Vermont Natural Resources Council
To assist in hiring a new executive director for the Vermont Natural Resources Council.
Archives Grants
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
To conserve and protect Vermont’s environment while supporting quality jobs.
Western States Center
To counter the wise use movement’s attempt to portray environmentalists as domestic terrorists.
Human Rights Watch
To assist two threatened Burundian human rights activists in traveling to Senegal to escape persecution.
Comision Colombiana de Juristas
To handle individual cases due to violations of human rights in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.
Brandeis University
To support dissertation research of promising graduate students in human and social services who are committed to the study and improvement of social and health services for persons with mental retardation.
The Center for Victims of Torture
To promote a new approach for human rights work that understands the systematic use of torture as a means of creating societies of fear and apathy.
Feminist Majority Foundation
To collaborate with the National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood Federation of America in establishing a national training program for federal and local law enforcement officials to improve their effectiveness in protecting abortion clinics from violence and harassment.
Global Exchange
To sponsor long-term volunteers in Mexico to assist human rights activists and organizations through monitoring and documenting human rights violations and accompanying threatened individuals.
Global Rights
To provide general program support ($25,000); and to support the Latin American program’s human rights work to develop local leadership.