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
Grassroots
grants from 9/1/2003 - 8/31/2004
Alameda
Creek Alliance
$5,000
Canyon
For General Support
Supports efforts to restore a self-sustaining run of steelhead
trout in Alameda Creek and to protect habitat for endangered
wildlife within this partially urbanized watershed.
Alliance
for a Clean Waterfront $3,000
for Sustainable Sewage & Stormwater Solutions Project
San Francisco
Supports citywide outreach to ensure the inclusion of environmental
justice and sustainability issues in the development and implementation
of San Franciscošs plan to upgrade their wastewater infrastructure.
Bay
Area Coalition for Headwaters
$3,000
for General Support
Berkeley/SF Bay Area
Supports grassroots organizing and public education efforts
to ensure long-term protection and restoration of the Headwaters
Forest Reserve on Californiašs North Coast.
Butte
Environmental Council $5,000
Chico
For Northern CA Vernal Pool Protection Program
Supports advocacy and litigation to protect one million acres
of vernal pool habitat that is critical habitat for 15 endangered
species in the central and northern valley of California.
Citizens
for the Eastshore State Park $3,000
For General Support
Berkeley
To support ongoing efforts to establish a shoreline park in
the East Bay from North Oakland, through Emeryville, Berkeley,
Albany, El Cerrito, and Richmond.
Clover
Valley Foundation $3,500
Rocklin
For General Support
Supports protection and preservation of Clover Valley from urban
sprawl development pressure.
Concerned
Citizens Coalition of Stockton $5,000
For "David and Goliath" Citizens fight water privatization
Stockton
To prevent the privatization of the operation and maintenance
of the Stockton municipal water system.
EarthTeam
$3,000
For
General Support
Walnut Creek
To
support hands-on environmental restoration projects for middle
and high school students, with an emphasis on underprivileged
schools, that connects the students to their local watershed
and parks, and teaches them to be environmental stewards.
Eastern
Sierra Land Trust $5,000
Bishop
For Director of Outreach and Development
Provides seed money to build organizational capacity to protect
vital lands in the eastern California counties of Inyo, Mono
and Alpine Counties.
Eco-PREP
$4,000
for General Support
Arcata, Humboldt County
Supports an environmental education program for at-risk youth
in Humboldt County court and community schools that promotes
career opportunities in managing natural resources.
Ebbetts
Pass Forest Watch $3,000
Arnold
For General Support
Supports advocacy and citizen monitoring to protect and restore
healthy forests and watersheds in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
El
Comité para el Bienetar deEarlimart $5,000
For Poder en Comunidades Rurales / Power in Rural Communities
Earlimart
To educate rural communities about pesticide drift laws and
rights, and to empower mostly Hispanic campesinos (farm workers)
to effectively respond when pesticides drift accidents occur.
Foothill
Conservancy $4,000
for General Support
Amador/Calaveras
Counties
Supports expansion of efforts to restore and protect the watersheds
of Amador and Calaveras Counties, and make sure that land use
and economic development are sustainable.
Forest
Unlimited $3,000
Watershed Organizing Project
Cazadero
To organize, support and train local residents to protect critical
watersheds from water pollution, abusive logging and unwise
development in the Sonoma County area.
Friends
of Del Norte $5,000
for Restoring the Westšs Largest Coastal Lagoon to Wildness
Gasquet, Del Norte County
Supports an intensive campaign to protect and restore Lake Earl,
the largest coastal lagoon in the continental western United
States, and its many rare and endangered species.
Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group
$3,000
for Koshland Park Community Learning Garden Food Program
San
Francisco
Supports the initiation of a food production and distribution
project by neighborhood children and students from a local elementary
school to residents of two public housing developments.
Huntersview
Tenants Association
$5,000
For Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health & Justice
Project
San Francisco
To
mobilize and empower community mothers in this low-income, community
of color, to take control of their environment by advocating
for the closure of the antiquated Hunters Point power plant,
opposing the citing of new power plants in the neighborhood,
promoting renewable energy, and advocating for the ŗprecautionary
principle.˛
Lake
County Community Radio
$5,000
for Radio Center Remodel
Lakeport, Lake County
Supports the remodeling of a donated classroom into an independent
radio center to improve and expand environmental programming
on a local FM station.
Mendocino
Environmental Center $3,000
For General Support
Ukiah
For office and computer equipment, and expenses related to re-opening
the center after a one-year closure for seismic retrofitting.
Mount
Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center $5,000
Mount Shasta
For Save Medicine Lake Highlands Advocacy Project
Supports protection of the Medicine Lake Highlands from large-scale
geothermal developments that threaten a near-pristine volcanic
landscape and Native American cultural sites.
Mountain
Meadows Conservancy $5,000
General Support
Westwood
To support organizational development to protect and conserve
the Mountain Meadows Basin and watershed, including Mountain
Maidu Indian burial and cultural sites.
No Wetlands Landfill Expansion
$3,000
For General Support
Novato
To educate community members and local government officials
about the proposed expansion of the Redwood Landfill on the
edge of San Antonio Creek, and the environmental threat it poses
to the adjacent Petaluma Estuary and historical bay lands.
Norcal
Environmental Student Network
$5,000
Eastman Lake Grades 9-12 Stewardship Program
Carmichael
To
support environmental education, service and outdoor recreation
programs at Eastman Lake for six high schools. Tasks include
mapping and data inventory, invasive plant removal, planting
native species, community education and trail work.
OVC
Foundation
$5,000
Defense
of Groundwater
Bishop
For
legal assistance and educational support to protect groundwater
by monitoring the water gathering activities and mitigation
agreements of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
in the Owens Valley.
Salmonid
Restoration Federation $3,500
Redway
For Salmonid Restoration Conference
Supports the 22nd annual Salmonid Restoration Conference, where
activists, scientific experts and agency personnel from all
over Northern California cooperatively share their knowledge
about watershed restoration.
Save
Round Valley Alliance $5,000
for Testing for Tungsten
Bishop, Inyo County
Supports efforts to protect local drinking water in two Eastern
Sierra Nevada communities located downstream from an old Tungsten
mine.
Seaport
Missionary Baptist Church $5,000
For
Environmental Health Legislative Day
Richmond
To fund travel expenses for representatives of the environmental
justice community from Richmond and the Central Valley to attend
the Environmental Health Legislative Education Day in Sacramento.
Southeast
Sector Community Development Corporation $5,000
Environmental Exposure Project
San Francisco
To support the "The Things that Pollute My World" photo essay
contest that will empower children in the underserved neighborhood
of Bayview-Hunters Point to identify toxic elements in their
environment and to explore solutions.
Tri-County
Watchdogs $3,000
for Newsletter and Public Speakers
Lebec, Kern County
Supports a monthly newsletter and speakers program for a new
organization monitoring county and state projects which may
have a negative impact on the environment.
Walnut
Creek Open Space Foundation $2,500
Oak Habitat Restoration Project
Walnut Creek
For
supplies to replant missing generations of oak seedlings (because
of intensive grazing) in Walnut Creek open spaces. The project
plants about 300 sites per year by harvesting acorns, planting
and mulching, installing tree shelters, and dry season watering.
West Side School Volunteer Recycling
Program $500
General Support
Guerneville
For supplies to start a composting facility for food and paper
waste generated on and off campus at a K-6 public elementary
school. The student-led program will become self-sufficient
by selling compost products to the community.
TOTAL
GRASSROOTS FUND $123,000
Donor
Advised Funds
The Rose Foundation works closely with individual donors to
help them design and implement philanthropic goals.
Community
Technical Assistance Contracts
$15,000
Technical assistance contracts for pollution remediation or
to develop pollution discharge standards under the Clean Water
Act
Wheeler/Makdisi
Fund $8235
The
Wheeler/Makdisi Fund supports youth, education, arts, peace
and environmental programs.
Berkeley High Men's Lacrosse $100.00
Berkeley High School Development Group $1,500.00
Berkeley Public Education Foundation $1,000.00
Donald Dahlsten Outreach Fund $500
Genesee Retreat $100
If Americans Knew $200
KPFA $100.00 Lines Contemporary Ballet $250.00
Middle East Children's Alliance $1,000.00
New Dimensions Foundation $100.00
Oakland Museum of California Foundation $125.00
Slow Food USA $60.00
University of Wisconsin Foundation $100
Urban Creeks Council Friends of 5 Creeks $3,000.00
Voices in the Wilderness $100.00
TOTAL
DONOR ADVISED FUNDS $23,235
Fiscal
Sponsorship Funds
The Rose Foundation provides sponsorship, development and management
assistance to selected projects whose goals directly further
the Foundationšs own mission.
Bhutan
to the Bay
$1,508.70
Supports an archery-based cultural exchange program between
the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Bay Area.
California
Solar Project
$65,800
Supports an environmental/labor partnership to promote residential
solar development and the creation of family wage jobs in the
solar industry.
Eco-Prep
$27,246.26
Supports an environmental education program for at-risk youth
that promotes career opportunities in managing natural resources.
EnviroSpec
$3,760
To utilize the purchasing power of business, government agencies
and institutions to push manufacturers to make cleaner and greener
products.
Foundation
Partnership on Corporate Responsibility
$1,500
Defrayed costs of updating the organizationšs website.
Investor
Environmental Health Network
$17,088
To foster collaborative efforts among investors and environmental
health organizations by encouraging companies to buy safer alternatives/substitution
practices for toxic chemicals as to reduce the damage to human
health and the environment.
NaturalEquity
$50,000
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.
North
Coast Nature Center
$1,902
To establish a nature center in Crescent City.
O.W.L.
Foundation
$13,022.02
Supports community-based advocacy to link development in Sonoma
County with the availability of groundwater supplies.
Redwood
Economic Development Institute
$14,831.61
Supported the ongoing development of model eco-tourism projects
on Californiašs North Coast.
Richmond
Environmental Defense Fund
$108.10
Supports advocacy of environmentally-sustainable growth in Richmond.
Scared
Spaces
$9,400
Funded innovative outreach to cancer patients, teaching strategies
for focusing their spiritual energy on recovery.
Waterfront
Action
$2,928.10
Supports the development of a broad coalition advocating for
sustainable development and public access to Oaklandšs waterfront.
Wilderness
Reflections
$2,103.50
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.
TOTAL
FISCAL SPONSORSHIPS $211,198.29
