In 2008-2009, the Environment Working Group allocated funding through our initiatives and the Blasker Awards Program. Some of our grants reflect the priorities of more than one initiative, such as the grant to the Environmental Health Coalition which will advance both the Climate Change and the Clean Environments, Health Communities initiatives.

This year, as part of The Foundation's Climate Change Initiative, the prestigious Blasker Grant Awards were given to support research on greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of climate change on the San Diego region.

Land & Watershed Conservation Grantees
Clean Environments, Healthy Communities Grantees
Climate Change / Blasker Environment Awards

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Land & Watershed Conservation

Anza-Borrego Foundation
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Inholdings Project
$30,000
To acquire privately owned inholdings in the northern wilderness area of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Parkland and improve the management of existing wilderness areas.

Back Country Land Trust
Preserving the Peutz Valley Watershed
$31,000
To acquire and preserve land in the Peutz Valley Creek & Alpine’s Peutz Valley watershed, leading to El Capitan Reservoir & the San Diego River.

Conservation Biology Institute
Conservation Support and Community Outreach, Otay-Sweetwater Region
$50,000
To conserve the biodiversity of the Otay-Sweetwater region and its resilience to climate change by protecting and managing core areas and landscape-scale connections between conservation investments, and increase public awareness in surrounding underserved South Bay communities.

Endangered Habitats League
Conserving Biodiversity in San Diego County
$50,000
To permanently conserve wildlife habitat and biodiversity in the San Diego region by purchasing and protecting wildlife habitats in San Diego County as well as leveraging public and private funds for land acquisition and management.

Fallbrook Land Conservancy
Capacity Building for Land Acquisition and Management
$34,000
To acquire and manage key habitat and wildlife corridors in the Santa Margarita and San Luis Rey watersheds, and increase capacity to work with Camp Pendleton and other partners to acquire and manage key open space parcels.

San Diego Canyonlands, Inc.
Canyon Enhancement Planning Guide Development
$50,000
To foster awareness, appreciation, and community involvement in protection, restoration and ongoing stewardship of the unique canyon habitats in San Diego County by creating a Canyon Enhancement Guide for the community.

Trust for Public Land
San Diego Program
$40,000
To conserve four priority parcels within the Camp Pendleton Wildlife Corridor and San Diego River Park. Leverage additional public and private conservation funding for land acquisition and expand relationships with partners, particularly local land conservancies, for prioritizing and stewarding conservation lands.

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Clean Environments, Healthy Communities

International Rescue Committee
New Roots Healthy Community Initiative
$41,000
To fund the support of a youth and community urban farm program that will increase urban green space and outdoor recreation opportunities for San Diego’s densest, most park deficient neighborhood and Illustrate the deep connection between the food system and the ecosystem through active and passive education.

Rural Communities Assistance Corporation
Comprehensive General Planning for ribes in San Diego County
$40,000
To provide funds to increase the capacity of tribes in San Diego County through education and technical assistance; to develop and implement a comprehensive 5-year general plan aimed at improving tribal economic development, environmental protections protecting public health.

San Diego State University, Grad. School of Public Health/Dr. Jenny Quintana
Health and Environmental Impacts of Border Crossing Delays and Traffic
on Residents and Workers in the Community of San Ysidro and the
San Diego Region
$49,000
To support efforts to characterize local and regional effect of long vehicle delays at the United States/Mexico border on both air quality and greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute information for future border crossing management and better understanding of implications for public health.

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Climate Change / Blasker Environment Awards

In 2000-2009, as part of The Foundation's Climate Change Initiative, the prestigious Blasker Grant Awards supported research on greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of climate change on the San Diego region.

ICLEI USA - Local Governments for Sustainability
San Diego Regional Climate Protection Network
$125,000
To assist the region’s county and city governments in climate protection planning through the development of local baseline greenhouse gas emissions inventories and adaptation strategies, as well as the development of a Climate Protection Network among local governments and public agencies.

San Diego State University Research Foundation / Department of Biology
Using Landscape Genetics to Understand the Impacts of Habitat Fragmentation on Animal Communities in San Diego County in the Context of Climate Change
$70,770
To use a novel integrative landscape genetics approach to understand how preserved lands in San Diego County are functionally linked; to support conservation efforts that enhance regional ecosystem resilience in the context of a changing climate.

San Diego State University Foundation/Graduate School of Public Health
Coastlines At-Risk Assessment and a Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategy for
the San Diego Region
$77,539
To delineate the effect of sea level rise on San Diego’s coastal wetland habitat and physical infrastructure in order to develop a spatial decision support system for coastal management and land-use planning under future sea-level rise scenarios.

2008-2009 Environment Grantees

2007-2008 Environment Grantees

2006-2007 Environment Grantees

2005-2006 Environment Grantees

2004-2005 Environment Grantees


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