Cabrillo Education Foundation

“The board is working on a written whistleblower policy and expects to complete this in 2017. The board is working on a written policy for document retention and destruction and expects to complete this in 2017.”

“The treasurer and executive director review the draft form 990 in detail. Once they approve the draft, a draft 990 is provided to all board members for review.”

“Directors are monitored annually for conflict of interest.”

“Human resource committee meets at least annually and conducts a performance and compensation review of the executive director.”

“Governing documents are made available to the public upon request.”

“Executive director is a non-voting member of the executive board.”

“Mission: we champion success for coastside public school students. Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. It is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes and can make "big impacts" for student success. In collaboration with coastside school districts, cef identifies clear goals, strategies, and resources required for each initiative to achieve results. There are several major themes for cef basic grant making at this time: - literacy (k-3) - college and career readiness (avid 6th - 12th grades, computer science and science) - learning and enrichment (innovation grants) grants in these areas have funded and promoted teacher professional development and informational libraries that significantly increase our students' reading proficiency by the end of third grade. Cef has also been able to expand the outcome based college and career readiness program (avid) from 6th through 12th grade. Cef leverages the power of its annual endowment distribution to add new programs such as its innovation grants to both cusd faculty and students. These grants seek to identify and support teacher and student innovations that can be gamechangers and potentially taken to scale.”

“To learn to read proficiently by the end of third grade so that they can then read to learn. Approximately 2 million in early learning/literacy funds have been brought into our community due to cef advocacy.”

“- cef has been building upon its investment in early reading development through providing "targeted" reading materials across the k-5 grade level range as part of the classrooms' libraries. Approximately 95% of students (1500) in the school district increased at least one reading level in the past year.”

“Designing and funding computer science programs for elementary through high school to introduce computer science concepts and fundamentals.”

“Coastside futures: in 2016, cef in collaboration with the cabrillo unified school district, the la honda pescadero unified school district and the coastside promise launched the coastside futures effort. This new coastside futures initiative now being taken to scale provides critical supports to students along the pathway from pre k-college to insure college & career readiness and completion. Cef has seed funded this multimillion dollar pre-k through college initiative with its advocacy and cash match for the big lift early learning grant, k-3 literacy programs, the expansion of the avid college readiness program from 6th-12th grades and now college scholarships. This coastside futures pre-k through college initiative is a collective impact effort, a collaboration that allows expertise and funds to be leveraged to have the greatest impact on our coastside students' success. White house recognition: the president and executive director of cef were both invited to the white house in october, 2016 to share their thoughts on college affordability issues due to their coastside futures efforts.”