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Grant #: 10 -03, Grattan Elementary School, Recycled Habitat Center: Bird Sanctuary, San Francisco, West
<br /> County, $2,700.00 - The grant will focus on the first of multiple habitats in the "lab" and school environs with recycled
<br /> materials to provide a safe haven for wildlife while reducing landfills. This habitat will be a cluster of small actual size
<br /> birdhouses that can be placed outdoors, creating a native bird sanctuary that can be monitored from the observation
<br /> station. This sanctuary will also provide students with the opportunity to see the school as a nested system within the
<br /> larger natural eco- system that surrounds the campus.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -04, Village High School, School Garden Enhancement, Pleasanton, East County, $1,200.00 - This grant
<br /> will provide funding to enhance the school garden. This project will promote recycling at the school, involve students in
<br /> planning and creation of a school garden, and provide free vegetables and fruits for the local senior citizens at the Senior
<br /> Center in Pleasanton. This project will create a positive atmosphere at the school while saving our environment and
<br /> doing recycling and composting in an effective and productive way.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -05, Oakland Landscape Committee, Oakland School Gardens, Oakland, West County, $500.00 -
<br /> Purchase compost bins for the school gardens to reduce the amount of green waste going into landfills /dumpsters.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -06, Walnut Grove Elementary School, Walnut Grove Roadrunners Recycle Project, Pleasanton, East
<br /> County, $1,400.00 - This grant will be used to promote student's awareness and understanding of recycling and the
<br /> impact is has, not just this year, but for years to come.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -07, Marin School PTA, ROT — Garden Compost, Albany, West County, $2,830.00 - This grant will fund
<br /> the purchase of additional seating for the outdoor teaching area, compost bins, and an expanded irrigation system for the
<br /> garden and greenhouse. Students will also be creating a murallsignage and sculptures about waste reduction and the food
<br /> cycle.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -08, Laurel Elementary School, Healthy Bodies Healthy Soil Healthy Community, Oakland, West
<br /> County, $2,727.62 - This grant will assist the Laurel Elementary School PTA and its teachers to start a garden on
<br /> campus. The garden will promote recycling by teaching the scientific fundamentals of the compost process. The garden
<br /> will promote waste prevention by teaching, students to appreciate and choose foods that use less wasteful packaging, as
<br /> well as by giving them a stake in cultivating a healthy, trash -free outdoor space on campus.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -09, Behavioral Health Care Services, Project GROW, San Leandro, West County, $2,543.00 - Using
<br /> non - formal experimental learning methods, Project GROW proposes to work with the youth at Camp Wilmont to create
<br /> three large compost sites by converting the existing three large concrete containment bins.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -10, Westlake Middle School, Westlake Middle School Garden Improvements and Green Waste
<br /> Recycling, Oakland, West County, $3,000.00 - This grant will help to improve the outdoor garden, rebuild the green
<br /> waste composting area, and help the garden coordinator to rebuild and reopen the neglected garden area.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -11, Grattan Elementary School, All Waste in Its Place, San Francisco, West County, $3,000.00 - This
<br /> grant will be used to create signage for existing color -coded bins for recycling and compost, showing exactly which items
<br /> belong in each bin. The school will also purchase a stainless steel table to use as a sorting station, compostable bags,
<br /> buckets, and reusable rubber gloves to be worn by compost monitors.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -12, Ocean View Elementary School PTA, Compost Ecology, Albany, West County, $1,208.55 - Grant
<br /> funding will be used to purchase a worm compost bin, red worms, and garden materials to create a winter vegetable
<br /> garden in the upper grade /science courtyard. Educational materials will also be purchased from Acorn Naturalist to
<br /> enhance the learning opportunities of the garden.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -13, Sowing Seeds, OUSD Green Futures Program, Oakland, West County, $3,000.00 - With this grant
<br /> the Green OSUD program will offer standardized ways that schools and school districts can formalize their greening
<br /> efforts, based on examples from model school districts around the county.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -14, Cleveland Elementary School PTA, The Living Library Project, Oakland, West County, $1,570.00
<br /> - This grant will be used to purchase durable weather resistant signs and composting tools, buckets for food scraps and
<br /> tarps to augment the recycling program, and magnifying tools to study more deeply the compost and garden.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -15, Cleveland Elementary School PTA, Good Earth Cafe /Outdoor Kitchen, Oakland, West County,
<br /> $3,000.00 - Funds from this grant will be used to purchase a recycling sorting cart for the garden classroom, a reclaimed
<br /> sink and food prep table, needed outdoor kitchen equipment, re- useable /washable table cloths and bamboo dining ware
<br /> for students.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -16, Sunset Elementary School, Sunset Play Yard Waste Reduction —1 (K -1 yard), San Francisco, West
<br /> County, $1,000.00 - Sunset Elementary School has recycling and composting containers in the cafeteria, they do not have
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