Ratifies up to $30,000 for Lend A Hand Foundation to stock school closets for homeless students

Lend A Hand Foundation will create school-based closets at Madison Park Academy, West Oakland Middle School and Manzanita Community School, filled with purchases and donations for students who are homeless or housing and food insecure. It will work with the district's McKinney-Vento Act team and log all distributions. The agreement runs November 2023 through June 2024. The work began before the board's approval.

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Vendor / partner: Lend A Hand Foundation · Oakland, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Student health, support & family services
Term: Nov 1, 2023 – Jun 30, 2024
This vote: $30,000
Schools: Madison Park Academy, West Oakland Middle School, Manzanita Community School
Funding: Homeless Children & Youth II
Resource / site: 5634-922
Vendor no.: 007680
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 23-2763 · agenda T.-26
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Jan 10, 2024

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2023-2024 by and between the District and Lend A Hand Foundation, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide priority support to children in District schools identified as homeless, housing and food insecure through the creation of community school based closets in the East (Madison Park Academy), West (West Oakland Middle School)l, and Central Oakland (Manzanita Community School) to house purchases and donations of items to fill each closet and notify school district partner in advance of shipments and which students are to receive same bimonthly and/or quarterly; work closely with the McKinney-Vento Act Team on students enrollment and log all distributions tracking service participation and activities, via Community Schools and Student Services Department, for the period of November 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024, in an amount not to exceed $30,000.00.

History

Jan 10, 2024 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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