Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
For Central Valley Air Quality Coalition's Healthy Air And Stable Climate Action Project
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Amount$120,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs is the fiscal sponsor of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, more than seventy medical, public health, religious, community, and environmental organizations unified by a commitment to improve air quality and health in California’s Central Valley. In 2011, the Coalition created a regranting program to build capacity and promote civic engagement of local organizations. With funding from Hewlett and others in 2012, the Coalition will continue to support and organize local groups around innovative strategies to reduce global warming and smog-forming pollution from high-carbon fuels, transportation, and land use.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.saveourplanet.org
Address
23532 Calabasas Road Suite A, Calabasas, CA, 91302-1333, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for Advocates for Community Alternative’s project on local government accountability in Ghana
The Advocates for Community Alternatives program partners with communities in West Africa to explore development alternatives that are not dependent on mining and carbon extraction. This grant will support the program’s ongoing work in the Donkro Nkwanta region of Ghana to refine their methodology for future community engagement throughout Ghana and West Africa.
for the East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice project
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs is the fiscal sponsor of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice-a core group in several California and national coalitions advocating for zero-emission freight systems to improve the health of residents living near ports and along freight routes; it also works to curb global warming. This renewal grant would allow the organization to continue its community organizing, policy advocacy, and coalition-building work in pursuit of emission reductions in and around Los Angeles ports, as well as its work with a new Clean Freight Coalition linked to California's global warming emission reduction program.
for planning and implementation of new strategies for communications and fund development
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice has made many achievements in its efforts to reduce emissions around the ports of Los Angeles, and would benefit from telling the story of those achievements with the goal of increasing their funding base. Through its fiscal sponsor, Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, EYCEJ will hire a consultant to develop a fundraising plan with a communications focus and fundraising materials that tell the stories of the organization in order to engage a larger donor base. Because of the small staff size of the organization, this grant will also support hiring a part-time staff person who will carry out the plan.
