Consumer Rights Grants

Consumer Rights Grants is sponsored by Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment. The Rose Foundation directs money to support consumer rights, including financial education and privacy.

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Our grantmmaking and capacity-building programs unlock hope and potential for meaningful change. California Wildlands Grassroots Fund California Environmental Grassroots Fund Rose’s programs are united by the belief that those closest to the problem are the most equipped to solve it. By redirecting resources to groups representing marginalized populations, we build power where meaningful change originates.

1. Environmental Legal Settlements 2. Grassroots Environmental Grants 3.

Consumer Rights Grants 4. Youth Leadership Program 1. Environmental Legal Settlements Directing Remediation Payments Back to Affected Communities Rose works with the legal community to channel restitution funds back to impacted communities.

As the trustee for over 600 such funds, we maximize their reach and impact to protect watersheds, ensure clean air, and mitigate pollution, such as toxins and pesticides. Our extensive field network enables us to reach grantees delivering the greatest benefits to vulnerable populations. 2.

Grassroots Environmental Grants Climate Resilience Starts at the Community Level The soul of our work, Rose’s grassroots funds reach small and emerging groups often left out of traditional funding streams. Small but mighty, these groups represent marginalized communities at the forefront of the environmental movement.

In addition, Rose provides grassroots grantees with essential capacity building support so they can grow into strong organizations. 3. Consumer Rights Grants Strengthening Consumer Protections As a recipient of cy pres and mitigation funds, Rose aims to ensure all affected communities are notified and benefit from the settlement.

We reach out to small and mid-size organizations, which represent underserved communities and unheard voices, and provide them with support to engage in emerging issues, such as AI, data security and internet privacy issues. 4. Youth Leadership Program Building Next-Generation Environmental Justice Activists Rose’s New Voices Are Rising (NVR) program is building the next generation of environmental leaders.

Through our STEAM-based curriculum, frontline Bay Area youth are building the skills and confidence to confront the environmental and social issues disproportionately impacting their communities. Explore New Voices Are Rising From local projects to nationwide initiatives, meet the makers of community change. Pàah Áama connects Native youth in California’s Klamath Basin to their ancestral waterways.

Using paddling as a restorative activity and an entry point to activism, the group is preparing participants to paddle the undammed Klamath River from source to sea. Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP) Grantee | San Francisco, CA With Rose funding, BCPP developed the Non-Toxic Black Beauty Project, a website with a database of safe, Black-owned beauty brands and a Red List of harmful chemicals.

Over 140,000 individuals have downloaded the application. Antiquated water policies and climate change threaten nearly half of Oregon’s Columbia Basin cold water habitats. Rose grantee WaterWatch of Oregon secures legal protections for tributaries, safeguarding cold water inputs and enhancing climate resilience.

Grantee | New Orleans, LA A Community Voice used its Rose grant to unite residents and politicians for the Blight to Bioswales project, which works with New Orleans' most vulnerable residents, to develop plans to install bioswales and rain gardens for impending floods that disproportionately impact their neighborhoods. Local Roots. National Reach.

Rose distributed $7. 6 MIL across 22 funds in 2023. The grants we made represented small grassroots grant making, mitigation-powered funds, and donor advised giving.

The number of next generation environmental leaders who are nurtured through touchpoints with our New Voices Are Rising program each year. Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehouses (R-NOW) Awarded Anthony Grassroots Prize From Gas Station to Green Space: Mini Mart City Park Q&A with Deb Self, Rose Foundation's New Executive Director Welcoming Deb Self to the Rose Foundation Community!

Grantee Spotlight: Friends of the San Juans Rose Foundation Awards Major Research Grant to UC Riverside: Tackling Port Pollution in San Pedro Raise Every Voice— New Voices Are Rising Youth are Fighting for Clean Air Community Power in Action: New Voices Are Rising in the News Honoring Grassroots Power. Real Impact. One Incredible Victory.

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