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New Voices Stands for Housing Justice, Just Cities & Ron Dellums’ Legacy, Farewell to Megan Mubaraki, and so much more!

Nuestro programa de New Voices Are Rising ha permanecido auténtico desde sus orígenes – trabajando con estudiantes para proteger la calidad del aire de Oakland. Recientemente, lxs estudiantes han promovido y defendido aire limpio a través del proceso estatal AB617. AB617 es un proyecto de ley de la asamblea del estado de California, firmado en 2017, diseñado para fomentar más participación de la comunidad en la reducción de los niveles y las exposiciones a la contaminación del aire con el fin de mejorar la salud pública.

Ringing in the New Year, Rose Goes to Washington, Oakland Air Quality Update, and more! 100,000 Thank Yous: Here’s to a New Year & New Decade of Powering Up the Grassroots!

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.

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Ringing in the New Year, Rose Goes to Washington, Oakland Air Quality Update, and more! 100,000 Thank Yous: Here’s to a New Year & New Decade of Powering Up the Grassroots!

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!
In this Issue: A New Initiative to Grow Grassroots Power Across the Country; Making Connections with Local Grantees; Building Grassroots Momentum as We Head Toward 2020; Meet the 2019-20 New Voices Are Rising Fellows; & more!

New Voices Strikes, 2019 Film Fest – That’s a Wrap!, Meet Our New Grassroots Grantees, and more!

Read this article to see New Voices students provide public comment at BAAQMD and CARB meetings and find out about success, challenges, and budding partnerships to address toxic air quality in West and East Oakland.

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!