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Welcome to the Heising-Simons Foundation Request for Applications to Families Lead California

Families Lead California is a funding opportunity for community-based organizations that support parents to be leaders. The goal of this Initiative is to support organizations that strengthen the pipeline of diverse parent leaders and build their power to influence systems and policy changes that reflect the priorities of families. Before completing this application, please consult the Families Lead California eligibility guidelines.

We’d love to hear about your Organization or Sponsored Project and its work. The form below will ask for:

Contact Information

An organizational profile, including information about the population served

A brief narrative describing program goals

Organization Contact information

Organization Name

If you have a fiscal sponsor, please enter the name here.

Street Address

City

State

Zip Code

Website

Organization Profile

Year Founded

EIN (Employer Identification Number)

Annual Budget for 2020-2021 for organization or fiscally sponsored project

Please also upload your current organization budget or fiscally sponsored project here.

Percentage of that budget allocated to family engagement, leadership development and/or organizing  (enter as a whole number, 25, 65...)

Link to most recent Annual Report, if available

Please also upload you most recent Annual Report.

List of up to three largest funders and amounts for your organization/project from the fiscal year 2019-2020 if applicable

List of three current organizational partners with Organization Name, Contact Person and e-mail.

Executive Director/CEO contact information

First Name

Last Name

Title

Phone Number

Email Address

Program Information

Please indicate geographic area served (e.g. city of Sacramento)

How would you describe your service area? (Please select the best option)

Select demographics of people served, by percentage (if your organization does not specifically track this data, you can estimate) . Please enter as a whole number, 15, 65...

Race ethnicity:

% Asian American/Pacific Islander

% Black/African American/African

% Hispanic/Latina/Latino/Latinx

% Multiracial/Multiethnic

% White/Caucasian/European

% Race/ethnicity not listed above

Please describe other:

Population served with young children:

% with children ages 0-8 . If your organization does not specifically track this data you can estimate.

Home Languages spoken:

% Spanish

% Chinese

% Tagalog

% Vietnamese

% Korean

% language not listed above

Please specify any additional languages

Parental Engagement:

Total number of parents engaged annually

Number that participate in programs or services

Number that participate in formal or informal leadership roles and/or leadership development programming 

Number that participate in organizing, advocacy or other systems/policy change effort

Staffing:

Total number of staff (FTE) and contractors

Number of staff and hired from the community served by the organization/project

Narrative (Responses should be limited to two (2) pages, single-spaced with 12-point font.) 

How does the organization/project work with parents of young children (ages 0-8) to advance equity through family engagement, leadership development, and/or organizing?

How do the organization’s/project's family engagement and leadership strategies reflect the understanding of and commitment to addressing historical and current systemic barriers to opportunity?

How does the organization/project currently work with families to identify issues and priorities and co-create solutions?

Over the next three years, what is the vision for your organization’s/project's role in developing parent voice, leadership and power to address structural inequities families with young children face?

Please upload your narrative.

Please also copy and paste your narrative here:

Thank you for submitting an application to Families Lead California! If you do not receive a confirmation email within 24 hours, please notify us by sending an e-mail to FamiliesLeadCA@EngageRD.com. We look forward to reviewing your application. Finalists will be notified in mid-April and grantees will be announced in June.

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