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This past month, the Rose Foundation was pleased to receive over $500,000 in cy pres funds from Facebook through the Fraley v. Facebook case. Cy pres funds like these enable grantmaking to groups working toward environmental justice, consumer protection and consumer privacy.

The New Voices are Rising Interns spoke at the YES (Youth for Environment and Sustainability Conference) about the final preferred scenario for PLAN Bay Area. PLAN Bay Area is a transportation and housing plan that will develop the Bay Area, and also decrease its green house gas emissions by 2044.

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, Urban Releaf hosted a tree planting at Brook Elementary School in East Oakland. Over 200 volunteers planted trees and helped improve air quality at a school next to the I-880 freeway. Several Rose Foundation staff, New Voices partners and Rose Foundation grantees pitched in to help. As the trees grow, they will block pollution and noise from the freeway from drifting into the schoolyard.

Our grantee Green Action helped shed the light on radioactive soil at the site of new proposed homes, office, and a park in Hunters Point, San Francisco. The company responsible for testing soil before homes can be built admitted to faking hundreds of soil samples at the former Navy shipyard.

The New Voices Are Rising Summer Climate Justice Youth Leadership Academy started off with a bang. After our very first day, our students stuck around to speak up at Oakland City Council against dirty coal exports in their communities. That night, City Council banned coal exports from the Port of Oakland in a huge win for the No Coal in Oakland Campaign!