SEPTEMBER 2011 GRANTEES
A Home Within
2500 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
www.ahomewithin.org
Grant Amount $49,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To translate and culturally tune the Fostering Transitions cards, curriculum and website for Spanish-speaking and LGBTQ audiences.
Adoption and Foster Care Mentoring
727 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
www.afcmentoring.org
Grant Amount $205,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To provide youth in foster care, including those who are LGBT, with a strong support system and committed mentoring connections as they work through difficult transitions.
Aspiranet
400 Oyster Point Boulevard
Suite 501
South San Francisco, CA 94080
www.aspiranet.org
Grant Amount $197,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To expand the use of the Transition Framework beyond the six Central Valley locations which used the framework during the last grant period.
Baltimore’s Safe and Sound Campaign
2 East Read Street, 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.safeandsound.org
Grant Amount: $96,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To fully integrate the Transition Framework into the Campaign’s effort to engage foster care youth in creating and living in an Opportunity Neighborhood that enables safe, healthy and productive growth into adulthood.
Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution
7315 Hanover Parkway, Suite C
Greenbelt, MD 20770
www.natlctr4adr.org
Grant Amount: $41,000 (6 months)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To underwrite the costs for room, board and travel for an additional 20-25 participants to attend the Eighth Annual Learning Exchange of AFF Grantees, which took place on August 21-23, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. The conference was coordinated and administered by the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Family Alternatives
1089 SE 10th Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55414
www.familyalternatives.org
Grant Amount: $419,000
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To incorporate the Transition Framework into Family Alternatives’ model of youth empowerment, addressing their trauma and loss and emphasizing the primacy of relationships.
Forestdale, Inc.
67-35 112th Street
Forest Hills, NY 11375
www.forestdaleinc.org
Grant Amount: $94,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: “Prepare to Launch” will equip youth in foster care and their parent, as well as social workers, with insight into the Transition Framework through training and the arts.
Foster Pride
41 Boulevard
Pelham, NY 10803
www.fosterpride.org
Good Shepherd Services
305 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
www.goodshepherds.org
Grant Amount: $56,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To develop a visual literacy-based curriculum explicitly based upon the Transition Framework that will consist of active and interactive activities exploring transitions through guided discussion about works of art and art-making activities.
The Mockingbird Society
2100 24th Avenue South, Suite 240
Seattle, WA 98144
www.mockingbirdsociety.org
Grant Amount: 100,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To continue incorporating the Transition Framework into the Mockingbird Youth Network curriculum.
New Transitions, Inc.
698 Cheyanne Boulevard
Madison, TN 37115-4288
www.newtransitions.org
Grant Amount: $88,000
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To allow New Transitions to: (1) expand the number of aged-out foster youth served in the new program that provides housing in an intentional community; (2) use the Transitions Framework as a primary building block or its supportive services; and (3) provide Transitions Coaches for each Circle of youth.
On the Move
780 Lincoln Avenue
Napa, CA 94558
www.onthemovebayarea.org
Grant Amount: $26,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To develop a youth-led LGBT program at V.O.I.C.E.S. in Napa County, California.
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
www.stthomas.edu
Grant Amount: $153,000 (3 years)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To examine the long-term impact of Transition Framework training on stability, social support, employment, education, and family relationships for older youth in foster care at Family Alternatives (see Family Alternatives’ September 2011 grant description).
Walden Family Services
6150 Mission Gorge Road, Suite 210
San Diego, CA 92120
www.waldenfamily.org
Grant Amount: $62,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To reinforce the Transitions Framework into the agency’s organizational practices with employees, in direct care services to foster youth and emancipated foster youth and to introduce the framework to community partners.
Youth Business Initiative
515 M. Street SE, Suite 217
Washington, DC 20003
www.ybiprograms.org
Grant Amount: $170,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To continue to incorporate the Transition Framework into the organization’s three main projects (YBI Summer Institute, Alumni Ambassador Program and Transition Ease) and to create a paid fellowship for program alumni to provide leadership in these programs as well as to train adults in the Transition Framework.
Youth Communication New York Center, Inc.
224 West 29th Street, Second Floor
New York, NY 10001
www.youthcomm.org
Grant Amount: $24,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To increase the number of agency staff who use the Real Transitions book/curriculum and to help them use it more productively with young people.
YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolis
30 S. Ninth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
www.ymcatwincities.org
Grant Amount: $298,000 (3 years)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To provide continued support to the 24-Seven Transitions Project as it strengthens and expands outreach-based services to foster care youth preparing for emancipation.
Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution
7315 Hanover Parkway, Suite C
Greenbelt, MD 20770
www.natlctr4adr.org
Grant Amount: $41,000 (6 months)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To underwrite the costs for room, board and travel for an additional 20-25 participants to attend the Eighth Annual Learning Exchange of AFF Grantees, which took place on August 21-23, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. The conference was coordinated and administered by the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
330 Seventh Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10001
www.domesticworkers.org
Grant Amount: $115,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To support the national Caring Across Generations Campaign, including local Care Councils and Congresses where diverse stakeholders will share their stories, build trust, and begin to act on the Care Crisis.
Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
510 S. Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78704
www.criminaljusticecoalition.org
Grant Amount: $110,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: September 2011
Purpose of Grant: To continue to engage members of the immigrant and African American community to share their common histories and struggles, build leadership capacity, and address shared community needs.