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.
The Abandoned Mine Alliance
Fiscal Sponsor: Sierra Fund
For General Support
$10,000
Start-up funding to facilitate remediation of contaminated mining sites on public lands.
Aquatic Bioassay & Consulting
For Technical Assistance Contract
$24,236
Site characterization to investigate suspected pollution of an arroyo in the Ventura area in cooperation with local, state and federal government stakeholders.
Baykeeper
For Toxics Pollution and Runoff Project
$43,000
To support participation in state administrative activities to develop stronger agricultural pesticide regulations related to waterways and monitoring discharges.
Berkeley Community Orchard Project
Fiscal Sponsor: Ecology Center
For General Support
$5,000
To promote sustainable urban agriculture and access to organic food in the African American and Latino neighborhoods of South Berkeley. The project will remediate contaminated soil (which is currently leaching into the groundwater) and plant an orchard along a former railroad right-of-way.
Californians for Alternatives to Toxics
For Developing IPM in the Cloverdale School District
$4,700
For development of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program in the Cloverdale schools as part of CAT’s overall Pesticide Free Schools Program. The Cloverdale program will include a strong educational element to teach parents, students and teachers about IPM, and will serve as a model for similar work with many other school districts.
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
For the Central Valley Pesticide Campaign
$10,700
To train farmworkers and their communities about the health impacts of pesticides and how to reduce pesticide use. Outreach is in both Spanish and English.
Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
For the Dairy Project
$20,000
For monitoring, public education, and developing community capacity around the issue of pollution runoff from “mega-dairies” in Madera, Fresno and Merced Counties.
Citizens for East Shore State Parks
For General Support
$4,950
For preservation and acquisition of parkland along the east shore of the San Francisco Bay, in order to protect natural habitat and provide recreational open space for the entire length of the East Bay shore from Oakland through Richmond.
Clean Water Fund
For Clean and Safe Water Initiative
$4,000
To integrate the precautionary principal into water quality regulation, including advocating for a health-protective mercury clean-up plan for the San Francisco Bay, building a coalition around the safe-disposal of pharmaceutical medicines (which are generally not removed by sewage treatment), and evaluating of the cumulative impacts of multiple contaminants to our drinking water.
Communities for a Better Environment
For San Francisco Bay Toxic Fallout Prevention Project
$18,000
For policy development and organizing focused around reducing the cumulative impact of oil refineries in Contra Costa County and power plants in Southeast San Francisco, sources of aerial fallout and a major source of pollution to the San Francisco Bay.
Earth Team
For General Support
$9,000
Coordination of hands-on environmental restoration projects for middle and high school students that connects the students to their local watersheds and parks, and teaches leadership through environmental stewardship.
Golden Gate Audubon
For Preservation of the Alameda National Wildlife Refuge
$1,700
To support oversight of efforts to cleanup contamination from the former Alameda Naval Air Station at the Refuge, which is home to the endangered Least Tern and generally provides an important oasis of wildlife habitat in the urbanized Bay Area.
Greenaction
For Corporate Accountability for Toxic Emissions
$10,000
To improve air and water quality for residents in Bayview Hunters Point, an underserved neighborhood in San Francisco, through research, advocacy, education and grassroots organizing to reduce or eliminate toxic air and water pollution from the three largest polluters in the community.
Kids for the Bay
Fiscal Sponsor Earth Island Institute
For General Support
$9,000
For the Watershed Action program, which will partner 60 – 4th grade teachers and 1,800 students to deliver four full day workshops and associated environmental action projects in local creeks.
Northern California Grantmakers
For Summer Youth Project
$1,000
Supports San Francisco Bay-related elements of a pooled fund that supports youth programs.
NRDC
For Restoring the San Joaquin River and Protecting Water Quality in the Delta
$70,000
For restoration of salmon populations and to conduct regional and state advocacy to improve water quality related to salinity, TMDLs, and the use of drinking water on the San Joaquin River and watershed.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
For Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxicants Project
$15,000
To educate health care providers about toxic threats to child development.
River of Words
For General Support
$10,000
To support an annual watershed poetry and art contest, which motivates K-12 students to learn about their local watersheds and encourages them to become stewards over their local environments.
San Joaquin Audubon Society
For the Watershed Enforcers Project
$70,000
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
$1,000
Supports travel scholarships allowing grassroots activists to attend a conference related to Sierra Nevada watersheds.
Urban Creeks Council
For General Support
$200
For a new copy machine.
West County Toxics Coalition
For General Support
$25,000
For environmental justice advocacy related to a number of Bay pollution projects.
Woods Edge/Archway School
For Archway School Ecology and Environmental Science Curriculum
$40,000
For development and implementation of a two-year curriculum for middle school students about the ecology and natural history of the San Francisco Bay that teaches how to become an active steward over Bay resources. Activities include hands-on restoration of Glen Echo Creek; numerous field trips; and hands-on, inquiry based classroom science projects.
Youth United for Community Action
Fiscal Sponsor: Tides Center
For Higher Learning in East Palo Alto
$15,000
For intensive leadership development and community organizing curriculum for low income, high school aged youth in East Palo Alto around local toxic issues such as cyanide discharges into the sewer system, and arsenic contamination. Students will research pollution sources; compile statistics on asthma and cancer; conduct community educational events; and organize testimony at environmental impact hearing.
Total Environmental Restitution Funds
$421,486
Consumer
Privacy Rights Fund
The Consumer Privacy Rights Fund supports California-based projects dedicated to the preservation and/or advocacy of consumer privacy rights.
ACLU
Foundation of Northern California
For
Real
ID Public Education Campaign $90,000
Support research and public debate about the privacy implications
of having a national identity card in the form of uniform, machine
readable state driver's licenses - and a corresponding national
database of personal data. Radio Frequency Identity Devices (RFID),
which can be scanned remotely without the knowledge of the ID
holder, is one such technology that is being considered for use
on these ID cards.
CALPIRG
Education Fund
For Shine the Light on Privacy Project $43,310
Monitor compliance with California's existing identity theft and
privacy laws and encourage Californians to understand their privacy
rights. The project will focus on the Shine the Light on Privacy
Act of 2003, which requires companies to respond to customers'
inquires about information sharing practices, and allows customers
to opt-out of all future sharing of their personal information.
Center
For Democracy & Technology
For "Spy Tags" - Protecting
Consumer Privacy as Radio Frequency ID Tags Are Inserted into
Everyday Products $55,000
Develop and promote privacy protection principles for the use
of Radio Frequency Identity Devices (RFID), which are tiny chips
implanted in common consumer products, bridge and road toll passes
such as FasTrak, library books and government documents. RFIDs
can be read remotely and passively, without scanning or direct
contact, and they can be used to track an individual's movements
in public or private settings. Personal identities can be linked
to unique RFID tags, allowing individuals to be profiled and tracked
without their knowledge by governmental entities, corporations
or data thieves.
Consumer
Federation of California Education Foundation
For Telecommunications Privacy Project $25,000
Study the privacy practices of telecommunications companies, including
traditional telephone companies, cell phone companies, voice over
internet protocols (VOIP) and cable TV companies. Some of these
firms are subject to California law - which prohibits information
sharing about calls and calling patterns - while others are exempt.
Regulated telecommunication companies are entering into joint
marketing relationships with non-regulated entities, creating
new potential for privacy violations. Findings will be summarized
and published on a Telecommunications Privacy Scorecard.
Electronic
Privacy Information Center
For Coordination and Submission of Privacy Comments to Federal
and State Agencies $20,000
Coordinate and submit consumer comments in state and federal rulemaking
proceedings on consumer privacy issues; organize coalitions to
endorse comments; and provide support for California-based organizations
that wish to participate in federal rulemaking.
First
Amendment Project
For Protecting Privacy for Consumers of Expressive Materials $20,000
Advise retailers on how to structure their customer information
practices to protect customer's privacy rights. Help provide legal
counsel and representation of California consumers and retailers
of expressive materials, such as books, newspapers, music, movies
and videogames, whose records have been sought by law enforcement
or other third parties.
Privacy
Rights Clearinghouse
For
Consumer Education and Complaint Handling
$100,000
Consumer complaint response and counseling; and research and outreach
on consumer privacy issues including financial privacy, credit
reporting, employment background checks, identity theft, Internet
records, online privacy and medical privacy. Some of the educational
materials (printed and web-based) will be available in both Spanish
and English.
U.
C. Berkeley Boalt School of Law Samuelson Law, Technology & Public
Policy Clinic
For Effect of Privacy Regulations
on Corporate Behavior $35,000
Research on impacts of privacy regulation and self-regulations
through interviews and surveys of chief privacy officers in various
industry sectors about the effects of privacy laws and industry
privacy initiatives on their businesses' privacy and security
practices.
World
Privacy Forum
For Job Search Site and Scholarship and College Financial Aid
Site Privacy $40,000
Update an existing study and consumer guide on job search privacy;
research scholarship and student financial aid web sites to see
which sites are selling parent and student personal information
to listbrokers and marketing companies; and provide parents and
students with a guide for using the Internet to search for scholarships
without having to divulge sensitive information.
Consumer Privacy Total $428,310
Fiscal Sponsorship Funds
The Rose Foundation provides sponsorship, development and management assistance to selected projects whose goals directly further the Foundation’s own mission.
California Solar Project
$11,280
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
$23,437
Preservation of public access to the waterfront in the Point Richmond area.
Eco-Prep
$6,945
Supports an environmental education program for at-risk youth that promotes career opportunities in managing natural resources.
EnviroSpec
$4,700
To utilize the purchasing power of business, government agencies and institutions to push manufacturers to make cleaner and greener products.
Investor Environmental Health Network
$115,362
To foster collaborative efforts among investors and environmental health organizations by encouraging companies to buy safer alternatives/substitution practices for toxic chemicals to reduce the damage to human health and the environment.
NaturalEquity
$4,781
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.
North Coast Nature Center
$6,297
To establish a nature center in Crescent City.
Redwood Economic Development Institute
$46,954
Supported the ongoing development of model eco-tourism projects on California’s North Coast.
Richmond Environmental Defense Fund
$301
Supports advocacy of environmentally-sustainable growth in Richmond.
Russian River Watershed Council
$204
Community education, watershed policy development, and targeted restoration activities in the Russian River area.
Scared Spaces
$4,700
For innovative outreach to cancer patients using natural elements from the environment, and teaching strategies for focusing their spiritual energy on recovery.
Strategies for a Green Economy
$30,000
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.
Wilderness Reflections
$235
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 Sponsorship Funds $255,196
Prize Awards, New Voters are Rising, and President's Fund
Anthony Grassroots Activism Prize
$1,000
Awarded to: Sandra Meraz
For leading her hometown of Alpaugh’s struggle for safe drinking water. Alpaugh is a small, perdominatly Hispanic farming town in Tulare County, whose drinking water is completely contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants.
Anthony Grassroots Activism Prize
$1,000
Awarded to:
Teresa DeAnda
For her leadership in helping her community, Earlimart, a small, predominantly Hispanic farming community in Kern County, respond to pesticide drift.
Meade Clean Air Prize
$1,000
Awarded to:
Eric Johnson
For his eight-day series exploring the air pollution impacts of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, published in February 2004 in the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
New Voices are Rising Project
$23,171
Down's Memorial Untied Methodist Church, Oakland
For expenses related to New Voters Are Rising, a joint project between the Rose Foundation and Downs Memorial to develop new young leaders in low income communities and communities of color, through civic engagement, especially as it relates to environmental health problems that disproportionately impact their communities.
President's Fund
$6,600
The President's Fund provides small discretionary grants to a variety of community and environmental projects.
