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Environment Grants 2009
Goal: To promote environmentally sustainable practices and equitable development that guarantee livable communities and healthy environments.
121 grants totaling $3,706,384
Objective: Support local and regional land use planning and development practices that promote environmental stability, beauty, and integrity. Total: $830,625
Accountable Development Coalition
To monitor local policy activities and advocate for the timely implementation of the Downtown Station Area Specific Plan as a local Great Communities Collaborative partner in Santa Rosa.
Santa Rosa
$6,500
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
To participate in the Great Communities Collaborative and strengthen the capacity of community residents to influence the Oakland Lake Merritt planning processes and shape future developments.
Oakland
$40,000
Bay Localize
To pilot and launch the Community Resilience Toolkit and workshop series, which leads communities through the planning process of identifying community level actions and policies to adapt to climate change, energy scarcity, and economic volatility.
Oakland
$15,000
Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust
To expand the organization's capacity to advocate for farmland protection and local food systems.
Brentwood
$20,000
Citizens for East Shore Parks
To provide public education and advocate for the protection of the East Bay Shoreline.
Albany
$10,000
ClimatePlan
To ensure that AB 32 creates a new policy framework that will foster climate-friendly, equitable, and sustainable land use and transportation planning in the Bay Area and California.
Oakland
$35,000
Coastal Conservancy Association
To establish a San Francisco Bay Area special license plate that will generate a regular stream of funding to protect open space, restore wildlife habitats, and improve public recreation in the nine-county Bay Area.
Oakland
$15,000
Conservation Action Fund for Education
To engage constituencies that are typically left out of the city planning process by conducting grassroots outreach and education, to activate these constituencies to stay informed on SAP related activities (especially the Housing Element update), and attend public meetings.
Santa Rosa
$3,500<
Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
To participate in the Great Communities Collaborative and engage local residents in the community-based planning process for the Hillcrest Station Area that extends BART beyond Pittsburg.
Martinez
$25,000
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
To bolster and support California foundations in their efforts to advance a transportation and land use reform agenda that will reap benefits for the state and, specifically, for the Bay Area region.
Coral Gables
$15,000
Green Foothills Foundation
To raise awareness and appreciation of the public health benefits of parks and open spaces in east Menlo Park and East Palo Alto by building local leadership and strengthening community vision and voice in ongoing planning processes of natural areas in and around the community.
Palo Alto
$10,000
Greenbelt Alliance
To promote vibrant, sustainable communities throughout the Bay Area through the Great Communities Collaborative.
San Francisco
$90,625
Greenbelt Alliance
To provide core operating support for the Grow Smart Bay Area project to establish a fully protected three million acre regional greenbelt; direct the vast majority of new jobs and housing into the Bay Area's existing developed footprint; and ensure that development occurs in environmentally sustainable ways.
San Francisco
$30,000
Labor Community Strategy Center
To work with Bay Area partners to advocate for the federal transportation funds – especially those drafted into the reauthorization of the Federal Transportation Bill – to be used in California for public transportation and operations and maintenance needs rather than new highways.
Los Angeles
$25,000
Local Government Commission
To inspire local government elected officials to lead the proliferation of successful, well-designed transit oriented development in the East Bay.
Sacramento
$20,000
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
To continue as a core partner in the GCC and conduct mixed-income housing site assistance.
San Francisco
$50,000
Public Advocates
To ensure that transit service in the Bay Area and beyond is restored and expanded by promoting a bold transportation justice platform in the Congressional authorization of the surface transportation bill and ensuring that the voices and concerns of low-income transit riders are heard in the debate.
San Francisco
$35,000
Rails to Trails Conservancy
To continue planning and implementing the 2010 Campaign for Active Transportation in Alameda County.
San Francisco
$20,000
Reconnecting America's Center for Transit Oriented Development
To continue as a core partner on the Great Communities Collaborative Year III.
Oakland
$20,000
Regents of the University of California, Center for Cities and Schools
To connect public education policy and land use planning in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$30,000
Regents of the University of California, Center for Community Innovation
To continue support of the Great Communities Collaborative work advocating equitable, transit oriented development in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$40,000>
SAGE (Sustainable Agriculture Education)
To build capacity and support New Ruralism, a systems- and place-based framework for bridging sustainable agriculture/local food systems and smart growth/new urbanism.
Berkeley
$20,000
TransForm
To manage and support the Great Communities Collaborative.
Oakland
$85,000>
TransForm
To support TransForm's work with Transportation for America and other regional and state partners to organize around creating a more sound Federal transportation policy that increases transportation choices, provides access to low-income families, and creates healthy, vibrant communities.
Oakland
$40,000
Urban Habitat
To provide core partner support, site coordination and related activities for the San Pablo Avenue Specific Plan, and Great Communities Collaborative tools including the Leadership Institute.
Oakland
$65,000
Urban Habitat
Winning more equitable federal transportation policies that will meet the needs of the region's low-income communities and communities of color.
Oakland
$50,000
Urban Land Institute - San Francisco District Council
To support Transit Oriented Development Opportunity Site Tours and Technical Assistance Panels, culminating in a day-long "TOD MarketPlace" connecting cities and developers to transit oriented development.
San Francisco
$15,000
Objective: Facilitate the conservation of natural resources and the reduction in energy use by shifting our current production and consumption patterns toward environmentally sustainable practices. Total: $1,822,500
American Farmland Trust
To analyze the capacity of the remaining Bay Area agricultural lands to produce healthy and environmentally sustainable foods for local markets in San Francisco and promote a plan for local food incubators to fulfill this potential.
Sutter
$20,000
Audubon California
To restore and protect locally based environmental, public health, fisheries, and wildlife research and/or restoration projects to improve water quality or reduce pollution in San Francisco Bay.
Emeryville
$35,000
Audubon California
To strengthen the capacity of the Richardson Bay Audubon Center to recruit and train volunteers and improve response time to oil spills in San Francisco Bay.
Emeryville
$30,000
Bay Area Wilderness Training
To support its Wilderness Leadership, Equipment Loan, Camping at the Presidio, and Vanpool Collaborative programs.
San Francisco
$20,000
Baykeeper
To improve the capacity of Baykeeper and the broader Bay Area community to prevent and respond to oil spills and related environmental disasters in the San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco
$15,000
Build It Green
To facilitate coalition building by strengthening and supporting Green Building Professionals Guild and Real Estate Council, two of its six councils that serve key stakeholders involved in making green building standard practice in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$25,000
California Coastkeeper Alliance
To improve water quality and protect aquatic habitats statewide, with specific focus on the waters and residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, working collaboratively with Baykeeper and all 12 California Waterkeepers.
Fremont
$20,000
California Interfaith Power and Light
To engage the faith community, specifically serving Bay Area communities that are hardest hit by pollution and rising energy costs, in addressing climate change and in advocacy for justice and equity in California's new greenhouse gas policies.
San Francisco
$20,000
California Land Stewardship Institute
To determine the effects of reservoir releases from Lake Curry on the threatened steelhead trout population in Suisun Creek.
Napa
$25,000
California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
To reach out to Asian Pacific Islander (API) voters, using information gathered through research about API attitudes on the environment and civic participation, to involve them in environmental and civic affairs.
Oakland
$25,000
California Product Stewardship Council
To help build knowledge and capacity amongst Bay Area local government staff, elected officials, individuals, and businesses, and to provide technical assistance in the adoption of resolutions supporting Extended Producer Responsibility.
Sacramento
$18,000
Center for Resource Solutions
To provide the philanthropic community of the Bay Area with effective ways to help mitigate climate change by increasing their energy efficiency while reducing their carbon footprint and consumption patterns through participation in the Carbon Neutral Alliance.
San Francisco
$12,000
City of Berkeley
To support the implementation, monitoring, and continual improvement of the Climate Action Plan that the people of Berkeley directed the City of Berkeley to develop.
Berkeley
$15,000
City of Redwood City
To continue implementation of the Green@Home program in Redwood City, which trains volunteers to meet with residents in their homes to install simple home energy saving devices and create energy conservation plans.
Redwood City
$18,000
Clean Water Fund
To support Clean Water Fund in its efforts to improve water quality and advocate for environmental health and justice in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000
Connect the Dots
To fully develop the Green Start program, an environmental sustainability consulting program servicing the nonprofit sector.
San Francisco
$20,000
Department of the Environment, City and County of San Francisco
To develop and implement a comprehensive program to glean excess fruit from fruit trees throughout San Francisco and distribute it to local food banks and pantries.
San Francisco
$15,000>
Ducks Unlimited Inc.
To improve habitat within the watershed by restoring tidal salt marsh, seasonal wetlands, associated uplands, and riparian corridors.
Rancho Cordova
$50,000
Earthjustice
To force California towards a new water management paradigm, one that recognizes efficiency and conservation as the touchstone for water management.
Oakland
$20,000
Environmental Volunteers
To expand the educate for depth model to schools in San Mateo County, delivering a continuum of service and multiple reinforcing natural science education programs to classrooms over consecutive years.
Palo Alto
$20,000
EnviroSpec - The Green Purchasing Institute
To expand the Bay Area Sustainable Food Purchasing Initiative, helping municipalities and institutions adopt local and sustainable food purchasing policies and practices.
Berkeley
$20,000
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
To create an online query system for the volunteer-powered Beach Watch program that provides vital natural history and ecological data to Incident Command, the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response, and local partners during an environmental disaster.
San Francisco
$40,000
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
To strengthen core operations and general support and to create comprehensive strategic, development, and communication plans that will provide substantial guidance for the organization.
San Francisco
$18,000
Golden Gate Audubon Society
To engage the local community and volunteers in restoration and monitoring efforts at Pier 94, a hidden wetland in San Francisco's underserved Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
Berkeley
$20,000
Golden Gate Audubon Society
To build organizational capacity to respond to future oil spills through an emergency response plan, online communication and donation tools, volunteer training, partnerships with government agencies and nonprofit organizations, and evaluative report on Golden Gate Audubon's role in the Cosco Busan.
Berkeley
$50,000>
Golden Gate Audubon Society
To support Eco-Oakland and Eco-Richmond Environmental Education Program's year-round, hands-on, bilingual environmental education program that serves inner city youth and their families.
Berkeley
$18,000>
Green Cafe Network
To assist cafes throughout the Bay Area develop and implement environmentally sustainable practices and develop a series of educational programs for both cafe staff and their clients to better understand how to reduce their impacts on the environment.
Berkeley
$15,000
GRID Alternatives
To build long-term capacity to bring solar power to low-income communities throughout the Bay Area.
Oakland
$25,000
Healthy Building Network
To create positive change on environmental and social justice issues through the Pharos Project, and encourage market transformation in the building material industry by engaging a community of designers, researchers and activists to develop and deploy purchasing tools that reflect their values.
Berkeley
$20,000
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability U.S.A.
To support Bay Area Local Government Climate Action Engagement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with larger numbers of local governments completing greenhouse gas inventories, setting reduction targets, developing climate action plans, and implementing emission reduction measures.
Oakland
$25,000
International Bird Rescue Research Center
To increase its capacity to immediately, efficiently, and effectively respond to an oil spill by establishing, training, and maintaining two groups of highly skilled volunteers with specialized training in wildlife rescue and care.
Fairfield
$40,000>
Kids for the Bay
To provide core operating support for hands-on, environmental science to elementary students in schools throughout the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$75,000>
Kids in Parks
To support the Environmental Education for Underserved Youth program, serving middle school students from Visitacion Valley, Aptos, and Herbert Hoover, and elementary school students from E.R. Taylor.
San Francisco
$10,000>
Life Frames, Inc.
To build organizational capacity and sustainability by developing its board, staff, strategic plan, and fundraising strategy.
San Francisco
$15,000
Marin Audubon Society
To monitor the ongoing restoration project that will restore 300 acres of tidal marsh and transition habitats on diked baylands at Bahia Marsh in Novato.
Mill Valley
$20,000>
Movement Generation
To build strategic leadership within Bay Area social justice groups to develop shared goals, strategies, and collaborative campaigns around environmental and climate change policies that impact low-income communities of color.
Oakland
$18,000
Muir Heritage Land Trust
To acquire Franklin Canyon and permanently protect 423 acres of biologically rich and regionally significant land in Contra Costa County.
Martinez
$100,000>
Natural Resources Defense Council
To protect and restore the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary by advocating for effective water policies at the state level.
San Francisco
$20,000
Nature in the City
To build solid public, institutional, and political support for nature and biodiversity conservation.
San Francisco
$15,000
Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge
To develop carrying capacity models for diving ducks in the San Francisco Bay estuary and use these models to predict effects of future subtidal habitat changes on waterbird populations.
Benicia
$100,000>
Peninsula Open Space Trust
To protect Wavecrest, a 206-acre property in Half Moon Bay, for the conservation of critical habitat for endangered species, and to provide recreation opportunities and connections to existing open coastal space.
Palo Alto
$50,000
PRBO Conservation Science
To advance environmental conservation in the Bay Area by improving capacity to communicate scientific knowledge about key ecological challenges to the public, media, and policymakers.
Petaluma
$20,000
PRBO Conservation Science
To model and map tidal marsh plant and bird species distributions under various climate change scenarios and communicate conservation priorities to management agencies to inform future land acquisition and habitat restoration plans.
Petaluma
$35,000
Regents of the University of California, Davis
To support the Oiled Wildlife Care Network to develop, test, and implement an electronic medical records system for oil-affected wildlife in California.
Davis
$50,000>
Rose Foundation
To provide grants and training to small, emerging groups working on environmental health and justice, habitat preservation, environmental education, forestry, land management and water resource issues.
Oakland
$25,000
RSF Social Finance
To build environmental education and leadership development programming capacity at two San Francisco Unified High Schools, building on the successful pilot Program for Urban Rural Education with at-risk students at Mission High School.
San Francisco
$20,000
San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society
To create an historic high marsh ecotone habitat at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center in Alviso, and to develop techniques and methods that can be applied to restoration projects around the Bay.
Newark
$60,000>
San Francisco Community Power
To examine ways to redeploy state and federal low-income energy subsidies so as to create community-based programs that lower energy use and associated bills at low-income households with concomitant economic, equity, and environmental benefits.
San Francisco
$20,000
San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance
To support its role in professional development, technical assistance, capacity building, and fundraising for teachers and schools that are developing and maintaining school gardens and green yards.
San Francisco
$15,000
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department Volunteer Program
To help sustain and develop the Youth Stewardship Program, a conservation program that supports underserved youth in becoming strong environmental stewards.
San Francisco
$20,000>
Save our Shores
To continue to advance marine debris monitoring and removal work in San Mateo County through coordinating monthly beach and river cleanups and encouraging community support of environmentally conscious policies.
Santa Cruz
$10,000
Save the Bay
To develop strategic collaborations, combining resources to offer the best in watershed education, unique on-the-water activities, and shoreline restoration programs.
Oakland
$20,000
Sonoma Ecology Center
To improve San Pablo Bay water quality by developing a transferable protocol to identify and prioritize sites for watershed restoration under Clean Water Act Programs.
Eldridge
$50,000>
Sonoma Land Trust
To steward the Jenner Headlands, 5,630 acres of intact, complex ecosystems on the Sonoma coast.
Santa Rosa
$100,000>
Student Conservation Association
To support and enhance Bay Area youth conservation and leadership programs: the Conservation Leadership Corps and community-based programs including the Green Force Conservation Crew.
Oakland
$15,000
Sustainable Conservation
To develop a robust methodology for the voluntary cleanup of Mt. Diablo Mercury Mine (an abandoned mine which contributes 88% of mercury contamination in Marsh Creek) and to establish a model for voluntary cleanup at other abandoned mines throughout the Bay-Delta region to improve water quality.
San Francisco
$25,000>
Sustainable Conservation
To provide core operating support to continue building bridges between private, public, and nonprofit sectors and implementing solutions to boost environmentally sustainable solutions in Bay Area communities.
San Francisco
$15,000
Sustainable Silicon Valley
To help local government develop climate action plans, and engage businesses to support the jurisdictions' environmental targets.
San Jose
$20,000
Tides Foundation
To provide an analysis of potential regional approaches to supporting comprehensive solutions to climate change and to building strategic partnerships with government agencies, policymakers, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
San Francisco
$2,500<
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust
To promote environmentally sustainable water use and watershed stewardship in the Bay Area and to encourage civic participation in local water agencies.
San Francisco
$20,000
Urban Creeks Council
To fund a survey of avian use of multiple riparian restoration sites as a determination of the ecological effectiveness of urban creek restoration sites at various stages of age and growth.
Berkeley
$50,000>
Urban Solutions
To conserve environmental resources and reduce costs by implementing environmentally sustainable operations through the Green Business Initiative, which assists small business to become more environmentally sustainable.
San Francisco
$18,000
Wildcare
To strengthen WildCare's on-the-ground and volunteer emergency response infrastructure in order to protect San Francisco Bay wildlife in the event of future oil spills and other environmental disasters.
San Rafael
$50,000
Objective: Promote the elimination of toxins and pollutants and encourage precautionary policies to minimize impacts on the environment and on human health. Total: $1,053,259
Bay Area Clean Air Task Force
To serve as a Resource Coalition Member to the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative (BAEHC), bringing expertise in public health, policy advocacy, social marketing, and communications strategy in order to improve air quality in the Bay Area through
San Francisco
$14,337<
Bay Area Clean Air Task Force
To build the capacity of this group of public health, environmental, transportation, and community organizations working together to reduce air pollution, particularly in Environment Justice communities, and improve public health by helping shape regional air quality policy.
San Francisco
$10,000
Breathe California/Golden Gate Public Health Partnership
To demonstrate that less toxic consumer products can meet state infection control requirements for child care providers.
Daly City
$20,000
Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy
To provide continued support for its outreach, media, and policy efforts in the Bay Area so more individuals and groups understand the upstream problem of chemicals in commerce without pre-market assurances of safety, and support the solution of pre-market testing and regulation of all chemicals.
Oakland
$80,000>
Californians for Pesticide Reform
To address the overuse and misuse of pesticides in the homes of tenants of substandard, public, and low-income housing through strategic alliances, education, community empowerment, and local and statewide policy change efforts.
San Francisco
$20,000
Center for Biological Diversity
To protect the San Francisco Bay Delta region and its species and habitat through Pesticides Reduction and Endangered Species Protection campaigns.
Tucson
$15,000
Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
To support the enforcement and implementation of California statewide air quality regulations restricting diesel emissions that have deleterious health impacts on Bay Area residents.
San Francisco
$25,000
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
To grow and strengthen philanthropy on environmental health and environmental justice in the Bay Area and California.
San Francisco
$40,000>
Contra Costa Health Services
To participate as a Resource Coalition to the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative, offering expertise in community mobilization and policy advocacy, providing technical support to the data collection and community engagement activities, and building local leadership around environmental health issues.
Martinez
$23,000>
Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative
To support its transition from a volunteer collaborative to a sustainable entity with support for community-based members, high quality facilitation and coordination, and a collaboratively developed work plan.
San Francisco
$25,000>
Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative
To strengthen its infrastructure and ability to influence state and regional policies and funding related to freight truck and bus transportation, educate and involve school communities in reducing idling.
San Francisco
$25,000
EarthTeam Environmental Network for Educators and Teens
To educate students about air quality in their schools and communities and its relation to the incidence of asthma.
Berkeley
$20,000
Environmental Justice Air Quality Coalition
To serve on the steering committee of the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative, to provide leadership to the regional policy campaign on the cumulative impacts of air quality, and to conduct community education, empowerment, and organizing activities among low-income, highly affected communities around the Bay.
San Leandro
$92,157>
Environmental Justice Air Quality Coalition
To serve on the steering committee of the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative, and to provide leadership to the regional policy campaign on the cumulative impacts of air quality.
San Leandro
$77,068>
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
To support policy advocacy, ensuring environmental justice communities can participate in and benefit from policy decisions related to both the San Francisco Bay Delta "Visions" Initiative, and the Integrated Regional Water Management Plans processes.
Oakland
$20,000
Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
To provide free legal and environmental science consulting services to Bay Area groups working to reduce pollution in low-income communities.
San Francisco
$25,000
Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
To serve as the coordinating organization of the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative, providing staffing, administrative support, project management, and technical assistance in the areas of policy analysis and development, data collection and analysis, and GIS mapping.
San Francisco
$99,719>
Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
To serve as the coordinating organization of the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative, providing staffing, administrative support, project management, and technical assistance in the areas of policy analysis and development, and data collection.
San Francisco
$121,783>
Environmental Support Center
To build the capacity and sustainability of four to seven Bay Area environmental justice groups through three programs: Training and Organizational Assistance, Leadership and Enhanced Assistance, and Fundraising for Sustainable Organizations.
Washington
$20,000
Environmental Working Group
To investigate the human health risks of indoor chemical emissions from cleaning products used in schools in the Bay Area, with special attention to the heightened risks for children.
Oakland
$15,000
Global Community Monitor
To increase community-based environmental health monitoring in West Oakland by providing technical assistance and campaign support to communities seeking to reduce pollution, increase enforcement, and engage in dialogue with companies.
El Cerrito
$20,000
Green Science Policy Institute
To produce science-based analysis documenting the public health and environmental impacts of the pending flammability standard for filled bed clothing (California Technical Bulletin 604) and carry out an education and advocacy campaign to stop poor legislation around flame retardants.
Berkeley
$15,000
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
To educate, organize, and mobilize diverse residents of West Berkeley and surrounding communities and environmental health and justice allies to pressure Pacific Steel Casting to reduce the emissions of toxic chemicals, metals and other harmful pollutants into the air.
San Francisco
$20,000
Immigrant Power for Environmental Health
To serve on the steering committee of the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative, to provide leadership to the regional policy campaign on the cumulative impacts of air quality, to develop approaches for engaging Bay Area immigrant communities, and to conduct community-based participatory research identifying air pollutants within Mission and Bayview neighborhoods.
San Francisco
$87,100>
Jenifer Altman Foundation
To support the development of a policy brief on priority environmental health issues and a set of recommended names for administrative appointments to the incoming Obama presidential administration.
San Francisco
$5,000<
KPFA Radio
To support and develop its Environmental Justice Bureau, which amplifies the impact of grassroots community organizing by producing timely, relevant, and comprehensive coverage of environmental justice issues in the five-county Bay Area.
Berkeley
$15,000>
Literacy for Environmental Justice
To support core operations, launch a new strategic plan, and open the EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park, a landmark environmental education facility.
San Francisco
$20,000
Pacific Institute, Development, Environment, and Security
To build community capacity and train leaders to win environmental health and justice policy for appropriate goods movement through the Bay Area Freight Transport Justice program.
Oakland
$30,000
Public Health Institute
To support the Bay Area Environmental Health Coalition through active participation with an emphasis on policy development, implementation, and communication.
Oakland
$23,095>
Teleosis Institute
To support a series of meetings to engage in dialogue and identify responsibilities and commitments regarding the emerging issue of pharmaceutical pollution in the environment, and to develop programs for the safe and sound collection and disposal of pharmaceuticals to protect Bay Area waterways.
Berkeley
$15,000>
Tri-Valley CAREs
To facilitate the reduction and remediation of toxic and radioactive pollution emanating from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where research, design, and development of nuclear weapons is conducted.
Livermore
$15,000
< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.