$60,000

$25,000

Natural Resources Defense Council

$10,000

$50,000

To increase public awareness and involvement in genetic engineering debates in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire through grassroots organizing.

Civil Society Institute

$80,000

To pursue litigation against five power companies that together emit approximately one quarter of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions, in order to force them to reduce their impact on global warming.

Clean Air Task Force

$350,000

To work with partner organizations in up to fourteen states to achieve a 75 percent reduction in US mobile diesel particulate emissions by 2020.

Clean Energy Group

$75,000

To develop a multi-state network of state treasurers and public pension fund managers to explore jointly the opportunities and continuing needs for investing in clean energy and climate-related projects.

Co-op America

$25,000

To mobilize consumers and individual investors to pressure selected corporations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental Integrity Project

$100,000

To investigate and document Clean Air Act violations by coal-fired power plants in the Ohio Valley; to bring citizen lawsuits against the owners to require them to reduce the plants' mercury and fine particle emissions; and to use the lawsuits to publicize the Bush Administration's environmental rollbacks.

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. Final installment of a two year, $120,000 grant.

Minuteman Media

$25,000

To inform small-town and rural residents in Ohio of research, analysis and opinion concerning air pollution and environmental health issues through the opinion pages in their local newspapers.

Alaska Community Action on Toxics

$20,000

In partnership 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 to health affected groups, health professionals, parents, and the learning and developmental disability community. Final installment of a two year, $40,000 grant.

American Association on Mental Retardation

$100,000

To raise awareness within the developmental disabilities community about the links between chemical exposures and preventable disabilities. First installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant.

American Association on Mental Retardation

$6,000

To conduct a national teleconference lecture series on environmental topics from the developmental disability community.

Breast Cancer Fund

$32,500

To participate in the Toxic Free Legacy Project, which aims to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.

Californians for Pesticide Reform

$20,000

In partnership 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 to health affected groups, health professionals, parents, and the learning and developmental disability community. Final installment of a two year, $40,000 grant.

Center for Health, Environment and Justice

$50,000

For general support of programs to educate the public about the environmental health threats posed by the manufacture, use and disposal of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic; to channel consumer pressure to encourage strategically chosen corporations to phase out their PVC use; and to support the passage of state and local policies that ban or phase out PVC.

Center for International Environmental Law

$60,000

To protect the environment and human health and to promote human rights and environmental justice by seeking reforms of international economic law, policy and institutions.

Citizens' Environmental Coalition

$50,000

To phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.

Clean Production Action

$40,000

To coordinate and assist campaigns in multiple states to eliminate brominated flame retardants.

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.

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.

Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health

$50,000

To inform the public, the media, public interest organizations, elected officials, and policymakers of emerging scientific data that correlates health impacts in children with their mothers' environmental exposures to chemicals. First installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant.

Coming Clean Collaborative

$35,000

To serve 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 use body burden testing and other environmental monitoring as key tools for environmental health advocacy work.

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. Final installment of a two year, $200,000 grant.

Commonweal

$75,000

To support the Biomonitoring Resource Center, which uses biomonitoring as a scientific tool that protects human and ecosystem health and informs chemicals policy.

Commonweal

$40,000

To undertake a scoping process intended to lead to the development of resources to assist the religious and spiritual community in engaging in environmental health issues and campaigns.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity

$7,500

To support the Health and Environment Funders Network and its Catalysts for a Healthy Future.

Ecology Center

$50,000

To move major automobile manufacturers to use cleaner and safer forms of plastic in production processes by educating consumers about potential hazards associated with a range of chemicals inside vehicles; and to encourage policymakers and consumers to demand automobile production methods that have a more benign impact on human health.

Environmental Health Fund

$60,000

To coordinate and assist campaigns in multiple states to eliminate brominated flame retardants.

Environmental Health Sciences

$137,000

To broaden and deepen participation in environmental health activism by interpreting the rapidly emerging scientific understanding of the links between environmental exposures and human health for elite and general audiences, promoting media coverage of these new developments, facilitating exchange among scientists, and encouraging individual scientists to connect with public health advocacy. First installment of a two-year, $214,000 grant.

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.

Farm Worker Pesticide Project

$20,000

In partnership with Pesticide Action Network in Washington 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 with health affected groups, health professionals, parents and the learning and developmental disability community. Second installment of a two year, $40,000 grant.

Health Care Without Harm

$40,000

To move the health care sector to make environmental health issues an important criterion in product selection of medical devices, building materials, food and chemicals; and to educate the health care industry about the links between environmental toxins and human health.

Hoosier Environmental Council

$20,000

In partnership 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 with health affected groups, health professionals, parents, and the learning and developmental disability community. Second installment of a two year, $40,000 grant.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance

$30,000

To ensure that emerging green building standards incorporate health-based criteria that recommend and/or reward the elimination of building materials responsible for bioaccumulative toxic releases to the environment, such as mercury and dioxin; and to encourage the health care, religious and affordable housing sectors to use those criteria in their building programs as well.

International Chemical Secretariat

$30,000

To educate large businesses about chemicals policy reform in the European Union, commonly known as REACH, which will be the world's most progressive policy to reduce the use of toxic chemicals.

Learning Disabilities Association of America

$100,000

To increase public awareness of preventable precursors to developmental disabilities, with an emphasis on exposures to hazardous chemicals in the environment; and to foster advocacy within the learning disabilities community in order to reduce those exposures.

National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

$25,000

To coordinate and assist campaigns in multiple states to eliminate brominated flame retardants.

National Wildlife Federation

$3,700

To host a national meeting for environmental and public health advocates on eliminating the use of mercury in products and controlling mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.

Oregon Center for Environmental Health

$15,000

To decrease the use of toxic chemicals by increasing the capacity and willingness of public and private sector leaders to employ the precautionary principle in setting environmental policies and practices within the City of Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon.

People for Puget Sound

$32,500

As a part of the Toxic Free Legacy Project, to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.

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 to with health affected groups, health professionals, parents, and the learning and developmental disability community. Final installment of a two year, $275,000 grant.

Physicians for Social Responsibility

$50,000

To expand the public interest campaign for strong federal rules that reduce mercury emissions, from power plants by continuing to raise awareness of air pollution as a health issue.

Physicians for Social Responsibility - Greater Boston Chapter

$100,000

To facilitate changes in medical practice so that information on preventing toxic exposures is routinely provided to parents of pediatric patients and to obstetrics patients; and to begin a report on connections between environmental exposures and neurological impacts at later life stages.

Physicians for Social Responsibility - Greater Boston Chapter

$15,000

To conduct a day-long training in cooperation with the American Association on Mental Retardation for Michigan health care providers and developmental disability professionals regarding the effects of environmental toxins on the developing brain.

Physicians for Social Responsibility Oregon Chapter

$8,000

To promote the elimination of brominated flame retardants in consumer products.

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment

$75,000

To induce companies to accelerate substitution of safer chemicals in consumer products by building the business case and generating investor demand for eliminating toxic chemicals that affect human health.

Science and Environmental Health Network

$60,000

To continue advancing the precautionary principle by facilitating its adoption at state and local levels.

University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production

$60,000

To advance the dialogue on chemicals policy reform at state, federal and international levels, and to facilitate the development and use of safer chemicals in companies.

Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility

$22,000

As a part of the Toxic Free Legacy Project, to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.

Washington Public Interest Research Group Foundation

$18,000

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.

Washington Toxics Coalition

$125,000

As a part of the Toxic Free Legacy Project, to strengthen and develop policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.

World Wildlife Fund

$135,000

To secure fundamental chemicals policy reform in the European Union by educating policymakers, communicating about the need for reform, and enhancing the strategic engagement of partners and allies.

As You Sow Foundation

$35,000

To persuade targeted companies to remove, reduce or label genetically engineered ingredients and foods in their product lines pending the results of long-term safety testing; and to increase transparency and public reporting of their testing procedures and results.

Californians for GE-Free Agriculture

$60,000

To achieve state policies in California that protect farmers and the food supply from the introduction of hazardous genetically engineered crops.

Center for Food Safety

$210,000

To ensure appropriate safety testing and regulation of all genetically engineered crops and organisms as a condition of their commercialization.

National Family Farm Coalition

$60,000

To educate farmers about the market and legal risks they incur in growing genetically engineered crops, with an emphasis on rice growers; and to counter industry-backed efforts to preempt emerging state or local policies that limit genetically engineered agriculture.

Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA

$50,000

To oppose the spread of genetically engineered agriculture and promote sustainable alternatives.

Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment

$30,000

To ensure the health and safety of consumers and the environment by engaging various corporations in developing prudent policies and procedures regarding genetically engineered foods.

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. Final installment of a two-year, $130,000 grant.

Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project

$60,000

To stop the introduction of genetically modified crops into commercial markets and the environment.

Partnership Project

$250,000

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability

$40,000

Government Accountability Project

$50,000

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

$40,000

Snake River Alliance Education Fund

$40,000

Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment

$40,000

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity

$5,000

Environmental Grantmakers Association

$2,920

Management Information Services, Inc.

$8,000