The Children's Program

Parent Voices Campaign

For a number of years, Jenifer Altman Foundation made a major investment in enhancing childcare in California through an innovative project called the Parent Voices Campaign. While the Foundation has largely moved on from this campaign, we continue a process of selective investment and engagement with quality child care issues.

CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK $30,000/$60,000
111 New Montgomery Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

Toward the continuation of the statewide Parent Voices Project, which seeks to train and empower parents and child care providers to act as advocates for quality child care.

CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK $15,000/$10,000
111 New Montgomery Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

In support of the first and second annual gatherings of Parent Voices in Sacramento, which mobilized public support for the issues of quality child care and parent advocacy.

These grants were made to other organizations working on Parent Voices:

BANANAS
$5000
5232 Claremont Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618

CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO
$5000
575 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102-1103

CHILD ACTION
$5000
8795 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 101
Sacramento, CA 95826

CRYSTAL STAIRS
$5000
5105 West Goldleaf Circle
Los Angeles, CA 90056-1272

ACTION ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN
$10,000
1201 Martin Luther King Way
Oakland, CA 94612

Toward the 1997 Action Forum on Quality Child Care and Welfare Reform, which enabled parents, government officials, child care administrators, resource representatives and funders to assess needed steps in eleven Bay Area counties to ensure the availability of affordable child care in the wake of welfare reform.

ACTION ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN
$10,000
1201 Martin Luther King Way
Oakland, CA 94612

Toward the Capacity Building Program: Informing a Children's Movement, to deepen the connection to grassroots groups.

CHILDREN'S LITERACY REVIEW
$1500
4019 Goldfinch Street, Suite 181
San Diego, CA 92103

In support of program development for a new magazine, Yeah Write!, written by and for children and circulated for free to elementary schools throughout California.

PARENT SERVICES PROJECT, INC.
$5000/$13,000
199 Porteous Avenue
Fairfax, CA 94930

Toward a project to train parents to serve as advocates for quality child care and support services.

THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
$25,000
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94104-4224

In support of the newly established Early Childhood Funders' Collaborative on Quality Child Care and Welfare Reform.

TENDERLOIN CHILD CARE CENTER
$30,000
942 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102

To provide mental health and counseling services and a full-time Social Services Coordinator. Compass Community Services served as fiscal sponsor.