2021 Grants
Grants By Board Members & Staff

Irwin Feinberg Designated Donation
CLARE|MATRIX is a welcoming and supportive place where you'll find a full range of treatment methods to help you overcome addiction to drugs or alcohol, and the behavioral health challenges that often accompany them.d the behavioral health challenges that often accompany them.
CLARE|MATRIX is a welcoming and supportive place where you'll find a full range of treatment methods to help you overcome addiction to drugs or alcohol, and the behavioral health challenges that often accompany them.d the behavioral health challenges that often accompany them.

Sandra Leader & Zach Franklin Designated Donations
GIRL STEM STARS vision is to catalyze a fully diverse and inclusive STEM community. Their mission is to foster excitement, confidence and literacy in STEM for girls of color, particularly those from underrepresented communities, by providing free, experiential programs and by maximizing meaningful interactions with women mentors in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and arts.
and the behavioral health challenges that often accompany them.
GIRL STEM STARS vision is to catalyze a fully diverse and inclusive STEM community. Their mission is to foster excitement, confidence and literacy in STEM for girls of color, particularly those from underrepresented communities, by providing free, experiential programs and by maximizing meaningful interactions with women mentors in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and arts.
and the behavioral health challenges that often accompany them.

Kristen Franklin Designated Donation
The Women's Daytime Drop-In Center in Berkeley is an organization whose mission is "to empower women and children to move from the streets to a home by providing ongoing and intensive counseling, case management services, transitional housing and a safe daytime refuge."
The Women's Daytime Drop-In Center in Berkeley is an organization whose mission is "to empower women and children to move from the streets to a home by providing ongoing and intensive counseling, case management services, transitional housing and a safe daytime refuge."

Kelly O’Brien Designated Donation
Hope Collaborative’s goal is to make leadership development a standard for children’s development. We partner with youth advocacy organizations that already have relationships with kids and teens from low-income neighborhoods, and provide them with high-quality leadership development programming infused with youth-centric storytelling, art, and creative media.
Hope Collaborative’s goal is to make leadership development a standard for children’s development. We partner with youth advocacy organizations that already have relationships with kids and teens from low-income neighborhoods, and provide them with high-quality leadership development programming infused with youth-centric storytelling, art, and creative media.

Christine Kolisch Designated Donation
The Andaman Center for Migrant Education (ACME) helps to support the education of underprivileged migrant children in Southern Thailand who are at high risk of being put to work in dangerous, dirty and degrading conditions. ACME provides opportunities for a better future, education that can break the cycle of poverty of this marginalized community.
The Andaman Center for Migrant Education (ACME) helps to support the education of underprivileged migrant children in Southern Thailand who are at high risk of being put to work in dangerous, dirty and degrading conditions. ACME provides opportunities for a better future, education that can break the cycle of poverty of this marginalized community.

Kiran Kamath Designated Donation
The mission of the Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) is to improve the quality of life for everyone in our region through the arts.
The mission of the Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) is to improve the quality of life for everyone in our region through the arts.

Maren Elwood Designated Donation
The Franklin Legacy Fund will primarily focus on the educational components (classes, workshops, coaching, website and social media development, stress-reduction) that provide non-profit leadership with the tools to achieve those ends. Our focus in 2021 will be on children’s welfare, the environment, the arts and social justice. After hearing about the appalling number of children in our county who are experiencing homelessness, we have decided to concentrate our efforts in that area this first year.
The Franklin Legacy Fund will primarily focus on the educational components (classes, workshops, coaching, website and social media development, stress-reduction) that provide non-profit leadership with the tools to achieve those ends. Our focus in 2021 will be on children’s welfare, the environment, the arts and social justice. After hearing about the appalling number of children in our county who are experiencing homelessness, we have decided to concentrate our efforts in that area this first year.