Fresno Metro Ministry
For Support Of The Environmental Health Program
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Amount$55,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/30/2011
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Fresno Metro Ministry has requested a grant of 54,900 for its Environmental Health Program to release a report and related series of maps on cumulative health impacts from various pollution sources in the San Joaquin Valley and ensure adequate community involvement in the release and subsequent use of the report. Fresno Metro Ministry, as convener of the San Joaquin Valley Cumulative Health Impacts Project coalition, will use the report and maps as organizing tools to accomplish policy goals related to: 1) equal protection for the San Joaquin Valley from global warming (distributing mitigation and adaptation funds from the forthcoming cap and trade program), 2) improved land use and transportation planning, 3) developing a community-supported definition of what an Environmental Justice community is and where they are located in the San Joaquin Valley for the purposes of placing monitors, and 4) focusing emission reductions, and improving local air board structure and policies.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.fresnometmin.org
Address
4270 N. Blackstone Ave, #212, Fresno, CA, 93726, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Environmental Health Program
Fresno Metro Ministry’s Environmental Health Program seeks to reduce smog-forming and global warming pollution from land use, transportation, and agricultural sources in California’s San Joaquin Valley. An important anchor group in several coalitions, the Ministry provides leadership and strategic thinking to a wide network of groups, and in 2013, will continue its capacity-building and leadership development work and engagement on policies ranging from local land-use planning in Fresno to state-level policies on the use of global warming funds.
for support of the Environmental Health Program
Fresno Metro Ministry’s Environmental Health Program seeks to reduce smog-forming and global-warming pollution from land use, transportation, and agricultural sources in California’s San Joaquin Valley. In 2014, it will launch a new program to broaden the effective land use and transportation planning work it has done for many years. This will include recruiting a diverse array of influential advocates for more ambitious emission reduction goals for Fresno County’s Sustainable Community Strategy and Regional Transportation Plan.
