Cabrillo Education Foundation

“The board has a written policy for document retention and destruction.”

“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.”

“The 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 serves as a student success innovation fund to launch new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education. Its endowment provides the sustainability until these initiatives are woven into the fabric of our community. Cef 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) - critical thinking skills (innovation grants) grants in these areas fund and promote teacher professional development and informational libraries that 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. More than 2 million in early learning/literacy funds have been brought into our community due to cef advocacy.”

“Professional development for our teachers through columbia university's teacher's college reading and writing program. - 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 and 3723 books were distributed. (b) avid/ science - in 2017, cef continued funding the nationally recognized avid program for 6th and 12th grade students to develop the organizational skills to be college and career ready. - approximately 2000 students benefited from faculty-directed professional development and collaboration to assist secondary science teachers in becoming models and experts in next generation science standards. - cef partnered with the school district to continue its third year in designing and funding computer science programs for elementary through high school to introduce computer science concepts and fundamentals.”

“Scholarships to low income students. 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. National, regional and local recognition: in 2017 cef became a national model presented to the national school foundation association in chicago. It also received the 2017 hmb chamber of commerce education award with formal award recognition from: u.s. Congress, the california state senate, california state legislature, san mateo board of supervisors and the city of half moon bay.”