Boon Tutorial Intervention Program will pilot its interventions with twelve Oakland students. Notably, its first national pilot corroborated the impact proven by the intervention program it utilizes.

Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation is raising and investing $50M in Oakland literacy, food security and playgrounds through 2026. This grant contributes to pooled funds for literacy tutoring.

This grant advances Education Resource Strategies’ Reimagining the Teaching Job work, which aims to retain and grow more educators through specific structural and funding shifts.

The EDvance College Model focuses on increasing the number of credentialed teachers in Oakland’s early childhood education ecosystem through one-time college tuition subsidies. This grant subsidizes college tuition for five early childhood educators in Oakland.

Ignite! Reading will provide one-on-one Tier 3 literacy intervention to two hundred students across five school sites from October through December as part of Oakland Unified School District’s strategic goal and Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation’s funding strategy. In January, Eat. Learn. Play. will fund the continuation of Tier 3 tutoring for six hundred OUSD students […]

To support the Always Reading pilot in two Oakland Unified School District classrooms. The program increases access to books and families engage in weekly coaching via text to establish and maintain reading routines at home.

To provide continued coordination and logistic support for the Oakland Early Learning Symposium, a city-wide collaborative effort. The Symposium offers formal and informal early childhood educators and providers the opportunity for professional development that is unified, evidence-based and responsive.

This grant funds district coaches assigned to focus schools to improve literacy instruction and intervention.