Earth Island Institute
For The Planet Earth Arts Project
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Amount$10,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/25/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
A grant to Earth Island Institute will support its fiscally sponsored Planet Earth Arts project to enable the Stanford Repertory Theater to reach more diverse communities by offering free performances and talk-back dialogues. The grant specifically supports a Community Engagement Program in East Palo Alto and the surrounding community, designed and built around their summer 2019 Environment and Social Justice festival production of ’Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids’. This is a powerful new play commissioned by Planet Earth Arts and written by African American playwright Vincent Terrell Durham. It explores the collisions, intersections, and tensions between the environmental and Black Lives Matter movements, played out against the inexorable forces of gentrification and displacement in communities of color.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.earthisland.org
Address
2105 Allston Way, Suite 460, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for PGM ONE strategic planning and development
A project of Earth Island Institute, PGM ONE envisions a world that centers, values, uplifts, and empowers those who are most impacted by environmental harm and climate change — and in particular black, indigenous, and people of color/the global majority. The project, which engages with advocates from across the field of land and water conservation, is conducting a strategic planning exercise and launching an evaluation of its impact. It is also working to offer webinars and online conversations this year in place of its annual summit to share, learn, collaborate, heal, celebrate, build community, find support, and deepen practice to uproot the systems of oppression and mobilize to transform individuals, movements, and society. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Building Conditions for Enduring Conservation.)
for the Bay Area Wilderness Training program
Bay Area Wilderness Training, a program fiscally sponsored by Earth Island, provides low-income, at-risk urban youth with the skills and resources necessary for camping and wilderness experiences. They work with youth workers and teachers in after-school programs, school districts, community centers, and a wide array of social service agencies to reach youth from different neighborhoods, and cultural and economic backgrounds. Their programs will get 8,000 youth outdoors. The trainings offered to adults from youth-serving organizations and schools include a five-day Wilderness Leadership Training course, Frontcountry Leadership Training program, and Camping at the Presidio program.
for the Bay Area Wilderness Training program
Bay Area Wilderness Training, a program fiscally sponsored by Earth Island, provides low-income, at-risk urban youth with the skills and resources necessary to expose them to camping and wilderness experiences. They work with youth workers and teachers in after-school programs, school districts, community centers and a wide array of social service agencies to reach youth from different neighborhoods, and cultural and economic backgrounds. Their programs would get 7,000 youth outdoors. The trainings offered to adults from youth-serving organizations and schools include a five-day Wilderness Leadership Training course; Frontcountry Leadership Training program; and Camping at the Presidio program.
