Grants Awarded and Paid


ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
AMOUNT
AWARDED
2008
AMOUNT
PAID
2008
ORGANIZATION      
   
Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust
$50,000
$25,000(1)
Brentwood, California      
For a program to save productive agricultural lands on the urban edge and market farm products from family-scale farms  
   
California Department of Food and Agriculture  
$37,500
$37,500
Sacramento, California      
To support the development of a strategic plan to make California agriculture sustainable by 2030  
   
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment  
$75,000
$75,000
San Francisco, California      
For support of the San Joaquin Valley Air Quality Project  
   
Community Food Security Coalition  
$0
$15,000(2)
Los Angeles, California      
For the California Food and Justice Coalition  
       
Ecotrust  
$35,000
$35,000
Portland, Oregon      
For support of Economics for Equity and the Environment: The E3 Network, a group of ecologically minded economists working on environmental and human health issues  
       
Great Valley Center (UC Merced)  
$79,100
$79,100
Modesto, California      
To support regional planning efforts in the San Joaquin Valley  
       
Institute for Food and Development Policy  
$0
$22,220(3)
Oakland, California      
For two research reports that outline strategic frameworks for urban food systems  
       
The Land Institute  
$50,000
$50,000
Salina, Kansas      
For the development of sustainable farming systems that rely on perennial grain crops  
       
Natural Resources Defense Council  
$0
$50,000 (4)
San Francisco, California      
For a pilot project to establish a certification program for non-agricultural pest control services  
       
Natural Resources Defense Council  
$0
$12,500 (5)
San Francisco, California      
For the Sustainable Food and Biomass Procurement Initiative to assess the sustainability of agriculture certification programs  
       
People for Open Space / Greenbelt Alliance  
$0
$50,000 (6)
San Francisco, California      
For the Last Landscapes project to protect open space and redirect development in the Bay Area to urban centers  
       
Roots of Change
(Trust for Conservation Innovation)
 
$0
$200,000 (7)
San Francisco, California      
For a collaboration of government, business and nonprofit organizations seeking to make California’s agriculture and food system sustainable by 2030  
       
Rose Foundation  
$45,000
$15,000 (8)
Oakland, California      
To support the Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund  
       
Slow Food Nation  
$20,000
$20,000
San Francisco, California      
To support the Food for Thought Speaker Series at the Slow Food Nation Symposium in August 2008  
       
San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR)  
$100,000
$50,000 (9)
San Francisco, California      
To build capacity for regional planning  
       
Sustainable Agriculture Education  
$25,000
$25,000
Berkeley, California      
To support regional planning projects across urban-rural boundaries  
       
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)  
$30,000
$15,000 (10)
Santa Barbara, California      
To support programs to educate foundations about sustainable agriculture and food systems  
       
Transportation and Land Use Coalition  
$0
$75,000(11)
Oakland, California      
For the Great Communities Collaboration to promote sound planning and development around new transit stations in the Bay Area  
       
University of California, Davis  
$100,000
$50,000(12)
Davis, California      
For the development of an interdisciplinary sustainable agriculture major in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences  
       
Total
 
$646,600
$901,320
   
   

 (1) First payment of a $50,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
 (2) Payment of $15,000 award made in 2007 (Back)
 (3) Payment of $22,220 award made in 2007 (Back)
 (4) Final payment of $100,000 award made in 2007 (Back)
 (5) Payment of $12,500 award made in 2007 (Back)
 (6) Final payment of $100,000 award made in 2007 (Back)
 (7) Second payment of $1,000,000 award made in 2007 (Back)
 (8) First payment of $45,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
 (9) First payment of $100,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
(10) First payment of $30,000 award made in 2008 (Back)
(11) Final payment of $150,000 award made in 2007 (Back)
(12) First payment of $100,000 award made in 2008 (Back)

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