Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health provides technical assistance to parent- and community-based organizations throughout the United States with a specific emphasis in California and Arizona, the Southeast and Northeast. Since 1998, we have provided over $1,000,000 in financial and technical support to organizations working on children's environmental health and justice. We believe that those who are most affected by environmental hazards are those who are most able to define the obstacles they face and the path for action. We assist communities by offering "tools" that will strengthen their organizations and make them more effective in advocating for and promoting the changes they seek.

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Community Toolbox thanks our institutional and individual donors for their continued support, including Proteus Fund, the Beldon Fund, the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Max and Anna Levinson Foundation, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, JSN, and the San Francisco Foundation.

Recent highlights from some of our partner groups include:

• East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, located in Commerce, CA, have been instrumental in ensuring the adoption of rules regulating railroad locomotive idling. Their work was featured in the Los Angeles Times in January 2006. For more information about inter-modal facilities and resultant air pollution, please contact East Yard at info@eastyardcej.org.
• Museum of Cultural Arts Houston, in Houston, TX, exhibited a collage of children's artwork about the hazards associated with living in the vicinity of a Superfund site at Houston's FotoFest (March 16 - April 22, 2006). Their work has been featured in a March 2006 article in Grist Magazine. For more information about how to promote environmental awareness and action through art, please go to their website at http://www.mocah.org.
• Suzie Canales of Citizens for Environmental Justice, from Corpus Christi, TX, was recognized last year by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute for her work on the connection between air pollution and health outcomes. She was also featured in the Environmental Support Center's Fall '05 newsletter. For more information about compiling scientific data and about bucket brigade programs, please contact CFEJ at cfej2000@yahoo.com.
• Community Organization for Rights and Empowerment, in Holly Hill, SC, has been working closely with the school district superintendent in order to create programs to intervene with local youth. Their Word Out Productions theater group educates the community about the environmental and health hazards associated with local industries such as cement and fiberboard plants.