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1993 Environment Grants Agriculture
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Center for Rural Affairs
Whitesburg, KY |
To educate and organize rural constituents
and rural policymakers on the need for legislative and administrative reforms
to promote resourcecon serving agriculture; and to support the collaborative
policy work of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coordinating Council.
(2 years) |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
Community Farm Alliance
Berea, KY |
To help establish a regional coalition
of farmers and grassroots rural organizations working to promote sustainable
agriculture throughout the South. (1992 award, $60,00012 years) |
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30,000 |
Institute for Alternative Agriculture
Greenbelt, MD |
To involve agriculture professionals
at land grant colleges, government agencies, and agricultural associations
in the work of analyzing public policies for sustainable agriculture. |
40,000 |
40,000 |
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY |
To support the work of the Environmental
Foundation of Sri Lanka in its efforts to monitor forestcutting. |
20,000 |
20,000 |
Public Voice for Food and Health
Policy
Washington, DC |
To support a campaign to educate
consumers on agricultural issues. (1992 award, $100,000/2 years) |
|
50,000 |
Tides Foundation / Environmental Working
Group Farm Program Oversight Project
Washington, DC |
To support efforts to marshal and disclose information
about the way environmental standards for agriculture have actually been
enforced at ground level; and, to conduct a detailed investigation/critique
of major U. S. farm income transfer programs. |
100,00 |
100,000 |
Minority Communities
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Environmental Careers Organization
Boston, MA |
To organize "Focus on Nonprofits,"
a program through which African American, Latino, and Asian American students
are secured placements in nonprofit environmental organizations; and to
conduct "diversity training" sessions and organize a series of
roundtable discussions between environmentalists and community groups. |
$120,000 |
$120,000 |
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law
Washington, DC |
To support a multiracial, interdisciplinary
effort to redress environmental degradation faced by minority and lowincome
communities, and to identify, develop and deliver legal and technical resources
to campaigns for environmental justice. |
60,000 |
60,000 |
National Association of Neighborhoods
Washington, DC |
To support a three-organization
consortium to work on a varied, cooperative program to redress environmental
injustice in minority neighborhoods. (1993 award of $50,000 canceled because
grantee did not meet match requirement.) |
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Seventh Generation Fund for Indian
Development
White Earth, MN |
To contribute to a new project focusing
on the environmental concerns of Native Americans. |
50,000 |
50,000 |
Southwest Community Resources
Albuquerque, NM |
To improve the administrative capacity of the
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic lustice, a federation of
more than fifty organizations cooperating on campaigns for environmental
justice. |
30,000 |
30,000 |
Sustainable Societies
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York, NY |
To support the "National Religious
Partnership for the Environment," an effort to educate and involve
communities of faith in the work of environmental protection. (1992 award,
$150,000 from environment program and $150,000 from interprogram/3 years) |
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$100,000 |
Council on Economic Priorities
New York, NY |
For the Corporate Environmental
Data Clearinghouse, to complete reports on the environmental performances
of major U. S. corporations. |
40,000 |
40,000 |
Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC |
To investigate federal tax policy
as it applies to transportation, agriculture and water pollution, and to
advocate for "green" tax reform. |
40,000 |
40,000 |
National Center for Economic Alternatives
Washington, DC |
To support investigation and analysis into the
ways in which the goals of economic sustainability and social equity can
be pursued simultaneously through institutional change. |
50,000 |
50,000 |
Tides Foundation / Positive Futures
Project
San Francisco, CA |
To support a new program aimed to
lead the environmental movement to a deeper level of analysis about the
relationship of humans and the earth. (2 years) |
167,500 |
87,500 |
World Resources Institute
Washington, DC |
For the Sustainability Project,
to create a vision of a sustainable U.S. future, and to identify practical
steps that can be taken by policymakers, researchers, business leaders,
and private citizens in five key sectors of the American economy. (2 years) |
125,000 |
75,000 |
World Resources Institute
Washington, DC |
To promote the development and adoption
of pollution taxes and other "green fees" as a means to tackle
the deficit and ensure environmental protection. |
60,000 |
60,000 |
Human Rights Initiative
(To stengthen the connection between environmental protection and the protection
of human rights.)
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY |
To support a joint effort with NRDC
to work with nongovernmental organizations from developing countries to
increase their participation in the UN's Commission on Sustainable Development. |
$10,000 |
$10,000 |
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
New York, NY |
To support efforts to help international
financial institutions incorporate human rights considerations into their
review and decisionmaking process. |
10,000 |
10,000 |
Natural Resources Defense Council
Washington, DC |
To update and expand a case study
on civil and political rights related to protection of the environment in
Mexico. |
10,000 |
10,000 |
Society for Applied Anthropology
Oklahoma City, OK |
To produce and distribute a report
and a summary overview on Human Rights and the Environment. |
5,000 |
5,000 |
Transportation
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Bicycle Federation of America
Washington, DC |
To advocate for bicycle and pedestrian
concerns under ISTEA legislation, and to support model state and local projects
through small grants. |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Chicago, IL |
For the Citizens Transportation
& Air Quality Program, to support the involvement of Chicago residents
in transportation policy. |
40,000 |
40,000 |
Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY |
For the Transportation Policy Legal
Defense Fund, to establish a coalition of four organizations to devise and
coordinate legal strategies that will require state transportation plans
to conform to the provisions of the Clean Air Act. (1992 award, $200,000/2
years) |
|
100,000 |
Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY |
To work on computer models that
attempt to predict the environmental consequences of transportation investments. |
100,000 |
100,000 |
Environmental Law and Policy
Center of the Midwest
Chicago, IL |
To promote a high-speed rail network
in the Midwest. |
55,000 |
55,000 |
Rails to Trails Conservancy
Washington, DC |
To support the Surface Transportation
Policy Project's continuing efforts to help implement ISTEA reforms. |
76,000 |
76,000 |
Rocky Mountain lnstitute
Snowmass, CO |
To research and disseminate information
on energy-efficient transportation, and to highlight the economic and social
barriers to manufacturing and marketing new "supercar" technologies.
(2 years) |
150,000 |
150,000 |
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
San Francisco, CA |
To undertake litigation in western
states to enforce conformity with the 1990 Clean Air Act. (2 years) |
80,000 |
80,000 |
Union of Concerned Scientists
Cambridge, MA |
To develop market-based strategies
that will reduce energy consumption in transportation; to educate the public
about transportation issues; to create successful policies in California
that can be replicated nationally; and to provide technical assistance to
state and federal transportation planners and policymakers. (2 years) |
100,000 |
100,000 |
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TOTALS FOR 1993 |
$1,738,500 |
$1,888,500 |
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