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Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund: 2019-2020 Grant Recipients
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Award Amounts
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Community Service: $
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Total Award Amount: $302,000
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Community Service ProjectsCommunity PartnersUniversity PartnersTheme & Project Type: CS: CS; NI: NI Award Amount
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2020 Vision College & Career Awareness Through 20 years of partnership with Principal Leadership Institute (PLI), BUSD has increased diversity in school leadership workforce. However, the retention of leaders of color is still a critical need. Through the support of the CCPF, PLI has developed a successful BUSD Leaders of Color Network to uplift, empower, and amplify the needs of the Network participants. In the 2020-21 school year, BUSD will build upon this foundation by adding a classified leader cohort for positions such as Admissions Director and After School Programs Coordinator and provide facilitation support to the BUSD Teachers of Color network. These expansions are part of building retention strategies for diversifying the larger BUSD workforce.Berkeley's 2020 Vision College & Career Readiness CommitteeUC Center for Educational PartnershipsEducation$20,000
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Baby Clothes for Homeless Infants in Berkeley aims to clothes newborns in need, specifically for mothers that live below 200% of the national poverty level, with quality reused baby clothing for the first year of life. Not only will the project serves at-risk babies whose parents, most often single mothers that experiences extreme challenges (e.g., homelessness, poverty, violence, and teen pregnancy), the project will support the long-term health and wellness of children. To achieve this goal, Loved Twice will provide a year’s worth of clothing for at-risk newborns packaged in the tailored “wardrobe-in-a-box” to a minimum of 150 newborns-in-need, which will be delivered to the existing partners at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Black Infant Health/The City of Berkeley and Though the Looking Glass. Loved TwiceUC Berkeley Early Childhood Education ProgramCommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$10,000
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Berkeley Black Voices Project (BBV) will develop a news and information platform in a partnership between Black residents and UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty and led by the African American/Black Professionals & Community Network and Onyx Express (LEAD Center). BBV will provide community members a platform for narrative change, addressing anti-blackness, and showcase solutions for equity. To meet this goal, BBV will train Community Fellows and campus correspondents to develop content for a mobile-friendly news platform, social media outlets, and other print, local, and alternative press outlets. Content will be published on the new platform and distributed to other local outlets. This project is on hold.African American/Black Professionals & Community Network (AABPCN)Onyx Express Lead CenterArts and Culture$15,000
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Berkeley Elementary Environmental Exploration Series (BEES) will result in meaningful climate and environmental focused student learning experiences that include science inquiry, mathematical/data analysis, communications, and student action projects to synthesize student learning at every BUSD elementary school. BEES will do so by virtually engaging more than 400 well-prepared UC Berkeley graduate students in a range of STEM fields that will support 2,500 BUSD students in learning experiences exploring environmental and climate related topics, from energy to waste to understanding the interconnectedness of organisms within ecosystems. The project addresses important equity issues and provides connections between classroom content and "real world" experiences. Project will also virtually enagage Berkeley K-8 educators in professional learning and design student action projects addressing climate and environmental issues, which will impact learning for more than 5,000 students across K-8 classrooms in BUSD.Community Resources for ScienceBASIS Steering Committee (graduate student org.)Education$10,000
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Berkeley Food Network Neighborhood Engagement Program aims to further Berkeley Food Network's (BFN) initiative to develop and implement a sustainable model for providing food to all food-insecure Berkeley residents. BFN currently sustainably serve over 1,200 unduplicated Berkeley households, or 6,000 individuals, a month. Working with Dr. Barbara Laira and UCB Public Health graduation students, BFN will identify food-insecure communities that have not yet reached because they are not already part of the programs, are immigrants (documented and undocumented), are uncomfortable using food assistance, or prefer more culturally appropriate foods. These are largely communities of color. To achieve this goal, BFN will work with Public Health graduate students to plan and expand the mobile distributions that is currently already in place. The Berkeley Food NetworkSchool of Public HealthCommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$13,500
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Berkeley Home Match Outreach and Education Initiative Berkeley Home Match (BHM) is a program that matches retired UC Berkeley faculty and staff who own homes near campus with Berkeley graduate students, post-docs and visiting scholars looking for an affordable place to live. The goal of the program is to connect graduate students and retirees for a mutually beneficial housing option, support and educate retirees to “age in place,” and to build and strengthen intergenerational relationships. This initiative will develop the components of an Outreach and Educational Resource Program that will reach 500+ employees planning for retirement and retiree homeowners to teach the value of home sharing, lowering the barriers to this option. To do so, a “Home Sharing Training Series” and workbook for homeowners with an option to participate in a Home Sharing Interest Group will be conducted virtually.Ashby VillageUC Berkeley Retirement CenterCommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$10,000
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Berkeley Technology Academy Entrepreneurship Program seeks to address the lack of economic opportunity available to low-income Berkeley youth and the chronic food insecurity faced by many South Berkeley residents. The program will be based on a model of non-profit social enterprise, providing job training and employment, as well as free community services. BTAEP will provide 10 to 12 Berkeley Technology Academy (BTA) students with the opportunity to gain job readiness skills through the development and pilot testing of their own food business. Revenue from the business will support a student-run food pantry, in partnership with Berkeley Food Network, and provide paid work at district school gardens to grow fresh produce for the pantry. The year-long program will include an in-class business, public health and food justice curriculum, and paid internship opportunities.Berkeley Technology AcademyUC Berkeley Basic Needs CenterEconomic Development$25,000
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Birds of Berkeley Festival is a one day event that celebrates the blessings of living in Berkeley with the abundance, beauty, variety, usefulness, and magic of local bird life provides. The project seeks to address the environment threats brought by climate change, worldwide extinctions, the unchecked power of multinational corporations, the assault by the federal government on a range of protective laws and policies. By expanding and invigorating the environmental movement, the festival will engage local communities who will bring new energy, resources, and vision to the field. The event will host activities such as birdhouse building, planting native plants for bird foods; bird painting/photo exhibitions; poetry, music, art & dance inspired by birds; bird games & face painting for children, making bird drawings and costumes; teaching the "e-bird" app. The event will be planned throughout the year and held in May, 2021. Golden Gate Audubon SocietyMuseum of Vertebrate ZoologyEnvironmental Stewardship$10,000
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Cal in Local Government - Summer program Every year, dozens of students intern at City of Berkeley (COB), but these students are not usually paid, the internship is not aligned with a formal school-based program, and they don’t receive support to prepare for their internship. This is an equity issue, as it limits who can afford to gain valuable public service experience. Low-income, underrepresented students of color are impacted the most negatively. In partnership with the ASUC, the Institute for Governmental Studies (IGS), COB and the Public Service Center (PSC), this grant will allow for the expansion of the current PSC public service internship and partners plan to establish a permanent summer COB internship program.City of BerkeleyAssociated Students of the University of CaliforniaEducation possibly change later$15,000
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Poetry Field Guide to Berkeley is a poetry anthology that will highlight individual neighborhoods and geographical features of Berkeley and draw attention to Berkeley's outsize place in the history of American poetry, will be published by Poetry Flash and the UC Berkeley English Department. Poetry Flash will provide editing, call for submissions (compiling poetry from approximately 100 local poets), organize of book launch/readings, and final layout. With this anthology, the project hopes to build bridges between Berkeley citizens and neighborhoods, and forge greater links between them and the University.Poetry FlashEnglish DepartmentArts and Culture$5,000
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Smiles for Miles The Berkeley Free Clinic is a reputed non-profit clinic that provides free lifelong services to people over the age of eighteen in underserved communities. Due to this restriction, there unfortunately is a large population of local children to whom we cannot provide dental services. Given the importance of preventative care as a public health policy, the Smiles for Miles project is aimed at addressing this need. The project will focus on providing a comprehensive education through empathetic and passionate volunteers from partners at MEDLIFE, through a curriculum validated by research. Additionally, the project will provide dental cleanings by professionals at the clinic who are driven by their passion for serving the underrepresented communities. All implementation of the project will be conducted under public health guidelines and the clinic has aqcuired two medical-grade air filtration units. Smiles for Miles are committed to instating good hygiene practices and a comprehensive oral health education to help curb the prevalence of oral disease in the whole family.Berkeley Free ClinicUC Berkeley MEDLIFECommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$10,000
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SNAPkids at Berkeley, also known as the Special Needs Aquatic Program, is a program located at the Downtown Berkeley YMCA that promotes physical wellness, exercise, socialization, and overall growth for kids with physical and developmental disabilities. SNAPkids gives children with disabilities a place for their lights to shine brightly, to be respected and included, to exercise, to play and have fun. However, due to the pandemic, all activities have transitioned to online exercise classes for the children. In addition, a new program – pairing student volunteers with special children via online visits to keep connections strong – has been implemented. With concerns for safety and health particularly in vulnerable population of children, the project plan to continue the online programming, and hopefully returning to the pool in the spring.Snapkids - Special Needs Aquatic ProgramSnapkids at BerkeleyCommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$20,000
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Spanish GED Preparation Courses is a 6-week intensive course prepares students with basic education for the current GED/HiSet test areas: Reasoning through Language Arts (RLA), Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics. The program aims to help adults meet employers’ hiring criteria, achieve self-sufficiency, and contribute to their community’s growth. Courses are conducted in Spanish and hosted on Saturday mornings. The ultimate goal is to assist low-income Spanish speaking individuals in acquiring the skills needs to pass the GED/HiSet exam and qualify for higher paying jobs, better employment opportunities and to pursue higher education. The program plans to serve a minimum of 35 unduplicated individuals under this grant. With the pandemic, virtual live and pre-recorded instructions, virtual tailored tutoring for small cohorts, virtual test registration assistance, and limited office hours for conducting the GED test with students who do not have the computer and tools needed at home to administer the test will all be provided. The Multicultural Institue (MI)UCB Chicanx/Latinx Student Development CenterEconomic Development$15,000
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STEM/EOP Tutoring for Berkeley High "At-Promise" Youth in the Biotech Partners Biotech Academy aims to provide culturally relevant one-on-one and small group tutoring for the low-income 11th and 12th graders, mostly youth-of-color, enrolled in our Berkeley High School Biotech Academy program. As have done in the 2019-20 year, BP will recruit and train up to seven Junior or Senior students from the EOP (2-3 working at a given time) to provide math and science tutoring. Tutoring will take place three days weekly on-site on Berkeley High campus.Biotech PartnersEducational Opportunity ProgramEducation$10,000
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Sustaining Leaders of Color Towards Berkeley's 2020 Vision Through 20 years of partnership with Principal Leadership Institute (PLI), Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) has increased diversity in the school leadership workforce. However, the retention of leaders of color is still a critical need in the fulfillment of the 2020 vision. Through the support of the the fund, PLI has developed a very successful BUSD Leaders of Color Network to uplift, empower, and amplify the needs of the Network participants. In the 20-21 school year, BUSD would like to build upon this strong foundation by adding a classified leader cohort for positions such as Admissions Director and After School Programs Coordinator. In addition, BUSD would like PLI to provide facilitation support to the
teacher leaders who organize the BUSD Teachers of Color network. In conjunction with the continuance of the existing Network, these expansions will create a system of retention strategies for diversifying the larger BUSD workforce. All activites will be held virtually. 		Berkeley Unified School DistrictPrincipal Leadership Institute, Graduate School of EducationEducation$14,000
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Towards a Safe Berkeley will develop a series of 20-minute videos focusing on health, safety and disaster preparedness and mitigation for the Berkeley and UC communities. This project is uniquely flexible to adapt to the evolving crises the Berkeley community is facing. Berkeley Community Media will work with campus and community partners to identify priority safety issues. Each episode will address a different safety concern that could include aspects of COVID-19, physical and mental health, wildfire/smoke, earthquake and other disaster mitigation, pedestrian and traffic safety as well as preparedness for crowd demonstrations and active shooter incidents. The programs will include information for under-served communities and will be subtitled in English and Spanish to improve accessibility and participation.Berkeley Community MediaDepartment of Environment, Health & SafetyCommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$10,000
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Transition Berkeley Repair Café in the past has hosted event with Cal Zero Waste, on November 2, 2019, achieved repair rates of between 65-86%. The project believes if more people had the skills to repaire, repare rates would be even higher; thus, this year, Transition Berkeley Repair Café aims to organize a series of trainings, where students can learn introductory fixing skills and how to host a community repair event. Partners are Cal students from Engineers for a Sustainable World and students from Berkeley Technology Academy and Independent Studies. Transition Berkeley’s community of repair experts will act as mentors, helping students gain analytical and technical skills to repair many of the types of items, including electronics, appliances, clothing, bicycles, and furnitrue.
Transition BerkeleyEngineers for a Sustainable WorldEnvironmental Stewardship$10,000
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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) trains UC Berkeley students to become IRS-certified tax preparers who offer free tax filing services to low-income members of the community. Student preparers assist those who may not file—due to language barriers, citizenship concerns, or other basic needs—claim the refunds that they are entitled to. Last year, 65 volunteers helped to claim $2.6 million in refunds by committing 2,738 service hours at tax preparation sites in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco. The project intends to expand the current program by supporting more volunteers and developing an advanced curriculum to meet the growing need for certified tax preparers in the Berkeley community. Cooperative Center Federal Credit UnionUC Berkeley Public Service CenterEconomic Development$5,000
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Waterside Workshops Youth Boating at the Berkeley Marina and SF Bay is a after school and summer program for youth to learn to sail, paddle, and windsurf. This project will address the need to provide underserved youth with outdoor recreation to improve their health and well-being. In addition to water activities, the project will educate youth on our local coastal ecosystem and how protecting waterways benefits the environment and the community. Due to the pandemic, the program has expanded to a 7-day per week schedule. In addition, the program is limiting the total number of youth interns to 12 to ensure adequate social distancing (will increase as health guide lines permits), but these interns will receive much more individual attention and job training. Waterside WorkshopsCal AdventuresCommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$17,500
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Neighborhood Improvement ProjectsCommunity PartnersUniversity PartnersTheme & Project Type Award Amount
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Berkeley Bee City Initiative will address the current drastic decline in local bee and other pollinator populations. With the loss of their native habitat and the use of pesticides (especially neonicotinoids), the issue has pushed bees to a state of crisis; thus, this project aims to address the problem as well as raise public awareness through serving areas of Berkeley that have the least amount of green space per-capita due to historical zoning that was often racially biased. The Berkeley Bee City USA Initiative will meet this goal by holding three educational workshops/presentations and installing/maintaining four native pollinator gardens in the city; thereby, raising public awareness about the issue. Transition BerkeleyCalPIRG StudentEnvironmental Stewardship$15,000
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Chavez Park Native Plant Communities Restoration Cesar Chavez Park features a historic native plant garden, the first ever installed on a California coastal landfill. Created in the early 1980s, the planting today requires restoration and renovation. The project seeks to obtain the services of landscape architects and environmental consultants to perform an assessment of resources and conditions, and to draw up a conceptual proposal for restoration and management of this keystone area. The assessment and proposal will form the basis to seek additional funding to undertake the required landscaping and gardening work in a subsequent stage of the project. This project is on hold.Chavez Park ConservancyCollege of Environmental DesignEnvironmental Stewardship$5,000
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Development of Supportive Housing at People's Park will help address the homeless crisis by creating permanent, safe, affordable housing for low-income households, and formerly homeless households. At this stage, the partnership between Capital Strategies and Resources for Community Development (RCD) is launching the pre-development work ahead of building supportive housing as a critical component of the People’s Park redevelopment that also includes student housing and open space. CCPF funds will help with a number of planning, feasibility and peer review aspects of this work as well as strengthening key partnerships during this critical phase of the development.Resources for Community Development (RCD)UC Berkeley Capital StrategiesCommunity Safety, Public Health and Wellness$10,000
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Moving South Berkeley Forward: Youth Farming on the Santa Fe Right of Way is a grassroots community response to address the environmental and social justice inequities experienced by South Berkeley’s low and median income families of color. Through a collaborative environmental project that aims to make designated green space (previously owned by Santa Fe Railroad) becomes accessible to the community, the project hopes to engage black and brown Berkeley High Students in building leadership growth, developing resiliency, attaining academic success, and gain significant roles in the evolving green economy for students. The project is designed to provide underrepresented students access to environmental science and social justice topics while establishing a safe and welcoming place for the South Berkeley community to take control over their own health. The goal will be achieved through virtual community outreach and soil sampling (on hold until California Department of Public Health guidelines permits). In addition, participants will also recieve trainings on Coronavirus awareness. Berkeley Community Gardening CollaborativeEnvironmental Science, Policy & Management Department, UC BerkeleyEducation$5,000
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Poetry Garden Revitalization The Poetry Garden at Berkeley Arts Magnet elementary school is a beloved community space and has potential to be an inspirational and educational retreat for children and adults in the heart of Berkeley. The project for revitalization and enagement seeks to encompass both poetry programming for students at the school and landscape rehabilitation in the garden for all to enjoy. Left Margin LIT will plan a poetry and garden curriculum and lead a 6-week class on weekend afternoons in spring 2021, free to BAM students. The project will conclude with a newly-landscaped garden ripe for contemplation and creativity. The hope at the end is the continued use of the garden—by teachers especially—for learning purposes.Left Margin LITAfrican American Studies DepartmentArts and Culture$12,000
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Total Neighborhood Improvement Funded: $ 47,000
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Total Funded: $ 302,000
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