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.”

“Form 990 - cef achievements 2020 the cabrillo education foundation (cef) funds seven program services for 3,200 cabrillo unified school district students covering four vital education pillars: literacy, science, college & career readiness and social emotional wellness. In addition to supporting critical school programs, cef also provides yearly teacher innovation grants and coastside futures student scholarships. Literacy: building upon the big lift initiative, cef funded los listos preschool and big lift inspiring summers program. Science & computer science: approximately 2000 students benefited from faculty-directed professional development and collaboration to assist district science teachers from 5th grade to 12th grade in becoming models and experts in next generation science standards. Cef partnered with the school district to provide 97,000 for a 5th grade science specialist position. With the support of cef, the 5th grade science teacher continued to teach 5th grade science remotely by organizing and distributing individual science lessons to approximately 250 students from four elementary schools. In addition to this, cef funded a new ap computer science class at the high school. College & career readiness: in 2020, cef funded the nationally recognized avid program for 6th and 12th grade students to develop the organizational skills to be college and career ready. Social & emotional wellness: cef funded both the cunha intermediate school dean of ell and a pilot class at the high school called positive psychology. Coastside futures/scholarships: in 2020, cef continued its collaboration with the cabrillo unified and the la honda / pescadero school districts in the coastside futures effort. In 2020, college scholarships were granted to 71 total students, 61 at half moon bay high school and 10 at la honda pescadero for a total of 35,500.”