2004 Grants
The New England Environment
Air Quality, Clean Energy and Climate
Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) |
$60,000 |
| To improve climate change policies at New England corporations and encourage institutional investors to take those policies into account. | |
Center for Resource Solutions |
$70,000 |
| To pool the electricity demand of selected large businesses, colleges and universities in Massachusetts and prepare them to negotiate for the group purchase of renewable energy and/or installation of on-site generation products. | |
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice |
$30,000 |
| To reduce environmental triggers of asthma and exposures to hazardous diesel emissions in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut. | |
Connecticut Fund for the Environment |
$50,000 |
| To build public support for adoption of measures to improve Connecticut's air quality by reducing diesel and greenhouse gas emissions. | |
Conservation Law Foundation |
$45,000 |
| To design and establish model collaborative decisionmaking processes at several key sites in New England where wind power projects are proposed. | |
Environment Northeast |
$90,000 |
| To promote sustainable energy policies in Connecticut that foster the market for renewables and energy efficiency; to expand awareness and implement programs to reduce diesel engine emissions; and to develop a New England 'roadmap' for eventual reductions in greenhouse gases at the levels necessary to stabilize the climate. | |
Environment Northeast |
$10,000 |
| To adopt and update minimum appliance efficiency standards in five New England states by the end of 2005, in collaboration with Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. | |
Maine Green Power Connection |
$45,000 |
| To develop the consumer market for green power in Maine in order to attract new clean energy producers into the market, and to encourage the state to adopt policies that add more clean energy to the grid. First installment of a two-year, $90,000 grant. | |
Mass Energy Consumers Alliance |
$60,000 |
| To build consumer demand in New England for electricity generated from new renewable energy resources, and to stimulate the development of such projects in New England. First installment of a two-year, $120,000 grant. | |
New England Climate Coalition |
$200,000 |
| To secure sizable and measurable reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from New England sources. | |
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. |
$50,000 |
| To adopt and update minimum appliance efficiency standards in five New England states by the end of 2005, in collaboration with Environment Northeast. | |
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association |
$30,000 |
| To strengthen support for policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on fossil fuels; and to increase media coverage of sustainable energy technologies and practices. | |
World Resources Institute |
$70,000 |
| To foster greenhouse gas reductions at office-based companies in the Northeast through improvements in energy efficiency and renewable energy procurements. |
Preventing the Use of, and Exposure to, Environmental Toxins
Clean Water Fund |
$150,000 |
| To support the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, a broad coalition that aims to achieve fundamental reform in Massachusetts about chemicals use that stresses prevention of harm to human health and the environment. | |
Maine People's Resource Center |
$30,000 |
| To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and polluters accountable for their 34-year failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination. | |
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health |
$40,000 |
| In partnership with the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, to empower cleaning and service workers to engage in participatory research and promote government policies and company practices that reduce their exposures to toxic cleaning chemicals and introduce safer alternatives. | |
Natural Resources Defense Council |
$50,000 |
| To compel the HoltraChem Manufacturing Company and Mallinckrodt Inc. to clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated by these companies. | |
Toxics Action Center |
$60,000 |
| To protect northern New England neighborhoods from pesticide and toxic chemical exposure by helping communities influence local, state and national pesticide policies. |
Genetically Engineered Food and Agriculture
Institute for Social Ecology |
$35,000 |
To raise awareness in Vermont of the public health and environmental hazards of genetically engineered agriculture; promote a moratorium on genetically engineered crops in the state; and build momentum in other New England states for similar local campaigns. |
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Institute for Social Ecology |
$30,000 |
| To expand public awareness and increase debate about genetically engineered agriculture in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont through grassroots organizing that educates communities about municipal bans on growing those crops. |
Strengthening the Citizen Voice in Environmental Decisionmaking
Green Corps |
$25,000 |
| To train at least one full-time aspiring leader on the skills, strategies and issues needed to launch a career in the environmental field; provide grassroots support to campaigns; and inspire trainees and volunteers to deepen their commitment to protecting the environment. | |
New England Grassroots Environment Fund |
$25,000 |
| To support with small grants and technical assistance all-volunteer, citizen-driven, community-based environmental initiatives. Final installment of a two-year, $50,000 grant. |
Protecting Farmland and Forests in Vermont
Composting Association of Vermont |
$15,000 |
| To reduce nutrient water pollution by providing technical assistance to farmers interested in composting waste. | |
Food Works |
$21,650 |
| To determine the feasibility of developing a value-added line of local organic food products to offer to Vermont consumers. First installment of a two-year, $68,000 grant. | |
Intervale Foundation |
$50,000 |
| To develop sustainable solutions that improve the outlook for Vermont's small farmers through mentoring, training, education, and advocacy. Final installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant. | |
Merck Forest & Farmland Center |
$61,000 |
| To provide young adults of high school or college age with hands on experiences of management work on forests and farms. | |
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont |
$10,275 |
| To develop the protocol for a detailed study on the collection and analysis of farm financial data to determine the profitability of organic dairy farms and assess the cost of shifing from conventional to organic milk production. | |
Rural Vermont |
$22,000 |
| To hire a development director. | |
Vermont Community Loan Fund |
$50,000 |
| To enable Vermont Quality Meats to purchase two refrigerated trucks to transport local meat and cheese products to customers. | |
Vermont Food Venture Center |
$28,000 |
| To help Vermont's small farmstead producers comply with new and changing federal Food and Drug Administration regulations so they can continue to produce and sell value-added products to diversify and increase farm income. First installment of a two-year, $56,000 grant. | |
Vermont Foodbank |
$44,000 |
| To assist Vermont's organic farmers in becoming more experienced, profitable, and sustainable within their communities by providing healthy, fresh local food to residents who need food aid. First installment of a two-year, $96,000 grant. | |
Vermont Forum on Sprawl |
$100,000 |
| To foster decisions, policies and practices that support smart growth principles in Vermont--advancing a vision of compact settlements separated by rural countryside and working landscapes with equitable access for all. | |
Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association |
$15,000 |
| To hire a part-time marketing coordinator to develop marketing programs for Vermont maple producers. | |
Vermont Natural Resources Council |
$40,000 |
| To maintain and advance existing smart growth gains in Vermont by stopping big-box commercial developments from being built outside city centers; and to educate the public about the economic, environmental and community impacts of big-box development. | |
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund |
$50,000 |
| To promote living-wage job creation in rural Vermont through enterprise development in the forest products sector; to build the market brand for FSC certified lumber products in Vermont and elsewhere; and to demonstrate community-based sustainable development. | |
Vital Communities of the Upper Valley Inc. |
$40,000 |
| To link farmers, consumers, social service and government agencies, processing and slaughter facilities, institutions, restaurants, faith groups, and businesses to increase the demand for and supply of local foods. First installment of a two-year, $70,000 grant. | |
Working Landscapes |
$45,000 |
| To help Vermont farmers improve their critical thinking and business planning skills, to change the way they farm, produce value-added products, and build direct relationships with local customers to become more profitable and sustainable and enjoy a better quality of life. |
The Environment Beyond New England
Air Quality, Clean Energy and Climate Change
Harvard University's Center for Health and the Global Environment |
$60,000 |
To formulate future climate change scenarios and to examine their potential consequences for human health, the environment and the economy. First installment of a two year, $120,000 grant. |
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Clean Air Task Force |
$350,000 |
To work with partner groups in six to twelve states to advance diesel engine cleanup in the United States through a variety of strategies at the local, state, and national levels. |
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Clear the Air |
$50,000 |
To produce and disseminate a report on the correlation between mercury exposures and associated neurodevelopmental harm they cause in young children, with the rising costs of special education due to increases in children's developmental disabilities. |
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation |
$35,000 |
To draw on the best research and coordinate leading scientists to develop a clear and compelling record on the sources, environmental effects, and benefits of reducing mercury pollution; to educate the media on the science of mercury pollution; and to promote scientifically sound public policy at the state and national levels. |
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SmartPower |
$15,000 |
To educate clean energy stakeholders about an innovative multi-state message and advertising campaign to promote renewable energy. |
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Strengthening the Citizen Voice in Environment Decisionmaking
Collaborative Defense Campaign |
$250,000 |
| To counter the Bush Administration's weakening of environmental protections and standards by providing a platform for thirteen national organizations to collaborate on selected areas under major assault: clean air, clean water, energy and oil drilling in the Arctic wilderness. | |
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity |
$17,500 |
| To support the Health and Environmental Funders Network. | |
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity |
$5,000 |
| To provide general support. First installment of a two-year, $10,000 grant. | |
Environmental Grantmakers Association |
$1,849 |
| To provide general support. | |
Management Information Services, Inc. |
$15,000 |
| To estimate the number of jobs in Florida created directly and indirectly by environmental programs and investments. | |
Natural Resources News Service |
$10,000 |
| To generate news media stories that explain the Bush Administration's regulatory changes as they affect environmental protection. | |
Rockefeller Family Fund |
$100,000 |
| To expose the Bush Administration's poor record of enforcing environmental laws by: working with environmental officials in key states to build support for and implement policies that demonstrate the stark differences between the lax federal approach and more responsible state programs; and helping local organizations in key states solve problems that are symptomatic of the breakdown in the federal system of environmental enforcement. |
Preventing the Use of, and Exposure to, Environmental Toxins
Alaska Community Action on Toxics |
$20,000 |
To partner with Pesticide Action Network to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels, using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health affected groups, health professionals, parents, and the learning and developmental disability community. First installment of a two year, $40,000 grant. |
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Californians for Pesticide Reform |
$20,000 |
To partner with Pesticide Action Network to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health affected groups, health professionals, parents and organizations, and the learning and developmental disability community. First installment of a two year, $40,000 grant. |
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Center for International Environmental Law |
$50,000 |
To provide a general operating support. |
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Citizens' Environmental Coalition |
$20,000 |
To partner with Pesticide Action Network in New York to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health affected groups, health professionals, parents and organizations, and the learning and developmental disability community. First installment of a two year, $40,000 grant. |
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Clean Production Action |
$50,000 |
To build public awareness about the pervasive presence of hazardous chemicals commonly used in consumer products by analyzing household dust samples collected in states where chemicals policy reform or phase-out campaigns are already active. |
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Clean Production Action |
$27,000 |
To conduct research on risk analysis and alternatives to brominated flame retardants. |
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Commonweal |
$100,000 |
To support the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, which builds and strengthens links between environmental health and developmental and learning disabilities constituencies. First installment of a two year, $200,000 grant. |
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Commonweal |
$75,000 |
To create a centralized source of information about biomonitoring projects, data, collection protocols, and communications strategies for organizations interested in chemical body burden and environmental testing. |
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Ecology Center |
$50,000 |
To move major automobile manufacturers toward elimination of persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals and use of safer alternatives. |
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Environmental Health Fund |
$40,000 |
To serve as a convener of environmental health networks and campaigns on health and chemicals; to participate in a coalition of state and national organizations working to ensure full implementation of the international Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; and to work with domestic campaigns to stimulate efforts to phase out persistent chemicals such as brominated flame retardants. |
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Environmental Working Group |
$75,000 |
To use body burden testing and other data to promote chemicals policy reforms at federal and state levels that are adequate to protect even vulnerable populations from the effects of toxic exposures. |
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Farm Worker Pesticide Project |
$20,000 |
To partner with Pesticide Action Network inWashington State to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health affected groups, health professionals, parents and organizations, and the learning and developmental disability community. First installment of a two year, $40,000 grant. |
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Health Care Without Harm |
$35,000 |
To motivate the health care sector to make environmental health issues important criteria in product selection of medical devices and building materials, food and chemicals; and to educate the health care industry about the links between environmental toxins and human health. |
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Hoosier Environmental Council |
$20,000 |
To partner with Pesticide Action Network in Indiana to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health affected groups, health professionals, parents and organizations, and the learning and developmental disability community. First installment of a two year, $40,000 grant. |
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Pesticide Action Network North America |
$137,500 |
To partner with groups in six of twelve states to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health affected groups, health professionals, parents and organizations, and the learning and developmental disability community. First installment of a two year, $275,000 grant. |
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Physicians for Social Responsibility |
$100,000 |
To develop, test and evaluate a Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit in selected pediatric and family practices that can assist physicians in screening patients and counseling parents to prevent children's exposures to toxic chemicals. Final installment of a two year, $200,000 grant. |
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Physicians for Social Responsibility |
$40,000 |
To raise public and policymaker awareness about the health impacts of the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed mercury rule. |
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Toxics Action Center |
$15,000 |
To partner with Pesticide Action Network in Maine to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health affected groups, health professionals, parents and organizations, and the learning and developmental disability community. |
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Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute |
$50,000 |
To analyze the effects on foreign trade and investment flows that the European Union's new chemicals policy, known as REACH, will have for US markets both nationally and in key states; and to analyze and defend the economics of precautionary approaches to chemicals policy. |
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University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production |
$60,000 |
To inform and stimulate discussions leading to the adoption of long-term integrated government and industry chemicals management policies, by developing a vision for sustainable chemicals policy, educating US stakeholders about European, US and international chemicals policy initiatives, and by supporting the establishment of integrated government and industry chemicals policy initiatives at the state and federal levels. |
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Washington Toxics Coalition |
$50,000 |
To conduct body burden and dust testing in order to illustrate the need to phase out persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals in Washington State and replace them with safer alternatives. |
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Women's Voices for the Earth |
$35,000 |
To support Coming clean, which serves as an incubator for campaigns and strategies that implement chemical phaseouts from key market sectors, weaken the role of the chemical industry in devising regulations, and develop body burden testing and other environmental monitoring as key tools for environmental health advocacy. |
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World Wildlife Fund |
$125,000 |
To secure fundamental chemicals policy reform, known as REACH, in the European Union by educating policymakers, communicating about the need for reform, and enhancing the strategic engagement of partners and allies. |
Genetically Engineered Food and Agriculture
As You Sow Foundation |
$35,000 |
To convince targeted companies to commit to removing, reducing, or labeling genetically engineered foods in their product lines, pending the results of long-term safety testing, through shareholder resolutions. |
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Californians for GE-Free Agriculture |
$60,000 |
To develop an organized and engaged base of farmers and food processors that refuses to grow and process genetically engineered crops, with a priority on crops that are targeted for commercialization in California. |
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Center for Food Safety |
$100,000 |
To protect human health and the environment by ensuring appropriate testing and regulation of all genetically engineered crops and organisms; and to ensure the consumer's 'right to know' by advocating mandatory labeling of all foods with genetically engineered ingredients. |
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Center for Food Safety |
$95,000 |
To launch the Agricultural Biotechnology Media and Information Center, which will design and implement a media and rapid response strategy for the genetically engineered food and agriculture advocacy community. Final installment of a two-year, $190,000 grant. |
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Center for Food Safety |
$15,000 |
To organize the second genetically engineered foods strategy meeting in Washington, DC. |
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Friends of the Earth |
$35,000 |
To investigate and publicize instances of food product contamination and health impacts from crops genetically engineered to produce medicines and chemicals. |
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National Family Farm Coalition |
$60,000 |
To develop farmer-driven campaigns in rice-producing states to stop the commercial introduction of genetically modified rice varieties, and to develop a grassroots regional campaign in the Northeast modeled after Vermont's Town-to-Town Campaign. |
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Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA |
$50,000 |
To prevent the commercialization of genetically engineered rice in North America and promote food security by opposing the spread of genetically engineered foods and creating sustainable alternatives. |
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Union of Concerned Scientists |
$65,000 |
To promote the ban of food crops engineered for use as pharmaceutical and industrial chemical products; and to establish federal regulations that protect human health and the environment from the risks of animal biotechnology products. First installment of a two-year, $130,000 grant. |
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Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project |
$12,000 |
To conduct a public education tour of national wheat buyers and consumer group representatives in wheat-growing states to discuss concerns about genetically modified wheat. |
Grassroots Responses to the Department of Energy
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability |
$40,000 |
| To develop and implement national advocacy and media strategies aimed at pressuring DOE to clean up the radioactive legacy of the Cold War; to strengthen the skills and expertise of member organizations advocating reform of nuclear cleanup policies at the local and national levels; and to maintain and strengthen the network's electronic communication system. | |
Government Accountability Project |
$50,000 |
| To press for responsible environmental cleanup and oversight at the Hanford nuclear weapons facility through scientific research, whistleblower protection, and media outreach. | |
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research |
$40,000 |
| To clean up key DOE nuclear weapons production sites by preventing reclassification of high-level radioactive waste, promoting retrieval of buried radioactive waste, and tightening drinking water standards. | |
Snake River Alliance Education Fund |
$40,000 |
| To protect the Snake River Aquifer and the people who depend on it from further nuclear contamination. | |
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment |
$30,000 |
| To conduct community organizing to achieve rejection of 'Risk-Based End States,' the DOE's new conceptual framework for weakened cleanup of pollution from the nuclear weapons complex; and to preserve funding and support for cleanup plans already in progress. |
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