Connecticut Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
To educate citizens about their multiple exposures to pesticides and the associated health risks.
Archives Grants
EarthRights International
To provide classroom training and field experience in monitoring, documenting and publicizing human rights violations to Burmese activists.
Environment and Human Health, Inc.
In conjunction with the ConnPIRG Education Fund, to promote reduced use of pesticides in schools. EHHI will complete a survey of pesticide use in Connecticut schools and publicize the results.
Feminist Majority Foundation
To educate and involve college students in reproductive rights and health issues, by placing them in the broader context of learning to make informed life choices and decisions.
Human Rights News Service
To launch an investigative news service that will focus on human rights.
Maine People’s Resource Center
To provide general support.
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
To work on implementation of two recently enacted laws that could have significant economic development impact: the Brownfields bill and an insurance industry community investment initiative.
NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation
To support the Choice for America media and grassroots organizing program, which seeks to blunt the erosion of prochoice public opinion that the DeMoss Foundation has engendered with its media campaign.
The Nightingale Institute for Health and the Environment
To educate and train health care professionals–nurses, administrators, and hospital trustees–about the need to reduce the environmental damage the industry causes, particularly from such practices as incinerating waste, which is a major source of dioxin and mercury emissions.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Greater Boston Chapter
To educate parents, teachers and the medical community about the connections between exposure to environmental toxins and learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children.