Our Approach

Grantees

The Foundation strives to make an impact by providing critical resources and support to our partners. While we cannot reach our goals through our actions alone, we hold ourselves accountable for acting strategically to produce the conditions that will lead to better educational and life outcomes for youth in California and Washington. In addition to working with our partners to understand the impact of individual grants, the Foundation has developed an approach to track the overall impact of investments and to engage in continuous learning.

Grantee Highlights

Californians for Justice – The Foundation is providing general operating support to Californians for Justice (CFJ), the largest student-led education advocacy group in California, to advance its Relationship Centered Schools Campaign which focuses on building positive relationships between students and adults, addressing trauma, and building resilience so every student feels valued and supported. Entering the fourth year of its campaign, CFJ continues to advance the adoption and effective implementation of policies and practices that enable educators to build supportive relationships with students. This campaign involves statewide advocacy and deep work in four large urban school districts collectively serving over 200,000 students: Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Oakland Unified, and East Side Union High School District in San Jose. Learn more about the campaign here.

Californians Together – The Foundation is providing general operating support to Californians Together, a statewide coalition of 23 influential organizations representing diverse segments of the education community including teachers, administrators, Board members, parents, and civil rights groups. Collectively, they seek to better educate the state’s 1.6 million English learners by improving California’s schools and promoting equitable educational policy. Grant support will help Californians Together promote success for California’s English learners through research, advocacy, and monitoring state policy implementation as well as the State Seal of Biliteracy, which recognizes high school graduates for academic proficiency in two or more languages. This important 21st century skill is now an option for measuring college and career readiness in the state accountability system.

Center for the Transformation of Schools at UCLA – The Foundation is providing general operating support for the Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS), which partners at every level of the education system to improve learning and climate for all students, particularly those furthest from opportunity. Under the leadership of Professor Pedro Noguera, CTS is building the capacity of education leaders and community partners to design and implement learning environments that raise academic achievement and address the academic, social, and emotional needs of students and families. Key projects include piloting a Multi-Tiered System of Support with Orange and Butte county offices of education and collaborating with the Los Angeles County Office of Education and select districts to improve teaching and learning for students many districts have historically struggled to serve, such as foster students and English learners.

Create CA – The Foundation is supporting Create CA, a statewide coalition committed to ensuring that all students are able to reach their full potential by advancing an education model that prioritizes creativity and the arts. Coalition members include the California Department of Education, California State PTA, California Arts Council, California Alliance for Arts Education, the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association and other education leaders. For the past two years, Create CA has led a statewide campaign focused on the importance of creativity as an essential component in education. Recently, it launched Create at Home, a collection of curated online resources for educators, parents and students to support online and distance learning.

Pivot Learning – The Foundation is providing general operating support to Pivot Learning which partners with educators to design and implement solutions to their greatest challenges in achieving educational justice. Through comprehensive school redesign, leadership development and job-embedded professional learning, they also partner with schools and districts to ensure all students graduate college and career ready. Grant funds will help Pivot further develop the District Stability Index, a pilot to identify data indicators to measure a school system’s stability and assess district readiness to implement continuous improvement and innovation, with the goal of improving student outcomes.

Supporting Urgent and Emerging Needs Related to COVID-19

Foster Youth in California & Washington

Building Changes ’ Washington State Student and Youth Homelessness COVID-19 Response Fund, $25,000
Together We Rise emergency funds for foster youth in California in partnership with California College Pathways, and in Washington State, $350,000
Treehouse’s Just-in-Time Fund to support students in foster care in Washington State, $25,000

Los Angeles Region

Brotherhood Crusade’s COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund, in partnership with Community Coalition and InnerCity Struggle, to support 5,000 South and East Los Angeles students with technology to address deep educational inequities, $25,000
California Community Foundation’s COVID-19 LA County Response Fund to address the immediate and emerging needs of that region’s most vulnerable residents, $75,000
Liberty Hill Foundation’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund to reach and support youth organizers across Los Angeles county, $25,000

Inland & Rural California

Imperial Valley Wellness Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund for families in Imperial County, $25,000
Inland Empire United Way’s Inland SoCal COVID-19 Fund in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, $25,000
Sierra Health Foundation and The Center at Sierra Health Foundation’s COVID-19 Regional Response Fund s for the Sacramento region and more than 20 rural counties in Northern California and the San Joaquin Valley, $100,000

Vulnerable Populations

California Immigrant Resilience Fund to support children and families ineligible for federal and state relief, with the Tides Foundation and Grantmakers Concerned About Immigrants and Refugees, $50,000
Chinese Progressive Association’s Seeding Change project and programming in response to the rise in anti-Asian American hate, $25,000
First Nations Development Institute’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund to reach Native and Indigenous communities and families in California, $25,000
Horizon Foundation’s LGBTQ COVID-19 Response Emergency Fund, $25,000
Larkin Street Youth Services’ support for homeless youth during the pandemic, $25,000
Women’s Foundation of California’s Relief and Resilience Fund to provide support to domestic violence shelters for women and families throughout the state, $25,000

Statewide Support

California Department of Education’s Bridging the Digital Divide Fund to provide essential device, connectivity, and related digital learning supports for public school students and educators, $250,000
Mission Asset Fund’s California College Student Emergency Support Fund, in partnership with College Futures Foundation, $250,000

Recent Foster Youth Education Grants

Alliance for Children’s Rights – The Alliance is building a strong continuum of school stability, high school graduation, and career preparedness supports for foster youth as they transition from high school to college, career and life.

Treehouse – Treehouse equips students in foster care with the education support, future planning, and resources they need to be successful. The organization’s goal is to serve high school students in foster care across the entire state of Washington by 2022.

The Mockingbird Society – Through a groundbreaking study of students who experience foster care and homelessness in Washington State, which combines quantitative data with the lived experiences of youth, Mockingbird is engaging youth advocates to identify the underlying causes and solutions to address the educational systems’ issues and outcomes for these young people. This effort has led to a collaboration of public agencies elevating this data in a report that was submitted to Governor Inslee and State Legislature in January 2020.

For Current Grantees

Thank you for the time and thought you put into preparing reports to the Stuart Foundation. We greatly appreciate your effort. The information you provide helps us improve and strengthen our work.

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Due dates for reports are noted in each Grant Agreement. Please contact your assigned program staff member with any questions or concerns. All required forms, instructions, and templates can be found below with the exception of multi-year grants.

If you have a multi-year grant, please contact your program officer if you have not received instructions and forms for reports.

Interim Reports

Final Reports

Final reports are generally due one to two months after the end of the grant period, unless specified otherwise. Note that in order for a report to be considered final, all grant funds must be fully expended. If funds will not be expended by the time your report is due, please contact Foundation staff to discuss how to proceed before submitting a report.

Grant Renewals

If you have received a renewal grant award from the Foundation and are looking for related forms, please contact your program officer. Thank you.