Though the Grassroots Fund has been making grants since 2003, this list only contains grassroots grantees from 2015-2022. Click here for an interactive database of all of our grantees.
Spring 2023
Comite Progreso de Lamont
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Committee for a Better Arvin
$7,500
To advocate for environmental health protections and community investments in the Kern County budget process, ensure proper implementation of the county’s planned flood mitigation efforts and participate in the Arvin/Lamont AB617 process to improve local air quality.
Community Environmental Advocates Foundation
For General Support
$7,500
To oppose the reopening of the Idaho-Maryland gold mine though citizen advocacy, public outreach and participation in the county’s environmental review process.
Community Soil Foundation
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Extended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County
$4,000
To offer land-based education in regenerative agriculture, habitat restoration, and volunteer-driven fieldwork at the Larkfield Community Garden & Learning Center.
Coyotl + Macehualli
For General Support
$7,500
To advocate for conservation, remediation and decolonization of our relationship with natural resources and plant and animal relatives within our community.
La Asociacion de Gente Unida por el Agua (AGUA)
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Community Water Center
$7,500
To secure safe, clean and affordable drinking water in California’s San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast through water justice movement building and community-led campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, groundwater protection; and PFAS and Chrome 6 regulation.
Native Health in Native Hands
For General Support
$7,500
To empower native youth and other native community members to become caretakers of ancestral lands by providing opportunities to access nature and learn traditional ecological skills.
No Penny Opera
For General Support
$7,500
To provide healthy, sustainable, and free food to low-income residents in the Mission District of San Francisco, along with garden training and seedlings from the community garden so residents can grow their own food.
Sonoma County Tomorrow, Inc.
For General Support
$5,000
To fund a lawsuit requiring a full Environmental Impact Assessment of the proposed development of the Sonoma Developmental Center’s 750 acres of wildlife habitat and historical sites.
Sonoma Safe Ag Safe Schools
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Conservation Action Fund for Education
$5,000
To educate communities and local and state leaders on how to manage roadside vegetation without synthetic herbicides like RoundUP.
Winter 2022
Bring Back the Kern
For General Support
$5,000
To advocate for the return of water to the Kern River in Bakersfield for the benefit of communities and wildlife.
California Field School
For General Support
$2,000
To help Bay Area youth of color develop skills, familiarity, and connection with traveling by bicycle, and learn about the social and ecological histories of the land they live on, through bike tours and educational programing
Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities
For General Support
$5,000
To educate and advocate for policies and infrastructure that support low-carbon, healthy transportation in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.
Committee for a Better Arvin
For General Support
$7,500
To advocate for environmental justice for disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley by participating in the AB- 617 implementation process for the city of Arvin, advocating for a state pesticide application notification system, and providing community input on the Kern County budget in support of infrastructure investments.
Community Action Project
For General Support
$4,000
To protect open space and promote sustainable development through citizen engagement in planning and land use decisions and litigation of the Calaveras County General Plan.
Dragonspunk
For General Support
$4,000
To meet the challenges of food insecurity, urban blight, environmental injustice, soil depletion, carbon footprint reduction, community building, and habitat restoration, through community gardens in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco.
Families for a Future
For General Support
$5,000
To build a youth-led, family centered, intergenerational movement in Los Angeles to address the water crisis and climate catastrophe.
Friends of Puvungna
For General Support
$5,000
To restore, preserve, and protect Puvungna, a 10,000 year-old sacred site of the Acjachemem and Tongva tribes on the campus of CA State University, Long Beach
Yusef Miller from ICEJ speaking at the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
Interfaith Coalition for Earth Justice
For General Support
$7,500
To educate, equip, and mobilize faith communities to work for environmental and climate justice though policy advocacy, direct action and educational outreach.
Moving South Berkeley Forward
For General Support
$7,500
To engage South Berkeley High School students of color in the creation of a youth-led community garden site, which will simultaneously improve air quality while providing local healthy food and a lush community greenspace for all.
PLACE
For General Support
$4,500
To support a community sustainability hub which showcases sustainable living practices, urban homesteading and affordable housing, and fosters community resiliency and preparedness.
Protect Wild Petaluma
For General Support
$4,000
To support community engagement and litigation efforts to prevent development of the north end of the Petaluma River, which would increase flood risk, destroy critical fish and wildlife, and reduce an important site for wetland carbon sequestration.
Rich City Rays
For General Support
$3,500
To recruit, train and equip a flotilla of “kayaktivists” to challenge the oil and gas industry through on-water protests and disruptions in Richmond, CA.
The Green Life
For General Support
$7,500
To engage carceral system impacted leaders, youth, and Oakland residents in educational activities that foster a love of local waterways and the coastal East Bay, including healthy physical recreation, community service projects, and learning about habitat restoration, pollution prevention, and stream protection.
The Plant Exchange
For General Support
$3,000
To promote waste reduction, sustainable gardening, urban farming and environmental justice through educational programming and the rescue, repair and redistribution of plants, pottery, and other gardening items that are headed to landfill.
Tolowa Dunes Stewards
For General Support
$7,500
To engage youth, tribal members, and community volunteers in education, advocacy and hands-on restoration of Tolowa Dunes State Park and the Lake Earl Wildlife Area.
A tide pooling event hosted by Tolowa Dunes Stewards as part of the 2022 Public Education series with Redwood Parks Conservancy.
Valley Improvement Projects
For General Support
$7,500
To inform, protect, and empower environmental justice communities in Stanislaus County and the Northern San Joaquin Valley by focusing on air quality, pesticide exposure, sustainable waste practices, safe drinking water access, climate justice, and youth outreach.
Summer 2022
Florence Fang Community Farm
For General Support
$5,000
To build a strong community by pursuing food and environmental justice in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood through regenerative community farming.
California Urban Streams Alliance – The Stream Team
For General Support
$5,000
To protect, enhance, manage, and restore the biological integrity of crucial California river systems while simultaneously providing educational opportunities about these ecosystems targeting rural communities in Butte and Mendocino Counties.
Center for Farmworker Families
For General Support
$7,500
To provide a central resource center for farmworkers and strengthen relationships with ally organizations in order to pursue local and state campaigns to restrict hazardous pesticide use and inform impacted residents about pesticides.
Community RePower Movement
For General Support
$5,000
To conduct a major clean up of the Compton Creek channel, which will address flooding, water quality, water supply, ecological health, public health, community education, homeless services and neighborhood beautification for the surrounding underserved community.
Friends of Fife Creek
For General Support
$2,500
To inform, protect, and empower environmental justice communities in Stanislaus County and the Northern San Joaquin Valley by focusing on air quality, pesticide exposure, sustainable waste practices, safe drinking water access, climate justice, and youth outreach.
Gardena Willows Wetlands Preserve
For General Support
$7,500
To provide environmental stewardship and public education about the Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve, the last intact remnant of the former Dominguez Slough, an 
important vernal marsh and riparian forest in L.A. County.
NorCal Resilience Network
For General Support
$4,000
To facilitate a leadership transition, moving from being white founder-led organization to BIPoC frontline community leadership, and shifting power to frontline communities as the experts in building resilience.
Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance
For General Support
$4,000
To foster fire resilience and responsible land stewardship in Northern Mendocino by hosting community outreach events and developing a local workforce to perform regenerative forest health and fire prevention work.
Oakland Climate Action Coalition
For General Support
$7,500
To unify Oakland community organizations in creating equitable climate solutions that advance racial, economic, environmental, and climate justice by facilitating community-driven climate resilience planning and engagement in City of Oakland plans, such as the Equitable Climate Action Plan 2030, General Plan, and City budget.
Sama Sama Cooperative
For General Support
$4,000
To support a 4-week cultural and environmental summer camp for Bay Area Filipinx youth with an emphasis on Filipino language, traditional arts, and community organizing through an environmental justice lens.
Soul Flower Farm
For General Support
$7,500
To provide people of color and aligned organizations with hands-on lessons in growing food and medicine, taking care of our environment, and utilizing sustainable growing and living practices.
Wholly H2O
For General Support
$7,500
To help communities of the San Francisco Bay Area connect with their watershed ecosystems through education programs, “Walking Waterhoods” tours, citizen science events, and an informational podcast.
Wolf Creek Community Alliance
For General Support
$6,000
To protect, preserve, and restore the Wolf Creek Watershed through watershed stewardship, water quality testing, and public education and action on local issues such as pollution, climate resilience, threats to wildlife, and injustices against local tribes.
Spring 2022
Campesinas Unidas Del Valle De San Joaquin
For General Support
$5,000
To work with rural, low-income, farmworker communities to grow sustainable food gardens, conduct outreach and communication regarding pesticides, mercury, clean water and other environmental hazards.
Comité Progreso de Lamont
For General Support
$5,000
To advocate for environmental health protections and community investments in the Kern County budget process, and ensure proper implementation of the county’s planned flood mitigation efforts and improvements to Lamont Park.
Cudahy Alliance for Justice
For General Support
$5,000
To ensure the City of Cudahy and KIPP SoCal work with the Department of Substances Control to conduct the proper studies and clean-up before a new school is built on the toxic site of a historic metal foundry.
Frontline Catalysts
For General Support
$5,000
To empower frontline youth to lead the movement for transformative climate justice through the Climate Justice Youth Leadership Development Program, a curriculum for middle and high school students in frontline communities in Oakland.
Gill Tract Farm Coalition
For Tools for Sustainability- Building Project
$3,000
To sustain a volunteer-run urban community farm, provide hands-on agroecological programming, and donate fresh healthy produce to reduce community food insecurity for Bay Area residents.
Los Osos Sustainability Group
For General Support
$4,000
To advocate for policies and decision making that ensure the long-term sustainability of the Los Osos Groundwater Basin, the sole source of water for the Los Osos community, area farms, and groundwater-dependent environmentally sensitive habitat.
OneFam/Bikes 4 Life
For On the Bricks
$3,000
To support a three-month leadership development program for Oakland youth ages 16-21, which provides job training, political and social movement education, and a supportive community at the Bikes 4 Life Bicycle Shop in West Oakland.
Sacramento Climate Coalition
For General Support
$5,000
To promote environmental justice through advocacy, train BIPOC and grassroots leaders in climate emergency mitigation and adaptation policies, and mobilize support for these policies at the Sacramento city, county, and municipal utility.
Safe Ag Safe Schools
For General Support
$5,000
To push local and state decision makers to provide advance notification of hazardous pesticide applications in Monterey County, and build the power and knowledge of local communities to participate in decisions that impact their lives and health.
Save Del Puerto Canyon
For Save Del Puerto Canyon Community Engagement
$5,000
To engage, educate, and empower the local community to stand against the proposed Del Puerto Canyon Reservoir, which threatens the air, culture, history, wellbeing, and access to local recreation of the residents of Patterson.
Sonoma Safe Ag Safe Schools
For Petaluma Non-Toxic Integrated Pesticide Management Plan
$3,000
To create and approve a non-toxic Integrated Pesticide Management Plan that eliminates the use of pesticides in parks, playgrounds and public spaces in the City of Petaluma.
Winter 2021
Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities
For General Support
$3,000
To educate and advocate for policies and infrastructure that support low-carbon, healthy transportation in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.
Committee for a Better Shafter
For General Support
$5,000
To participate in the ongoing AB 617 process to reduce air pollution in Shafter, and continue to advocate for environmental health and justice.
Community Environmental Advocates Foundation
For General Support
$4,000
To oppose the reopening of the Idaho-Maryland gold mine though citizen advocacy, public outreach and education.
Eureka Bike Kitchen
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Redwood Community Action Agency
$4,000
To provide low and no-cost bicycles and bicycle repair, along with the sources and skills necessary to maintain them, to members of the community in west Eureka.
Klamath Forest Alliance
For General Support
$4,000
To protect over 5 million acres of mature forests, watersheds and wildlife on public land in the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion by actively commenting and litigating timber sales, stopping post-fire logging, participating in Forest Plan revisions, and collaborating with Native tribes, local communities and US Forest Service in landscape scale fire planning.
Moving South Berkeley Forward
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Ecology Center
$5,000
To engage Berkeley High students of color in the creation of an urban greenway and community garden on the previous Santa Fe Right of Way railroad site in South Berkeley.
Point Molate Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Blue Frontier Campaign
$3,000
To advocate for the conservation of Point Molate, the last undeveloped natural headland on the San Francisco Bay, as a public resource and regional park.
The Green Life
For The Green Life Reentry and Youth Leadership Watershed Steward Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$3,000
To engage carceral system impacted leaders, youth, and Oakland residents in educational activities that foster a love of local waterways and the coastal East Bay, including healthy physical recreation, team-building activities, community service projects, and learning about habitat restoration, pollution prevention, stream protection.
Fall 2021
350 Sacramento
For Student Environmental Activist Training (SEAT)
$5,000
To hire five youth interns in the Sacramento area to expand their knowledge and skills around climate justice and movement building and work on a 6-month climate justice activism project to benefit the community.
Bring Back the Kern
For Environmental Justice for Bakersfield
Fiscal Sponsor: Kern River Parkway Foundation
$5,000
To advocate for the return of water to the Kern River for the benefit of communities and wildlife.
California Field School
For Freewheel: A Bike Club for Girls & Gender Nonconforming Young People
Fiscal Sponsor: The Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living
$2,000
To help Bay Area girls and gender nonconforming youth develop skills, familiarity, and connection with traveling by bicycle, and learn about the social and ecological histories of the land they live on through Freewheel, a monthly bike-riding club.
Community Action Project
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch
$3,000
To protect open space and promote sustainable development through citizen engagement and litigation of the Calaveras County General Plan.
Community Hiking Club
For Piru Creek Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Program
$2,000
To promote stewardship, and remove trash, graffiti and user-created swimming holes that threaten steelhead trout populations along Los Angeles County’s much used, Wild and Scenic designated, Piru Creek.
Don’t Dump On San Benito
For Fight the Fivefold Expansion of San Benito County’s Landfill
Fiscal Sponsor: Environment in the Public Interest
$5,000
To stop the tenfold expansion of San Benito County’s landfill (from 95 to 483 acres) to accommodate garbage which would be shipped in to this lower-income, majority Latinx community from Silicon Valley.
Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment
For Stop the Block! Campaign to Ensure Safe Passage for Animals in the Rim of the Valley Corridor
$3,000
To raise public awareness and support for the protection of the Los Pinetos wildlife undercrossing- the only safe wildlife passage under Highway 14 in he Newhall Pass area.
The Plant Exchange
For General Support
$3,000
To promote waste reduction, sustainable gardening, urban farming and environmental justice through educational programming and the rescue, repair and redistribution of plants, pottery, and other gardening items that are headed to landfill.
Zero Waste Humboldt
For Zero Waste Business Cooperative Bulk Purchase and Truth in Foodware Project
$2,000
To develop a Cooperative Bulk Purchase Program of food service items to help small businesses and schools reduce the per unit cost of compostable foodware and ensure their compliance with the City of Arcata’s ordinance to reduce plastics and single use discarded materials.
Summer 2021
Battle Creek Alliance
For General Support Fiscal Sponsor: Signal of Love (SOL) Communications
$5,000
To collect long-term, year-round data regarding the diminished water quality downstream from clearcut and salvage-logged land in the Sierra and Cascade mountain ranges, and pursue litigation to promote resource conservation and protect the water supply from further degradation.
La Asociacion de Gente Unida por el Agua (AGUA)
For General Support Fiscal Sponsor: Community Water Center
$5,000
To secure safe, clean and affordable drinking water in California’s San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast through water justice movement building and community-led campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, groundwater protection; and PFAS and 1,2,3-TCP regulation.
Lost Sierra Food Project
For General Support
$5,000
To increase access to locally grown produce for low-income Plumas County residents, and provide local workforce development programs and ecological farming educational opportunities for the community.
Valley Improvement Projects
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
$5,000
To support climate justice work, advocacy to reduce local plastic waste, and outreach to youth and farmworkers on environmental justice issues in low-income, Spanish speaking communities in Stanislaus County.
Sama Sama Cooperative
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$5,000
To support a 4-week cultural and environmental summer camp for Bay Area Filipinx youth, with an emphasis on Filipino language, traditional arts, and community organizing through an environmental justice lens.
Wholly H2O
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$3,000
To help communities of the San Francisco Bay Area connect with their watershed ecosystems through education programs, “Walking Waterhoods” tours, citizen science events, and an informational podcast.
Spring 2021
California Environmental Technology Education Network
For WebGIS Training for Teacher Credential Students
$3,500
To provide professional development workshops for teacher credential students in the use of WebGIS and GPS units as an instructional tool for environmental education and stewardship fieldwork.
Gill Tract Farm Coalition
For Monarch Protection and Education Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$3,000
To protect, restore, and improve the redwood grove that hosts the largest number of overwintering monarchs in the East Bay through community-driven stewardship and restoration.
Los Osos Sustainability Group
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Ecologistics
$5,000
To advocate for policies and decision making that ensure the long-term sustainability of the Los Osos Groundwater Basin, the sole source of water for the Los Osos Community, area farms, and groundwater-dependent environmentally sensitive habitat.
Oakland Climate Action Coalition
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)
$5,000
To unify Oakland community organizations in creating equitable climate solutions that advance racial, economic, environmental, and climate justice through leading and facilitating community-driven climate resilience planning and engagement in City of Oakland plans, such as the Equitable Climate Action Plan 2030, General Plan, and the 2021-2023 City budget.
Safe Ag Safe Schools
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
$4,000
To engage residents in efforts to reduce pesticide threats in Monterey County, push local and state decision makers to provide advance notification of hazardous pesticide applications, and continue to build the power and knowledge of the community to participate in decisions that impact their lives and health.
Winter 2020
Alliance for Environmental Leadership
For the Social Media Outreach Program
Fiscal Sponsor: Planning and Conservation League Foundation
$5,000
To implement a coordinated social media outreach program that will grow civic engagement and advocacy among people of color and youth in the Sierra Foothills.
Bay Area Green Tours
For the Virtual Experience Program
$5,000
To create virtual educational tours and digital content for Bay Area residents about local environmental topics, from sustainable and regenerative agriculture, to waste management and food justice.
Committee for a Better Arvin
For General Support
$5,000
To provide community input on the Kern General Plan update and yearly county budget approval, administer a community garden for 40 families, and continue environmental justice advocacy for disadvantaged communities in the Central Valley.
Point Molate Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Blue Frontier Campaign
$5,000
To advocate for the conservation of Point Molate, the last undeveloped natural headland on San Francisco Bay, as a public resource and a regional park.
WildPlaces
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
$5,000
To develop online and virtual activities that embrace Two Spirit and indigenous ceremonial practices and prepare community leaders to implement stewardship projects on the Tule River.
Fall 2020
Florence Fang Community Farm
For the Florence Fang Community Farm’s Black Organic Farmers Program
$5,000
To revitalize the land and strengthen food sovereignty, security, and access, by creating a sustainable, regenerative food system that serves and empowers the Black community and cultivates intercultural learning and connections across communities of all backgrounds in Bayview-Hunters Point.
Foothills Water Network
For Save the Bear River: Stop Centennial Dam
Fiscal Sponsor: American River Watershed Institute
$5,000
To stop the proposed Centennial Dam, which would flood the last free-flowing and publicly accessible stretch of the Bear River, destroying the native fishery, over 100 Native American cultural sites, popular recreation opportunities, and nearly 35 homes.
Greenfield Walking Group
For General Support
$5,000
To support the engagement of South Kern residents in health-promoting recreation opportunities and community advocacy efforts to prioritize inclusive land use and improved infrastructure in the county budget and Kern General Plan Update.
Laguna Creek Watershed Council
For General Support
$2,000
To develop and disseminate educational information on the effects of climate change in the Laguna Creek watershed and the Sacramento region, and work with partners to create a mitigation strategy focused on tree planting.
Mycelium Youth Network
For General Support for Climate Resilient Classrooms
$5,000
To empower young people in Oakland and San Francisco to proactively respond to the realities of climate change through the Climate Resilient Classrooms Initiative, a scalable model for climate adaptation and mitigation in 3rd – 12th grade education.
Save California Salmon
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
$5,000
To provide support and resources to rural and Native American communities through online classes, trainings, and a speaker series, to continue mobilizing against new dams, diversions, and development projects that detrimentally impact Northern California’s rivers, salmon, and communities.
Trees Foundation
For Website Revamp 2020! Phase 2
$2,500
To continue the redesign of Trees’ website and database and modernize their digital communications strategy to enable broader outreach and more sophisticated messaging to partners, donors, and constituents.
Summer 2020
All One Ocean
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$3,000
To provide engaging and thoughtful environmental education about the impact of pollution on our Oceans, and teach sustainable alternative solutions which will promote environmental preservation, change consumer behavior, and ultimately create policy change.
Battle Creek Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Signal of Love (SOL) Communications
$3,000
To collect long-term, year-round data regarding the diminished water quality of streams downstream of clearcut and salvage logged land in the Sierra and Cascade mountain ranges, and to pursue litigation to promote resource conservation and protect the water supply from further degradation.
Indigenous Permaculture Program
For Santiago Food Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Ecology Center
$4,000
To grow and distribute food through the Santiago Food Project Garden and provide bilingual Spanish/English programing based on traditional indigenous agricultural practices to communities in the San Antonio and Fruitvale Districts of Oakland.
La Asociación de Gente Unida por el Agua (AGUA)
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Community Water Center
$5,000
To advocate for safe, clean, and affordable drinking water in low-income communities of color in California’s San Joaquin Valley, by working to clean up existing pollution and preventing further contamination.
LEAF (Local Ecology & Agriculture Fremont)
For General Support
$3,000
To scale up activities to feed at-risk residents by expanding their community garden acreage, increasing donations of organically- grown food to the Tri-Cities Volunteer Food Bank, and creating a new Urban Farm to bring healthy food to people with obesity and diabetes risks through a county-driven Food-As-Medicine program.
Lost Sierra Food Project
For General Support
$4,000
To manage an educational and production farm in Plumas County to increase access to local foods, provide workforce development programs, and create educational food and farming opportunities for rural, low-income residents.
Sacred Roots
For Sacred Roots Food Solidarity Project
Fiscal Sponsor: New Hope Covenant Church
$4,000
To build a network of “mutual support pods” throughout Fruitvale, San Antonio, and East Oakland, including a network of home-based gardens, medicine sowers, medicine makers, and artists, to feed, heal, and connect communities of color during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Save Del Puerto Canyon
For Save Del Puerto Canyon Community Engagement
$4,500
To engage, educate, and empower the community to stand against the proposed Del Puerto Canyon Reservoir, which threatens the air, culture, history, and well-being of the residents of Patterson, CA.
Save North Petaluma River
For General Support
$2,500
To support community engagement and litigation efforts to prevent development of the north end of the Petaluma River, which would increase flood risk, destroy critical fish and wildlife, and reduce an important site for wetland carbon sequestration.
Ten Mile Creek Watershed Council
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
$3,000
To improve the riparian and woodland environment of the Ten Mile Creek watershed through community environmental education and outreach, stream restoration, habitat improvement, forest management, and forest fire risk reduction efforts.
Wolf Creek Community Alliance
For General Support
$5,000
To continue a 16-year water quality monitoring program to improve creek access and water quality and promote projects to restore and protect the Wolf Creek Watershed.
Spring 2020
Center for Farmworker Families
For Watsonville Center for a Healthy Environment
$5,000
To provide a central resource center for farmworkers and strengthen relationships with ally organizations, in order to pursue local and state campaigns to restrict hazardous pesticide use and inform impacted residents about pesticides.
Comité Progreso de Lamont
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Greenfield Walking Group
$5,000
To provide community input on the Kern General Plan update and county budget approval and advocate for infrastructure improvements and environmental health protections for disadvantaged communities.
Committee for a Better Shafter
For General Support
$5,000
To participate in the ongoing AB 617 processes to reduce air pollution in Shafter, ensure its implementation, and advocate for disadvantaged communities.
NorCal Resilience Network
For Resilience Hubs Initiative
Fiscal Sponsor: Empowerment Works
$3,000
To support the Neighborhood Resilience Hubs Initiative in creating a network of demonstration sites in the East Bay that integrate climate solutions, community building, and disaster preparedness to help neighborhoods create climate resiliency hubs.
Safe Ag Safe Schools
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
$5,000
To engage residents in efforts to reduce pesticide threats in Monterey County, including cultivating media attention, monitoring the regulatory process, and training and mobilizing residents to participate in government decision-making.
SPAWNERS
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project
$4,000
To provide hands-on ecosystem education and foster appreciation and stewardship of the San Pablo Creek Watershed.
Zero Waste Humboldt
For General Support
$3,000
To increase capacity for grassroots organizing and recruit and train new leaders to promote proactive waste prevention strategies in businesses, partner organizations, local government, schools, and youth groups in Humboldt County, including establishing a local Zero Waste Business Certification Program, and increase citizen science monitoring.
Winter 2019
Alliance for Environmental Leadership
For Mobilize Grassroots Action in Support of the Citizen Initiated Smart Growth Plan
Fiscal Sponsor: PCL Foundation
$5,000
To support of the Citizen Initiated Smart Growth Plan (CISGP), a smart-growth alternative to the County of Placer’s proposed new industrial city built on 15 sq. miles of prairie wetland. Funds will help mobilize citizen action against the County’s Plan and create a compelling message about the CISGP.
Bike Lodi
For Public Bicycle Repair Station and Street Supplies Program
Fiscal Sponsor: PCL Foundation
$4,000
To support youth outreach about safe bike riding, and to support a public bicycle repair station at the Lodi Public Library.
Campesinas Unidas Del Valle De San Joaquin
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: PCL Foundation
$5,000
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o collaborate with other organizations and media to conduct outreach and communication regarding pesticides, mercury, clean water, and other environmental hazards by holding educational community meetings and coordinating with local health agencies
Committee for a Better Arvin
For General Support
$5,000
To collaborate with other groups to provide community input to the Kern General Plan update, and participate in county budget approval to advocate for disadvantaged communities.
Common Vision
For General Support
$5,000
To support schools and districts to cultivate outdoor garden learning spaces that inspire integrated academic learning, environmental education, wellness, character development, cohesive cross-cultural community involvement, and long-term earth stewardship.
Environmental Justice Caucus
For Teaching Environmental and Climate Change Literacy
Fiscal Sponsor: Rose Foundation
$5,000
To provide workshops and mentoring groups in which Oakland Unified School District teachers learn about local climate and environmental justice issues and develop and share climate-related lesson arcs meaningful to their students’ lives.
Klamath Forest Alliance
For General Support
$5,000
To protect 2.6 million acres of mature forests, watersheds and wildlife on the Klamath and Six Rivers National Forests by active participation in planning, commenting, collaborating, monitoring and litigating projects while applying Traditional Ecological Knowledge, science, law, policy, place-based knowledge, and community needs.
Lead to Life
For Oakland People’s Alchemy Lab and Tree Planting CeremoniesFiscal Sponsor: Planting Justice
$1,500To convene and deliver a “People’s Alchemy Lab” in Oakland in the Winter of 2019, which will serve as a creative design space forparticipants from grassroots organizations and families directly affected by violence to heal, connect, imagine, and co-design transformational and regenerative events.
Raptors Are the Solution
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$3,000
To continue a lawsuit against the CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) – winning would mean DPR must comply with the California Environmental Quality Act in the future when it re-registers harmful rodenticides every year.
Sacramento Climate Coalition
For Climate Emergency Campaign
Fiscal Sponsor: The Green Incubator
$1,500
To bring together leaders and young activists from throughout the region with a special emphasis on those who represent communities of color and other disadvantaged communities for a two-day training on how to present the Climate Emergency Campaign in local communities.
Sequoia Chapter, California Native Plant Society
For China Creek Park Project
Fiscal Sponsor: California Native Plant Society
$3,000
To restore China Creek, a Fresno County undeveloped Park with 140 acres of remnant Valley Oak woodland and savannah; and to maintain a signed nature trail for the enjoyment and education of the community.
The Green Life
For Green Life Environmental Leadership Training and Education Program for Returning Citizens
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$3,000
To engage in grassroots environmental training, education, and community outreach with men and women who have been recently released from prison and are reentering the community. Program participants gain leadership skills and educational tools in order to make significant contributions to local environmental concerns and policies such as environmental health and justice, urban agriculture, toxic waste, air quality, climate change, and sustainability.
Fall 2019
Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Study Center Inc.
$5,000
To mobilize the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood on issues of environmental and economic justice, combining community organizing with education, advocacy, and direct services.
Community Bike Kitchen at Jefferson School
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Redwood Community Action Agency
$5,000
To provide low and no-cost bicycles, along with the resources and skills necessary to repair and maintain them, to all members of the community in Eureka, particularly in the under-served neighborhood of Westside Eureka.
Foothills Water Network
For Save Bear River: Stop Centennial Dam
Fiscal Sponsor: American River Watershed Institute
$4,000
To stop the proposed Centennial dam on the Bear River, which, if built, would flood the last free-flowing and publicly accessible stretch of the Bear, destroying the native fishery, over 100 Native American cultural sites, popular recreation opportunities, and over 25 homes.
Fossil Free California
For DivestCalSTRS Intergenerational Justice Campaign
$4,000
To end financial support for climate-damaging fossil fuels by calling for divestment by the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) – the eleventh largest public pension fund in the world – with more than $6B invested in fossil fuel extraction companies. The Intergenerational Justice Campaign unites low-income students, public school teachers, and retired pension fund beneficiaries to advocate for divestment.
Mycelium Youth Network
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Planting Justice
$5,000
To empower young people in Oakland to proactively respond to the realities of climate change using hands-on skills training in disaster preparedness, urban homesteading, permaculture, and ecological sustainability and leadership.
Redwood Empire Trout Unlimited
For General Support
$4,000
To conserve, protect, and restore the Redwood Empire’s coldwater fisheres and their watersheds, using fishing as a method to get the public to care about protecting the habitats cold water fish species need to survive.
Three Sisters Garden
For General Support
$4,000
To transform vacant land in West Sacramento into mini farms where children, youth, adults, and elders gather, grow, and share food.
Wholly H20
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$4,000
To catalyze dynamic, informed connections between people and their watersheds that yield proactive and appropriate water management through conservation and reuse.
Summer 2019
350 Sacramento
For Youth Activist Outdoor Training Camps
$3,500
To offer a 3-weekend training for approximately 30 students for youth to learn the basics of grassroots organizing.
Battle Creek Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: SOL Communications
$4,000
To collect long-term, year-round data and evidence regarding the diminished water quality of streams which are downstream of clearcut and salvage logged land in the Sierra and Cascade mountain ranges.
California Field School
For Wheels of Time – An Environmental Justice Bike Tour
Fiscal Sponsor: The Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living
$2,000
To participate in an exploratory learning program designed to provide opportunities for under-resourced students to learn about the history and culture of the Ohlone people by visiting historic sites on a series of bike rides, culminating in a week long bike tour through the Bay Area.
Comité Lost Hills En Accion
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment
$5,000
To advocate for better agricultural protections, and to participate in the Kern general plan update and yearly budget to get funds for the community.
Community Action Project
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch
$5,000
To provide the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission with policy guidance on the flaws in the updated General Plan Elements and help with implementation of recommended fixes.
Community Environmental Advocates Foundation
For General Support
$5,000
To address the threats from a local mining project, reduce chemical herbicide usage by local public agencies, and address county and city land use policy and multiple land use development projects to advocate for quality environmental planning and affordable housing.
Diablo Rising Tide
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Oil & Gas Action Network
$2,000
To challenge the root causes of climate change using creative non-violent direct action, grassroots organizing, and solidarity with communities most impacted by energy extraction, infrastructure and combustion, as well as the after effects of cataclysmic climate change.
Great Shasta Rail Trail Association
For General Support
$5,000
To advance public access and enjoyment of the 80-mile Great Shasta Rail Trail in rural, northeastern California, including maintaining open segments of the trail for safe public non-motorized travel, beginning the process of restoring two bridges, recruiting volunteers, and implementing a way-finding plan.
Sama Sama Cooperative
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Third World Organizing
$4,000
To run a 4-week environmental and cultural summer camp for Pilipino American youth from all over the Bay Area, with an emphasis in ecology, language, and pre-colonial arts.
Spring 2019
All One Ocean
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$2,000
To support the Ocean Warriors program, an elementary school-level environmental leadership program that educates students on the impact of pollution and ways to integrate everyday sustainable practices.
Ascend Wilderness Experience
For Ascend 5-Day Backpack Trip: Youth Leadership and Mentor Training Trip
$3,000
To expand the Leadership and Mentor Training Program, which offers a 5-day backpacking trip to give youth a holistic experience and promote self-efficacy to positively impact the planet, as well as stewardship skills building.
Barbara A Domanchuk Media
For Changing Landscapes: The Eel River Estuary
Fiscal Sponsor: Friends of the Eel River
$2,000
To complete the webcasts & documentary of Changing Landscapes: The Eel River Estuary, which spotlights the community-driven effort to reconnect the Salt River tidal zone to its original freshwater salmonoid streams.
Center for Farmworker Families
For Watsonville Center for a Healthy Environment
$5,000
To purchase an office space that will provide shared space for allies, enhance local collaboration on projects such as Safe Ag Safe Schools coalition, and strengthen partnerships for the benefit of the Central Coast environment and its constituency.
Cleveland Elementary School PTA
For Vegetable Garden for Cleveland Elementary School PTA’s Ecoliteracy Program
$2,500
To fix and improve Cleveland Elementary School’s vegetable garden in order to continue work teaching the school’s 400 students on how to sustainably grow their own food.
Comité Progreso de Lamont
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Greenfield Walking Group
$5,000
To support participation in the Kern County General Plan and advocate for more investment in the community’s infrastructure; including projects to build more sidewalks, resolve flooding issues, improve park facilities, and more.
Committee for a Better Shafter
For General Support
$5,000
To participate in the SB617 steering committee to have Shafter as one of the first communities to implement the act and identify projects to reduce pollution and promote public health in the community.
Greenfield Walking Group
For Engaging Residents in Health Promoting Land Use Planning
$5,000
To support the engagement of South Kern residents through promoting recreational opportunities and advocacy efforts for healthy and inclusive land use priorities as part of the Kern General Plan Update process.
Point Molate Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Blue Frontier Campaign
$2,500
To advocate to keep Point Molate as a public resource and to actively oppose the current city plan to sell it off for a high-end 1,000+ private housing development.
Shasta Environmental Alliance
For General Support
$2,500
To establish a community advocacy effort in favor of developing a new City Tree Ordinance and protecting riparian areas through educational field trips and a film series.
Winter 2018
Alliance for Environmental Leadership
For Funding to Develop a Citizen-Initiated Smart Growth Plan for Western Placer County, CA
Fiscal Sponsor: Planning & Conservation League
$5,000
To create a climate resilient-oriented alternative Master Plan for the Placer County Board of Supervisor’s proposed 11,000-acre industrial growth area in Western Placer County.
Brown Girl Surf
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$4,000
To build a diverse and environmentally reverent local women’s surf community through accessible, culturally resonant beach-based programs, conservation efforts, and community celebrations that connect us to the ocean.
California Environmental Justice Coalition
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
$5,000
To mobilize and organize grassroots environmental groups and communities to engage governmental stakeholders to protect health and p
romote justice and resilient communities.
Campesinas Unidas Del Valle De San Joaquin
For General Support
$5,000
To conduct outreach and communication regarding pesticides and clean water in the community through educational community meetings and coordinating with local media outlets.
Committee for a Better Alpaugh
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
$5,000
To continue to educate the Alpaugh community on issues that affect health and quality of life, including water infrastructure needs, impacts of industrial operations, and air quality issues.
Gaviota Coast Conservancy
For Gaviota Coastal Trail Alliance
$5,000
To advocate the opening of the currently private state-owned beaches at Hollister Ranch by fortifying their grassroots alliance and undergoing litigation.
We Advocate Thorough Environmental Review
For General Support
$4,000
To promote sustainable economic development in the region around Mount Shasta, defend against corporate privatization of natural resources, and encourage a community-wide democratic role in decision-making.
Fall 2018
350 Bay Area Climate Education Fund
For Youth Versus Apocalypse
$3,500
To support “Youth Versus Apocalypse”, which will train a team of youth leaders around the Bay Area to become a network for social and environmental justice in their schools and communities.
AsianWeek Foundation/Florence Fang Asian Community Garden
For Phase 3 of the Florence Fang Asian Community Garden Build Out
$4,500
To improve one of the city’s largest urban farms in Bayview/Hunters Point through increased crop harvests, food distribution, outdoor activity, and diverse community interaction.
California Trade Justice Coalition
For Fair Trade Green Stories Campaign
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$3,000
To strategically utilize the voices within CTJC’s community to highlight stories of people impacted by trade in order to mobilize Californians into action in pushing for trade deals that put people and the planet first.
Committee for a Better Arvin
For General Support
$5,000
To provide community input to the Kern General Plan update, addressing inequities in housing, transportation, and infrastructure investments in rural Kern County, and to participate in county budget approvals to advocate funds for Arvin and other Kern County disadvantaged communities.
Foundations and the Future
For Celebrating Women’s Leadership in the Food Movement
Fiscal Sponsor: Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, Inc.
$2,000
To fund the third annual synopsium of Foundations and the Future: Celebrating Women’s Leadership in the Food Movement; which will lift up the leadership of women in the food movement and catalyze inter-generational dialogue that weaves together policy, advocacy, art, and farming.
Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project
$1,000
To mitigate illegal dumping and trash by collaborating with agencies and providing opportunities for people to directly protect, experience, and learn about Pinole Creek.
Klamath Forest Alliance
For General Support
$5,000
To protect watersheds and wildlife on the Klamath and Six Rivers National Forests through active participation in planning, commenting, monitoring, and litigating projects; while applying traditional ecological knowledge, science, law, policy, place-based knowledge and community needs.
Lead to Life
For Lead to Life: A People’s Alchemy Regeneration
Fiscal Sponsor: Planting Justice
$1,500
To support an event that transforms weapons into shovels for ceremonial tree plantings at sites impacted by violence and sites of spiritual significance across Oakland, as well as offering education centered on disrupting environmental racism.
Mycelium Youth Network
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Planting Justice
$2,000
To empower young people to proactively respond to the realities of climate change using hands-on skills training in disaster preparedness, urban homesteading, permaculture, and ecological sustainability and leadership.
Oakland Climate Action Coalition
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE) Inc.
$4,500
To unify Oakland community organizations in creating equitable climate solutions that advance racial, economic, environmental, and climate justice through leading and facilitating community-driven climate resilience planning.
Raptors are the Solution
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute, Inc.
$2,000
To continue a lawsuit against the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, as well as continuing public education and outreach activities about the ecological effects of pesticides.
Regeneration/Regeneración
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$5,000
To continue to empower local residents in the Pájaro Valley to respond to the changing climate as projects prioritized by the community are carried out.
Rooted in Resilience
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$4,000
To develop programming for youth to plan and lead a session at the California Adaptation Forum to support planning professionals communicating solutions to frontline communities in ways that empower lived experience and local expertise.
Save California Salmon
For The North Coast Salmon People and River Flows Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
$5,000
To provide outreach and support for Tribal people and youth on issues that impact salmon and clean water on the North Coast and in the Klamath River system.
The Plant Exchange
For General Support
$3,000
To continue educational programs focusing on reuse, recycling and conservation, while expanding into providing community gardens for underserved populations and educating other agencies and neighborhoods on how to replicate the Plant Exchange event.
Washoe Meadows Community
For Protect Washoe Meadows
Fiscal Sponsor: Resource Renewal Institute
$3,000
To protect Washoe Meadows State Park from the impacts of a proposed golf course through analysis demonstrating alternative projects that would be better for the environment and community.
Summer 2018
AGUA Coalition
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
$5000
To secure safe, clean, and affordable drinking water in California’s San Joaquin Valley by working to clean up existing pollution and preventing further pollution. Funds will support AGUA’s Movement Building and Safe and Affordable Water Campaign.
California Urban Streams Alliance
For The Stream Team
$2500
To engage members in citizen monitoring, stream-side restoration, storm water management actions, data analysis, and watershed education in Butte County.
Eel River Recovery Project
For Restoration, Recreation, and Education in the Lower Eel River Salmon Parkway
$4000
To promote the restoration of lower Eel River habitat to protect Chinook and Coho salmon, erect a Lower Eel River Salmon Parkway trail to connect communities with the river, and involve local students in the study of the Eel River.
Filipino American Coalition for Environmental Solutions (FACES), Inc.
For Youth Community Garden Project
$4000
To grow a vibrant community garden in Union City that will serve as a hands-on space to engage youth in growing solutions to local health issues, as well as an educational center where Filipino youth can make connections between their communities and broader issues of environmental justice, climate change, and resiliency.
Greywater Action
For Water Justice Track at Localizing California Waters Conference
Fiscal Sponsor: The Ecology Center
$2000
To develop a “Water Justice” track and bring community leaders working in this field to an existing water reuse conference, as well as record and post the sessions to make available to the public.
OneFam/Bikes 4 Life
For “On the Bricks” Youth Bike Mechanic Training
$2500
To fund the Youth Bike Mechanic Training program, which provides leadership development for adolescent African Americans, as well as provides the cohort with a range of experiences associated with bicycle maintenance and safety, health, and ecological awareness.
Redwood Empire Trout Unlimited
For Laguna de Santa Rosa Coho Salmon Monitoring Project
$2500
To conduct a PIT tag survey in the central Laguna de Santa Rosa to determine whether endangered coho salmon are utilizing potentially high-quality habitat in the Laguna, which will help inform management and habitat restorations in the central Laguna and Russian River.
Sama Sama Cooperative
For General Support
$3500
To support the organization’s 4-week multidisciplinary environmental and cultural summer camp for 28 Philipino American youth from the Bay Area, aimed to nurture a healthy sense of self as a vital part of the Philippine diaspora and as stewards of the Earth.
Small World
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$2500
To expand Tahoe Food Hub to South Shore, support Liberty Energy to be the first 100% renewable utility agency, complete Green Spaces at 4 elementary schools in South Lake Tahoe, and to promote safe biking and walking in the community.
SustainUS
For California Allegory Youth Fellowship
$5000
To support the California Allegory Youth Fellowship, an action-oriented, arts-activism fellowship for California youth working from the grassroots for climate justice.
The Green Life
For Environmental Leadership Training and Education Program for Formerly Incarcerated Adults
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute, Inc.
$5000
To fund the Environmental Leadership Training and Education Program for Formerly Incarcerated Adults, which engages in grassroots environmental training, education, and community outreach with men and women who have been recently released from prison and are reentering the community.
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute, Inc.
$2000
To support the aim of bringing native oysters back to the San Francisco Bay through restoration, community engagement, and thoughtful urban planning.
Tolowa Dunes Stewards
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Friends of the Dunes
$5000
To engage youth, tribal members, and other community members for targeted, urgently needed restoration at the mouth of the West’s largest coastal lagoon and other activities within Tolowa Dunes State Park and the State Lake Earl Wildlife Area.
Spring 2018
350 Sacramento
For Continued to Capacity Building Leading Sacramento Region to Carbon Zero
$3,500
To accelerate the transition to a just and sustainable future by making the Sacramento region a leader in the race to carbon zero.
All One Ocean
For Ocean Warriors and Beach Cleanup Program
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$2,500
To educate communities about the destructive effect of litter on oceans and waterways by providing effective methods to reduce our impact. By focusing on youth through the Ocean Warriors program, All One Ocean aims to create a sustainable approach to changing behaviors at the source and creating a new generation of environmental leaders.
California Alliance for Community Composting
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Sustainable Economies Law Center
$3,500
To engage in education and advocacy to support the growth and diversification of small-scale and community-based composting in California. Members of the Alliance represent compost micro-enterprises and nonprofits that face a growing number of legal barriers. The Alliance raises a collective voice for emerging small-scale composting operations, shares resources, educates regulators, and advocates for community compost friendly regulations and policies.
Comité Progreso de Lamont
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Greenfield Walking Group
$5,000
To participate in the Kern County General plan update and budget approval to advocate for funds as well as looking for county, state sources of funds to improve infrastructure in unincorporated communities.
Community Health Watch Lake Almanor
For General Support
$4,000
To protect the community, as well as the North Fork Feather River, headwaters to many downstream recreational, drinking supply, and habitat needs.
Foothills Water Network
For Save Bear River: Stop Centennial Dam
Fiscal Sponsor: American River Watershed Institute
$5,000
To lead a coalition of groups in a coordinated grassroots campaign to stop the proposed Centennial dam. If built, this new dam would be located on the Bear River and would flood the last free-flowing and publicly accessible stretch of the Bear, destroying the native fishery, over 100 Native American cultural sites, popular recreation opportunities and over 25 homes.
Nature Rights Council
For General Support
$5,000
To purchase water quality monitoring testing kits and GPS mapping software to track environmental issues and local resources, to restore relationships and responsibilities between tribal families and local communities.
Safe Strawberry Monterey Bay Working Group
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
$5,000
To strengthen the pesticide reform movement in the rural south county, home to some of the poorest, most disenfranchised and most heavily impacted people in the region.
SPAWNERS
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project
$3,500
To connect community members of all ages to their natural spaces, provide hands-on ecosystem education and the fundamentals of restoration, and foster appreciation and stewardship of the San Pablo Creek Watershed.
Wolf Creek Community Alliance
For General Support
$4,000
To protect and restore Wolf Creek and its watershed to a condition of optimal health and integrity for the benefit of present and future generations.
Winter 2017
Benicia Tree Foundation
For General Support
$1,500.00
To sponsor tree planting and maintenance projects in Benicia while educating the community on the benefits of trees to the environment and how to grow trees sustainably.
Brown Girl Surf
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$5,000.00
To build a joyful, diverse, and environmentally reverent women’s surf community locally through highly accessible, culturally resonant, beach-based programs, conservation efforts, and community celebrations which connect us to the ocean.
Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative
For General Support
$5,000.00
Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Study Center
To engage members in education and advocacy activities to reduce the disproportionate harm caused by goods movement in low-income, minority communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Greenfield Walking Group
For Engaging Residents in Health Promoting Land Use Planning, and General Support
$5,000.00
To support the engagement of South Kern residents through health promoting recreation opportunities while advancing advocacy efforts for healthy and inclusive land use priorities as part of the Kern General Plan Update process.
Humboldt Baykeeper
For Humboldt Bay Mercury Assessment and Fish Advisory
Fiscal Sponsor: Northcoast Environmental Center
$5,000.00
To advocate for a site-specific fish advisory to inform Humboldt Bay area residents on reducing mercury exposure from eating locally-caught fish.
Lake Almanor Watershed Group
For Developing a water quality outreach campaign to promote watershed stewardship in the Almanor Basin
Fiscal Sponsor: Sierra Institute for Community and Environment
$2,500.00
To work towards developing an outreach campaign to increase understanding by local residents and visitors of human-mediated impacts in the Almanor Basin and their role in stewarding watershed health.
Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Cloud Forest Institute LLC
$3,000.00
To advocate a thorough clean-up and environmental restoration of a 400 acre mill site closed in 2002 by pulling the community together to daylight two creeks that were covered during mill operation and restore 60 acres of wetlands.
Paula Lane Action Network
For General Support
$3,000.00
To protect upland habitat and wildlife movement, preserving connectivity, in the Petaluma River Watershed in Sonoma County, and support advocacy to prevent urban sprawl, destruction and fragmentation of habitat and wildlife movement areas.
River Otter Ecology Project
For General Support
$3,000.00
To research and link river otter population recovery to watershed health and conservation through community science, research, outreach and education.
Sacramento Food Policy Council
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
$4,000.00
To propel collective action toward an equitable and sustainable food system by building alignment, advancing policies, and convening advocates, policy makers, and organizations around a shared agenda.
Shiftworks
Workshops for Youth Water Resilience Education
Fiscal Sponsor: The Urban Fabrick Collaborative
$2,000.00
To bring Waterspots, an onsite water harvesting hub that provides experiential education in water security and resilience issues, to schoolchildren across the San Francisco Bay Area, engaging the next generation in climate change action.
The East Oakland Collective
For San Leandro Creek Greenway: Community Involvement Plan for Deep East Oakland and Oakland Underrepresented Communities
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$2,500.00
To support Deep East Oakland communities to guide the design, building, development and implementation of a pedestrian/bike greenway along the San Leandro Creek as an economically thriving, clean, safe, affordable, environmentally healthy place which reflects the local cultures without being displaced by the regional improvement.
Trees Foundation
For General Support
$1,000.00
To restore the ecological integrity of California’s North Coast by empowering and assisting regional community-based conservation and restoration projects.
Tulare Basin Wildlife Partners
For Tulare Basin Watershed Initiative:Tulare Basin Watershed Connections Workgroup Outreach
$5,000.00
To help advance collaborative whole-watershed planning and resource management in the Tulare Basin based on sound science and mutually identified needs for regional economic and ecological sustainability.
United Trail Maintainers of California
For Traditional Skills Wilderness Interns, Orleans Complex Fires Recovery
$3,000.00
To fund student interns augmenting the organization’s volunteer workforce during the summer of 2018 to help recover trail systems and facilities in burn areas from the 2017 Marble Mountains Wildnerness fires.
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
For Youth Advocacy for the West Oakland Truck Management Plan
$5,000.00
To engage youth in advocacy processes to shape the City of Oakland’s new Truck Management Plan (TMP). Youth participants will learn to use scientific findings to influence policy making using a new body of air quality data that shows high rates of street level truck pollution in West Oakland.
Fall 2017
(announced September 28, 2017)
California Trade Justice Coalition
For Don’t Trade Away Our Environment Initiative
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$2,500.00
To mobilize and educate communities to stand up for a strong, equitable and enforceable set of worker and environmental standards
Campesinas Unidas Del Valle De San Joaquin
For General Support
$5,000.00
To educate children and teens in identifying hazardous pesticides sprayed around their schools and homes
Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project
$1,000.00
To design a creek access map highlighting ADA-compliant trails and engage volunteers in high-visibility stewardship projects that emphasize the watershed’s ecological and cultural connections.
Friends of Napa River
For General Support
$5,000.00
To educate communities about healthy habitat, streams, rivers, and water resources by forging connections to the Napa river.
LEAF (Local Ecology & Agriculture Fremont)
For General Support
$4,500.00
To maintain the C.R. Stone Garden, which grows vegetables that are donated to Tri-Cities Volunteer Food Bank, the largest client-direct food bank in Alameda County.
Mother Lode Harvest
For CSA Farm Box Satellite Distribution
$4,500.00
To promote and preserve local sustainable community scale agriculture by providing a venue for local producers to market food, products and services, and to provide year-round access to local products for consumers.
Oakland Climate Action Coalition
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)
$4,500.00
To organize and unify Oakland community organizations in creating equitable climate solutions that strengthen the resilience of frontline communities.
Raptors Are The Solution
For Rat Poison Is Wildlife Poison
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
$4,000.00
To educate people about the dangers of rat poison to wildlife, pets, and children with successful campaigns on public transit, billboards, social media, public events, and presentations.
Regeneration/Regeneración
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
$5,000.00
To create a community that has achieved climate justice so all people in the Pájaro Valley can live in harmony with the natural world; by advocating for a fair economy, planning for a healthy ecosystem, and guiding the community to a sustainable way of life.
Save the Klamath-Trinity Salmon
For The Northern California Dam Removal and Flows Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
$5,000.00
To use the Federal Energy Regulatory (FERC) and administrative processes, along with state water quality laws, to take down antiquated large dams and/or restore flows and water quality in key salmon watersheds.
The Plant Exchange
For Growing the Speaker Series
$2,500.00
To teach best practices for sustainable city-living gardening using hands-on presentations and demonstrations led by experienced professionals. Topics will include natural pest management, responsible water use, composting, and secrets to developing a bountiful edible garden.
Washoe Meadows Community
For Protect Washoe Meadows
Fiscal Sponsor: Resource Renewal Institute
$5,000.00
To educate legislators and other elected and appointed officials as well as members of the public about the resources of the Washoe Meadows State Park and make the park more accessible to all.
We Advocate Thorough Environmental Review
For General Support
$5,000.00
To advocate for the protection of the environment and natural resources, defend against corporate privatization of natural resources, and encourage a community-wide democratic role and participation in sustainable economic development.
WildPlaces
For Giant Sequoia National Monument Restoration and Defense Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)
$5,000.00
To use habitat restoration, job creation, and mass mobilization as a proactive response to the current attempts to dismantle the Giant Sequoia National Monument and other eminent threats to public lands.
Summer 2017
(announced June 2, 2017)
AGUA 
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Central Valley
$5,000
To secure safe, clean and affordable drinking water in California’s San Joaquin Valley by working to clean up existing pollution and prevent water from further contamination.
Battle Creek Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: SOL Communications
North Coast
$4,000
To collect long-term, year-round data and evidence regarding the diminished water quality of streams downstream of clearcut and salvage logged land in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges.
Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
To build the capacity of community members to participate in regulatory decision-making and work with local lawmakers and regulatory agencies to advance policies to reduce cumulative air pollution and ensure better health for residents.
Bayview Hunters Point Mother and Fathers Committee for Health and Environmental Justice
For Capacity Building and Community Organizing
Fiscal Sponsor: Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
To increase community engagement in environmental and climate justice advocacy around pollution and health issues in the at-risk and impacted community by participating in trainings conducted by Greenaction, participate in the Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice Response Task Force meetings and process, and in organizing on other pollution, health and gentrification issues.
Committee for a Better Alpaugh
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Central Valley
$5,000
To educate the entire Alpaugh community about important health and environmental issues affecting their daily lives, such as water and wastewater infrastructure needs, the impact of harmful industrial/commercial operations, and air quality issues.
Community Bike Kitchen at Jefferson School
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Redwood Community Action Agency
North Coast
$4,000
To provide low and no-cost bicycles, along with the resources and skills necessary to repair them, to all members of the community. The bike kitchen is a community skill-sharing workshop & providing tools, space and mechanics knowledge for bike repair and also volunteer opportunities to earn a new set of wheels.
Community United Lanare
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Central Valley
$5,000
To engage community residents in advocacy for a safe and healthy community, as well as to continue the group’s advocacy for environmental justice issues on the local, regional and state levels.
Friends of Outlet Creek
For Outlet Creek Citizen Monitoring & School Education: Towards a Salmon Safe Willits
Fiscal Sponsor: The Trees Foundation
North Coast
$3,000
To create a community based watershed awareness and protection program by inviting interested citizens and students from Willits public schools to help monitor and learn more about the Outlet Creek basin in which they live.
Great Shasta Rail Trail Association
For General Support
North Central & East
$5,000
To convert the railroad right of way into a public recreation trail by conducting bridge rehabilitation and trailhead development.
High Sierra Rural Alliance
For Protecting Forest Resources
Sierra Nevada
$5,000
To file a lawsuit challenging Placer County’s approval of the zoning text amendment which allows ski lift facilities and ski runs as compatible uses on lands managed for timber production.
Indian Cultural Organization
For Run4Salmon
Statewide
$5,000
To host the Run4Salmon: a two-week prayerful journey in which more than 300 tribal members, indigenous relatives and allies travel the historical path wild Chinook salmon once swam before the Shasta Dam by walking, running, boating biking, boating, paddling and horse riding from the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta to the McCloud River.
Klamath Forest Alliance
For General Support
North Coast
$4,000
To defend mature forests, watersheds and wildlife on the Klamath and Six Rivers National Forests and beyond by active participation in planning, commenting, collaborating, monitoring and litigating projects while applying Traditional Ecological Knowledge, science, law, policy, place-based knowledge and community needs.
Parents for a Safer Environment
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network, North America
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,000
To educate and empower community members to obtain pesticide use records, learn their toxicities, and negotiate changes in public agencies practices through written, enforceable policies that achieve least-toxic maintenance and pest-control practices. Also, to train maintenance and landscape professionals how to reduce and eliminate the toxic chemicals used at schools, in parks, and on public lands.
Sama Sama Cooperative 
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Third World Organizing
San Francisco Bay Area
$2,500
To bring together the cultural resources of the Pilipino and Pilipino American community of the Bay Area to create a thoughtful and engaging space for children and families to cultivate and understand their unique identity as Pilipino Americans through a summer program.
Watershed Alliance of Marin
For General Support
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,000
To protect and restore Marin County’s watersheds and the native wildlife nourished by our natural heritage.
Spring 2017
(announced March 10, 2017)
American River Watershed Institute
For Stop Centennial Dam Campaign Phase 4
Sierra Nevada
$5,000
To stop the proposed Centennial Dam and instead establish protections for one of the last free flowing stretches of the Bear River through early stakeholder education and grassroots organization.
Art & Science for Kids interested in Media & Education (ASK ME)
For Broader Impacts
Fiscal Sponsor: Ink People, Inc.
North Coast
$5,000
To follow and document the activity of UC Berkeley scientists with the goal to produce and distribute scientific web streams and a short documentary about microbial and Eel River ecology with an emphasis on cyanobacteria.
Ascend Wilderness Experience
For Ascend Tenderfoot Trip
North Coast
$5,000
To host a five-day excursion for local youth ranging in age from 9-18 years old into the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area in Northern California.
AsianWeek Foundation/Florence Fang Asian Community Garden
For Developing Sustainable Community Garden
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
To add sustainability to San Francisco’s only community garden focused on Asian communities/traditions through building garden infrastructure (including more planter boxes, irrigation and rainwater reclamation), and by building capacity through creation of a farm stand program to sell extra produce to local residents.
Committee for a Better Shafter
For General Support
Central Valley
$5,000
To continue running a community garden that successfully improves access to organically grown food, educates the residents about nutrition and the effects of pesticides, and is a place for the community to advocate for environmental health and development projects.
Kids With A Conscience
For General Support
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,000
To teach the community how to create and sustain edible gardens that will empower them with a voice through gardening and education.
NorCal Community Resilience Network
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Empowerment Works
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
To support the expansion of the network’s regional hub, building resilience through low-cost, nature-inspired, community-based projects.
Pollinator Posse
For Clean Streets in Old Oakland Neighborhood
Fiscal Sponsor: Oakland East Bay Garden Center Inc. (OEBGC Inc.)
San Francisco Bay Area
$1,600
To create pollinator habitats by building a pollinator pathway that radiates out from Oakland’s notable pollinator garden at Lake Merritt, resulting in the installation of pollinator gardens at three sites in Old Oakland.
Sacramento Area Creeks Council
For Sacramento Area Creeks Council Creek Week
Sacramento Valley
$3,000
To help Sacramento Area Creeks Council improve their creek week trash clean-up and purchase more and new supplies for the actual clean-up.
Valley Improvement Projects
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Environmental Entrepreneurs
Central Valley
$5,000
To improve the quality of life of underrepresented and marginalized residents of California’s Central Valley by promoting social and environmental justice issues through youth outreach, education, technology, and art.
Wolf Creek Community Alliance
For General Support
Sierra Nevada
$4,000
To protect and restore Wolf Creek and its watershed to a condition of optimal health and integrity for the benefit of present and future generations.
Yahi Group of the Sierra Club
For Lassen Forest Preservation Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Sierra Club Foundation
Sierra Nevada
$2,000
To positively affect the outcomes on all significant projects located on national forest lands in northeastern California for the protection of local communities and environment, by mobilizing the public to participate in the forest planning process for Lassen and Plumas national forests.
Winter 2016
(announced Dec 21, 2016)
Brown Girl Surf
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
San Francisco Bay Area
$2,000
To create a welcoming surf culture that celebrates our diverse experiences, placing joy and environmental reverence at the center, so that together we can create a healthier planet.
Community Action Project
For Protecting the Environment through the Calaveras County General Plan Update
Fiscal Sponsor: Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch
Sierra Nevada
$5,000
To prepare and submit detailed Environmental Impact Report scoping comments to the County. These comments will identify environmental protection policies, programs, implementation measures, and mitigation measures. Community Action Project will promote these environmental protections in public presentations.
Forest Unlimited
For Ground Truth: Under Reported Deforestation
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,500
To investigate what percentage of forest and woodlands are being converted from ecosystems to vineyards and many other wine related projects, and then share the findings with the public and its public agencies.
Friends of Willow Creek of Sausalito
For Willow Creek Upper Reach: Restoration, Education and Engagement
San Francisco Bay Area
$4,500
To restore habitat in the upper reach of the Willow Creek Daylighting Plan and create an integrated outdoor learning environment for students and teachers. This project provides an opportunity for continued participation and engagement of the community to work together to provide an unparalleled on-campus outdoor learning experience for children.
Gallinas Watershed Council
For Civic Center Watershed Restoration Project
Fiscal Sponsor: MarinLink
San Francisco Bay Area
$2,500
To show how native Flora & Fauna improve water quality in the Marin Civic Center Lagoon.
Nevada County Climate Change Coalition Education Group
For Climate Change Agents Camp 2017
Fiscal Sponsor: Full-Circle Learning
Sierra Nevada
$3,850
To offer high-potential, underserved youth a chance to increase their potential as current and future change makers. The group offers multi-night camp scholarships to those who could not otherwise attend, and provides a rite of passage that motivates youth to expand their knowledge and apply life skills, creativity and purpose as they serve climate change victims, and to demonstrate to the public the high stakes related to this goal.
Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Cloud Forest Institute
North Coast
$3,000
To advocate a thorough clean-up and environmental restoration of a 400 acre mill site closed in 2002. In anticipation of completion of clean-up of the final section, NHUDG is pulling the community together to daylight two creeks that were covered during mill operation and restore 60 acres of wetlands.
Sacramento Food Policy Council
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network North America
Sacramento Valley
$4,000
To propel collective action toward an equitable and sustainable food system by building alignment, advancing policies, and convening advocates, policy makers, and organizations around a shared agenda.
Safe Strawberry Monterey Bay Working Group
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
Central Coast
$5,000
To catalyze the fledgling movement on pesticide issues in the rural south county of the Monterey Bay area, home to some of the poorest and most disenfranchised people in the area, whose voices have been entirely missing heretofore. The group will establish regular meetings of a new SASS branch in Greenfield with the goal of joining the broader coalition’s work watchdogging the decision-making processes, building a local movement, and maintaining a media presence.
Sierra National Monument Project
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Trust for Conservation Innovation
Central Valley
$1,000
To create a national monument that protects about one million acres of federal land between Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks. The monument will end commercial logging and mining (patented claims remain), and phase out grazing, while reviving non-motorized recreation and a trail system and protecting wildlife, watersheds and the quiet beauty of the natural world.
Fall 2016
(announced September 28, 2016)
Environment in the Public Interest
For Citizen-Science Training: From Observing Environmental Harms to Solving Environmental Problems
Central Coast
$4,000
Funds will support technical training of student and citizen observers participating in EPI’s Central Coast environmental protection campaign.
Farms to Grow, Inc. 
For General Support
San Francisco Bay Area
$4,500
To assist African American and other underserved farmers and urban gardeners in creating and maintaining sustainable farms, and to motivate the next generation of farmers to learn and utilize farming methods that strive to preserve our natural resources for future generations.
Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce
For Central Valley Green Business Outreach Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Fresno Metro Black Chamber Foundation
Central Valley
$4,925
For providing support and outreach in getting local disadvantaged business communities educated and reformed to go green.
Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
For General Support
North Central & East
$2,500
To work towards the permanent protection of the Medicine Lake Highlands, that has been under threat from geothermal fracking for the past several years. Protecting and restoring Panther Meadow, in conjunction with the USFS and the Winnemem Wintu tribe continues to be the focus of the H.O.M.E. project. Preparing for the effects of climate change is also an area of work.
North Coast Resource Conservation & Development Council
For General Support
San Francisco Bay Area
$4000
Funds support sustainable agriculture and communities with 4 major project areas: (a) “Bee Patches” pollinator habitat protection working with local youth to increase biodiversity and improve agricultural sustainability for crops dependent on pollination, (b) “Rain Catchers” water conservation actions for rainwater collection and re-use systems, (c) Vermiculture Waste-to-Compost deployment in schools to help divert their food wastes and recycle the waste into rich compost material, and (d) “Cultivating Commerce” for new/expanded agricultural entrepreneurship to increase sustainable farming.
PLACE for Sustainable Living
For Rooted in PLACE Community Garden Work Days
Fiscal Sponsor: Create Peace Project
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,000
To invite the community to work in the garden, take part in educational and creative workshops on sustainability, enjoy food cooked on site, support seasonal harvesting from the garden, develop important skills in resilience, build community, and utilize public land for the betterment of the community.
Regeneration/Regeneración
For Advancing a Climate Justice Initiative in the Pájaro Valley, California
Fiscal Sponsor: Rose Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
To support a quickly growing newly emerged climate justice group in the underserved Pájaro Valley, this project will engage a facilitator to coalesce strategic priorities from the many needed initiatives in the region to help the group achieve early success, build a donor and volunteer base, engender confidence of collaborators and donors, and establish social media presence.
River Otter Ecology Project
For General Support
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,000
To research and link river otter population recovery to watershed health and conservation through citizen science, research, outreach and education.
Save the Klamath-Trinity Salmon
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
North Coast
$4,000
To support the fisheries and water protection work of the local communities of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers, and to advocate to effective policy change.
Siskiyou Land Conservancy
For Smith River Estuary Enhancement Program
North Coast
$3,000
Siskiyou Land Conservancy’s Smith River Estuary Enhancement Program seeks reduction and elimination of 300,000 pounds of highly toxic pesticides applied annually, and in a relatively small area, to Easter lily fields that surround the ecologically vital estuary of the Smith River, as well as the town of Smith River, in the far northwest corner of California.
Tolowa Dunes Stewards
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Friends of the Dunes
North Coast
$5,000
To expand the targeted restoration area, while building collaboration with the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, a Natural Resources Career Pathway for local youth within Building Healthy Communities programming, and relationships with other identified partners to support restoration on the Tolowa Coast.
Washoe Meadows Community
For Protect Washoe Meadows
Fiscal Sponsor: Resource Renewal Institute
Sierra Nevada
$5,000
To protect Washoe Meadows State Park and its rare natural, cultural and recreational resources from the impacts of a proposed golf course.
Summer 2016
(announced June 13, 2016)
Battle Creek Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: SOL Communications
North Central & East
$4,000
To study the effects of logging on water quality by collecting long-term, year-round water quality data on streams that are downstream from areas that are clearcut and excessively salvage logged.
Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
To support and build capacity among a broad partnership of organizations representing low-income and communities of color heavily burdened by and especially vulnerable to pollution exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area.
California Environmental Health Initiative
For Review of Ecological-Agriculture Pest Management and Other Benefits in California
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network North America
Statewide
$2,500
To shift California Department of Food & Agriculture’s pest management away from hazardous pesticides through the preparation of a comprehensive report on ecological agriculture’s benefits and policy vehicles for incorporating this approach.
Conservation Action Fund for Education
For Save Our Sonoma Coast
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,500
To ensure free public access at Sonoma Coast State Park and preserve the Park’s natural resources and habitat.
Idle No More SF Bay
For 2015 Indigenous Women of the Americas Defenders of Mother Earth Treaty Compact and Northern California Direct Actions Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Indigenous Environmental Network
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
For outreach and education in Native American and San Francisco Bay Area communities to address the harmful effects of environmental degradation and climate change.
MyValleySprings.com
For General Support
Sierra Nevada
$4,500
For grassroots advocacy promoting responsible land use planning and the protection of oak woodlands, agricultural rangelands, and forests in Calaveras County.
The Plant Exchange
For General Support
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,500
For events and monthly demonstrations emphasizing gray water recycling, worm bins, composting, natural pest management, drought-resilient gardening, and other sustainable living practices.
Sierra Water Workgroup
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Sacramento River Watershed Program
Sierra Nevada
$5,000
To engage Integrated Regional Water Management stakeholders throughout the Sierra Nevada and facilitate regional efforts to protect and enhance water quality, water supply, and watershed health.
Small World
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good
Sierra Nevada
$2,500
For school and community gardens throughout South Lake Tahoe, nutrition and composting classes, the promotion of energy efficiency in schools, and the development of family-oriented biking and walking routes to and from schools.
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
For General Support
San Francisco Bay Area
$2,000
For community advocacy, research, policy development, and air quality monitoring programs in West Oakland, a neighborhood with disproportionately high levels of asthma, respiratory disease, and cancer.
WildPlaces
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
Central Valley
$5,000
To build organizational capacity and support programs that address environmental degradation of rivers, enhanced meadow restoration, drought impacts in California’s Central Valley, and protection of wild spaces.
Spring 2016
(announced April 6, 2016)
350 Sacramento
For Continuing to Build Capacity
Sacramento Valley
$4,000
To improve organizational capacity and continue environmental education and advocacy around local climate issues in Sacramento.
AGUA
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Central Valley
$5,000
To support a grassroots coalition of 118 members from 22 low-income communities and communities of color dedicated to securing safe, clean, and affordable drinking water in the San Joaquin Valley.
American River Watershed Institute
For Stop Centennial/Parker Dam Campaign Phase 3
Sierra Nevada
$5,000
For early stakeholder education and grassroots organizing to stop the proposed Centennial/Parker Dam and to protect one of the last free flowing stretches of the Bear River.
Citizens for a Sustainable Point Molate
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Ocean Awareness Project Inc. dba Blue Frontier Campaign
San Francisco Bay Area
$2,000
To permanently protect over 100 acres at Point Molate in Richmond, one of the last undeveloped headlands on the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Committee for a Better Shafter
For General Support
Central Valley
$5,000
To build capacity, administer a community garden, and advocate for environmental health and community development projects in the Central Valley.
Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative
For Alameda and Regional County Goods Movement Plan Implementation
Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Study Center
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
To community support to reduce the harm caused by the movement of goods throughout the Bay Area, especially in low-income communities of color that already bear a disproportionate health burden from these activities.
Fairmead Community & Friends
For General Support
Central Valley
$5,000
To advocate for safe and affordable drinking water, improved access to transit, and improved air quality through community engagement and empowerment in Fairmead, CA.
GrassRoots Oakland West Incubator
For Free-er Way Garden
Fiscal Sponsor: Social Good Fund
San Francisco Bay Area
$3,000
For a community garden in West Oakland that grows a wide variety of organic fruits and vegetables of significant cultural, historical, and nutritional value and offers cooking classes, gardening demonstrations, and other community building opportunities to local residents.
Humboldt Baykeeper
For Healthy Waterways, Safe Communities Initiative, Phase II
Fiscal Sponsor: Northcoast Environmental Center North Coast
$5,000
To identify and quantify sources of bacterial pollution and inform action plans to clean up waterways in Humboldt County that were recently designated as Impaired under the Clean Water Act.
Movimiento
For General Support
Statewide
$2,500
For an Outdoor Mental Health program supporting underserved youth in developing a robust connection to the environment, enabling them to become long-term environmental stewards and advocates.
Watertrough Children’s Alliance
For Complete CEQA Education and Litigation around Toxics, Agriculture, and Children
Fiscal Sponsor: O.W.L. Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area
$5,000
For community-based advocacy to protect local school children and the Russian River from pesticide drift from a large winery located near an elementary school and adjacent to Russian River tributary Atascadero Creek.
Winter 2015
(announced December 15, 2015)
California Environmental Justice Coalition
For Capacity Building and Advocacy Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
Statewide
$4,000
To build the capacity of a statewide environmental justice coalition to undertake new campaigns, stipend a new part time coordinator, and help the 57 member groups take action, advocate, and speak out at key state policy forums.
Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
Del Norte and Humboldt Counties
$2,500
To engage local community members, educate leaders, and offer alternative perspectives focused on sustainability and livability to change transportation planning priorities on the North Coast.
Committee for a Better Alpaugh
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Tulare County
$5,000
For movement building and critical environmental justice work in the areas of water and air quality, pesticides, and public health in the small rural community of Alpaugh.
Community Action Project
For An Outreach Coordinator
Fiscal Sponsor: Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch
Calaveras County
$2,500
To protect the natural resources of Calaveras County and prohibit unwise development by hiring an outreach coordinator to participate in the Calaveras County General Plan process.
Community Health Watch Lake Almanor
For General Support
Plumas County
$4,000
For air and water compliance monitoring in the low-income community of Chester, which houses a waste-to-energy plant and witnessed an excessive spike in illness and sudden death incidences in recent years.
Eastern Sierra Wildlife Care
For General Support
Inyo and Mono Counties
$2,000
For wildlife rehabilitation services to over 400 wild patients per year in the Eastern Sierra, and classroom and outreach programs that educate the local community about the importance of cohabitating with native wildlife.
Energy Solidarity Cooperative
For Building Solidarity With Community-Owned Solar
Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
$4,000
For installing a solar system at the East Oakland Boxing Association and reinvesting the money into other community-owned clean energy systems in local underserved communities.
Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project
Contra Costa County
$3,000
For community outreach, volunteer stewardship, and restoration of the Pinole Creek Watershed. Continued grassroots engagement is essential for the survival and recovery of federally protected steelhead trout in San Francisco Bay tributary Pinole Creek.
Great Shasta Rail Trail Association
For General Support
Shasta and Siskiyou Counties
$3,000
To convert a former railroad corridor into a public recreation trail by embarking on important maintenance tasks such as bridge rehabilitation and trailhead development.
Nevada County Climate Change Coalition Education Group
For Mobilizing Young Climate Change Agents
Fiscal Sponsor: Full-Circle Learning Nevada County
$3,200
For the Climate Change Agents Camp, a weeklong overnight camp where high-potential, underserved youth are given the tools to be climate change agents in their community.
Paula Lane Action Network
For General Support
Sonoma and Marin Counties
$3,000
For protection of upland habitat and wildlife movement in Sonoma County’s Petaluma River Watershed. Paul Lane Action Network will support advocacy to prevent urban sprawl and destruction of open space in Sonoma County.
People for Clean Air & Water of Kettleman City
For Kettleman City Youth Protecting Our Planet
Fiscal Sponsor: Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
Kings County
$5,000
To organize and educate youth in Kettleman City on environmental justice issues affecting their community.
Safe Strawberry Monterey Bay Working Group
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network North America
Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties
$5,000
For coalition work and community engagement to reduce pesticide threats in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties. The Central Coast region, where much of the nation’s produce is grown, suffers a disproportionate burden of pesticide pollution, resulting in contaminated runoff that damages water quality in the watersheds of Monterey Bay, and public health threats including increased community risk of cancer, reproductive and developmental harm, and nervous system damage.
Fall 2015
(announced September 24, 2015)
Burrowing Owl Preservation Society
For Reclaiming “Lost ” Burrowing Owl Habitat
Sacramento, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sutter, and Yolo Counties
$3,000
To protect burrowing owl habitat in the Sacramento Valley by advocating for protective mitigation projects that are required when burrowing owl habitat is destroyed by development projects.
Community Bike Kitchen at Jefferson School
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Redwood Community Action Agency
Humboldt County
$3,000
To provide low and no cost bicycles, along with the resources necessary to maintain and repair them, to disadvantaged residents of Eureka, CA. Support will also help the bike kitchen transition to a new permanent location.
Farms to Grow, Inc.
For General Support
Statewide
$4,000
To promote sustainable farming and innovative agricultural practices, inspire a new generation of farmers, and assist African-American and other underserved farmers and gardeners in creating and maintaining sustainable farms.
Freedom Breathers
For General Support
Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco Counties
$3,000
For air quality monitoring by high school students in Pittsburg, CA. Students will educate their peers and the larger community about environmental health concerns and advocate for the reopening of an air quality monitoring station.
Friends of Knowland Park
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: East Bay Chapter, California Native Plant Society
Alameda County
$3,000
To protect Knowland Park, the largest remaining open space in Oakland, from a planned zoo expansion that will irreparably damage the park by leveling hilltops, cutting down oak and other native trees, damaging native grasslands, and threatening wildlife species.
Friends of Outlet Creek
For A Lawsuit to Stop Asphalt Plant
Fiscal Sponsor: Willits Environmental Center
Mendocino County
$3,000
For a lawsuit to protect Outlet Creek and the Eel River from a proposed asphalt plant that would threaten water quality and three species of threatened salmonids.
Green Schools Initiative
For Greenhouse Gas Reductions at K-12 Schools in Disadvantaged Communities
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
Statewide
$2,000
For a grassroots campaign to guarantee that underserved K-12 schools receive California Air Resources Board cap-and-trade funds for green schoolyards, waste reduction, transit, energy conservation, and climate literacy.
High Sierra Rural Alliance
For General Support
Plumas and Sierra Counties
$3,000
To protect valuable habitat, natural resources, and wildlands in Sierra and Plumas Counties from premature and unwise development.
Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
For General Support
Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou Counties
$2,500
To protect Mount Shasta’s watersheds, forests, and stunning landscapes from unsustainable development and implement a climate adaptation initiative.
Oroville Dioxin Education Committee
For Oroville Toxics and Dioxin Identification and Education Program
Fiscal Sponsor: Butte Environmental Council
Butte County
$5,000
To collect data on the high levels of dioxin pollution from a wood treatment plant in the City of Oroville, compel public policy makers to pursue cleanup or remediation of the affected areas, and to issue public health advisories to residents.
Reimagine! Movements Making Media, Race, Poverty & the Environment
For Building a Beat: Environmental and Climate Justice in Northern California
Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center
Statewide
$3,000
To inspire activists, educate policy makers, and mobilize our communities by publishing and disseminating photo essays, narratives, and interviews about the effects of climate change on low-income people and communities of color.
Sacramento Food Policy Council
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
Sacramento County
$1,500
To bring community voices to the local planning processes in order to promote healthy food and sustainable farming in Sacramento County.
Sacramento Valley Water Justice Network
For Community-Based Environmental Justice Reporting Through IVAN
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba Counties
$3,000
To support the expansion of the Identifying Violations Affecting Neighborhoods (IVAN) app into the Sacramento Valley. The IVAN app allows residents to report environmental violations directly to local and statewide enforcement agencies and has been used successfully in other areas of the state.
School Garden Network of Sonoma County
For General Support
Sonoma County
$3,000
To support sustainable garden and nutrition-based learning programs in K-12 schools throughout Sonoma County. The School Garden Network addresses significant obstacles school gardens face by providing trainings, financial support, and mentoring to school garden programs.
Sierra National Monument Project
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Trust for Conservation Innovation
Fresno, Madera, and Mariposa Counties
$3,000
To create a new national monument between Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks. The monument would include approximately one million acres of land renowned for its spectacular beauty and biodiversity, create wildlife corridors, and encompass three major watersheds.
Siskiyou Land Conservancy
For the Smith River Estuary Enhancement Program
Del Norte and Humboldt Counties
$3,000
To eliminate threats to the estuary and wildlife of California’s wildest river, the Smith River, and to promote restoration projects. Foremost amongst these threats are Easter lily bulb farms, which annually apply more pound-per-acre of toxic pesticides than anywhere else in the state.
Soul Flower Farm
For General Support
Contra Costa County
$2,500
To provide hands-on lessons in growing food and medicine, fostering community resilience, and developing healthy urban food systems for underserved communities and people of color. Soul Flower Farm partners with dozens of Bay Area organizations and schools for educational farm tours, classes, workshops, and work opportunities.
SPAWNERS
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project
Contra Costa County
$2,000
For grassroots community action to enhance and protect the San Pablo Creek Watershed. SPAWNERS leads monthly creek restoration and water quality assessment workdays, maintains native plant demonstration gardens, holds creek cleanups, and leads service-learning workdays for students.
Stop the Spray! Committee of Fair Oaks and Carmichael
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
Sacramento County
$1,500
To oppose the mandatory chemical spraying of the Japanese beetle by CA Department of Food and Agriculture in suburban Sacramento County and to promote equally effective green alternatives. Urban runoff from chemically treated lawns drains into the nearby American River.
Tolowa Dunes Stewards
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Friends of the Dunes
Del Norte County
$5,000
To engage youth and other volunteers for targeted, urgently needed dune and wetland restoration at the mouth of the West’s largest coastal lagoon in Del Norte County.
Valley Improvement Projects
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
Fresno, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus Counties
$4,000
To promote responsible waste management practices in Stanislaus County and end waste incineration in the unincorporated territory of Crows Landing. Waste incineration threatens air quality and has a disproportionate impact on low-income, Latino communities.
Summer 2015
(announced June 26, 2015)
Battle Creek Alliance
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: SOL Communications
Shasta and Tehama Counties
$4,000
To study the effects of logging on water quality by collecting long-term, year-round water quality data on streams that are downstream from areas that are clearcut and excessively salvage logged.
California Environmental Health Initiative
For Review of Ecological Agriculture Pest Management
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
Alameda County
$5,000
To research and report on how ecological farming practices can be used for pest management, crop nutrition, climate change adaptation, pollinator health, and soil health and to use this information to shift the state’s pest management practices away from the current heavy dependence on extremely hazardous pesticides.
Fort Ord Environmental Justice Network
For Communicating Through Community Voices to Achieve Local Solutions
Monterey County
$3,500
To inform and empower community residents about the health risks posed by the former Fort Ord Army Base. Health risks include contaminated groundwater, open burning that releases toxic smoke, soil contamination at small arms ranges, and the detonation of munitions.
Friends of the Napa River
For Watershed Education
Napa County
$3,000
For environmental education programs in Napa County schools and the development of the Napa Youth Watershed Stewardship Council, a youth program that engages high school student leaders in the watershed, supports their growth through project based learning, and provides training to support extending hands-on, innovative environmental education to their peers.
Idle No More SF Bay
For 2nd Annual Connect-The-Dots Refinery Corridor Healing Walks
Fiscal Sponsor: Polaris Institute USA
Contra Costa and Sonoma Counties
$4,000
To support Native-led walks that bring attention to the second largest concentration of refineries in the United States by visiting a cluster of five fossil fuel refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area. These refineries process Bakken crude and Alberta Tar Sands oil and negatively impact nearby residents who are primarily low income people-of-color.
Klamath Forest Alliance
For Defending the Wildlife and Watersheds of Northern California
Del Norte, Humboldt, and Siskiyou Counties
$5,000
To defend wildlife habitat, mature forests, and watersheds within the Klamath and Six Rivers National Forest by working closely with small rural river communities, the Karuk Tribe, watershed and firesafe councils, and local agencies.
Nature’s Voices Project
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Green Schools Alliance
Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Solano, and Sonoma Counties
$3,000
For an online project to honor and amplify the voices of young people whose lives have been transformed by environmental education programs. Nature’s Voices Project will create a platform to lift youth stories and perspectives and build support for environmental literacy as a fundamental component of a high-quality 21st Century education.
Raptors Are the Solution
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Mendocino, and San Francisco Counties
$4,000
To increase public awareness about the dangers to children, pets, and wildlife from rat poison, and to promote alternatives to rodenticides.
Sierra Water Work Group
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Sierra Nevada Alliance
Sierra Nevada
$4,000
To participate in regional efforts in the Sierra Nevada to protect and enhance water quality, water supply, and watershed health, with a focus on serving disadvantaged communities and Native American tribes.
Sugar Pine Foundation
For Western White Pine Restoration
Alpine, El Dorado, and Placer Counties
$2,000
To plant and monitor western white pine seedlings at several locations around Tahoe. About 200 local students, volunteers, and field crews will participate in this project to restore the western white pine population and enhance forest health and wildlife habitat.
Urban Farmacy
For Urban Farmacy Curriculum and Food Hack Shipping Containers
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
Alameda County
$3,000
To increase food production in urban areas, create economic viability within urban agriculture, educate communities about food entrepreneurship, and improve the health of the community by harvesting, foraging, and processing locally grown food and herbs.
WildPlaces
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
Fresno, Kern, and Tulare Counties
$5,000
For habitat restoration and education projects targeting low-income communities and communities of color in the Central Valley, and to support capacity-building targets such as the creation of a five-year strategic plan and the development of an advisory board.
Spring 2015
(announced March 27, 2015)
350 Sacramento
For Building Capacity for Climate Action Plan
Sacramento County
$3,000
For capacity building, media and community outreach, and implementation of a Climate Action Plan, which will empower people and communities to take action on climate change.
All One Ocean
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, and Sonoma Counties
$3,000
For a community-generated response to marine pollution in Northern California by providing beachgoers with information and practical tools to clean up ocean trash, 80% of which comes from the land.
Candlestick Point Neighborhood Committee
For Oversight of Candlestick Stadium Demolition Dust Management
San Francisco County
$5,000
To oversee the dismantling of Candlestick Stadium to prevent further damage to local air quality in an underserved neighborhood, where there already exists a disproportionate number of residents with respiratory illnesses resulting from toxic pollution from shipyards, power plants and industrial worksites.
Committee for a Better Shafter
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Kern County
$5,000
For environmental health advocacy, community development projects, and a community garden that will allow low-income residents to grow food organically and improve their nutrition without exposure to toxic pesticides.
Eel River Recovery Project
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity Counties
$5,000
To restore the Eel River, one of the last wild river ecosystems in Northern California, so that it is swimmable, drinkable and fishable. This grant will support membership recruitment, improved outreach, and volunteer coordination for the “Is it Swimmable” and toxic algae detection programs.
Gallinas Watershed Council
For Marin Civic Center Watershed Restoration
Fiscal Sponsor: MarinLink
Marin County
$2,500
To improve the water quality of the Marin Civic Center lagoon and the nearby Gallinas Creek, a tributary to San Francisco Bay, through fostered community stewardship, engagement of local volunteers in hands-on restoration projects, and innovative watershed restoration methods.
Growing Together
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: People United for a Better Life in Oakland
Alameda County
$5,000
To reforest urban Oakland neighborhoods in order to improve the environment, build community, and create a long-term source of local healthy food in neighborhoods classified as food deserts.
Humboldt Baykeeper
For Healthy Waterways, Safe Communities Initiative
Fiscal Sponsor: Northcoast Environmental Center
Humboldt County
$5,000
To identify and quantify sources of bacterial pollution runoff in Humboldt Bay and adjacent coastal watersheds. This data will inform action plans to clean up waterways recently designated as Impaired under the Clean Water Act.
Lake County Community Radio
For Access to Water
Lake County
$2,500
For a collaborative grassroots campaign to provide the residents of Lucerne with safe and affordable drinking water by establishing community control over the local water supply, which is currently privately owned and controlled.
Mission Community Market
For Increasing Healthy Food Benefits in San Francisco’s Mission District
Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Parks Alliance
San Francisco County
$2,500
To increase access to healthy fruits and vegetables among low-income, urban households, at an independent weekly community market in the Mission District. This program will match Cal Fresh (formerly called food stamps) and other food aid programs 1 to 1, providing access to fresh, healthy food in a neighborhood that has elevated rates of diet related chronic disease.
Mountain Meadows Conservancy
For Development of A Local Trail Alliance
Lassen, Plumas, and Tehama Counties
$2,000
To support a diverse coalition in rural northeastern California working to map and promote an existing network of recreational trails on three local lakes in the Upper Feather River watershed.
PLACE for Sustainable Living
For General Support
Fiscal Sponsor: Create Peace Project
Alameda County
$3,000
For a grassroots experiential learning center in Northwest Oakland that showcases sustainable living practices for the general public through community workshops and outreach programs focused on urban homesteading, neighborhood community building, community resilience and preparedness, social justice, and artistic expression.
Watertrough Children’s Alliance
For CEQA Project Renewal and Advancement
Fiscal Sponsor: O.W.L. Foundation
Sonoma County
$5,000
For advocacy to ensure that large-scale vineyard conversions in Sonoma County undergo proper environmental review to determine impacts to Russian River water quality and public health, especially the effects to Russian River tributary Atascadero Creek and the 700 children attending school next to a proposed vineyard on Watertrough Road.
Wolf Creek Community Alliance
For General Support
Nevada County
$5,000
To protect and restore Wolf Creek, part of the Sacramento River watershed, through water quality monitoring, invasive plant removal, replanting native plants, meadow restoration, assessing the impact of abandoned mine sites on the watershed, and advocacy for low-impact development, creek setbacks and creek friendly landscaping.
