to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved

for general operating support to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties

to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM)

for capacity building for the Franklin McKinley Children’s Initiative summer learning program

to support the Too Small to Fail early childhood public education campaign

to support the 2015 Annual Conference

for general support

to convene a two-day statewide Home Visiting Summit in August 2016 for learning, skill building, and networking among home visiting professionals across California

for general support

for 2015 membership dues for the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative ($20,000) and support for strategic planning ($10,000)

for the Ready Bay Area collaborative

for the development and testing of a system of formative math assessments and related instructional strategies designed to enhance preschool mathematics teaching and learning

for general support

to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments

to support implementation of the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), for non-lobbying state advocacy on home visiting, and for a pooled fund to support state advocacy

to support the statewide Summer Matters campaign and Bay Area capacity-building.

to support technical assistance on implementation of family engagement practices to federally-funded Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grantees in California

for membership dues for 2015 and 2016 for the Bay Area Early Childhood Funders

for Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors to develop and evaluate Phase II of Cuenta Conmigo/Count with Me, a parent workshop on early math and a Family Math Night for Latino families

to provide one-time support for tenant improvements to a relocated East Palo Alto Non-Profit Resource Center

to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence

to infuse early math into The Re(a)d Zone, a summer early literacy program

to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents

to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge

to test the possibility of streamlining and simplifying child care subsidy administration in California and aligning it with early childhood education programs

to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose

to co-fund the 2015 National Summit on Quality Home Visiting Programs

for 2014 membership dues

for general support for Sempervirens Fund

for general support of the Family Engagement Institute at Foothill College, including Stretch to Kindergarten

to develop thin-film superconducting cavities that will be coupled with squeezed-vacuum state receivers in an experimental infrastructure to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz)

for work with undocumented students in East Palo Alto

for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation

to facilitate a learning community among Family Engagement Impact project grantees, with a focus on organizational capacity, systems integration, and sustainability

for the development and evaluation of a tablet-based interactive mathematics application for young children, their teachers, and their parents

for analysis of how best to target investment outflows from California’s cap-and-trade auctions to positively impact households in disadvantaged communities, and to educate policymakers on these investment benefits

to collect data on Tulsa Pre-K students’ academic and social skills, social capital, attitudes towards risky behavior, and mediators such as school quality, mobility and family engagement through 8th grade

to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments

to grind and polish two long-lead-time lenses for a Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for use on the four meter Mayall Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona

for general support for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services

to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula

to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast

for technical assistance on the implementation of Raising A Reader plus Family Nights to the Family Engagement Impact Project grantees

for 2014 membership dues

to support the preparation of California Department of Education’s application for a federal Preschool Expansion Grant

for core support to the Harvard Family Research Project for its work to transform family engagement in early childhood education

to develop squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers that will be coupled with thin-film superconducting cavities in an experimental infrastructure to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz)

for Educators for Fair Consideration’s outreach and legal work with undocumented youth

for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education