Grants Awarded in 2014

In 2014, The Stocker Foundation Awarded 48 Grants to Various Organizations, Totaling $2,388,425.

The Stocker Foundation's education-focused competitive grant program has been in existence since 2011. We aim to create impact around improved reading outcomes for disadvantaged public school students in PreK through fifth grade. Areas of interest include emerging literacy; book distribution; whole school improvement/teacher professional development; and supplemental/enrichment reading programs that occur in-school, afterschool, and during the summer months. There is also a smaller amount of funding set aside to help remove barriers toward reading success (i.e., other services for students). The Stocker Foundation continues to have one grant cycle during the year. During calendar year 2014, The Stocker Foundation awarded 48 grants totaling $2,388,425. 

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Albuquerque Public Schools Foundation

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the annual APS summer reading intervention program at 13 Title I elementary schools throughout the district

Arts Integration Solution

Pima County, Arizona
$45,000 Awarded

Toward a pilot teacher professional development program that will demonstrate how arts integration interventions and strategies can be effectively utilized by early childhood teachers to improve kindergarten readiness

Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of SPARK (Spheres of Proud Achievement in Reading for Kids) early learning initiative, a tutoring program designed to tackle the enormous problem of low-literacy rates among struggling kindergarten through third grade students

Bristol Board of Education

Hartford County, Connecticut
$30,000 Awarded

Toward the purchase of the "Wonder of Words" mobile, a van outfitted as a mobile library and used initially over the summer to regularly visit lower income neighborhoods throughout Bristol, lessening the negative impact of "summer slide"

Bristol Family Resource Centers

Hartford County, Connecticut
$26,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of "Raising Readers Together", an afterschool program designed to help students who are reading significantly behind their peers to catch up by the end of third grade

Bristol Hospital

Hartford County, Connecticut
$16,000 Awarded

In support of The Parent and Child Center's "Family Reading Adventure" program, designed to foster the development of emerging reading skills among preschoolers while encouraging parents to increase the amount of time they read with their child at home

C. Paul Stocker Humanities and Fine Arts Center

Lorain County, Ohio
$125,000 Awarded

Toward the “Don’t Let us go Dark” campaign and ongoing renovation and maintenance needs of the Stocker Center

Catholic Charities

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$15,000 Awarded

In support of The Children's Learning Center, providing high-quality bilingual preschool education to very low-income immigrant students living in the South Valley of Albuquerque

Center for the Art of Translation

Alameda County, California
$10,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of "Poetry Inside Out", an engaging high-expectation poetry and translation-based language arts curriculum that builds literacy and critical thinking skills among elementary school students

Central New Mexico Foundation

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$16,555 Awarded

In support of "Homework Diner", an academic support and parental engagement program offered at Manzano Mesa Community School, in partnership with Albuquerque Public Schools

Children's Reading Foundation

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$64,180 Awarded

Toward the continuation of "First Teacher", a program geared toward lower-income Hispanic families who are bilingual or monolingual in Spanish; First Teacher empowers and prepares parents for their role as their child's First Teacher

Community Food Bank

Pima County, Arizona
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the "Back Pack Program", designed to alleviate hunger over the weekends and holidays during the school year at 20 sites throughout Pima County

Elyria City Schools

Lorain County, Ohio
$250,000 Awarded

Toward "New Beginnings", a five-year initiative at Franklin Elementary School, designed to increase kindergarten readiness, ensuring that all students are reading at or above grade-level by the third grade

Emerson Elementary School PTO

Alameda County, California
$14,200 Awarded

Toward the continued implementation of academic enrichment activities that support students' reading growth and achievement (Experience Corps Bay Area and California Poets in the Schools)

Experience Corps Bay Area

San Francisco County, California
$30,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the organization's signature intergenerational tutoring program at 9 Oakland and 10 San Francisco public elementary schools (Title I schools with the highest populations of struggling readers)

Family Connections of NE Ohio

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$15,000 Awarded

In continued support of kindergarten readiness programming through Family School Connection at all seven elementary schools in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District

Friends of Marin County School Volunteers

San Francisco County, California
$10,000 Awarded

Toward the recruitment and training of community volunteer to serve at 19 greatest-need public elementary school classrooms throughout Marin County

GIRLS Inc.

Alameda County, California
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the "GIRLStart Literacy Program", targeting 250 financially disadvantaged girls that are at-risk for reading failure

Grafton-Midview Public Library

Lorain County, Ohio
$18,500 Awarded

In continued support of the annual "Summer Reading Program", the "Grow, Make, Play and Learn" program, and the GMPL Prison Partnership; each program is geared toward increasing the reading literacy skills of children prekindergarten through third grade

Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of Experience Corps, a program that pairs older adults with kindergarten through third grade students to provide one-on-one reading tutoring twice weekly for the duration of the school year

Holy Family Day Home

San Francisco County, California
$10,000 Awarded

Toward the continued implementation of the "Early Literacy Program", a multi-faceted approach that encourages reading in all aspects of the students' daily life while attending preschool

Invest in Children Cuyahoga County

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$75,000 Awarded

Toward the development of a School Readiness App

Jumpstart for Young Children-Northern California

San Francisco County, California
$61,555 Awarded

Toward the continued implementation of the organization's signature kindergarten readiness program, serving up to 1,000 students in the highest-need preschools in San Francisco and Alameda counties

Jumpstart for Young Children-Seattle

King County, Washington
$50,000 Awarded

Toward the organization's signature tutoring program designed to increase kindergarten readiness by providing preschoolers with high-quality language, literacy, and social-emotional programming

Lighthouse Community Charter School

Alameda County, California
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of a multifaceted program designed to ensure that all LCCS students can read and write at or above grade level (Literacy Lights the Way)

Literacy Connects

Pima County, Arizona
$30,000 Awarded

Toward literacy-related school-based student programming (Reach Out and Read; Stories that Soar; and Reading Seed)

Literacy Cooperative

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$50,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of SPARK (Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids) for families living in the neighborhoods surrounding Clark Elementary School; SPARK is a kindergarten readiness initiative that prepares some of Cleveland's most at-risk children for school

Lorain City Schools

Lorain County, Ohio
$250,000 Awarded

A five-year initiative that will strengthen early literacy programming by expanding the number of preschool classrooms in the district as well as building foundational reading skills for students in kindergarten through second grade (Larkmoor Elementary School)

Lorain City Schools

Lorain County, Ohio
$14,400 Awarded

Toward a summer book distribution for all preschool students currently enrolled in the district

Lorain County Little Free Library Initiative

Lorain County, Ohio
$10,000 Awarded

Toward the ongoing purchase of books and maintenance of the existing 70 LFL's throughout Lorain County

Lorain Early Childhood Collaborative

Lorain County, Ohio
$105,182 Awarded

Toward the implementation of the Rising Titans collaborative

Lorain Historical Society

Lorain County, Ohio
$100,000 Awarded

Toward the Children's History Center at the Carnegie Library (renovation, technology, and programming)

Lorain Public Library System

Lorain County, Ohio
$32,070 Awarded

Toward the 2014 Summer Reading Program, "Fizz, Boom, Read"

Main Street Community Foundation

Hartford County, Connecticut
$6,215 Awarded

In support of preK-3rd grade education grants focused on improved reading outcomes in Bristol

Make Way for Books

Pima County, Arizona
$40,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the "Preschool Program", a comprehensive program that addresses early literacy by providing books and other resources/services to early childhood and daycare sites, early childhood teachers, children, and their families

Metrohealth Foundation

Cuyahoga County, Ohio
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the expansion of the existing Reach Out and Read program into "ROR Plus" at the Broadway Health Medical Center, located in Slavic Village

New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$15,000 Awarded

To address the early literacy needs of prekindergarten children in Bernalillo County's South Valley by providing emergent literacy professional development to early childhood educators and parents through the "New Mexico Wonder of Learning Exhibit"

New Mexico State University Foundation

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$22,375 Awarded

In support of the implementation of Methods in Learning Kinesthetically (MILK), a program that trains elementary school teachers how to incorporate kinesthetic modalities into daily classroom learning--specifically targeting reading comprehension and interpretation skills through interactive and interpretative movement

Northwest Harvest

King County, Washington
$15,000 Awarded

To promote academic achievement for at-risk students by providing supplemental nutrition, the schools, in a manner that respects dignity through the "Three Squares Program"

Oakland Unified School District

Alameda County, California
$10,000 Awarded

To strengthen existing foundational reading supports for students and their families at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School (Peer Reading; Book Give-a-Ways; Family Outreach; and Kindergarten Warm Up)

Oberlin City Schools

Lorain County, Ohio
$50,000 Awarded

To support the district in their efforts to improve kindergarten readiness and reduce the reading achievement gap for under-resourced kindergarten through second grade students attending Eastwood Elementary School

Our Family Services

Pima County, Arizona
$20,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of "AfterSchool Education & Prevention Escuelita", a broad-based program that provides students attending Mission View and Ochoa elementary schools in South Tucson with a combination of academic enrichment and prevention activities

Peralta Parent Teacher Group

Alameda County, California
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the enhancement of overall reading proficiency through the integration of art and science into existing reading/language arts curriculum for all kindergarten through third grade students

Playhouse Square Foundation

Lorain County, Ohio
$16,555 Awarded

In support of the "Third Grade Literacy Program, an interactive artist residency program designed to bring language arts/reading lessons to life; the program will be piloted in one elementary school in Elyria and two elementary schools in Cuyahoga county (all Title I schools)

Raising a Reader San Francisco and Alameda Counties

San Francisco County, California
$15,000 Awarded

Toward the implementation of the "Red Bag Book Rotation Program", encouraging family involvement by supporting parents' efforts to read with their children every day

Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
$60,000 Awarded

Support over two years; Toward the continuation of "Food for Kids", a program that helps to alleviate hunger for elementary school students over the weekends and holidays at 24 Title I elementary schools in the Albuquerque Public School District

Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico

Dona Ana County, New Mexico
$40,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the "Childhood Hunger Initiative" throughout Dona Ana County, which includes Mobile Food Pantries and the weekend Back Pack Program

Save Our Children

Lorain County, Ohio
$7,315 Awarded

Toward an afterschool and summer reading tutoring program, serving under-resourced K-3rd grade children attending Franklin Elementary School.

Second Harvest Food Bank

Lorain County, Ohio
$40,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the "BackPack Program", providing kid-friendly, shelf-stable food to disadvantaged students over weekends and holidays while school is in session; the program serves 26 schools throughout Lorain County

Starting Point

Lorain County, Ohio
$17,520 Awarded

Toward the continuation of "Prime Time Tutoring", a program that pairs high school students or other caring adults with struggling readers. This is a collaborative effort with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lorain County, Save Our Children, and Horizon Education Centers

Super Starts Literacy

Alameda County, California
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the organization's signature "After School Literacy Program", which combines intensive literacy instruction with social/behavioral skill development weekly during the school year

Teach for America

Lorain County, Ohio
$75,000 Awarded

Toward program activities in Lorain County, including recruitment, training, alumni support, and school fees

Team Read

King County, Washington
$50,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation of a summer and afterschool tutoring program that provides intensive reading intervention to public school students reading significantly below grade level; the summer program is offered at 5 elementary schools in partnership with the Seattle Public Library, Catholic Community Services, and the YMCA; during the school year, the program is offered at 11 Title I elementary schools most in need of support

Tucson Festival of Books

Pima County, Arizona
$105,000 Awarded

Toward the Children’s Area of the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Tucson Festival of Books

Tucson OASIS

Pima County, Arizona
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the continuation and expansion of the OASIS "Intergenerational Tutoring Program", serving 600 struggling readers at 24 of the lowest performing elementary schools in TUSD

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona

Pima County, Arizona
$39,908 Awarded

Toward "My Summer Library", an outgrowth of the Flowing Wells Summer Reading Program implemented a few years earlier and with the help of The Stocker Foundation

United Way of West Central Connecticut

Hartford County, Connecticut
$23,340 Awarded

In support of the Bristol Early Childhood Alliance's "It's Too Late to Wait: Read 20 Minutes Each Day with a Child" campaign

West Seattle Food Bank

King County, Washington
$11,555 Awarded

Toward the continuation of the "BackPack Program", providing kid-friendly, shelf-stable food to disadvantaged students over weekends and holidays

Wheeler Clinic

Hartford County, Connecticut
$25,000 Awarded

Toward the Northwest Village School's "Building Blocks for Literacy" initiative, designed to help students develop critical reading, writing, and fluency skills necessary for long-term academic success

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