Through a grantmaking program, CEL nurtures education for sustainability, primarily in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region of California. The Center is a public foundation that sponsors donor-advised funds and shelters projects consistent with its mission.

Please note that the Center for Ecoliteracy does not accept unsolicited applications.

The School Lunch Initiative at Berkeley

A major grantmaking strategy for the Center focuses on the School Lunch Initiative at Berkeley, a project begun in 2004 to design and implement curriculum and food service innovations in a public school setting. This project is a partnership of the Chez Panisse Foundation and the Berkeley Unified School District, in collaboration with the Center for Ecoliteracy and Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute.

The School Lunch Initiative at Berkeley includes innovations in food service and curriculum across the Berkeley Unified School District and in individual schools throughout the district. The project will apply a planning framework from the Center's Rethinking School Lunch online guide.

To support this Initiative, the Center has awarded grants to the Berkeley Unified School District for professional development. The Center is providing technical assistance to support policy development and dissemination for the Initiative. Additionally, the Center is articulating a scope and sequence of learning objectives based on linking California grade-level standards and benchmarks of Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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