This list includes some of the projects and programs supported by the Center for Ecoliteracy since its formation in 1995, as well as grantees supported by donor-advised funds administered by the Center.

Berkeley Community Food Security Council
To support fundamental policy development and enhancement of food security of Berkeley's school-age children.

Berkeley High School/Common Ground
To further develop ecoliteracy/environmental studies projects to support the development of an Environmental Studies Institute that will include an interdisciplinary, praxis-oriented core of classes, a library, and a resource center.

Berkeley Unified School District
A planning grant for From the Garden to the School Cafeteria to support the work of the BUSD Food Policy Collaborative in connecting school gardens with the district's food service program.

Bolinas-Stinson Union School District
To support expansion of the school garden and cafeteria project.

Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA)
To support Open Garden Day, a tour and celebration of community and school gardens throughout the Bay Area.

Chez Panisse Foundation
CEL was a founding benefactor to this grant-giving organization, started by Alice Waters, that "supports projects that teach young people the interwoven pleasures of growing, cooking, and sharing food, inspiring them to respect and care for the land, their communities, and themselves."

Davis Educational Foundation
To support the Davis Farm to School Connection, a program supporting garden-based learning, a complete school lunch choice known as the "Farmers' Market Salad Bar," a recycling and composting program, and cooking activities for students in the Davis Joint Unified School District.

Dixie Elementary School
To support efforts to create and implement a campus recycling program, begin a California native plant garden and nursery, further a creek restoration project, and more fully imbed the garden into the curriculum.

Environmental Education Council of Marin (EECOM)
To set in motion a planning process that will ultimately create a locally based nutritious food system and an ecological and agricultural educational component in Marin County schools.

Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group
To support garden mentors and develop appropriate garden-related curricula at John Muir Elementary School in San Francisco.

Jefferson School
To provide support for the use of an organic garden to teach Berkeley students about nature, science, and nutrition.

Laytonville High School
To provide support to Sustainable Forestry and Small Scale Agriculture, an applied math/science program in which students participate in hands-on projects designed around themes of ecological sustainability.

Life Lab Science Program
To fund the manuscript development of Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms.

Market Cooking for Kids (MCK)
To support a program that gives urban school children access to and experience of local, seasonal food through an integration of ecology, biology, geography, and cooking. It became a curriculum published by the California Department of Education.

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
To provide support to teacher training and a network for Sonoma County elementary, middle, and high school teachers interested in creating school gardens and garden-based curricula.

San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG)
To provide support to Growing Together, a pilot program that focuses on developing and maintaining school gardens in San Francisco.

Sierra Youth Center Market Garden
To support the Youth Center and the Sonoma County Office of Education in creating a two-acre environmental education and market garden that serves as an outdoor science classroom, produces organic fruit and vegetables for the kitchen, and provides job training and socialization skills for incarcerated youth.

Slide Ranch
To support Teaching Ecology to Youth, an environmental education program that offers hands-on, direct experiences with a farm and organic garden, coastal wild lands, and rocky shoreline complete with rich tide pools.

The Classroom of Strawberry Creek Park
To provide support for a garden program to incorporate watershed education, native plant identification, and a youth-run landscaping/plant nursery business.

Tule Elk Park Children's Center
To support transforming 20,000 square feet of asphalt into an environmental learning landscape.

Willard Middle School
To support incorporating the Greening Project into sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade curricula, giving students the opportunity to take care of the school gardens, while learning about composting, nutrition, and other garden-related subjects.

California Freshwater Shrimp Project
To support an award-winning project initiated by fourth and fifth graders at Brookside School in Ross Valley to complete the planting of native trees and bushes on Stemple Creek in Marin and Sonoma counties.

Estuary Action Challenge Project
To provide support for expansion of urban creek restoration programs.

Lincoln Unified School District
To support development of an Eco-Historical Sense of Place, a program to involve teachers and interested community members in exploring the agricultural land and the rich system of waterways of the Delta.

Mill Valley School District
To support bringing the principles of ecology into the classroom in a districtwide watershed effort.

Richmond High School
To provide support to Friends of the Estuary and Richmond High School for Creekkeepers, an after-school and summer employment program.

River of Words
To provide support to implement the River of Words project, to encourage communities to engage in river cleanups, creek walks and watershed-related readings, seminars, and performances in Bay Area schools.

Science Interchange (SI)
To provide support to the Communications Support Program.

Students and Teachers Restoring A Watershed (STRAW)
To support the STRAW Teachers Leadership Institute, which explores the significance of watershed projects for San Francisco Bay and the importance of fostering a sense of place. Participants gain an understanding of a watershed curriculum that integrates art and science. They have field experiences with stream restoration, bird studies, and aquatic ecosystems.

The San Francisco Estuary Institute
To support the establishment of an ecological history project around the Wildcat Creek watershed, a summer institute, and related exercises for use in Bay Area schools.

Brookside School
To support Grounds for Learning in the Real World, a schoolwide program that teaches environmental awareness and interaction through lunchtime recycling, creek restoration, raised-bed gardening, and an annual Visitors' Day.

César Chávez Elementary School
To provide support to Natural Perspectives: Garden, Nutrition and Curriculum Project, a schoolwide project designed to foster the understanding of child nutritional health and how food is produced.

Edna Maguire School
To provide support to an effort to infuse new life into a school garden through ecology, systems thinking, and environmental project-based learning.

John Muir Elementary School
To support a schoolwide effort to integrate garden and creek studies into the curriculum.

Laytonville Elementary and Middle Schools
To support Earth Stewards: Linking Ecology, Community, and Culture, a program that promotes sustainable community, Earth-centered values, and marketable job skills in a rural Mendocino County school.

Montgomery High School
To support the establishment of an Environmental Studies Pathway which will allow students to focus on courses that illuminate humans' dependence on the environment.

Oxford Elementary School
To support a schoolwide effort to integrate garden studies into the core curriculum, coordinate food services, breakfast and salad bars, and recycle/reuse programs.

Park School
To provide support to environmental project-based learning and the children's garden as a basis for teaching ecoliteracy and engendering in students a greater sense of place.

Rosa Parks Environmental Science Magnet School
To support an organic garden and cooking program that is integrated into the curriculum.

Mary E. Silveira Elementary School
To support the EcoStars program, providing students, teachers, and parents with "a sense of place" by monitoring creeks, studying grassland habitat, and taking care of a natural wildlife corridor in the Miller Creek watershed.

The Edible Schoolyard
To provide support to an organic garden and cooking program at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley that is being integrated into the school's curriculum and school lunch program and to fund the curriculum development process.

Washington Elementary School
To support the integration of garden and nutrition curricula, and coordinate field trips to local farms to facilitate an understanding of health and environmental issues.

Berkeley EcoHouse
To support the integration of the Solar Energy Education Program (SEEP) into The Edible Schoolyard program, the Environmental Studies Institute at Berkeley High, and other schools in the Berkeley Unified School District.

Literacy for Environmental Justice
To support teachers as they develop student competency in environmental justice issues through a hands-on community service program of stewardship and civic action in the Bayview Hunters Point district of San Francisco.

Funders' Forum on Environmental Education
To provide general support to an informal network of grant-makers interested in environment- and place-based approaches to education that contribute to positive student outcomes: academic achievement, and personal development as well as environmental literacy at the K-12 and post secondary levels.

News from Native California Magazine
To support the production and distribution of a publication that will describe ways in which California Indians have passed environmental knowledge to children.

North Coast Rural Challenge Network
To support a staff development initiative.

San Francisco Bay Area Early Childhood Funders (ECF)
To provide general support for the Quality Child Care Initiative (QCCI), a collaborative effort of ECF, an informal affiliation of approximately 35 foundations, donors, and corporations with a common interest in funding projects that support young children and their families.

Rising Sun Energy Center
To support the Berkeley Youth Energy Services (BYES) summer program, which engages middle and high school students in energy conservation and community services by training them to provide energy-saving retrofits on the homes of modest-income Berkeley residents.

The Ecology Center
To support the introduction of Terrain for Schools magazine into secondary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

WestEd
To support the "Dr. Art's Guide to Planet Earth" project which provides an Earth Systems Science framework for five Northern California ecoliteracy project schools.

West Virginia University School of Medicine
To support research that explores the effect of early computer access on gross and visual motor development among preschoolers from rural low-income families.

Berkeley Food Policy Council
To support the Farm Fresh Choice, a project that increases access to low-cost, culturally appropriate fresh fruits and vegetables among low-income adult African-American and Latino residents of South and West Berkeley.

Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
To provide support to the Consumers or Citizens Program, initiated by a coalition of activists, environmentalists, parents, teachers, and students for the purpose of eliminating corporate advertising in public schools.

Center for Plain Living
To support work on a publication that questions the use of computer technology in primary education.

Center for Urban Agriculture
To support a film project, directed by John de Graaf, that celebrates the "rebirth of small-scale organic farming around the world." The film is based on Michael Ableman's book, From the Good Earth.

Children's Day School
To support a curriculum effort designed to encourage a love of learning and to foster an attitude of caring for self, for others, for ideas, for the natural environment, and for the human-made world.

Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF)
To provide general support to CAFF, which works to redirect the food and farm system toward sustainability, and to support an outreach campaign.

En'owkin Centre and the Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC)
To support the initial planning phase to develop an educational-interpretive conservation land use program on lands situated on the Penticton Indian Reserve.

Funders Agriculture Working Group (FAWG)
To support the efforts of FAWG, a California-based group of grant-makers whose mission is to promote a sustainable agriculture and food system in California.

Green Guide Institute
To support the relaunch of the newsletter, Green Guide.

Habitot Children's Museum
To provide support for the Back to the Farm dramatic arts program to offer young children in the East Bay the opportunity to discover the connection between farms and food.

Live Power Community Farm
To support an education program that includes a residential program for school groups and an apprenticeship component.

Mothers & Others
To provide support to the West Coast office of this national consumer education organization to launch regional programming that includes a consumer research and education services component.

Rudolf Steiner College
In support of The Waldorf Approach Applied in the Public School Classroom, a two-week summer institute that provides K-6 teachers with hands-on experience in integrating the arts and active learning, with an ecological base, into the curriculum.