Green stormwater infrastructure by and for communities is a collaboration between SAN francisco estuary institute (SFEI), SAN francisco estuary partnership (SFEP), urban tilth, and university of…

Green stormwater infrastructure by and for communities is a collaboration between SAN francisco estuary institute (SFEI), SAN francisco estuary partnership (SFEP), urban tilth, and university of california, berkeley (UCB). The project aims to build the capacity of residents in east oakland and richmond, california, to understand and influence local water quality. The project will create a curriculum to engage underserved communities in GSI design, invite them to engage with the project team in a community-driven GSI planning process, and build their capacity to contribute to future planning efforts. The results of this collaborative effort will enhance existing green infrastructure along the richmond greenway, management of newly installed GSI in north richmond and east oakland, and implementation of new GSI by skyline high school students in oakland. This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $1,732,000.00.activities: green stormwater infrastructure by and for communities includes six major, interrelated tasks. Task 1, development and implementation of GSI curriculum and protocol for monitoring and maintenance develops GSI modules to engage and energize oakland high school youth and apprentices of urban tilth's basin of relations training program. The project will develop and implement a monitoring and maintenance protocol, as a standardized approach for communities and students to characterize the hydrologic and water quality impacts of GSI installations, and identify maintenance needs. Task 2, community tour development and implementation, includes hosted and self-directed community tours in the east oakland and richmond communities. Task 3 and 4 are community workshop series and neighborhood GSI plans to implement a series of up to six community engagement events per neighborhood. The community workshop series will engage residents to envision and CO-design culturally relevant GSI for neighborhood sites such as parks, areas that frequently flood, and/or areas already slated for urban greening. Task 5 is with groundwork to plant trees at demonstration projects in richmond along fred jackson way and the richmond greenway, and one or more sites in oakland. Task 6 will analyze the project's collective work into a process model development report to further inform the practices that cities and municipalities are using to develop and implement CO-constructed GSI with underserved communities. Task 7 focuses on multimedia outreach and the website for communications and learning platform. Subrecipient:urban tilth (nonprofit organization) $152,354- develops GSI modules to train richmond and oakland high school youth/apprentices of urban tilth's basin of relations training program in the GSI demonstration project built at fred jackson way. UC berkeley (institution of higher education) $416,357- UCB's community engaged education for civil and environmental engineering (CEE^2) will implement youth-PLAN-learn-act-now (Y-PLAN) training with skyline high school students that centers on youth learning through civic engagement and city planning through an intergenerational community of practice partnering low-income young people of color with the adults charged with planning their cities as agents of change. SFEP- community engagement $82,030OUTCOMES:green stormwater infrastructure by and for communities includes six major, interrelated tasks. Task 1, development and implementation of GSI curriculum and protocol for monitoring and maintenance develops GSI modules to engage and energize oakland high school youth and apprentices of urban tilth's basin of relations training program. The project will develop and implement a monitoring and maintenance protocol, as a standardized approach for communities and students to characterize the hydrologic and water quality impacts of GSI installations, and identify maintenance needs. Task 2, community tour development a