The goal is the protection of everyone’s basic human rights, including economic, social, cultural, civil, and political freedom. As defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these are not privileges granted by governments, nor can governments abrogate them.

Access to food and farmland:

$180,000 over three years to the AGRICULTURE AND LAND-BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION (ALBA), Salinas, Ca., to (1) increase direct-marketing opportunities for ALBA’s small-scale organic farmers and increase access to affordable, local, healthful, organic food for low-income people in the Salinas Valley; (2) develop institutional markets for ALBA Organics and ALBA farmers; and (3) continue to promote the value of local-food systems throughout the region.

$100,000 over three years to CALIFORNIA FARMLINK, Sebastopol, Ca., to build family farming and conserve farmland in California by linking aspiring and retiring farmers; and to promote techniques and disseminate information that facilitates intergenerational-farm transitions.

$350,000 to CALIFORNIA FARMLINK, Sebastopol, Ca., for a program-related investment for the California Farmlink Farm Opportunities Loan Fund, which provides low-cost loans to initiate or expand family-farm operations.

Electoral reform:

$100,000 over two years to the CALIFORNIA CLEAN MONEY CAMPAIGN, Los Angeles, Ca., to increase the visibility of the concept of full public financing of local and statewide political campaigns in California as a means to improving the honesty, openness, and accountability of government, and the responsiveness of elected officials to their constituents.

$100,000, as a returnable grant, to HABITAT MEDIA, San Rafael, Ca., for The Lost Art of Tea Tossing, a feature-length, nonpartisan documentary film that will examine citizen efforts to restore a more functional and participatory democracy in the U.S. by means of democratically financed campaigns for elective office.

Elimination of prejudice and discrimination based on sexual and gender diversity:

$100,000 to the EQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE, San Francisco, Ca., for the California Equality Project, a media and public education campaign to achieve majority support for civil marriage equality for lgbt people.