Grants Awarded and Paid


ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
AMOUNT
AWARDED
2009
AMOUNT
PAID
2009
ORGANIZATION      
   
As You Sow
$35,000
$35,000
San Francisco, California   
To support the Environmental Health Program 
  
Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative
$50,000
$50,000
San Francisco, California   
To assess the cumulative impact of air pollution on human health in highly affected Bay Area communities 
  
Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust
$25,000 (1)
Brentwood, California   
To save productive agricultural lands on the urban edge and market the farm products from family-scale farms 
  
California Product Stewardship Council
$25,000
$25,000
Sacramento, California   
To educate the public and policymakers about the environmental, economic and public health benefits of extended producer responsibility 
  
City Slicker Farms
$20,000
$20,000
Oakland, California   
To support urban agriculture in West Oakland 
  
Global Community Monitor
$30,000
$30,000
El Cerrito, California   
To determine the health risks from industrial facilities in West Oakland and West Berkeley 
  
Planning and Conservation League Foundation
$40,000
$40,000
Sacramento, California   
To educate policymakers and the public about opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and their associated human health risks 
  
Public Health Law and Policy
$35,686
$35,686
Oakland, California   
For an assessment of healthy local food resources in Santa Clara County 
  
Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles
$50,000
$50,000
Los Angeles, California   
To assess the human health and financial costs of pesticide use in California agriculture and to explore the potential of a major state commitment to organic agriculture as a way to address these costs 
  
Roots of Change (Trust for Conservation Innovation)
$200,000 (2)
San Francisco, California   
For a collaboration of government, business and nonprofit organizations seeking to make California's agriculture and food systems sustainable by 2030 
  
Rose Foundation
$15,000 (3)
Oakland, California   
To support the Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund 
  
San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR)
$50,000 (4)
San Francisco, California   
To build capacity for regional planning 
  
Strategic Energy Innovations
$25,000
$25,000
San Rafael, California   
For a pilot project to help small cities in the Bay Area reduce their greenhouse gas emissions 
  
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
$15,000 (5)
Santa Barbara, California   
To support programs to educate foundations about sustainable agriculture and food systems 
  
University of California, Davis
$25,000 (6)
Davis, California   
For the development of an interdisciplinary sustainable agriculture major in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences 
  
University of California San Francisco, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
$30,000
$30,000
San Francisco, California   
To incorporate new findings from environmental health science into clinical practice  
  
Urban Habitat
$50,000
$50,000
Oakland, California   
For a project to address the potential human health consequences of global warming in high-risk Bay Area communities 
  
Total
  
$390,686
$720,686
   
   

 (1) Final payment of a $50,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
 (2) Third payment of $1,000,000 award made in 2007 (Back)
 (3) Second payment of $45,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
 (4) Final payment of $100,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
 (5) Final payment of $30,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
 (6) Second payment of $100,000 award made in 2008 (Back)

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