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Grant Recipients Aim to Clean Air NOW!
Funds to Aid Diverse Activities from Around the Valley
Valley CAN, a San Joaquin Valley non-profit organization created to help support and promote real-world solutions to improving the region's air quality, today announced the first recipients of grants through a program established earlier this year.
Organization leaders were struck by the responsiveness and creativity of grant proposals in working together to help address the Valley's air quality problem. The objective of the ongoing grant program is to support leadership, education and awareness about what can be done now to clean our air.
"The goal of our grant program is to help educate the public and the private sector that there are immediate solutions to our air problem that we can begin to address and solve now," said Bob Maddux, president of Valley CAN. "Actions do speak louder than words, and our board hopes that by funding some worthwhile projects, we can make real strides toward cleaner air."
Proposals funded by the organization met the following standards:
- Representative of the San Joaquin Valley as a whole.
- Sought to improve Valley air quality
- Generated or supported real-world solutions
- Gave opportunity for real leadership, and/or provided an educational component.
Grant recipients represent the diversity and broad spectrum of the Valley, including a trade association, an educational foundation located in Fresno, and a medical society representing the Fresno-Madera region.
"The grant recipients represent creative and intuitive ideas as to how we can best make a difference in educating our children and changing behavior in both the public and private sectors," said Gus Freshwater, vice president of Valley CAN and member of the program/grant committee.
The following organizations received Valley CAN grants:
- Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART). $100,000
- Remediation Service, Int'l. No direct funding. Demonstration project endorsed by Valley CAN.
- California Cast Metals Association. $31,100
- Fresno-Madera Medical Society. $4,800
For more specific information about the grants and each recipients project, visit www.valley-can.org or contact Tom Knox or Shelley McKenry.
Valley CAN supports a Valley-wide effort to encourage the active participation of individuals and community and business leaders who are serious about immediate, actionable and quantifiable solutions to air quality problems. Valley CAN also will identify and promote voluntary local emission reduction opportunities and existing programs that already are making a difference. Some of the targets for these initiatives will include individual activities, motor vehicles, large and small businesses, industries, agricultural operations, and property development.
Valley CAN continues to accept grant applications and will review them on a first come first served basis. For more information about the Valley CAN grant program, visit www.valley-can.org.
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