Grants: Year 1999
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 |
For a collaborative effort of five organizations to promote transportation and land use policies that improve environmental quality, increase transportation choice, and curb suburban sprawl | $40,000 1 year |
| Center for Community Change
Transportation Equity Project |
With this grant, CCC will work with low-income communities and their organizations to ensure that the provisions of the new federal highway legislation (TEA-21) are fully and fairly implemented. | $75,000 1 year |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
Midwest Grassroots Transportation & Land Use Fund/ Wild And Natural Places Project |
1) To provide targeted regrants to local organizations that are key players in the overall effort to improve transportation and land use planning in the Midwest. 2) To provide Midwest environmental organizations with the legal, public policy and communications resources they need to advocate and obtain protection for the region's few remaining wilderness and key habitat areas. | $50,000 1 year |
| Labor/Community Strategy Center
General Support |
To develop and implement a long range plan for the Los Angeles transportation system. | $40,000 1 year |
| New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
Transportation Program |
To provide support to organizations in low income communities of color to ensure their participation in transportation decision making. | $35,000 1 year |
| Rails to Trails Conservancy
ISTEA Implementation Workshops |
For a series of workshops targeting all parties involved in initiating and implementing bike-ped projects using federal transportation funding. | $25,000 1 year |
| Rails to Trails Conservancy NatureRail Collaborative Washington, DC |
To support the track-side transportation enhancement program. | $2,000 1 year |
| Rutgers University Foundation Community/University Consortium for Regional Environmental Justice New Brunswick, NJ |
To conduct community-based research for sustainability and to provide a general information and research infrastructure for environmental justice organizations in the region. | $40,000 1 year |
| Surface Transportation Policy Project
Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign |
This grant will support three aspects of STPP's work: (1) the Quality of Life Campaign; (2) the Policy Project, and (3) The Communications Network. | $105,000 1 year |
| Taxpayers for Common Sense
Transportation and Habitat Programs |
To conduct research and public education activities in two areas where taxpayer dollars are wasted on ill-conceived projects that harm the environment. The Lower Snake River Dam Retirement Campaign seeks to partially remove the four costly, obsolete dams. The road to Ruin project works to stop proposed new highways that are unneeded and wasteful. | $50,000 1 year |
Environmental Vision & Values
| Aldo Leopold Foundation Land Conservation Program Baraboo, WI |
To develop a plan to protect the land--and especially the spirit of the land--where Aldo Leopold wrote his classic A Sand County Almanac. | $5,000 1 year |
| Center for a New American Dream
General Support |
For programs to help individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance quality of life and protect the natural environment. | $100,000 2 years |
| Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund
Allied Voices Project |
To recruit, mobilize and empower teams of religious leaders, scientists, and forest activists to educate policy makers and the media about the importance of safeguarding our national forests. | $60,000 2 years |
| Evangelicals for Social Action
Creation Sunday 2000 Project |
This grant will catalyze a large collaboration of evangelical faith groups dedicated to working with secular environmental groups as well as with other faiths and denominations to build a network for addressing environmental issues of shared concern. | $100,000 2 years |
| From the Circle Native American Assistance Fund Prayer Vigil for The Earth Oakland, CA |
To support the annual Prayer Vigil for the Earth, which focused on harmony with the Earth and among all Spiritual traditions and races and took place in a circle of teepees next to the Washington Monument. | $5,000 3 months |
| La Leche League International La Leche League International and The Environment Schaumburg, IL |
To support La Leche's work in bridging their work with that of the environmental community. | $3,000 1 year |
| Mountain Institute
Sacred Mountains |
To help the National Park Service to develop interpretive and educational materials and activities that draw on diverse views of the cultural and spiritual significance of mountains within National Parks to enrich visitors' experience of these places and give them deep-seated reasons for conserving the environment. | $25,000 1 year |
| National Council of Churches
The Eco-Justice Coordinator Network |
To broaden and institutionalize the work of NCC's eco-justice coordinators project in local congregation and community. | $80,000 2 years |
| New York Community Trust N24X7 New York, NY |
Web design for H2O Fund. | $1,800 1 year |
| Northwest Environment Watch
General Support |
For general support for Northwest Environment Watch (NEW), which fosters an environmentally sound economy and way of life through research, publishing and aggressive information dissemination-"informational activism." | $120,000 2 years |
| Town of Morristown Foote's Pond Wood Restoration Morristown, NJ |
To pay for a portion of the fees and expenses for transforming Foote's Pond Wood, in northern New Jersey, into a contemplative park and therefore create a model for a new form of land "use" in this country. | $10,000 1 year |
| Trust for Public Land
Taking It To Scale-Our Land, Ourselves |
For the second phase of a program to examine the core values behind land conservation, as an agent for institutional change within TPL and throughout the conservation community. | $75,000 1 year |
| Wilderness Society
Planning Meeting |
This grant is for a Strategic Planning Summit and follow-up work to develop initiatives for possible funding by NCF to advance Strategy 2, integrating spiritual and values-based thinking into the work of secular environmental organizations. | $35,000 1 year |
Campus Programs
| Center for Respect of Life and Environment
Support for Basic ULSF Functions |
With this renewal grant, the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE) will continue to provide University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) members and constituents with the full range of programs and services, including conferences, workshops, and faculty development for sustainability and sustainability assessment; consultation, inquiry and referral services on integrating environmental literacy and sustainability into university curricula and operations; and reports on "lead" institutions-colleges and university with which ULSF develops partnerships. | $85,000 1 year |
| Clark Atlanta University Higher Education Network for Sustainability and The Environment Atlanta, GA |
For HENSE planning conference. | $5,000 1 year |
| Clark Atlanta University Higher Education for Sustainability Network Planning Group Atlanta, GA |
To develop the proposed functions, scope and governance of the Network and to initiate a national dialogue in order to launch the Network on Earth Day 2000. | $40,000 1 year |
| Earth Day Network Inc. Earth Day 2000 Campaign Seattle, WA |
To support a multi-faceted Earth Day 2000 campaign focused on energy and climate change. | $20,000 1 year |
| Green Corps, Inc.
Project LEAD (Leadership for Environmental Action and Development) |
To train and organize college students to take action on environmental issues and to develop future leaders of the movement. | $50,000 1 year |
| Institute for Global Ethics
Research Project |
To begin to map the environmental values and ethics of college students in the U.S. To help organizations that support campus efforts better reflect the value systems of the students served by their programs. | $180,000 2 years |
| National Wildlife Federation
Campus Ecology Training Clinic Program |
The mission is the greening of the nation's campuses through active, on-campus environmental sustainability programs involving students, faculty, administration and staff. The goal is to hold a minimum of 5 clinics across the country over one year; to hire and train at least 20 campus based fellows to assist with the clinics and related programs; and to coordinate a national campus ecology summit involving higher education management associations. | $40,000 1 year |
| Occidental College
Eco-Oxy/Eco-L.A. |
For a program of environmental education, research and community partnerships that provides direction for the campus ecology movement, including the development of more environmentally sustainable campuses by linking campus programs with community-based environmental initiatives. | $30,000 1 year |
| University of Washington Higher Education On The New Commons: Integrating Sustainability, Technology and Contemplation Seattle, WA |
The full program title is "Higher Education On the New Commons: Integrating Sustainability, Technology, and Contemplation." The concept is to bring together on an individual basis, between 15 and 20 participants from institutions in the wider Puget Sound region, reaching as far as Portland and Victoria. Sustainability signifies the claims of eco-justice on behalf of the human and the more-than-human world. | $2,500 1 year |
Habitat
| Caribbean Conservation Corporation, Inc. Conservation of Sea Turtles Gainesville, FL |
General support. | $6,000 1 year |
| Community Networking Resources
Border Justice Campaign |
To develop and support an organized movement for justice along the Mexico/US border, and to hold corporate polluters and government agencies accountable. | $30,000 1 year |
| Consultative Group on Biological Diversity Health and Environmental Funders Network San Francisco, CA |
To support the planning and development of HEFN. | $35,000 1 year |
| Cultural Learning Center Traditional Hawaiian Cultural Practices Wai'anae, HI |
Support to promote and encourage the physical, mental, spiritual, social, cultural and economic health and well-being of the people and their communities through the learning of traditional Hawaiian cultural practices and concepts such as the 'ahupua'a. | $2,700 1 year |
| Environmental Support Center
Organizational Grant |
This grant is for general support and to help ESC develop in the first year an extensive strategy and Hawai'i program to build the capacity of selected organizations, and then conduct full trainings during the second year. | $190,000 2 years |
| Friends of the Earth
Economics for The Earth Program |
For programs to improve transportation policy and priorities, and to promote reform of economic policies that undermine sensitive biological habitats. | $50,000 1 year |
| Green Info Network Ecosystem Mapping |
For technical enhancement and support of the first ecosystem map of the greater New York-New Jersey metropolitan region. | $3,000 1 year |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College
Human Health and Ecosytem Health |
For the study of the potential human health consequences of global environmental change, and to promote a wider understanding of these consequences. | $50,000 1 year |
| Regional Plan Association RPA Mapping Project |
To support the creation of the first ecosystem map (Highlands to Ocean Project) of the greater New York-New Jersey metropolitan region. | $10,000 1 year |
| Tides Center
Buffalo Commons |
This grant supports restoration of buffalo and cultural practices in the Great Plains, as an integral part of a larger effort to promote improved ecosystem health and economic stability among Native Plains Peoples. | $20,000 1 year |
| Tides Center
Environmental Health Media Campaign |
With this grant, Environmental Media Services will begin to produce and disseminate seminal articles about the topic of Ecological Health for the public, and build awareness among editors and other opinion-shapers. | $175,000 2 years |
| Tides Center
General Operation Expenses |
This general operating support grant to the Ahupua'a Action Alliance will enable the organization to advance the ahupua'a land management system as a viable working model for resource conservation in the state. | $25,000 1 year |
| Union of Concerned Scientists
Linkages Between Healthy EcoSystems and Healthy Lives |
With this grant, UCS will integrate its work on ecological health. With the expansion of its report on the impact of global warming on the U.S. Gulf Coast; the completion and dissemination of its world map depicting the impacts of global warming (including health) and; expansion of its research on the links between agricultural antibiotic use. | $200,000 2 years |
Out of Program
| Center for a Sustainable Economy
General Support |
To promote environmental tax reform. | $40,000 1 year |
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Environmental Justice Project |
For litigation, public policy advocacy and public education and outreach to protect low-income and minority communities from environmental health hazards. | $100,000 2 years |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
General Support |
For efforts to harness and build the grassroots power of the environmental movement as an effective force at all levels of American governance and policymaking. | $35,000 1 year |
| Liberty Hill Foundation Environmental Justice |
To expand the size and number of grants that it disburses to local community groups while increasing the level and quality of technical assistance available to their grantees. | $4,000 1 year |
| New York Community Trust
The Highlands To Ocean Fund (H2O Fund) |
This grant will support three major convenings of policy makers, environmentalists, scientists, and others from the region to develop integrated, forward-looking, region-wide strategies for protecting the region's forests, waterways and wetlands. | $50,000 1 year |
| Redefining Progress
Environmental Tax Shifting and The Ecological Footprint: |
$35,000 1 year |
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| Sustainable Northwest
General Support |
To build partnerships that enable and strengthen local capacity to promote environmentally-sound economic development in communities of the Pacific Northwest. | $35,000 1 year |
| Temple B'Nai Or Creation Care Programs Morristown, NJ |
For environmentally-related temple programs. | $5,000 1 year |
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