Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To support research on activity-dependent regulation of GABAergic synapses and neural circuit plasticity by John Merck Scholar Yingxi Lin.
Archives Grants
Duke University Medical Center
To support research on regulation of excitatory synaptogenesis by GABA in the developing brain by John Merck Scholar finalist Cagla Eroglu.
North Country Health Consortium
To recruit and retain young people in health-related occupations to meet the growing demand for health care in northern New Hampshire.
World Resources Institute
To conduct research and technical analysis to consider the opportunities and obstacles for allowing additional states to join the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Vermont Works for Women
To support training, business development, and oversight for FRESH Energy, which provides paid, on-the-job training for women in the fields of weatherization and solar tracker installation and advances efforts to reduce the region’s carbon footprint.
Strolling of the Heifers
To provide at-risk youth with summer employment and work experience in agriculture and provide unskilled labor to local farmers.
Center for International Environmental Law
To promote comprehensive reform of US chemicals policy, and to achieve synergy between these domestic reforms and international chemicals policies.
Commonweal
To educate national learning and developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative disease groups about environmental links to neurological disabilities, increase collaboration among them, cultivate opportunities for them to support chemical policy reforms, and translate relevant emerging science for their use.
Earthjustice
To persuade state and federal government agencies to issue the strongest possible requirements for safe disposal of waste ash from coal-fired power plants.
Conservation Law Foundation
To reduce energy sector greenhouse gas emissions in New England through state and regional efforts that seek to promote energy efficiency policies and programs, establish renewable energy policies and projects, and reduce reliance on coal-fired power plants.