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The Sylvia Bingham Fund will support two categories of primarily grassroots organizations:
• Those that support efforts to improve “street safety” such as (1) educating drivers of motor vehicles to be safe around bicyclists; (2) educating cyclists to be more conscious of the inherent danger of cycling and steps that can minimize the danger; and (3) working with government transportation agencies, urban planners and legislators to adopt street safety measures.
• Those that engage in work that reflects the values that Sylvia had developed in her all-too-short life, such as the organizations that she worked for: City Seed in New Haven and Hard-Hatted Women in Cleveland. Sylvia loved good, healthy food – growing it, cooking it, eating it. She was aware of the disconnect between much of the “food movement” and low-income communities. An example of an organization that she would have loved to support is the Oakland-based organization Love Cultivating Schoolyards. Sylvia’s social justice activism went beyond food issues – forming a social justice club at her high school with the help of Next Generation, opposing military recruiting on high school campuses and demonstrating for a just peace throughout the Middle East.