National Student Campaign for Voter Registration
To support Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project, which will increase civic engagement among young people in 2008 and in the years to come through nonpartisan voter registration and mobilization drives.
Archives Grants
National Women’s Law Center
To expand and protect insurance coverage of contraceptives using legal assistance, litigation, research, policy analysis, coalition-building and public education.
Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow
To enable young people from low-income families to find employment, advance towards self-sufficiency and achieve financial security.
Physicians for Human Rights
To seek the end of the US military’s use of torture, establish new legal protections against its use, hold perpetrators accountable, and end medical complicity in practicing torture.
Physicians for Social Responsibility Oregon Chapter
To organize consumer opposition to Monsanto’s proposals that states prohibit dairy producers and distributors from advertising that they do not use milk with recombinant bovine growth hormone.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Greater Boston Chapter
To research, produce, publish and plan for release of a new report called “In Harm’s Way II: Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging,” focused on adult neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, following the landmark report “In Harm’s Way: Toxic…
Project Vote
To help register low-income voters for the November elections and engage, educate and mobilize new and infrequent voters through nonpartisan get-out-the-vote strategies.
SIECUS (Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US)
To use education and advocacy to secure and protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people in the US.
Sierra Club Foundation
To reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other harmful pollutants emitted from the electricity sector by 2010 by preventing the construction of new coal-fired power plants and pressing for clean energy alternatives to meet projected energy demand.
State Alliance for Federal Reform of Chemicals Policy
To enable SAFER to coordinate and expedite model chemical reform campaigns in leading states, and thereby create a conducive climate for eventual federal policy reforms.