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Who We Are


About Us

The Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth is a non-profit organization that helps schools in low-income communities successfully access public funding for critical support programs for students and their families.

Our mission is to ensure all children equal access to the supports and opportunities they need to be successful in school and in life. With a focus on children who live in the lowest-income communities in the region, we work to provide access to physical and mental health care, out-of-school time activities, relationships with caring adults, and educational supports.

OUR INITIATIVES

Our work is organized around four key initiatives:

  • After School Initiative – provides schools and their community partners assistance with creating and sustaining high-quality after school programs.
  • Nutrition Initiative –helps schools provide access to healthy foods and nutrition education for children and their families.
  • School-Based Health Initiative – enables schools to offer more information about health-care services and to provide on-site health services where appropriate.
  • Policy and Advocacy – advocates for Bay Area children in the areas of education, nutrition and health and serves as a critical bridge between local needs and the work of policymakers at the local, state and federal levels.
OUR IMPACT

The Bay Area Partnership has:

“We had six weeks of summer school learning and physical activity for 60 children who would otherwise be out on the street, raising test scores by 40 percent. That would not have happened without the Bay Area Partnership.”

Mabella Gonzales, Principal, Widenmann Elementary, North Vallejo
  • Helped schools access more than $60 million for youth programs in the Bay Area’s lowest-income communities through grant writing support and other technical assistance;
  • Won sweeping policy reforms in California’s system of after school funding, vastly improving services to children most in need;
  • Helped create of dozens of new strategic partnerships between schools, local governments and community partners that will make local youth programs more successful and sustainable.
WHAT WE DO

The Bay Area Partnership has identified more than 60 communities in the nine counties of the Bay Area that have the highest number of low-income families and face the most persistent poverty.  Our work focuses on bringing resources to these communities and advocating for policies that enable local success by:

  • Identifying gaps in services for children and youth
  • Leveraging existing resources to expand or create programs
  • Building new partnerships between schools, community organizations and local government to address resource needs
  • Advocating for local, state and federal policy changes to improve how programs are implemented at the community level

Our ongoing activities encompass a wide range of services and supports, including:

  • Provide grant writing assistance to enable schools and their partners to access funding
  • Provide program implementation support and sustainability planning support to new youth programs
  • Act as an umbrella information resource, alerting and educating community partners about funding opportunities, potential partners and best practices
WHERE WE CAME FROM

The Bay Area Partnership was formed in 1997 by a group of regional leaders from local, state and federal government, philanthropy and the business community who came together over concern about the persistent poverty and the ongoing difficulties some communities faced in meeting the needs of their children and youth. 

This group evaluated 45 of the Bay Area’s poorest communities and concluded that existing federal and state funding streams for children’s programs were vastly underutilized due to lack of awareness and capacity at the local level.  It was these very communities that badly needed additional resources and services such as after school programs, access to health care, and connections to various family supports.  The Bay Area Partnership was created to address these critical issues and to connect underserved communities to the public and private resources they need. 

OUR FUNDERS
  • David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
  • East Bay Community Foundation
  • Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Rogers Family Foundation
  • Pacific Gas & Electric Company
  • S.H. Cowell Foundation
  • San Francisco Foundation
  • United Way of the Bay Area
  • Y&H Soda Foundation
SUPPORT OUR WORK

If you would like to learn how you can support our work or are interested in further information, please contact:

Jennifer Peck, Executive Director
Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth
1212 Broadway, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA  94612
Phone: (510) 645-4207 x108
Email: Jennifer@bayareapartnership.org
www.bayareapartnership.org

 
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