The following is a full list of Justice Outside’s 2019 grantees:
- Acta Non Verba
- Amah Mutsun Land Trust
- Bay Area Wilderness Training
- Brothers On The Rise
- Brown Girl Surf
- California Indian Museum
- Camp Phoenix
- Canopy
- Center for Land Based Learning
- Environmental Traveling Companions
- Environmental Volunteers
- FoodWhat?!
- GirlVentures
- Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
- Ground Work Richmond
- Growing Up Wild
- Insight Garden Program
- Literacy for Environmental Justice
- Movimiento
- One Cool Earth
- Our Wilderness Now
- Peacemakers, Inc.
- Phat Beets Produce
- Pie Ranch
- Project Avary
- The Latina Center
- Tolowa Dunes Stewards
- Tuolumne River Trust
- Urban Sprouts
- Warrior Institute
- Watsonville Wetlands Watch
- Watershed Lands Grant Program
- Waterside Workshops
- YES Nature to Neighborhoods
Acta Non Verba $20,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award for their Urban Youth Farm Project that connects youth of color from East Oakland to a nature-based farm program. Youth learn about healthy eating and sustainable farming, and are supported in building savings for their educational future.
Amah Mutsun Land Trust $20,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support Native American youth ages 12-17 to participate in summer camp programming focused on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and conservation along the California coast.
Bay Area Wilderness Training $17,500 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award for their programs that provide access to nature for underserved youth from all nine Bay Area counties, and develop outdoor educators through training, access to gear, and transportation.
Brothers on the Rise $15,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award for their programs which provide access to nature to low-income urban youth of color, integrating outdoor-based life skills, leadership development, and environmental career opportunities.
Brown Girl Surf $20,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support programs that integrate awareness of marine and coastal ecology through hands-on explorations and projects, while surfing. Brown Girl Surf works to build a more diverse, environmentally reverent, and joyful women’s, girl’s, and gender expansive surf culture by increasing access to surfing, cultivating community, amplifying the voices of surfers of color, and taking care of the earth.
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center $22,500 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support their work in empowering youth to reclaim California Indian environmental stewardship of oak woodlands through culturally relevant caretaking.
Camp Phoenix $15,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support programs that provide low-income, middle school students with outdoor-based adventure opportunities, educational enrichment, and social-emotional learning.
Canopy $20,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support programming in tree planting and stewardship, environmental education, and advocacy, for underrepresented youth of color who would otherwise not have access to environmental learning, outdoor experiences, and job training opportunities.
Center for Land-Based Learning $22,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award for their program inspiring and motivating youth to promote a healthy interplay between agriculture, nature, and society through their actions and as leaders in their communities.
Environmental Traveling Companions, $20,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award for their programs dedicated to opening access to the great outdoors to under-resourced youth and people with disabilities of all ages in ways that empower participants as leaders and stewards.
Environmental Volunteers $20,000 awarded in 2019, one year award to support the Transportation Fund which provides bus and transportation subsidies to help low-income students access science and environmental field trips throughout the Bay Area.
FoodWhat?! $15,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support their programs that serve low-income youth across Santa Cruz County by offering training in leadership skills, sustainable agriculture, cooking and nutrition, entrepreneurship, and community service.
GirlVentures $20,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award for their programs offering transformative experiential environmental education and leadership programs, empowering adolescent girls to develop and express their strengths.
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center $22,500 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award for their work to connect immigrant youth facing social-emotional barriers or poverty to outdoor opportunities incorporating dual-language literacy, nature programming, environmental stewardship, with an emphasis on wellbeing.
Ground Work Richmond $15,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award for programs expanding and revitalizing the City of Richmond’s neglected parks and urban forest canopy. Throughout this process, participants are taught basic biology, ecology, hydrology, and public health benefits provided by a healthy urban forest and outdoor activity.
Growing Up Wild $22,500 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support their bilingual nature adventure program that helps economically disadvantaged youth and families in the Watsonville area develop a connection to nature, life skills, and physical fitness.
Insight Garden Program $20,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support their programs ensuring that youth and young adults in California prisons can engage with and learn from the natural world, and return home from prison as health equity leaders, environmental stewards, urban organic gardeners, greening community educators, and advocates for environmental justice and food sovereignty.
Literacy for Environmental Justice $22,500 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support their programs that serve underrepresented youth from the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, engaging teen interns, and recruiting hundreds of youth to participate in diverse nature-based projects and environmental advocacy.
Movimiento $22,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support their work developing young people’s leadership and life skills via outdoor adventure, counseling and therapy, cultural exchange, service-learning, farming, and indigenous youth events. Movimiento’s focus is to synthesize outdoor-based learning experiences with mental health.
One Cool Earth $20,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support their work engaging students in environmental stewardship through school garden programs, teaching healthy habits through growing food.
Our Wilderness Now $22,500 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support their community-based programming that empowers youth through nature connection, many of whom are developing their first sensitivity to stewardship of the environment.
Peacemakers, Inc. $22,500 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award for their work to help students and their families within the Richmond Bay Area to succeed educationally, socially, and emotionally through mentorship and restorative outdoor experiences that focus on the calming effects of nature.
Phat Beets Produce $15,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant supporting their work to build healthy, nature-connected, empowered, more employable youth from among at-risk constituencies in Oakland through a sustainable urban agriculture activities framework.
Pie Ranch $17,500 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant supporting their work to offer young people a new view of their world by getting them outdoors for hands-on learning and leadership experiences in environmental stewardship, sustainable gardening and farming, culinary arts and nutrition education, community-building, and food justice.
Project Avary (Alternative Ventures for At-Risk Youth) $20,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support early intervention and long-term prevention programming for children of incarcerated parents (CIP). Project Avary relies on outdoor education and recreation as a key strategy in improving the lives of CIP’s and breaking their social isolation.
The Latina Center $20,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support their programs promoting health of Latina youth and families focusing on physical activities in the outdoors in age appropriate and family-oriented ways for the impact of greater environmental stewardship, leadership development, and increased employment opportunities.
Tolowa Dunes Stewards $17,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support their environmental education, protection and stewardship works, focused on the unique coast, dunes, and wetlands of the Lake Earl Wildlife Area and Tolowa Dunes State Park, including the sacred cultural sites of the indigenous first people of these lands, the Tolowa Dee-ni’.
Tuolumne River Trust $15,000 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support their work with underrepresented youth in riverside communities within Stanislaus County. Funding will be used to enhance culturally relevant programming that eliminates barriers to recreation and promotes outdoor activities as opportunities for leadership, improved health, and civic engagement.
Urban Sprouts $20,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to leverage school gardens as interactive classrooms, inclusive spaces, sources for fresh and nutritious food, and as incubators for a 21st-century workforce that understands the importance of environmental stewardship and social justice.
Warrior Institute $22,500 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award for their programs which provide holistic, innovative solutions to organize and build indigenous leadership in the northern California region by forging new generations of young leaders with balanced (ki:maw) minds, bodies, and spirits who are empowered to create health, economic equality, and environmental justice for the next seven generations and beyond through outdoor experiences and environmental education.
Watsonville Wetlands Watch $17,500 awarded in 2019, first installment of a grant award to support their work protecting, restoring, and fostering an appreciation for the wetlands of the Pájaro Valley. One of WWW’s major goals is to cultivate wetland stewardship among underrepresented youth by building their personal connection with the wetlands through hands-on experiences in the outdoors and increasing their understanding of the important ecological functions that the wetlands serve.
Watershed Lands Grant Program is a three-year collaborative between youth-serving organizations and land trusts with support from Justice Outside, California Council of Land Trusts, PG&E, and the Stewardship Council.
The program objectives include increasing the visibility of the PG&E watershed lands as a resource for youth-serving organizations, increasing community engagement with PG&E for the protection of watershed lands, and supporting land trusts to strengthen and/or make new partnerships with youth-serving organizations for the benefit of both.
The program partners and their grant awards are listed below:
California Council of Land Trusts $15,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award for the creation of a case study that will capture and leverage lessons learned to help land trusts and other agencies better understand what they can do to increase culturally relevant engagement of youth and communities.
Ethos Youth Center and Sierra Foothill Conservancy $30,000 awarded to each in 2019, second installment of grant awards for the Nature Force Youth Ambassador Program, a joint project supporting underserved young people in developing leadership skills and becoming future stewards of the land through a meaningful connection to the outdoors and an increased awareness of the link between health and recreation.
Feather River Land Trust and Sierra Institute for Community and Environment $30,000 awarded to each in 2019, second installment of grant awards for the South Lassen Watersheds/Lake Almanor Stewardship Lands Youth Engagement Project, a joint project intended to engage youth through hands-on natural resource stewardship and citizen science, increase the capacity of the Feather River Land Trust to conserve land and water in the region, and increase Sierra Institute for Community and Environment’s youth involvement and educational programming through its Plumas Conservation, Restoration, Education in Watersheds (P-CREW) program.
Waterside Workshops $15,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to provide job training, outdoor recreation, and holistic wraparound support for impacted youth to promote youth development, encourage sustainable and healthy lifestyles, and cultivate positive change in the Bay Area community.
YES Nature to Neighborhoods $20,000 awarded in 2019, second installment of a grant award to support their programs which provide outdoor camp and community experiences for teens to develop leadership and life skills that promote successful transition to adulthood, and to expose youth to careers in the outdoors.