Community Foundation Grants to My Happy Place

Organization - My Happy Place
Year Awarded - 2018
Grant Amount - $5,300
Grant Purpose - Community
Foundation - Watertown Area Community Foundation

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Organization - Northern California Land Trust
Year Awarded - 2020
Grant Amount - $234,000
Grant Purpose - To Pilot A Community Land Trust Program In Vallejo, Acquiring Two To Five Sites (representing Two To Ten Units) Of Housing To Be Permanently Affordable And Identified Based On Community Priorities, And Thereby Demonstrating The Efficacy And Urgency Of Developing Community Driven And Community Controlled Permanently Affordable Housing In Vallejo. Providing General Operating Support To An Organization Heavily Leading Regional Work On Land Ownership For Housing And Small Businesses. To Provide Seed Funding As General Operating Support To A Growing Organizing Group Educating Tenants On Resident Ownership Over Land. To Provide General Rapid Response Funding For Ongoing Education Workshops Helping Community Learn How To Navigate Financially Through The Impacts Of Covid19 On Small Businesses. Challenge Grant Community Support For Berkeley
Foundation - San Francisco Foundation


Organization - East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy
Year Awarded - 2018
Grant Amount - $119,000
Grant Purpose - To Support Costs Related To The Campaign For Tenant Protections In Concord, To Magnify And Harness The Power Of Immigrant Communities In Contra Costa County To Defend Their Rights And Promote Full Inclusion In Leadership And Governance, To Support The Public Land Strategy By Educating And Engaging Community Residents In The Disposition Of Land At Concord Weapons Naval Base To Ensure Community Goals Are Prioritized, For General Support, To Support The Public Land Strategy By Educating And Engaging Community Residents In The Disposition Of Land At Concord Weapons Naval Base To Ensure Community Goals Are Prioritized
Foundation - San Francisco Foundation


Organization - Neto Community Network
Year Awarded - 2020
Grant Amount - $75,000
Grant Purpose - Focused On The City Of Concord, Ca And Its Monument Corridor Neighborhood, Neto's Turn Up The Heat Project Will Professionalize And Significantly Ramp Up Our Community Engagement, Communications And Fundraising Capacity. This Is The Next Crucial Step For Us To (1) Leverage The Arts To Help Solidify And Expand An Influential Cross-class, Cross-race Community, Bound Together By Equitable Values And Civic Action; (2) Create A Community Anchor And Investment Fund That Promote Local Arts And Entrepreneurship; And (3) Provide An Institutional Base For Us To Engage, Train And Support Emerging Community Leaders And Their Action Teams To Advance Local, State Or National Equity Issues That They Feel Passionately About.
Foundation - San Francisco Foundation


Organization - Oakland Community Land Trust
Year Awarded - 2020
Grant Amount - $147,000
Grant Purpose - To Provide A Community Land Trust With General Operating Support To Continue Its Land Acquisition For Resident Ownership. To Explore The Feasibility Of Converting Existing Subsidized And Non-subsidized Affordable Multi-family Buildings Into Cooperative Housing Communities. Additionally, Make Preservation Work Accessible In Language Needs Of Community Members By Translating Wide-ranging Suite Of Educational Materials, Documents, Leases, Etc. Related To Community Land Trusts, Housing Cooperatives, And Community Ownership And Decision-making Models. To Support Ba4a Efforts To Advance The Three Ps (protection, Preservation, And Production) At The Oakland Preservation Table.
Foundation - San Francisco Foundation


Organization - Regents Of The University Of California
Year Awarded - 2020
Grant Amount - $298,326
Grant Purpose - Project Funding Support The Labor And Mass Incarceration Project In Contra Costa County To Strengthen The Relationships Between The Black Community And The Labor Movement By Training Union And Community Members Who Are Active In The Black Community Around Issues Of Mass Incarceration. To Support The Uc Berkeley Center For Labor Research And Education, To Produce Content Around Regional Political Economy And Capacity Building For Year Two Of A Regional Worker Rights Cohort. To Support The Regents Of University Of California In Improving The Health And Safety Of Essential Workers In The Domestic And Janitorial Fields, Worker Centers, Unions And Community Groups Throughout Alameda County Is Recommended For Funding. To Provide Grant-in-aid For Financially Needy Lower Division Students In Good Standing At The University Of California, Berkeley Campus. For Scholarships To Aid Students Of Medicine And Engineering Who, Without Financial Help, Would Be Unable To Pursue Or Continue Their Studies
Foundation - San Francisco Foundation

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