The Kenneth Rainin Foundation awarded $999,391 in grants to ensure that Oakland’s youngest learners have access to culturally connected literacy and translanguaging practices.
This grantmaking round reflects our updated strategies that aim to strengthen early literacy education and complement existing resources and people power to raise literacy rates.
Our Community Advisory Council has been helping us design a new grant that recognizes schools as sites of change for literacy. Learn about our approach and key insights.
Early Care Spaces will provide one-year grants of up to $75,000 or two-year grants of up to $100,000 to support organizations promoting early language and literacy development for Oakland children from birth to five years old.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s new Education Program strategies embrace equity and center community knowledge.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation awarded $715,000 to eight organizations through our Early Care Spaces Program.
Lotus Bloom, Lead Liberated, Parent Voices Oakland, Oakland Literacy Coalition and The Teaching Well are recipients of the Rest and Care Award for Education.
Cox Academy’s Omar Currie and Kavitha Senthil share how their creative tutor model boosted literacy, maximized student learning time and increased teacher capacity and retention.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation awarded $7.8 million in Education grants in July to support Oakland’s early learning ecosystem.
Early Care Spaces will provide grants of up to $100,000 to support organizations promoting early language and literacy development for Oakland children from birth to five years old.
