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Mini-Grant#: 14-03 San Leandro High School,Operation Dry Hands,San Leandro,West County,$3,000.00-Funds will be
<br /> used to purchase and install hand dryers for the restrooms at San Leandro High School. Hand dryers will lessen the use of paper
<br /> towels that are thrown away on a daily basis and sent to the landfill.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-04 San Leandro High School,Special Day Class Recycling Program,San Leandro,West County,$2,000.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase bins for collecting bottles and cans, which will then be taken to recycle centers. Funds will also be
<br /> used to purchase classroom party kits. Party kits contain non-disposable utensils to be used for various school functions.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-05 Millard Elementary School,Recycling for a Green Planet,Fremont,West County,$1,000.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to start a recycling program and purchase the items needed to start this program,such as bins,gloves, aprons, a
<br /> composter,goggles,a scale to weigh trash and recyclable items,aprons and awards for recognition.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-06 Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District,Battery Recycling, Livermore,East County,$425.35-
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase battery collection bins. Every site within LVJUSD produces battery waste. There are currently
<br /> collection bins at(13)sites,grant funds will be used to purchase bins for(7)remaining school sites within Livermore.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-07 Catholic Community of Pleasanton,Operation Out of Landfill,Pleasanton,East County,$240.00-Funds
<br /> will be used to purchase 300 cloth napkins to be used and reused at church functions. Cloth napkins will decrease the number of paper
<br /> towels that are used and end up in the landfill.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-08 Eden Housing Incorporated, Eden Recycling Education Program,Hayward,West County,$2,400.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to educate residents and staff on ways to effectively reduce waste and increase recycling efforts,take residents on
<br /> tours of local recycling centers,and purchase supplies such as recycling and composting bins.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-09 Horner Junior High School, Bulk of New Bins, Fremont,West County,$3,000.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase new recycle bins for uniform waste sorting throughout campus to help promote awareness and gear
<br /> staff and students towards creating a more environmentally sound campus.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-10 Homer Junior High School,Staff Room Remodel,Fremont,West County,$1,150.00-Funds will be used
<br /> to purchase reusable dishware and utensils to cut back on the use of disposable items by staff and students.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-11 Valley View Elementary School,Soaring Scientist: Backpacks Promoting a Green Earth March 2014,
<br /> Pleasanton,East County,$2,400.00- Funds will be used to purchase items to add more innovative recycling and go green activities
<br /> in the Soaring Scientist backpacks.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-12 NEA Community Learning Center,Greening NEA,Alameda,West County,$680.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase recycle bins,rolling carts and turnable compost bin.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-13 Livermore High School,Livermore High School Recycle Program, Livermore, East County,$3,000.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase rolling recycle bins to place in each classroom and eliminate hand picking recyclable items from the
<br /> schools mainstream trash bins.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-14 Keep Oakland Beautiful,Kitchen Pails for the Classroom,Oakland,West County,$2,995.00-Funds will
<br /> be used to purchase kitchen pails to use in Five(5)of the GUSD schools,screen printed bandanas with the Green Gloves logo to help
<br /> identify the staff as part of the program and movement,and grabbers to support students overseeing lunchtime sorting. These three(3)
<br /> tools will both support the efforts that are currently in place and further the evolution of the Green Gloves Program.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-15 Paul Patterson,Manure Diversion and Conversion to Soil Amendments,Dublin, East County,$3,000.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase the items needed to construct a proof of principle manure management system. This system will
<br /> utilize five aerobic compost bins to sterilize herbivore manure.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-16 Fertile Groundwork's,Highway—Towable—Chipper/Shredder,Livermore,East County,$3,000.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase a chipper-shredder to be used for size reduction of garden,orchard and kitchen wastes that are being
<br /> used to make compost and mulch.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 14-17 Berkeley Training Academy, B-Tech Recycle Rollout,Berkeley,West County,$250.00-
<br /> Funds will be used to hold a school wide assembly to explain the benefits of green practices and launch a campus wide roll out of the
<br /> recycling,reuse and composting program. Funds will also be used to provide refreshments at the assembly in compostable containers
<br /> and provide gift cards for lead students who will be responsible for helping to remind everyone on campus to follow the new green
<br /> rules.
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