Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
To support creation of a model Career Ladders Program for entry-level employees of four major Boston Hospitals.
Archives Grants
Mental Disability Rights International
To protect and promote human rights for people with mental disabilities in Mexico.
National Women’s Law Center
To expand contraceptive insurance coverage by private insurers through research, advocacy, public education and litigation.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
To raise the saliency of reproductive rights issues and identify strategic battlegrounds to build the power and effectiveness of the prochoice movement; and to define and expose immediate threats to reproductive health, and develop messages that build public support.
Population Services International
To demonstrate a comprehensive model for promoting emergency contraceptives (ECs), which includes increasing young women’s awareness, health care workers’ skills, and community support, that can be adapted for use in other communities.
Science Communication Network
To inform the public, through the media, of the series of actions and proposals through which the Bush Administration and Congress are threatening environmental protection and public health.
University of New Hampshire Foundation
To evaluate the benefits of using sheep to control unwanted vegetation, as opposed to herbicide spraying or mechanical mowers, under power lines in southeastern New Hampshire.
Columbia University
To support research on cortical development focusing on the understanding of dendritic filopodia using two-photon microscopy.
Harvard Medical School
To support research by John Merck Scholar Zhigang He on repulsive mechanisms in axon pathfinding and regeneration.
University of California, San Francisco
To support research by John Merck Scholar Samuel Pleasure on developmental signaling systems in hippocampal development.