Community Initiatives
For The Northern Sierra Partnership Campaign For The American River Headwaters
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/14/2015
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
With support from the Hewlett Foundation and several other donors, the 10,115-acre American River Headwaters property along the Sierra Nevada Crest, west of Lake Tahoe, will be protected by the Northern Sierra Partnership, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives. This grant will support the acquisition-related and transaction-related costs of the land acquisition, permanently protecting this area from timber harvesting and other commercial development. In addition, under the Wilderness Act, approximately 3,000 acres of this property, which are adjacent to the Granite Chief Wilderness, will be designated as wilderness through administrative action, if donated to the Forest Service.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.communityIn.org
Address
1000 Broadway, Suite 480, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for legal technical assistance
This grant is for legal technical assistance for Latino Outdoors, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, to help increase understanding of the current landscape as grantees engage in DEIJ-related charitable activities. A project of Oakland, California-based Community Initiatives, Latino Outdoors works to inspire, connect, and engage Latinx communities in the outdoors and embrace cultura y familia as part of the outdoor narrative, ensuring Latinx history, heritage, and leadership are valued and represented. Through a network of committed volunteers, the organization is a contributor in the movement to achieve more equitable access to the outdoors and engages and empowers people to enjoy and advocate for land and water conservation. This grant is for legal technical assistance. (Substrategy: Other Strategies)
for the Just Solutions Collective
The Just Solutions Collective, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, broadens and deepens the understanding and implementation of equitable and effective climate policies and programs, at a scale and pace that matches the urgency of the climate crisis. The collective partners with communities disproportionately impacted by climate change to turn their priorities and ideas into policies. It draws from community-created solutions and invests deeply in organizations and coalitions that have demonstrated the vision, strategy, and power to secure and implement climate policies that strengthen their communities’ health, economic security, and resiliency. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
