University of Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese
To build the visibility of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese through enhanced public relations.
Archives Grants
Vermont Forum on Sprawl
To foster decisions, policies and practices that support smart growth principles in Vermont, advancing a vision of compact settlements separated by rural countryside and working landscapes with equitable access for all Vermonters.
Volunteers of Legal Service, Inc.
To provide New York City low-income microentrepreneurs with pro bono legal help related to business law issues.
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project
To stop the introduction of genetically modified crops into commercial markets and the environment.
Energy Consumers Alliance of New England
To contract with a marketing consultant to develop a marketing plan for green electricity in Massachusetts.
Human Rights Watch
To enable endangered Liberian human rights activist Bush Williams to seek refuge in South Africa.
Human Rights Watch
To enable Chinese political dissident and democracy activist Wang Wanxing, who was falsely labeled mentally ill and incarcerated for thirteen years, to seek refuge with his family in Germany.
Human Rights Watch
To enable endangered journalist and human rights advocate Omid Memarian to flee Iran and seek temporary refuge in Istanbul, Turkey.
University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
To advance substantially the dialogue on chemicals policy reform at state, federal and international levels, and to facilitate the development and use of safer chemicals in companies.
Western Massachusetts Enterprise Fund
To conduct a study that develops recommendations for expanding microenterprise technical assistance and financing products, and explores new ways of subsidizing microenterprise activities.