2008 Grant Awards

Catalyst Grant Awards

Alemany Farm: $10,000 towards growing fresh and healthy food to help sow the seeds of social justice through healthy outdoor experiences, a positive sense of community, and green job training for low-income youth.

Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance: $10,000 towards linking existing watershed monitoring and restoration efforts with the educational needs of at-risk youth by forming school-based Youth Stream Teams that will develop an understanding of watershed ecology and the skills and interest to participate in resource management decisions.

Project Great Outdoors: $10,000 towards offering expertly guided and facilitated white-water rafting and challenge-ropes-course trips at costs as low as $10 per participant; Project GO provides access to an ideal outdoor experiential program to young people and organizations that truly are under-served.

Wildplaces: $10,000 towards guided tours of the Sequoias. Here, youth will learn watershed and nature awareness, hands-on habitat restoration, community and confidence building, environmental awareness, and documentary film making.

Impact Grant Awards

EarthTeam: $18,000 towards a community-based, environmental restoration program integrated with a student-created multi-media program. The youth will become proud stewards of their local communities through classroom education, numerous local field work experiences that culminate in the education of the public on TV.

East Bay Asian Youth Center: $25,000 towards an outdoor leadership education program for underserved middle school and high school girls to learn how to plan and lead backpacking trips. Designed to support girls who are victims of violence and are at high-risk of sexual exploitation, GO! provide a safe, supportive, and challenging learning environment that yields transformative results for girls.

Fresh Lifelines for Youth: $20,000 towards empowering youth in the juvenile justice system to become socially responsible citizens who are also stewards of the environment by utilizing a rounded approach to youth development by providing our underserved youth with yearlong mentors who utilize ongoing outdoor experiences and environmental service learning to promote healthy decision making and positive youth leadership.

Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park: $26,000 towards the Breaking Ground program, which engages over 100 diverse youth in outdoor activities, including 1) year-round gardening, mentored by Laotian Mien elders who use the park’s Community Garden; 2) outdoor banquets where youth and Mien elders share recipes, learn about each others' food traditions, and cook and eat together with parents and neighbors; 3) outdoor activities including bird watching and habitat restoration in Peralta Creek, and learning about, tending, and using plants in the park’s Native Plant Garden with Ohlone native plant experts; and 4) outdoor hands-on history activities.

Karuk Tribe: $18,000 towards the Eco-Cultural Youth Camps and Scientific Academic Advancement Program, which aims to sustain local traditional ecological knowledge( TEK ) by engaging tribal youth in a series of comprehensive seasonal camps that brings elders and youth together to transfer eco-cultural knowledge and land management practices to the next generation.

Project Avary: $22,000 towards the Outdoor Leaders Project, which builds confidence and competency for the outdoors and a life-affirming vision among teens facing high risks of experiencing incarceration during their lifetimes.

Real Options for City Kids: $20,000 towards the ROCK program, which aims to break the cycle of poverty and violence in Visitacion Valley through a combination of outdoor adventures, community service and leadership training, and by implementing best youth development practices.

San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust: $26,000 towards providing outdoor experiences for youth along the San Joaquin River in an effort to get the youth involved in service projects and in leadership programs as part of the summer camps programs.

UC Berkeley, Sagehen Creek Field Station: $25,000 towards building capacity in the UC Merced and the Wawona Field Station. By utilizing UC field stations, the organization has the unique opportunity to connect students to their local environment/ outdoor spaces, to UC opportunities & to local community members who visit their courses. After the 6-week immersion, students are required to do community service projects of their choices in home neighborhoods.

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