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Summer Academy students joined organizers from the Local Clean Energy Alliance to protest a bailout for PG&E, given their liability for disastrous wildfires across the state – and their work was featured in the SF Chronicle!

Summer is here!

Check out what grantee Coastal Watershed Council is up to, and more.

Our latest report is available now! 

Serving America’s Vulnerable and Underbanked People: A Cy Pres Impact Report details the impacts of the Consumer Financial Education Fund’s most recent round of grantmaking in 2018. The report describes lessons learned from the fund’s grantmaking process, anticipated impacts of the grants awarded, and provides an overview of the communities served by grantees.

Our latest report is available now! 

Serving America’s Vulnerable and Underbanked People: A Cy Pres Impact Report details the impacts of the Consumer Financial Education Fund’s most recent round of grantmaking in 2018. The report describes lessons learned from the fund’s grantmaking process, anticipated impacts of the grants awarded, and provides an overview of the communities served by grantees.

Check out these helpful resources and this important notice from Rose Foundation partner Community Water Center!

Summer and fall are especially important times for groundwater planning. In preparation for this period, Community Water Center (CWC) has just released two new resources for protecting drinking water quality in the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).

The Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund is now in its 16th year, and 2018 was one of our best years yet!

Last year, we awarded 46 grants totaling $175,900, hosted our annual free Grassroots Convening for 78 attendees, and awarded supplemental training scholarships to 12 grantees.

Click here for the full report.

Summer is here!

Check out what grantee Coastal Watershed Council is up to, and more.

Thanks to you, we doubled our challenge match and raised over $21,000 for grassroots groups working from the bottom up to protect nature, build climate resilience, and advance social justice.

On March 15, 2019, New Voices joined thousands of youth in California and over a million worldwide in the Youth Climate Strike, a youth-led protest demanding legislative action against the looming threat of climate change.

Last summer New Voices Are Rising collaborated with five environmental justice programs to give Summer Climate Justice Leadership Academy students an in-depth look at what it means to be a leader for environmental health in their community.

Thank you again to the Sierra Club, San Francisco Bay Chapter for recognizing our New Voices Are Rising youth Fellows at the David Brower Dinner. Make sure to check out this video of Pa, Kyree, and Nate accepting the 2015 Youth Award!

Do you remember the first time you stood up and spoke out? Watch our New Voices Are Rising 2015 Summer Climate Justice Leadership Academy participants as they discuss the power of their voices and how they have gotten involved in the fight for climate resiliency in Oakland.