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AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM – Youth Media Lab Project – 2005
Matter of Trust is the fiscal agent for Youth Media Lab (YML), an organization dedicated to providing media training to educators, youth service providers, youth and their parents. YML conducts after-school television and digital video production classes for Oakland...
FILM – Excess Access Linking Society’s Surplus With Nonprofit Needs – 1999
This 15-minute mini-documentary shows how Matter of Trust and Excess Access began and how they work. Copies are available upon request; it has been displayed on YouTube since March 2009. ©1999
CONFERENCE – Women’s Green Global Action Network – Mexico City – 2004–2005
Matter of Trust was the fiscal agent for Women's Global Green Action Network (WGGAN) until they were eligible to be under the umbrella of our friends at Earth Island Institute in 2006. WGGAN cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders for...
FORUM – Environmental Leadership Forum – 2008–2010
Matter of Trust was the fiscal sponsor for Holly B. Shepard and Evan Henrich's Environmental Leadership Forum. Their mission was to accelerate the social movement towards a sustainable and just world. Their Forum / Training series focused on Food / Water / Energy and...
EXHIBIT – Earth From Above USA – 2008–2010
A breathtaking collection of large-scale aerial photography by world-renowned French environmentalist, Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Matter of Trust was a fiscal sponsor for the planning stages of Earth From Above - USA Exhibit and Educational Program in New York. From field...
EXHIBIT – Solar Peace Sculpture – 2007
Matter of Trust was the fiscal sponsor for the planning stages of Fred George’s Solar Peace Sculpture, which appeals to the global citizen as well as politicians around the world. In addition to the commentary on current wars, this piece represents symbolically a call...
CAMPAIGN – Biofuels4Schools.org – 2007–2010
Matter of Trust was the fiscal sponsor for Lindsay Hassett's Biofuels4Schools. This was an eco-educational program dedicated to the immediate shift from fossil fuels to alternative fuels. It focused on school bus clean air awareness programs as they relate to...
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM – Gold Coast Environmental Awareness In Partnership with Mad Science – 2004
Matter of Trust was the fiscal agent for this after-school project on the environment. In partnership with Mad Science Gold Coast Educators, the semester-long course showed kids how nature reveals itself through science.