access
Program, DC
to support efforts to encourage and enable more DC public high school
students to enroll in and graduate from college (fourth payment of a
five-year pledge made in 2001 totaling $1.5 million), $300,000
Dupont
Circle Citizens Association, dba Ross Elementary School Playground, DC
for a new playground for students at the school, as well as neighborhood
children, $25,000
Friendship Public Charter School, DC
for start-up costs of the Early College initiative at Friendship
Edison Collegiate Academy, $50,000
The Grafton School, VA
for capital improvements to the school and group homes serving 40 youth
(ages 6-21) with serious mental and physical disabilities, $20,000
Heads
Up (VPP), DC
for organizational capacity building in collaboration with Venture
Philanthropy Partners (third and final payment of a three-year pledge
made in 2002 totaling $70,000), $20,000
Higher Achievement Program,
DC
to purchase and renovate a 4,000 square-foot rowhouse
for its administrative headquarters, $80,000
Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund, DC
to establish the Hoop Dreams Alumni Community Network, $25,000
Hopkins
House, VA
for instruments required to launch a music education program for preschool
students in partnership with the Mount Vernon Orchestra, $5,000
The Ivymount
School, MD
to support technology use across all phases of instruction, evaluation,
and staff training, $40,000
Thurgood Marshall Academy, DC
for furniture, furnishings, and equipment at a new permanent facility
located at 242 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE, $50,000
Mentors, DC
for a pilot mentoring partnership with McKinley Technical High School,
$20,000
Multicultural Career Intern Program, dba Columbia Heights Educational
Campus, DC
to support the public-private partnership for new facilities for Lincoln
and Bell Multicultural schools (third and final payment of a three-year
pledge made in 2002 totaling $225,000), $75,000
Northern Virginia Family
Service, VA
to support the construction of the Georgetown South Community Center,
which will house an Early Head Start Child Development Center,
$50,000
Retired Scientists, Engineers & Technicians,
DC
for equipment needed by volunteers for their classroom experiments, $8,000
Southeast
Children’s Fund, DC
to train 15 adults as early childhood educators, with the capacity
to receive the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential,
$33,000
Spanish Education Development Center, DC
to support the bilingual preschool/daycare program, $35,000
St. Coletta
of Greater Washington, VA
to build a new facility for mentally retarded and autistic children and
young adults in Washington, DC (first payment of a two-year pledge made
in 2002 totaling $150,000), $75,000
Teach For America, DC
to recruit, select, train and support corps members to teach in DC public
and public charter schools, $20,000
Turning the Page, DC
to support efforts to empower DC families to become more effective educators
of their children, while simultaneously increasing the capacity of the
school community to deliver quality education, $15,000
Washington Jesuit
Academy, DC
to renovate/upgrade the recently purchased building that will serve as
the permanent home of a middle school for boys, $50,000
Washington Metropolitan
Scholars, DC
for operating costs of a college scholarship program for exceptional
Black students graduating from DC metro area high schools (first payment
of a two-year pledge made in 2004 totaling $100,000), $50,000