Guided by a board composed primarily of grassroots leaders, Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health seeks to build the organizational capacity and sustainability of parent and other community-based organizations working to eliminate children's environmental health threats, such as lead poisoning, in communities at highest risk.

Community Toolbox envisions and cultivates a growing parent-led movement focused on developing communities that are free of toxic legacies and environmental threats to children. Our role in this movement lies in building the organizational capacity of new and emerging, parent-led, and community-based organizations working on children's environmental health and justice issues in communities disproportionately affected by environmental toxins.

Since 1998, Community Toolbox has provided over $1,000,000 in capacity building support and technical assistance (TA) to parent and community based organizations around the country that are advocating and creating systemic change for justice on issues ranging from food security to the application of the precautionary principle.

From systemic change to local access Community Toolbox and its partners are getting the job done. Last year with our community-based partners we:

Community Toolbox has worked with our grassroots partners to achieve successes including:

• Promoting producer responsibility by leading a suit against lead paint manufacturers;
• Organizing a national conference for parents of children poisoned by toxins in their homes and communities;
• Authoring legislation in San Francisco that provides incentives to small businesses in blighted communities to sell whole foods and fresh fruits and vegetables over liquor, tobacco and junk food.