$300K

$300K Awarded to FoodCorps

The big vision: a future in which every child—regardless of class, race, or geography—knows what healthy food is, cares where it comes from, and eats it every day. Support will amplify FoodCorps’ on-­the-­ground impact in high-need schools, growing its reach to influence systems change through leadership development, network building, and policy reform in California and, ultimately, nationwide.

$300K

$300K Awarded to Slide Ranch

It is a rare opportunity to pitch to donors with resources to make transformational change. We are resource constrained whilst working to execute programs with big potential. Our big vision is to secure $15 million to fund the next 25 years and to have laser focus to scale the project, rebuild our campus and establish Slide as the brand for excellence in STEM­-based environmental education.

$250K

$250K Awarded to California Trout

Process­-based reconciliation—the innovative concept that animates the Nigiri Project—applies to all natural resource fields, not just water. Integrating a working knowledge of natural process into the management of natural resources, it’s possible to generate unimaginable wealth by recouping the natural capital squandered by outmoded and short­-sighted management practices from the Industrial Age.

$236K

$236K Awarded to Sustainable Conservation

The effect of climate change on long­-term water management requires an ecosystem­-scale perspective that considers projections of water supply, demand, and cropping patterns, and goes beyond groundwater recharge to include flood management and habitat restoration. Adding these considerations to our geospatial decision-­support tool would provide policy makers with expanded future scenario testing.

$175K

$175K Awarded to WaterNow Alliance

WNA aims to create a fundamental shift in how cities think about and use water, making sustainability the new normal. WNA will galvanize hundreds, then thousands, of leaders to champion a new approach, to create a tipping point of excitement and confidence in efficiency and innovation, and rapidly emerge as a visible collective voice promoting the transition to a sustainable water future.

$153K

$153K Awarded to Urban Tilth

Our BIG VISION: To use the farm site to build the capacity of the Small Farmer Cooperative to work with the 230 convenience store owners in Richmond to create a network of community owned, cooperatively run and locally sourced food markets that employ local people and work with farmers to promote sustainable food through family activities such as ‘you pick it days’ you can walk to from your hood.