Communities for a Better Environment

(Huntington Park, CA) www.cbecal.org	Total Award: $150,000 over 1 year
Integrated Environmental Health and Justice Program	Program Contribution Environment Program, $125,000 Health Program, $25,000

To support the Integrated Environmental Health and Justice Program, a statewide environmental justice organizing and leadership training program that provides assistance to low-income, working class communities of color in California, primarily in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Contra Costa Counties. Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) provides organizing skills, education and leadership development for adults and youth, and legal, scientific and technical assistance to low-income communities of color facing threats to their health and well-being from toxic pollution. The program will continue to engage community members in a new campaign fighting mobile air pollution sources in addition to facility stationary sources of pollution. CBE is also organizing and advocating for environmentally sound redevelopment plans at the Bayview Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a Superfund site. CBE is also working to keep industry and government accountable to an alternative energy strategy that incorporates conservation, renewable energy sources, cumulative impact analysis and aggressively pursues investment in clean energy alternatives.

This grant also satisfies:

Environment Program: Objective II, Strategies 1 & 2
Health Program: Objective II, Strategy 2