BriarPatch Cooperative Community Fund

Give Where You Live
BriarPatch Co-op, with the help of Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation, established a fund in 1999 to generate interest income for annual grants to local community service organizations. In 11 years we’ve given $16,000 to 40 groups. Shoppers help build our fund by donating at the register— any amount, any time—and by participating in fundraisers. Bring your own grocery bag and your cashier will credit 5¢ to the Community Fund.

2011’s Grantees
• The Food Bank of Nevada County's Healthy Harvest Garden Project, to purchase a wagon and tools for their garden
• KidsKount Placer Community Action Council/Head Start, for a composter, worm bin, and start-up farden tools and inputs
• Mount Saint Mary's Academy Seed of Life Garden, for a composter.

Grant Recipients 2000-2010
HUNGER and SOCIAL ISSUES
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Community Center Association/Adventure Playground
Divine Spark
Extreme Leadership
FREED Center for Independent Living
Friendly Visitor Program
Grandmothers for Peace
Habitat for Humanity
Helpline
Hospitality House
Milhous School & Children’s Services
Nevada County Food and Toy Run
North San Juan Child Development Center
North San Juan Family Resource Center
Partners in English Language Learning
Search and Rescue Team
Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundation
Sierra Services for the Blind
SPIRIT–Peers for Independence & Recovery
Think Local First
Women of Worth

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE & ORGANIC FOOD
Camptonville Community Partnership
Colfax Garden Club
Food Bank of Nevada County
Hennessey Children’s Garden
Interfaith Food Ministry
La Leche League
Live Healthy Nevada County Food and Nutrition Action Committee
Living Lands Agrarian Network
Nevada County Grown
Sierra Foothill High School local farm project
Seed of Life Garden Project
Tuesday Food Fest/Center for Cultural and Naturalist Studies

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
A.P.P.L.E., Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy
Bitney College Preparatory High School Bicycle Program
Forest Issues Group
Nevada County Land Trust
Sequoya Challenge/Independence Trail
Sierra Nevada Deep Ecology Institute
Wolf Creek Community Alliance
Woolman Semester at Sierra Friends Center

COOPERATIVES
Tall Pines Nursery School Co-op