7/16/24: Community Grant deadline soon + July transit advocacy
We have an exciting funding opportunity to help your organization host a Transit Month event this September – get your applications in before the deadline next Friday! We also have two upcoming volunteer opportunities in San Jose and San Francisco this month. Plus read our blog posts to get the latest on transit funding and policy conversations happening in the Bay Area and at the state level.
Transit Month Community Grant Application - due July 26th
Bay Area Transit Month is coming up this September! During Transit Month community organizations, transit agencies, and others host a variety of fun events, rallies, and socials to bring the transit community together and celebrate the central role of public transit in our region.
We’re offering grants of $500-$1,000 to community-based organizations to help cover the costs associated with planning and hosting Transit Month events. The deadline to apply is Friday, July 26th at 11:59pm. The application should only take a few minutes and the criteria for grants are listed in the form. Apply now and help spread the word to organizations who would be interested in this grant!
July Volunteer Opportunities
Sign up for these two upcoming volunteer opportunities in San Jose and San Francisco where we will be advocating for a well-integrated, better funded, and more seamless transit system for the entire Bay Area.
July 25th-28th: Santa Clara County Fair
July 30th: Tabling outside the Giant’s vs. A’s game at Oracle Park
Photos from tabling events at VivaCalleSJ and the Downtown Berkeley Farmers Market
Employee Matching Program
Did you know that your employer may match donations to Seamless Bay Area Alliance, our affiliated 501(c)3, and double its impact? Companies that match employee donations include Apple, Adobe, Bank of America, Cisco, Disney, Google, Netflix, Wells Fargo, and many others.
If you work at a company with an employee matching program and would be willing to help get a Seamless Bay Area donation page set up internally through your company, please respond to this email and we will be in contact soon!
Employee matching programs have been an important funding source that helps sustain our work fighting for an improved, integrated, rider-first transit system. Over the past year, we have made some huge progress in expanding integrated fares, securing funding to avoid transit service cuts, and laying the groundwork for a transformational regional measure.
New from our Blog
Expediting transit priority projects, improving inter-agency service and fare coordination, and safety policies were the focus of the Statewide Transit Transformation Task Force’s fourth meeting in San Francisco on June 17th. Local advocacy groups organized a ‘ride-along’ with Task Force members prior to the meeting highlighting the needs, challenges, and initiatives to improve Bay Area transit.
Select Committee meets to hash out framework for future transit regional measure
Stakeholders across the Bay Area convened at the inaugural Transportation Revenue Measure Select Committee in an effort to reset the conversation and reach a consensus around a future regional funding measure. At the first meeting there was broad agreement on top priorities – addressing the fiscal cliff, improvements for transit riders, and network management. Committee members also recognized that there are a diversity of needs across the Bay Area, but that a region-wide transportation funding measure remains crucial to addressing shared transportation challenges and achieving transformative improvements across the network. Adina Levin, Seamless Bay Area’s Advocacy Director, sits on the new Committee.
Finally, thanks to everyone that came to our June Transit Happy Hour at Shotwell’s with Jeff Wood from the Overhead Wire and host of the Talking Headways Podcast.
