Rose Foundation | 2006 Awards

Environmental Restitution Funds
The Rose Foundation has developed a specialized program to act as trustee over restitution payments from litigation settlements, and administer grants to community organizations in conformance with the nexus of the settlement.

As You Sow Foundation
Shareholder Environmental Health Initiative
$25,000
For campaigns to create corporate and market shifts away from toxic ingredients in consumer products, including requiring supermarkets to label fish for mercury contamination, helping computer manufacturers develop e-waste responsibility programs, and eliminating carcinogens and toxins from cosmetics.

Bay Institute
Developing Key Components of a Delta Index
$16,000
To develop the Delta Index, which will educate the public about the ecological condition of the Delta, key stressors on the system, and opportunities to improve aquatic life.

California Communities Against Toxics
Fiscal Sponsor: Agape Foundation
Travel Scholarships
$1,000
Travel Scholarships to annual toxics conference.

California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
Watershed Enforcers Project
$30,000
To build a new watershed monitoring and citizen enforcement network to protect sensitive watersheds from toxic pollution.

Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment
Emergency Funding
$1,500
To support community participation in agricultural runoff pollution regulatory hearings.

Clean Water Fund
Clean and Safe Water Initiative
$10,000
To improve the water quality of the San Francisco Bay and Delta regions by advocating and organizing health-protective clean-up plans; building momentum for pollution prevention through chemical polices that protect worker, environmental and consumer health; and facilitating community input into the development of risk reduction strategies for subsistence fishers.

Coalition for a Safe Environment
Consolidated Slip North Shore Restoration Preliminary Concept Plan
$3,599
To mitigate the impacts of the Port of Los Angeles on nearby communities by developing a wetlands restoration plan that would restore 20-30 acres of coastal waters and wetlands in the San Pedro Bay, which has already lost 99% of its wetlands.

Environment California Research & Policy Center
Clean Water Future for California (Delta Element)
$7,500
To help the State Water Board draft TMDL implementation policy that includes stopping new pollution from entering a polluted waterway, requiring cleanup of existing contamination, and ensuring sufficient flow to restore essential Delta habitat.

Environmental Law Foundation
Anti-degradation and Public Trust Project
$30,000
For a new, long-term project that would integrate two key legal theories – the anti-degradation clause of the federal Clean Water Act and the ancient “rights to waterways” concept of the Public Trust Doctrine – to create a comprehensive water resources protection framework.

Environmental Protection Information CenterNational Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Lawsuit
$15,000
To support a lawsuit that seeks to establish an important legal precedent mandating that logging operators obtain federal water pollution control permits for logging operations.

Friends of Sausal Creek
Community Outreach and Volunteer Recruitment
$10,000
For restoration and native re-vegetation of the 2,656-acre Sausal Creek Watershed, by marshaling hundreds of community members (including 80 different school, youth and neighborhood groups) who volunteer thousands of hours to help restore native plant communities and propagate over 35,000 native plants.

Ma’at Youth Academy
General Support
$15,000
For environmental education to increase academic achievement levels and improve the quality of life for communities of color and low-income residents in Richmond and West Contra Costa County. Projects include conducting safe fish consumption workshops at WIC clinics, health centers and high schools.

Natural Resources Defense Council
Ecowise
$25,000
To promote “Ecowise Certified,” a least-toxic pest control label. The project will recruit local governments, utilities, nonprofits and businesses to recognize and promote the certification, certify at least 10 pest control operators and generate widespread media coverage on the new label.

Natural Resources Defense Council
Western Water Project
$12,250
To encourage responsible management of state and federal water projects in the Delta, to improve Delta water quality, and prepare and implement an effective vision for the future of the Delta.

Northern California Grantmakers
Summer Youth Project
$1,000
Supports San Francisco Bay-related elements of a pooled fund that supports youth programs.

Pacific Institute
Costs of Goods Movement Project
$25,000
To help affected communities advocate for protection from the increasing transportation of good through their neighborhoods and communities.

Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco Bay Chapter
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
$10,000
For distribution of the “Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit” that contains information that helps families reduce exposures to lead, arsenic, pesticides, asbestos, particulates and other common pollutants.

Restore the Delta
Fiscal Sponsor: Friends of the River
General support
$35,000
Seed money to launch a new coalition of environmental, business and agricultural interests. The coalition’s goal is to find common ground amongst diverse interests to build a broad citizen-based campaign to restore the Delta by repairing levees, reducing pollution, increasing water flows, and creating a new state-run Delta Conservancy.

Revive the San Joaquin
Speakers Bureau Logistical Support
$5,000
Promote a collective stewardship ethic that sustains the economic, environmental, and recreational benefits of a healthy San Joaquin River.

River of Words
Re-membering Cordonices
$5,735
For a poetry and art contest that encourages environmental awareness and stewardship amongst young people. The Re-membering Cordonices project focuses attention locally on a major creek in Berkeley. A central feature of the project is the development of a curriculum that integrates historic wisdom regarding creek stewardship, the memories of elders in the community, and youth energy to examine and investigate current creek conditions.

San Bruno Mountain Watch
Water Pollution Litigation Project
$5,000
Watchdog the Hillside Landfill on the west slope of San Bruno Mountain for compliance with state and federal water pollution laws.

San Francisco Baykeeper
General Support for the Deltakeeper Chapter
$35,000
For protection and restoration of the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuarine system on the Pacific Coast. Activities include investigating sewage spills; watchdogging of discharge permits; participating in the development of a mercury clean plan to address historic toxic contamination from old mines; watchdogging municipal stormwater discharge permits; advocating for the enforcement of new interim state rules designed to control agricultural pollution; protecting the Delta’s salmon fishery; and educating the public to build an informed constituency for Delta stewardship.

San Francisco Baykeeper
Healthy Waters Education Program
$45,000
To promote resource stewardship, increase knowledge of water quality issues and pollution impacts and encourage awareness of aquatic systems by educating high school and college students, government officials, community leaders and the public about the value of the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary.

San Francisco Baykeeper
$1,000
General Support

San Joaquin Audubon
For the Watershed Enforcers Project
$80,000
For citizen enforcement of state and federal water quality statutes in the southern Delta, San Joaquin River and tributaries.

Sierra Nevada Alliance
For Travel Scholarships
$2000
Supports travel scholarships allowing grassroots activists to attend a conference related to Sierra Nevada watersheds.

SPAWNERS
(Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project)
General Support
$5,000
For community-based stewardship of the San Pablo Creek watershed. Activities include organizing volunteer restoration activities, training students in habitat assessment and restoration, hosting an Adopt-A-Creek Day, and creating materials about creek restoration that are distributed through the local library.

Stockton Standing Up
General Support
$14,000
To protect the waters around the Port of Stockton from toxics that would be stirred up by a large-scale dredging project. The area has been contaminated by decades of use by the Navy.

Sustainable Conservation
Brake Pad Partnership
$9,940
For finalizing a comprehensive and technically accurate study of the deposition of brake pad debris to the San Francisco Bay. The study will be the basis for implementation plans developed in cooperation with manufacturers to reduce copper, and will educate the general development of copper TMDLs for the Bay.

Sustainable Opportunities in Land
Redwood Defense Project
$7,000
For protection of the redwood ecosystem in the Headwaters Forest area.

Tri-Valley Cares
$180
General Support

Environmental Restitution TOTAL $487,704.00

Fiscal Sponsorship Funds
The Rose Foundation provides sponsorship, development and management assistance to selected projects whose goals directly further the Foundation’s own mission.

Phillip and Sala Burton Center
$9,400
Creation of a human rights center dedicated to the principle that human rights, labor, and environmental standards serve as shared values of our global society.

California Solar Project
$18,800
Supports an environmental/labor partnership to promote residential solar development and the creation of family wage jobs in the solar industry.

Coalition of Concerned Citizens of Point Richmond
$59,101
Preservation of public access to the waterfront in the Point Richmond area.

EnviroSpec
$4,700
To utilize the purchasing power of business, government agencies and institutions to encourage manufacturers to make cleaner and greener products.

Friends of the Petaluma River
$940
Community-based watershed protection of the Petaluma River and tributaries.

Housing Opportunities Make Economic Sense
$2,820
Public education about land management, development density and affordable housing issues in Alameda.

Investor Environmental Health Network
$181,739
A collaborative partnership of institutional investors and non-governmental organizations concerned about the market and health risks associated with corporate toxics policies.

NaturalEquity
$29,400
To enhance human welfare by building equity in the natural environment by demonstrating, through direct incentive approaches, how economic development and environmental conservation can be compatible.

No Wetlands Landfill Expansion
$8,431
To limit the environmental and health impacts of a landfill that is on the edge of an environmentally sensitive marsh and the Petaluma River estuary.

North Coast Nature Center
$935
To support a nature center in Crescent City.

Redwood Economic Development Institute
$53,839
Support for the ongoing development of model eco-tourism projects on California’s North Coast.

Russian River Watershed Council
$287
Community education, watershed policy development, and restoration activities in the Russian River area.

Strategies for a Green Economy
$58,967
To study the economic benefits of coral reef restoration in Indonesia, review the benefits of marine sanctuaries off the California Coast, and establish conservation agreements that secure investments in local communities in exchange for conserving natural resources.

Wilderness Reflections
$396
Scholarship fund for low-income, at-risk youth to participate in wilderness trips designed to help people find the inspiration to meet life’s challenges and connect with their natural environment.

Fiscal Sponsorship TOTAL $429,755.00

Donor Advised Funds
The Rose Foundation works closely with individual donors to help them design and implement philanthropic goals.

Arc Ecology
$4,750
Supports state and federal policy development and technical assistance to communities to reduce toxic contamination in the San Francisco Bay area.

Community Technical Assistance Contracts
$79,537
Technical assistance contracts to provide expert assistance for community-based organizations helping governmental agencies develop pollution remediation or discharge standards.

Wheeler/Makdisi Fund
The Wheeler/Makdisi Fund supports youth, education, arts, peace and environmental programs.

CodePink/ETINA $250.00
Houston Katrina Relief Fund $1,200.00
Lines Contemporary Ballet $250.00
Berkeley Public Ed. FDN $1,000.00

Donor Advised TOTAL $86,987.00

New Voices are Rising
New Voices Are Rising strives to develop young leaders in low-income communities and communities of color in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties by helping young people gain the skills and experience in civic engagement required to tackle the many problems – especially environmental health problems that disproportionately impact their communities.

Down's Memorial United Methodist Church
Oakland
$8,000
For expenses related to New Voters Are Rising, a joint project between the Rose Foundation and Downs Memorial.

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Pacific Institute
$4,000
To provide science-base information on environmental and social conditions to neighborhood residents to help them revitalize and clean up their communities.

President’s Fund
The President's Fund provides small discretionary grants to a variety of community and environmental projects.

Holy Names High School
$1,000
Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund

Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund
The Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund is a pooled fund that helps bridge the gap between organized philanthropy and small, community-based environmental organizations.

For more info on the Northern California Grassroots Fund or a complete grants list for the Grassroots Fund

Alpine Watershed Group
General Support
Alpine County
$4,000
Support for citizen monitoring, watershed restoration, and "Alpine Creek Days" in Alpine County, which is the headwaters of 5 major rivers.

Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative
General Support
Alameda County
Fiscal Sponsor: Ecology Center
$2,500
Empowering underserved people to become stewards of the land, eat healthy foods, and build community through participating in school, youth training and community gardens.

Butte Environmental Council
General Support
Butte County
$5,000
Supports advocacy and litigation to protect one million acres of vernal pool habitat, and to protect northern California’s dwindling water supply by preserving the lower Tuscan Aquifer.

California Communities Against Toxics
Annual Conference Travel Scholarships
Kern County
$4,000
Travel scholarships for activists and presenters to attend an annual statewide conference of environmental health and justice activists.

Citizens for a Healthy Community
Preventing InEnTec Medical Waste Facility
Tehama County
$5,000
Public outreach about the health hazards of burning medical waste and community organizing to oppose the siting of a medical waste incinerator near Red Bluff.

Citizens for Responsible Forest Management
General Support
Santa Cruz County
$3,000
For watch-dogging of Timber Harvest Plans in the Central Coast Region, focusing on old-growth protection, riparian corridors, and protection of endangered Coho salmon and threatened Steelhead trout.

City Slicker Farms
General Support
Alameda County
Fiscal Sponsor: Oakland Based Urban Gardens – OBUGS
$5,000
For programs to increase food self-sufficiency for underserved populations in West Oakland through growing and distributing more than 20,000 pounds of locally-grown fresh organic produce.

Committee for Better Alpaugh
General Support
Tulare County
$5,000
Leadership training and community education about environmental health issues that impact the predominately low-income Latino residents – most of whom are Spanish-speaking, monolingual farmworkers.

Common Vision
Fruit Tree Tour
Mendocino County
Fiscal Sponsor: International Humanities Center
$4,000
To help defray logistics of a 70 day, 40 school tour from Sacramento to San Diego planting over 1,000 trees. Plantings are integrated with West African agricultural drumming, hip-hop, sustainable ecology curriculum, and Common Vision’s veggie-powered forest-mural buses.

Community Clean Water Institute
Youth Action Team to Protect the Russian River
Sonoma County
$2,500
An environmental science program for disadvantaged teens that covers the fields of water quality monitoring, ecotourism, watershed protection and restoration.

Community Water Center
General Support
Tulare County
$5,000
Helping disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley advocate for safe, clean and affordable drinking water.

Concerned Residents Initiative
General Support
Sacramento County
$4,000
Seed money to establish “first response” services and support to communities impacted by suspected disease clusters linked with environmental contamination.

EarthTeam Environmental Network for Educators & Teens
“Something’s in the Air” - An Air Pollution & Asthma Research and Action Project
Contra Costa County
$4,500
Educate and activate high school students from low-income communities at 15 schools about the quality of air in their communities and the relationship between air pollution and asthma.

Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch
Community Action Program
Calaveras County
$4,000
To educate and engage a broad base of emerging citizen and grassroots groups in local planning and environmental decision-making, especially around Calaveras County’s General Plan.

Ebbetts Pass Rivers and Trails Alliance
General Support
Calaveras County
$4,000
To help open an office and visitor’s education center in an effort to protect and restore the rivers, streams and community trails of the Two Rivers region – encompassing the upper watersheds of the Stanislaus and Mokelumne Rivers.

Environmental Commons
Mendocino Partnership for the Precautionary Principle
Mendocino County
Fiscal Sponsor: Redwood Coast Watershed Alliance
$5,000
To watch-dog the implementation of the Precautionary Principle in Mendocino County. Mendocino County is only the second county in the entire U.S. to adopt this overarching policy framework.

Forest Issues Group
Sierra Framework Defense
Nevada County
$5,000
Supports scientific research and litigation to halt the spraying of pesticides in the Tahoe National Forest by the US Forest Service.

Fresno Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
General Support
Fresno County
$5,000
For outreach about the health impacts of pesticides and to reduce toxic pesticide use in schools and neighborhoods. Also to translate materials into Spanish and Hmong, and promote alternative methods of pest management targeting landscape professionals.

Friends of the Dunes
Community Supported Dune Ecosystem Restoration
Humboldt County
$2,000
To support hands-on volunteer restoration of the 80-acre Eureka Dunes Protected Area.

Friends of Garrity Creek
Save Garrity Creek and Habitat Project
El Sobrante, Contra Costa County
$5,000
For legal assistance to preserve a spring-feed creek flowing into the San Pablo Bay that is being threatened by proposed development.

Friends of the Petaluma River
General Support
Sonoma County
$2,000
Seed money to help launch a new organization dedicated to promoting community stewardship over the Petaluma River.

High Sierra Rural Alliance
Land Use Component of Urban Edge Boundary
Sierra and Plumas County
$5,000
To protect Sierra Valley agricultural lands from urban development.

Kids in Parks
General Support
San Francisco
Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Parks Trust
$5,000
Experiential environmental education programs for students at two public middle schools serving mostly low-income families and people of color.

Klamath Basin Watershed Conference
General SupportSiskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Del Norte County
Fiscal Sponsor: Oregon-California Resource Conservation and Development Area Council
$5,000
For a stakeholders conference that aims to create sustainable, community-based solutions to the crisis on the Klamath River. Stakeholders include farmers, ranchers, government employees, elected officials, tribal members, commercial fishermen and environmental groups.

Klamath Forest Alliance
General Support
Siskiyou County
$5,000
For forest monitoring, advocating for the removal of dams on the Klamath River, prohibiting the use of dangerous pesticides by public land mangers, and supporting environmental justice projects with the Klamath and Pit Rivers tribes.

Lassen Land & Trails Trust
General Support
Lassen County
$5,000
For land preservation, development of a Lassen County Conservation Plan, and to hire an education director for summer nature camps for kids.

Mattole Restoration Council
Public Participation in Pacific Lumber’s Mattole Watershed Analysis
Humboldt County
$5,000
For geologic studies, stream surveys, and public education about Pacific Lumber’s effort to decrease harvest restrictions, despite unstable terrain and downstream impacts.

MOMS – Making Our Milk Safe
General Support
Alameda County
Fiscal Sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
$4,000
Seed money to help launch a new environmental health organization seeking to build a grassroots movement of mothers to reduce chemical contamination of human breast milk through direct action, market-based campaigns and legislation.

Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
Save Medicine Lake Highlands Advocacy Project
Siskiyou County
$5,000
Supports protection of the Medicine Lake Highlands from large-scale geothermal developments that threaten a near-pristine volcanic landscape and Native American cultural sites.

North Coast Action
General Support
Mendocino County
$5,000
For community-based monitoring, research and outreach regarding the health hazards of toxic contamination of the 434-acre Georgia Pacific mill site, which stretches for four miles along the waterfront of Fort Bragg.

Northern California Recycling Association
Litigating to Overturn the Approval of the Potrero Hills Landfill Expansion
Alameda County
$5,000
Legal challenge to the expansion of a landfill that leaches into the Suisun Marsh.

Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group
Outreach and Engagement
Mendocino County
Fiscal Sponsor: Coastal Land Trust
$5,000
or outreach, education and engagement of city planners, the coastal community and “green investors” regarding toxic clean up and sustainable redevelopment of the abandoned and heavily contaminated 434-acre Georgia Pacific mill site in downtown Fort Bragg.

OVC Foundation
Defense of Water Resources in the Owens Valley
Inyo County
$5,000
Maintain legal pressure on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to implement court-ordered, but delinquent, mitigation projects in the Owens Valley.

Resource Restoration
Leadership Project
Mendocino County
$5,000
To provide technical resources and assistance to a number of grassroots community organizations working to improve long-term forest and fisheries stewardship.

San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival
Flyway Festival Environmental Education Program
Vallejo, Solano County
$5,000
For distribution of the environmental education program of the Flyway Festival, which provides free sessions on conservation, wetlands restoration, pollution prevention and wildlife protection to over 7000 people in an underserved part of the Bay Area.

Sebastopol Water Information Group
Sebastopol Area Well Monitoring/Public Education
Sonoma County
$5,000
For well water monitoring, data collection and analysis to advance the understanding of local groundwater resources in order to safeguard a viable water supply for the future.

Solar Richmond
Richmond Solar Affordable Housing Program
Contra Costa County
Fiscal Sponsor: West County Toxics Coalition
$5,000
Solar installation job training program for at-risk youth. The youth will install solar panels on ten low-income homes.

Sustainable Nations Development Project
General Support
Humboldt County
Fiscal Sponsor: Seventh Generation Fund
$4,000
For intensive, hands-on training of Native Americans on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in renewable energy technologies including micro-hydroelectric, solar and wind generation, as well as sustainable building techniques.

Travel Scholarships
$2,900
Travel scholarships for 21 volunteers and staff of grantee organizations to attend fundraising training and organizational capacity building conference in San Francisco.

West Oakland Asthma Coalition
General Support
Alameda County
$4,500
Community education about the environmental causes of asthma in a neighborhood where children are seven times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than other children in California.

Wilderness Art & Literacy Collaborative
General Support
San Francisco
Fiscal Sponsor: Tides Foundation
$4,000
For habitat restoration and field studies in McLaren Park and Bayview Hill as part of an integrated environmental education curriculum serving at-risk students from Balboa High and Downtown Continuation High School.

Wildplaces Ecological Restoration and Education
General Support
Tulare County
$5,000
Operational support for rangeland and oak woodland restoration projects; ranch stewardship tours in cooperation with local ranchers; youth education and career development with disadvantaged and other youth; native plant nursery; and invasive plant management.

Winnemem Wintu Tribe
General Support
Sacramento County
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
$5,000
For stewardship of the McCloud, Sacramento and Pitt River watersheds, including the restoration of salmon populations and opposition to the enlargement of the Shasta Dam.

Wolf Creek Community Alliance
Unified Assessment of Proposed Developments
Nevada County
$3,000
Expand an existing pilot stream assessment program and work cooperatively with developers and government agencies to minimize development impacts on waterways.

Grassroots Fund TOTAL $192,900.00

Anthony Grassroots Prize and the Meade Clean Air Prize
The Rose Foundation host two prizes that are awarded each year around Earth Day. The Anthony Grassroots Prize recognizes an outstanding example of environmental stewardship. The Meade Clean Air Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in furthering the public’s understanding of air pollution. In 2006, there were two winners of the Meade Clean Air Prize.

Dana Dillworth
Winner of the Anthony Grassroots Prize
$1,000
For her work with the Citizens’ League for Environmental Action Now in Brisbane. Ms. Dillworth helped to found CLEAN 15 years ago, to give the local community a voice in the redevelopment of a 600-acre parcel of bay fill that is severely contaminated from decades of industrial activity.

William Kelly
Winner of the Meade Clean Air Prize
$1,000
For a series of articles published in the LA Weekly that provided insight about the backroom Sacramento wheeling and dealing over adding ethanol into gasoline and the pitfalls of liquefied natural gas terminals.

Mark Grossi
Winner of the Meade Clean Air Prize
$1,000
For his reporting in a year-long series of articles in the Fresno Bee on the air pollution impacts of citing new dairies in Fresno County and other places in the Central Valley.