Environment

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
To educate, organize, and activate low-income Asian and Pacific American immigrant communities of the Bay Area in order to achieve a green, healthy, just, and equitable society.
$30,000

Bay Area Air Quality Management District
To conduct Phase II of Climate Bay Area’s 30 Leaders Project by bringing together diverse stakeholders to create a powerful climate protection movement in the Bay Area.
$30,000

Cooley Landing Project
To enhance habitat for endangered species, reduce toxic exposure, and promote environmental advocacy at Cooley Landing Park, a new 9-acre bayfront nature park in low-income Latino and African community of East Palo Alto.
$50,000

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
To build the leadership capacity of people of color to participate locally in advocating for a clean and green economy.
$20,000

International Indian Treaty Council
To strengthen the Bay Area Native People’s efforts to live in harmony with nature. The Bay Area Indigenous Peoples Initiative on Climate Change will advance their participation in discussions and dialogue about the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change.
$15,000

Movement Generation
To empower conservation-oriented and social justice organizations to build the long-term infrastructure needed to survive the accelerating pace of climate change.
$30,000

Movement Strategy Center
To better integrate the work of Bay Area’s ecological, conservation, and climate justice organizations with state and national alliances and networks.
$20,000

Muir Heritage Land Trust
To purchase and permanently protect 23 acres of biologically rich habitat and geographically significant land in Acalanes Ridge.
$25,000

Pacific Institute, Development, Environment, and Security
To build the capacity of low-income communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area, and to develop and advance environmental health and justice priorities in local and regional climate action and transportation planning efforts.
$30,000

Peninsula Open Space Trust
To support conservation of critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, and to provide recreational opportunities and connections to existing open space across.
$25,000

Save the Redwoods League
To understand climate change impacts on redwood trees and their northern California coastal ecosystems, by launching the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative (RCCI).
$50,000

Sempervirens Fund
To purchase and steward redwood forest lands in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and engage in research/education activities that further the understanding and enjoyment of the coast redwoods.
$50,000

Sonoma Land Trust
To protect redwood forests on the North Coast.
$50,000

Breakthrough Communities
To connect safety net resources and job opportunities with regional planning as part of the Sustainable Communities Strategy.
$30,000

California Center for Public Health Advocacy
To engage elected officials in a process to adopt policies that fit within the SB 375 framework, and to develop capacity among local organizations to better communicate the benefits of smart growth.
$30,000

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
To support a philanthropic network dedicated to building better communities in California by bolstering and supporting foundations’ efforts to advance a transportation and land-use reform agenda to advance social justice.
$25,000

GENESIS
To support leadership development and community organizing activities that will help lower income communities of color have a more powerful and united voice in regional land use and transportation planning.
$10,000

People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights
To support community organizing, leadership development, and advocacy efforts; to promote environmental and economic justice for low-income and immigrant residents in San Francisco; and to achieve healthy, sustainable communities.
$30,000

Public Advocates
To build a broad social justice alliance in regional planning for transportation, housing, and climate change.
$40,000

Regional Asthma Management & Prevention/Public Health Institute
To reduce the burden of asthma through an environmental justice approach. This approach includes: serving as a clearinghouse; providing technical assistance; convening diverse constituents; and leading advocacy efforts.
$25,000

Urban Habitat
To build power in low-income communities and communities of color by combining education, advocacy, research, and coalition building to advance environmental, economic, and social justice in the Bay Area.
$40,000

Youth United for Community Action
To support leadership development and community organizing for low-income youth of color in East Palo Alto.
$35,000

Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative
To support a regional campaign for healthier Bay Area residents through the implementation of a cumulative impact approach to air quality regulation, and to facilitate opportunities for residents to participate in regulatory decision-making.
$35,000

Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy
To conduct outreach, education, media, and policy efforts in the Bay Area on chemical policy reform; to create and ensure a better system of regulating toxic chemicals; and to collaborate with other groups on environmental health legislative activities.
$40,000

Center for Environmental Health
To continue CEH’s work to remove toxic chemicals from food, water, air and consumer products, especially those impacting low-income communities of color; and collaborate in those communities to educate and build support for environmental justice.
$30,000

Chinese Progressive Association
To work within the Chinese immigrant community to build their capacity to address disproportionate environmental health risks and improve access to healthcare with other undeserved communities.
$30,000

Communities for a Better Environment
To support Bay Area environmental health and justice work, to conduct environmental health education and community outreach, and to foster community leadership development, research, policy and advocacy work.
$30,000

DataCenter
To help build the capacity of environmental justice communities to be their own advocates for policy change by increasing their access to reliable data and research methodologies.
$30,000

Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative
To provide core operating support for DDDC to continue and expand its work in reducing diesel emissions in environmental justice communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
$25,000

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
To provide free legal and environmental science consulting service to Bay Area groups working to reduce pollution in low-income communities.
$25,000

Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
To support the Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Health, Justice and Toxic Cleanup Project.
$20,000

Health and Environmental Funders Network
To leverage funding and educate funders in the field of environmental health.
$20,000

Rose Foundation
To support the activities of the Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund, which focuses on groups representing underserved communities.
$20,000

Great Communities Collaborative
The Great Communities Collaborative brings together residents and local organizations to participate in community planning processes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The Collaborative strives to create a region of vibrant neighborhoods with affordable housing, shops, jobs, and services within convenient walking distance near transit. Total: $758,500

Accountable Development Coalition
To work towards the implementation of Santa Rosa’s Downtown Station Area Plan and the realization of the Plan’s goals and policies, and to advocate for equitable, transit-oriented development around Santa Rosa’s Guerneville Road SMART station through the city’s station area planning process.
$20,000

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
To support the Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s participation in the Great Communities Collaborative by strengthening the capacity of community residents to influence the Oakland Lake Merritt planning processes.
$40,000

Congregations Organizing for Renewal
To support the leadership of low-income San Leandro residents to monitor implementation of The Alameda, ensure affordable childcare, advocate for inclusion of Housing Element gains in revision of IZO, and explore a Local Hire Tool and new jobs/job training opportunities as construction begins.
$12,000

Conservation Action Fund for Education
To support program work and public outreach for North Santa Rosa Station Area Planning (NSAP) process; and to support work with The Great Communities Collaborative on the Downtown Santa Rosa Station Area Plan (DSAP) implementation and additional project policy involvement.
$20,000

Council of Community Housing Organizations
To work with the Great Communities Collaborative to develop a campaign for its Sustainable Communities Strategy.
$10,000

East Bay Housing Organizations
To achieve healthy, sustainable, and equitable development in Oakland’s Upper Broadway T.O.D. site through a campaign organizing affordable housing residents, EBHO members and allies to advocate for affordable housing, quality jobs, compact mixed-use transit-oriented development, and safe walkable streets.
$37,500

East Bay Housing Organizations
Ensure that the development plan for the Hacienda Business Park in Pleasanton adheres to principles of good infill planning and provides maximum community benefits, especially affordable housing.
$17,500

Greenbelt Alliance
Support Greenbelt Alliance’s work on the Great Communities Collaborative.
$45,000

Low Income Investment Fund
The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), representing a consortium of six Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), for the planning, structuring, and launch of the Bay Area Transit-Oriented Development Fund in concert with the Great Communities Collaborative.
$150,000

Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
To continue with our work with the Great Communities Collaborative as Core Partners, to conduct site lead/mixed-income site assistance, and to support the establishment of the TOD Fund.
$61,000

Oakland Community Organizations
The purpose of this grant is for Oakland Community Organizations to work together with TransForm in Oakland on the International Blvd. Corridor Planning Process to build local leadership, promote good Transit Oriented Development (TOD), and ensure that community-identified needs are met.
$50,000

Peninsula Interfaith Action
To organize congregation members in the PIA network to participate in workshops sponsored by the City of East Palo Alto (EPA) and by the Envision-Transform-Build EPA Coalition (ETB-EPA) with the Great Communities Collaborative.
$15,000

Reconnecting America’s Center for Transit Oriented Development
Engage in Great Communities Collaborative core partner activities, including strategic planning and technical assistance support, with particular focus on the regional Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Fund.
$28,000

Regents of the University of CA – Center for Community Innovation
Technical assistance for the Great Communities Collaborative.
$40,000

Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
To support the Great Community Collaborative’s Diridon Station Area Planning work.
$30,000

TransForm
To work within the Great Communities Collaborative to support community engagement in planning for neighborhoods near transit, and to coordinate nonprofit and government actors in transportation policy at the state level.
$92,500

Urban Habitat
To support Urban Habitat’s work as a core partner in the Great Communities Collaborative to advance equitable development in the region; and to support the executive director transition.
$55,000

Youth United for Community Action
To coordinate meetings/workshops and provide organizing/engagement capacity for the Empower, Transform, and Build East Palo Alto Coalition that works with the Great Communities Collaborative.
$10,000

Youth United for Community Action
Ensure the Dumbarton Rail project provides maximum community benefits for the neighborhoods adjacent to the planned station in East Palo Alto.
$25,000

Strength From Within
Strength From Within supports impacted communities, grassroots groups, and nonprofits as they promote protective public policies, minimize environmental health risks, engage in policy advocacy, and educate and involve residents in creating safe, healthy neighborhoods.
$255,000

Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative
To strengthen the capacity and sustainability of BAEHC to unite diverse organizations in a regional campaign that reduces the cumulative impacts of toxic air pollution on hard hit low-income communities across the region, including Southeast San Francisco, East Oakland, West Oakland, and Richmond
$25,000

DataCenter
To implement structural adjustments and build capacity to ensure sustainability, focused around Board development; financial systems; fundraising diversification; and strategic communication development; and to better support the technical and research needs of social justice organizations.
$25,000

Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative
To support DDDC capacity building work focusing on fundraising development and member retention in order to build a resilient organization focused on lowering diesel emissions in environmental justice communities.
$25,000

Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
To build internal capacity at Greenaction, including improving and expanding the donor program, organizational infrastructure and communication, developing staff skills, and conducting a strategic planning process.
$30,000

Literacy for Environmental Justice
To build capacity to serve as a justice-based and youth-focused anchor organization in a rapidly changing part of San Francisco Bayview-Hunters Point.
$30,000

Mandela Marketplace, Inc.
To support the development of Mandela MarketPlace as a financially strong and organizationally effective and resilient small grassroots environmental health and justice “anchor” organization bringing food security and job training to the residents of West Oakland.
$30,000

Movement Generation
To strengthen organizational infrastructure, given the exponential growth of climate justice concerns associated with the implementation of AB 32.
$30,000

People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights
To support PODER’s capacity building and community leadership efforts to advance social justice in the Mission and Excelsior neighborhoods of San Francisco.
$30,000

Youth United for Community Action
To assist YUCA in evaluating the current organizational infrastructure and develop a strategic plan in order to better engage youth in social justice leadership within the region.
$30,000

In defense of AB 32
Supporting Communities United for Clean Energy and Jobs.
$200,000

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
To educate/train residents and noted community leaders from low-income immigrant and refugee communities on the groundbreaking importance of AB 32 in combating climate change, and conduct outreach to get out the vote in the November election.
$40,000

Communities for a Better Environment
To educate the community in Richmond and East Oakland on environmental health and justice initiatives, as well as increase voter turnout in the November election.
$40,000

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
To build support for AB32 and efforts to reduce climate change among people of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area and across the state.
$40,000

The Greenlining Institute
To build support for AB 32 and empower communities of color on climate change issues.
$40,000

New America Media
To inform, engage, and mobilize a cohort of ethnic media leaders and practitioners who can build awareness of AB 32’s key role in California’s economic recovery and future growth.
$40,000