Resolution approving Department of the Environment Funding Recommendations for Zero Waste grant awards to eleven organizations.
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[Zero Waste Funding Recommendations Fiscal Year 2015-17]
Resolution approving Department of the Environment Funding Recommendations for Zero Waste grant awards to eleven organizations.
WHEREAS, The Zero Waste grant program of the Department of the Environment administers a grant program that provides funding to non-profit groups; and,
WHEREAS, the Zero Waste grant program is dedicated to funding projects that divert waste from San Francisco’s landfill, thereby assisting the City in achieving its goal of zero waste by 2020, and achieving this at a low cost per ton of waste diverted; and
WHEREAS, in addition to helping San Francisco reach its zero waste goals, these grant funded projects achieve a range of co-benefits such as creating jobs, providing classroom materials for educators, securing healthy food for low-income San Franciscans and building community; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, the Commission approves the award of Zero Waste grants, totaling $860,000 to be disbursed during FY 2015-2017 to the following organizations:
Organization FY 2015-2017
Chinese Newcomers $80,000
David Gladstone Institute $40,000
Garden for the Environment (fiscal: San Francisco Parks Alliance) $50,000
Goodwill Industries $160,000
Northridge Coop (fiscal: San Francisco Parks Alliance) $35,000
Recycle for Change $50,000
SCRAP $90,000
San Francisco Conservation Corps $105,000
San Francisco Food Bank $35,000
SF State University $10,000 San Francisco Community Recyclers $205,000
I hereby certify that this Resolution was adopted by the Commission on the Environment at its meeting on May 26, 2015.
Monica Fish, Commission Secretary
Vote: Approved 5 – 0; 2 Vacant
Ayes: Commissioners Arce, Bermejo, Stephenson, Wald, and Wan
Noes: None
Absent: None