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Royal Oak Greening Project

The Royal Oak Greening Project is a collaborative initiative between the City of Covina and Charter Oak Unified School District, aimed at enhancing the school grounds by introducing drought-tolerant landscaping. This project represents an important effort to merge educational goals with environmental sustainability, fostering both ecological benefits and community engagement.

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Health and Wellness

CalFresh

The CalFresh Healthy Living project supports healthy, active and nourished lifestyles by teaching our communities about good nutrition and wellness practices.

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#VoteSGV

As an organization committed to engaged communities and participatory democracy, ActiveSGV strongly encourages all eligible SGV residents to exercise their right to VOTE!

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Active Youth Fellowship Program

The Active Transportation Youth Fellowship Program aims to provide South El Monte youth with the opportunity to learn, engage, and grow as active community leaders.

A woman wearing a mask engages with a representative at an information table during a community event. The table is covered with colorful educational materials, including flyers, brochures, and a children’s coloring book about water conservation. The representative, wearing a beige bucket hat and casual clothing, is explaining one of the pamphlets. Several other tables with seated individuals are visible in the background, and the setting appears to be outdoors at a school or community center.

Trusted Messenger Network

The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications (OCPSC) leads California’s top community engagement and public awareness campaigns by collaborating with trusted messengers, providing funding, and creating culturally relevant tools to educate and connect with communities. The office enhances state efforts through partnerships, media campaigns, and data-driven strategies to address key priorities.

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Jeff Seymour Family Center Bike Park

The Jeff Seymour Family Center Bike Park includes a variety of features to improve rider skills and fitness, including pump tracks, lumber elevated trails, dirt rollers, a teeter, and more.

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GoSGV

GoSGV is a regional e-bike share program led by ActiveSGV and the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments.

Cyclists on a bike path.

E-asy Access: Connecting People to Parks and Places

E-asy Access: Connecting People to Parks and Places program is designed to reduce barriers to accessing parks along the Emerald Necklace and beyond by providing residents of high-need study areas no-cost access to good quality electric commuter bicycles and family cargo electric bicycles.

People pose with their bicycles at 626 Golden Streets (now Active Streets)

Active Streets

Active Streets events are multi-city events that open stretches of roadway for people to walk, bike, run, skate, scoot, dance, play and more on car-free streets.

Dr. Beatriz Solis Scholarship

The Dr. Beatriz Solis scholarship was founded by the family of Dr. Beatriz Solis (1962-2020), to honor her legacy and impact.

Amy Wong takes part in a Nature For All project

Nature For All Coalition

ActiveSGV is working with local and national partners in protecting the public lands and green, open spaces around Los Angeles.

The arroyo seco in Pasadena

SGV Greenway Network

Driven by the input of community members and stakeholders, ActiveSGV launched the SGV Greenway Network initiative in 2014, setting a goal of 50 miles of greenways and green streets by 2025.

People biking in the street in South Pasadena

Biking the San Gabriel Valley

ActiveSGV is committed to improving bicycle infrastructure throughout the San Gabriel Valley.

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Health and Wellness

Regional Recovery Hubs

A place-based community-building strategy, with cohorts of community organizations working to sustain non-profit capacity, increase coordinated response to COVID19, and inform short to long-term recovery efforts.

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Bassett & Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community

ActiveSGV is proud to be a part of the Bassett Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community, a team of nonprofits, community organizations, and energy technology leaders helping to produce renewable energy locally. BAAEC’s mission is to create a renewable energy community in Avocado Heights and Bassett.

Covid-19 mural

Health and Wellness

Covid-19

ActiveSGV helped coordinate over 20 vaccination events in the San Gabriel Valley and helped around 1000 residents get vaccinated. The ongoing outreach efforts help connect people to vaccination clinics, testing sites, and other resources to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

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El Monte Parks

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) and The Trust for Public Land (TPL) are working on a community outreach-based planning effort to augment existing planning and development work in the City of El Monte.

Completed Projects

Tools hanging on the wall in the Bicycle Education Center

Bicycle Education Center

ActiveSGV opened the SGV Bicycle Education Center on Sunday October 25, 2015, which is available for the community to use and maintain their bicycles.

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San Gabriel Valley Regional Active Transportation Project

The San Gabriel Valley Regional Active Transportation Plan was a comprehensive, regional effort to develop local pedestrian and bicycle plans for five SGV cities, identify feasible 'greenways,' create regional signage, and provide bicycle safety classes.

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#SGVcounts

#SGVcounts was a two-year project to fill gaps in walking and bicycling data in the San Gabriel Valley designed to inform decision-making, evaluate existing/future projects, and support applications for funding active transportation improvements.

Community members on bikes conducting a bike audit on Alhambra streets

Walk, Bike, Move! Alhambra

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) and Alta Planning and Design developed the Walk, Bike, Move Alhambra! pedestrian and bicycle transportation plan to improve the quality of life for residents, workers, and visitors by providing improved facilities to allow people to walk and bike throughout the city.

Children walking on the sidewalk. Front kids hold sign reading: We Walk to School!

Safe Routes To School

SRTS programs aim at increasing the number of students who choose active or shared transportation to school by making it safer and more accessible to walk, bicycle and/or take transit.

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Healthy Home Study

ActiveSGV worked with UCLA and The Energy Coalition to study the exposure of natural gas within homes residing in zip codes 91732 and 91746.

Community members line up to learn about and share feedback on the Finkbiner Park Stormwater Capture Project.

Finkbiner Park Stormwater Capture Project

The City of Glendora is planning to install a water filtration tank underneath the softball field at Finkbiner Park which will clean and restore water to Little Dalton Wash. With its installation comes an opportunity to enhance the softball field and basketball court, incorporate native plants and trees, and improve flood management.

A group of young cyclists in a parking lot.

I-10 Active Commute, Healthy Community

The I-10 Active Commute, Healthy Community Project was a comprehensive, multi-jurisdictional, innovative outreach and education program designed to improve public health, community connections, economic development, and sustainability by encouraging greater use of active and public transportation along the I-10 Fast-Track corridor in the San Gabriel Valley.

Families attend community 'Open House' to provide feedback on plan development

San Gabriel Valley Regional Bicycle Plan

ActiveSGV partnered with non-profit partner Day One and five San Gabriel Valley communities to solicit and secure funding to develop and implement a Regional Bicycle Plan.

Rider practices emergency braking during on-bike instruction

'Need to Know' Bicycle Safety Education

As part of an Office of Traffic Safety funded project, ActiveSGV successfully provided 58 “Need to Know” bicycle safety education classes in Eastern Los Angeles County.