ACOE Educational Partnerships Foundation

The ACOE Educational Partnerships Foundation contributes added value to fundraising in Alameda County through the development of regional partnerships to address countywide needs.  The Foundation works collaboratively with local school districts and local education foundations to create initiatives that involve sharing/leveraging resources and building capacity in these entities.  Generally speaking, local districts welcome and need these partnerships.

Examples of initiatives:

• Arts Learning
  This initiative currently involves 9 school districts in the county and will eventually involve all 18 in the work to restore arts learning to every child in every school.  The ACOE Foundation is in discussion with representatives of a major national foundation with regard to providing catalyst funding that would be shared with local educational foundations to build their capacity to tap resources in their local communities in order to deploy arts learning in individual schools.
• Sports4Kids
  In partnership with a nonprofit corporation, ACOE is engaging 42 schools in several school districts to provide physical education training for over 600 elementary school teachers who are working with more than 10,000 children.
  With adequate funding, the ACOE Foundation could work with local districts and foundations to extend this effort to all schools where it’s needed.
• Educational Equity Technical Assistance Collaborative (EETAC)
  ACOE envisions a countywide literacy and mathematics campaign that targets African American, Hispanic and other ethnic minority students and leverages provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation.   All local school districts in Alameda County have identified literacy and mathematics as a focus area.  There’s a significant performance gap between White and African American/Hispanic students no matter where they are in the county.  Using several strategies including intensive work with local and regional institutions, the faith community and families, this initiative will move to close that gap.
• Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD)
  Bilingual Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development (BCLAD)
  ACOE is working collaboratively with school districts across the county to address learning needs of ethnic minority students by providing professional development services for teachers that equip them with strategies, skills and the necessary competencies to teach across lines of difference such as culture and language.