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Funds will also be used to purchase green waste bins,dollies to haul the green waste bins,composters for the gardens throughout the
<br /> campus,compostable bags and food training supplies for a student workshop.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-31 Amelia Earhart Elementary School,Gardening Program,Alameda,West County,$500.00-Funds from
<br /> this grant will be used to purchase composting bins which will allow the school to continue and expand the Gardening Program to four
<br /> first grade classes.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-32 Amelia Earhart Elementary School,Go Green-Lunch Program,Alameda,West County,$620.00-
<br /> Funds from this grant will be used to continue and expand the Go Green Program to reduce waste at Amelia Earhart to the four first
<br /> grade classes. This grant will allow the school to elaborate on lessons that were taught to students during their kindergarten year.
<br /> Students will be encouraged to bring waste free lunches and will be recognized for their efforts.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-33 Amelia Earhart Elementary School,Go Green-School Wide Project,Alameda,West County,$3,000.00-
<br /> Funds from this grant will be used to continue and expand the Go Green Program to reduce waste by supplying all of the classrooms
<br /> with reusable plates,bowls,cups and utensils for class parties,school events and the garden cooking program. The school will also be
<br /> providing all of the students with reusable drinking bottles.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-34 Cypress Mandela Training Center,Inc.,Cypress Mandela Waste Management Project Training,
<br /> Oakland,West County,$3,000.00-Cypress Mandela Training Center(CVITC) is a 16-week(3 cycles per year) pre-apprentice
<br /> Green Construction program that will use these grant funds to provide training to its participants in the areas of Waste Site
<br /> Workers Health and Safety.The program teaches basic skills and knowledge about protecting the health and safety of
<br /> personnel working with hazardous wastes and hazardous waste site work. Health Hazards Awareness develops health hazard
<br /> awareness for the general industry. Participants are also taught how to reuse building materials such as lumber,nails,cement,
<br /> electrical boxes,and previously used training cycles.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-35 Woodrow Wilson Elementary School,Greening Wilson Elementary Campus,San Leandro,West County,
<br /> $2,923.00-Fund from this grant will be used to institute a variety of new Green Projects to improve the volume of materials recycled
<br /> within the school,campus wide recycling,can and bottle CA-V retrieval,and litter reduction. To enhance these projects the school
<br /> will use grant funds to purchase large recycle bins for the hallways,recycling receptacles for beverages,trash can grabber claws,litter
<br /> bags,gloves,training materials,scales,red worms,a worm farm and other miscellaneous items.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-36 Woodrow Wilson Elementary School,Wilson Elementary Cafeteria Waste Reduction Plan,San Leandro,
<br /> West County,$3,000.00-Funds from this grant will be used to start a food scrap program at Wilson. To make this project possible
<br /> the following items will be purchased with grant funds;tables for tray stacking,buckets for liquid disposal,wheeled carts,supplies for
<br /> green team,grabber claws,gloves,scales,time for teacher planning,training materials,books for classrooms,liner bags for 98 gallon
<br /> organic bins,supplies for cleaning bins,and signage.
<br /> Mini-Grant#13-37 Environmental Science Academy Oakland High School,Clean and Green Lunch Project,Oakland,West
<br /> County,$2,231.50-Funds from this grant will be used to purchase materials needed to support the school wide food scrap collection
<br /> and food share campaign piloted in spring 2013. Some of the items that will be purchased are as follows;compost bins,worm bins,
<br /> compost thermometers,gloves.,trash pickers,signage,aprons,and compost bin moisture meters.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-38 City of Dublin,Commercial Food Waste Recycling: What a difference good container labeling can make!,
<br /> Dublin,East County,$3,000.00-Funds from this grant will be used to purchase educational/instructional decals and stickers to
<br /> support its commercial food waste/organics recycling program. Labels will help to improve understanding of the indoor/outdoor food
<br /> waste/organics program and will help to identify which containers are to be used. Improved labeling will increase the quantity and
<br /> quality of compostable materials collected.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-39 Hayward Area Recreation and Park District,Recycling Importance for Creeks and Watersheds Class,
<br /> Hayward,West County,$3,000.00-Funds from this grant will be used to develop(10)three hour classes that will educate(10)
<br /> classes of fourth through sixth grade age students about the importance of recycling all materials so to not pollute our creeks and
<br /> watersheds. Naturalists from the Sulphur Creek Nature Center will teach students to recycle so that wildlife is not harmed by waste
<br /> such as motor oil,plastic bottles etc. Students will examine organisms in a classroom and in a creek and will help remove recyclables
<br /> from Sulphur Creek that will be put into recycling containers.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-40 Hayward Unified School District,Wipe out Waste,Hayward,West County,$1,100.00-Funds from this
<br /> grant will be used to create a book club,purchase books on the topic of recycling,and educate students and staff on pollution and
<br /> waste reduction.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 13-41 Keep Oakland Beautiful,Keep Oakland Beautiful Supporting OUSD Green Gloves Program,Oakland,
<br /> West County,$2,923.00-Funds from this grant will be used to satisfy and support a need within the Oakland Unified School District
<br /> waste reduction and sorting Green Gloves Program. A portion of the funds will be used to purchase grabbers to make sorting easier as
<br /> well as containers and compost stickers.
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