Grantees are chosen for their unique and provocative approach for re-imagining the urban landscape as well as their potential to transform and improve public life. Though most of our grants are given to projects within our local San Francisco Bay Area, we are interested in funding inspiring endeavors both nationally and internationally.
Fellowships are granted to individuals creating inspiring work in the civic realm. Fellows include writers, architects, scholars, artists, designers, and film makers.
2021
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC)
San Francisco Estuary Institute
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
The Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD)
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
2020
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
Marin County Bicycle Coalition
The Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD)
2019
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Marin County Bicycle Coalition
Point Blue Conservation Science
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
San Francisco Estuary Institute
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
San Francisco Urban Film Festival
Turtle Island Restoration Network
2018
California Academy of Sciences
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Marin County Bicycle Coalition
Point Blue Conservation Science
San Francisco Estuary Institute
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
San Francisco Urban Film Festival
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
2017
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
Literacy for Environmental Justice
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
San Francisco Estuary Institute
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
San Francisco Urban Film Festival
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
2016
California Academy of Sciences
Cities Connecting Children & Nature: San Francisco
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
San Francisco Estuary Institute
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
2015
California Academy of Sciences
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
2014
Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
San Francisco Estuary Institute
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
2013
Alliance for Biking and Walking
Friends of Potrero Nursery School
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
2012
Center for Creative Land Recycling
Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
San Francisco Children in Nature Forum
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
2011
Alliance for Biking and Walking
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
Mission Community Market – Mercado Plaza
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
San Francisco Nature Education
Story of Stuff Project/Annie Leonard
Suzanne Cockrell, California College of the Arts Engage Class
2010
Center for Creative Land Recycling
Friends of Potrero Nursery School
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
2009
Center For Agroecology, UC Santa Cruz
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
Ted Purves and Suzanne Cockrell
2008
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
2007
California Academy of Sciences
Center For Agroecology, UC Santa Cruz
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
Fellows
2011 Fellow
Amber Hasselbring is a San Francisco artist focused on exploring ecological relationships.
2010 Fellow
Amy Balkin's cross-disciplinary artwork initiates critical conversations about the modern world.
2009 Fellow
Chris Carlsson is writer, San Francisco historian, bicyclist, tour guide, blogger, photographer, book and magazine editor.
2010 Fellow
Darrin Nordahl is speaker and writer on issues of food and city design.
2011 Fellow
David Gissen is a historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism.
2013 Fellow
Dr. Timothy Beatley is a writer, sustainable city researcher and Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning.
2007 Fellow
Eric Sanderson, an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, built Manahatta, a digital model of primeval Manhattan.
2010 Fellow
Fritz Haeg is a artist, designer, architect whose work has included gardens, educational environments, documentary videos, publications, websites and buildings.
2009 Fellow
Gray Brechin is an historical geographer and author whose interests are the state of California, the environmental impact of cities, and the invisible landscape of New Deal public works.
2009 Fellow
Iain Boal is a social historian of science and technics and one of the founders of the Retort collective, an association of radical writers, teachers, artists, and activists.
2011 Fellow
Jeff Mapes is the author of Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities (Oregon State University Press, 2009).
2012 Fellow
Jennifer Wolch is a scholar of urban analysis and planning and Dean of UC Berkley College of Environmental Design.
2009 Fellows
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are the authors of The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World.
2013 Fellow
Kevin Conger is a landscape architect who has developed many projects to benefit the Bay Area’s design community.
2009 Fellow
Laura Lawson is an acclaimed author, landscape architect and avid gardener and the Chair for the Landscape Architecture Department at Rutgers University.
2012 Fellows
Megan and Rick Prelinger are the co-founders of The Prelinger Library, a private research library in San Francisco.
2012 Fellow
Michael Swaine is an artist who has operated the Free Mending Library in San Francisco's Tenderloin since 2001.
2011 Fellow
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist, whose work examines the intersections nature, technology and the city.
2009 Felllow
Novella Carpenter is an urban farmer, author, and biofuel champion.
2008 Fellow
Rebecca Solnit is a writer and activist who has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art.
2008 Fellow
Richard A. Walker is professor of geography and chair of the California Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
2011 Felllow
Rosten Woo is an artist, designer, and writer whose work that helps people understand complex systems and participate in group decision-making.
2008 Fellow
Filmmaker, Sam Green points his camera at a broad range of subjects - from a legendary rainbow-wig sign holder, to the radical protest group “Weather Underground”.
2011 Fellow
Sandor Katz is the author of The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements.
Grantees
2015 - $8,000 After Infrastructure
After Infrastructure, by Adi Shamir, is an ongoing project that researches the history of sewer and storm-water managements through case studies from ancient Rome’s public works to Germany’s reclamation of the Ruhr Valley brownfields.
2007 - $2,500 General Support
Alemany Farm is a volunteer run 4.5 acre organic farm ecosystem in southeast San Francisco.
Alliance for Biking and Walking
2013 – $8,000 Open Streets
2011 – $5,000 General Support
The Alliance for Biking & Walking creates, strengthens, and unites state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations.
2021 - $20,000 Tree Equity
2017 – $15,000 The Adaptive Mind Project
2015 - $10,000 General Support
The Bay Area Open Space Council is made up of 65 member organizations that work collaboratively to connect people to land, and steward parks, trails, working lands and other open spaces.
2016 - $10,000 Golden State Waters Action Summit
2015 - $10,000 EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park
bay.org’s mission is to change the relationship that people have with the Bay by protecting, restoring and inspiring conservation through its five unique divisions.
2017 - $15,000 Green Benefit Districts
California Academy of Sciences
2018 - $10,000 Biodiversity Toolkit for Cities
2016 - $10,000 Citizen Science Program
2015 - $10,000 Citizen Science Program
2007 - $5,000 Capital Campaign, Green Roof
The California Academy of Sciences is a multifaceted scientific institution committed to leading-edge research, to educational outreach, and to finding new and innovative ways to engage and inspire the public.
2021 - $10,000 Engaging with California Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI)
2020 – $15,000 Toolkit for Temporary Road Closures/ Biking During COVID-19 Pandemic
2019 – $15,000 General Support
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2019 - $15,000 Tree Inventory Project in East Palo Alto
Center For Agroecology, UC Santa Cruz
2009 – $10,000 Publication Feasibility Study
2007 – $10,000 General Support
The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems.
Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art
2014 - $8,000 Art + Environment Conference
The Center for Art + Environment (CA+E) at the Nevada Museum of Art supports the practice, study, and awareness of creative interactions between people and their environments.
Center for Creative Land Recycling
2012 – $5,000 San Francisco Blue Greenway Project
2010 – $5,000 San Francisco Blue Greenway Project
The Center for Creative Land Recycling encourages environmentally conscious and socially responsible development through the facilitation of land recycling.
Cities Connecting Children & Nature: San Francisco
2016 - $10,000 General Support
Children Connecting Children & Nature: San Francisco envisions a city whose children have daily experiences in local nature, who feel a sense of belonging to the natural world, who feel at home in nature, whose school learning is meaningfully contextualized in the city’s outdoors, and who develop lifelong relationships to nature for health, recreation, and conservation benefits.
2017 – $15,000 EcoBlocks Project
2015 - $8,000 International Urban Parks Conference
City Parks Alliance is the only national membership organization devoted to urban parks, and unites leaders, organizations and agencies committed to the sustainability, creation and revitalization of green spaces in urban communities.
2007 - $2,500 General Support
City Slicker Farms was founded in 2001 to provide an immediate solution to West Oakland’s lack of real choice for fresh, affordable, healthy food.
2008 - $10,000 General Support
During the summer of 2008, a quarter-acre an edible, ornamental landscape was created in front of San Francisco’s City Hall.
2021 - $18,000 General Support
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2018 - $15.000 Resilience Programming
2017 - $15,000 General Support
2017 - $15,000 General Support
2015 - $15,000 Resilience Program
Founded in 2007, Climate One is a branch of The Commonwealth Club that focuses on climate-related programming and discussions that offer the broad public access to prominent business people, politicians and scientists.
2021 - $4,000 General Support
2020 - $4,000 General Support
2019 - $3,000 General Support
2019 - $3,000 General Support
2018 - $3,000 General Support
2017 - $3,000 General Support
2016 - $3,000 General Support
2015 - $3,000 General Support
The Climate Ride is a 340 mile bike ride- along different routes in America- that encourages riders to raise money and awareness for climate related organizations and causes.
2020 - $20,000 Climate Equity Work
2014 - $10,000 Freeway-Free San Francisco Report and Case Study
Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities and healthier living conditions.
2012 - $5,000 20th Aniversary Celebration
Critical Mass started in September 1992 in San Francisco as a way to bring cyclists together in a festive re-claiming of public space.
2021- $10,000 General Support
2011 - $3,000 General Support
A renovated Playground in San Francisco Mission district's Dolores Park.
2017 – $10,000 Silt, Sand & Slurry: Sedimentary Infrastructure and the Geography of Dredge” Book Publication Project
2017 - $10,000 Nature in the City
2015 - $10,000 Brower Youth Awards
The Earth Island Institute founded the Brower Youth Awards and New Leaders Initiative in 2000, to honor and mentor young environmental leaders and to use their stories to encourage other young people to pursue environmental and social justice projects.
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2017 - $10,000 Biodiversity Rights Ordinance
2009 - $5,000 General Support
The film, Edible City, follows the stories of individuals who are fighting for sustainability and social justice by doing something revolutionary: growing a local food system.
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
2014 – $8,000 Corps for Education Outside Program
2011 – $5,000 Conference Support
2009 – $12,000 Matching Grant for Gardening Educators
2008 – $5,000 Conference Support
2007 – $10,000 General Support
The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance is a coalition of Bay Area civic organizations whose work supports schoolyard transformations from asphalt yards into ecologically rich green spaces for learning and play.
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
2019 - $10,000 Coastal Resiliency
2018 - $20,000 Regional Strategy
2016 - $9,000 General Support
The Environmental Action Committee of West Marin is a tenacious, highly effective grassroots advocacy organization founded in 1971 that is dedicated to the protection and appreciation of West Marin’s wild lands, wildlife, wilderness, watersheds, and rural character.
2021 - $15,000 Urban Fellows Program
2019 - $10,000 Coastal Resiliency Collaboration
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2018 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $5,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Center for Art and Inquiry
2014 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2013 - $10,000 Jane Wolf, Bay Lexicon
2013 - $1,000 Living Innovation Zone
2011 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
The Exploratorium is a San Francisco museum of science, art, and human perception that believes that curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery and learning.
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
2016 - $20,000 Climate Smart Conservation Project
2015 - $20,000 Climate Smart Conservation Project
The Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association supports and assists the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in outreach, education and stewardship.
2010 - $3,000 General Support
The Free Farm Stand, an all-volunteer run project facilitates sharing the wealth of San Francisco urban farms and gardens.
Friends of Potrero Nursery School
2013 – $8,000 Urban Garden
2010 – $5,000 Capital Campaign
The Friends of Potrero Hill Nursery School is a much-loved preschool that has served San Francisco families for over 12 years.
2011 - $7,500 General Support
Friends of The Gateway (FOG) is a community of artists and innovators who champion the creation of a unique public space at the foot of the new Bay Bridge.
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2007 - $10,000 General Support
Friends of the Urban Forest promotes a larger, healthier urban forest as part of San Francisco’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy.
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
2020 - $10,000 FogHouse Project
2017 - $15,000 Seed Journey
2010 - $5,000 Free Soil: Farming 2050 Publication
2007 - $10,000 Victory Garden Project
Founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers, is an international group of art practitioners with common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems.
2009 – $10,000 Green House Capital Campaign
2008 – $10,000 General Support
2007 – $10,000 General Support
Garden for the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden and offers environmental education programs.
2015 - $15,000 Market Street Prototyping Festival Data Analysis
Gehl Studio is an international architecture firm focused on creating cities for people. Through extensive research and analysis of current city conditions, Gehl creates built environments that benefit residents and their desired quality of life.
2020 - $10,000 General Support
2009 - $5,000 General Support
Graze the Roof is a community-produced vegetable garden on the rooftop of Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco's Tenderloin.
2007 - $10,000 General Support
The Greenbelt Alliance works to help cities and counties adopt policies to prepare for future growth while stopping wasteful sprawl development.
2012 - $5,000 Seed Circus
Using radio, blogs, film, and live events, the Greenhorns build agrarian culture by connecting young farmers with information, land, and each other.
2020 - $20,000 Environmental Equity Program
2010 - $2,000 General Support
Greywater Action is a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure.
2010 - $2,000 Educational Outreach
Growing Power, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides hands-on training, outreach and technical assistance to develop a community based food system.
2009 - $8,000 General Support
San Jose Avenue, previously a one-way northbound street, was closed at its intersection with Guerrero Street to form a community gathering and green space.
2015 – $15,000 Climate Change Summit
2012 – $10,000 Architecture/Environment Resident, Mathilde Cassani
2011 – $10,000 Architecture/Environment Resident, Liam Young
The Headlands Center for the Arts provides intensive residency experiences to an international community of artists working across artistic disciplines.
2017 - $8,000 Film project raising awareness of conserved land to adapt to climate change
2014 - $10,000 Crowdfunding Workshop
ioby is a crowd-resourcing digital platform that supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects.
2021 - $15,000 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Work
2021 - $10,000 Founders’ Pot
2020 - $15,000 Online Programming During COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 - $25,000 Founders’ Pot
2019 - $25,000 General Support
2018 - $5,000 Founders’ Pot for General Operating Support
2017 - $5,000 Founders' Pot for General Operating Support
2017 - $5,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
2015 - $5,000 General Support
2013 - $10,000 Sustainability Knowledge Network
2011 - $5,000 General Support
Since 1984, Island Press has been a trusted publisher of environmental information.
2016 - $10,000 Project Localize
The Lexicon of Sustainability operates with the express purpose of creating and sharing intelligently designed messaging tools and activism toolkits needed by the movement’s non-profit organizations, educators and thought leaders to advance a sustainable future for everyone.
2010 - $10,000 General Support
Linden Living Alley is a neighborhood initiative which transformed a section of Linden Street in Hayes Valley into San Francisco’s first modern ‘shared space’ street.
Literacy for Environmental Justice
2021 - $15,000 General Support
2019 - $10,000 Interpretative Signage
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2018 - $10,000 Nursery Expansion
2017 - $10,000 Justice Installations and Educational Outreach Materials at Candlestick Point Recreation Area
2017 - $10,000 Nursery Expansion and Capacity Building
2016 - $10,000 Candlestick Point State Recreation Area Rehabilitation
2015 - $10,000 Candlestick Point State Recreation Area Rehabilitation
Established in 1998 by a coalition of youth, educators and community leaders, Literacy for Environmental Justice strives to promote community development in Southeast San Francisco through eco-literacy, environmental stewardship and workforce development opportunities to empower and support locals in securing a healthier future.
2010 - $2,500 Zoning Code Advocacy Work
Little City Gardens is an experiment in the economic viability of small-scale urban market-gardening.
2013 - $10,000 Play Streets for All
2012 - $5,000 Permanent Sunday Streets Route in the Mission
2011 - $5,000 Permanent Sunday Streets Route in the Mission
Livable City works to create a city where walking, bicycling, and transit are the best choices for most trips, and where public spaces are beautiful, well designed and maintained.
Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center
2015 - $10,000 Market Street Prototyping Festival
2012 - $5,000 Tenderloin National Forest
The Luggage Store Gallery promotes local Bay Area artists and provides low-income Central Market and Tenderloin residents opportunities to participate in the neighborhood’s cultural life.
2016 - $10,000 Deepwater Ecological Assessment
MARE seeks to increase literacy in ocean sciences through formal and informal education initiatives.
2017 - $2017 Carbon Farm Plan
2019 - $20,000 Carbon Cycle Institute
2018 - $20,000 Point Reyes Carbon Farming
2017 - $20,000 Point Reyes National Seashore Carbon Farm Plan
Marin County Bicycle Coalition
2020 - $10,000 Funding for More Emergency Bike Lanes During COVID- 19 Pandemic
2019 – $15,000 General Support
2018 – $20,000 The Alto Tunnel Project
Mission Community Market – Mercado Plaza
2011 - $10,000 Mercado Plaza
Mission Community Market and Rebar have formed a partnership to create a new car-free plaza and public space on Bartlett Street in the Mission.
2014 - $5,000 Interpretive Signage
Mission Creek Conservancy (MCC) preserves and enhances the tidal community at Mission Creek, a 24 acre area of land and tidal water within historic Mission Bay.
2021 - $15,000 Climate Resilience Work With Youth
Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC)
2021 - $15,000 General Support
2021 - $15,000 Climate Resilience Work
2017 - $5,000 Backyard Natives Nursery Program
2014 - $5,000 General Support grant
2011 - $5,000 Green Hairstreak Butterfly project
2010 - $5,000 Green Hairstreak Butterfly project
Nature in the City leads restoration and stewardship efforts of San Francisco’s natural heritage.
2007 - $5,000 General Support
The Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC) advocates for a superior, equitable and sustainable park and recreation system.
2010 - $5,000 Permaculture Training Programs
The Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps is a network of young Haitian leaders who serve Haiti’s trauma relief and food security needs.
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
2016 - $10,000 General Support
2009 - $10,000 General Support
2007 - $5,000 General Support
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center is an education center and organic farm on 80-acres in Sonoma County working to create ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable communities.
2018 - $10,000 Grant for Capacity Building
2017 - $10,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
2015 - $7,500 General Support
2014 - $10,000 General Support
Outdoors Empowered Network grew out of the Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) program, and works with affiliate programs to provide the BAWT model in three additional urban metro areas — Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago.
2008 - $10,000 P.F. 1 at P.S.1
Designed by WORK Architecture Company, P.F.1 (Public Farm One) was an urban farm concept installed in the P.S.1 courtyard in 2008.
2014 - $5,000 Postproduction
Pelican Dreams is a feature documentary about wildness: How close can we get to a wild creature without taming or harming it? Why do we need wildness in our lives, and how can we protect it?
2019 - $12,000 Biking Toolkit for Scoring Cities
2007 - $2,500 General Support
The People’s Grocery mission is to improve the health and economy of West Oakland through the local food system.
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2018 - $15,000 Climate Beneficial Farming at Año Nuevo
2016 - $10,000 General Support
2015 - $10,000 General Support
2010 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2009 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2008 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2007 - $15,000 General Support
Pie Ranch was established in 2005 with the vision to become a model center of sustainable farming and food system education.
2010 – $5,000 Naples Green, Pavement to Parks Project
2007 – $5,000 General Support
Plant SF exists to promote permeable landscaping as sustainable urban infrastructural practice and beautification.
Point Blue Conservation Science
2019 - $15,000 Coastal Resiliency
2018 - $15,000 Rangeland Watershed Initiative
2018 – $5,000 General Support
2017 - $5,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
The Prelinger Library is an urban oasis of research, community, art and collaboration in San Francisco.
2011 - $3,000 General Support
Produce to the People aims to localize the San Francisco food system by utilizing and celebrating the unused resources in San Francisco, including fruit trees, vacant lots, and people power.
2007 - $5,000 General Support
Public Architecture’s design campaigns are multidisciplinary initiatives that utilize design and advocacy to address issues of broad social relevance.
2013 – $5,000 Adaptive Metropolis Symposium
2009 – $10,000 Hayes Valley Farm
Rebar contributed to the foundation of Hayes Valley Farm, a temporary Urban Permaculture demonstration site in San Francisco.
2016 - $15,000 General Support
The Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge (Bay Area Challenge) is an exciting opportunity in which international, multidisciplinary experts will unite with government agencies, elected officials, community leaders, philanthropists, and other Bay Area stakeholders to create inspired and practical solutions to the challenges posed by sea level rise.
2016 - $15,000 General Support
2015 - $15,000 General Support
The Romberg Tiburon Center is an off-campus research and teaching center operated by San Francisco State University located north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.
2014 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, to Be Announced in the Fall
2013 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Pablo Helguera
2012 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Radhika Subramaniam
2011 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Geoff Manaugh
Founded in 1871 the San Francisco Art Insitute (SFAI) is one of the nations oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art.
2019 - $15,000 Coastal Resiliency
2018 - $15,000 for Sediment removal prevention
2014 - $10,000 SFB4
2013 - $15,000 SFB4
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places across the globe.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2017 – $10,000 Transportation Equity Network
2013 – $5,000 “Kit of Parts” Manual
2012 – $25,000 2nd Street Project
2011 – $10,000 Family Biking Guide and Programs
2010 – $10,000 Connecting the City
2009 – $5,000 Great Streets Program
Through day-to-day advocacy, education, and partnerships with government and community agencies, the SFBC is dedicated to creating safer streets and more livable communities for all San Franciscans.
San Francisco Botanical Garden
2007 - $5,000 Center for Sustainable Gardening
Located in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the Botanical Garden inspires visitors with an extraordinary diversity of plants from Mediterranean climates around the world.
San Francisco Children in Nature Forum
2012 - $5,500 General Support
The San Francisco Children in Nature Forum brings together educators, recreation and parks staff, health care and urban planning professionals to ensure that all of San Francisco's children have access to quality outdoor experiences.
San Francisco Estuary Institute
2021 – $15,000 Urban Nature Lab Website
2019 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units Project (with SPUR)
2018 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $10,000 Biodiversity Integration into the SPUR Regional Plan
2017 – $10,000 Catalyzing Urban Biodiversity Book Project by Robin Grossinger
2017 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units Project (with SPUR)
2017 – $10,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2016 – $15,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2014 – $10,000 Center for Resilient Landscapes
San Francisco Estuary Institute helps to define environmental problems, advance public debate about them through sound science, and support consensus-based solutions that improve environmental planning, management, and policy development.
San Francisco Nature Education
2011 - $5,000 General Support
San Francisco Nature Education is now in its eleventh year of providing meaningful environmental education to students from underserved schools.
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
2021 – $15,000 Transit Priority Program
2019 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units Project
2018 – $20,000 Regional Plan
2017 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units project (with SFEI)
2017 – $10,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2016 – $15,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2014 – $15,000 Fossil Fuel Reduction Report
2014 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2013 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2012 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2010 – $8,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2007 – $5,000 General Support
Through research, education and advocacy, SPUR promotes good planning and good government in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past five decades.
San Francisco Urban Film Festival
2019 – $5,000 General Support
2018 – $5,000 General Operating Support
2017 – $5,000 Climate Change Programming
2018 – $34,000 Outdoor Classroom
2016 – $33,000 Outdoor Classroom
2015 – $5,000 Outdoor Classroom
2014 – $7,500 Outdoor Classroom
2013 – $10,000 Outdoor Classroom
2009 – $10,000 Biodynamic Garden Program
2008 – $6,000 Biodynamic Garden Program
2007 – $10,000 High School Capital Campaign
San Francisco Waldorf School was founded in 1979 as an independent school within the Waldorf tradition whose mission is to educate students using an approach that fosters independent thought and a sense of personal responsibility.
2017 – $10,000 Community-Based Habitat Restoration Program
2020 - $15,000 General Support
2017 - $10,000 General Support
2016 - $10,000 General Support
Seed Journey moves people, ideas and seeds upon an 1895, Colin Archer rescue sailboat from Oslo to Istanbul.
2016 - $5,000 General Support
The Seep City Water Log is an effort by Joel Pomerantz to connect local explorers of all ages and qualifications with the waterscapes of San Francisco, past and present.
2014 - $10,000 Biodiversity Program
2013 - $10,000 Biodiversity Program
Creates programs, plans and strategies for the management and stewardship of San Francisco wildlands, biodiversity and public biodiversity education.
2014 - $5,000 General Support
The Children in Nature Map is tailored to families who want to find places to play in San Francisco’s nature.
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $5,000 General Support
2017 – $5,000 General Support
2016 – $5,000 General Support
2013 – $5,000 General Support
2012 – $5,000 General Support
2010 – $5,000 Ecology Emerges Project Documentation
Shaping San Francisco is a living archive of San Francisco providing people with access to its lost history.
2011 – $10,000 Slide Outside Project
2007 – $10,000 General Support
Slide Ranch has provided experiential education with environmental and sustainable agriculture curricula since 1970.
2019 - $10,000 Wetlands Restoration
2015 - $10,000 General Support
2008 - $10,000 Vapor Exhibition
Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, Southern Exposure has been presenting a diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs for over 34 years.
Story of Stuff Project/Annie Leonard
2011 - $3,000 General Support
The Story of Stuff is a 20 minute animation on the way we make, use and throw away consumer goods.
2021 - $12,000 General Support
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $8,000 General Support
2017 – $8,000 General Support
2017 – $8,000 General Support
2016 – $8,000 General Support
2011 – $8,000 General Support
Streetsblog is a non-profit daily news source, online community and political mobilizer for the Bay Area’s Livable Streets movement.
2014 - $5,000 Living Seed-Bank Project
Restoring native habitat on Mt Sutro while proving environmental education.
Suzanne Cockrell, California College of the Arts Engage Class
2011 - $1,125 Garden at Emerson Elemenary School, Oakland
The orchard and pollinator garden at Emerson K-5 Public Elementary School in Oakland were created as part of an undergraduate Community Arts/Diversity Studies course at California College of the Arts.
Ted Purves and Suzanne Cockrell
2009 - $1,750 The Meadow Network Newspaper
The Meadow Network project compiles interviews with city residents about rural traditions and how they manifest in cities.
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
2013 - $8,000 Tenderloin Vertical Garden
2011 - $3,000 General Support
San Francisco’s Bike Kitchen teaches people of all ages and backgrounds how to repair bicycles.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
2008 - $5,000 Petroscape Program
The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface.
2014 - $5,000 Thriving Cities
2013 - $5,000 Beyond the High Line
2010 - $1,000 General Support
An extraordinary public park transforming a piece of New York's industrial past.
The Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD)
2021 - $15,000 - Climate Justice Project
2020 - $10,000 Safe Passage Program
2014 - $5,000 General Support
2013 - $3,000 Habitat Research
Tigers on Market Street investigates and tells the story of the Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus), with ramifications for urban planners worldwide.
2019 – $15,000 General Support
2016 – $10,000 General Support
2015 – $10,000 General Support
For nearly eighteen years TransForm has helped envision and advocate for affordable, walkable neighborhoods with a wide variety of transportation choices to connect residents to health care, schools, shopping and work.
2011- $5,000 General Support
Transportation Alternatives’ mission is to reclaim New York City's streets from the automobile, and to advocate for bicycling, walking and public transit as the best transportation alternatives.
2021 - $20,000 India Basin
2018 - $20,000 India Basin Waterfront Park
2017 - $20,000 Parks for People project: India Basin, San Francisco
2017 - $20,000 Innes Avenue project
2016 - $20,000 Innes Avenue project
2015 - $20,000 Innes Avenue project
The Trust for Public Land is dedicated to helping local communities with their conservation needs by raising funds, conducting research, designing and renovating parks, playgrounds, trails and gardens, as well as acquiring and protecting land.
Turtle Island Restoration Network
2019 - $10,000 Redwoods Project
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
2021 – $15,000 Nexus Program
2018 – $10,000 Climate Equity Leaders Program
2017 – $10,000 General Support
2016 – $10,000 General Support
2015 – $10,000 General Support
The Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) is a peer-to-peer network of local government professionals from more than 130 cities across the United States and Canada dedicated to creating a healthier environment, economic prosperity, and increased social equity.
2009 - $5,000 General Support
Urban Tilth cultivates agriculture in West Contra Costa County to help the community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.
2018 - $10,000 Climate Council
2011 - $5,000 Life at the Speed of Rail Publication
2009 - $10,000 Manhattan 2409
2008 - $5,000 David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang, Living City
Van Alen Institute is an independent nonprofit architectural organization that promotes inquiry into the processes that shape the design of the public realm.
2010 - $3,000 Support for Cold Storage Construction
Veggielution is a two acre non-profit community farm dedicated to creating a more sustainable food system in San Jose, California.
2017 – $10,000 General Operating Support
2021 - $10,000 20mph Speed Limit in the Tenderloin: Data Study
2016 - $10,000 Green Connections
2014 - $10,000 Vision Zero
2013 - $10,000 General Support
2012 - $6,000 General Support
Walk San Francisco speaks up for safer, more pleasant streets for everyone to walk on.
2016 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2015 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2014 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
Maya Lin established the What Is Missing? project to create an awareness about the present mass extinction of species due to habitat degradation, through science-based artworks.
2019 - $5,000 Amazon Rainforest
2013 - $5,000 Mobile Parklet
Youth Art Exchange provides relevant arts education that connects underserved high school-aged youth to the broader community.
Architecture
Alliance for Biking and Walking
2013 – $8,000 Open Streets
2011 – $5,000 General Support
The Alliance for Biking & Walking creates, strengthens, and unites state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations.
2017 - $15,000 Green Benefit Districts
2015 - $8,000 International Urban Parks Conference
City Parks Alliance is the only national membership organization devoted to urban parks, and unites leaders, organizations and agencies committed to the sustainability, creation and revitalization of green spaces in urban communities.
2010 Fellow
Darrin Nordahl is speaker and writer on issues of food and city design.
2011 Fellow
David Gissen is a historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism.
2011 - $3,000 General Support
A renovated Playground in San Francisco Mission district's Dolores Park.
2013 Fellow
Dr. Timothy Beatley is a writer, sustainable city researcher and Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning.
2011 - $7,500 General Support
Friends of The Gateway (FOG) is a community of artists and innovators who champion the creation of a unique public space at the foot of the new Bay Bridge.
2010 Fellow
Fritz Haeg is a artist, designer, architect whose work has included gardens, educational environments, documentary videos, publications, websites and buildings.
2015 - $15,000 Market Street Prototyping Festival Data Analysis
Gehl Studio is an international architecture firm focused on creating cities for people. Through extensive research and analysis of current city conditions, Gehl creates built environments that benefit residents and their desired quality of life.
2009 Fellow
Gray Brechin is an historical geographer and author whose interests are the state of California, the environmental impact of cities, and the invisible landscape of New Deal public works.
2009 - $8,000 General Support
San Jose Avenue, previously a one-way northbound street, was closed at its intersection with Guerrero Street to form a community gathering and green space.
2013 Fellow
Kevin Conger is a landscape architect who has developed many projects to benefit the Bay Area’s design community.
2010 - $10,000 General Support
Linden Living Alley is a neighborhood initiative which transformed a section of Linden Street in Hayes Valley into San Francisco’s first modern ‘shared space’ street.
2013 - $10,000 Play Streets for All
2012 - $5,000 Permanent Sunday Streets Route in the Mission
2011 - $5,000 Permanent Sunday Streets Route in the Mission
Livable City works to create a city where walking, bicycling, and transit are the best choices for most trips, and where public spaces are beautiful, well designed and maintained.
Mission Community Market – Mercado Plaza
2011 - $10,000 Mercado Plaza
Mission Community Market and Rebar have formed a partnership to create a new car-free plaza and public space on Bartlett Street in the Mission.
2014 - $5,000 Interpretive Signage
Mission Creek Conservancy (MCC) preserves and enhances the tidal community at Mission Creek, a 24 acre area of land and tidal water within historic Mission Bay.
2011 Fellow
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist, whose work examines the intersections nature, technology and the city.
2010 – $5,000 Naples Green, Pavement to Parks Project
2007 – $5,000 General Support
Plant SF exists to promote permeable landscaping as sustainable urban infrastructural practice and beautification.
2018 – $5,000 General Support
2017 - $5,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
The Prelinger Library is an urban oasis of research, community, art and collaboration in San Francisco.
2007 - $5,000 General Support
Public Architecture’s design campaigns are multidisciplinary initiatives that utilize design and advocacy to address issues of broad social relevance.
2013 – $5,000 Adaptive Metropolis Symposium
2009 – $10,000 Hayes Valley Farm
Rebar contributed to the foundation of Hayes Valley Farm, a temporary Urban Permaculture demonstration site in San Francisco.
2011 Felllow
Rosten Woo is an artist, designer, and writer whose work that helps people understand complex systems and participate in group decision-making.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2017 – $10,000 Transportation Equity Network
2013 – $5,000 “Kit of Parts” Manual
2012 – $25,000 2nd Street Project
2011 – $10,000 Family Biking Guide and Programs
2010 – $10,000 Connecting the City
2009 – $5,000 Great Streets Program
Through day-to-day advocacy, education, and partnerships with government and community agencies, the SFBC is dedicated to creating safer streets and more livable communities for all San Franciscans.
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
2021 – $15,000 Transit Priority Program
2019 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units Project
2018 – $20,000 Regional Plan
2017 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units project (with SFEI)
2017 – $10,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2016 – $15,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2014 – $15,000 Fossil Fuel Reduction Report
2014 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2013 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2012 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2010 – $8,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2007 – $5,000 General Support
Through research, education and advocacy, SPUR promotes good planning and good government in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past five decades.
2014 - $10,000 Biodiversity Program
2013 - $10,000 Biodiversity Program
Creates programs, plans and strategies for the management and stewardship of San Francisco wildlands, biodiversity and public biodiversity education.
2021 - $12,000 General Support
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $8,000 General Support
2017 – $8,000 General Support
2017 – $8,000 General Support
2016 – $8,000 General Support
2011 – $8,000 General Support
Streetsblog is a non-profit daily news source, online community and political mobilizer for the Bay Area’s Livable Streets movement.
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
2013 - $8,000 Tenderloin Vertical Garden
2014 - $5,000 Thriving Cities
2013 - $5,000 Beyond the High Line
2010 - $1,000 General Support
An extraordinary public park transforming a piece of New York's industrial past.
2011- $5,000 General Support
Transportation Alternatives’ mission is to reclaim New York City's streets from the automobile, and to advocate for bicycling, walking and public transit as the best transportation alternatives.
2018 - $10,000 Climate Council
2011 - $5,000 Life at the Speed of Rail Publication
2009 - $10,000 Manhattan 2409
2008 - $5,000 David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang, Living City
Van Alen Institute is an independent nonprofit architectural organization that promotes inquiry into the processes that shape the design of the public realm.
2017 – $10,000 General Operating Support
2021 - $10,000 20mph Speed Limit in the Tenderloin: Data Study
2016 - $10,000 Green Connections
2014 - $10,000 Vision Zero
2013 - $10,000 General Support
2012 - $6,000 General Support
Walk San Francisco speaks up for safer, more pleasant streets for everyone to walk on.
Art
2011 Fellow
Amber Hasselbring is a San Francisco artist focused on exploring ecological relationships.
2010 Fellow
Amy Balkin's cross-disciplinary artwork initiates critical conversations about the modern world.
Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art
2014 - $8,000 Art + Environment Conference
The Center for Art + Environment (CA+E) at the Nevada Museum of Art supports the practice, study, and awareness of creative interactions between people and their environments.
2009 - $5,000 General Support
The film, Edible City, follows the stories of individuals who are fighting for sustainability and social justice by doing something revolutionary: growing a local food system.
2021 - $15,000 Urban Fellows Program
2019 - $10,000 Coastal Resiliency Collaboration
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2018 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $5,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Center for Art and Inquiry
2014 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2013 - $10,000 Jane Wolf, Bay Lexicon
2013 - $1,000 Living Innovation Zone
2011 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
The Exploratorium is a San Francisco museum of science, art, and human perception that believes that curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery and learning.
2011 - $7,500 General Support
Friends of The Gateway (FOG) is a community of artists and innovators who champion the creation of a unique public space at the foot of the new Bay Bridge.
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2007 - $10,000 General Support
Friends of the Urban Forest promotes a larger, healthier urban forest as part of San Francisco’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy.
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
2020 - $10,000 FogHouse Project
2017 - $15,000 Seed Journey
2010 - $5,000 Free Soil: Farming 2050 Publication
2007 - $10,000 Victory Garden Project
Founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers, is an international group of art practitioners with common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems.
2012 - $5,000 Seed Circus
Using radio, blogs, film, and live events, the Greenhorns build agrarian culture by connecting young farmers with information, land, and each other.
2015 – $15,000 Climate Change Summit
2012 – $10,000 Architecture/Environment Resident, Mathilde Cassani
2011 – $10,000 Architecture/Environment Resident, Liam Young
The Headlands Center for the Arts provides intensive residency experiences to an international community of artists working across artistic disciplines.
2014 - $10,000 Crowdfunding Workshop
ioby is a crowd-resourcing digital platform that supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects.
Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center
2015 - $10,000 Market Street Prototyping Festival
2012 - $5,000 Tenderloin National Forest
The Luggage Store Gallery promotes local Bay Area artists and provides low-income Central Market and Tenderloin residents opportunities to participate in the neighborhood’s cultural life.
2012 Fellow
Michael Swaine is an artist who has operated the Free Mending Library in San Francisco's Tenderloin since 2001.
2013 – $5,000 Adaptive Metropolis Symposium
2009 – $10,000 Hayes Valley Farm
Rebar contributed to the foundation of Hayes Valley Farm, a temporary Urban Permaculture demonstration site in San Francisco.
2008 Fellow
Rebecca Solnit is a writer and activist who has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art.
2011 Felllow
Rosten Woo is an artist, designer, and writer whose work that helps people understand complex systems and participate in group decision-making.
2008 Fellow
Filmmaker, Sam Green points his camera at a broad range of subjects - from a legendary rainbow-wig sign holder, to the radical protest group “Weather Underground”.
2014 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, to Be Announced in the Fall
2013 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Pablo Helguera
2012 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Radhika Subramaniam
2011 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Geoff Manaugh
Founded in 1871 the San Francisco Art Insitute (SFAI) is one of the nations oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art.
San Francisco Urban Film Festival
2019 – $5,000 General Support
2018 – $5,000 General Operating Support
2017 – $5,000 Climate Change Programming
2017 - $10,000 General Support
2016 - $10,000 General Support
Seed Journey moves people, ideas and seeds upon an 1895, Colin Archer rescue sailboat from Oslo to Istanbul.
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $5,000 General Support
2017 – $5,000 General Support
2016 – $5,000 General Support
2013 – $5,000 General Support
2012 – $5,000 General Support
2010 – $5,000 Ecology Emerges Project Documentation
Shaping San Francisco is a living archive of San Francisco providing people with access to its lost history.
2015 - $10,000 General Support
2008 - $10,000 Vapor Exhibition
Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, Southern Exposure has been presenting a diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs for over 34 years.
Story of Stuff Project/Annie Leonard
2011 - $3,000 General Support
The Story of Stuff is a 20 minute animation on the way we make, use and throw away consumer goods.
Ted Purves and Suzanne Cockrell
2009 - $1,750 The Meadow Network Newspaper
The Meadow Network project compiles interviews with city residents about rural traditions and how they manifest in cities.
2016 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2015 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2014 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
Maya Lin established the What Is Missing? project to create an awareness about the present mass extinction of species due to habitat degradation, through science-based artworks.
2013 - $5,000 Mobile Parklet
Youth Art Exchange provides relevant arts education that connects underserved high school-aged youth to the broader community.
Ecology
2015 - $8,000 After Infrastructure
After Infrastructure, by Adi Shamir, is an ongoing project that researches the history of sewer and storm-water managements through case studies from ancient Rome’s public works to Germany’s reclamation of the Ruhr Valley brownfields.
2007 - $2,500 General Support
Alemany Farm is a volunteer run 4.5 acre organic farm ecosystem in southeast San Francisco.
Alliance for Biking and Walking
2013 – $8,000 Open Streets
2011 – $5,000 General Support
The Alliance for Biking & Walking creates, strengthens, and unites state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations.
2011 Fellow
Amber Hasselbring is a San Francisco artist focused on exploring ecological relationships.
2021 - $20,000 Tree Equity
2010 Fellow
Amy Balkin's cross-disciplinary artwork initiates critical conversations about the modern world.
2017 – $15,000 The Adaptive Mind Project
2015 - $10,000 General Support
The Bay Area Open Space Council is made up of 65 member organizations that work collaboratively to connect people to land, and steward parks, trails, working lands and other open spaces.
2016 - $10,000 Golden State Waters Action Summit
2015 - $10,000 EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park
bay.org’s mission is to change the relationship that people have with the Bay by protecting, restoring and inspiring conservation through its five unique divisions.
California Academy of Sciences
2018 - $10,000 Biodiversity Toolkit for Cities
2016 - $10,000 Citizen Science Program
2015 - $10,000 Citizen Science Program
2007 - $5,000 Capital Campaign, Green Roof
The California Academy of Sciences is a multifaceted scientific institution committed to leading-edge research, to educational outreach, and to finding new and innovative ways to engage and inspire the public.
2021 - $10,000 Engaging with California Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI)
2020 – $15,000 Toolkit for Temporary Road Closures/ Biking During COVID-19 Pandemic
2019 – $15,000 General Support
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2019 - $15,000 Tree Inventory Project in East Palo Alto
Center For Agroecology, UC Santa Cruz
2009 – $10,000 Publication Feasibility Study
2007 – $10,000 General Support
The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems.
Center for Creative Land Recycling
2012 – $5,000 San Francisco Blue Greenway Project
2010 – $5,000 San Francisco Blue Greenway Project
The Center for Creative Land Recycling encourages environmentally conscious and socially responsible development through the facilitation of land recycling.
2017 – $15,000 EcoBlocks Project
2007 - $2,500 General Support
City Slicker Farms was founded in 2001 to provide an immediate solution to West Oakland’s lack of real choice for fresh, affordable, healthy food.
2008 - $10,000 General Support
During the summer of 2008, a quarter-acre an edible, ornamental landscape was created in front of San Francisco’s City Hall.
2021 - $18,000 General Support
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2018 - $15.000 Resilience Programming
2017 - $15,000 General Support
2017 - $15,000 General Support
2015 - $15,000 Resilience Program
Founded in 2007, Climate One is a branch of The Commonwealth Club that focuses on climate-related programming and discussions that offer the broad public access to prominent business people, politicians and scientists.
2021 - $4,000 General Support
2020 - $4,000 General Support
2019 - $3,000 General Support
2019 - $3,000 General Support
2018 - $3,000 General Support
2017 - $3,000 General Support
2016 - $3,000 General Support
2015 - $3,000 General Support
The Climate Ride is a 340 mile bike ride- along different routes in America- that encourages riders to raise money and awareness for climate related organizations and causes.
2020 - $20,000 Climate Equity Work
2012 - $5,000 20th Aniversary Celebration
Critical Mass started in September 1992 in San Francisco as a way to bring cyclists together in a festive re-claiming of public space.
2021- $10,000 General Support
2010 Fellow
Darrin Nordahl is speaker and writer on issues of food and city design.
2017 – $10,000 Silt, Sand & Slurry: Sedimentary Infrastructure and the Geography of Dredge” Book Publication Project
2017 - $10,000 Nature in the City
2015 - $10,000 Brower Youth Awards
The Earth Island Institute founded the Brower Youth Awards and New Leaders Initiative in 2000, to honor and mentor young environmental leaders and to use their stories to encourage other young people to pursue environmental and social justice projects.
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2017 - $10,000 Biodiversity Rights Ordinance
2009 - $5,000 General Support
The film, Edible City, follows the stories of individuals who are fighting for sustainability and social justice by doing something revolutionary: growing a local food system.
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
2014 – $8,000 Corps for Education Outside Program
2011 – $5,000 Conference Support
2009 – $12,000 Matching Grant for Gardening Educators
2008 – $5,000 Conference Support
2007 – $10,000 General Support
The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance is a coalition of Bay Area civic organizations whose work supports schoolyard transformations from asphalt yards into ecologically rich green spaces for learning and play.
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
2019 - $10,000 Coastal Resiliency
2018 - $20,000 Regional Strategy
2016 - $9,000 General Support
The Environmental Action Committee of West Marin is a tenacious, highly effective grassroots advocacy organization founded in 1971 that is dedicated to the protection and appreciation of West Marin’s wild lands, wildlife, wilderness, watersheds, and rural character.
2007 Fellow
Eric Sanderson, an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, built Manahatta, a digital model of primeval Manhattan.
2021 - $15,000 Urban Fellows Program
2019 - $10,000 Coastal Resiliency Collaboration
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2018 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $5,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Center for Art and Inquiry
2014 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2013 - $10,000 Jane Wolf, Bay Lexicon
2013 - $1,000 Living Innovation Zone
2011 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
The Exploratorium is a San Francisco museum of science, art, and human perception that believes that curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery and learning.
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
2016 - $20,000 Climate Smart Conservation Project
2015 - $20,000 Climate Smart Conservation Project
The Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association supports and assists the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in outreach, education and stewardship.
2010 - $3,000 General Support
The Free Farm Stand, an all-volunteer run project facilitates sharing the wealth of San Francisco urban farms and gardens.
Friends of Potrero Nursery School
2013 – $8,000 Urban Garden
2010 – $5,000 Capital Campaign
The Friends of Potrero Hill Nursery School is a much-loved preschool that has served San Francisco families for over 12 years.
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2007 - $10,000 General Support
Friends of the Urban Forest promotes a larger, healthier urban forest as part of San Francisco’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy.
2010 Fellow
Fritz Haeg is a artist, designer, architect whose work has included gardens, educational environments, documentary videos, publications, websites and buildings.
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
2020 - $10,000 FogHouse Project
2017 - $15,000 Seed Journey
2010 - $5,000 Free Soil: Farming 2050 Publication
2007 - $10,000 Victory Garden Project
Founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers, is an international group of art practitioners with common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems.
2009 – $10,000 Green House Capital Campaign
2008 – $10,000 General Support
2007 – $10,000 General Support
Garden for the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden and offers environmental education programs.
2020 - $10,000 General Support
2009 - $5,000 General Support
Graze the Roof is a community-produced vegetable garden on the rooftop of Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco's Tenderloin.
2007 - $10,000 General Support
The Greenbelt Alliance works to help cities and counties adopt policies to prepare for future growth while stopping wasteful sprawl development.
2012 - $5,000 Seed Circus
Using radio, blogs, film, and live events, the Greenhorns build agrarian culture by connecting young farmers with information, land, and each other.
2020 - $20,000 Environmental Equity Program
2010 - $2,000 General Support
Greywater Action is a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure.
2010 - $2,000 Educational Outreach
Growing Power, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides hands-on training, outreach and technical assistance to develop a community based food system.
2017 - $8,000 Film project raising awareness of conserved land to adapt to climate change
2014 - $10,000 Crowdfunding Workshop
ioby is a crowd-resourcing digital platform that supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects.
2021 - $15,000 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Work
2021 - $10,000 Founders’ Pot
2020 - $15,000 Online Programming During COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 - $25,000 Founders’ Pot
2019 - $25,000 General Support
2018 - $5,000 Founders’ Pot for General Operating Support
2017 - $5,000 Founders' Pot for General Operating Support
2017 - $5,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
2015 - $5,000 General Support
2013 - $10,000 Sustainability Knowledge Network
2011 - $5,000 General Support
Since 1984, Island Press has been a trusted publisher of environmental information.
2011 Fellow
Jeff Mapes is the author of Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities (Oregon State University Press, 2009).
2012 Fellow
Jennifer Wolch is a scholar of urban analysis and planning and Dean of UC Berkley College of Environmental Design.
2009 Fellows
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are the authors of The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World.
2009 Fellow
Laura Lawson is an acclaimed author, landscape architect and avid gardener and the Chair for the Landscape Architecture Department at Rutgers University.
2010 - $10,000 General Support
Linden Living Alley is a neighborhood initiative which transformed a section of Linden Street in Hayes Valley into San Francisco’s first modern ‘shared space’ street.
Literacy for Environmental Justice
2021 - $15,000 General Support
2019 - $10,000 Interpretative Signage
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2018 - $10,000 Nursery Expansion
2017 - $10,000 Justice Installations and Educational Outreach Materials at Candlestick Point Recreation Area
2017 - $10,000 Nursery Expansion and Capacity Building
2016 - $10,000 Candlestick Point State Recreation Area Rehabilitation
2015 - $10,000 Candlestick Point State Recreation Area Rehabilitation
Established in 1998 by a coalition of youth, educators and community leaders, Literacy for Environmental Justice strives to promote community development in Southeast San Francisco through eco-literacy, environmental stewardship and workforce development opportunities to empower and support locals in securing a healthier future.
2010 - $2,500 Zoning Code Advocacy Work
Little City Gardens is an experiment in the economic viability of small-scale urban market-gardening.
2017 - $2017 Carbon Farm Plan
2019 - $20,000 Carbon Cycle Institute
2018 - $20,000 Point Reyes Carbon Farming
2017 - $20,000 Point Reyes National Seashore Carbon Farm Plan
Marin County Bicycle Coalition
2020 - $10,000 Funding for More Emergency Bike Lanes During COVID- 19 Pandemic
2019 – $15,000 General Support
2018 – $20,000 The Alto Tunnel Project
2014 - $5,000 Interpretive Signage
Mission Creek Conservancy (MCC) preserves and enhances the tidal community at Mission Creek, a 24 acre area of land and tidal water within historic Mission Bay.
2021 - $15,000 Climate Resilience Work With Youth
Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC)
2021 - $15,000 General Support
2021 - $15,000 Climate Resilience Work
2017 - $5,000 Backyard Natives Nursery Program
2014 - $5,000 General Support grant
2011 - $5,000 Green Hairstreak Butterfly project
2010 - $5,000 Green Hairstreak Butterfly project
Nature in the City leads restoration and stewardship efforts of San Francisco’s natural heritage.
2007 - $5,000 General Support
The Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC) advocates for a superior, equitable and sustainable park and recreation system.
2011 Fellow
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist, whose work examines the intersections nature, technology and the city.
2010 - $5,000 Permaculture Training Programs
The Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps is a network of young Haitian leaders who serve Haiti’s trauma relief and food security needs.
2009 Felllow
Novella Carpenter is an urban farmer, author, and biofuel champion.
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
2016 - $10,000 General Support
2009 - $10,000 General Support
2007 - $5,000 General Support
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center is an education center and organic farm on 80-acres in Sonoma County working to create ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable communities.
2008 - $10,000 P.F. 1 at P.S.1
Designed by WORK Architecture Company, P.F.1 (Public Farm One) was an urban farm concept installed in the P.S.1 courtyard in 2008.
2014 - $5,000 Postproduction
Pelican Dreams is a feature documentary about wildness: How close can we get to a wild creature without taming or harming it? Why do we need wildness in our lives, and how can we protect it?
2007 - $2,500 General Support
The People’s Grocery mission is to improve the health and economy of West Oakland through the local food system.
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2018 - $15,000 Climate Beneficial Farming at Año Nuevo
2016 - $10,000 General Support
2015 - $10,000 General Support
2010 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2009 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2008 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2007 - $15,000 General Support
Pie Ranch was established in 2005 with the vision to become a model center of sustainable farming and food system education.
2010 – $5,000 Naples Green, Pavement to Parks Project
2007 – $5,000 General Support
Plant SF exists to promote permeable landscaping as sustainable urban infrastructural practice and beautification.
Point Blue Conservation Science
2019 - $15,000 Coastal Resiliency
2018 - $15,000 Rangeland Watershed Initiative
2011 - $3,000 General Support
Produce to the People aims to localize the San Francisco food system by utilizing and celebrating the unused resources in San Francisco, including fruit trees, vacant lots, and people power.
2013 – $5,000 Adaptive Metropolis Symposium
2009 – $10,000 Hayes Valley Farm
Rebar contributed to the foundation of Hayes Valley Farm, a temporary Urban Permaculture demonstration site in San Francisco.
2008 Fellow
Rebecca Solnit is a writer and activist who has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art.
2016 - $15,000 General Support
The Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge (Bay Area Challenge) is an exciting opportunity in which international, multidisciplinary experts will unite with government agencies, elected officials, community leaders, philanthropists, and other Bay Area stakeholders to create inspired and practical solutions to the challenges posed by sea level rise.
2008 Fellow
Richard A. Walker is professor of geography and chair of the California Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
2016 - $15,000 General Support
2015 - $15,000 General Support
The Romberg Tiburon Center is an off-campus research and teaching center operated by San Francisco State University located north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.
2008 Fellow
Filmmaker, Sam Green points his camera at a broad range of subjects - from a legendary rainbow-wig sign holder, to the radical protest group “Weather Underground”.
2019 - $15,000 Coastal Resiliency
2018 - $15,000 for Sediment removal prevention
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2017 – $10,000 Transportation Equity Network
2013 – $5,000 “Kit of Parts” Manual
2012 – $25,000 2nd Street Project
2011 – $10,000 Family Biking Guide and Programs
2010 – $10,000 Connecting the City
2009 – $5,000 Great Streets Program
Through day-to-day advocacy, education, and partnerships with government and community agencies, the SFBC is dedicated to creating safer streets and more livable communities for all San Franciscans.
San Francisco Botanical Garden
2007 - $5,000 Center for Sustainable Gardening
Located in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the Botanical Garden inspires visitors with an extraordinary diversity of plants from Mediterranean climates around the world.
San Francisco Children in Nature Forum
2012 - $5,500 General Support
The San Francisco Children in Nature Forum brings together educators, recreation and parks staff, health care and urban planning professionals to ensure that all of San Francisco's children have access to quality outdoor experiences.
San Francisco Estuary Institute
2021 – $15,000 Urban Nature Lab Website
2019 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units Project (with SPUR)
2018 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $10,000 Biodiversity Integration into the SPUR Regional Plan
2017 – $10,000 Catalyzing Urban Biodiversity Book Project by Robin Grossinger
2017 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units Project (with SPUR)
2017 – $10,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2016 – $15,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2014 – $10,000 Center for Resilient Landscapes
San Francisco Estuary Institute helps to define environmental problems, advance public debate about them through sound science, and support consensus-based solutions that improve environmental planning, management, and policy development.
San Francisco Nature Education
2011 - $5,000 General Support
San Francisco Nature Education is now in its eleventh year of providing meaningful environmental education to students from underserved schools.
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
2021 – $15,000 Transit Priority Program
2019 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units Project
2018 – $20,000 Regional Plan
2017 – $10,000 Operational Landscape Units project (with SFEI)
2017 – $10,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2016 – $15,000 Framework for Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
2014 – $15,000 Fossil Fuel Reduction Report
2014 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2013 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2012 – $10,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2010 – $8,000 Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program
2007 – $5,000 General Support
Through research, education and advocacy, SPUR promotes good planning and good government in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past five decades.
2018 – $34,000 Outdoor Classroom
2016 – $33,000 Outdoor Classroom
2015 – $5,000 Outdoor Classroom
2014 – $7,500 Outdoor Classroom
2013 – $10,000 Outdoor Classroom
2009 – $10,000 Biodynamic Garden Program
2008 – $6,000 Biodynamic Garden Program
2007 – $10,000 High School Capital Campaign
San Francisco Waldorf School was founded in 1979 as an independent school within the Waldorf tradition whose mission is to educate students using an approach that fosters independent thought and a sense of personal responsibility.
2011 Fellow
Sandor Katz is the author of The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements.
2017 – $10,000 Community-Based Habitat Restoration Program
2017 - $10,000 General Support
2016 - $10,000 General Support
Seed Journey moves people, ideas and seeds upon an 1895, Colin Archer rescue sailboat from Oslo to Istanbul.
2014 - $10,000 Biodiversity Program
2013 - $10,000 Biodiversity Program
Creates programs, plans and strategies for the management and stewardship of San Francisco wildlands, biodiversity and public biodiversity education.
2014 - $5,000 General Support
The Children in Nature Map is tailored to families who want to find places to play in San Francisco’s nature.
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $5,000 General Support
2017 – $5,000 General Support
2016 – $5,000 General Support
2013 – $5,000 General Support
2012 – $5,000 General Support
2010 – $5,000 Ecology Emerges Project Documentation
Shaping San Francisco is a living archive of San Francisco providing people with access to its lost history.
2011 – $10,000 Slide Outside Project
2007 – $10,000 General Support
Slide Ranch has provided experiential education with environmental and sustainable agriculture curricula since 1970.
2019 - $10,000 Wetlands Restoration
2015 - $10,000 General Support
2008 - $10,000 Vapor Exhibition
Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, Southern Exposure has been presenting a diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs for over 34 years.
Story of Stuff Project/Annie Leonard
2011 - $3,000 General Support
The Story of Stuff is a 20 minute animation on the way we make, use and throw away consumer goods.
2021 - $12,000 General Support
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2018 – $8,000 General Support
2017 – $8,000 General Support
2017 – $8,000 General Support
2016 – $8,000 General Support
2011 – $8,000 General Support
Streetsblog is a non-profit daily news source, online community and political mobilizer for the Bay Area’s Livable Streets movement.
2014 - $5,000 Living Seed-Bank Project
Restoring native habitat on Mt Sutro while proving environmental education.
Suzanne Cockrell, California College of the Arts Engage Class
2011 - $1,125 Garden at Emerson Elemenary School, Oakland
The orchard and pollinator garden at Emerson K-5 Public Elementary School in Oakland were created as part of an undergraduate Community Arts/Diversity Studies course at California College of the Arts.
Ted Purves and Suzanne Cockrell
2009 - $1,750 The Meadow Network Newspaper
The Meadow Network project compiles interviews with city residents about rural traditions and how they manifest in cities.
2011 - $3,000 General Support
San Francisco’s Bike Kitchen teaches people of all ages and backgrounds how to repair bicycles.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
2008 - $5,000 Petroscape Program
The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface.
2019 – $15,000 General Support
2016 – $10,000 General Support
2015 – $10,000 General Support
For nearly eighteen years TransForm has helped envision and advocate for affordable, walkable neighborhoods with a wide variety of transportation choices to connect residents to health care, schools, shopping and work.
2021 - $20,000 India Basin
2018 - $20,000 India Basin Waterfront Park
2017 - $20,000 Parks for People project: India Basin, San Francisco
2017 - $20,000 Innes Avenue project
2016 - $20,000 Innes Avenue project
2015 - $20,000 Innes Avenue project
The Trust for Public Land is dedicated to helping local communities with their conservation needs by raising funds, conducting research, designing and renovating parks, playgrounds, trails and gardens, as well as acquiring and protecting land.
Turtle Island Restoration Network
2019 - $10,000 Redwoods Project
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
2021 – $15,000 Nexus Program
2018 – $10,000 Climate Equity Leaders Program
2017 – $10,000 General Support
2016 – $10,000 General Support
2015 – $10,000 General Support
The Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) is a peer-to-peer network of local government professionals from more than 130 cities across the United States and Canada dedicated to creating a healthier environment, economic prosperity, and increased social equity.
2009 - $5,000 General Support
Urban Tilth cultivates agriculture in West Contra Costa County to help the community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.
2018 - $10,000 Climate Council
2011 - $5,000 Life at the Speed of Rail Publication
2009 - $10,000 Manhattan 2409
2008 - $5,000 David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang, Living City
Van Alen Institute is an independent nonprofit architectural organization that promotes inquiry into the processes that shape the design of the public realm.
2010 - $3,000 Support for Cold Storage Construction
Veggielution is a two acre non-profit community farm dedicated to creating a more sustainable food system in San Jose, California.
2021 - $10,000 20mph Speed Limit in the Tenderloin: Data Study
2016 - $10,000 Green Connections
2014 - $10,000 Vision Zero
2013 - $10,000 General Support
2012 - $6,000 General Support
Walk San Francisco speaks up for safer, more pleasant streets for everyone to walk on.
2016 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2015 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2014 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
Maya Lin established the What Is Missing? project to create an awareness about the present mass extinction of species due to habitat degradation, through science-based artworks.
2019 - $5,000 Amazon Rainforest
Education
2007 - $2,500 General Support
Alemany Farm is a volunteer run 4.5 acre organic farm ecosystem in southeast San Francisco.
California Academy of Sciences
2018 - $10,000 Biodiversity Toolkit for Cities
2016 - $10,000 Citizen Science Program
2015 - $10,000 Citizen Science Program
2007 - $5,000 Capital Campaign, Green Roof
The California Academy of Sciences is a multifaceted scientific institution committed to leading-edge research, to educational outreach, and to finding new and innovative ways to engage and inspire the public.
Center For Agroecology, UC Santa Cruz
2009 – $10,000 Publication Feasibility Study
2007 – $10,000 General Support
The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems.
2009 Fellow
Chris Carlsson is writer, San Francisco historian, bicyclist, tour guide, blogger, photographer, book and magazine editor.
Cities Connecting Children & Nature: San Francisco
2016 - $10,000 General Support
Children Connecting Children & Nature: San Francisco envisions a city whose children have daily experiences in local nature, who feel a sense of belonging to the natural world, who feel at home in nature, whose school learning is meaningfully contextualized in the city’s outdoors, and who develop lifelong relationships to nature for health, recreation, and conservation benefits.
2008 - $10,000 General Support
During the summer of 2008, a quarter-acre an edible, ornamental landscape was created in front of San Francisco’s City Hall.
2012 - $5,000 20th Aniversary Celebration
Critical Mass started in September 1992 in San Francisco as a way to bring cyclists together in a festive re-claiming of public space.
2021- $10,000 General Support
2010 Fellow
Darrin Nordahl is speaker and writer on issues of food and city design.
Education Outside (formerly San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance)
2014 – $8,000 Corps for Education Outside Program
2011 – $5,000 Conference Support
2009 – $12,000 Matching Grant for Gardening Educators
2008 – $5,000 Conference Support
2007 – $10,000 General Support
The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance is a coalition of Bay Area civic organizations whose work supports schoolyard transformations from asphalt yards into ecologically rich green spaces for learning and play.
2021 - $15,000 Urban Fellows Program
2019 - $10,000 Coastal Resiliency Collaboration
2019 - $10,000 General Support
2018 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2017 - $10,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $5,000 Habitat: Bay As It Is Symposium
2016 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2015 - $10,000 Center for Art and Inquiry
2014 - $10,000 Urban Fellowship
2013 - $10,000 Jane Wolf, Bay Lexicon
2013 - $1,000 Living Innovation Zone
2011 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
The Exploratorium is a San Francisco museum of science, art, and human perception that believes that curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery and learning.
2010 - $3,000 General Support
The Free Farm Stand, an all-volunteer run project facilitates sharing the wealth of San Francisco urban farms and gardens.
Friends of Potrero Nursery School
2013 – $8,000 Urban Garden
2010 – $5,000 Capital Campaign
The Friends of Potrero Hill Nursery School is a much-loved preschool that has served San Francisco families for over 12 years.
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2007 - $10,000 General Support
Friends of the Urban Forest promotes a larger, healthier urban forest as part of San Francisco’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy.
2010 Fellow
Fritz Haeg is a artist, designer, architect whose work has included gardens, educational environments, documentary videos, publications, websites and buildings.
Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini
2020 - $10,000 FogHouse Project
2017 - $15,000 Seed Journey
2010 - $5,000 Free Soil: Farming 2050 Publication
2007 - $10,000 Victory Garden Project
Founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers, is an international group of art practitioners with common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems.
2009 – $10,000 Green House Capital Campaign
2008 – $10,000 General Support
2007 – $10,000 General Support
Garden for the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden and offers environmental education programs.
2009 - $5,000 General Support
Graze the Roof is a community-produced vegetable garden on the rooftop of Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco's Tenderloin.
2007 - $10,000 General Support
The Greenbelt Alliance works to help cities and counties adopt policies to prepare for future growth while stopping wasteful sprawl development.
2012 - $5,000 Seed Circus
Using radio, blogs, film, and live events, the Greenhorns build agrarian culture by connecting young farmers with information, land, and each other.
2010 - $2,000 General Support
Greywater Action is a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure.
2010 - $2,000 Educational Outreach
Growing Power, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides hands-on training, outreach and technical assistance to develop a community based food system.
2009 Fellow
Iain Boal is a social historian of science and technics and one of the founders of the Retort collective, an association of radical writers, teachers, artists, and activists.
2014 - $10,000 Crowdfunding Workshop
ioby is a crowd-resourcing digital platform that supports citizen-led, neighbor-funded projects.
2021 - $15,000 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Work
2021 - $10,000 Founders’ Pot
2020 - $15,000 Online Programming During COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 - $25,000 Founders’ Pot
2019 - $25,000 General Support
2018 - $5,000 Founders’ Pot for General Operating Support
2017 - $5,000 Founders' Pot for General Operating Support
2017 - $5,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
2015 - $5,000 General Support
2013 - $10,000 Sustainability Knowledge Network
2011 - $5,000 General Support
Since 1984, Island Press has been a trusted publisher of environmental information.
2011 Fellow
Jeff Mapes is the author of Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities (Oregon State University Press, 2009).
2012 Fellow
Jennifer Wolch is a scholar of urban analysis and planning and Dean of UC Berkley College of Environmental Design.
2009 Fellows
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are the authors of The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World.
2009 Fellow
Laura Lawson is an acclaimed author, landscape architect and avid gardener and the Chair for the Landscape Architecture Department at Rutgers University.
2016 - $10,000 Project Localize
The Lexicon of Sustainability operates with the express purpose of creating and sharing intelligently designed messaging tools and activism toolkits needed by the movement’s non-profit organizations, educators and thought leaders to advance a sustainable future for everyone.
2010 - $2,500 Zoning Code Advocacy Work
Little City Gardens is an experiment in the economic viability of small-scale urban market-gardening.
2016 - $10,000 Deepwater Ecological Assessment
MARE seeks to increase literacy in ocean sciences through formal and informal education initiatives.
2012 Fellows
Megan and Rick Prelinger are the co-founders of The Prelinger Library, a private research library in San Francisco.
2007 - $5,000 General Support
The Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC) advocates for a superior, equitable and sustainable park and recreation system.
2010 - $5,000 Permaculture Training Programs
The Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps is a network of young Haitian leaders who serve Haiti’s trauma relief and food security needs.
2009 Felllow
Novella Carpenter is an urban farmer, author, and biofuel champion.
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
2016 - $10,000 General Support
2009 - $10,000 General Support
2007 - $5,000 General Support
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center is an education center and organic farm on 80-acres in Sonoma County working to create ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable communities.
2018 - $10,000 Grant for Capacity Building
2017 - $10,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
2015 - $7,500 General Support
2014 - $10,000 General Support
Outdoors Empowered Network grew out of the Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) program, and works with affiliate programs to provide the BAWT model in three additional urban metro areas — Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago.
2008 - $10,000 P.F. 1 at P.S.1
Designed by WORK Architecture Company, P.F.1 (Public Farm One) was an urban farm concept installed in the P.S.1 courtyard in 2008.
2014 - $5,000 Postproduction
Pelican Dreams is a feature documentary about wildness: How close can we get to a wild creature without taming or harming it? Why do we need wildness in our lives, and how can we protect it?
2019 - $12,000 Biking Toolkit for Scoring Cities
2007 - $2,500 General Support
The People’s Grocery mission is to improve the health and economy of West Oakland through the local food system.
2019 - $15,000 General Support
2018 - $15,000 Climate Beneficial Farming at Año Nuevo
2016 - $10,000 General Support
2015 - $10,000 General Support
2010 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2009 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2008 - $10,000 Capital Campaign
2007 - $15,000 General Support
Pie Ranch was established in 2005 with the vision to become a model center of sustainable farming and food system education.
2018 – $5,000 General Support
2017 - $5,000 General Support
2016 - $5,000 General Support
The Prelinger Library is an urban oasis of research, community, art and collaboration in San Francisco.
2011 - $3,000 General Support
Produce to the People aims to localize the San Francisco food system by utilizing and celebrating the unused resources in San Francisco, including fruit trees, vacant lots, and people power.
2013 – $5,000 Adaptive Metropolis Symposium
2009 – $10,000 Hayes Valley Farm
Rebar contributed to the foundation of Hayes Valley Farm, a temporary Urban Permaculture demonstration site in San Francisco.
2008 Fellow
Richard A. Walker is professor of geography and chair of the California Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
2014 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, to Be Announced in the Fall
2013 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Pablo Helguera
2012 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Radhika Subramaniam
2011 – $5,000 Urban Studies Fellow, Geoff Manaugh
Founded in 1871 the San Francisco Art Insitute (SFAI) is one of the nations oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund
2019 – $10,000 General Support
2017 – $10,000 Transportation Equity Network
2013 – $5,000 “Kit of Parts” Manual
2012 – $25,000 2nd Street Project
2011 – $10,000 Family Biking Guide and Programs
2010 – $10,000 Connecting the City
2009 – $5,000 Great Streets Program
Through day-to-day advocacy, education, and partnerships with government and community agencies, the SFBC is dedicated to creating safer streets and more livable communities for all San Franciscans.
San Francisco Children in Nature Forum
2012 - $5,500 General Support
The San Francisco Children in Nature Forum brings together educators, recreation and parks staff, health care and urban planning professionals to ensure that all of San Francisco's children have access to quality outdoor experiences.
San Francisco Nature Education
2011 - $5,000 General Support
San Francisco Nature Education is now in its eleventh year of providing meaningful environmental education to students from underserved schools.
2018 – $34,000 Outdoor Classroom
2016 – $33,000 Outdoor Classroom
2015 – $5,000 Outdoor Classroom
2014 – $7,500 Outdoor Classroom
2013 – $10,000 Outdoor Classroom
2009 – $10,000 Biodynamic Garden Program
2008 – $6,000 Biodynamic Garden Program
2007 – $10,000 High School Capital Campaign
San Francisco Waldorf School was founded in 1979 as an independent school within the Waldorf tradition whose mission is to educate students using an approach that fosters independent thought and a sense of personal responsibility.
2011 Fellow
Sandor Katz is the author of The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements.
2016 - $5,000 General Support
The Seep City Water Log is an effort by Joel Pomerantz to connect local explorers of all ages and qualifications with the waterscapes of San Francisco, past and present.
2014 - $5,000 General Support
The Children in Nature Map is tailored to families who want to find places to play in San Francisco’s nature.
2011 – $10,000 Slide Outside Project
2007 – $10,000 General Support
Slide Ranch has provided experiential education with environmental and sustainable agriculture curricula since 1970.
2015 - $10,000 General Support
2008 - $10,000 Vapor Exhibition
Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, Southern Exposure has been presenting a diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs for over 34 years.
Story of Stuff Project/Annie Leonard
2011 - $3,000 General Support
The Story of Stuff is a 20 minute animation on the way we make, use and throw away consumer goods.
Suzanne Cockrell, California College of the Arts Engage Class
2011 - $1,125 Garden at Emerson Elemenary School, Oakland
The orchard and pollinator garden at Emerson K-5 Public Elementary School in Oakland were created as part of an undergraduate Community Arts/Diversity Studies course at California College of the Arts.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
2008 - $5,000 Petroscape Program
The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface.
The Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD)
2021 - $15,000 - Climate Justice Project
2020 - $10,000 Safe Passage Program
2009 - $5,000 General Support
Urban Tilth cultivates agriculture in West Contra Costa County to help the community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.
2010 - $3,000 Support for Cold Storage Construction
Veggielution is a two acre non-profit community farm dedicated to creating a more sustainable food system in San Jose, California.
2016 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2015 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
2014 - $10,000 What Is Missing? Project
Maya Lin established the What Is Missing? project to create an awareness about the present mass extinction of species due to habitat degradation, through science-based artworks.
2013 - $5,000 Mobile Parklet
Youth Art Exchange provides relevant arts education that connects underserved high school-aged youth to the broader community.