To catalyze federal grants to the four northeast states (NY, VT, NH, ME) under existing appropriation mechanisms such as the Land and Water Conservation Fund or the Forest Legacy Program, so that critical wilderness areas and working forests can be…
In collaboration with Feminist Majority Foundation and National Abortion Federation, to increase federal, state and local law enforcement agencies’ effectiveness in protecting abortion patients, providers and clinics.
To make access to abortion and family planning a relevant issue for today’s recent college graduates, and college and high school students.
To identify and mobilize latent prochoice supporters using new computer technology.
To provide training in security issues for young South Asian and Chinese professionals.
To hire an attorney in tax and estate planning to set up a Planned Giving Program.
To provide Chechen surgeon and human rights advocate Hasan Baiyev living expenses in the United States while he awaits a ruling on an asylum application.
To conduct a strategic planning process involving board and staff in order to develop a programmatic, fundraising and business plan for the next five years.
To support the Death by Degrees Program in New England, which seeks to raise public awareness about the local impacts of climate change, particularly its potential effects on human health. In its second year, the program will expand into Massachusetts…
To strengthen the assistance provided to local groups and activists confronted with toxic contamination in their communities; and to establish a new program to help residents fight local pesticide use.