2015-2016 Funding

Foundation support


True North Foundation
Enhancing Student Mentoring and Leadership Development at the UC Davis Student Farm - $166,177

 

Industry support


Barilla America
A baseline life cycle assessment of California tomato cultivation and processing - $135,000

Barilla G. & R. Fratelli Italy
Sustainable Sourcing processing tomato workshop - $4,975

Button & Turkovich
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – wheat combine and other various equipment use (since late 1990s)

Colusa Glenn
Capitalizing on new values-based marketing channels: Using market tours to link small, beginning and immigrant producers with wholesale - $10,000

Farm Credit West 
Capitalizing on new values-based marketing channels: Using market tours to link small, beginning and immigrant producers with wholesale - $10,000

Foster Farms
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – compost (since 1994)

Jain Equipment
In-kind donation of irrigation supplies to Russell Ranch and Student Farm

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)

 

Government funding


University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Division, Competitive Grants Program
Building Success in California's Urban Agriculture: Managing Risk and Leveraging Opportunities - $19,157

United States Department of Agriculture, Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative
An experiential learning-based public plant breeding pipeline for organic cultivar development - $295,075

United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
Subaward through Yolo County Department of Agriculture - Farm to School Program evaluation - $15,000

 

University grant funding


University of California, Office of the President, Global Food Initiative 2015
Urban agriculture video project - $23,459
Food justice initiative project - $73,974

University of California, UC Water Program
Application of innovative technologies for estimating water use in irrigated row crops for use in water resource management and planning - $30,000

 

Individual gifts


Scott and Ulla Park/Park Farming
Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Support - $5,000

Peggy Cavaghan, Ph.D.
Agricultural Sustainability Institute Support - $10,000

Carl Johnson
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Endowment to provide support in perpetuity for ASI - $1,000

J.H. Meek & Sons
Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Support- $40,000
Adopt an Acre--Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment - $10,000

Val Dewayne Quinn, II
Adopt an Acre--Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment - $5,000

Evelyne & Richard Rominger 
Endowment in support of the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Award - $1,000

Janis & William Stansfield
Endowment in support of the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Award - $5,000

Feifan Yang
Adopt an Acre--Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment - $10,000

 

Friends of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (less than $1,000 to the general support of ASI)


Gail & Robert Feenstra
Melissa Haworth
Robert Haworth
Brian Kuehl
Sam Maglio
Patrick Nolan

Friends of Russell Ranch (less than $1,000 to the general support of Russell Ranch)


Ford Denison & Cindy Tong

Friends of the Student Farm (less than $1,000 to the general support of the Student Farm)


Don & Virginia Toenjes