Extramural Grants
California Department of Food and Agriculture, Specialty Crop Block Grant (subaward from Center for Land-Based Learning)
$25,000
Marketing Study for California Farm Academy Incubator Program Development
California Tomato Research Institute
$39,300
The Effect of Cover Crops, Compost, and Amendments on Soil Structure and Disease in Processing Tomatoes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (subaward through California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
$7,800
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Remote Sensing of Russell Ranch Crops
United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
$15,000
Phosphorus Cycling in Soils: Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Practices on Phosphorous Availability and Loss Using Oxygen Isotopes of Phosphate
Gifts and Philanthropic Grants
American AgCredit
$10,000
Capitalizing on new values-based marketing channels: Using market tours to link small, beginning and immigrant producers with wholesale buyers
CoBank
$30,000
Capitalizing on new values-based marketing channels: Using market tours to link small, beginning and immigrant producers with wholesale buyers
Farm Credit West
$10,000
Capitalizing on new values-based marketing channels: Using market tours to link small, beginning and immigrant producers with wholesale buyers
Fresno Madera Farm Credit
$10,000
Capitalizing on new values-based marketing channels: Using market tours to link small, beginning and immigrant producers with wholesale buyers
Fran Heller
$5,000
Grow the Good Farming Project
Kraft Foods
$50,000
Support for the Sustainable Sourcing of Global Agricultural Raw Materials Project
McClarty Family Foundation
$20,000
Support for the Student Farm and Ecological Garden
Howard and Nancy Shapiro
$1,000
Annual best dissertation prize for agricultural sustainability/agroecology
True North Foundation
$85,000
Continuing support for mentoring and education at the UC Davis Student Farm and through the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems undergraduate major
Yolo Farm to Fork Foundation
$6,700
Evaluation of Davis Joint Unified School District School Meal Local Sourcing, School year 2012-2013
Friends of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute
Contributions of less than $1,000 to the general support of the ASI from:
Natasha Didonato
Sarah Garcia
Friends of the Student Farm
Contributions of less than $1,000 to the general support of the Student Farm from:
Cheryl Pytlarz
Endowments
Arthur Bliss
$1,500
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Endowment to provide support in perpetuity for ASI
Don and Diane Bransford
$5,000
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Endowment to provide support in perpetuity for ASI
Carl Johnson
$1,000
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Endowment to provide support in perpetuity for ASI
Columbia Foundation
$100,000
Funding towards an endowed professorship in agroecology
McClarty Family Foundation
$10,000
Adopt an Acre--Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment
Scott and Ulla Park
$5,000
Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility
Richard and Evelyne Rominger
$1,500
Endowment in support of the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Award
Janice and William Stansfield
$4,000
Endowment in support of the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Award
Friends of ASI (less than $1,000 to the Endowment)
Ashley Boren and Daniel Purtell
John W. Brittell in memory of Marcus Pratt
Mary Buschette
Theresa Dickison
Melissa and Rob Haworth
Richard Hernandez
Linda Maxson and Talbott Miller
Judith Redmond
Nita Vail
Friends of Russell Ranch (less than $1,000 to the Endowment)
Cindy Tong and Ford Denison
Friends of Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger
Contributions of less than $1,000 to the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Award Endowment
Jean and Daniel Engelke
Carolyn Carpenter Gossard and David Gossard
Donors who have made a planned gift commitment to ASI
Barry and Peggy Cavaghan
In-Kind Support
Button & Turkovich
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – wheat combine and other various equipment use (since late 1990s)
Ecoscraps
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – compost
Foster Farms
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – compost (since 1994)
Lopez Welding Services
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – repair services and various equipment use (since 2002)
Meek & Sons
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – corn combine and other various equipment use (since late 1990s)
Morning Star Co.
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch - tomato harvester use (since 2009)
Puresense
In-kind donation of 10 PureSense Mesh Nodes with Decagon 5TE Sensors and Pressure Sensors, moisture meters and measurement monitoring services, and one PureSense Base Station with Weather Station for the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility (since 2010)