Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network
To expand business training and technical assistance for microentrepreneurs in northern New Hampshire.
To expand business training and technical assistance for microentrepreneurs in northern New Hampshire.
To strengthen coalitions in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont with technical assistance and capacity building grants.
To educate middle-income working people nationwide about progressive economic issues relevant to them, their legal rights, and methods of advocacy in order to improve their standard of living.
To update a report on energy efficiency in the New England electric power sector to reflect new Independent System Operator New England projections, tighter climate change goals, the growing cost of traditional energy sources, and new opportunities for energy efficiency.
To coordinate a training conference for Vermont’s housing and conservation community.
To support the 2008 State of the States Briefing, which will focus on the impact state-level policy change is having on climate change.
To promote regulatory action in six states leading toward phaseouts for the most hazardous pesticides.
To formalize a strategic collaboration with Commonweal to help define common ground between the reproductive and environmental health movements and build momentum in both movements to think, plan and act collaboratively.
To research and develop a comprehensive set of legislative options to counteract abuses of federal executive privilege during the last six years. An effective law would define and limit executive privilege, clarify what communications it applies to and specify when…
To promote regulatory action in six states leading toward phaseouts for the most hazardous pesticides.