for analytical thought leadership in association with the Environmental Protection Agency’s rulemaking of existing power plants under the Clean Air Act.

to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK)

to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant

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 general support for the Alliance for Early Success

to develop an observational measure of home visiting service delivery, with the aim of improving evidence-based home visiting services and broadening their benefits for children and families

to support work on energy efficiency at electric utilities and in buildings and appliances

to disseminate results of analyses of states’ early mathematics standards and to analyze early learning standards across multiple domains in a select group of states

for the annual STEM Summit

for an endowment for the Energy Nanosciences Institute at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

to help support the implementation and evaluation of a curriculum-based, math-focused intervention with intensive professional development and coaching for preschool teachers.

to advocate for practices that hold school districts accountable for implementing effective family engagement practices

to study and analyze climate change policies for their cost effectiveness in limiting carbon emissions to reduce climate change

to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies

for an analysis of videotaped mother-child mathematical interactions and predictors of school readiness

to enable the collection of information about transitional kindergarten in the CalPADS database

to develop a community partnership and implementation plan that coordinates evidence-based family engagement services for families of preschoolers and kindergarteners in North Sunnyvale

for general support

to extend communications efforts associated with the release of The State of Preschool 2012 Yearbook

to study the implementation of an early learning mathematics professional development program

to support retreats and on-site seminars and poster sessions for the Joint BioEnergy Institute

to accelerate market adoption of advanced energy technologies to create a more secure, resilient, clean, and cost-effective power sector

for support of the California Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program

to support an online national family engagement network, and its provision of interactive and strategic resources, with a focus on early childhood education, teacher professional development, and national policy

to promote college access and completion for undocumented students in East Palo Alto

to develop a community partnership and implementation plan that coordinates evidence-based family engagement services for families of preschoolers through third graders in San Jose

for the Freshman/Sophomore Seminar program

for general support

to investigate how families are using media for children’s learning, the benefits of joint media engagement, and media platforms and configurations associated with school readiness and achievement