Ueberroth Family Foundation gift to after-school program

Randy Barth, founder and CEO of THINK Together (www.THINKtogether.org, announced receiving a $100,000 grant from the Peter & Virginia Ueberroth Family Foundation (www.Ueberroth.org) to assist with the expansion of THINK Together’s after-school programs throughout a four-county region of Southern California.

“This generous gift from the Ueberroth Family Foundation will allow THINK Together to continue to improve our program quality as well as build infrastructure and organizational capacity.  This will help us build a regional system of support for over 30,000 educationally at-risk students across a four-county region of Southern California,” said Randy Barth.

In making the gift, Vicki Booth, president of the Ueberroth Family Foundation, recognized THINK Together is “making an important impact on after-school education in Southern California.”

THINK Together, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization, is now one of the largest providers of quality academically-focused after-school programs in California; providing educational services to more than 30,000 at-risk students every school-day at school sites in 19 communities throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

The Ueberroth Family Foundation is committed to assisting community-based groups and programs that promote social change.  Among its targets for philanthropy, the Ueberroth Family Foundation favors projects that:

•  Promote education, tolerance and volunteerism; and

•  Support agencies assisting the underserved.

During 2007, the Ueberroth Family Foundation granted in excess of $1,325,000.

 

 

THINK Together School District Partners

 

Riverside (4 districts)             San Bernardino (5 districts)

 

•  Banning Unified School      •  Cucamonga School District

District (3 schools)                  (4 schools)

•  Jurupa Unified School         •  Ontario-Montclair School

District (16)                             District (19)

•  Lake Elsinore Unified          •  Fontana Unified School

School District (9)                   District (11)

•  Romoland Unified School   •  Redlands Unified School

District (4)                               District (7)

                                                •  Yucaipa Calimesa Joint

                                                Unified School District (2)