Community Grant Program

Oryana Community Grant Program

Our Community Grant Program is a charitable giving program based on Cooperative Principle #7 which states: “While focusing on member needs, cooperatives work for the sustainable development of communities through policies and programs accepted by their members.”

In each profitable year we have, Oryana has made a pledge to donate a portion of our end-of-year proceeds to a non-profit organization in our community. Since we started this program, we have awarded over $32,000 to local non-profits. This year we had a tie and The Human Nature School and the Greenspire School shared the grant.

Past winners:

2009 - Little Artshram
2010 - Bay Area Recycling
2011 - Fresh Food Partnership, Tart Trails (tie vote)
2012 - Grow Benzie
2013 - ISLAND
2014 - T.C. Community Garden
2015 - Human Nature School & Greenspire School

If you are interested in applying, we will post the 2016 application soon.