FOCUS AREA:
Health & Wellness
Project Description:
Five nonprofits in Contra Costa County will work together to create a “heat map” to identify communities that lack food access, learn where the services overlap, and determine the most efficient way to resolve gaps in food distribution. This map will inform how the agencies work together to serve food insecure people.
FOCUS AREA:
Family
Project Description:
In response to cuts in government funding, JF&CS is creating a program to serve newly-arriving refugees. Among services provided, the volunteers will help with housing, school registration, government benefit registration, navigating the US financial system, job placement, and treatment for psychological/medical issues.
FOCUS AREA:
Education
Project Description:
The program’s goal is to teach survivors of domestic abuse how to organize a household, find employment, open/manage checking accounts, etc. Financial abuse, which isolates the victims, and keeps them dependent on the abusers, occurs in 99% of domestic abuse.
FOCUS AREA:
Education
Project Description:
Building on a successful program that trains underserved Black, LatinX and female high school juniors and seniors in biotechnology, BP proposes to provide similar training and support services in robotics to Berkeley high students.
FOCUS AREA:
Education
Project Description:
JAL is the only pro bono law firm that serves survivors of human trafficking. They propose to start a “pro bono academy” to train lawyers about California’s vacatur laws that allow felony records of trafficked persons, forced to commit crimes, to be expunged.
FOCUS AREA:
Health & Wellness
Project Description:
Serves the underserved food insecure community. They propose a Food Rescue Program, that will comply with a new law requiring 30% of all food purveyors to redistribute unused food deploying a “uber-eats” type application.
IMPACT GRANT:
$100,000
FOCUS AREA:
Education
Project Description:
Their grant request is to fund the Amazing Math & Science Explorations (AMASE) program for K – 5 Educators in Alameda and West CC Counties. They will develop grade appropriate Math & Science Curriculum working with STEM experts.
community GRANT:
$35,000
FOCUS AREA:
Health & Wellness
Project Description:
Their grant request is to provide an additional day of free dental clinic operations for low income residents in East Contra Costa County.
Dentists on Wheels Executive Summary
One time community grant:
$25,000
FOCUS AREA:
Health & Wellness
Project Description:
Their grant request is to fund a year of “Breakfast Bags” for highly vulnerable seniors in East Contra Costa County. This is a pilot program, which augments their standard dinner meals with additional food to sustain vulnerable seniors.
Aspire Education
Impact grant:
$100,000
Focus Area:
Education
Details:
Aspire Education, was established in 2005. Since then, it has gathered a small community of educators and tutors whose expertise and emotional intelligence has empowered East Bay students with the skills to become independent, active learners. Aspire adds to its impact by inviting former students to be trained in leadership and communication skills with the goal of mentoring younger students in literacy through their flagship program Community Reading Buddies (CRB). The grant from Impact100 East Bay will triple the number of students served in this unique program from 400 (200 mentors and 200 young readers) to 1200 in 2022.
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
COMMUNITY GRANT:
$25,000
Focus Area:
Education
Details:
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center will use its grant to expand support of existing and new business owners seeking to improve the use of technology (on-line websites, payment technology, etc.) to assist them to expand and rebuild their operations during and post COVID. They will also serve un-and under-employed persons seeking opportunities of entrepreneurship to rebuild their livelihoods through their center in Richmond (serving Contra Costa and Alameda Counties). Their clients are 89% lower income, 78% women and 78% people of color.
Covenant House of California
IMPact GRANT:
$109,000
Focus Area:
Health & Wellness
Details:
Covenant House of California received a $109,000 Impact Grant to implement an on-site mental health program for youth facing homelessness at their Oakland facility, leveraging the success of a similar project in Los Angeles.
CASA of Contra Costa County
IMPACT GRANT:
$108,000
Focus Area:
Health & Wellness
Details:
Impact 100 East Bay awarded $108,000 to CASA (Count Appointed Special Advocates) of Contra Costa County for their Online/Telephone Mental Health Program for Foster Youth. As as result of the pilot they were awarded a $1,000,000 grant to expand the program.
Opportunity Junction
COMMUNITY GRANT:
$103,000
Focus Area:
Education
Details:
Impact 100 East Bay awarded $103,000 to Opportunity Junction’s “Roadmap to College” program. This program, in partnership with Los Medanos College, assists East Contra Costa “high risk” youth, ages 18-24, to earn an AA degree, learn one of many technical trades, or prepare for transfer to earn a BA/BS degree.
MISSSEY
IMPACT GRANT:
$55,000
Focus Area:
Education
Details:
Impact 100 East Bay awarded $105,000 to MISSSEY, an organization devoted to supporting and advocating for youth who are victims of sex trafficking. This “learn to work” pilot resulted in their Thrive Program which teaches trafficking survivors “life skills”.