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 achievements for 2024 the cabrillo education foundation (cef) funded program services for 3,200 cabrillo unified school district students covering three vital education pillars: science, math, and college & career readiness. In addition to supporting critical school programs, cef also provided yearly teacher innovation grants and coastside futures student scholarships. Science programs: approximately 2000 students benefited from dedicated faculty-directed monthly collaboration time 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 107,000 for a 5th grade science specialist position for the 8th year. With the support of cef, the 5th grade science teacher continued to teach 5th grade science to approximately 250 students at all four elementary schools. Math program: cef funding supported the 6th - 12th grade math teachers in a monthly collaboration, which was key to aligning the new curriculum adoption. College & career readiness: cef funded the real life learning (rll) program at half moon bay hs, which gives all students opportunities to explore career pathways through community service and work-based learning. Cef partnered with rll and cte at the high school to deliver a year-long career exploration initiative with 7 career panels and a job fair, as well as begin to develop a mentor/internship database. Innovation grants: cef funded 10 innovation grants (1000 each) to teachers within the cusd schools. These grants allow teachers to think outside of their standard curriculum. For example, funding provides engaging materials for the 5th grade science curriculum, educational games & supplies to help develop basic stem skills, and a horse class for the students at the alternative high school. Coastside futures/scholarships: in 2024, cef continued its collaboration with college futures in the coastside futures initiative. College scholarships from 1,000 to 5,000 were granted to 15 under resourced students at half moon bay high school to further their education.”