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...
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...
Hair mats used in oil spill cleanup, like all traditional cleanup materials are incinerated or landfilled by hazmat teams. In 2002, Matter of Trust and Fungi.com joined forces to do lab research on—if fungus could breakdown mats made from human hair soaked in...
A huge International Natural Fiber Recycling mobilization took place to help get hair booms to the Gulf Coast Spill. We had donated to warehouses spread along Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida that received hair, fur, fleece, and nylons from donors...
Great school project Every year, an estimated 706 million gallons of oil enter our planet’s oceans. Oil spills affect and harm the entire environment. There are several ways to clean those up (with chemicals, biological agents and mechanically). Here...
Intro to the Matter Of Trust Vlog channel to celebrate all the programs, participants, staff and volunteers. And we’re starting with the Looking Glass Program where you all sent in eye glasses donations and other donated goods and we took them to villages and...
Earth Day 2012 San Francisco – Matter Of Trust prepares for our big Earth Day’s A- Maze at Civic Center Plaza. Shout out to all the wonderful schools that are sending in art to cover the barricades and beautify the event! Lisa Gautier, President of Matter...