to us and we need to look at what will amplify our 0 waste message, we take that into consideration, we look at our cobenefits, i wanted to highlight some of the cobenefits from the recommended projects for example, you will see sf food bank they not only feed hungry people in sachlt frachlt, they capture edible food that is december sinned to landfill, through the food recovery program. this is a fanistic program, this is the second year we're funding it in a row. the conservation san francisco -- for youth specifically, they're doing tremendous work they have evented in san francisco, they divert compost and recycling at i vents, throughout the city. will you see them at events in san francisco, sorting through

the materials at the scene, they provide education for people going to events goodwill second we're year funding them they not only divert textiles from landfills, but they create local jobs something we care about deeply, also scrap is an example of keeping material out of landfill but helping teacher get access for her honor learning, which is critical. i wanted to mention a few problth projects, new this cycle there is co-op, there are a few from the organization here. it's a youth community. there is about 300 families that live there they have amazing garden, and composting but the youth will do outreach to teach

about composting, that is new and fresh. we're funding recycle for change who is also in the audience, they are increasing the community of sex tile collection, some of the commissioners knows, that is one of my passions we're sending 18,000 tuns of textiles to landfill, we don't need to be doing that we need to promote textile reuse in the city and recycle for change as well as goodwill will be helping us with that creating easy collection in san francisco. and drop off location. san francisco state universities, early child care center, that is a new group we have not worked with they said they want to expand early education composing in our center. this is educating all of the early educators in the bay area,

if i'm saying that right. it's a great location for them to set up composting programs specifically paper towels they go through in these communities, the next is david glad stone, they're partnered with ucsf they're a huge lab, and that research. they have interested in diverse, huge amounts of styrofoam, they approached us, and said we want to diverse and recycle it through gb industrial we're excited to work with them, it's something new and different and innovative, everybody is here from all of the grantees, perspective grantees in the audience, thank you for coming, i know it's a long meeting [applause] i wouldn'ted to open

up for questions if you guys have anything. >> thank alexa. questions? comments? commissioner wald? >> i have no questions, although i would invite our prosective it's five minutes before you make us we make you real grantees, in your programs i personally want to thank you for coming here tonight, it means a lot to me to see you and to have you see us going forward, we are partners you are representing us when we talk about about the work of the department, we are representing you. and it's really good to be able to put a face to the name i assume on both sides of this

equationless it's also a wonderful opportunity to thank you all for the very important work you are doing in your communities in your homes in your laboratories and for spreading the message along with us thank for coming and thank you for your work. does anybody want to come up? you don't have to. oh good. >> all right. welcome. >> hello, commissioners, i'm olive, the executive director for scrap. tonight, i wasn't sure what the format would be i thought this was a more public comment portion, excuse what i'm about to say, on behalf of the board,

we have staff and volunteers of skap i would like to express our gratitude for the association, and su pout port of skap without it, skap would be hard pressed to survive let alone thrive. there say tremendous amount of alignment between what the sf environment does and the mission of scrap. we feel there is more alignment yet to seek. the catch phrase is reduce reuse, recycle, while the city has enacted laws regarding reducing waste has mandated rooik recycling and composting, it has yet to invest in the reuse part of the equation -- contrasting new york city's where resues is part of the cultural affairs, but receives a

million dollars in subsidy each year. through san francisco environment, they're supporting less than -- % to the waste, a great start but more to be done. a groum of grass rootses organizations ready and willing to do the hard work for 3019 years, scrap has been on the edge of the movement along with other organizations here tonight. scrap is the little engine that can. our annual die version of waste certify pass 250 million, or half a million pounds, we have received over 1,000 pounds of waste. we do this on a tremendousously small shoestring without a dime

of city investment, but it has not been easy. half a million pounds of waste diversed thousands of teachers supported multiple thousands of children given the opportunity to express themselves, and 0 waste promosted far and wide, our business has us earning 90% of the affordable income for 90% of material tell us how many nonprofits can claim that? we can take this to scale, we can diverse 10s of thousands, perhaps millions of tons of waste each year and increase our ability to self sustain. the fact is it's not enough. ours like our colleague organizations is a volume business. we don't have a big store front in a well heeled neighborhood with lots of traffic, we are in

district ten in a warehouse without an address, and use for reusability, but we cannot do it alone. $30 came through our warehouse, is enough to sustain associations -- this past week there was a mission about the gentrification of the city mission district talking about the family artists lost in our -- making it more difficult for grass roots organizations to exist in san francisco. scrap plays a crucial role in sustaining our cultural fire ask the thousands of artisan crafts people, rely on the materials they find at scrap, ask the thousands of san francisco public schools who

supply their materials in class they find at scrap. we're the burning ambers of the fire that sustains our city. we think it's time to get serious about resues in san francisco, it's time to bring organizations such as scrap out from the shadows, into the light, by longing the city's significant resources to bear. thank very much. [applause] -- >> we're delighted to be partnering with you, on the textile die version strategy this is not about goodwill this is about the community, i invite our partners to work as we move

forward on this grant, we're excited to add to the over 25 million pounds, we divert from landfill each year and growing, the wonderingful thing about goodwill and our brand, people know us, bring us our thing thing, now we can amplify and promote it we are important fate, to partner with businesses and organizations, san francisco, is a leader the u.s. commissioner should be so proud to be a part of this as we are. everything is about being thought partners doing this better pushing hard and recycling resources, we're grateful we appreciate it we look forward to partnering with all in the audience thank you. [applause]

>> president arce commissioners, director raphael, i'm blare rand l for the environment, we're honored to be selected to be recommended for support. far gardens, is a demonstration environment, on 7th street and sunset the land is owned by the san francisco public utilities, commission, we have partnered with them we're honors to be partner with the department for many years working towards 0 waste, what we come in is key to behavior change or key to 0 waste is behavior change and behind behavior change are people people need training, this is where we come in.

on one end, we're teaching individuals to garden, another end, compost. back in the day world war i and two, individuals knew how to garden, when the nation called about the nation to garden world world war i and two individuals knew how, that is not the case any more yet many organizations are using the skills of gardening to make social change whether it's working to nutrition literacy 0 waste, all of the different strategies, require the skill of how to garden that's what we're provieting, the skill of how to gar debt and compos if individuals know how to compost in their backyard they know how to use reusable compost bin --

support from this commission for a number of years, and subsequently, this say three month training program, for two years, and i have put up on this chart here, a very powerful cobenefit of this three month training program. we're training adults to compost epektively, more than that we're training them to be advocates and educators, in their communities, how to be gardeners, and composters themselves, the work of our graduates, speaks for itself. this say list of the graduates from the training program the department has supported for a number of years, they're playing leadership roles, in these organizations, most of the agriculture, organizations in san francisco, have a graduate

of our program, in their organization, so this is organizations like quesa, executive director of our program, spur, the food and agriculture policy program there, the gram manager is a graduate of this program education odz, the director is a graduate of this program, the san francisco urban agriculture, the founder is a graduate of this program. allen farm, one of the cotowneders is a graduate of this program, the list goes on and on. they they have something to be proud of, through this grant program, you have birthed not only behavior change toward 0 was, you have birthed a -- toward the agriculture movement.

thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening, i'm deborah, gor man i'm an executive director of the conservation course. what i should share as everyone else has it is just such an honor and privilege to get selected. i think the staff does a good job, you are biting your teeth, or nails that you get selected. by working with the san francisco conservation core i think people recognize we're a young person job development 18-24 we're also getting a charter school we're helping them complete high school every wednesday community meeting morning at our last meeting, a young woman came forward, just joined the program, cropped out of san francisco public school

in the 9th grade she's 20, 7 months, pregnant, and decided to use the conservation core in her words, to get her "ish", together, are you getting the charter school, the high school and the civic engagement part they know when we earn a grant that is coming from the 0 waste program, and it's coming from city hall and department of environment, they get the civic engagement, that is the other component, we try to let them understand what their funders are and give back to the city a lot of that is eye opening, they don't ever come over to city hall or understand them on that. again, we're grateful to be sected. we hope you see our work in our public events i hope you see bins out there for you.

thank you [applause]. >> good evening, i'm bab bra merabif, for the sf food bank, thank you for considering us for this grant, one in four are in need of food in san francisco, the millions of pounds of food that will help with this grant, will not only stay out of landfill, but go those in need this grant will help fund a truck and a driver who collects the food in a food safe way, it's brought back to the food bank, and distributed to those in need. so thank you. [applause] >> welcome >> thank you. i'm going to be honest with you, i did not know exactly what we

were supposed to be doing, i came down here from listening, when i fefr came in i noticed people were doing slide shows, i caulked to a young lady i'm about to get married to in october back there. put together a slide show hurry up. so we put together us and the kids, and the garden in my community, and somebody i guess whispered to her, we didn't need to do that which is kind of cool but i do want to say, thank you to whoever it was that allowed us us to have this grant, it's not a lot, what it is is another opportunity for me to keep this family, and this garden we could be doing horrible in the neighborhood my

neighborhood is death and destruction to most people but to mee me it's a community that is trooifing, for something new, by using the green and blue binneds, with this funding i'm able to put together awesome activities, to challenge my community, hey, let's try this, i think it works. the kids, built the compost bin which is awesome, they're looking at it now, what do we do next? i'm able to keep them long and train them, show them. this is what we do let's put our bbq, extras what we don't eat in the compost bin. she was telling me yeah that is not the only thing they want they want to weigh. i was like weigh it? how are we supposed to do that? this is how my brain kids in and think of animated ways we

can weigh the compost, let's put together a heavy weight challenge, and i wrap around your compost bin, if you weigh the most. i challenge the community to do something better. that gives them knowledge and wisdom of other things, going on around us other than what we face on the inside which is a lot of -- which is poverty, being stuck in a certain set up system, whatever you want to call it i like to challenge them. with this funding, i just want to thank whoever it was that allowed it to happen i was able to keep kids we have 19 maybe more, and challenge the parents, the ones that don't come outside a lot, i have a game for you, it

involves, food thank you. any thaem is marcus, bailee, at the community garden. [applause]. >> good evening thank you for having me, my name is mathew lavek, i'm the former manager of building resources we're a 20 year old program, if you want to measure tonnage, come visit us onnage average day, we unload and reload 20 truckloads of materials, we handle building materials, so we're talking substantive weight, bricks doors, windows, bath tubes, all the heavy stuff, that is us we are grateful to be here for 20 years, we look forward to doing it another 20 years, it's a very

viable program, we incorporate, we're not for profit, we incorporate educational activities, we do a lot of workshops, tours, a lotover work with the collegeses, and with market development. we came up with a whole scheme how to sell people broken glass, it's turned into an entire industry, 8s mimicked across the country, when we're pretty proud of we like to continue that level of innovation and commitment to the city, and integration to the city a lot of people know us, we would like to stay there, so i would ask your blessing if you will on that one, i will leave that to you, thank you. [applause] >> good evening commissioners, director thank you for the

honor for this grant, i'm alexander, hauf man, for change we're little known in california -- (audio cutting out) and aboverty in the u.s. and abrov, we're a 501 c three nonprofit organizations, that collects clothes and shoes, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and support commissions as kro the globe. -- and shoes. our program is self sub si die z. through the sale of reusable materials we leave, last year we recycled, over 9 million in the bay area out of that 9

million, san francisco recycles nun hundred thousand, in our boxes, the area which is densely populated, has limited space for the placement of boxes, that is a challenge for our company, last year i spend time working with alexa and the environment, and have found a lot of opportunity, when i heard about this grant i thought, what a great way to really focus our efforts, in san francisco, san francisco is a model city. if every city was like san francisco, i would be out of a job, thank you san pran for leading the way, we hope this grant we can take across the greater bay area, thanks for considering us. [applause] >> my name is catherine bay --

we're a 501 c three. son san francisco state campus our board is runned by student, staffed by students and one of the programs we run is the early childhood education center we would like to thank you for starting a compost program, because of the way we're situated on campus, it's hard to get it going, so we thank you for the opportunity to invest to get composting said -- students are educators of ft future not only are we walking with small children in the program itself we will educating the educators as well. thank you. and thank you to alexa, and other staff members who made the daunting process of applying much easier.

thank you. [applause] >> hello, good evening, thank you very much, i'm rita mont, executive director, of the chinese newcomer center i'm very proud we will be able to par ner with ivy waning and pat trin young with green solutionses, they have ambition goals, they have more than 14 + years of diversion and waste disposal, i would like ivy to tell you more about this. >> good evening commissioners. as i know i saw one year i know her for the past almost 15 years, and she knows what i'm doing because, you know when i first met her, i have been doing, the recycling.

as everybody knows, the chinese community especially in china town it's like newcomers, under served, low income families the last thing in their mind is environmental issues. so it's really hard to reach, but there is one great thing about our chinese families for the next generation we should do good deeds. this is what my point is, to outreach to them, you are not doing it for your family now, you are doing it for the next generation, you are doing it for the future, for the piece and harmony on this earth. and when you leave this earth,

you left something behind. that's the good deeds. but right now, with the challenge of you know making money to support the family is the most important thing for them. for us to actually outreach to them. we actually have to take care or whatever do something good back to them. maybe some stipend or help them out with some programs which is the newcomers is doing, they have been helping them to actual actually get all the resources for jobs for social welfares, their daily needs, so i'm

looking forward to exceed our goal and you know for this 0 waste program, like i say, we're doing it for the next generation. [applause] >> thank you. >> all right. this is a great idea. commissioner wald hear from everybody the amazing work and definitely really it's very much appreciated how you thought through the process for evaluation, and took to heart a lot of ideas from the commission and seem to be really good i have a couple of questions, i wanted to di fer to colleague if anybody has questions first? so the 11 grantees, how many are