The Parker Foundation Summary of Grants Approved Fiscal Year 10/1/10 - 9/30/11
I. Cultural (26.12%)
A. Visual Arts (6.82%)
Media Arts Center San Diego, for equipment and lab manager's salary (11/18/10)
$25,000.00
Americans for the Arts, for Cultural Tourism: Impact for the Visitor, the Artists, and the Local Economy session/San Diego Conference (2/17/11)
$ 5,000.00
$ 30,000.00
B. Performing Arts (54.55%)
San Diego Repertory Theatre, for production costs for Let Me Down Easy (12/21/10)
$ 20,000.00
Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company, for infrastructure growth plan (2/17/11)
$ 25,000.00
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, for printing costs for the 20 Years of Exhibitions catalog book (4/7/11)
$ 10,000.00
San Diego Opera Association, to purchase of pARTicipate software to enhance social networking capabilities (4/7/11)
$ 75,000.00
Mainly Mozart, for Advance Campaign (5/11/11)
$ 30,000.00
San Diego Children's Choir, to upgrade website/communication, marketing & special events manager (5/11/11)
$ 20,000.00
Moonlight Cultural Foundation, for salary for part-time development associate (8/25/11)
$ 25,000.00
San Diego Ballet/San Diego Dance Theatre, for Internet Marketing Professional (8/25/11)
$ 35,000.00
$ 240,000.00
C. Museums/Zoo (27)%
Museum of Contemporary Art, for forklift and storage racks for new facility (11/18/10)
$ 75,000.00
Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, for Visitor Parking System (11/18/10)
$ 60,000.00
San Diego Air & Space Museum, for high density shelving for film archives (2/17/11)
$ 35,000.00
$ 170,000.00
$ 440,000.00
II. Adult and Youth Services (39.47%)
A. Adult Services (46.54%)
San Diego Workforce Partnership, for the Workforce Collaborative (11/18/10)
$ 25,000.00
Elder Law & Advocacy, for Nursing Home Rights Enforcement project (11/18/10)
$ 25,000.00
Interfaith Shelter Network, for operating costs for the El Nido Transitional Housing program (12/21/10)
$ 7,000.00
Ladle Fellowship, for operating costs (12/21/10)
$ 10,000.00
San Diego Habitat for Humanity, for Resource Development Initiative (11/18/10)
$ 30,000.00
Regional Task Force for the Homeless, for $10 gift cards for PITC participants (12/21/10)
$ 1,000.00
Homeaid San Diego, for shelter development projects (4/7/11)
$ 30,000.00
California Western School of Law, for Community Law Project to provide assistance to low-income/homeless (5/11/11)
$ 10,000.00
ElderHelp, for volunteer recruitment coordinator staff position (5/11/11)
$ 20,000.00
SAY San Diego-Healthy Start Military Family Resource Center, for 24/7 Parenting: SOS program (5/11/11)
$ 30,000.00
Stepping Stone of San Diego, for development operations (5/11/11)
$ 20,000.00
Regional Task Force for the Homeless, for Expenses for Point-in-Time-Count (PITC) (7/13/11)
$ 15,000.00
San Diego Human Dignity Foundation, to support the San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative (7/13/11)
$ 10,000.00
Fallbrook Food Pantry, for holiday meals (11/18/10)
$ 1,500.00
Feeding America, for purchase of cold storage units (12/21/10)
$ 50,000.00
Home Start, for Financial Opportunity Center (8/25/11)
$ 20,000.00
St. Madeleine Sophie's Center, for operating expenses for Sophie's Gallery (9/22/11)
$ 5,000.00
$ 309,500.00
B. Youth Services (53.46%)
San Diego Youth & Community Services, for Expressive Arts Therapy project (11/18/10)
$ 25,000.00
San Diego Youth & Community Services, for Child Welfare Collaborative at San Diego Grantmakers (11/18/2010)
$ 2,500.00
Big Brothers Big Sisters, for Neighborhood Investment Project in Mid-City and South Bay (11/18/10)
$ 15,000.00
Outdoor Outreach, for capacity building (12/21/10)
$ 15,000.00
San Diego Center for Children, for salary for Outcomes Manager (12/21/10)
$ 25,000.00
North County Lifeline, for non-personnel expenses for Civic Leadership Project (2/17/11)
$ 20,000.00
Escondido Children's Museum, for operating expenses to support programs and exhibitions during transition to new facility (4/7/11)
$ 20,000.00
A New PATH, for Moms United to End the War on Drugs campaign (5/11/11)
$ 10,000.00
Casa Cornelia Legal Services, for Children's Program for unaccompanied immigrant children (5/11/11)
$ 15,000.00
TERI, Inc., for Retain Nonprofit Finance Fund to develop business plan for sustainable enhancement (7/13/11)
$ 25,000.00
Just In Time for Foster Youth, for salary for Volunteer Director (7/13/11)
$ 35,000.00
San Diego Adaptive Sports Foundation, for Salary Program Dir. and operating expenses for Adaptive Sports program (8/25/11)
$ 15,000.00
Emilio Nares Foundation, for salary for Development/Business & strategic planning process(8/25/11)
$ 15,500.00
San Diego Youth Services, for expenses for Transition Aged Youth (TAY) Academy (8/25/11)
$ 20,000.00
TEDxYouth San Diego, for Transportation costs for November 20, 2011 program to inspire San Diego youth for community involvement (8/25/11)
$ 2,500.00
Tariq Khamisa Foundation, for Resource Development project (8/25/11)
$ 35,000.00
A Reason to Survive (ARTS), for strategic plan and staff development (9/22/11)
$ 15,000.00
Pro Kids Golf Academy, for technology equipment for City Heights facility (9/22/11)
$ 20,000.00
STAR PAL, for Capacity building (9/22/11)
$ 25,000.00
$ 355,500.00
$ 665,000.00
III. Medical (8.37%)
Ronald McDonald House Charities, for purchase of a refrigerated truck (12/21/10)
$ 11,000.00
Family Health Centers of San Diego, for Project BASTA! (4/7/11)
$ 10,000.00
Community Health Improvement Partners, for operational support to establish Accounting and Human Resources departments(5/11/11)
$ 25,000.00
Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, for one surgery weekend (5/11/11)
$ 10,000.00
La Maestra Community Health Centers, for Volunteer Coordinator for new volunteer program (7/13/11)
$ 25,000.00
Sharp Healthcare Foundation, for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Navigator Program at Sharp Mary Birch (7/13/11)
$ 50,000.00
Parkinson's Association of San Diego, for In-home Respite Care program (9/22/11)
$ 10,000.00
$ 141,000.00
IV. Education (11.28%)
Cultivating Brilliance, for OPEN GATE program at Darnell Charter School (12/21/10)
$ 25,000.00
Young Audiences of San Diego, for capacity building for Educational Services program (12/21/10)
$ 25,000.00
Villa Musica, for capacity building (2/17/11)
$ 4,000.00
South Bay Community Services, for teacher's salary for Mi Escuelita Preschool (2/17/11)
$ 15,000.00
Villa Musica, for capacity building (4/7/11)
$ 1,000.00
Monarch School Project, for capital expense for new high school (7/13/11)
$ 100,000.00
North County Trade Tech High School, for salary for Project SEE (School of Environmental Education) Manager (7/13/11)
$ 20,000.00
$ 190,000.00
V. Community Activities and Misc. (13.86%)
Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, for Writerzblock $15k/Project Safe Way $10k (11/18/10)
$ 25,000.00
Balboa Park Collaborative, salary of a full-time editor for the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (11/18/10)
$ 10,000.00
Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, for audience evaluation and professional development (11/18/10)
$ 25,000.00
Thomas Jefferson School of Law, for student training in East County for its mediation program (5/11/11)
$ 10,000.00
Watchdog Institute, for a planning grant (5/11/11)
$ 25,000.00
San Diego Grantmakers, for 2011 Annual Conference (7/13/11)
$ 2,500.00
Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, for San Diego Neighborhood Funders 2011 Membership (7/13/11)
$ 7,500.00
Bayside Community Center, for guidance counseling program for high school students (8/25/11)
$ 20,000.00
Public Conservations West, for Expenses for Grantmakers conference and operating expenses (8/25/11)
$ 10,000.00
Japanese Friendship Garden Society, for membership and donor cultivation software (9/22/11)
$ 22,500.00
Chicano Federation, for rent for six months ($15,000) and to support expenses related to the establishment of a new office lobby and Community Resource Center ($31,000)(9/22/11)
$ 46,000.00
Equinox Center, for San Diego Quality of Life: "It's Personal" project (9/22/11)
$ 15,000.00
San Diego Police Foundation, for upgrading technology infrastructure (9/22/11)
$ 15,000.00
$ 233,500.00
VI. Environment (1.65%)
Friends of Hellhole Canyon Open Space, for purchase and preserve of a 40-acre environmentally critical parcel of private land (4/7/11)
$ 10,000.00
Lakeside's River Park Conservancy, for tools, equipment and snake gaiters (4/7/11)
