Partners
Our work at Interactive Parenting Media has been
supported by many organizations and individuals since our first
broadcast in 2002. This page includes a list of funders and other
key partners who are critical to the success and sustainability
of Childhood Matters and Nuestros Niños radio shows.
We are grateful to each of our partners
for their support and dedication to our work, and we are proud
of the learning opportunities we create through the radio broadcasts.
You can learn about opportunities to
partner with Childhood Matters and Nuestros Niños radio
shows as a sponsor, through underwriting, or as a volunteer.
For more information scroll to the bottom of this page or click here.
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All
Stars Helping Kids
All Stars Helping Kids provides key operating
support for our organization, as they strive
to make a difference in the lives of at-risk
kids, and to break the cycle of poverty through
education.
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Bayer
Corporation
Bayer Corporation has supported Interactive Parenting Media as part of
their commitment to the health of the communities in which its employees
live and work.
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Every
Child Counts First
5 Alameda County
First 5 Alameda County provided a critical initial grant so that the
Childhood Matters radio show could air its first few shows, starting
in November, 2002, and they continue to give ongoing support for both
radio shows as part of their effort to ensure that every child from birth
to age five reaches his or her developmental potential.
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Fatherhood
Collaborative of San Mateo County
The Fatherhood Collaborative supports programming on both shows in support
of men and fathers taking an active role in the well-being of children
and families.
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First
5 Contra Costa County
First 5 Contra Costa County supports both radio shows as part of their
effort to ensure that young children will be healthy, ready to learn,
and supported in safe, nurturing families and communities.
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First
5 Marin County
First 5 Marin County supports both radio shows as part
of their effort to assure that all children ages 0–5
in Marin County thrive.
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First
5 Monterey County
First 5 Monterey County administers funding for our recent expansion
of Nuestros Niños into Monterey County, to address pressing
needs of families in southern Monterey County.
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First
5 Santa Clara County
First 5 Santa Clara County Commission provides support to both radio
shows as part of their effort to ensure that children in Santa Clara
County thrive: physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.
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Giants
Community Fund
The Giants Community Fund has supported programs on violence prevention
in families and communities, as part of their focus on helping youngsters
live healthy and productive lives.
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Internet
Archive
The Internet Archive stores digital audio copies of each Childhood Matters
and Nuestros Niños radio show, creating an archive of all of our
programs and allowing us to make them freely available on our websites.
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Kaiser
Permanente Community Grants Initiative
The Community Grants Initiative of Kaiser Permanente, Northern California,
provides funding for general operations and for Parenting Tips on health
issues broadcast on the two radio programs.
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Latino
Community Foundation
The Latino Community Foundation has supported literacy programs on
Nuestros Niños, as part of their unique efforts to strengthen
Latino communities through innovative and culturally relevant programming.
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Lucile
Packard Foundation for Children's Health
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health provides funding
for both shows as part of their effort to highlight and address issues
affecting pre-teens.
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Monterey
Bay Aquarium
Monterey Bay Aquarium has supported both radio programs as part of their
commitment to cultivating respect for the beauty and wonder of the ocean
for residents of the Bay Area.
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Morris
Family Foundation
The Morris Family Foundation has provided a generous grant to help us
with the redesign of our brand, logo, and web site.
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Safe
Passages
Safe Passages has provided support for both radio shows, helping us address
topics of domestic violence and community safety for vulnerable populations.
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Taproot
Foundation
The Taproot Foundation provided Interactive Parenting Media with a
service grants to help us develop capacity and increase our impact
in the community.
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The
David B. Gold Foundation
The David B. Gold Foundation has supported both radio shows in their
effort to address root causes of child abuse prevention, and strategies
for effective intervention.
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The
Isabel Allende Foundation
The Isabel Allende Foundation supports shows related to improved childhood
literacy as part of their aspiration to fund projects dedicated to empowerment
and social justice.
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The
Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid Peninsula, Inc.
The Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid Peninsula supports both radio shows
as part of their effort to addresses difficult issues such as societal
violence and children at risk.
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The
Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
The Mimi and Peter Haas Fund provides support for outreach to families
and providers in San Francisco about Childhood Matters and Nuestros Niños
radio shows with the goal of making both shows "household" names
and broadly recognized as excellent sources of support and advice about
raising children to thrive.
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The
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation supports programming on both
radio shows with particular focus on parents of children living in San
Mateo County and Santa Clara County.
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The
Trio Foundation
The Trio Foundation has provided early and ongoing support for programs
on a wide variety of issues for both radio shows, including the importance
of art for the developing child and family diversity.
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United
Way of Monterey
United Way of Monterey supports our recent expansion of Nuestros Niños
into Monterey County, as part of their effort to address the most pressing
needs of families in southern Monterey County.
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United
Way of the Bay Area
United Way of the Bay Area was an early funder for Interactive Parenting
Media using the radio shows to address issues related to education, children's
health, and safe communities.
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Walter & Elise
Haas Fund
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund has supported both radio shows as
part of their work toward creating a healthy, just, and vibrant society,
in which individual members feel a personal stake in the well-being
of the whole.
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Parents'
Place On-Line
One of the nation's first family resource centers to provide supportive
services to children, teens and families based on prevention and early
intervention. Comprehensive services include support groups, parenting
workshops, parent/child activity groups, resource library, community
bulletin board, one-on-one coaching, consultation and mentoring.
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Special Thanks
Museums and other community
organizations that have provided promotional gifts for Childhood
Matters and Nuestros Niños include:
Children's
Discovery Museum
Museum
of Children's Art (MOCHA)
Bay
Area Discovery Museum
Charles
M. Schulz Museum
Radio Stations
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98.1
KISS-FM
KISS FM is an essential partner and has been since 2002. The staff,
management, and talent of this top-10 radio station has helped Childhood
Matters rise to its prominence as a well-respected resource in the
community. Rona joins popular morning host Renel every Friday between
8:30 and 9:00am for a preview of the next show.
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KOCN
105.1 FM
As part of our expansion to Monterey, we are very happy to be broadcasting
on the premier R & B station in the Monterey area. K-Ocean covers
Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz.
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KLOK
1170 AM
KLOK AM is an early partner, broadcasting Nuestros Niños since
2003. Radio Cadena Univision offers news, talk and sports, and its
50,000 watt transmitter in San Jose blankets the Bay Area.
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Tricolor,
99.5 KLOK FM
As part of our expansion to Monterey County, we are working with this
regional radio station with its strong signal and its “Mexicanisima” lifestyle
format. For listeners in Monterey, Carmel and Santa Cruz, KLOK-FM has
a repeater at 99.9 FM.
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La
Kalle, 100.7 KVVF-FM and 105.7 KVVZ-FM
La Kalle features a bilingual, bi-cultural format with a mix of music,
including reggaeton, hip hop, and Latin pop. With transmitters in San
Rafael and San Jose, La Kalle it covers the entire Bay Area.
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La
Nuestra, KBBF 89.1 FM
Based in Santa Rosa, KBBF enables Nuestros Niños to reach several
thousand North Bay listeners. KBBF FM is the first community-based, noncommercial
Spanish language station in the United States. La Nuestra reaches 10
North Bay counties from its tower on Mt. St. Helena.
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Individuals
We are grateful to
the many individual donors, relatives, friends, guests, and listeners
who have
helped us bring parent education to the air waves. Thank you!
Grant
Bellows
Grant volunteered his time and energy to researching
and helping to launch the Childhood Matters podcast and RSS
feeds. We are indebted to him for seeing the project through
and making our shows more widely available to the public.
Carolyn
Cavalier-Rosenberg
Carolyn’s early support gave us a wonderful spark of hope as we
launched our first efforts to find funding for Childhood Matters, the
radio show. She has a permanent place in our roster of heroes.
Scott
Hartley, Illustrator
Scott’s lively drawings can be found on www.childhoodmatters.org
as well as our promotional card for the Childhood Matters radio show.
Thank you to Scott for his early contribution to the Childhood Matters
brand.
Ralph Singer
Ralph is an excellent photographer who generously gives time, energy,
and spirit to Childhood Matters. He’s also given us photographs,
which appear on these web pages!
The Richard and Roselyn
Lindheim Memorial Trust
This trust was created to further the work and values of Richard and
Roselyn Lindheim. We greatly appreciate and will continue to use support
from this trust to engage in innovative ways to bring information and
ideas to the community.
Opportunities
Childhood
Matters is a 501 (c) (3) organization, committed to providing
excellent parent
education for a broad audience through radio and other media.
In today’s deregulated media environment, we have high
expenses to stay on the air. We depend on the generosity
of others who recognize the value of our work.
We accept donations of any size.
Contributions are tax-deductible. We are interested in working
together with companies on projects that will benefit parents
and children in the Bay Area, in California, in the United
States, and in fact anywhere in the world. We can offer wide
variety of opportunities for action.
Please contact us at the following
address:
Partnerships
Interactive Parenting Media
221 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607-4511
or email at partnerships@childhoodmatters.org
You can also call us anytime at: 877-372-KIDS
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