2010 Summer Mini Grants Program
In partnership with the California Endowment and the Healthy Richmond initiative, the Richmond Community Foundation provided summer mini-grants to the following organizations for Summer 2010 activities for children and youth.Bay Area Rescue Mission
This Summer Mini Grant supported the Contra Costa Sports Camp provided by the Bay Area Rescue Mission for 116 youth, ages 7-18. Each day youth were transported to and from Contra Costa College for instruction in sports activities (football, softball, soccer, basketball and swimming). The middle & high school students also received pre-collegiate guidance with information on college admissions, financial aid, research and library services information by the college admissions, counseling and library staff members.
Building Blocks for Kids
This multi-agency collaborative provides a four week summer camp program at Peres Elementary School in Richmond. Acknowledging the high obesity rate of its participants, this summer mini grant was used to support a comprehensive fitness program for two weeks at Pogo Park for 150 children.
Center for Human Development
With funding from the Summer Mini Grant program, the Center for Human Development was able to take 89 children from North Richmond on field trips to the Black History Museum in Oakland and Chinatown in San Francisco, as part of their free summer camp program.
Community Housing Development Corporation
Community Housing Development Corporation's summer project was a series of financial education classes for 18 youth in the Iron Triangle neighborhood, which then qualified graduates who met the income requirements to open an Individual Development Account with which they can save money, to be matched 2:1, to use for higher education expenses.
Greater Richmond Interfaith Program
The Greater Richmond Interfaith Program (GRIP) teamed up with Living on My Own, Inc. and Scout Troop 303 to provide a camping experience at the East Bay Regional Park District Anthony Chabot Park for 30 youth. Activities included camp set up, hiking to Castro Valley and returning in canoes, and swimming. Local Scout Troop 303 also gave presentations to the GRIP youth on outdoor survival skills, using astronomy techniques to plot location, and identifying various poisonous plants (poison ivy and poison oak).
Richmond Art Center
Funding from the summer Mini Grant program provided art instruction to 45 children from the Iron Triangle neighborhood. Children did art projects using drawing, painting, collage materials and clay. Youth from the neighborhood also learned to weave; they learn how to thread or warp the loom, how to use patterning (which requires math skills), and work with color.
