Grants Archive - John Merck Fund

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The John Merck Fund has a long history of funding efforts to benefit human health and environmental sustainability in New England and beyond. You can navigate our previous grantmaking efforts below by typing in a keyword, or filtering by program, topic or year.

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Date	Description	Program Area	Focus	Amount
04/2021	Toxic-Free Future To enable Safer States to reduce exposures to toxic chemicals, achieve broad policy and market reform, and ensure that efforts are synergized with allied movements such as plastics, climate, and environmental justice to achieve broad success that benefits the health of communities and the environment.	Health and Environment		$150,000
04/2021	Toxic-Free Future To support Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and Mind the Store in their efforts to drive harmful classes of chemicals out of the marketplace by winning government regulation of specific toxic chemicals and chemical classes, and comprehensive chemical policies by the largest retailers in the US.	Health and Environment		$220,000
04/2021	Clean Production Action To support the Chemical Footprint Project, which will leverage organizational metrics and disclosure to create a global chemical and materials economy that is healthy for people and the planet.	Health and Environment		$100,000
12/2020	Concerned Citizens of Mossville To advocate for environmental justice, educate residents about the health and environmental impacts of toxic pollution, compel federal and state environmental agencies to enforce human rights laws, and advocate for health services, relocation, and pollution reduction to improve the lives and health of residents in and near Mossville, Louisiana.	Health and Environment	Environmental Justice	$10,000
12/2020	Community In-Power and Development Association To organize, educate, and empower residents in low-income communities in Port Arthur, Texas, to take action against neighboring chemical manufacturers, refineries, and incinerator facilities to keep them from polluting the air, land, and water.	Health and Environment	Environmental Justice	$10,000
12/2020	Concerned Citizens of St. John To work on environmental health and justice with the local community in St. John the Baptist Parish, where there are four large chemical plants within a few miles of each other.	Health and Environment	Environmental Justice	$10,000
12/2020	Louisiana Environmental Action Network To use education, empowerment, advocacy, and support to resolve the unique environmental struggles present in Louisiana.	Health and Environment	Environmental Justice	$10,000
12/2020	RISE St. James To save communities in St. James Parish from industrial pollution and exposure to toxic chemicals.	Health and Environment	Environmental Justice	$10,000
12/2020	Louisiana Bucket Brigade To use grassroots action to achieve sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution and to hasten the transition from fossil fuels.	Health and Environment	Environmental Justice	$10,000
12/2020	Earthjustice To press the EPA to interpret, implement, and enforce the Chemical Safety Act in the most health-protective manner as the revised law allows.	Health and Environment		$100,000