Fall Mini-Grants

These projects were part of our mini-grant program, which involves a shorter application, shorter project timelines, and a total funding limit of $5,000 per project. 

UVA Community Garden Compost

Project Description Improve on-site composting of garden waste and waste generated at the local pantry by installing an aerated static composting system. Produce biologically rich compost for the garden community. Reduce organic waste from ending up in the landfill. Share compost use and composting education with the garden community. Project Links

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Stooping Club

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Stooping Club is the world’s first free online chain store. Its vision is to transform society's throwaway culture into a reuse culture and build the circular economy. Through its international network of 16 student-run stores across six countries, Stooping Club seamlessly diverts useful items from landfill to good homes. tackling the growing waste crisis and the lack of affordable access to household items. By listing community donations, excess small business inventory, and curbside finds on an online platform, Stooping Club keeps thousands of usable products...

Fallen to Functional: Community Spaces from Campus Wood Waste

Project Description

Fallen to Functional: Community Spaces from Campus Wood Waste is a design-build project that turns fallen campus trees into outdoor furniture for student gathering spaces. The project offers a more sustainable and locally sourced alternative to the plastic and metal benches typically purchased from third-party suppliers.

By reusing wood that would otherwise be discarded, the project reduces waste, lowers environmental impact, and highlights UC Berkeley’s natural landscape. Each piece will include a small plaque describing...

SunStock

Project Description

SunStock is a solar-powered music festival dedicated to community organizing centered around sustainability and opening discussions on environmental justice. Held each April on West Crescent Lawn, this event brings together students, faculty, and community members to celebrate clean energy, creativity, and collective action towards a greener future. As a 100% free and open event, Sunstock emphasizes accessibility and inclusivity, ensuring that environmental awareness and activism are available to all.

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Haas Wonderfil Station

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Introduce Wonderfil station to our UC Berkeley and Haas community, eliminating single-use plastic, and providing quality sustainable inexpensive basic need products.

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Farmworker Justice: Creating Future Researchers to Uplift Farmworker Voices on Climate Change

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The primary goal of this project is to expand student participation in farmworker justice research and to provide interested undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage with farmworker communities in the broader Bay Area. Through this project, students will acquire hands-on experience with environmental justice research methods and practice as they travel to farmworker communities, participate in local advocacy and community building efforts, and conduct interviews with workers to learn more about their experiences with climate changes. The goal is to...

Reviving Native Habitats Through Student Mentorship Project

Project Description

B) This project aims to create native pollinator habitat, restore oak woodland habitat, and provide stewardship training opportunities for UC Berkeley students. These goals would be implemented primarily in winter and spring, approximately from January to May 2026.

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Self-Healing Sustainable Concrete using Saturated Recycled Aggregates

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The goal of the project is to develop recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) that have a high self-healing capacity while retaining mechanical properties for implementation in construction projects in order to reduce carbon emissions and material waste. Once we have an RCA that satisfies parameters we will develop replicable and cost effective procedures that can be used in industry.

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FUELSAFE - Fuel-Reduction, Ecological Stewardship, and Fire Education

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The FUELSAFE Project (Fuel-load Reduction, Ecological Stewardship, and Fire Education) aims to reduce hazardous fuel loads, improve forest health, and expand experiential learning opportunities for UC Berkeley students at Russell Research Station. The project focuses on shrub and small-tree removal, burn-pile creation, controlled burning support, and road restoration to increase wildfire resilience. FUELSAFE also seeks to enhance student engagement with land stewardship and long-term ecological management at a UC-owned research forest. ...

Promoting Accessibility and Creating Community for Student Volunteers in Sustainable Community Farms

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This project aims to create more accessible pathways for students to engage with the practice and principles of Agroecology outside the classroom, without barriers-to-entry (be it financial, social, or physical). It hopes to foster a critical community, which challenges the predominant industrial framework of agriculture, and reimagines student relationships to land and local communities.

In order to realize these goals, it intends to create a digital Agroecological Action Resource Center (AARC) along with an Agroecology Action Group - Agroecology...