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partners and allies in this work. In city after city, it is clear that movement building for policy change builds the power of low-income communities of color to have a stake and a voice in the political and economic processes that shape their lives. Too often, environmental grant makers shirk their responsibility to address the issues affecting these communities, which are disproportionately impacted by issues of pollution and waste, food access and quality of life, and employment and sustainability. This is a call for a new moment in grant making and charitable giving. centered on partnership, solidarity, and movement building.
As someone new to the field of philanthropy, I am consistently disappointed by the often cited issue of capacity used to explain why certain grantees are funded while others remain under resourced. Capacity has come to replace the concept of risky and is overwhelmingly used to describe community-based organizations working in low-income communities and communities of color and led by committed leaders of color. If there is a capacity issue with an organization in one of our communities, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation understands that it is our responsibility to step up and provide the necessary resources to these organizations and work in partnership with them to make the change we hope to see in the world.
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network
310 8th Street, Suite 309
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 834-8920
www.apen4ej.org
Brightline Defense Project
P.O. Box 420250
San Francisco, CA 94142
(415) 837-0600
www.brightlinedefense.org
Center for Food and Justice
Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road MS M-1
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(323) 341-5099
310 8th Street, Suite 309
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 834-8920
www.apen4ej.org
Brightline Defense Project
P.O. Box 420250
San Francisco, CA 94142
(415) 837-0600
www.brightlinedefense.org
Center for Food and Justice
Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road MS M-1
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(323) 341-5099
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Earlier this year, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman visited agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland’s Decatur, Illinois, headquarters to tout its part in President Bush’s Biofuels Initiative. The secretary posed for photos with then Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Chair G. Allen Andreas and announced that the Department of Energy would offer up to $160 million for the construction of three bio-refineries to expand U.S. ethanol production.
"Partnerships with industries like these will lead to new innovation and discovery that will usher in an era of reduced dependence on foreign sources of oil, while strengthening our economy at home,” Secretary Bodman said from ADM’s trade floor. Given the absence of conditions imposed by the Department of Energy, the three bio-refineries could well be partially coal-powered. ADM already operates coal-fired plants at its company base in Decatur, Illinois, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is currently adding another coal-powered facility at its Clinton, Iowa ethanol plant and planning another coal fired plant in the town of Columbus, Nebraska.
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