Grant Program Health and Environment

To advocate for the strongest possible protection from neurotoxic chemical exposure for infants, children, and pregnant women in order to prevent learning disabilities.

To improve the functionality and increase the use of the Marketplace online platform designed to connect safer chemicals developers and suppliers with product manufacturers and retailers.

To lead and coordinate a collaborative campaign designed to eliminate phthalates, a class of neurotoxicant and hormone-disrupting chemicals, from major exposure routes in the food supply.

To provide critical information about toxic chemicals in consumer products as part of key collaborative market campaigns designed to reduce exposures to these hazardous chemicals.

To build a robust and sustainable movement for protecting health by reducing exposures to toxic chemicals, and to achieve safer product availability at dollar stores in disproportionately exposed/disenfranchised communities.

To study levels of flame retardant exposure in pregnant women, providing evidence to support regulation of replacement flame retardants.

To support the Chemical Footprint Project, which works to set the global standard for measuring corporate progress to safer chemicals by creating an increasingly vibrant community of users, supporters, and advocates.

To support states and large cities to more aggressively incorporate safer purchasing into their sustainable procurement policies.

To discourage the use of the five most harmful chemicals found in furniture by accelerating market demand for safer products through a strategic procurement campaign.

To prompt retailer action to ensure all products made for babies and young children are safe and healthy.