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Fall is the time that childcare centers, preschools, and family childcare providers across the counties refresh and relaunch their Raising A Reader programs. The most important thing they need, of course, are new books for the red book bags that go home every week to the families! The Raising A Reader team depends on volunteers [...]
On Monday, September 27, more than 200 United Way supporters gathered for the San Francisco premiere of “WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN,” a documentary about public education reform. Attendees ranged from business and union leaders, to elected officials, teachers and parents. The following short video shares perspectives on the documentary from a few of our guests. Immediately [...]
All around the Bay Area and the nation, people are talking about a new film called Waiting for “Superman,” scheduled for release in the Bay Area on October 1. Directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), the film follows Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy and Emily—the youth behind today’s education statistics – on a review of [...]
United Way’s Fall Backpack Drive was a big success! United Way gathered and distributed more than 1,000 backpacks overflowing with school supplies to children from low-income families, thanks to the generous donations and volunteers from more than a dozen Bay Area companies. The back packs were delivered to children whose families are clients at United Way’s SparkPoint [...]
A recently published article takes a look at how learning can be boosted amongst children, when they are involved with school gardening projects. Specifically they found that involving children in school gardening boosted their learning and development in many areas, such as increasing: Scientific knowledge and understanding, from botany to food production. Literacy and numeracy, [...]
Stuart Canning has joined United Way of the Bay Area as chief development officer. Stuart has more than 15 years of experience in resource development, working most recently as associate director of development, overseeing all individual giving programs with the San Francisco Symphony. As United Way’s chief development officer, Stuart oversees all fundraising and donor [...]
The Solano Community Foundation is offering mini-grants to teachers who have great projects for their students but don’t have the money to make things happen, according to today’s Fairfield Daily Republic (subscription required), The grants provide Solano County teachers with the opportunity to develop additional school projects that follow their school’s curriculum and submit it for a [...]
United Way has produced a short video from last week’s “Pass H.R. 211″ press conference and rally with U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo. Check it out! Take action to support 211 today: visit www.liveunited.org/211, where you can quickly identify your Congressional representatives and send an email to urge them to bring H.R.211 to a vote.
The first few years of a child’s life are so important, and it has been said that 90% of the brain’s growth occurs from ages zero to five. With the help of partners across the Bay Area, United Way is working both directly with children to boost their reading skills and learning potential; as well [...]
Send a Valentine’s Day Card to your honey and help United Way earn some money! Target, a long time United Way supporter has created Super Love Sender which lets you send a quirky Valentine’s Day, football-inspired video card to friends and family all while raising funds for United Way. For each card the online community [...]
