Cabrillo Education Foundation

Creating Opportunity Through Education

Be A Literacy Hero

Your donation will be doubled thanks to a $11,000 Matching Grant! 

CEF is raising funds to expand a powerful Early Literacy Initiative across the district, which will impact every CUSD Elementary student K-5. Will you invest in these coastside kiddos and teachers? 

Three Things To Know:

• CEF has a $11,000 Matching Grant, which could double your donation

• The top 10 largest donors on May 1st will be entered into a drawing for a Special Prize.

• CEF’s Power Hour is 9:00am-9:59am, if you give during that time we could win an additional $1000 prize.

Cabrillo Education Foundation (CEF) is a non-profit organization that operates independently - but in partnership with - the Cabrillo Unified School District (CUSD) in Half Moon Bay for the benefit of enriching educational excellence for all the students attending our 7 local public schools. We strive to fund high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes and can make a big impact on student success.

CEF focuses on:
1) Next Gen Science, Science Collaboration, Math Collaboration
2) College/Career Readiness Skills
3) Social & Emotional Wellness and Innovation 

CEF works collaboratively with CUSD to identify clear goals, strategies, and resources required for each initiative to achieve results.

Grants in these areas have allowed us to launch Teacher Professional Development and Informational Libraries to increase our students' reading proficiency by the end of third grade. Eight years ago we were able to add a 5th Grand Science Specialist to our schools. 

CEF leverages the power of its annual Endowment distribution to develop new programs, such as our Innovation Grants for both CUSD Faculty and students. These grants seek to identify and support teacher and student innovative programs that can be game changers when taken to scale.

In addition, CEF has developed two new collaborative initiatives to address the real needs of our students. 

1) A Community Hub that provides a space for free sessions on wellness, tutoring and digital literacy support.

2) A Career Exploration Initiative that offers in-person career panels and a job fair to all the students at Half Moon Bay High School and Pilarcitos.

Testimonials

We continue to contribute to CEF even though our son is grown. The educational programs they support make our young people, and therefore our whole community, better prepared to take on the challenges ahead of us. - Diane Brosin

Real Life Learning continues to grow and deepen its connections with the Coastside community. HMBHS students are now linked to over 100 local nonprofits and programs as a way for them to give back, discover aptitudes, build skills and explore career pathways. - Karen Hoffman, RLL Coordinator HMBHS