The Office of Public Affairs will present the 2006 Community Partnership Awards to the Foundation for a College Education, Planting for the Second Hundred Years and Ravenswood Family Health Center as part of an annual event that celebrates programs that benefit the local community and represent successful partnerships between Stanford and its neighbors.
The third annual Community Partnership and Volunteer Service Awards luncheon will be held at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto on Friday, May 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Haas Center for Public Service will present the 2006 Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize to two faculty members at the same event.
"The most difficult part of the award process is narrowing down all of the amazing programs that have been nominated to just a few winners," Jean McCown, director of community relations, said of the Community Partnership Awards. "This year's award-winning programs touch thousands of lives. We hope recognizing them with this award will help further the community's understanding of and support for what they are accomplishing."
More about the 2006 Community Partnership Award winners:
The Foundation for a College Education (FCE) was founded in 1995 to promote college access for students who traditionally have been underrepresented in higher education. Located in East Palo Alto, FCE aims to increase the number of low-income and first-generation students pursuing and completing a bachelor's degree by providing comprehensive academic and college planning services. Currently, close to 200 students and parents of African American, Hispanic and Pacific Islander descent annually participate in FCE's programs. The foundation has partnered with the Office of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid, the School of Education and Stanford Lively Arts on various projects. Planting for the Second Hundred Years is a partnership between the university's Land and Buildings office and Magic, a nonprofit educational organization that engages in diverse activities to promote health, cooperation and stewardship. This program seeks to enhance the integrity of the foothills ecosystem and increase the population of native oak trees on Stanford lands by planting native plants, mostly oaks, with the help of volunteers from the greater Stanford community. Magic also strives to provide opportunities for people who want to learn about ecology and native habitat restoration. Over the past 15 years, this program has established more than 1,600 healthy young oaks—utilizing more than 5,000 volunteers made up of Stanford students, faculty, staff and interested community members. The Ravenswood Family Health Center is a nonprofit community clinic that provides primary medical care and prevention services for all ages, including the uninsured and new immigrants, regardless of the ability to pay. Patients come from East Palo Alto, the Belle Haven community in Menlo Park and the North Fair Oaks section of Redwood City. The center's pediatric clinicians are provided under contract with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH), which partnered with the clinic since its doors opened in December 2001. Some 14,000 patients have been registered since then, and programs out of the health center have increased immunization rates in East Palo Alto schools from 25 percent to 100 percent. LPCH partners with the health center in various other ways to help provide additional services.
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