TransFormCA
For Implementation Of Sustainable Communities Strategies And Work On Greenhouse Gas Reductions
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Amount$700,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2010
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
TransForm is the leading Bay Area organization working to create world-class public transportation and walkable communities. In addition, TransForm is the fiscal co-sponsor of ClimatePlan, a coalition of organizations committed to protect California’s climate, environment and health through improving land use planning. The grant’s goal is to ensure the implementation of California’s Senate Bill 375, which is the legislation that mandates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through transportation and land use planning. The targets drafted by California Air Resources Board for SB375 will reduce 15 million metric tons by 2035. TransForm and ClimatePlan will support the development and adoption of Sustainable Communities Strategies and integrated regional transportation plans, to reach the targets adopted by SB375 in the main metropolitan regions of California.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.TransFormCA.org
Address
560 14th Street, 4th floor, Oakland, CA, 94612-2727, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for mobility improvements in the San Francisco Bay Area
TransFormCA is a long-standing partner and grantee of the Hewlett Foundation. The organization works to promote walkable communities with excellent transportation choices to connect people of all incomes to opportunity, keep California affordable and help solve climate change. This grant will support the implementation of an innovative incentive program for improving mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area’s main highways, with the support of San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
for strategic planning and fund development
This Organizational Effectiveness grant will support an strategic planning process for TransForm California. The organization's last plan was produced in 2013 and there have been big changes in the external environment for housing and transportation in the Bay Area. Transform will hire an specialist consultant to help design new strategies to cope with the housing crisis and longer commutes residents are suffering. In addition, given the sunset of the Serving Bay Area Communities Program and changes in other funding sources, this grant will support the development of a donor program as a new source of revenue for the organization.
for the ClimatePlan Program
TransFormCA works to create world-class public transportation and walkable communities. This grant would support ClimatePlan, a program that convenes and coordinates efforts to reduce carbon emissions from transportation and land-use planning in California through the implementation of Sustainable Community Strategies in five metropolitan regions: the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The focus for this coming year is preparing the next set of long-term greenhouse gas reduction targets, taking into account equity issues and underserved communities in the state.
