Our 2012 Environment Grantees
41 grants totaling $1,345,984
Goal: To improve the environmental health and well-being of the Bay Area’s most vulnerable and impacted communities while protecting and preserving the region’s natural environment.
Objectives:
- Reduce the impact of climate change in the Bay Area
- Create healthy, green, and sustainable communities
- Decrease toxics and pollution in the region
| Organization | Purpose | Amount | Grantee Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | $60,000 | Oakland |
| Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative | To reduce the cumulative effects of air pollution in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the region’s most vulnerable and impacted communities. | $20,000 | Oakland |
| Bay Localize | To support Bay Localize’s 3 program areas related to conservation: Green Your City, Local Clean Energy, and Communities for Resilience. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy | To establish a better system of regulating toxic chemicals, promoting safer alternatives and reducing the burden of environmental health related diseases in low-income communities of color. | $60,000 | Oakland |
| Californians for Pesticide Reform | To engage local parent, teacher, and community advocates who will champion reduction in school pesticide use in the Bay Area and statewide. | $22,000 | San Francisco |
| Center for Environmental Health | To eliminate toxic chemicals from food, water, air, and consumer products and to address the presence and health impacts of toxins in low-income communities of color in the Bay Area. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| Clean Water Fund | To increase awareness about the health and environmental impacts of chemicals among a broad spectrum of communities and constituencies in the Bay Area. | $25,000 | San Francisco |
| Communities for a Better Environment | To conduct climate justice and environmental health education, and to foster community leadership development, research, policy and advocacy work. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| DataCenter | To 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 | Oakland |
| Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative | To reduce diesel emissions in environmental justice communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| Ecology Center | To support the formation and implementation of a diverse, multi-sector, community-wide Berkeley Climate Coalition. | $25,000 | Berkeley |
| Environmental Grantmakers Association | To support grantmakers in their effort to improve the environmental health and well-being of the Bay Area’s most vulnerable and impacted communities. | $5,000 | New York |
| 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 | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities | To support Smart Growth California (SGC), a philanthropic network dedicated to bolstering and supporting funders in their efforts to advance a transportation and land use reform agenda that will benefit all Californians and advance social justice. | $30,000 | Coral Gables |
| Global Community Monitor | To prevent public health impacts from industrial air pollution in urban redevelopment projects in the Bay Area. | $30,000 | El Cerrito |
| Green Science Policy Institute | To eliminate flame retardants in products found in low-income communities. | $20,000 | Berkeley |
| Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice | To support the Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Health, Justice and Toxic Cleanup Project. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice | To reduce toxics and protect health in Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP). | $40,000 | San Francisco |
| Greenbelt Alliance | To incorporate open space conservation issues into the implementation of SB 375. | $70,000 | San Francisco |
| GRID Alternatives | To bring clean, renewable solar electricity to 50 low-income families in the five counties served by the San Francisco Foundation, while also training community members and green job trainees on how to install solar. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| Healthy Building Network | To decrease chemical hazards in buildings in the Bay Area. | $20,000 | Berkeley |
| Movement Generation | To strengthen social justice organizations’ capacity to address the climate crisis in a resilient manner. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| Pacific Institute, Development, Environment, and Security | To build resilience to climate change impacts and reduce exposure to diesel pollution in low-income and communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | To protect more than 8,500 acres of coast redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. | $50,000 | Palo Alto |
| People Organized to Win Employment Rights | To support a campaign to win free public transit for youth and engage decision makers to expand public transit funding in order to reduce carbon emissions, create green jobs and connect communities with employment and education opportunities. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights | To promote environmental and economic justice for low-income and immigrant residents in San Francisco and to achieve healthy, sustainable communities. | $60,000 | San Francisco |
| People’s Grocery | To expand access to healthy food retail options in the City of Oakland and support low-income residents in their efforts to access healthy food. | $25,000 | Oakland |
| Public Advocates | To lead a cross-sector of geographically diverse social equity organizations in a coalition to win equity goals in regional and local planning and investment decisions. | $30,000 | San Francisco |
| Regional Asthma Mgmt & Prevention/Public Health Institute | To reduce the burden of asthma in the most highly impacted communities. | $20,000 | Oakland |
| Rose Foundation | To support the Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund, a pooled regranting program that provides grants and capacity building to small, emerging groups working on environmental heath and justice, transportation, land use, climate change and other environmental issues. | $60,000 | Oakland |
| San Francisco Department of the Environment | To promote through the San Francisco Healthy Homes Project integrated pest management (IPM) strategies and the use of safer, less-toxic household cleaning products in low-income public housing units. | $30,000 | San Francisco |
| San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association | To support SPUR’s sustainability program focused on three interrelated projects: 1. Adaptation for the anticipated effects of climate change. 2. A sustainable long-term water supply for the Bay Area. 3. Improving urban food systems. |
$25,000 | San Francisco |
| Save the Redwoods League | To protect more than 8,500 acres of coast redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. | $50,000 | San Francisco |
| Sempervirens Fund | To protect more than 8,500 acres of coast redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. | $50,000 | Los Altos |
| The Greenlining Institute | To ensure that underrepresented voices are incorporated into environmental policy debates and participate in the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency policies. | $30,000 | Berkeley |
| TransForm | To engage Bay Area communities and advance programs and policies that promote sustainable, equitable transportation in order to maximize the opportunities and benefits from SB 375. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| Tri-Valley CAREs | To clean up toxic and radioactive pollution from Livermore Lab, while informing and engaging locally affected and traditionally disenfranchised Spanish speaking and low income residents in a community driven cleanup plan. | $15,000 | Livermore |
| Urban Biofilter | To mitigate the effects of air pollution through reen design and infrastructure. | $20,000 | Oakland |
| 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. | $60,000 | Oakland |
| Urban Releaf | To plant and maintain trees and provide environmental education and stewardship for the Oakland community. | $13,984 | Oakland |
| Youth United for Community Action | To support leadership development and community organizing activities for low-income youth of color in East Palo Alto in their efforts to revise the General Plan. | $60,000 | East Palo Alto |