Stakeholders have also been able to generate over $800,000 in investments for the new family justice center, including a $300,000 grant commitment from The California Endowment.

The Glen Price Group is providing support for the strategic planning and fund development work for the planned Family Justice Center.

Participants Interview Each Other at Family Justice Center Planning Kickoff

The Glen Price Group has been supporting the work of the Glide Foundation for over five years. We were delighted to learn of the recent decision of First 5 San Francisco, the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and their Families, and the San Francisco Human Service Agency to recommend funding for the Glide Foundation’s Family Resource Center serving residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

United States Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis recently announced a grant of up to $1.1 million from the US Department of Labor for the City of Richmond’s outstanding Youthbuild program.

This grant represents part of approximately $114 million in funding to 183 community groups to provide education and training to young people across the United States. The awards include approximately $47 million allocated to the YouthBuild program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Richmond’s YouthBuild programs provide job training and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Program participants, ages 16- 24, help construct and rehabilitate affordable housing in their own neighborhoods. Youth participating in Richmond’s YouthBuild program split their time between the construction site and the classroom, where they earn their GED or high school diploma and prepare for college and other postsecondary training opportunities. YouthBuild includes significant support systems, such as mentoring, follow-up education, employment, and personal counseling services; and participation in community service and civic engagement. The Glen Price Group was proud to be a part of the proposal development effort that resulted in this grant support.

The San Leandro Unified School District has learned that the City’s two high schools, San Leandro High and Lincoln High, will receive a total of $2.3 million in funding over a period of five years from the California Department of Education to develop innovative after school programming for their students.  These grants are a result of the submission of a successful 21^st Century Community Learning Center proposal by the district, with the active assistance of the Glen Price Group, supported by the Bay Area Partnership. 

 Programs include: tutoring in math and English to help students prepare for the California High School Exit Exam; intensive mentoring for at-risk young men; career technical education in law, the health sciences and industrial arts; a peer health education program for young women; and provisions for access for students with special needs.

Over the past eight years, the Glen Price Group has collaborated with the Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth, an outstanding education advocacy and support organization, to help local school districts develop 21 Century Community Learning Center Proposals.  The result has been over $67 million dollars in funding for after school programs serving students and families in priority communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Congratulations to the San Leandro Unified School District for their successful application in one of the most competitive 21^st Century funding cycles in recent memory!

Charlene Thornton, special agent in charge of the San Francisco office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented the 2008 Director’s Community Leadership Award to the RichmondBUILD Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Skills & Solar Installation Training program. Check out a great video describing RichmondBUILD’s innovative approach to violence prevention, job development, and training.

Secretary of Labor Visit’s Glide Youthbuild Program

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis visited the Glide Foundation’s highly-recognized Youthbuild program during a recent visit to San Francisco. Check out the the KTVU news coverage of her visit.

Congratulations to both Glide and RichmondBUILD, two outstanding programs making a tremendous difference for Bay Area youth and job seekers.

The City of Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety has learned that it will receive a grant of $400,000 from the Gang Reduction, Intervention, and Prevention initiative (CalGRIP) of the California Office of Emergency Services.  The announcement was made by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at a press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 26, 2009.

The CalGRIP initiative was introduced by the Governor in May of 2007 to confront the dramatic increase in gangs across the state and their proliferation in suburban and rural areas.  With assistance from the Glen Price Group, City departments and Richmond community organizations applied for and were awarded a total of $900,000 in grants during the first CalGRIP funding cycle.  The 2009 award is part of a total of $9.2 million in competitive grants that were awarded to 17 cities and 13 community-based organizations across the state in areas with heavy concentrations of gangs.

The 2009 CalGRIP proposal builds on the previous success of the Richmond Community Wellness Collaborative (RCWC), a partnership between the City of Richmond, community-based organizations, and Contra Costa County, by adding new project partners and expanding job readiness and training services to a broader population of individuals in Richmond and unincorporated North Richmond.  Office of Neighborhood Safety Director Devone Boggan has also expressed his excitement about the opportunity to work with the California Wellness Foundation, the California Endowment, and Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region: Community Benefits Program, who have all committed to technical assistance in this cycle of funding. The Glen Price Group was delighted to be a part of this proposal development effort. 

In January 2009, CARE and WWF began implementing a systematic effort to build new joint capacity through the development of a strategic alliance, building upon lessons learned and the foundation created by previous collaborative efforts.

To further this work, representatives of the two organizations met in Maputo, Mozambique from the 23-26 of February 2009 with the following purpose: Initiate creation of an overarching, bold new vision for conservation and development and an initial action plan for the CARE-WWF Strategic Alliance.

This workshop builds on the agreement made between CARE and WWF to develop an important new initiative in East and Southern Africa. The initiative will address escalating threats to landscapes and to the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. A starting point for the alliance’s work is the understanding that while past actions have yielded significant benefits, they have not kept pace with or matched the scale of these growing threats or the breadth of potential opportunities.

The workshop successfully produced a draft vision, criteria for selecting geographies/issues for future work, identified a specific geography for initial analysis work, developed a work plan for the initial analysis, conceptualized a framework for a longer-term analysis project, and convened a Creative Ideas Laboratory which articulated a number of conceptual possibilities for Alliance programs/initiatives that could yield significant impact and exposure

Working together with the WWF/CARE Team, the Glen Price Group was delighted to design, facilitate, and document the Maputo workshop. We’ll be working with the team over the course of the next year to support the development of this strategic alliance and we’re looking forward to great things!

Workshop Participants Take a Break for a Group Shot!

A highlight of the event was the recognition of Glen Price as 2009 “Champion Extraordinaire.” Glen, together with the entire Glen Price Group, is passionately committed to the mission of the Alameda County Justice Center. The recognition of Glen’s contributions to the Center, and the Glen Price Group’s continuing involvement in the growth and success of ACFJC, is sincerely appreciated. Glen, and the staff and Associates of the Glen Price Group look forward to continuing our involvement with this highly effective and comprehensive service delivery program, helping family violence victims find safety, help, and hope for their future.