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Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund Announces $9,660,000 in New Grants

San Francisco (October 13, 2009) - The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund has authorized new grants totalling $9,660,000. Highlights include a grant of $5,000,000 to UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a $675,000 initiative split between six organizations working to increase the use of environmentally-responsible paper among businesses and consumers.

Grants in the Goldman Fund's regular program areas of Environment, Jewish Affairs, Population and Quality of Life in the San Francisco Bay Area include:

ENVIRONMENT

American Rivers
Washington, DC
$80,000
Advocate for better management of U.S. rivers and wetlands.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
Washington, DC
$85,000
Educate health care professionals on the connection between environmental toxins and reproductive health.

California Hydropower Reform Coalition
Oakland, CA
$100,000
Mitigate the impacts of hydropower projects and protect watershed land in Northern California.

Californians for Pesticide Reform
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
Protect public health and the environment by limiting the use of pesticides in homes.

Center for International Environmental Law
Washington, DC
$100,000
Enact and implement legal reform to reduce toxic chemicals from industrial and agricultural production.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Oakland, CA
$100,000
Create job training programs to support local green business growth and generate quality job opportunities.

Environment California Research & Policy Center
Sacramento, CA
$80,000
Expand the use of solar power in California through increased consumer demand.

Health Care Without Harm
Jamaica Plain, MA
$75,000
Improve the U.S. health care industry's energy efficiency and environmental performance, and engage health care professionals as advocates for climate change action.

High Seas Conservation Alliance
Bellevue, WA
$500,000
Secure international protection of the high seas through a comprehensive ecosystem approach to ocean management.

Natural Heritage Institute
San Francisco, CA
$200,000
Lessen the impacts of dams on ecosystems and communities through changes in the way they operate.

Rainforest Alliance
New York, NY
$125,000
Support a cocoa certification program promoting sustainable agriculture and environmental protection in South America and West Africa.

Sierra Nevada Alliance
South Lake Tahoe, CA
$75,000
Develop conservation-oriented solutions to state water planning in response to climate change and population growth.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
San Jose, CA
$125,000
Address the environmental impacts of the manufacture, usage and disposal of clean technologies.

Smith River Alliance
Crescent City, CA
$125,000
Planning related to the purchase of 5,360 acres of private land within the Smith River National Recreation Area in Northern California.

Paper Initiative: to increase the use of environmentally responsibly paper. A total of $675,000 was awarded for this initiative split between the following organizations:

Dogwood Alliance
Asheville, NC
$87,500
Increase the use of recycled paper content in product packaging.

Green America
Washington, DC
$100,000
Promote the use of recycled paper in the U.S. magazine industry.

Forest Ethics
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
Assist retailers in switching to environmentally responsible wood and paper products.

Green Press Initiative
Asheville, NC
$87,500
Increase the use of environmentally responsible paper in the book industry.

Canopy
Vancouver, BC
$125,000
Increase the use of environmentally responsible paper in the U.S. newspaper industry.

Environmental Paper Network
Asheville, NC
$175,000
Increase the capacity of the environmentally responsible paper movement.

JEWISH AFFAIRS

American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Chevy Chase, MD
$320,000
Bring four Richard and Rhoda Goldman Visiting Israeli Scholars to Northern California universities for the 2010/2011 academic year.

Bimkom
Jerusalem, Israel
$120,000
Work with the Bedouin in the Negev to be more engaged in the public planning process.

Human Rights First
New York, NY
$150,000
Reduce the incidence of anti-Semitic and other bias-motivated hate crimes.

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
Web-based program that enables educators to teach about Jewish partisans during the Holocaust.

The Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel
Rishon le-Zion, Israel
$80,000
Support the work of organization dedicated to the full application of Israel's freedom of information law.

Public Trust
Tel Aviv, Israel
$120,000
Protect the consumer rights of the Arab Israeli and Ethiopian Israeli communities.

Reboot
New York, NY
$200,000
Engage Jewish young adults in an exploration of their Jewish identity.

Spark: Partnership for Service
San Francisco, CA
$150,000
Provide opportunities for teens to engage in community service within a Jewish framework.

Shatil
Jerusalem, Israel
$110,000
Train economists and policy planners to work more effectively with social change activists.

POPULATION

ACCESS
Oakland, CA
$75,000
Improve access to reproductive health care for low-income, uninsured women.

Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$115,000
Provide reproductive health screening, testing and counseling to low-income women.

International Women's Health Coalition
New York, NY
$200,000
Strengthen U.S. support for international family planning.

Pathfinder International
Watertown, MA
$100,000
Reduce maternal mortality by improving access to safe abortion services in developing countries.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Washington, DC
$100,000
Mobilize progressive religious leaders to advocate for family planning and comprehensive sex education.

Third Wave Foundation
New York, NY
$75,000
Assist young and low-income women who are unable to afford abortion procedures.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
Berkeley, CA
$5,000,000
Campaign for the Goldman School of Public Policy. A total of $5,000,000 was awarded in 2009, payable from 2009 to 2013.

Holiday Grants
Since 1994, the Goldman Fund has supported a Holiday Grant program to help local nonprofit organizations provide for those in need during the holiday season. In 2008, each of the following San Francisco-based organizations received a $5,000 Holiday Grant for a total of $125,000:

A Home Away From Homelessness
AIDS Emergency Fund
Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services
Compass Community Services
Dolores Street Community Services
Episcopal Community Services
Family Service Agency of San Francisco
Florence Crittenton Services
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
Grupo de la Comida
Homeless Children's Network
La Casa de las Madres
Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly
Martin de Porres House of Hospitality
North & South of Market Adult Day Health
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
Project Open Hand
San Francisco Adult Day Services Program
San Francisco Fire Fighters Toy Program
Self Help for the Elderly
Groceries for Seniors
St. Anthony Foundation
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center
Tenderloin Health
TURF Club

About the Goldman Fund: Since its establishment in 1951 by San Francisco philanthropists and civic leaders Richard and Rhoda Goldman, the Goldman Fund has contributed more than a half-billion dollars to a variety of charitable causes in San Francisco, as well as nationally and internationally. The Fund supports programs that focus on improving the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area, the environment, a dedication to reproductive rights and stabilizing global population, and Jewish affairs.