Our goal is to make strategic investments and maximize partnership opportunities to make long-term positive impacts for children, families, and the community. Below are current funding opportunities.
Help Me Grow San Mateo County Consultant
October 9, 2020
Trauma- and Resiliency-Informed Systems Initiative
August 20, 2020
Through this RFP (Family Connectivity & Leadership), F5SMC intends to solicit proposals from qualified agencies and organizations interested in implementing services and innovative strategies that will build family connections, leadership, and other protective factors to promote children’s healthy development, strengthen family resiliency, and advance systems change.
Deadline to submit via OpenGov: April 28, 2025, 4:00pm
All proposals must be submitted thru OpenGov!
Through this RFP (Early Childhood Mental Health Services), the Commission intends to solicit proposals from qualified agencies and organizations interested in implementing services and strategies that support access to the early childhood mental health service continuum, from preventative social supports for children and families through intensive mental health service delivery.
Deadline to submit via OpenGov: April 28, 2025, 4:00pm
All proposals must be submitted thru OpenGov!
Please note that as of the issue date of these RFPs and continuing through the Commission vote(s) to award grant(s), all F5SMC personnel, Commissioners, and Review Panel members have been specifically directed not to hold meetings, conferences, or technical discussions regarding these RFPs with prospective Proposers/service providers unless otherwise indicated in the RFPs timeline, Proposal Solicitation Process and Proposal Selection Process and Review Criteria.
Event sponsorships support community events that broaden F5SMC’s reach into the community and focus on the following areas as defined in our strategic plan.
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Kitty Lopez has served as the Executive Director of First 5 San Mateo County since 2013, focusing on strategic investing, community leadership, policy and advocacy development for young children, 0-5, and their families.
Kitty has served as Co-Chair of the Advisory Body for Build Up for San Mateo County Children’s Initiative, with Board of Supervisor, Dave Pine, since 2018. Congressman Kevin Mullin is Honorary Co-Chair. This initiative was established to preserve, grow, and increase the number of early care sites in San Mateo County.
Kitty previously served as the Executive Director of Samaritan House, one of San Mateo County’s leading Core Service Agencies and safety-net nonprofits serving low-income families and individuals with food, shelter, clothing, health care, counseling, education classes, and holiday assistance from 2002 to 2013.
Kitty taught kindergarten, second grade, and high school in southern California and San Francisco and was a consultant in schools with children who have autism and special needs. Additionally, Kitty worked in a residential substance abuse treatment center in San Francisco and psychiatric hospital for children and youth in San Diego. Kitty’s roots in supporting children began as a 16-year-old volunteer at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles where she taught swimming to children and adults with visual impairments.
She attended University of California Santa Barbara earning a California Teaching Credential and B.A in Psychology. Kitty is active in her community serving as Vice Chair of the San Mateo County Event Center, and Past President and Current Member of the San Mateo Rotary Club. She is currently serving as Past President of the First 5 Association of California. On March 2022, Assembly Speaker pro Tem Kevin Mullin selected Kitty Lopez as the 2022 Assembly District 22 Woman of the Year.
