Arcora Foundation (Seattle, WA)

The Arcora Foundation awarded three capital grants totaling $340,000 to two tribal health centers and one community health center in Washington state.

  • One Community Health—to build a dental clinic in White Salmon, Washington, and expand access to affordable dental care for residents of Klickitat and Skamania counties. ($70,000)
  • Quileute Tribal Health Center—to update dental capacity at the health center and replace decades old equipment to expand dental access for American Indians/Alaska Natives in rural Olympic Peninsula. ($140,000)
  • Kalispel Tribe—to help expand dental capacity at the Camas Center Medical and Dental Clinic and address unmet needs in Cusick, Washington. ($130,000)

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Bethany Legacy Foundation (Madison, IN)

Bethany Legacy Foundation awarded a $528,000 grant to Madison Consolidated Schools (MCS). This funding will support current MCS staff members to continue their education to become master’s level school counselors,add a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and hire two new positions—a Trust-Based Relational Intervention Coach and a College and Career Readiness Coach.

By integrating these new roles and programs, the district aims to foster a more supportive and nurturing environment, addressing both immediate and long-term wellness needs.

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Cambia Health Foundation (Portland, OR)

Cambia Health Foundation invested $500,000 in community partners to relieve the strain on the region’s health care workforce. Each grantee will approach this complex issue in bold and distinct ways with many focused on testing new care models and increasing representation of diverse perspectives in the workforce.

These investments are part of the foundation’s Health Care Workforce program, which focuses on expanding, diversifying, and training the workforce to reduce behavioral health workforce shortages in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah. This effort is part of a larger vision to advance equity through whole-person health across its four-state footprint. The foundation partners with organizations that are addressing the root causes of provider shortages as well as creating innovative approaches that expand access to care within whole-person care models.

  • Greater New H.O.P.E. Charities
  • Latino Leadership Northwest
  • LiFEBoat Services Clatsop County
  • Oregon Child & Family Center for Excellence
  • Oregon Latino Health Coalition
  • Summit Pacific Medical Center
  • University of Utah
  • Washington Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Wenatchee Valley College

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CareQuest Institute for Oral Health (Boston, MA)

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health awarded $1.25 million to school-based and school-linked initiatives to improve oral health outcomes. Grants of $125,000 were awarded to 10 organizations across the country, including in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP will support the following organizations:

  • American Academy of Pediatrics in Illinois—to adapt the Training, Education, Assistance, Mentorship, and Support (TEAMS) model to improve oral health in schools and development of an oral health micro-module for the AAP Health Services Assessment Tool for Schools (HATS).
  • Center for Oral Health in California—to support the success of the Early Smiles Program to advocate for critical policy reforms at local and state levels in California. This initiative seeks to expand and enhance oral health services provided through their school-based program, which has demonstrated significant impact in California’s Sacramento, Yolo, Alpine, and Trinity counties.
  • EXCELth, Inc. in Louisiana—to implement the Louisiana Smile Krewe School-Linked Initiative with the goal of increasing the number of children utilizing dental services as well as promote widespread use of teledentistry to address barriers to oral health for rural communities.
  • MCD Global Health in Maine—to integrate oral health with health, dental, and school partners, and increase access to care for Maine children utilizing school nurses to provide screenings and preventive services.
  • Montana State University—to launch the Youth Voice Project, which will conduct focus groups with 7th-12th grade students to identify their perceptions of oral health in their community. Montana State University will also pilot a same day treatment protocol in the School-Based Health Center to disrupt the current model where students are referred to treatment over 100 miles away in Billings.
  • More Smiles Wisconsin—to expand oral health collaborations between schools, school-based prevention programs, and local dentists through the existing and recently established Hometown Smiles program.
  • Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation in Florida—to increase access to oral health care for recent immigrant children in partnership with Borinquen Medical Center (BMC) and eight elementary public schools in Miami-Dade County.
  • Oral Health Unit at CDPHE in Colorado—to expand school-based oral health in collaboration with Youth Healthcare Alliance through engaging schools and communities to address systemic barriers to oral health for children and their families.
  • Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics—to implement a school-based oral health program. This will include preventive education, topical fluoride varnish application, and dental referral through targeted educational resources for school nurses.
  • Well Child Center in Illinois—to form and convene a Community of Practice to improve oral health in the second largest school district in Illinois (western suburbs of Chicago).

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Cleveland Foundation (Cleveland, OH)

The Cleveland Foundation introduced the LGBTQ+ Opportunity Fund, a permanent source of funding to support Greater Cleveland organizations serving and uplifting the LGBTQ+ community. To help meet community needs today and for years to come, the foundation has endowed the LGBTQ+ Opportunity Fund with a $3 million gift and will support further growth with active fundraising and by inviting the broader community to participate in giving.

Affinity funds bring together donors and community members united by a shared heritage, identity, or common interest to support specific areas of need. The LGBTQ+ Opportunity Fund is the Cleveland Foundation’s first endowed affinity fund, with funds supporting the Latinx and Black communities to be launched in the coming months.

The fund’s advisory committee will guide the work of the fund in partnership with Cleveland Foundation staff, including setting priorities for grantmaking, reviewing and selecting applications, supporting fundraising efforts, and advocating on behalf of the fund and its priorities. The fund will begin its grantmaking in 2025.

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Delta Dental Foundation (Okemos, MI)

The Delta Dental Foundation (DDF) awarded a total of $300,000 to 50 community organizations in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana through the foundation’s Mini-Grant Program. The mini-grants will support a variety of community oral health initiatives, including purchasing equipment for safety-net dental clinics, providing oral care to children and older adults, offering transportation to dental appointments and more.

The Mini-Grants Program is a grantmaking initiative designed to support community organizations and programs that promote or provide oral health care and initiatives that align with the DDF’s strategic aims. In the past, each grant was limited to a maximum of $5,000.

To access the full list of grantees, click here.

Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (New York, NY)

The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) announced it is awarding new grants totaling $1,000,468 to two nonpartisan organizations to assist state policymakers in strengthening prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction programs in their communities. A key element of this new funding is to identify the best mechanisms for deploying opioid settlement funding to address the crisis.

  • National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)—to expand its work supporting state policymakers in addressing the opioid and substance use crisis. Through this grant, NASHP will provide technical assistance and support for state leaders in implementing innovative strategies to reduce overdoses and other opioid-related harms and explore ways to make the most effective use of opioid settlements dollars and other government funding sources to address gaps in access to care. ($650,468)
  • Health Affairs—to launch a special issue on the opioid and overdose crisis that will be aimed at state and national policy makers and provide the latest insights on innovative evidence-based solutions. Health Affairs is the nation’s leading journal of health policy research. ($350,000)

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Health Foundation for Western & Central New York (Buffalo, NY)

The Health Foundation for Western & Central New York announced 18 grantees in the newest cohort for Age-Friendly: Go Local 2.0, a program designed to help neighborhood-level groups and organizations build equitable and age-friendly communities. Age-Friendly: Go Local first launched in 2023 and is a collaboration with the New York Academy of Medicine.

Of this year’s 18 cohort members, 12 are first-time grantees of the Health Foundation, and 10 are either led by, or center the needs of, Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC), including New Americans. Many of the grantees are small grassroots organizations that, despite little to no formal age-friendly experience, have deep experience doing neighborhood-based equity work.

  • Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project—to collect stories from older adults and share them with younger generations. Throughout the year, memories and insights will be communicated through panel events and public displays, culminating in a showcase of local LGBTQ history during Pride Month in June 2025.
  • Community Action Organization of Western New York, Inc.—to create community-based digital literacy programs in two locations, specifically for older adults and based on their feedback. The long-term goal is to close the digital divide.
  • East Buffalo Development Corp.—to amplify community block grants by awarding 250 technology packs for older residents. The goal is to make it safer for individuals to age in their community.
  • Feed Buffalo—to use film to tell the stories of older adults it serves while reinforcing the importance of home-delivered food items. Feed Buffalo will film inside residences and use on-camera testimonials to advocate for municipal funding.
  • Gerard Place—to create an intergenerational gardening collaboration with the Buffalo and Erie Botanical Gardens. The project will focus on growing healthy food and will be located in an East Side food desert.
  • Hispanos Unidos de Buffalo—to learn best practices in older adult programing from other community organizations and build its own capacity to create programs that serve older adults on the West Side of Buffalo.
  • Ralph Wilson Parks Conservancy—to focus on determining the most desired activities and programming based on input from older adults living on Buffalo’s West Side. The project will also identify barriers that currently limit park access and offer design input.
  • Slow Roll Buffalo—to coordinate a weekly bike ride for older adults using electronic bicycles. Older riders may opt to use traditional bicycles and abbreviated routes to create a more accessible experience. The project will also feature strength-building programs such as age-friendly yoga.
  • The Metro Community Development Corporation—to create a wellness program staffed by local occupational therapy students and a fitness teacher who has experience working with older adults. The funding will also support the purchase of age-friendly exercise equipment.
  • West Side Community Services—to support a consortium of 10 community centers serving older adults in the city of Buffalo. A planning grant will address transportation needs using an asset-based approach to better serve older residents. West Side Community Services is the lead center for the project.
  • GLOW OUT, SAGE program—to support semi-monthly programing for older adults who identify as LGBTQ+ as well as Pride events throughout the year. The project will also leverage a study by the Mayo Clinic Health Center, which has shown that intergenerational volunteer opportunities can improve the physical and mental health of older adults.
  • Masonic Care Community—to use a Generations United toolkit to identify the needs of older adults and create community-based intergenerational programs. The goal is to build understanding of diverse older adults throughout Herkimer and Oneida counties.
  • Syracuse Grows—to support educational programming to make community gardening and farming accessible for older adults.
  • Syracuse Housing Authority—to support educational opportunities that include occupational coaching and assessment. Older adults will learn how to use public transportation safely and how to shop for healthier food, while reducing their risk of falls.
  • Syracuse Northeast Community Center—to build upon the Teatime program they started to help New Americans make community connections through social activities. Expanded hours and transportation services will also help SNCC better understand and serve the needs of older community members.
  • Village of Holley—to fund enhanced outdoor recreation for older adults. Bocce ball courts will be built in the village park, which currently has no amenities for older community members. The project will also incorporate an older adult dining program.
  • Westcott Community Center—to expand their Food Is Medicine programming. A community garden will be used to grow and harvest vegetables and herbs. Older community members will also learn recipes they can try at home using a kitchen herb garden provided by Westcott.
  • Women of PEARLS—to support a referral partnership with Syracuse Community Health to identify Black women who should receive a mammogram screening. Other referrals to programming designed for Black women will also be supported.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (Lihue, HI)

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has added Hawaii as the ninth state in its Rural Healthcare Program, announcing a $10.6 million grant to provide Wilcox Medical Center in Kauai with state-of-the-art diagnostic and radiology equipment.

The grant will allow Wilcox Medical Center to:

  • Purchase a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine and renovate its existing MRI treatment space, enhancing care for orthopedics, neurology and cardiology while expanding care for oncology.
  • Upgrade its existing X-ray room to create an interventional radiology suite which will allow specialists to look inside a patient’s body, make a diagnosis, and then immediately treat the issue.
  • Renovate its X-ray/fluoroscopy exam room and replace existing equipment, expanding the center’s ability to assess how a patient’s body is functioning or use the imaging as a guide for needles, stents, and catheters.
  • Create two residency sleep rooms for students of the Family Medicine Residency Program through the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).
  • The Kauai grant continues Helmsley’s philanthropic efforts in the Pacific this summer. In July, Helmsley granted more than $6.4 million to provide residents of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) with the territory’s first MRI machine. In June, Helmsley announced $3.2 million in grants to provide an MRI machine and other equipment to facilities in American Samoa.

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The Kresge Foundation (Detroit, MI)

The Kresge Foundation awarded a total of $1.3 million to nine Detroit-area nonprofits through the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus (KIP:D+) grant initiative for implementation-ready projects that range from development of a world-class equestrian center for youth programs to engaging Hamtramck and eastside Detroit communities around environmental health concerns. The organizations will spend the next two years implementing the projects shaped by community engagement to improve quality of life in neighborhoods.

Funded by The Kresge Foundation, KIP:D+ is administered by Co.act Detroit in partnership with Michigan Community Resources (MCR) and Kresge. It is a successor to the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative which was launched in 2014. With the grants announced today, KIP:D and KIP:D+ have distributed $15 million.

This year’s KIP:D+ grantees are:

  • A Girl Like Me, Inc.—to acquire and transform a property in Detroit’s Brightmoor community into a central resource hub with support programs for teen moms and young girls in need.
  • Black Bottom Archives—to debut the year-long Preserving Black Legacy Fellowship, training a cohort of seven Black Detroiters in preservation and storytelling techniques to support archival projects that use oral history to share their neighborhood’s story.
  • Class Act Detroit—to continue developing the House of Hip-Hop, a historic 13,000-square-foot formerly vacant house of worship into a community center and cultural hub for BIPOC youth in Detroit’s Midwest/Tireman neighborhood.
  • Detroit Hamtramck Coalition for Advancing Healthy Environments—to implement a community engagement plan to study environmental health issues, risks, priorities and solutions on the near eastside of Detroit.
  • Detroit Horse Power—to reactivate the demolished Paul Robeson School site in central Detroit into the largest urban equestrian education center in the nation, where they will scale impactful youth development programs for the next generation of Detroiters.
  • Freedom House Detroit—to continue to develop their East Campus Project, including the construction of a New Arrival Intake Center to support recently arrived refugees and asylum seekers.
  • Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation—to enhance the interior and functionality of their 10-year-old community-based business incubator and co-working space, Grand River WorkPlace.
  • Jefferson Chalmers Farmers Market—to construct a welcome center, serving as storage for market equipment and to facilitate EBT/SNAP transactions.
  • Urban Neighborhood Initiatives—to implement their Green Project Playbook vision, which includes goals around stormwater management, clean air, beautification, and workforce development in Detroit’s Springwells neighborhood.

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Laughing Gull Foundation (Durham, NC)

The Laughing Gull Foundation (LGF) approved $1,945,000 in grants to be awarded in 2024 to 38 organizations dedicated to advancing justice for the LGBTQ+ community in the U.S. South. LGF has selected these nonprofit organizations because of their demonstrated commitment to advancing LGBTQ+ equality and work to ensure all individuals can live authentically and safely, free from discrimination.

LGF’s grantmaking approach is multifaceted, funding everything from direct services to direct action. The foundation’s current portfolio of grantee partners underscores its commitment to racial equity and includes organizations led by, serving, and empowering the diverse spectrum of the LGBTQ+ community in the South. This includes Black, Indigenous, Latine, and people of color; transgender and gender expansive individuals; immigrants; and people with disabilities. These grants reaffirm LGF’s dedication to supporting and uplifting organizations that are making significant strides in the fight for LGBTQ+ justice in the U.S. South.

LGF’s Board of Directors awarded grants to the following LGBTQ+ organizations in 2024:

  • ACLU of NC Legal Foundation – Raleigh, NC
  • Advocates for Trans Equality – New York, NY
  • Alliance for Full Acceptance – North Charleston, SC
  • Campaign for Southern Equality – Southern Regional
  • Campaign for Southern Equality’s Southern Equality Fund – Southern Regional
  • Comfrey Films – Durham, NC
  • El Centro Hispano – Durham, NC
  • Diversity Richmond – Richmond, VA
  • The Embodiment Institute – Southern Regional
  • Equality Federation Institute – Southern Regional
  • Equality North Carolina Foundation – Durham, NC
  • Equality Virginia – Virginia
  • Freedom Center for Social Justice – Charlotte, NC
  • Funders for LGBTQ Issues Out in the South Initiative – Southern Regional
  • Health Brigade – Richmond, VA
  • The Knights & Orchids Society – Selma, AL
  • Lavender Lodge – Lynchburg, VA
  • LGBT Center of Raleigh – Raleigh, NC
  • LGBTQ Center of Durham – Durham, NC
  • Movement Voter Fund – National
  • National Center for Lesbian Rights – National
  • National LGBTQ Task Force – Southern Regional
  • Nationz Foundation – Richmond, VA
  • Orange County Rape Crisis Center QTBIPOC Survivor Advocates Institute – Chapel Hill, NC
  • OUTRight Youth of Catawba Valley – Hickory, NC
  • Pride Liberation Project – Fairfax, VA
  • Rainbow Collective for Change – Durham, NC
  • Side by Side – Richmond, VA
  • Siembra NC – Greensboro, NC
  • South Carolina United for Justice & Equality – Columbia, SC
  • Southern Vision Alliance – Durham, NC
  • TAKE Birmingham – Birmingham, AL
  • Time Out Youth – Charlotte, NC
  • Tranzmission – Asheville, NC
  • Virginia Anti-Violence Project – Richmond, VA
  • We Are Family – Charleston, SC
  • Western North Carolina Community Health Services – Asheville, NC
  • Youth OUTRight of Western North Carolina – Asheville, NC

To learn more, click here.

Missouri Foundation for Health (St. Louis, MO)

The Missouri Foundation for Health launched a new storytelling project titled “10 Years Later, Reflections from the Ferguson Uprising.” Each day, the foundation’s staff will share their personal experiences of the aftermath of Michael Brown Jr.’s death and how this pivotal moment in history transformed their lives and work.

To read the stories, click here.

Contact: 314.345.5500.

REACH Healthcare Foundation (Overland Park, KS)

The REACH Healthcare Foundation has recently granted a total of $605,000 to 14 organizations across its six-county region in Kansas and Missouri through the Building Connections to Coverage and Care Grants program. These funds are allocated under the Bridging the Coverage Divide initiative, aimed at linking healthcare consumers with culturally sensitive providers, health insurance, and various public benefits.

REACH has specifically targeted programs that work with BIPOC-led and serving organizations and those assisting immigrants, refugees, and rural communities. These grants are designed to address factors that contribute significantly to disparities in health outcomes—social determinants of health, systemic racism, language barriers, fear of deportation, discrimination, stigma, and chronic underfunding in rural and low-income areas—by supporting local organizations that help their communities access essential health resources that might otherwise be out of reach.

The following organizations will receive 12-month grants:

  • Altruism Media—to support maternal and doula services for pregnant women and their partners. ($40,000)
  • Budget and Financial Management Assistance—to provide connection to whole-person care, budgeting, and financial management for those receiving disability benefits with a mental health diagnosis. ($35,000)
  • Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas—to connect patients and their families to health insurance coverage and other social assistance programs. ($45,000)
  • Community Health Council of Wyandotte County—to provide outreach and enrollment in public benefits and connection to services through the Bridges to Health Project. ($45,000)
  • Compass Health—to fund a full-time Cass County, Missouri-focused Health Navigator ($40,000)
  • Cross-Lines Community Outreach—to provide access to eligible public benefits and health care resources for marginalized individuals to increase the likelihood of improved health and obtaining/maintaining permanent housing. ($40,000)
  • El Centro—to increase access to quality, affordable healthcare services and coverage through health navigation services for underserved Latino individuals and their families in Johnson County, Kansas. ($45,000)
  • HCC Network—to provide care coordination services, including public benefit enrollment, utilizing community health workers. ($45,000)
  • Jewish Vocational Service Bureau of Kansas City—to provide case management services for immigrant and refugee residents through the Social Work Adult and Family program. ($45,000)
  • KC CARE Health Center—to provide care coordination services through health navigators and community health workers. ($45,000)
  • Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund—to provide intensive case management to ensure that migrant/seasonal farmworkers and their families have access to health care and public benefits. ($45,000)
  • Samuel U. Rodger’s Health Center—to provide culturally appropriate outreach and application assistance to individuals applying for public benefits, including Medicaid, CHIP, KanCare, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. ($45,000)
  • Sisters in Christ—to connect police officers, school officials, hospitals, and community agencies in the Safe Zone Neighborhood Hub in Raytown to one trusted agency (Sisters in Christ) to connect individuals and families to mental health and wraparound services. ($45,000)
  • University Health Foundation—to increase access to health care and benefits for homeless youth and adults. ($45,000)

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San Diego Foundation (San Diego, CA)

San Diego Community Power, San Diego Foundation and Calpine Energy Solutions announced that they are granting more than $1.2 million toward local clean energy and green workforce development projects in San Diego County.

San Diego Foundation is administering the grants on behalf of Community Power and Calpine Energy Solutions, which provides back-office support to Community Power and other energy providers throughout California.

Community Clean Energy Grants were awarded to the following organizations:

  • Chula Vista Elementary School District—for its “STEAMing into Clean Energy with the Energy Station,” which will provide out-of-classroom experiences in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM), often located in the world of work, where students take on different career roles aligned with priority job sectors identified by San Diego Workforce Partnership. ($75,000)
  • GRID Alternatives San Diego—to complete 20 single-family clean energy projects in communities of concern within the next year. ($100,000)
  • Groundwork San Diego, Chollas Creek—for an energy education project that will enhance energy efficiency and air quality in homes and expand community literacy around the economic, environmental and health benefits of improvements for households and communities. ($94,450)
  • SBCS (formerly South Bay Community Services)—to provide low-income, minority and system-involved youth in San Diego with pathways to employment within the solar industry. ($100,000)
  • GoGreenish—to continue a student-led research initiative in partnership with the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy measuring outdoor air pollutants in underrepresented K-12 high schools in San Diego. ($25,000)
  • Suncoast Market Cooperative—to assist with opening South County’s first consumer-owned food cooperative featuring fresh, healthy, and locally-sourced food while supporting the local economy, providing education and advocating for environmentally sustainable practices. ($84,108)
  • La Mesa Park & Recreation Foundation—to host free community electric vehicle and solar power education and install electric vehicle charging stations at a city park. ($100,000)
  • Ocean Discovery Institute—to support over 450 seventh graders from City Heights to engage in hands-on learning experiences centered around climate change and solutions to climate change. ($50,000)
  • South Sudanese Community Center—to expand a sustainable energy education and outreach program focused on City Heights. ($84,590)
  • La Maestra Foundation, Inc.—to support an after-school and summer enrichment program that provides at-risk, low-income youth ages six to 18 with youth leadership and life skills development activities. ($50,000)
  • Climate Action Campaign—to develop the Refugee and Immigration Cultural Hub (RICH) in City Heights. The project will be built on a 2.2-acre site owned by the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA), which aims to establish a healthy, resilient and inclusive development for immigrant and refugee communities and friends. ($100,000)
  • Hammond Climate Solutions Foundation—to build a 16.4kW solar with 35kWh storage project for the National City-based nonprofit Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center and a series of clean energy workshops. ($100,000)
  • MAAC Project—to support its Electric Vehicle (EV) Access program, which reduces carbon emissions and increases renewable energy usage in low-income and pollution-burdened communities through an increase in the adoption of electric vehicles. ($45,000)
  • San Diego 350—to create and pilot a high school program that engages teachers and students in communities of concern in San Diego County’s South Bay on clean energy and its importance to environmental health. ($100,000)
  • I Am Green Inc.—for its Weatherization & Energy Equity (W.E.E.) program that provides education and training tailored to address the unique challenges faced by individuals in communities heavily affected by poverty, unemployment, incarceration and environmental injustice. ($100,000)
  • In Good Company—to launch a program that will increase the impact of two existing complementary climate justice educational programs, increase energy literacy in San Diego through an energy-specific learning module and inspire program participants to implement and advocate for clean energy in their communities. ($50,000)

To learn more, click here.

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