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.”

“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, science, social and emotional well being) - 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.”

“Cef accomplishments 2019 literacy - big lift: cabrillo education foundation is a collaborative partner in the cabrillo unified school district working to address the challenges with early literacy. Cef co-wrote the big lift grant, which is funded by the white house's social innovation fund and san mateo county's measure a, with cusd and ccp. Cef also provided the initial community cash match for this grant and continued to do so in 2018. The silicon valley community foundation, google, the coastside children's program among many others continue to partner with cef and the cabrillo unified school district (cusd) to address literacy at the earliest levels. More than 2 million in early learning/literacy funds have been brought into our community due to cef advocacy. Reading proficiency/early literacy: building upon the big lift pre-k literacy efforts, cef funded k-3 programs with the goal of 80% of our students reading proficiently by the end of third grade. Funded programs include the reader's workshop that provides high quality professional development for our teachers through columbia university's teacher's college reading and writing program, as well as "targeted" reading materials across the k-5 grade level range as part of the classrooms' libraries. College/career readiness programs - cef continues to fund the national recognized avid program (advancement via individual determination) for 6th and 12th grade students to develop the organizational skills to be college and career ready. Science teacher collaboration is funded by cef. Approximately 2000 students benefit from the faculty-directed professional development and collaboration which assists secondary science teachers to become models and experts in next generation science standards. Cef partnered with cusd to provide 71,500 for a 5th grade science specialist position. With the support of cef, the 5th grade science teacher will continue to teach 5th grade science and also embed a unit of computer science. The teacher will be able to cover all four elementary sites, a total of approximately 250 students in 9 classrooms. Innovation grants cef recognized the opportunity to inspire innovative ideas across all seven schools in the district by offering 1,000 grants to teachers and students. In 2019 there were a total of eight innovation grants funded across the district. Scholarships cef has partnered with cusd and the la honda pescadero school district in an effort called coastside futures. Through generous partnerships with college futures and tri counties bank, we have been able to fund scholarships for low income students on the coastside. Each year between 25,000 and 30,000 is allocated to qualifying students for last dollar scholarships at the three coastside high schools: half moon bay high school, pilarcitos, and pescadero high school. In 2019, cef/coastside futures distributed 71 scholarships. Cef funding supports students along the pathway from pre-k through college to insure college & career readiness and completion. Cef has seed funded this multi-million 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. Coastside futures pre-k through college initiative is a collective impact effort, a collaboration that allows expertise and funds to be leveraged. National model & local model our approach to forming collaborative partnerships for greater collective impact has been recognized nationally, statewide, regionally and locally and includes: - invited to the white house in october 2016 to discuss college affordability issues. - recognized as a national model of collective impact and collaboration for student success by the national school foundation association in the spring of 2017. - in 2017 received award recognition from: - u.s. Congress - california state senate - california legis”