2006 Community Partners - Education $40,000 Barrio Logan College Institute “Soaring to Success” To staff a program that intensively targets reading and math skills development for 30 middle school students http://www.blci.org $30,000 Elementary Institute of Science “Science & Technology Enrichment Programs (Fall 2006)” Partial funding for a science enrichment program that exposes more than 600 students annually to the fun and fascination of scientific activity http://www.eisca.org $50,000 High Tech High Foundation “Explorer Elementary:, K-8 Collaborative Science Program” Toward the development of a collaborative science program that gives students in grades K-8, hands-on experience with science projects http://www.hightechhigh.org $25,000 International Rescue Committee “First Things First” Preschool Project Partial funding for an early education program for refugee mothers and their preschool children, designed to enhance the family’s literacy and potential for long-term educational success The IRC in San Diego $46,000 Los Penasquitos Elementary School “Los Penasquitos Academy” Program To help extend the school year by three weeks and include an additional hour of reading and science each day for 150 students in an elementary school where underprivileged children are encouraged to prepare for college http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12ca.us/abayro $41,000 San Diego Science Alliance “PISCES” To expand three functioning science programs for 39 county school districts serving K-8 students and teachers http://www.sdsa.org/pisces/