Grant Recipients 2022 January - December
Canopy
Canopy is a nonprofit dedicated to growing urban tree canopies in Mid-peninsula communities, enhancing green spaces and providing environmental education. They intend to utilize the funds to support their Teen Urban Forester (TUF) program, which offers 60 paid internships annually to low-income, BIPOC high school students, empowering them with arboriculture training, leadership skills, and community engagement opportunities.
Foundation For Excellence
The Foundation for Excellence (FFE) was founded with the mission to award college scholarships to students who, although financially constrained, showed great promise in the Engineering, Medical, BPharm and law programs, these being some of the most expensive higher education programs in India. Apart from FFE’s alumni, who support future scholars like themselves, donations come from all around the world from individual donors, corporations and foundations.
Nine Lives Foundation
Nine Lives Foundation proudly provides lifelines for at-risk cats and kittens and affordable, compassionate care for our feline friends and the people who love them. Let’s save lives together!
Environmental Volunteers
At Environmental Volunteers, we inspire people of all ages to learn about the wonders of the natural world. We train volunteers (like you!) to lead hands-on science and nature programs in schools, community organizations, and at the EcoCenter in the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve.
We offer School Programs to K-6 classrooms in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Our hands-on curriculum meets State of California science education requirements. Our volunteers bring hands-on learning programs to over 10,000 students each year. In the classroom, our volunteers lead hands-on learning stations in small groups. On follow-up field trips, students discover natural science concepts through guided hikes to local nature preserves.
Future of Reading
Future of Reading ensures all students read at grade level by fourth grade through a K-3 tutoring program. University students are trained as reading coaches, providing personalized support. Schools receive technology and training aligned with the Science of Reading for effective individualized tutoring. Funds would be used for training university students and supervising teachers to deploy the reading program.
Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds and maintains great trails for everyone, and connects communities to nature through responsible outdoor recreation.
We believe that trails are a gateway to the adventure, fun, exercise and sense of wonder offered by the great outdoors. Our work expands and enhances sustainable trail networks so everyone has a place in enjoying and protecting the Santa Cruz Mountains.
First Graduate
First Graduate partners with San Francisco middle schools to provide tutelage, coaching and mentoring to low income students to support their becoming the first in their family to graduate from college, which creates a path toward college graduation for others in the family unit.
Harmonious Home
Good design invokes happiness and soothes the soul. It can inspire confidence, security, and energy. Color, light, and texture in living spaces can induce feelings of warmth and safety. Furniture to place your belongings and a bed to sleep in improves your physical and mental well-being. Plants and flowers in the home improve and elevate mood.
We partner with the Center Against Sexual & Family Violence, The MacGuire Center and the Reynolds Home to find our clients who are transitioning from a shelter, transitional living center, and aging out of the foster care system. Our mission is to transform their lives by transforming their living spaces with as much gently used items as possible lessening our environmental footprint.
Youth Art Exchange
Our vision is that every public high school student in San Francisco has a voice and agency in our city. We believe being exposed to the arts at a pivotal age and developing a strong connection to the arts through learning, creating, and making give youth tools to express themselves, exchange with others, and shape the world around them. We want spaces buzzing with the creative energy of professional artists and youth working together to make art, hang out, and build community – which we believe will make our city more connected, resilient, and reflective of all those woven in its fabric. Simply said, art changes lives.