Matter of Trust partnered with the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse (EBDCR) to help victims of the October 2010 flooding in Pakistan. Through our program Excess Access and the community collected parkas and sleeping bags to send to those affected. Linda Levitsky (in...
Matter of Trust is the fiscal sponsor for Veggie Van.org, whose founder, Josh Tickell, is from Louisiana. After the hurricane struck, thanks to the coordinating efforts of Josh and many volunteers, biodiesel providers got fuel to supply boats and diesel trucks when...
Matter of Trust was the fiscal sponsor for Anne Galjour’s benefit performance for the play “Hurricane,” which draws inspiration from the peculiarities of daily life in Louisiana’s Cajun community. Shawn Rosenmoss coordinated the grassroots...
This program is a joint fundraising project between Music in Schools Today (MuST) and Matter of Trust, using our Excess Access online matching program to match gently used instruments with kids and schools that need them. The fundraising event succeeded in collecting...
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 /...
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...
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...
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...
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.
On November 7, 2007, a cargo ship named Cosco Busan accidentally hit the San Francisco Bay Bridge and spilled 58,000 gallons of Bunker C fuel. Within 48 hours hundreds of concerned citizens poured onto Bay Area beaches and helped soak up oil using mats made from human...
