Cabrillo Education Foundation

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