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A Grand Slam for California

• Official Bill Information
• Cox Press Release
• First Five Timeline
• Prop 10 Proposal Chart
• Re-directing & Maximizing Proposition 10 Resources
• First 5 Balances
• First 5 LA Grants
• First 5 Sacramento Ad
• First 5 San Francisco Supervisor Attendance Chart
• Bill Language

Audit Information

• 2006 State Audit Fact Sheet
• 2006 State Audit
• 2004 State Audit

Letters

• First 5 Mono correspondence outlining services to illegal immigrants (7-10-08)
• Cox Letter to the Governor (3-20-2008)

Grant Examples

• First 5 Sacramento Photo Collage Grant
• First 5 Santa Clara "Building Spiritual Foundation: A Buddhist perspective about building a Spiritual Foundation in children" Grant (ICAN)
• First 5 Santa Clara "Put the Arts in Little Hands" Grant

News Coverage

• Program critics claim abuse, want to seize funds
  Sacramento Bee (1-13-09)

• Changes urged for 'dysfunctional' First 5 Riverside Commission
  Riverside Press-Enterprise (12-17-08)

• Fair Bidding?
  Riverside Press-Enterprise (12-15-08)

• Fix First 5 – now Use funds on health care, not belly dancing?
  San Diego Union-Tribune (11-21-2008)

• [VIDEO] $4 million is spent on a national cartoon show
  KCRA (11-18-08)

• Not all First 5 Grants are helping poor kids
  San Francisco Chronicle (4-19-08)

• In closing state budget gap, vast sums are off limits
  Los Angeles Times (2-19-08)

• Kids panels hold $2 billion
  Sacramento Bee (1-17-08)