We are deeply grateful for the generous support of our funding partners, whose grants make our work possible. Their investment helps us build a more sustainable, equitable and resilient San Mateo County for all. Each of these organizations have demonstrated a lasting commitment to the vitality of our region and play a critical role in ensuring our communities can thrive and flourish now and into the future.
Sand Hill Foundation has awarded SSMC a two-year grant to fund capacity building for our core programs. We are thrilled to be part of the Sand Hill Foundation family. This incredible foundation has been dedicated to local giving for 30 years — funding programs and activities across San Mateo County. We are in great company, joining other recipients including Nuestra Casa, Rise City South City, Climate Resilient Communities and others.
You can help increase this grant! Sand Hill Foundation has also offered SSMC a “Challenge Grant” in which all new and increased contributions to SSMC will be matched dollar for dollar up to a total of $150,000. If you’ve wondered when the best time to donate to SSMC is, it’s now! Your donation will go further with the match from Sand Hill Foundation. If you can, please consider giving here.
SSMC is honored to receive $50,000 in grant funding from the Gilead Foundation to expand our Sustainability Dashboard and create equity-focused, city-specific health and environmental progress reports.
Along with funding from the County of San Mateo, this project will provide detailed, neighborhood-level data on environmental, health and economic challenges across all 20 cities and unincorporated areas of San Mateo County. By highlighting disparities and identifying at-risk communities, the tool will help local governments and advocates develop solutions that promote health equity and sustainability.
With the Gilead Foundation’s support, SSMC will equip decision-makers with the data they need to support funding requests, build solutions and improve outcomes for low-income and historically marginalized communities, especially those most affected by pollution, extreme heat and limited access to healthy food and green space.
The County Board of Supervisors approved a $50,000 grant to support the augmentation of SSMC’s Sustainability Dashboard with a city-specific health and environmental progress report and new equity section. This funding along with a grant from the Gilead Foundation will allow SSMC to integrate the new Report into SSMC’s Sustainability Dashboard. The Report will feature interconnected tables displaying metrics across multiple domains such as demographics, emissions, housing, energy use and transportation. The equity-focused section of the Report will provide a more detailed, localized view of those metrics, disaggregated at the census tract level. This new data format will enable users to identify disparities within cities, better understand community-level conditions and pinpoint where targeted interventions may be most needed to advance environmental and social equity.
Sustainable San Mateo County is proud to be a grantee in Peninsula Clean Energy’s Community Outreach Grant Program, which supports 16 local nonprofits working to increase public awareness of clean energy benefits and energy bill savings. Through this partnership, Sustainable San Mateo County is advancing public education on climate-friendly home solutions by co-hosting induction cooking demonstrations, training youth to engage in climate justice and celebrating the tireless work of local activists, community leaders and government officials and staff in San Mateo County. These efforts spotlight the role of electric appliances in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and empower residents to make informed, sustainable choices in their daily lives.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Sustainable San Mateo County has been awarded a grant from the Ambassador Bill and Jean Lane Endowment Fund, a fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF). The grant is to support environmental programs in San Mateo County, on behalf of SVCF’s Environment strategy.
SSMC is proud to be supported by this fund, which is part of SVCF’s Community Action, Initiatives and Policy grantmaking program which uses a social justice lens to identify and support organizations that help build an equitable Silicon Valley so that all who live and work here can thrive.
Our two organizations are highly aligned. SVCF brings together the resources and skills of donors, businesses, government and community members to address the most pressing challenges in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Along with SVCF’s focus on the environment, they actively pursue solutions to the region’s housing, childhood education and economic disparities. This fits perfectly with SSMC’s “3Es” approach where we focus on building a world where the environment, the economy and social equity are in balance.
