Grants: Year 2000
Environmental Vision & Values
Campus Programs
Habitat
Out of Program
Transportation & Land Use
| Business and Professional People for the Public
Interest Transportation, Air Quality and Land Use Planning Project Chicago, IL |
To support advocacy to halt plans for a new outer suburban tollroad beltway, and to secure broader implementation of bicycle, pedestrian, mass transit and other Transportation Demand Management alternatives. | $90,000 3 years |
| Center for Community Change Transportation Equity Project Washington, DC |
To provide intensive technical assistance to grassroots, faith-based and community development groups on transportation-related issues, build regional networks of community organizations working on transportation equity efforts. | $185,000 3 years |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the
Midwest Transportation and Land Use Reform Fund Chicago, IL |
To support the Midwest Transportation and Land Use Reform Project in providing legal, technical, communications, and strategic advocacy leadership in partnerships with local environmental groups throughout the Midwest. | $175,000 3 years |
| Friends of the Earth Economics for The Earth Program Washington, DC |
To support a program to address the current priorities in national transportation funding and promote "smart growth" alternatives to new highway construction. | $100,000 3 years |
| Labor Community Strategy Center Bus Riders Union Mass Transportation Campaign Los Angeles, CA |
To support advocacy for the purchase of replacement buses, the hiring of new MTA bus drivers and mechanics, and the retirement of diesel buses. | $110,000 3 years |
| New York City Environmental Justice Alliance,
Inc. Transportation Justice Program New York, NY |
To address the over-reliance on diesel trucks and buses in New York City and the concentration of garages and industrial facilities that bring large volumes of diesel vehicles into communities. | $100,000 3 years |
| New York Public Interest Group Fund, Inc. Straphangers Campaign New York, NY |
To support the Straphangers Campaign work on improving the quality of service of the MTA subway system, including service and waiting time, capital improvements, expansion of the subway system, and lower fares. | $110,000 3 years |
| Sierra Club Foundation Global Warming and Energy Program Washington, DC |
To support the effort to educate people about how "clean cars" will improve energy efficiency and curb global warming and to advocate for the government to lead the United States towards reducing greenhouse gas pollution by raising Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards. | $120,000 3 years |
| Taxpayers for Common Sense
Snake Dams Campaign & Road To Ruin Project |
To update the Road to Ruin report and provide media support to grassroots anti-highway activists, and support media and citizen-advocacy campaigns to help stop several wasteful highway projects. | $50,000 1 year |
| Tri-State Transportation Campaign Transportation Policy Reform in New York City New York, NY |
To support an integrated package of initiatives to reform NY State transportation policies and projects within New York City. | $50,000 2 years |
| United States Public Interest Research Group
Education Fund, Inc. Clean Air Now! Campaign Washington, DC |
To support the PIRG’s Clean Air Now! Campaign which works to defend and strengthen clean-air protections through research, public education/media, and citizen organizing. |
$90,000
3 years |
Environmental Vision & Values
| Biodiversity Project
General Support |
To support the Spirituality Working Group of the Biodiversity Project plans to produce and widely disseminate two spiritual-resource how-to guidebooks; and develop and test a training model for effectively institutionalizing a spiritual dimension within existing environmental organizations. |
$40,000
1 year |
| Aldo Leopold Foundation, Inc Leopold Farm-Retreat Facility Baraboo, WI |
To help protect the land and Shack where Aldo Leopold worked and wrote his classic A Sand County Almanac by supporting a comprehensive strategic plan for its use and preservation. | $30,000 1 year |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology Interreligious Sustainability Project Chicago, IL |
To support the Center for Neighborhood Technology in a project to link with communities of faith in the greater Chicago area to address transportation, sustainable buildings, urban agriculture and other environmental issues. CNT will do this by expanding its network of "Sustainability Circles." | $120,000 2 years |
| Mountain Institute Inc
The Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Mountains Harrisonburg, VA |
To examine the means by which to imbue the interpretative materials of the National Parks system with spiritual and cultural views of mountains at three pilot sites chosen to implement the project: Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, and Great Smoky Mountains. |
$120,000
2 years |
| Trust for Public Land
Vallecitos Retreat |
To support the continuing transformation of TPL’s mission from a traditional buy-and-protect land-purchasing organization to one that uses the process of protecting land to for change the behavior of individuals and society. | $200,000 2 years |
| Trust for Public Land Vallecitos Retreat Canaan, NH |
To off-set costs for the Trust for Public Land/Vallecitos Retreat. | $25,000 1 year |
| Vallecitos Mountain Refuge Sierra Club Retreat Taos, NM |
To support a retreat for 20 staff members of the Sierra Club at Vallecitos in the summer of 2001 to further the Environment Program’s objective of deepening the mission and vitality of national environmental organizations by encouraging leaders to examine the sources of their motivation and their connections with the natural world. | $25,000 1 year |
| Whidbey Institute A New Activism for The New Millennium Clinton, WA |
To support a series of programs and retreats for environmental activists. | $10,000 1 year |
| Wilderness Society Integrating Spiritual and Moral Values Washington, DC |
To support a follow-up conference to the December 1999 Environmental Visions & Values meeting, the goal of which is to develop four new models/initiatives among attending environmental groups for integrating spiritual and moral values into their mission and message. | $65,000 1 year |
| Yale University The Good in Nature and Humanity:Connecting Science, Religion, & Environment New Haven , CT |
To support a meeting generating a dialogue among various land practitioners whose everyday decisions reflect the convergence of practical, scientific, spiritual, and ethical perspectives. | $10,000 1 year |
Campus Programs
| Center for Environmental Citizenship Inc
NEWS |
To increase the quality and quantity of environmental media coverage on college campuses and to train student journalists on how to cover environmental issues. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Center for Respect of Life and Environment
The Higher Education Network for Sustainability and The Environment(HENSE) |
To support a seminar for trustees and university presidents on the importance of education for sustainability and the environment in summer 2000; to develop the Northeast Environmental Studies (NEES) group electronic Journal of Environmental Studies. |
$40,000
1 year |
| Clean Air, Cool Planet, Inc., A Norhteast Alliance
General Support |
To build a coalition of universities, colleges, businesses, state and federal entities, churches and synagogues and nonprofit entities throughout New England who agree to adopt the benchmarks of the Kyoto Protocol for greenhouse gas emissions in their operations. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Community Food Security Coalition, Inc. From Farm-To-College Cafeteria Venice, CA |
To support a project that will expand campus greening strategies through programs that encourage the purchase of fresh and organic foods from regional farms for college cafeterias and to support the development of education and outreach on food production strategies. | $90,000 2 years |
| Community Networking Technologies
General Support Eugene, OR |
To further refine and expand NetCorps' model of providing hardware, software, training, Internet access, and sustained technical assistance to environmental groups through trained student interns. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Green Corps Inc
Environmental Leadership Training Program Boston, MA |
To increase the depth and scope of student environmental activism on college campuses and to meet the growing need for new leadership in the organizing, advocacy and public policy fields of the environmental movement. |
$150,000
2 years |
| Humane Society of of the United States General Support Washington, DC |
To support the Center for Respect of Life and the Environment (CRLE) project on fostering environmental leadership in higher education. CRLE will engage in five key activities to promote sustainability through higher education | $125,000 2 years |
| National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program Vienna, VA |
To support NWF’s Campus Ecology program and enable it to expand to meet increased demand and to enable NWF to partner with other peer organizations to help develop a set of standard benchmarks for measuring the success of universities in achieving sustainability on campus. | $110,000 2 years |
| Occidental College
Institutionalizing Environmental Change Los Angeles, CA |
To implement and extend this program's integrated approach toward the greening of the campus, developing a problem-solving framework in research and coursework, and building community partnerships. |
$30,000
1 year |
| Second Nature Inc
Second Nature: Strategic Plan for 2000-2002 Boston, MA |
General support to build capacity to implement and accelerate organizational programs, including the addition of senior staff to support the proposed initiatives. | $250,000 2 years |
| Tides Center ELP Activity Fund San Francisco, CA |
To support the research and other activities of the current cohort of Environmental Leadership Program fellows. | $25,000 1 year |
| Tides Center General Support San Francisco, CA |
To support a network of grantmakers interested in environment-and-place-based approaches to education that contribute to positive environmental and academic outcomes at the postsecondary and K-12 levels. | $50,000 2 years |
| University of New Hampshire General Support Durham, NH |
To support the Office of Sustainability Programs at UNH in using the university’s statewide network of agricultural extension agents as outreach vehicles to engage farmers and communities in discussions about the risks associated with genetically modified organisms, and engage students and faculty in order to change the university’s internal culture. | $100,000 2 years |
| World Resources Institute Learning and Leading By Doing-3 Year Grant Washington, DC |
To support WRI’s Environmental Enterprise Corps (EEC) in training the next generation of environmental entrepreneurs by giving students direct field experience with environmentally and socially responsible enterprises. |
$125,000
2 years |
Habitat
| Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics Inc
General Support |
To support the launching of a full-scale initiative by AUPA, "The Environmental Impact of Antibiotics." This will include formal scientific discussions (through panels and conferences) on the issue, publication of papers and articles, the production of the first white paper on the subject of the environmental impact of antibiotics, and the opening of a new area of the organization’s web site specifically devoted to this issue. |
$150,000
2 years |
| EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund General Support San Francisco, CA |
To support EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund in providing legal support for some of the most important and precedent-setting cases in Hawaii where cultural rights are being used to protect habitat. | $150,000 2 years |
| Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. Antibiotic Resistance Coalition New York, NY |
To support the start-up of a broad coalition to increase the public and policy-makers’ awareness of the risks of the subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in animal agriculture, and to thereby reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock. | $200,000 1 year |
| Hui Maka'ainana O Makana Lo'i Restoration & Marine Resource Management Projects Kaua'i, HI |
To support the state-sanctioned use of a hui to protect state land, and to support the development a model for local management of other state-owned lands. | $70,000 2 years |
| Institute for Ecosystem Studies Inc
Ecology of Infectious Diseases Millbrook, NY |
To support research programs on the ecology of infectious diseases in the context of human caused environmental changes such as biodiversity loss, habitat transformation, environmental contamination, climate change and other influences. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Marine Science Consortium Incorporated General Support Wallops Island, VA |
For general support of the Marine Consortium, Inc 2000 Pre-College Summer Program. | $2,500 3 months |
| Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation General Support Honolulu, HI |
To support a project that will assist Native Hawaiian individuals and community-based organizations with natural resource protection and management based upon the ahapua'a concept which ensures ecosystem balance within geographic districts running from mountains to the shoreline. | $100,000 2 years |
| Northwest Ecological Research Institute General Support Portland, OR |
To provide program with general support for their ornithological research. | $1,000 6 months |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College
General Operating Support Boston, MA |
General operating support for CHGE's work to understand the human health consequences of global environmental change, and to promote a wider understanding of these consequences among physicians, scientists, policy-makers, the media, students and the general public. | $300,000 2 years |
| Protect Kohanaiki 'Ohana, Inc. General Support Kailua-Kona, HI |
To support Kohanaiki ‘Ohana continue its precedent-setting struggle to protect the ecologically valuable and culturally important Kohanaiki tract of land, located on the Big Island’s Kona coast, from development into a tourist resort. | $100,000 2 years |
| Public Health Institute, Inc. General Support New York, NY |
To support the development of a public education campaign to enlist working people in trade unions and community organizations to address ecological health issues related to climate change and emerging diseases. | $75,000 1 year |
| Zoological Society of San Diego Hawaiian Endangered Bird Conservation Program Volcano, HI |
To support the writing of a husbandry manual for Hawaiian forest birds. |
$5,000
1 year |
Out of Program
| Appalachian Mountain Club
Greater Eastern Forest Alliance |
To support the hiring of a full-time coordinator to begin outreach to hundreds of other forest groups throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast and to develop a policy-agenda. |
$100,000
2 years |
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