{"id":4479,"date":"2012-10-17T23:34:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T23:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosefdn.org\/latest\/new-grantmaking-fund-to-protect-puget-sound-more\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:29:31","slug":"new-grantmaking-fund-to-protect-puget-sound-more","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"http:\/\/rosefdn.org\/es\/latest\/new-grantmaking-fund-to-protect-puget-sound-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New Grantmaking Fund to Protect Puget Sound &#038; More&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>En este n\u00famero:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New Grantmaking Fund to Protect Puget Sound (included below)<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Introducing\u00a0Jasmine Amons \u2013 Grants and Development Assistant<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>From <em>Nuevas voces<\/em> Student to Teacher\u00a0By Christina McGhee<\/li>\n<li>2012 <em>Surgen nuevas voces<\/em> Summer Advocacy Institute<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/fall12RFnewsletterForWeb.pdf\">Click here to read the full Fall 2012 Newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New Grantmaking Fund to Protect Puget Sound<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Por Tim Little<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have a big settlement pending. I can\u2019t tell you how much money we are talking about yet, it\u2019s still confidential. But it\u2019s going to be a lot \u2013 are you interested?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20138\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20138\" class=\"wp-image-20138\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elliott-Bay_Puget-Soundkeeper-596x396.jpg\" alt=\"Elliott Bay looking toward Seattle.    Photo courtesy of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance \" width=\"406\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elliott Bay looking toward Seattle. <br \/> <i> Photo courtesy of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Executive Directors dream about getting calls like this. At the Rose Foundation, sometimes it actually happens! For the past 15 years, I have occasionally received this kind of call. No matter the caller, the story is similar: A company was charged with breaking the law \u2013 either through ignorance, negligence, or as part of a calculated business risk, and a solution was negotiated. First and foremost, an agreement was reached to stop the pollution source or consumer threat. Second (and this is why they are calling Rose), the parties to the lawsuit have agreed to make a donation towards repairing some of the damage, or to lessen future threats to the environment or community. This is when we get the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>This call was about a legal settlement between the Seattle-based Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and BNSF Railroad. The lawsuit was related to pollution runoff from the BNSF Balmer Yard facility in Seattle into Elliott Bay and Puget Sound. We used the money to create the <strong><em>Fondo de Mitigaci\u00f3n y Gesti\u00f3n del Estrecho de Puget<\/em><\/strong> to relieve the original pollution damage by supporting community-based efforts to protect or improve the water quality of Puget Sound. This area is identified by state and federal agencies as providing critical habitat or migration routes for a variety of species, including threatened Chinook salmon, sixgill shark, orca whales, harbor seals, seabirds and more.<\/p>\n<h3>$1.5 Million for Puget Sound<\/h3>\n<p>Our newest grants fund is a whopper! In fact, the $1.5 million settlement is one of the largest ever in a citizen enforcement action involving stormwater discharges. But the size of the new Puget Fund is commensurate to the threat. According to the Washington State Department of Ecology, polluted stormwater runoff is the number-one source of toxic loading in the Sound. Heavy metals, especially copper, are particularly dangerous to the survival of salmon species, which are highly valued culturally and economically in the Puget Sound Region. Industrial stormwater can also contain toxic levels of other heavy metals, such as zinc and lead, as well as oils and suspended solids.<\/p>\n<p>After the shock of the call wore off, the honor started to set in. We know that grassroots activists in California are familiar with our programs to reinvest pollution mitigation payments into local communities and watersheds. And due to the complicated accounting and reporting requirements, we know most other foundations don\u2019t administer many settlements. But we didn\u2019t know that our work with settlements had attracted notice outside of California.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the honor is the size of the fund \u2013 and the initial award has already been supplemented by two more Soundkeeper settlements! We are humbled that the leading citizen enforcement group in Washington State would entrust us with such a large settlement. We\u2019re keenly aware that there is a lot we don\u2019t know about the Puget Sound ecosystem and the people who live there. To ensure that the Fund is grounded in the values and knowledge of the local community, we recruited a Puget Sound-based funding advisory board to guide our grant decisions.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cCall the Rose Foundation \u2013 It\u2019s What They Do.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>But the other part of the honor is how the Puget Soundkeeper found us. When they told their Seattle-area funders that they had solved a serious local stormwater problem and secured a record settlement, the folks at the Northwest Fund for the Environment and Russell Family Fund both, independently, told the Soundkeper the same thing: the BNSF settlement was larger than all of the Soundkeeper\u2019s past mitigation funds combined. The Seattle funders feared that administering the money and the resulting projects might distract the Soundkeeper from their core mission. They said, \u201cCall the Rose Foundation and ask them to set up a new grants fund, it\u2019s what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We are now in the middle of our first-ever Puget Sound grant cycle. In order to penetrate deeply into the community and make effective grants, we\u2019ve divided the money into two pots:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watershed Grants<\/em><\/strong> are geared towards larger groups who are prepared to submit a detailed proposal and administer a significant grant. By the end of 2012, we plan to award more than $500,000 in Watershed Grants supporting activities like water quality monitoring and testing, green infrastructure projects, shoreline or riparian restoration and other hands-on stewardship activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Grassroots Grants<\/em><\/strong> are intended for smaller groups who may be mostly volunteer driven, and may not have much experience in applying for foundation grants. Grassroots Grants will range from $1,000\u2013$10,000. After receiving a grant, all Grassroots grantees will become eligible for organizational capacity-building training including accounting, fundraising, planning, communications and more. This training will help them help them build their groups and become stronger even after the grant dollars have been spent.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund, including application instructions and deadlines,<a title=\"Puget Sound Stewardship &amp; Mitigation Fund\" href=\"\/es\/grant-seekers\/how-to-apply-for-a-grant\/puget-sound-stewardship-mitigation-fund\/\"> please click here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have a big settlement pending. I can\u2019t tell you how much money we are talking about yet, it\u2019s still confidential. 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