Saturday, 07 January 2006 10:45 | 
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In 2006, the Education Advisory Board awarded ten project grants to the following projects:
Amador High School, Pleasanton -- $35,906 for the recycling education program, including the purchase of recycling containers
Camp Arroyo -- $25,000 to support the campership program fro underprivileged youth
Earth Team -- $12,000 to support Our Schools Our Planet as a sustainable schools video project for teens
Friends of Outdoor Recreation -- $20,000 to support camperships at Camp Arroyo for underprivileged youth
Hearst Elementary, Pleasanton -- $25,000 to support the schoolwide environmental classroom project, including recycling program infrastructure and garden supplies
Kids for the Bay -- $20,000 to bring the 4 R’s Action Program—Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot to thirty teachers and nine hundred students in low income, urban schools in Alameda County
North Oakland Community Charter School -- $16,730 to fund the Environmental Stewardship and Leadership initiative
Livermore High School -- $15,000 for recycling stations to improve campus recycling.
Pleasanton Unified School District -- $16,000 to fund the Environmental Awareness program recycling infrastructure project, including the purchase of recycling containers throughout the district
SF Environment -- $17,250 for the Food to Flowers Program for custodial stipends and project supplies for a lunchroom composting program
A total of $199,886 was awarded from the project grant total funding allocation of $225,000. In addition, the Board has made a tentative award of $20,000 to the Alameda County Fair to improve recycling and recycling education at the fairgrounds.
Friday, 07 January 2005 11:46 | |
In 2005, the Education Advisory Board received ten applications for project grants totaling $340,797. The Board awarded seven project grants to the following projects:
Regional Parks Foundation –Camp Arroyo -- $35,000 to support camper-ships to allow low income youth an opportunity to attend Camp Arroyo;
SF Environment -- $15,400 for the Food to Flowers Program for custodial stipends and project supplies for a lunchroom composting program;
Kids for the Bay -- $40,000 to bring the 4 R’s Action Program—Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot to thirty teachers and nine hundred students in low income, urban schools in Alameda County;
Pleasanton Unified School District -- $40,000 to fund the Environmental Awareness Program designed to train students throughout the District to become environmental stewards and to spread the waste prevention and recycling message and programs to schools throughout the district;
Earth Team -- $16,897 to support Our Schools Our Planet as a sustainable schools video project for teens;
Go Green Initiative Foundation -- $40,000 to fund Teen P.R.I.D.E. (Promote Recycling and Integrated Diversion Education), for training and guidance to help students develop a marketing plan to improve campus recycling and waste diversion behavior among teens at middle and high schools in Livermore, Dublin and Pleasanton.;
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Alameda County -- $20,000 to support the recycled material Functional Found Art job training program for formerly homeless men in Alameda County.
A total of $200,000 was awarded from the project grant total funding allocation of $200,000. An additional $7,297 was allocated to the project grants from Board initiated project funds.
Wednesday, 07 January 2004 12:05 | |
The Education Advisory Board received 14 applications for project grants totaling $670,000. The Board awarded six grants to the following projects.
East Bay Regional Parks District -- $50,000 for theCampArroyo EnvironmentalEducationCenter and Youth Camp Sustainable Growing Center – Transplanting Center Phase.
Chabot Space and Science Center -- $10,700 for college student stipends through the Earth and Environmental Internship program.
EarthTeam – $15,300 to support Our School, Our Planet – A Sustainable Schools Video Project for Teens.
SF Environment -- $6,000 for custodial stipends and supplies for the Food to Flowers! food waste diversion program in theSan FranciscoUnifiedSchool District.
Northern California Recycling Association -- $8,000 to support the development of “Point of Return” a NCRA film project focusing on economic development and industrial land use policy, recycling and zero waste.
Kids for the Bay -- $40,000 to bring the Four Rs Action Program – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot to thirty teachers and nine hundred students from low income, urban schools in Alameda County.
A total of $130,000 was awarded from the project grant total funding allocation of $150,000.
