1. Review the applicant guide and Information Session PowerPoint (How To Apply) 2. Submit an Abstract (the abstract application period is now over). Clicking "submit an abstract" will link you to the application. Download the application to your computer from the google doc as a word document. ALL applicants must submit an abstract to the Carbon Fund Committee. Small projects requesting less than $5,000 will only have to submit an abstract in the fall. If you are asking for more than $5,000, submit an abstract, and we will ask you to come back in the winter to fill out a supplemental application. Not all applicants will be invited to submit a supplemental application in winter. Your abstract will be judged based on the completeness of your application, a point system, and how your project fits our mission statement. Please submit completed abstracts to carbonfund@ucsc.edu as a PDF. You will hear back from us on the status of your requested funding by December 4th. You will need to embed the following materials into your application:

3. Submit a Supplemental Application (application will be available December 10th and is due by January 19th by 11:59 pm). Final decisions will be made within 2-3 weeks from the application due date. Please submit the application as a PDF by emailing it to carbonfund@ucsc.edu. Projects that submit a supplemental application are projects requesting greater than $5,000.  Note: If the committee feels that they need more information about your project before funds are granted, then you will be asked to meet with the committee for a short half-hour interview. To assist you in determining your project's carbon footprint, you can use the "Clean Air- Cool Planet's" carbon footprint calculator.  Please note that all projects must still complete the Carbon Fund's calculator and submit it with their application. Feel free to contact the Carbon Fund staff at any time for help with your project proposal. We are available via e-mail at carbonfund@ucsc.edu and hold weekly office hours in Kerr Hall room 118.

/beneficiaries/grants-program on this server. Your technical support key is: 36cb-98d1-1756-6707Grants Paid in 2011 Including Payments for Grants Awarded in Prior Years Seed funding to transform this all-volunteer pilot web-based project into a professionally staffed sustainable non-profit.  AmpleHarvest is an innovative web-based solution diverting unwanted food from home gardens across America into the nation’s system of local food pantries and out of land fills and compost piles. (First payment of a $60,000 grant) One-time grant to refine, replicate, and nationally disseminate Audubon Vermont’s innovative new approach to engaging landowners and communities in sustainable forestry practice to reverse the dramatic decline in the populations of many priority bird species. (Final payment of a $75,000 grant) To support green and sustainable initiatives campus-wide, including the new athletics quadrangle, in association with the naming of the new green quadrangle located in front of the new Fitness Center and Aquatics Center in recognition of              H. Anthony Ittleson’s 50+ years of support for Brown.

(Second payment of a $1.5 million grant) Center for Whole Communities $20,000 One-time grant for the initiative “Strategy 2042.” The goal of this project is to empower the future leadership of the conservation movement in America to be able to successfully engage people of color.  Over three years, up to 60 emerging conservation leaders under 35 will go through this intense program.  shadow air cleaner coverAccording to Innovative Adoption theory this is the critical number of early adopters needed to begin to change a system of the scale of the conservation field.plants the purify the air Clean Air – Cool Planet $5,000how to use compressed air to clean a laptop One-time grant to test, pilot and promote CHEFS (Charting Emissions from Food Services) Calculator to measure and help reduce global warming impacts of specific food services practices.

(Final payment of a $85,000 grant) Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A) $55,000 One-time grant to refine and nationally replicate Sustain-A-Raisers, G.A.L.A.’s action-oriented, volunteer-driven program to empower individuals to take environmentally positive actions around their homes using clotheslines, compost bins, and rain barrels built/installed by volunteers. (First payment of a $75,000 grant) ioby (In Our Backyards) $5,000 One-time grant to test their NYC pilot online micro-philanthropic initiative supporting local environmental work and to develop a robust model for replication in other cities. (Final payment of a $90,000 grant) Marine Conservation Institute $40,000 One-time grant to use the emerging technology of Predictive Habitat Modeling to identify areas of unprotected coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico and secure their protection from highly destructive bottom trawling and other harmful fishing practices. Natural Resources Council of Maine $30,000

One-time grant to support their Producer Responsibilities Recycling Project to advance the concept of “extended producer responsibility” by creating “case studies” showing the environmental, public health, and economic benefits of Maine’s EPR programs by helping build the product stewardship movement, including researching best practices from other states ad countries and by exporting the Maine model nationwide sharing information, resources, model policies and expert scientific data and analysis. (First payment of a $45,000 grant) Seed funding to pilot and launch The Confluence Collaborative at Shelburne Farms. The Collaborative will be both a real and virtual mechanism to enhance the national dissemination of model place-based and other innovative environmental programs moving people from environmental awareness to action in their own communities.  The grant will allow the Collaborative to test and refine its convening and dissemination methodologies, document its import, expand its network of partner organizations, put in place a dedicated staff, develop national visibility and develop and begin to implement a sustainable business plan for the Collaborative’s continued operation.