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| Grantee | Fund | Year | Amount | Region | Project Name | Issues | County | State | Website | Description | Details |
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| 603 Legal Aid | Consumer Financial Education Fund | 2024 | $100,000.00 | New Hampshire | Debt, Financial Resiliency, and Economic Empowerment (Debt-FREE) Project @ 603 Legal Aid | Advocacy;Education | New Hampshire | https://www.603legalaid.org/ | 603 Legal Aid (603LA) provides comprehensive legal assistance and advocacy to empower low-income individuals and families across New Hampshire through legal representation, advocacy, referrals, and education. The Debt-FREE Project is a new initiative for 603LA, but it is based on a successful project in Massachusetts and will provide vulnerable, low- income consumers with free legal assistance, information, and resources that address challenges stemming from consumer debt. As the only program of its kind in the state, the goal is to reach individuals at critical junctures in the life of a debt by ensuring that consumers have access to an advocate or adequate knowledge to assert their rights on their own. Simultaneously, the Project will empower those same consumers and their families by connecting them to information and resources outside of the legal process that can prevent a future economic crisis from becoming a legal one. 603LA will educate individuals to know their rights and assist them in navigating the legal system, including negotiating with debt collectors, representing consumers appearing for small claims hearings, and connecting clients to area resources and expert financial literacy materials. This intervention will keep their lights on at home, provide a more stable roof overhead, and empower families to develop skills and strategies to break through cycles of generational poverty toward a more stable financial future. | More details | |
| A Community Voice | Grassroots Leadership Fund | 2024 | $1,577.00 | Louisiana | Supplemental Grant | Louisiana | http://www.acommunityvoice.org/ | General support | More details | ||
| Algalita Marine Research and Education | California Watershed Protection Fund | 2024 | $25,000.00 | Los Angeles River and Dominguez Channel watersheds | River's End Watershed Cleanup and Education Program | Water Resources / Watershed Protection;Environmental Education | Los Angeles County;Orange County; Los Angeles County;Orange County;San Bernardino County | California | www.algalita.org | Algalita is known as the organization that started the movement to end plastic pollution over two decades ago. Last year, they opened the first-of-its-kind environmental research and learning center in Long Beach, CA. The facility is located at the end of the San Gabriel River, a 58-mile-long waterway that originates in the San Gabriel Mountains and flows westward through the Los Angeles Basin before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. For this program, they plan to improve the water quality in this region by removing approximately 18 tons of harmful anthropogenic debris from the Los Cerritos Wetlands, the San Gabriel River bank, and the coast of Seal Beach. Cleanups will be planned as part of education programming with high school students from Title 1 high schools throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties, with additional cleanup events for community members throughout the year. Additionally, samples collected from classroom field experiences and community cleanups will be used to populate an ever-growing River's End Watershed Program water quality database, in collaboration with the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research. This database is part of their Waterborne Plastics Assessment and Collection Technologies project, which seeks to advance technologies that remediate the damage plastic debris cause to individuals, communities, and ecosystems, and to reclaim the lost financial, energy, and greenhouse gas investment within those plastics debris for a circular economy. | More details |
| Amigos De Bolsa Chica | California Watershed Protection Fund | 2024 | $40,000.00 | Santa Ana River watershed including Orange County and the Inland Empire | Full Tidal Basin Trash Removal | Water Resources / Watershed Protection;Habitat / Wilderness / Preservation | Orange County | California | https://www.amigosdebolsachica.org | Amigos de Bolsa Chica (ABC) has been advocating for and stewarding the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Orange County since 1976. One section of the reserve, the Full Tidal Basin, has a direct connection to the ocean through a tidal inlet, which allows for near-constant flushing of seawater. As a result, trash has accumulated on the rocks that surround parts of the basin, which are difficult to access and dangerous to walk on. The complexity of navigating this area means that little to no clean-up has been done in this area for a decade. The trash also accumulates on adjacent mudflats, which are critical foraging spaces for many endangered and threatened species of birds, fish, invertebrates, reptiles etc. Eventually, what isn’t deposited onto the rocks gets flushed out into the ocean and accumulates on local beaches. This project will be a dual-level preliminary clean-up to establish a baseline/clean slate for future monitoring and cleanup efforts. One level involves hiring a crew of experienced restoration technicians from the Los Cerritos Wetlands Stewards (LCWS). LCWS manages the cleanups along the Los Angeles River in similar conditions to this project area. A second level involves bringing in volunteers to remove trash from areas that do not put the volunteers at risk, such as the vegetated areas adjacent to the rocks. This group of volunteers will be able to witness and learn from this restoration/cleanup project while also playing an important role in it. A comprehensive cleanup of the Bolsa Chica’s Full Tidal Basin will immediately impact the water quality in the reserve, with the effects trickling down to the other nearby beaches and coastal marsh environments. | More details |
| Ascend Wilderness Experience | California Wildlands Grassroots Fund | 2024 | $10,000.00 | North Coast | Wilderness Stewardship Expansion – Kids, Teens & Adults | Environmental Education;Habitat / Wilderness / Preservation;Water Resources / Watershed Protection | Humboldt County;Shasta County;Siskiyou County;Trinity County | California | http://ascendwilderness.org/ | To support teen and adult backpacking and backcountry trail restoration projects in the Trinity Alps, achieving the twin goals of restoring impacted rural trails and building the conservation community in Trinity County. | More details |
| Asian Americans United | Consumer Financial Education Fund | 2024 | $60,000.00 | Pennsylvania | Increasing Financial Literacy of Asian and Asian American Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia | Advocacy;Education | Pennsylvania | www.aaunited.org | For more than three decades, Asian Americans United (AAU) has worked in Philadelphia’s Asian American communities and in broader multiracial coalitions around quality education, youth leadership, anti-Asian violence, immigrant rights, neighborhood development, and folk arts and cultural preservation. AAU has long taught Asian and Asian American youth ages 14-18 on financial literacy and how to be a safe consumer through youth engagement programs, but this grant will allow them to increase and deepen trainings for youth as well as expand and offer workshops for adults and elders on a more regular basis. Asian immigrant adults are an especially unbanked and vulnerable population due to language barriers, fears of harm due to immigrant status, and xenophobic stereotypes that discriminate against AAPIs seeking financial services. AAU will host public workshops on financial literacy adapted for each stage of life: high school, college, adulthood, and retirement. The group will also translate financial education materials into high-need Asian languages to address language barriers and conduct outreach to elders in the Asian community through locations such as senior centers and adult daycares. | More details | |
| Audubon Canyon Ranch | California Watershed Protection Fund | 2024 | $30,000.00 | Watersheds tributary to Tomales Bay | Walker Creek Watershed - An Estuary Stewardship Project | Water Resources / Watershed Protection;Environmental Health & Justice;Environmental Education;Habitat / Wilderness / Preservation | Marin County | California | www.egret.org | Audubon Canyon Ranch (ACR) stewards a system of nature preserves totaling 5,000+ acres across 26 properties in Marin and Sonoma counties. The Walker Creek Watershed Estuary Stewardship Project is a collaborative clean-up effort of 260 acres of wetlands surrounding Walker Creek Estuary at its transition into Tomales Bay, including floodplains, highway roadsides, and tidally influenced shorelines. This effort entails planning and outreach with local landowners, schools, and public stakeholders, and it will result in the collection of human-made debris, preventing long-term residual pollution from entering the bay and watershed. The weeklong estuary clean-up will take place in late fall/ early winter and will be supported by a Conservation Corps North Bay crew and the Tomales Bay Working Group. This work will help ACR to identify common sources, materials, and key locations needing attention. A narrative report on the cleanup will be distributed to partners with additional follow-up surveying to take place following the subsequent storm season. | More details |
| Beavers Northwest | Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund | 2024 | $40,000.00 | Central Puget Sound; ; Beavers Northwest supports beaver coexistence work in several municipalities around the Puget Sound region. Our water quality monitoring program would be focused at three sites within municipalities in which we already work. These may include the City of Lake Stevens (WRIA 7, Snohomish Watershed), City of Bellevue and City of Kirkland (WRIA 8, Lake Washington watershed), and City of Tumwater (WRIA 13, Deschutes River and Budd Inlet watershed). Additional beaver site assessments may occur in WRIA 5, Stillaguamish River watershed; WRIA 9, Green-Duwamish Watershed; or WRIA 10, Puyallup/White watershed. Beavers impacts occur in all Puget Sound watersheds. To ensure transferability of lessons learned and encourage better understanding of local beaver impacts, this project will occur throughout at least three of the watersheds listed. If the water quality pilot program is successful, it will be expanded to other watersheds in future years. | Community Science: Urban Beavers and Water Quality Pilot | Water Resources/Watershed Protection;Environmental Education;Land Management/Urban Sprawl/Open Space | King County;Pierce County;Snohomish County;Thurston County | Washington | www.beaversnw.org | Beavers Northwest proposes to implement an urban beaver water quality pilot program. This program will engage volunteers to take water quality measurements at the inflow and outflow of urban beaver complexes. This data will be used to better understand beaver impacts to water quality on a regional level focusing on the correlation between the presence of beavers and greater reductions in nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and some heavy metals. With local data to support this idea, Beavers Northwest will encourage improved beaver management for local municipalities. Community engagement through volunteer recruitment and training as well as improvement of outreach materials will contribute to a greater connection between individual volunteers and program participants and the watersheds in which they live, work, and play. They will embrace beavers as vital neighbors in our urban communities and as agents of water quality improvement. If successful, this water quality data collection pilot program will continue at additional locations with more volunteers. | More details |
| Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust | Consumer Financial Education Fund | 2024 | $62,000.00 | Connecticut | Consumer Financial Empowerment Capacity Building Program | Advocacy;Education;Other (explain below); In addition to hosting classes and workshops, BNT provides one-on-one counseling services. | Connecticut | www.bntweb.org | Building Neighborhood Trust (BNT), founded in 1986, combats financial and housing insecurity, income inequality, and homelessness in Connecticut, focusing on Fairfield County. Over 85% of their clients make less than the average median household income, with 66% identifying as BIPOC, 27% as Hispanic, and 70% as female. Their Consumer Financial Empowerment Capacity Building Program is a 2-year initiative in Bridgeport, CT, targeting enhanced financial literacy and combating predatory banking practices. It includes Financial Coaching, which offers up to 8 one-on-one sessions per client. The program will expand BNT's counseling services with a new HUD certified housing counselor trained in financial coaching and will integrate additional content into existing classes and workshop curriculum. The new suite of materials will cover money management, goal planning, avoiding predatory banking practices, first time home ownership, and more, benefiting primarily low to moderate-income minorities in the Greater Bridgeport area. | More details | |
| Bunny Friend Neighborhood Association | Grassroots Leadership Fund | 2024 | $1,577.00 | Louisiana | Supplemental Grant | Louisiana | https://www.bunnyfriend.org/ | General support | More details |
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