Koshland Civic Unity Program Grants 2008

The Koshland Civic Unity Program celebrates local leaders committed to improving their neighborhoods and awards them a grant to fulfill that vision. The Koshland Program makes a five-year, $300,000 commitment to a neighborhood and works with its residents in their efforts to build a stronger community.

The current Koshland Program neighborhoods are:

• Ashland/Cherryland, unincorporated Alameda County
• West Berkeley, Berkeley
• Bayview, San Francisco
• Iron Triangle, Richmond
• Monument Corridor, Concord

Individual leadership awards were also given to 32 Fellows and Awardees, totaling $32,000.

44 grants totaling $337,000

Bayview Association for Youth
To support the Bayview Fellows project.
San Francisco
$75,000

Berkeley Boosters Association
To provide general support.
Berkeley
$5,000

Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action
To provide general support.
Berkeley
$5,000

Church Without Walls
To support the West Berkeley community.
Berkeley
$5,000

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
To administer a mini-grants program that will support community building events and a legacy event for the Iron Triangle neighborhood.
Richmond
$60,000

Ecology Center
To support the West Berkeley Fellows project.
Berkeley
$75,000

Ecology Center/Farm Fresh Choice
To provide general support.
Berkeley
$5,000

InnerWorks
To plan for a charter school in West Berkeley.
Alameda
$5,000

Interaction Institute for Social Change
To administer a six-month leadership development curriculum to the Ashland/Cherryland neighborhood Fellows and facilitate project planning with the Berkeley Fellows.
Cambridge
$55,000

Rosa Parks Collaborative
To provide general support.
Berkeley
$5,000

Stiles Hall Berkeley Scholars to Cal
To support the Berkeley Scholars to Cal program.
Berkeley
$5,000

The Way Christian Center
To provide general support.
Berkeley
$5,000