The 2022 Expanded Learning Advancing Educational Equity in San Bernardino County is designed to advance educational equity, address learning loss and close learning gaps caused by the COVID pandemic by offering and strengthening expanded learning programs for students ages 5 to 19, residing in San Bernardino County, who are most impacted by the pandemic and have limited access to resources.
Donor Name: Inland Empire Community Foundation
State: California
County: San Bernardino County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/30/2022
Grant Size: up to $100,000
Details:
Purpose
- Provide direct support for before-school programs, after-school programs, intersession learning programs delivered by community-based organizations that address learning loss, and promote social emotional learning;
- Invest in partnerships and alignment between community-based education, youth development organizations and districts, schools, classrooms, and core curriculum;
- Invest in environments in which students experience values that embrace diversity and equity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, income level, national origin, physical ability, sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression.
Funding Priorities
The following bullets describe the characteristics of successful and effective expanded learning programs (ELPs) that are IECF’s priorities for the distribution of these funds. IECF seeks nonprofit partners with ELPs that:
- Focus on addressing the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs and interest of students through hands-on engaging learning experiences;
- Primarily target the communities of Adelanto, Barstow, Morongo, Needles, Rialto, Upland and Victorville;
- Are culturally and linguistically responsive to the needs of those served;
- Target student groups that are disengaged/chronically absent, performing below grade level, from low-income families, English learners;
- Provide student-centered, results-driven programs that include community partners, and complement but not replicate learning activities in the regular school year;
Accelerate progress to close learning gaps through the implementation, expansion, or enhancement of learning supports such as tutoring or other one-on-one or small group learning supports; - Use learning recovery programs and materials designed to accelerate student academic proficiency or English language proficiency, or both;
- Integrate student supports that address other barriers to learning such as the provision of health, counseling, or mental health services, or programs that address student trauma and social-emotional learning;
- Are community learning hubs that provide students with access to technology, high-speed internet, and other academic supports;
Funding Information
Organizations may apply up to $100,000 for the Academic Year 2022-23 program
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit, public benefit organizations with evidence of tax-exempt status under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and not classified as a private foundation.
- Organizations that operate so that they do not discriminate in the hiring of staff or in providing services on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin or disability.
- Organizations that have previously provided or currently provide ELPs in the form of before- or after school programs or summer programs to public school students residing in San Bernardino County
For more information, visit Inland Empire Community Foundation.
