Gente Organizada Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/13/2024 on 2/13/2024 Gente Organizada (Gente) is a community-led social action non-profit organization based in Pomona, CA whose mission is to organize to build intergenerational power and wellness for youth and immigrant families in Pomona. Using an asset-based approach to community organizing, Gente works to partner with communities comprised of historically underrepresented, immigrant populations to understand their rights …
Attendance Works Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/12/2024 on 2/12/2024 Attendance Works promotes equal opportunities to learn and advances student success by reducing chronic absence. It collaborates with schools, districts, states, communities, and organizations to ensure that everyone recognizes that chronic absence is a serious issue that can be addressed using a positive, problem-solving approach grounded in an understanding of educational inequities. Attendance Works is …
Parent Organization Network Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/12/2024 on 2/12/2024 The Parent Organization Network (PON) was founded with a mission to connect, empower, and mobilize parents and parent organizations across the greater Los Angeles area to improve academic outcomes and the quality of education. The network started as a joint program of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (now Asian Americans Advancing Justice | LA), …
The Center for Law and Social Policy Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/12/2024 on 2/12/2024 The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is a national, nonpartisan, anti-poverty nonprofit advancing policy solutions to improve the lives of people with low incomes. CLASP works to develop and implement federal, state, and local policies (in legislation, regulation, and on the ground) that reduce poverty, improve the lives of people with low income, …
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California, Berkeley Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/12/2024 on 2/12/2024 Housed at University of California, Berkeley, the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) provides research and analysis on the preparation, working conditions, and compensation of the early care and education workforce. It develops policy solutions and creates spaces for teaching, learning, and educator activism. CSCCE’s vision is an effective public early care …
Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 5/11/2023 on 5/11/2023 The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI) works to alleviate poverty and inequality, advance racial and gender equity, and expand economic inclusion through research, analysis, and public policy ideas.
Public Media Group of Southern California Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/28/2022 on 2/28/2022 With a mission to use the power of media for public good, Public Media Group of Southern California (PMGSC) creates, curates, and distributes content and experiences that open people’s minds, lift spirits, and connect people to each other and to the world.
California Education Partners Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/23/2022 on 2/23/2022 California Education Partners (Ed Partners) was founded in 2010 to connect administrators, principals, teachers, and families to remove unfair barriers standing in the way of student success. Ed Partners provides support for districts to tap the insight and expertise of professionals working in their systems to surface solutions to set up students to thrive.
Parent Voices Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/11/2019 on 12/11/2019 Parent Voices is a project of The California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. Parent Voices is a partnership of parents throughout California that works to improve access to child care for all families in their communities. This grant provides project support over three years for Parent Voices to build on its decades-long leadership in …