for policy analysis and public education around the need for more and better-directed funding for early childhood programs and services in California

for general operating support

for the development of a whitepaper that highlights the value of energy data access in support of energy efficiency and clean energy goals

to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons

to support convening and collaboration among several national home visiting models

to educate and engage business and military leaders as champions for early mathematics education and to build support for home visiting.

to enhance early mathematics education in Redwood City School District (RCSD) by providing professional development to pre-K-3 teachers

to support Silicon Valley Gives

to provide bridge funding for the Earth Journalism Scholars Program

for the efforts of Educators for Fair Consideration to increase college access for undocumented youth through the Invest in the Dream matching scholarship program, and core operating support for its outreach and legal work with undocumented youth.

to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

for the dissemination of the 2014 State of Preschool Yearbook and for general support

for technical assistance on implementation of family engagement practices to federally-funded Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grantees in California

to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in East San Jose

for (1) full tuition fellowships to two, second-year students per year, and (2) a stipend to each fellow per year to provide support to Daily Cal staff

for general support for San Jose Children’s Musical Theater

to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments

for general support of the Family Engagement Institute at Foothill College, including Stretch to Kindergarten

to support the construction of a building that will house an Educare early learning center, family support services, and a professional development institute for early childhood educators

to support a series of meetings among six national home visiting models to create a shared vision for the field

for general support for Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

for analytical thought leadership in association with the Environmental Protection Agency’s rulemaking of existing power plants under the Clean Air Act.

to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it

for general operating support

to support the Families and Media Project, which conducts research, communications, and convenings on the intersection between digital media, family engagement, and child learning

to develop a new Transitional Kindergarten (TK) curriculum and pilot the program in five TK classrooms in the Mountain View Whisman School District during the 2014-15 school year

to support family engagement in the Hospital Education Advocacy Liaison Program

to expand educational and career opportunities for undocumented youth

to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz)

to communicate the science and impacts of climate change to millions of viewers through the weathercast

for a conference on the early care and education of dual language learners

for the efforts of Educators for Fair Consideration to increase college access for undocumented youth through the Invest in the Dream matching scholarship program

to integrate support for early mathematics into a parent engagement program

for general operating support to San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum

for general support for TheatreWorks

to support the construction and installation of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) blue channel instrument on the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea

to engage states in building comprehensive state policies to strengthen learning and development from birth through third grade

for core support to the Harvard Family Research Project for its work to transform family engagement in early childhood education

to collect data on Tulsa Pre-K students’ academic and social skills, social capital, attitudes towards risky behavior, and mediators such as school quality, mobility and family engagement through 8th grade

for the development and evaluation of a tablet-based interactive mathematics application for young children, their teachers, and their parents

for general operating support to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties

to 1) establish the SPEER Commission on Energy Efficiency Policy; and 2) establish the SPEER Institute

to develop thin-film superconducting cavities that will be coupled with squeezed-vacuum state receivers in an experimental infrastructure to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz)

to evaluate and create a manual and toolkit to implement the Stanford-UCLA pre-K through 3rd grade professional development program

to facilitate a learning community among Family Engagement Impact project grantees, with a focus on organizational capacity, systems integration, and sustainability

for general operating support to the California Academy of Science

for general support for the San Francisco Symphony

for the Sustainable FERC Project’s work on transmission planning and centralized electricity market reform across the U.S.

to evaluate San Mateo County Office of Education’s Early Learning Mathematics Initiative

to augment early childhood-focused ratings and reviews on family- and teacher-focused websites