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Our Children, Our Legacy

The Latino Community Foundation will engage Latino-led organizations, corporations, foundations, other private organizations, and government institutions in a collaborative effort to address the critical issues facing our young families with children ages 0-5. To that end, we have launched the Latino Children and Youth Initiative.

Our goal is to raise and award $1 million in grants over four years, beginning in 2008 to a collaboration of Latino-based, youth serving, nonprofit organizations in the greater Bay Area. The grants will recognize and support the work of Latino not-for-profit organizations as they collaborate to serve Latino children and youth.

The ultimate outcome we are seeking is to increase the number of children that are healthy and prepared for school success. To achieve this outcome, the Initiative will incorporate a comprehensive approach and fund programs that focus on the following goals:

1. Improve the health and education of Latino children, from conception to age 5, through early childhood enrichment programs.
2. Increase support for parents of these children through programs that concentrate on pre-natal care as well as developing parenting and life skills, with an emphasis on adolescent parents.

Below are documents related to this Request for Proposals (RFP). Please read through the materials and join us for an Information Session at one of the times listed below.

Applications are due to the Latino Community Foundation by 5:00 p.m. on January 11, 2008. Applications can be emailed to lcf@sff.org or mailed to:

Latino Community Foundation
Attn: Latino Children and Youth Initiative
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94104

Read the complete Request for Proposals (RFP), in PDF format.

Download the application form in Word document format.

Read Frequently Asked Questions, in PDF format.

Information Sessions

Wednesday, December 12th from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300
Mountain View, CA 94040

Thursday, December 13th from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
The San Francisco Foundation
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94104

Our Nation's Future
Our nation's future and our legacy are our Latino children and youth. Today one in five Americans aged 34 and under are of Latino descent. Latinos constitute over a third of all Americans and nearly half of all Californians under the age of 18. Of the over 6 million children attending California public schools, almost half are Latino. This growth represents an exciting prospect and a daunting challenge. About one third of the Bay Area's K-12 population is Latino. About 25% of Latino children enrolled in K-12 in California Public Schools are identified as "Limited English Proficient (LEP)". Fewer than 50% of Latino children five years old or younger have a mother with a high school diploma. This is an important factor in shaping our children's literacy. Latino fourth graders in six Bay Area counties are four times more likely to score "far below basic" on the English Language Arts Section of the California Standard Tests than their White non-Latino counterparts.