GRANTS AWARDED
Donor-Advised Grants of $1000-2000 made by Peace Development Fund in the name of Sylvia Bingham Fund
Hard-Hatted Women -- http://www.hardhattedwomen.orgHard-Hatted Women is a Cleveland-based organization that works in Ohio to empower women to achieve economic independence through nontraditional employment. Sylvia had just begun working at HHW in September, 2009.
Ohio City Bicycle Co-op -- http://www.ohiocitycycles.org
The Co-Op in Cleveland is a volunteer-driven, cooperative bicycle education center which offers bike riding lessons, teaches bike repair and sells used bikes. Sylvia got her Peugeot there.
Telluride Assn Summer Program -- http://www.tellurideassociation.org
TASP is a high school summer study program for Juniors designed to bring together young people who share a passion for learning. Sylvia attended this program in 2004 at the Univ. of Michigan and loved the experience!
Yale Dwight Hall -- http://www.dwighthall.org
This group connects Yale students with volunteer activities in New Haven. Sylvia received a Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship in 2007, during which she worked for City Seed.
City Seed (New Haven) -- http://www.cityseed.org
City Seed promotes local farmers markets and provides low-income families with better access to fresh and locally grown food. Sylvia created promotional materials for City Seed, including a poster to promote farmers markets among Food Stamp and WIC recipients in the state of Connecticut.
Next Generation -- http://gonextgeneration.org
Based in Marin County, Next Generation helps local youth to develop leadership skills and to take grassroots action for peace and sustainability. Next Generation helped Sylvia become an organizer and activist while at Terra Linda High School In San Rafael, CA.
Love Cultivating Schoolyards -- http://oaklandleaf.org/html/lovecultivating.html
This offshoot of Oakland Leaf works with children at inner city schools in Oakland, California, to create school gardens. Love Cultivating Schoolyards seeks to improve student and family nutrition and more generally promote a sustainable way of life. Sylvia grew up in Oakland and volunteered in community gardens there during her teenage years, while living in Marin County.
One Fam (Bikes 4 Life) -- http://www.bikes4life.com
One Fam Bikes 4 Life is a community bicycle shop in West Oakland that organizes community biking events and mass bike rides and sells bicycles and accessories at affordable prices. Donations will help support education for bike safety.
People's Grocery -- http://www.peoplesgrocery.org
The goal of People's Grocery is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of West Oakland. The organization grows food, sells fresh produce at affordable price via its Mobile Market (a grocery store on wheels) and offers urban gardening, community outreach, business classes and cooking and nutrition workshops.
Village Harvest -- http://www.villageharvest.org
Village Harvest is a nonprofit volunteer organization in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, which harvests fruit from backyards and small orchards, then passes it along to local food agencies to feed the hungry. They also provide education on fruit tree care, harvesting, and food preservation.
Drawbridge -- http://www.drawbridge.org
Drawbridge is a creative arts program for homeless children and youth, operating in seven counties in California that include San Mateo, Alameda, San Francisco, Sonoma, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Marin Counties.
Trips for Kids - http://www.tripsforkids.org/marin
Marin Chapter provides lessons in self-confidence, environmental awareness, and healthy habits to disadvantaged youth through the simple act of having fun on mountain bikes.
Ashoka's Youth Venture SF Bay Area -- http://www.genv.net/sfbayarea
JUST FOOD program supports teams of young people to lead their own ventures to promote Food Justice in the East Bay (i.e. eastern side of the San Francisco Bay). Young entrepreneurs learn to develop social enterprise models, or earned-income strategies, to support the sustainability of their ventures.
Mike's Bike Foundation -- http://www.mikesbikesafrica.com
The Mike's Bikes Foundation's goal is to jumpstart self-sustaining local businesses and create supply chains of new and used bikes in African countries. The foundation provided start-up funding and mentoring to African bike dealers through its Sister Shops program in Zimbabwe in 2010, Namibia in 2009 and Botswana in 2008. In 2011 the Foundation established a partnership with the Village Bicycle Project (based in Seattle) to support their network of rural bicycle shops in Sierra Leone with a central, urban distribution center located in a Mike's Bikes Sister Shop.
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2011 International Green Schoolyard conference, sponsored by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)
ADPSR in partnership with the San Francisco Green Schoolyards Alliance is organizing Engaging Our Grounds, the First International Green Schoolyards Conference in the United States, to be held September 16-18, 2011, at multiple sites in the SF Bay Area. The conference will feature "presentations by leaders of a growing worldwide movement to transform school grounds into living ecological oases for learning and play." See more details on ADPSR website at http://adpsr.org/home