To promote understanding of the public health dangers of nuclear weapons, and to encourage public support for nuclear disarmament and for closing and cleaning up the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons production complex.
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.
To develop and improve three web sites used to distribute information, including the Risk Report, Iraq Watch, and the Wisconsin Project’s institutional web site.
To support the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, which encourages companies to change their business practices in ways that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; and then provides technical assistance to these companies once they have made that decision.…
To conduct a strategic communications and media campaign to educate the public and policymakers in conjunction with a case now before the Supreme Court. The case, Stenberg v. Carhart, is of potential historic significance because in attempting to ban so-called…
To prepare a visual exhibit on nuclear nonproliferation for use in Russia at an international conference in June and at public hearings throughout the country.
To help launch the Worcester Community Entrepreneur Program as well as support program expansion in Boston.
To create a public education and citizen organizing structure that will build on the imminent release of In Harm’s Way, the Physicians for Social Responsibility report on the possible links between developmental and learning disabilities in children and environmental exposures.…
To create a new intermediary organization for serving social purpose enterprises in Maine. Common Good defines social enterprises as “non profits that simultaneously accomplish their mission and generate funds to pay for those programs.” Common Good is engaged in raising…