Vermont Housing & Conservation Board
To sponsor a gathering of conservation and housing practitioners throughout Vermont.
Archives Grants
Cornell University, Weill Medical College
To support research by John Merck Scholar Bruce McCandliss, PhD, on the development of visual word recognition skills, a cognitive neuroscience approach to normal function, impairment and intervention.
The Rockefeller University
To support research by John Merck Scholar Leslie Vosshall, PhD, on olfactory perception and the encoding of preference.
Washington University in St. Louis
To support research by John Merck Scholar Bradley L. Schlaggar, MD, PhD, on the normal and abnormal development of cognitive control using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Environmental Grantmakers Association
To provide general support.
Acadia Center
To sustain and strengthen the progress made in promoting energy conservation and renewable energy in Connecticut as primary strategies in meeting air quality and climate change goals, both in the utility and mobile sectors.
Alternatives for Community & Environment
To provide legal support, advocacy and organizing assistance for Boston neighborhood groups that seek to reduce air pollution from transportation sources, with a special emphasis on diesel-fuel vehicles such as city buses and large trucks that have a disproportionate impact…
Center for Food Safety
To ensure appropriate federal regulation of all genetically engineered crops and organisms, which would include adequate environmental and human health safety testing prior to commercial uses and mandatory labeling of consumer products with genetically engineered contents.
Center for Public Interest Research
To protect public health and the environment from the potential threats posed by genetically engineered foods by creating a climate of support favorable to sound public policy solutions, such as testing, mandatory labeling and company liability standards, as well as…
Clean Water Fund
To launch a statewide coalition designed to promote a new set of government policies aimed at protecting human and environmental health.