Grant Highlights
Healthy environments
As a leading social-change institution, the foundation has addressed poverty, youth violence, education reform and environmental justice while coordinating efforts to influence public policy. This two-year grant supports the foundation’s leadership of a collaborative project to establish an environmental health land-use policy for the Los Angeles area that will reduce pollution exposure and health risks while creating green enterprises.
The alliance uses research, organizing, coalition-building, policy advocacy and communications to achieve its mission of transforming the economy and the environment. A three-year grant supports the implementation of a Clean Trucks Program at the Port of Long Beach to address port-traffic issues, alleviate air pollution and improve residents’ health.
The nonprofit corporation fosters healthy, safe homes for children by engaging in research, reporting, training and policymaking on housing-related health issues. A three-year grant lets the center create a community-based advocacy for the Healthy Housing Project to implement its National Healthy Housing Action Plan, build a grass roots advocacy network and broaden funding support for healthy housing.