The West Contra Costa Public Education Fund is offering grants of up to $1,500 for Black History Month projects within the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) community that “honor and celebrate the lives and contributions of Black Americans.”
The application period is open for the West Contra Costa’s Public Education Fund’s (the Ed Fund) Bradley Arts Mini-Grants. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 30, for grants ranging from $500 for West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) individual classrooms and $1,000 for school-wide projects encompassing three-plus classrooms that have the principal’s…
Amid the backdrop of the pandemic, four teachers and 10 scholarship-earning students from the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) were honored last week for rising up and prevailing over the most challenging of circumstances.
Stimulus checks are out, but the West Contra Costa Public Education Fund knows people still need help. The group announced on Thursday it’s partnering with the West Contra Costa Unified School District to raise COVID-19 rapid release funds for 300 more local families in West County.
With the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest challenging classroom environments nationwide in 2020, teachers across the West Contra Costa Unified School District stepped up their game to ensure educational and inclusive learning environments.
Richmond Mayor Tom Butt and leaders of the Richmond Rapid Response Fund (R3F) including staff from the city, RYSE Center, EdFUND West, Richmond Promise, Building Blocks for Kids (BBK), and the Richmond Rent Program kick off the fund’s Giving Tuesday campaign by sharing the launch of the Rent Assistance Program For Displacement And Homelessness Prevention
A community-based initiative providing emergency financial assistance to Richmond community members and organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic received a $50,000 boost from the Chevron Richmond Refinery on Giving Tuesday.
More than 200 students in one California district received turkeys, groceries and their required school immunizations at a drive-thru clinic last week.
Apple iPads and data plans are headed to Stege Elementary thanks to a $30,000 donation by Chevron and the Oakland A’s Community Fund to support distance learning in the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This fall semester, DeJean Middle School students got a little help putting their best foot forward thanks to a collaboration among Bay Area nonprofits. On Friday, students picked up a pair of new shoes courtesy of the My New Red Shoes Foundation, and a bag of groceries provided by the White Pony Express, via a…