Restitution
Funds
The Rose Foundation has developed a specialized
program to receive mitigation payments from litigation
settlements. The funds support grants to community organizations
in conformance with the nexus of the settlement.
|
San
Francisco Bay/Delta Citizens Action Fund -- $202,975
Silicon
Valley Toxics Coalition $40,000
for Silicon Valley Sustainable Water Project
Santa Clara County: Supports comprehensively addressing
water consumption and contamination issues in the Silicon
Valley
Tides Center/Just Economics for
Environmental Health $35,000
San Francisco Bay/Delta: Provides seed funding for advocacy
of a ban on mercury pollution in the Bay/Delta.
Blue
Water Network $20,000
San Francisco Bay: Supports advocacy to protect SF Bay from
oil spills, ballast water discharge and risks associated
with ship traffic.
ARC
Ecology $15,000
San Francisco/Oakland: Military
Toxics/Bay Protection Project Funds advocacy to reduce contaminated
ground water and surface water run off from toxic military
sites in San Francisco Bay.
Center
for Biological Diversity $11,425
San Francisco
Bay/Delta: Supports habitat protection in the Bay/Delta
through research and administrative petitions to state and
federal governments.
Aquatic
Habitat Institute $10,000
Oakland: Sausal Creek Restoration & Pollution Prevention
Project Supports neighborhood education, clean-up and community
protection of Sausal Creek.
Golden
Gate Audubon $10,000
Alameda: Alameda Wild!
Supports elementary school program linking with the Alameda
National Wildlife Refuge.
Golden
Gate University Environmental Law & Justice Clinic $10,000
San Francisco Bay: Supports administrative advocacy to reduce
stormwater pollution on behalf of low-income clients.
Friends
of the River $10,000
Los Angeles: Environmental Water Caucus Supports advocacy
of increasing flow to the Delta through residential water
conservation.
San
Francisco Estuary Institute $10,000
San Francisco Bay: Supports technical assistance to policy
makers, non-profits and legislators regarding the proper
sampling and regulation of exotic species contaminating
ballast water discharge.
Ecological
Rights Foundation $7,500
San Francisco Bay: Groundwater Enforcement Network Provides
seed funding to stop illegal stormdrain discharges of contaminated
groundwater.
Urban
Ecology $5,550
San Francisco Bay: Supports advocacy of sustainable growth,
reducing private automobile use and increasing public transit.
Save
San Francisco Bay Association $5,000
San Francisco Bay/Delta: Supports advocacy of Bay/Delta
watershed protections through participation in the CALFED
process.
West
County Toxics Coalition $5,000
Contra Costa County: Supports community outreach to African
American and Laotian neighborhoods to combat a variety of
water pollution problems.
Friends
of the Estuary $4,000
Richmond: Richmond High School Environmental Justice Project
Funds water quality monitoring and creek bank restoration
in Wildcat Creek.
Maat
Youth Academy $3,550
Richmond: Funds community efforts to reduce storm drain
pollution in the flatlands of Richmond.
Green
City $950
Oakland: Funds a collaboration with Oakland Asian Students
Educational Services to stencil storm drains in Oakland's
Chinatown.
|
Clean
Air Fund -- $63,200
Communities for
a Better Environment $25,000
for East County Cumulative Impact Study
Contra Costa County: Funds a study of health problems in
neighborhoods which are heavily impacted by industrial air
pollution.
Tides
Center/Just Economics for Environmental Health $20,000
Greater Sacramento Area: Funds research to identify combustion
and other emissions sources of mercury, and promote clean
alternatives.
San
Francisco BayKeeper $15,000 Greater Sacramento
Area: Funds administrative advocacy to reduce pesticide
levels in ambient air throughout the Sacramento Valley.
Community
Abatement of Pollution - Industrial Toxins (CAP-IT) $3,200
for County Bucket Brigade
Contra Costa: Funds local organizing to involve local community
members in air sampling after industrial toxic releases.
Southern
California Watersheds Fund -- $7,520
Friends
of the Los Angeles River $6,020 for Eco Heroes
Project
Los Angeles: Funds citizen monitors to find and report illegal
discharges to the river.
Madres
del Esta de Los Angeles $1,500 for Auto Repair
Shop Stormwater Project
Los Angeles: Supports outreach to automotive repair shops
in the Boyle Heights area to reduce contaminated runoff
to storm drains.
|
