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Name of Organization | Amount | Description | Keywords | Year | Office |
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Tuolumne River Preservation Trust | $36,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Wildlife Conservation Network, Inc. | $10,000 | The Misool Foundation manages a suite of conservation programs in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, which combines marine governance, waste management, community empowerment, and species conservation. | Advocacy, Enforcement, Fisheries, Land Use, Marine Protected Areas, Pollution, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Women's Audio Mission | $5,000 | Professional Development | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
YES Nature to Neighborhoods | $5,000 | Professional Development | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas | $25,000 | Alianza is the first national organization founded for and by campesinas (farmworker women). It is an alliance of 15 member orgs in 20 states, working to end exploitation and abuse against campesinas. Campesinas play major roles as founders, agents of change, and leaders behind our advocacy, organizing, training, and mentoring work. | Advocacy, Agriculture, Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
Black Wellness and Prosperity Center | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Building African American Minds | $5,000 | A Talbot County, MD based summer Summer Camp STEAM program. | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Camp ELSO Inc | $20,000 | ELSO provides culturally specific out-of-school youth programs including 1) Wayfinders spring and summer camps, 2) Tappin Roots training series and internships, and 3) Studio Justice after school programs, that provide innovative nature-based STEAMED experiences (science, technology, engineering, arts, math, environment, design) for up to 400 Black and Brown children, youth, and young adults annually. Since 2015, they have served the Portland Oregon metro region (Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington counties). | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Campesinas Unidas Del Valle De Sanjoaquin | $5,000 | Campesinas Unidas del Valle de San Joaquín (Campesinas Unidas), organizes and builds the leadership of farmworker women and families in the San Joaquin Valley to improve access to clean, safe and affordable water and address the impacts of pesticides in their own lives and local communities. Campesinas Unidas has developed a base of over 300 active leaders across the Valley, who work on: educational and advocacy campaigns centering water quality improvement and pesticide contamination in farmworker communities, farmworker rights, and service navigation support for impacted farmworkers. | Accountability, Advocacy, Agriculture, Civic Engagement, Diverse Partnerships, Equity, Outreach, Political Will, Pollution, Voter Engagement, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Center for Land-Based Learning | $2,500 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | N/A | 2024 | Pacific |
Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center | $5,000 | ChesMRC runs a daily afterschool program at Easton Elementary school for 75 youth. While the organization serves anyone who requests assistance, our primary focus is to help Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals to successfully integrate into the community. | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
City Kids to Wilderness Project, Inc. | $5,000 | City Kids provides year-round programming for DC youth, ages 11 to 25, to build resiliency, broaden horizons, and develop life skills for youth. Programs use natural and wilderness settings to encourage personal growth and lay the foundation for participants to grow into adults who will achieve their life goals, become assets to their community, and remain resilient throughout life’s changes. | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
El Pajaro Community Development Corporation | $25,000 | The El Pajaro CDC aids emerging and existing businesses in Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties. Focused on underserved, low-income entrepreneurs, they offer personalized bilingual business development services including technical assistance, education, access to funding, business incubation in their commercial kitchen, retail and childcare programs, and ongoing support. | Advocacy, Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
Family Connections Centers | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution | $25,000 | Access Capital provides financial products, technical assistance, and resources to small businesses, with a specific emphasis on supporting initiatives aligned with climate finance objectives. They work in 15 counties in the Central Valley region. | Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries | $25,000 | Provide support for low-income refugee and immigrant communities in Fresno by providing HUD-certified housing counseling, systems navigation, outreach, mentoring, tutoring and refugee resettlement. | Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
Fresnoland Media | $5,000 | Fresnoland is an independent news organization dedicated to making policy public for all residents of the central San Joaquin Valley - through investigative, explanatory, and service journalism. | Communications | 2024 | Pacific |
GenderCool Project | $10,000 | The GenderCool Project is a youth-led movement replacing misinformed opinions with positive, powerful experiences meeting transgender and nonbinary young people who are thriving. Designed to “influence the influencers,” this program provides media members first-hand education and experience meeting transgender and nonbinary youth and their families to ensure fair and balanced reporting. | Communications, Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Hola Cultura | $10,000 | Hola Cultura seeks to construct pathways to success for the Latinx community in Washington DC while fostering society’s demand for the arts and Hispanic cultural initiatives. Content includes the production and dissemination of untold narratives through investigative journalism in the area of environmental justice, while continuing our focus on the immigrant experience, and Latino arts and culture. | Communications, Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
Jesse Klump Memorial Fund, Inc. | $2,500 | Eco-Therapy Adventure Camp (ETAC) goal is to teach young people coping skills by exposing them to outdoor activities that challenge their abilities, to enhance their self-respect and enable them to meet the stress of growing up and to protecting children from suicide. They are located in Salisbury and Berlin, MD. | Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
North Cascades Institute | $10,000 | Youth Leadership Adventures is an immersive environmental education program offering multi-day backcountry trips for high schoolers, primarily from historically underserved communities in WA and/or those would otherwise be unlikely to participate in an immersive outdoor program. While spending time in the wilderness, participants gain skills in leadership and outdoor recreation, connect to the natural world and each other, develop their sense of identity, and learn about climate change/activism. | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Power California | $25,000 | Power California’s Leadership Pathways program builds and supports the leadership of young BIPOC across the Central Valley (CV). Through their leadership programming, 100+ young people of color will gain key organizing skills, engage in paid leadership opportunities, deepen their political education and analysis, and lead local advocacy efforts that center young BIPOC and build power for young people in the Central Valley. | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Power52, Inc. | $5,000 | The Power52 Foundation is a Solar Training Workforce Program is located in Columbia, MD, and is a multifaceted educational and hands-on training initiative designed to address unemployment and underemployment in marginalized communities. By providing access to solar energy education and certification, the program aims to create pathways to stable, well-paying jobs in the renewable energy sector | Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
Redwood Parks Conservancy | $5,000 | Redwood Corps will engage 20 young people who are at risk or homeless in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties to explore a career in public lands and natural resource management. Redwood Corps members will each carry out 1,700 hours of service in the first year to revitalize Redwood National and State Parks trails. Service will include trail maintenance, park visitor outreach, education sessions about environmental stewardship, volunteer recruitment, and leading community service projects. | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation | $75,000 | The SHOT Fund will focus on supporting small, bold, diverse organizations in the Midwest and Southeast U.S. in order to direct federal funding toward more transformative climate solutions. The Fund will eventually provide grant writing support, technical assistance, no-interest loans, accounting and reporting guidance, and other forms of support. | Advocacy, Capacity, Communications | 2024 | Pacific |
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
The Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education | $15,000 | Horn Farm Center’s Agroforestry Program showcases productive conservation practices for farmers and residential gardeners. It is based in York, PA. | Agriculture, Land Use, Nutrients | 2024 | Pacific |
The Sixth Branch Inc. | $5,000 | Sixth Branch works with communities in Baltimore City to transform vacant land into neighborhood green spaces and support our local schools. | Equity, Land Use, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Thrive Asheville | $5,000 | Thrive Asheville is an incubator for community solutions. They provide research and data analysis, convening, collaboration, pilot programs, and advocacy that link community leaders to ideas and solutions for affordable housing and an equitable, sustainable, and connected Asheville. | Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
Western Flyer Foundation | $2,500 | Reflecting upon their 1940 expedition to the Gulf of California on the Western Flyer, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts wrote that “it is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and back to the tide pool again.” Today, the Western Flyer Foundation (WFF) honors this expansive spirit through integrative education and research work on land and aboard the fully restored Flyer. They introduce students to the ocean, host innovative research, and inspire an appreciation and respect for Monterey Bay’s unique ecosystems. | Fisheries, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Wide Angle Youth Media | $20,000 | Wide Angle Youth Media's Workforce Development programs in Baltimore offer advanced media, entrepreneurship, and vocational training, access to structured on-the-job learning/mentorship and career planning, and hourly pay for all participants. Programming builds academic, creative, and workforce-readiness skills within traditionally overlooked neighborhoods and populations, preparing our youth creators to gain tools that make them viable and vital across diverse workforce sectors. | Communications, Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
YES Nature to Neighborhoods | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Black Wellness and Prosperity Center | $25,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Cannabis for Conservation | $4,400 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Cannabis for Conservation | $6,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Center for Land-Based Learning | $10,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Community Alliance With Family Farmers Foundation | $10,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Community Initiatives | $20,000 | Latino Outdoors (LO) a national Latinx led and serving organization focused on inclusivity in outdoor recreation, conservation and equitable access to nature. They work to diversify outdoor recreation, narratives and leadership. LO works to connect Latino communities with outdoor spaces so they may benefit from the various wellness benefits associated with time spent outdoors and provide a bridge for Latino communities into the conservation and environmental justice movements. | Advocacy, Capacity, Equity, Outreach, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Earth Echo International, Inc. | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin | $6,600 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin | $5,750 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Gardens of Golden Gate Park | $35,000 | Flower Piano, is an interactive music festival which places more than a dozen grand pianos in the San Francisco Botanical Garden. During the weeklong event, over sixty musicians and ensembles perform. Pianos are also available for the general public to play. | N/A | 2024 | Pacific |
Glynwood Center Inc. | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Gold Ridge RCD | $15,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Keiko Fukuda and Shelley Fernandez Girls and Women Judo Foundation | $20,000 | Judo and self-defense instruction for Native American youth ages 5 to 18. | Equity, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Los Angeles Waterkeeper | $13,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Minorities in Shark Sciences | $15,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust | $45,000 | The Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust increases community access to healthy, local, sustainably-caught seafood while preserving an integral part of the economy, heritage, and biodiversity of Monterey Bay. They partner with the fishing industry, municipal leaders, and conservation organizations to achieve a balance between a healthy ocean ecosystem and a healthy seafood economy. | Accountability, Advocacy, Diverse Partnerships, Enforcement, Equity, Fisheries, Non-traditional Allies, Outreach, Political Will | 2024 | Pacific |
Monterey Coastkeeper | $6,500 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Movement Strategy Center | $5,000 | The Alliance for Felix Cove advocates for the protection and restoration of the only remaining 19th century Tomalko (Coast Miwok Tomales Bay)-built home at Point Reyes National Seashore. The Alliance aims to re-indigenize the ancestral homelands of the Felix Family—the last Tomalko family to live on the western shores of Tomales Bay at Felix Cove known as Laird’s Landing. | Advocacy, Equity, Land Use, Political Will | 2024 | Pacific |
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto | $20,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Redbud Resource Group | $7,500 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Resources Legacy Fund | $1,025,000 | The Land-Sea Connection (LSC) program advances the long-term health and resilience of California watersheds. Through LSC, RLF will promote more effective policies and programs, support high-value on-the-ground conservation efforts, and advance investments of public funds in effective and more equitable ways. | Accountability, Advocacy, Agriculture, Capacity, Civic Engagement, Communications, Diverse Partnerships, Enforcement, Equity, Fisheries, Keepers, Land Use, Non-traditional Allies, Nutrients, Outreach, Political Will, Pollution, Stormwater, Voter Engagement, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Roxie Theater | $30,000 | To purchase the building parcel which includes The Roxie's existing 2 screens, the 47-seat mirco-cinema the Little Roxie, and the 233-seat Big Roxie Theater in San Francisco. | N/A | 2024 | Pacific |
Russian Riverkeeper | $5,100 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Russian Riverkeeper | $8,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Russian Riverkeeper | $4,200 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Self-Help Enterprises | $5,000 | Support for production of a short video documentary on SHE’s Leadership Institute 2024. | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
South Yuba River Citizens League | $10,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
The Cultural Conservancy | $5,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism | $10,000 | The Baltimore Banner seeks to bring solutions-based, mission-focused journalism to Maryland's environmental issues with dedicated coverage from a full-time environmental journalist, the data-journalism team, and the expertise of freelance journalists as needed. | Communications | 2024 | Pacific |
VineCorps Inc | $5,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
West Fresno Health Care Coalition | $2,500 | Growing Together Black Farmer Conference | Agriculture, Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
YES Nature to Neighborhoods | $10,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Leumer Consulting | $51,000 | Alexandra Leumer is a Sacramento based consultant with experience in cannabis regulation. Contract supports issue research and convening of representatives from the cannabis industry, conservation groups, and public agencies to identify and promote solutions to challenges facing cannabis legalization in California. | Advocacy, Land Use, Non-traditional Allies, Political Will, Pollution, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Charles Joseph Striplen | $15,000 | Chuck Striplen is an experienced environmental professional with an extensive background in water quality, land management, and Tribal outreach having previously served as the Tribal Advisor to the California Fish and Game Commission and as a scientist at the North Coast Regional Water Board. This contract will support outreach to Tribal organizations to identify watershed restoration projects or philanthropic match funding and capacity support to assist Tribes in pursuing public funding. | Capacity, Diverse Partnerships, Equity, Outreach, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Environmental Protection Information Center, Inc. | $25,000 | Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) is based in Arcata, California, and advocates for the science-based protection and restoration of Northwest California’s forests, rivers, and wildlife by integrating public education, citizen advocacy, policy, and litigation. Through this grant, EPIC will work to ensure inclusion of beavers into federal and regional forest management plans for the North Coast and will leverage relationships with a suite of partners engaged in the cannabis industry to implement cannabis policies locally and statewide. EPIC’s work will support watershed protections and advance effective beaver restoration and cannabis implementation across the region. | Advocacy, Capacity, Communications, Land Use, Outreach | 2024 | Pacific |
Los Angeles Waterkeeper | $70,000 | Los Angeles Waterkeeper's (LAWK) mission is to safeguard Los Angeles’ inland and coastal waters by enforcing laws and empowering communities. LAWK employs a variety of strategies to achieve their work, including advocacy, research, volunteer engagement, community outreach, and public empowerment. This grant will support LAWK’s general operations and programming to address pollution prevention, healthy habitats, systems change, and other related work that seek to improve watershed health in Los Angeles County. | Accountability, Advocacy, Civic Engagement, Keepers, Land Use, Outreach, Pollution, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Marin Conservation League | $10,000 | Marin Conservation League (MCL) seeks to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural assets of Marin in a changing environment, with major program areas focused on Parks and Open Space, Land Use, Transportation, and Water, and Climate Action. MCL is the lead applicant for the Redwood Creek Watershed Supply Line Extension project, currently under federal grant review, which seeks to replace a community well that takes water from Redwood Creek instream flows with a water line from regional sources. This grant will support education and outreach to Muir Beach residents on expected water resiliency, improve fisheries habitat, promote recovery and conversation of federally endangered aquatic species, and enhance community drought and fire resistance. | Civic Engagement, Communications, Outreach, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Mujeres de la Tierra | $3,850 | Mujeres de la Tierra (MDLT) is a grassroots environmental equity non-profit founded in Los Angeles, California that works to inspire the healing of La Madre Tierra by working to build grassroots community leadership and capacity among historically unrecognized communities, especially among those that are low-income, immigrant, and/or communities of color. This grant will support MDLT’s work to improve coastal access and watershed health understanding through multi-generational beach activities that connect the dots between everyday green ethic behaviors and the health of the ocean and ocean life. | Advocacy, Diverse Partnerships, Equity, Outreach, Stormwater | 2024 | Pacific |
Orange County Coastkeeper | $75,000 | Orange County Coastkeeper (OCCK) protects the Santa Ana River watershed and Orange County coastal waterways from pollution and deleterious land use, so they can be swimmable, drinkable and fishable for present and future generations. From its offices in Costa Mesa and Riverside, OCCK engages governmental agencies and its region’s local communities. Its programming encompasses education, advocacy, ecological restoration, research and legal enforcement. OCCK also advocates for clean water in regional management coalitions; and monitors illicit and unmanaged water pollution. | Advocacy, Comprehensive Plans, Equity, Keepers, Land Use, Nutrients, Outreach, Pollution, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Pacific Institute | $40,000 | Pacific Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, global water think tank that provides science-based research and thought leadership to influence local, national, and international efforts in developing sustainable water policies. Primary focus areas include Water and Climate Equity, Nature-Based Solutions, and Water Efficiency and Reuse. This grant will support Pacific Institute’s work to support community-based organizations and other stakeholders’ initiatives to green schoolyards in Los Angeles County and contribute to the success of funding applications for stormwater projects within schools. | Capacity, Comprehensive Plans, Land Use, Pollution, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
San Diego Coastkeeper | $80,000 | San Diego Coastkeeper’s (SDCK) work across a comprehensive range of conservation efforts to improve the health of the San Diego Bay watersheds. SDCK works to advance water quality policies, wastewater recycling, stormwater capture, and other relevant issues. Organization-wide program areas include enhancing watershed and community health, stormwater infrastructure, enforcement and compliance, coastal and marine resource conservation, and tracking of the Pure Water project. | Advocacy, Civic Engagement, Keepers, Outreach, Pollution, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper | $40,000 | Santa Barbara Channelkeeper (SBCK) is dedicated to protecting and restoring the Santa Barbara Channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, and enforcement. SBCK works to conserve an area of approximately 500 square miles along California’s central coast from Point Conception to the Ventura River, from the top of the watersheds out to the northern Channel Islands. Advocacy and enforcement activities will support a wide range of threats including stormwater, urban runoff, sewage, agriculture, trash, oil and gas, and other large municipal and industrial discharges. | Advocacy, Agriculture, Keepers, Outreach, Pollution, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Shelterwood Collective | $80,000 | Shelterwood is a 900-acre Indigenous, Black, and Queer-led community forest and collective of land protectors and cultural changemakers. Shelterwood is based on unceded Southern Pomo and Kashia territory, above what is now called the Russian River in Northern California. Through land stewardship, active forest restoration and wildfire risk reduction, community and cultural organizing, and the development of a future community retreat center, they heal interconnected ecosystems. This grant will support the second phase of waterway restoration efforts. | Diverse Partnerships, Equity, Land Use, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Smith River Alliance, Inc. | $55,000 | Smith River Alliance provides protection, restoration, and stewardship of natural resources in the Smith River watershed in northern California and southern Oregon. This grant will support planning and permitting needed to bring two restoration and water quality improvement projects to a “shovel-ready status” and work needed to secure project implementation funding. | Agriculture, Land Use, Pollution, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Cal Poly Humboldt Foundation | $5,000 | The Sea Level Rise Institute of Cal Poly Humboldt University includes technical experts across engineering, and physical, natural and social sciences, as well as community representatives from NGOs and North Coast Native American Tribes. This grant supports application of the institute’s expertise to the issue of management by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control of coastal sites contaminated with legacy pollution, with goals of ensuring that evolving state policy addresses North Coast needs, and protects North Coast communities and ecosystems. | Accountability, Land Use, Pollution, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Tule River Tribal Council | $50,000 | The Tule River Tribe is a federally recognized tribe with reservation lands covering 55,356 acres of Tulare county. This grant will support the Tribe’s watershed management and beaver restoration efforts, particularly its partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) on one of two pilot beaver translocations in California. Through this pilot effort, Tule River Tribe will implement staff capacity building, host trainings on process-based restoration and watershed management, and engage with Tribal members, agencies, and the public as beavers are reintroduced to Tribal lands and waters. | Capacity, Diverse Partnerships, Equity, Non-traditional Allies, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
The Water Foundation | $100,000 | The Water Foundation works to secure equitable, clean, and accessible water for people; restore and sustain freshwater ecosystems; and build climate resilient watersheds and communities. This grant will provide support for the next cohort of ReDesign Los Angeles participants, growing the pipeline of shovel-ready, locally prioritized stormwater projects ready to apply for and accept public funding. | Capacity, Equity, Pollution, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Upper Salinas-Las Tablas RCD | $30,000 | Upper Salinas-Las Tablas Resource Conservation District developed the Growing Responsible and Socially Sustainable Cannabis (GRASS-C) certification program to support cannabis growers in establishing consistent, sustainable cultivation practices and to reduce environmental impacts on local watersheds. Grant will focus on creating a digital certification platform to increase GRASS-C’s utility and efficiency, with the goal of streamlining regulatory compliance and supporting growers through the process of legalization. | Agriculture, Capacity, Land Use, Outreach, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
Watsonville Wetlands Watch | $30,000 | Watsonville Wetlands Watch (WWW) works to improve water quality, restore habitat, and inspire and organize stewardship in the Watsonville Slough, a wetlands complex in the Pájaro Valley that contains areas listed as highly impaired by water agencies. Around 75 percent of the area’s residents are Latinx and Spanish speaking. This grant will support four main objectives: increasing the participation among grassroots community members and local businesses in stewardship of the watershed, through initiatives such as restoration volunteerism and outreach on best wastewater management practices; increasing public understanding of water quality needs and the services provided by area wetlands; increasing collaboration with local government entities—such as the City of Watsonville's Wastewater Division and the Santa Cruz County Flood Control District—to advance policies and projects that protect and restore the wetlands; and improving water quality and habitat for fish and wildlife throughout the Watsonville Slough System and the Pájaro River watershed. | Agriculture, Capacity, Civic Engagement, Land Use, Non-traditional Allies, Outreach, Stormwater, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
826 Valencia | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
California Environmental Voters Education Fund | $150,000 | The California Environmental Voters Education Fund Ambassadors Program, which identifies, cultivates, and supports youth from marginalized communities in the Central Valley and Inland Empire. Ambassadors gain organizing and leadership skills, activate their peers on environmental and climate action, and increase community engagement through organizing within their region. | Advocacy, Civic Engagement, Equity, Outreach, Political Will, Pollution, Water Quality, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
California Environmental Voters Education Fund | $10,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Community Water Center | $200,000 | The Community Water Center (CWC) creates community-driven water solutions through organizing, education and advocacy in California. Strategies include grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, media, and support local impacted residents to become decision-makers themselves. CWC works directly with rural, low-income, primarily immigrant communities to address the root causes of the lack of access to safe and affordable drinking water. | Accountability, Advocacy, Agriculture, Civic Engagement, Diverse Partnerships, Enforcement, Equity, Land Use, Outreach, Political Will, Pollution, Voter Engagement, Water Quality | 2024 | Pacific |
First Nations Development Institute | $10,000 | The California Tribal Fund will continue to build public awareness of and support for Indigenous natural resource management practices. These practices set the standard for sustainable ecological stewardship, presenting methods to mitigate the degradation of waterways, ecosystems, and agricultural resources, and reduce the risks of megafires. | Accountability, Advocacy, Agriculture, Equity | 2024 | Pacific |
FISH of Sanibel-Captiva Inc | $5,000 | Technology Capacity Building | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Journalism Funding Partners | $15,000 | The Ten News is a podcast for children between 8 to 12 years old and their families, created to help them understand the world around them. | Communications, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Minorities in Shark Sciences | $10,000 | Provides online and in-person programming in Sarasota, FL, to increase STEM literacy and the knowledge about the ocean and sharks among BIPOC. Programs include training for educators on how to implement shark-related curriculum as well as free in-person science camps for children that specifically engage BIPOC participants. | Equity, Fisheries | 2024 | Pacific |
National Young Farmers Coalition | $5,000 | Organizational DEIJ Capacity | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
YES Nature to Neighborhoods | $15,000 | The Youth Leadership Pathway (YLP), based in Richmond, CA, is for youth ages 8-18. Youth progress along a continuum of progressive leadership and life skills development through four age-based cohorts. Youth programming includes exploration of coastal environments, education on the connection between human actions and climate change, environmental stewardship, and Policy, Systems, and Environmental change strategies. | Agriculture, Civic Engagement, Equity, Political Will, Pollution, Water Quality, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Baykeeper | $5,000 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Black Wellness and Prosperity Center | $5,000 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Black Wellness and Prosperity Center | $25,000 | BWPC is unapologetically dedicated to the Black community in California’s Central Valley. They are a catalyst to improve well-being and prosperity in the Black community with sustained efforts to improve Black Maternal and Child Health outcomes, and effectively unite and elevate the Black voice, and build sustainable infrastructure to strengthen Black capacity. | Accountability, Advocacy, Civic Engagement, Equity, Political Will, Youth | 2024 | Pacific |
Building African American Minds | $5,000 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts | $5,000 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
California Environmental Voters Education Fund | $5,000 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Campesinas Unidas Del Valle De Sanjoaquin | $1,700 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Cannabis for Conservation | $1,300 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |
Center for Aquatic Sciences | $5,000 | Coverage of Tax and Audit Expenses | Capacity | 2024 | Pacific |