Mitchell Kapor Foundation

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
$8,000 for the Fund for Richmond’s Future campaign
APEN, along with the Richmond Alliance for Environmental Justice, is leading a campaign to work with the city of Richmond to move the city away from its dependency on Chevron, which represents a majority of the city’s tax base. Developing a Fund for Richmond’s Future could be the key to moving the city away from fossil fuel dependency and dependency on Chevron.

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)
$45,000 to Begin a Greening the Port Campaign
EBASE is initiating a campaign to transform up to 2,000 existing "sweatshop" trucking jobs into cleaner, better-paying jobs and to create 4,000 to 9,000 new jobs that service the Port and reduce the impact on the environment. Through local hiring programs, this campaign will provide job opportunities to Oakland's most marginalized communities including unemployed or under-employed African Americans and immigrants. 

Ecology Center
$30,000 to expand the Food & Farming Program
The Ecology Center's Food & Farming Program will reduce health disparities in low-income families of color, support small sustainable farmers, generate economic opportunities for local youth of color, reduce the carbon footprint of California's food system, and highlight food as a social and environmental justice issue. The Ecology Center's Food & Farming Program includes farmers' markets, Farm Fresh Choice, and Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT-food stamps) programs, with additional support from the EcoHouse demonstration garden, Information Services, and the Ecology Center Store. 

Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC)
Fiscal Sponsor: Redefining Progress
$40,000 for the Climate Literacy Training (CLT) program
EJCC is launching its Climate Literacy Training Program to provide climate justice information and training to individuals at the community/grassroots level. The project will provide the education and tools that individuals and communities need to effect positive climate justice policy.

Movement Generation
Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center
$30,000 for General Support
www.movementgeneration.org (in development)
Movement Generation's purpose is to build the strategic leadership skills, political analysis, and relationships needed by the upcoming generation of Bay Area organizational leaders, especially women and people of color. Through a series of retreats, Movement Generation is providing intensive training and technical assistance to a cohort of leaders of Bay Area racial and economic justice organizations with an ultimate goal of equipping the racial and economic justice sectors with the knowledge, relationships, and technical support necessary for them to impact climate policy locally, at the state level, and nationally.

First Community Housing
$35,000 for Sustainable Facilities Manager
First Community Housing (FCH) is creating a Sustainable Facilities Manager (SFM) staff position that will deliver day-to-day facility operations using the latest in energy efficiency and green maintenance practices. In addition, the SFM will train and educate property managers in the practice of using green cleaning and maintenance supplies to benefit the health of FCH tenants and increase property value.

Global Exchange
$40,000 for the Green Careers Program at City College of San Francisco
With its new Green Careers Program, Global Exchange will create a green jobs pipeline for young people from the eastern neighborhoods of San Francisco that have historically suffered a disproportionate share of the city’s pollution. By integrating green course work, service learning, internships, and job placement with partnering green companies, this program will prepare youth of color for the green careers of the future, and help green companies diversify their workforces.

Green For All
Fiscal Sponsor: Natural Capital Institute
$40,000 for Online Community of Practice
Green For All’s Community of Practice will establish an online social network that links leaders through online trainings, blogs, legislative updates, green updates and events listings. The effort is designed to result in the passage and implementation of major federal reform policies and build collaboration through a cross-sector of people, agencies, and businesses.

International Media Project/National Radio Project
$30,000 for Making Contact Radio Documentary Production
The National Radio Project will expand its Environmental Desk to produce three radio documentaries in 2009 that will educate a national audience about environmental justice issues including: the new green economy; climate change, Big Oil, and communities of color; and urban gardens and food justice. These independent media programs will support the movement for a green economy and for environmental justice as well as develop the media capacity of grassroots groups as we work in close collaboration with them.

People’s Grocery
$45,000 for general support
In 2009, People's Grocery will build the capacity of their farm and of the Grub Box Community Supported Agriculture to scale up food production and distribution capabilities, expanding programs such as the Growing Justice Training Institute to develop a skilled workforce and leadership base for the People's Grocery Community Market, and conducting final stage planning for the retail store with a target launch goal of early 2010.

REDF
$25,000 for Green Collar Jobs through Social Enterprise
In 2007, REDF launched a strategy to place 1,000 people with the greatest barriers to work in the San Francisco Bay Area into jobs by 2010. To do this, REDF will establish social enterprises with at least six new nonprofit partners; expand existing social enterprises by brokering contract and vendor opportunities; and develop a pipeline of employees who “graduate” from the social enterprise into entry-level for-profit jobs. These activities will result in new, green collar jobs and provide a “laboratory” to measure outcomes for greater investment in and replication of green collar job strategies.

Solar Richmond
Fiscal Sponsor: West County Toxics Coalition
$40,000 to Expand the Green Placement and Support Program
Solar Richmond's Solar Installation Training Program provides low-income Richmond residents with the hard, technical skills they need to find well-paying jobs. This grant will support the organization's Green Placement & Support program, which helps graduates secure employment with opportunities for upward mobility by building their soft skills, linking them to employment opportunities, and providing extended case management after the employment is found.

Supportive Housing Employment Collaborative
Fiscal Sponsor: Community Housing Partnership
$15,000 to expand the Recycling Internship Program
The Community Housing Partnership (CHP) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that develops and operates permanent housing for formerly homeless people with on-site support services, job training, leadership development, and employment opportunities. The Supportive Housing Employment Collaborative (SHEC) works with formerly homeless clients who are living in CHP units to find permanent employment. This grant supports the SHEC Recycling Internship Project that trains and places formerly homeless clients in waste diversion jobs at the city's largest special events and empowers them to spearhead and implement a formal recycling plan in the supportive housing sites where they reside.

The Sustainable Living Roadshow
$15,000 for the Be the Change Tour 2008
The Sustainable Living Roadshow is “a caravan of educators and entertainers who tour the country in a fleet of renewable fuel vehicles setting up off-the-grid eco-carnivals with experiential learning villages, empowering communities to utilize sustainable living strategies for a healthier planet.” In an effort to diversify what had until recently been a largely white movement and audience, Jennifer Johns, a hip hop/soul vocalist and Green for All ambassador, is spearheading the inclusion of hip hop artists and programming into the roadshow to help draw a more multiracial audience.

Tides Center
$10,000 for a Green Jobs Convening
Working with MacArthur fellow, Carl Anthony, the Tides Center will host a convening for funders, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates to explore the intersection between California’s emerging green economy and workforce development strategies.  The intended outcome is to identify strategies that will support and generate real opportunities for low-income and difficult-to-employ populations, such as formerly incarcerated and/or disabled individuals, to benefit from and participate in green jobs throughout California.

UC Berkeley Labor Center
$40,000 for the Central and East Contra Costa Labor- Community Green Jobs Project
UC Berkeley Labor Center will conduct research on the green labor market and educate community leaders, union members, policy makers, and others on a wide range of issues related to green jobs development. The Labor Center will also support programs and policies that connect low-income youth and adults of color to job training and work opportunities in emerging clean technology industries and green building.

Urban Habitat
$40,000 for a Climate Justice Coordinator
Urban Habitat will hire a staff person to coordinate its Climate Justice Initiative, which will create a regional strategy and vision for the Bay Area to address climate change from a social justice perspective.

Urban Solutions
$25,000 for Green Business Initiative
Urban Solutions’ Green Business Initiative will provide free quarterly workshops on the topic of sustainability and conduct site visits that will provide participating businesses with information on waste management, lighting changes, and sustainable products and cost-cutting practices.

Working Partnerships, USA
$40,000 for the Green Jobs Initiative
Working Partnerships, USA will undergo initial planning and alliance building to create a local green jobs and accountable development policy platform in Santa Clara County in partnership with community groups, labor unions, and faith-based organizations.

Californians for Pesticide Reform
Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Environmental Health
$42,000 for the Bay Area Healthy Homes Campaign
In its Healthy Homes Campaign, Californians for Pesticide Reform will educate Bay Area tenants of substandard, public, and low-income housing on the impacts of home pesticide use and on alternatives; work to mobilize communities to advocate for the utilization of green, low-risk pest management alternatives by landlords, property management firms, and agencies; and ultimately reduce overall home pesticide use.

Hunter’s Point Family
$30,000 for the Healthy Lifestyles Program
Hunter's Point Family will expand the Healthy Lifestyles Program, which seeks to create an infrastructure to change community culture by implementing a system that simultaneously addresses the issues of pollution, poverty, food justice, job and business creation, youth leadership, and community development.

Literacy for Environmental Justice
$45,500 for the “Living Classroom” Capital Campaign
Literacy for Environmental Justice will construct the Living Classroom at Heron's Head Park in Bayview/Hunters Point; it will be San Francisco's first 100% off-grid building and the first environmental education facility south of Market Street.

Oakland Food Connection
$12,000 for general support
OFC will provide access to fresh produce, environmental and nutrition education, and green entrepreneurship opportunities to low-income youth of color in East Oakland.

People’s Grocery
$40,000 for general support
People's Grocery will expand its youth training program in sustainable agriculture and its related business enterprises to cultivate more farmland at the Sunol Agricultural Park and to distribute fresh produce to low-income families in West Oakland in Spring 2008.

San Francisco Community Power
$30,000 for the Community Trading Initiative Project
San Francisco Community power will implement a pilot initiative to enable low-income families to participate in publicly- and privately-financed greenhouse gas and polluting air emissions carbon trading programs, focusing on San Francisco neighborhoods that demonstrate lower-than-average median incomes.

Urban Sprouts
Fiscal Sponsor: Urban Resource Systems
$15,000 for general support
Urban Sprouts will use school garden-based education to help youth and their families to eat healthier and build environmental responsibility into their daily lives.

WAGES (Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security)
$45,000 for general support
Foundation funding will help jump-start an effort to scale up WAGES’ model of creating economically and environmentally sustainable jobs for low-income women.

WE ACT for Environmental Justice
$25,000 for the Environmental Justice Climate Change Policy Initiative
The Environmental Justice Climate Change Policy Initiative will mobilize and facilitate a working group of environmental justice advocates who will interact with identified scientists/academics and representatives of mainstream environmental groups to catalyze state and federal, political, and legislative action that will hopefully result in the development of just policies and mechanisms that equitably reduce carbon emissions in all communities.