Grassroots Fund Grantees

2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

Winter 2008

Brisbane Baylands Community Advisory Group      
For General Support        
Fiscal Sponsor: Agape Foundation        
San Mateo County
$4,800
Technical assistance for water and air quality testing, expert opinions on environmental reviews, and research on the source of the toxic legacy of the Brisbane Baylands, 600-acres of contaminated soils at the edge of SF Bay.  The site is fragmented by multiple cities, multiple ownerships, and multiple agencies with varying jurisdictions.

California Indian Environmental Alliance      
For General Support        
Fiscal Sponsor: National Indian Justice Center        
Alameda County
$4,500
Organizational growth and planning to address the environmental health effects of the thousands of abandoned mines left over from the California Gold Rush. An estimated 11 million pounds of mercury is working its way from the mines to rivers, lakes, streams, marshes and bays.

Central Coast Forest Watch      
For Citizen Outreach and Education Tools Development                 
Santa Cruz County
$5,000
“How-to” booklet for forest activists, watchdogging timber harvest plans in the Central Coast, and dissemination of information about agency actions, watershed and forest related workshops, Board of Forestry updates, and other information.

Colusa County Citizens for Safe Water      
For General Support                 
Colusa County        
$2,700
Opposition to the siting of a landfill at Cortina Ridge that would pose a toxic threat to nearby creek watersheds and possible contamination of groundwater, posing hazards to people and agriculture.

Daily Acts      
For General Support                 
Sonoma County        
$5,000
To hire an office manager to organize sustainability tours, expand existing programs and manage volunteers; develop household sustainability models that will save low-income households money; and create guide for organizing sustainability tours.

Friends of Del Norte      
For Restoring the West’s Largest Coastal Lagoon to Wildness: A Campaign to Win Permanent Protection for Lakes Earl & Tolowa
Del Norte County
$5,000
To win permanent protection for the wildlands and wetlands of Lake Earl, an important wildlife refuge on the Pacific Flyway.

Friends of Five Creeks      
For New Grassroots Community Partnerships        
Fiscal Sponsor: Berkeley Partner for Parks
Alameda County
$4,000
Seed money to establish 5 new projects: stewardship of East Bay shoreline; restoring native plants to 3 historic rock parks; adopt-a-railroad right-of-way in West Berkeley; native plants and interpretive signs along Codornices Creek; and to publicize a state-wide web-based database on native plants by place or watershed (www.calflora.org).

Parents for a Safer Environment      
For Reforming Pesticide Usage by Contra Costa County Departments        
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network, North America        
Contra Costa County        
$5,000
To monitor Contra Costa County’s implementation of an integrated pest management policy to reduce the use of toxic pesticides, and for outreach to medical clinics and drug stores about lice abatement methods that don’t include pesticides.

Sierra Club Pajaro River Watershed Committee           
For Integrating Communities with the Pajaro River        
Fiscal Sponsor: Sierra Club Foundation        
Santa Cruz County        
$5,000
For a conceptual plan to integrate the Lower Pajaro River with the communities of Watsonville and Pajaro. The plan will include restoring dumping zones back into riparian areas, constructing wetlands, bike trail link to coastal communities, pocket parks, public access trail through urban areas, and preservation of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian site.

SPAWNERS      
For General Support        
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project        
Contra Costa County        
$3,000
Volunteer monitoring programs, creek-side re-vegetation projects, native plant demonstration garden, creek clean-up days and development of educational programs for public school students in West Contra Costa County.

Sustainable Nations Development Project      
For General Support        
Fiscal Sponsor: Seventh Generation Fund
Humboldt County
$5,000
For educating Yurok farm managers; creating a viable seed saving facility; producing food for tribal youth and elders; hosting traditional elders to share knowledge of food production and sovereignty; outreach to Native and non-Native neighbors to re-establish bioregional trade networks; water efficiency workshops; and an Indigenous People’s Straw Bale Construction Workshop.

TOTAL $49,000

Fall 2007

Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
For Grassroots Environmental Participation in Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Organinzing
Humboldt County
$3,000
To watchdog the Pacific Lumber Company bankruptcy proceedings to insure that the company’s 205,000 acres of redwood forestland are managed in a way that protects the environment and provides long-term sustainable forestry and restoration jobs.

Alpine Watershed Group      
For General Support        
Alpine County
$4,000
Support for citizen monitoring, watershed restoration, erosion control best management practices, and "Alpine Creek Days" in an area at the headwaters of 5 major rivers.

Foresthill Residents for responsible Growth (FROG)
For General Support        
Placer County
$4,000
Community involvement to prohibit Placer County from amending its General Plan to allow overwhelming development in a small Sierra Nevada foothills community.

Friends of Canyon Creek      
For CEQA Lawsuit Project        
Shasta County
$3,000
Legal challenge to the City of Redding’s approval of a 271-lot subdivision because it failed to address how grading and road construction would effect critical creekside steelhead habitat.

Green Wheels      
For General Support        
Fiscal Sponsor: Northcoast Environmental Center
Humboldt County
$1,000
Alternative transportation planning including advocating for a multi-use trail between Arcata and Eureka.

Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group      
For BEET Rangers (Brigade of Environmentally Educated Teens)        
Fiscal Sponsor: Tides Center
San Francisco
$2,500
An environmental stewardship, youth leadership program for at-risk high school students, that includes designing and implementing restoration projects at a local park of the students’ choice, working under the guidance of the city recreation and parks department.

Los Padres Forestwatch      
For General Support        
Santa Barbara County
$2,000
To protect and restore the natural and cultural heritage of public lands along California’s Central Coast though community involvement, scientific collaboration and legal advocacy.

Mattole Restoration Council - Forest Practices Review Program      
For Mattole Forestlands Protection Project
Humboldt County
$4,500
Develop, promote and implement a land conservation strategy for the Pacific Lumber Company-owned timberlands in the Mattole watershed, which are currently under the dictates of the bankruptcy court.

Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
For Save Medicine Lake Highlands Advocacy
Siskiyou County
$4,000
Supports protection of a beautiful, remote, and biologically critical volcanic ecosystem that has spiritual and cultural significance to Native Americans and to the public.

Mountain Meadows Conservancy      
For General Support
Lassen County
$5,000
For a legal challenge to a proposed mega-ski resort that would construct 4,000 new homes, three golf courses and a 600-acre ski resort on sacred lands that provide habitat to many endangered or threatened species.

People for Children’s Health and Environmental Justice      
For Fish Contamination Project        
Fiscal Sponsor: Agape Foundation
Solano County
$5,000
To educate communities of color in the Vallejo area about fish contamination, allowing them to make informed fish consumption choices, and to facilitate meaningful community participation in local, regional and state decision-making affecting low-income communities of color.

Rural Quality Foundation      
For General Support
Nevada County
$4,000
To provide community education related to five new development projects, the creation of an open space district, the expansion of Empire Mine State Park, and agricultural protection methods.

Save the Air in Nevada County      
For General Support        
Fiscal Sponsor: Green Research
Nevada County
$4,000
Outreach to community members about the effects of ground level ozone pollution, how to minimize their exposure, and to support solutions to air pollution.  The Sierra Nevada foothills community of Grass Valley has some of the highest ozone pollution in the nation.

Shasta County Citizens for a Healthy Environment      
For CEQA Complaint / Shasta Ranch Mining and Reclamation Project
Shasta County
$3,000
To help local residents oppose a 268-acre gravel mining operation along the Sacramento River that is designated critical habitat for the endangered winter run Chinook salmon. The heavy truck traffic to and from the mine will generate cancer causing diesel emissions and will create an unsafe mix of heavy haul trucks, passenger vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and school buses.

Tolowa Dunes Stewards      
For Protecting Endangered Northcoast Dunes and Wetlands        
Fiscal Sponsor: Smith River Alliance
Humboldt County
$4,000
To protect and restore over 10,000 acres of unique coastal dune, estuarine and wetlands habitat that is home to 41 endangered and sensitive species that are threatened by illegal off-road vehicle activity.

Yuba Historical Society      
For Sutter Buttes Preservation Campaign
Sutter County
$2,000
To involve ranchers and Native Americans in preventing the only mountain in the Central Valley from being carved up into 20 and 80-acre home sites, advocating for the creation of a park on the mountain’s southern fringe, and establishing preservation incentives for landowners.

Summer 2007

Committee for a Better Alpaugh      
For General Support           
Tulare County
Fiscal Sponsor: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
$5,000
Leadership training and community education about environmental health issues that impact this small rural community of mostly Spanish-speaking, monolingual farmworkers.

Community Clean Water Institute      
For General Support           
Sonoma County
$3,000
To add stormwater monitoring to their existing water quality monitoring activities. The combined data will be used for community education, will be provided to regulators, and will help city and county officials implement stormwater management plans.

Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk      
For Event Outreach           
Sacramento County           
$3,000
For volunteer recruitment and training; informational displays for tabling at events and festivals; a new brochure; and student activity sheets.

High Sierra Rural Alliance      
For General Support           
Sierra and Plumas Counties
$5,000
To advocate for healthy and sustainable communities, and preservation of agricultural lands from urban development.

Kids in Parks      
For General Support           
San Francisco County           
Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Parks Trust           
$3000
Experiential environmental education programs for students at two public middle schools serving mostly low-income families and people of color. Includes a pilot mentorship program, where 8th graders who have been through the program will mentor a new group of 6th graders.

MyValleySprings.com      
For General Support           
Calaveras County
$4,500
To promote responsible growth and development through public participation in community planning in order to preserve the quality of rural life in the greater Valley Springs area by preventing rapid and unchecked development.

Organic Sacramento      
For General Support           
Sacramento County           
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Watch Education Fund
$2,500
To expand the volunteer base for projects that include supporting and expanding the number of local school gardens; developing strategies for use of least toxic alternatives to controlling West Nile virus; and hosting a sustainability forum that includes implementing a strategic plan for sustainability in Sacramento.

Resource Restoration      
For the Leadership Project           
Mendocino County           
Fiscal Sponsor: Trees Foundation
$5,000
For leadership, networking and facilitation to strengthen community involvement in establishing long-term forest and fisheries stewardship on the North Coast.

SPRAWLDEF - Sustainability, Parks, Recycling and Wildlife Legal Defense Fund      
For Saving Suisun Marsh: Stopping the Potrero Hill Landfill Expansion           
Solano County
$3,000
For scientific research into the ecological impacts of nearly doubling a 320 acre landfill on the edge of the Suisun Marsh.  The expansion would destroy habitat for the golden eagle, tiger salamander and delta smelt.

Tulare County Citizens for Responsible Growth      
For General Support           
Tulare County           
Fiscal Sponsor: Seirra Nevada Alliance
$4,500
For a part-time campaign coordinator to conduct community outreach, policy analysis and advocacy for smart growth in Tulare County, including directing development into existing communities, preserving agricultural land and protecting air and water quality.

Valley Land Alliance      
For General Support           
Merced County
$4,500
To help this all-volunteer organization transition to having 2 paid staff, and to set up an office and computer system. Their focus is to protect the uniquely productive Central Valley farmland.

Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative      
For General Support           
San Francisco County
$3,000
For outdoor field curriculum for 150 mostly low-income students of color at two inner city San Francisco high schools. Projects include habitat restoration projects at McLaren Park and Bayview Hills and field studies.

WildPlaces Ecological Education and Restoration      
For General Support           
Tulare and Kern Counties           
Fiscal Sponsor: International Humanities Center           
$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; invasive plant management; and a river clean-up and outreach program.

Spring 2007

Winter 2007

Common Vision      
Fruit Tree Tour        
Statewide
Fiscal Sponsor: International Humanities Center
$4,000
For a 10-week tour to 30 schools in underserved communities throughout California. The day-log program includes planting trees, West African agricultural drumming, hip-hop, sustainable ecology curriculum, and Common Vision’s veggie-powered forest-mural busses.

Compost Club      
General Support
Sonoma County
$3,500
Start-up funding to help schools and businesses reduce landfill waste and conserve natural resources. Based on the experiences of another Grassroots grantee, which set up a student-run composting program in a K-6 school that recycles 850 lbs of food waste annually, and sells the compost thereby making it self-sustaining.

Daily Acts      
Sustainability Tours        
Sonoma County
$2,500
For sustainability tours in Northern California designed to fundamentally change people’s understanding of personal environmental responsibility, including 3 tours in the Bay Area, and to create a tour template for other environmental groups to use.

Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch (EPFW)
Community Action Program (CAP)        
Calaveras County
$5,000
To educate and engage citizens and grassroots groups about revisions to Calaveras County’s General Plan to ensure that it will preserve environmental quality and include open space and wildland protections.

Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed
General Support        
Contra Costa County
Fiscal Sponsor: The Watershed Project
$4,000
To inspire and educate people to protect and restore Pinole Creek through hands-on stewardship, water quality monitoring, creek restoration, native plant garden, educational meetings and a newsletter.

Indigenous Permaculture Program
General Support
San Francisco
Fiscal Sponsor: Ecology Center
$2,000
For Indigenous Permaculture Certificate trainings, development of a five-acre farm (including conversion from conventional to organic agriculture), 8 weekend workshops and acquisition of office space.

Lassen Forest Preservation Committee
Lassen Forest Preservation Project
Butte County        
Fiscal Sponsor: Sierra Club Foundation
$5,000
Monitoring environmentally significant projects in the Lassen National Forest, supporting efforts which will reduce the threat of wildfires, enhance wildlife habitat, clean water and a healthy forest ecosystem.

North Richmond Shoreline Open Space Alliance
General Support        
Alameda County
Fiscal Sponsorship: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
$5,000
To help local community members advocate for community and environmental development which will create a corridor of open space along the North Richmond Shoreline.

Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group
Moving from Extraction Economy to Restoration Economy Project
Mendocino County
Fiscal Sponsor: Coastal Land Trust
$5,000
For 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.

Parents for a Safer Environment
Contra Costa County Departments’ Pesticide Use Reform        
Contra Costa County
Fiscal Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network
$5,000
To monitor and encourage Contra Costa County to implement an integrated pest management policy to reduce the use of toxic pesticides (Contra Costa County agencies currently use 17 times more pesticides than the two neighboring counties combined.)

Redwood Environmental Education Institute
KidPower School Energy Education Program
Humboldt County
$2,500
For hands-on global warming and energy curriculum for third through sixth grades in Humboldt County schools and for the community.

Sebastopol Water Information Group
Groundwater Monitoring and Management
Sonoma County        
Fiscal Sponsor: OWL Foundation
$5,000
For well water monitoring, data collection and analysis to advance the understanding of local groundwater resources in order to safeguard a viable, clean water supply for the future.

Sustainable Nations Development Project
Sustainable Nations Youth Program
Humboldt and Trinity County
Fiscal Sponsor: Seventh Generation Fund
$5,000
For intensive, hands-on training in drinking water and wastewater management systems and natural building techniques, including installing gray water irrigation systems, composting toilets and solar electric pumps, as well as growing organic produce for elders and the tribal Head Start programs, planting trees and medicinal plant gardens, leading edible wild plant walks, and making traditional baskets.

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2006 Grants

AGUA – La Asociación de Gente Unida por el Agua
(Fiscal Sponsor:  Environmental Justice Coalition for Water)
Tulare County
$5,000         General Support
To support local organizing in low-income, primarily Latino communities to mobilize communities whose drinking water systems have been polluted by fertilizer and pesticides.

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
For 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.

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.

California Indian Alliance for the Environment
(Fiscal Sponsor:  National Indian Justice Center)
Statewide
$2,500       General Support
To provide seed funding for a new tribal-based organization to help California tribes address the environmental health effects of mercury contamination from the thousands of abandoned gold mines left over from the California Gold Rush.

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
$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
$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 busses.

Community Clean Water Institute      
For 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
For 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 ³first response² services and support to communities impacted by suspected disease clusters linked with environmental contamination.

Donner Summit Area Association
Nevada & Placer Counties
$4,500        Community Plan for Donner Summit
To create and file a Community Plan to guide development in the Donner Summit area to help preserve the rural character of the Placer and Nevada Counties high country.

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      
For 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.

Friends of Del Norte
Del Norte County
$5,000       Restoring the West’s Largest Coastal Lagoon
To win permanent protection for the wildlands and wetlands of Lake Earl, an important wildlife refuge on the Pacific Flyway.

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

Karuk Tribe of California
Siskiyou County
$5,000       “Bring the Salmon Home” Campaign
To organize community support and, in conjunction with the Klamath Restoration Council, undertake policy development for stronger water quality standards on the Klamath River.

Kids in Parks      
For 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        
For General Support
Siskiyou, 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.

Los Padres Forest Watch
Santa Barbara, San Luis & Monterey Counties
$4,500        General Support
To protect and restore the natural and cultural heritage of public lands along California’s Central Coast though community involvement, scientific collaboration and legal advocacy.

Mattole Restoration Council
Humboldt County
$5,000        Public Participation in Local Land Management
To support expert watershed analysis and coordination of public input into the Pacific Lumber Company’s plans to cut unprotected old-growth Douglas fir groves.

MOMS - Making Our Milk Safe
General Support
Alameda County
$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.

Mountain Meadows Conservancy
Lassen County
$5,000        General Support
To support a collaborative effort between local community members and the Honey Lake Maidu to stop the development of a new mega-ski resort on sacred lands that are home to many endangered or threatened species including Bald Eagles.

Northern California Recycling Association      
For 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.

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.

Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group
Outreach and Engagement
Mendocino County
$5,000
For outreach, education and engagement of city planners, the coastal community and ³green investors² 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.

People for Clean Air and Water (El Pueblo)
Kings County
$5,000        General Support
To build membership and leadership capacity to help El Pueblo educate the community about health threats related to the proposed expansion of a hazardous waste facility.

Resource Restoration
For the 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.

Rural Quality Foundation
Nevada County
$4,500        General Support
To provide community education related to six new proposed housing developments, the creation of an open space district, and the expansion of Empire Mine State Park.

San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival
Solano County
$2,500        General Support
To help defray costs of an annual environmental education festival that serves thousands of North Bay residents, and provides seminars on preventing pollution, conservation, wetland restoration and wildlife protection.

Siskiyou Land Conservancy
Humboldt County
$4,500        General (Operating) Support
To help defray the day-to-day operations of a new land trust serving small land owners in Northern and North Central California.

Solar Richmond      
For 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
$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.

Tri-County Watchdogs
Kern County
$4,500        General Support
To fund education and organizing to protect the wildlife and rural character of the Frazier Park area from encroaching development.

West County Toxics Coalition
Contra Costa County
$2,500        Richmond General Plan Project
To support community education and organizing to ensure that environmental health issues, such as the routing of diesel trucks through low-income African American neighborhoods, are addressed in the City of Richmond’s General Plan.

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
$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
$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.

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2005 Grants

Abandoned Mine Alliance $3000
For acquisition of mining interests for stewardship program
Sierra County
Start-up funding to facilitate remediation of contaminated mining sites on public lands.

Alameda Creek Alliance $3000
For General Support
Contra Costa County
To restore a self-sustaining run of steelhead trout in Alameda Creek and to protect habitat for endangered wildlife within this crucial Bay Area watershed.
www.alamedacreek.org

Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers $3,000
For General Support
Mono County
To protect the fragile and unique wild environment of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, while promoting healthy community growth and development.
www.alimar.org

Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters $4,000
For General Support
Alameda County
For grassroots organizing and public education efforts to ensure long-term protection and restoration of the Headwaters Forest Reserve on California's North Coast.
www.headwaterspreserve.org

Butte Environmental Council
For 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.
www.becnet.org

California Prison Moratorium Project $5,000
General Support
Central Valley
Help rural communities in the Central Valley oppose prison construction and the resulting environmental impacts of increased air and water pollution, destruction of farmland and natural habitats, and excessive use of water resources.
www.prisonactivist.org/pmp

Central California Environmental Justice Network $5,000
For General Support
Stanislaus County
Supports community-based efforts to protect the environment and reduce pollution that threatens public health in underserved rural Central Valley communities.

Citizens for East Shore Parks $3,000
General Support
Alameda County
Build a collaborative effort to preserve and increase East Bay parkland and public access to the Bay shore.
www.eastshorepark.org

Citizens for Responsible Forest Management $3000
For General Support
Santa Cruz County
Watchdog timber harvesting in the Central Coast region to protect the water supply of the Monterey Bay area.
www.crfm.org

Coast Action Group $2,500
General Support
Mendocino County
Education and litigation to ensure that water quality issues are included in timber harvest plans and timber operations, and that consideration of impacts to fisheries and watersheds are included in federal, state and local planning in Mendocino County.

Committee For a Better Alpaugh $5000
For General Support
Tulare County
Build the capacity of a primarily low-income Latino community to advocate for safe drinking water. Currently, Alpaugh¹s water supply is so contaminated by pesticides that it is unsafe to drink.

Daily Acts Organization $2500
For Establishing Office/Headquarters Sonoma County
Build operational capacity to promote lifestyle and systems changes related to sustainable living and the promotion of permaculture.
www.daily-acts.org

EarthTeam $5,000
General Support
Contra Costa County
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.
www.earthteam.net

Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch $3500
For Community Action Program
Calaveras County
Stop clearcutting and help local communities gain control over timber-harvesting in their county.
www.forestwatchers.org

El Comité para el Bienestar de Earlimart / Committee for the Well Being of Earlimart $5,000
Poder en Comunidades Rurales / Power in Rural Communities
Tulare County
Educate rural communities about the health impacts of air pollution, pesticide drift laws and the rights of people who have been exposed, 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
To mobilize and coordinate volunteer-based watershed, land-use, river conservation, and public education programs in Amador and Calaveras Counties.
www.foothillconservancy.org

Friends of Cordilleras Creek $3,000
For the Creek Protection Coalition
San Mateo County
To protect creek corridors and surrounding wildlife habitats by resisting paving and structures in riparian buffer zones, creating manuals on watershed management 'best practices,' and educating the community through creek related events and distribution of free native seeds and plants.

Forest Issues Group
For the 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.
www.forestissuesgroup.org

Fresno Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
For 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.
www.1000friendsoffresno.org/pesticides.html

Friends of Garrity Creek
For the 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.
www.geocities.com/hilltopcreek

Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group $3,000
For Koshland Park Community Learning Garden Project
San Francisco
For an after school program for at-risk youth age seven to twelve, focusing on garden lessons, composting, food production and distribution to residents of public housing projects in the Hayes Valley neighborhood.

Huntersview Tenants Association /Mothers Environmental Health & Justice Committee $5,000
For Huntersview Indoor Air Pollution Program
San Francisco
To mobilize and empower community mothers in this low-income, community of color, to survey public housing residents about the incidence of asthma and poor housing conditions, educate residents about indoor air pollution, and advocate for the remediation of code violations, mold, moisture and ventilation problems.

Kids in Parks $5,000
General Support
San Francisco
Experiential environmental education programs for students at two public middle schools serving mostly families living in poverty. Lessons include mapping, restoration projects, plant-insect-animal identification, environmental justice field trips and mentoring.
www.kidsinparks.org

Klamath Forest Alliance $5,000
General Support
Siskiyou County
Monitoring and litigation to prevent destruction of public lands, advocating for the water quality of the Klamath River and tributaries, prevention of the use of pesticides on public lands, and supporting area tribes in their struggle for environmental justice.
www.klamathforestalliance.org

Lake County Community Radio $5,000
For Full-Power Community Radio Station
Lake County
To help expand the radio station's broadcasting capability to a full-powered, Class A station in order to improve and expand environmental programming that will reach a four or five county area.
www.kpfz.org

Lassen Land & Trails Trust
For 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.

Lompico Watershed Conservancy $4,000
For General Support
Santa Cruz County
To protect the 425-acre Lompico Creek headwaters lands, to advocate for better water quality protection during and after commercial logging activity, and to develop and complete fisheries habitat restoration projects in the San Lorenzo River Basin.
www.lompicocreek.org

Mattole Restoration Council
For 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.
www.mattole.org

Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
For the 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.
www.mountshastaecology.org

Mountain Meadows Conservancy $5,000
General Support
Lassen County
Protection of the Mountain Meadows Basin and watershed, by opposing a proposed ski and golf mega-resort that would triple the population of the existing community.
www.mtmeadows.org

No Wetlands Landfill Expansion $5,000
General Support
Marin County
Oppose the expansion of a landfill that is on the edge of an environmentally sensitive marsh and the Petaluma River estuary.
www.noexpansion.org

Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group $5000
For Noyo Headlands Unified Design, Phase II -- Outreach and Engagement
Mendocino County
Help manage environmental restoration and sustainable redevelopment of the abandoned Georgia Pacific mill site that comprises one-third of the city of Fort Bragg.

OVC Foundation $4000
For Legal assistance and volunteer staff support for the defense of the water related ecosystem in the Owens Valley
Inyo County
For an outreach office and legal assistance to protect and restore the Owens Valley, which has been severely impacted by the over pumping of groundwater by the City of Los Angeles causing wetlands and meadows to disappear.
www.ovcweb.org

Redwood Economic Development Institute $3000
For Aleutian Goose Festival: A Celebration of Wildness
Del Norte County
Environmental education component of the Aleutian Goose Festival, including development of a local middle school curriculum.

Resource Restoration $2,000
For the Leadership Project
Mendocino County
To provide technical resources and assistance to a number of grassroots community organizations working to improve long-term forest and fisheries stewardship.

Rural Quality Foundation $4000
For General Support
Nevada County
Land-use conservation planning in western Nevada County to protect streams, forests, oak woodlands, and the rural character of the area.

San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival
For the 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.
www.sfbayflywayfestival.com

Santa Maria Center for the Environment $5,000
For General Support
Santa Barbara County
Start-up funding to create a fully operational environmental center for advocacy and information that will address issues such as toxic pesticides, farmworker health and safety, groundwater pollution, and open space preservation.

Save Round Valley Alliance - Advocates for Smart Growth $3,000
For General Support
Inyo County
To educate the public about the negative impacts of sprawl development and to protect natural resources in Inyo and Mono Counties. Activities include working to prevent the development of a subdivision on sensitive habitat in the view-shed of Mount Whitney.
www.srva.net

Sebastopol Water Information Group
For 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.

Tolowa Dunes Stewards $4,000
For Restoring Endangered Northcoast Dune Ecosystems
Del Norte County
To protect and restore over 10,000 acres of unique coastal dune, estuarine and wetlands habitat that is home to 41 endangered and sensitive species that are threatened by illegal off-road vehicle activity.

Trinity Recycling Program $4,500
General Support
Trinity County
Start-up costs for a community-recycling program in a small, remote rural county. The program will include K-12 environmental and resource conservation curriculum.

Urban Sprouts $5,000
General Support
San Francisco
School garden-based environmental education program in three low-performing San Francisco public schools. Part of a multiple-city partnership with Tufts University to test theory-based environmental science and health curriculum.
www.urbansprouts.org

Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative $3000
For General Support
San Francisco
Supports a restoration project at McLaren Park, and field studies during hiking and camping trips for primarily low-income students of color that attend 2 San Francisco inner-city high schools.
www.walcsf.net

Wolf Creek Community Alliance $1000
For Stream and Upland Technical Assessment
Nevada County
Assist watershed assessments of Wolf Creek and tributaries to assess creek conditions and to prioritize preservation, restoration and stewardship projects.
www.wolfcreekalliance.org

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2004 Grants

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 Francisco¹s plan to upgrade their wastewater infrastructure.
www.earthisland.org/acw/

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 California¹s North Coast.
www.headwaterspreserve.org

Berryessa Trails and Conservation $5000
For general support
Napa County
For trail construction at the Lake Berryessa Recreation Area and advocacy of non-motorized recreational activities in the redevelopment plan for the lake.
www.berryessatrails.org

Butte Environmental Council $5000
For general support
Butte County
Supports advocacy and litigation to protect one million acres of vernal pool habitat, to stop surface and groundwater exports to Southern California, and to stop the development of housing on top of an old burn dump.
www.becnet.org

Californians for Western Wilderness $3000
For general support
San Francisco
Supports citizen activism on issues crucial to the defense and stewardship of California wilderness and public lands.
www.caluwild.org

Citizens for East Shore Parks $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.
www.eastshorepark.org

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.
www.cccos.org

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.
www.ecoprep.org

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.
www.earthteam.net

Eastern Sierra Land Trust $5000
For the Sierra Century Challenge
Inyo County
Supports efforts to place open-space easements on 320,000 acres held by the Los Angeles City Department of Water and Power in Inyo and Mono Counties.
www.easternsierralandtrust.org

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.
www.foothillconservancy.org

Forest Issues Group $3000
For the Sierra Framework Defense
Nevada County
Supports scientific research and litigation to halt the spraying of pesticides in the Tahoe National Forest by the US Forest Service.
www.forestissuesgroup.org

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.
www.forestunlimited.org

Fresno Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides $3300
For general support
Fresno County
Supports efforts to reduce toxic pesticides in schools and neighborhoods, and the promotion of alternative methods of pest management.

Friends of Del Norte $5,000
for Restoring the West¹s 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.

Friends of Garrity Creek $4000
For the Save Garrity Creek and Habitat Project
El Sobrante, Contra Costa County
For legal assistance to preserve a spring-feed creek that flows into the San Pablo Bay that is being threatened by a proposed 40 home development.
www.geocities.com/hilltopcreek

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 ³precautionary principle.²

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.
www.kpfz.org

Mendocino Environmental Center $3,000
For Gener