Campus Activities
| Center For Environmental Citizenship Washington, DC |
For nonpartisan voter registration projects and campus training efforts to build the capacity of the student environmental movement and its leaders. |
$50,000
|
| Center for Public Interest Research Boston, MA |
To develop materials and resources that will increase the quality of the Public Interest Internship Program and issue campaigns. |
$10,000
|
| Center for Resource Economics Washington, DC |
For a program to engage college and university leaders in upgrading environmental education by developing authoritative curriculum materials. |
$140,000
over 3 years |
| Green Corps Boston, MA |
For Free the Planet's Student Environmental Action and Leadership Project, to develop young leaders and empower high school and college students around key environmental issues. |
$40,000
|
| Green Corps Boston, MA |
For the Environmental Leadership Training Program to promote grassroots environmental organizing and engage more minority students and urban campuses. |
$40,000
|
| Green Corps Boston, MA |
$10,000
|
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| Green Corps Boston, MA |
For continued development of the campus environmental organizations' collaborative. |
$2,000
|
| Humane Society of the United States Washington, DC |
For the Center for Respect of Life and Environment's programs to help colleges, universities, and schools of theology implement environmental courses, pedagogy, and practices. |
$85,000
|
| Management Institute for Environment and Business Washington, DC |
To develop graduate courses in business management that incorporate environmental values and teachings. |
$50,000
(1997 payment) |
| National Wildlife Federation Vienna, VA |
For campus ecology clinics, to support culturally diverse leadership in making college campuses models of ecological sustainability. |
$80,000
over 2 years |
| Regents of the University of California Berkeley, CA |
To encourage the students and faculty of architectural schools to build environmentally responsible, energy efficient buildings |
$40,000
|
| Second Nature East Cambridge, MA |
For efforts to integrate principles of environmental sustainability into all disciplines. |
$75,000
(1997 payment) |
Economics & Fiscal Policies
| CIET International New York, NY |
To develop a high school–based program in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section to increase neighborhood awareness of the impact of local transportation services and policies on air quality and public health. |
$100,000
over 2 years |
| Community Networking Resources Albuquerque, NM |
To strengthen local groups along the U.S.-Mexico border in their efforts to achieve environmental and economic justice by holding industrial polluters and government agencies accountable. |
$20,000
|
| Environmental Health Coalition San Diego, CA |
For the NAFTA/Border Project, to enforce legal and administrative remedies to industrial pollution. |
$50,000
(1997 payment) |
| Friends of the Earth Washington, DC |
To promote the reform of economic policies, including transportation allocation procedures, that undermine |
$100,000
over 2 years |
| Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law Washington, DC |
For legal assistance to low-income neighborhoods and communities of color disproportionately affected by major environmental hazards, and for the development of cases focused on public transit issues. |
$50,000
|
| Redefining Progress San Francisco, CA |
To build a solid research base and broad constituency for tax shifting (reducing taxes on labor and enterprise by substituting levies on pollution, waste, and resource inefficiency). |
$100,000
over 2 years |
| Seventh Generation Fund For Indian Development Ponsford, MN |
To support a regranting program for 200 Native American groups resisting the environmental destruction of their homelands. |
$30,000
|
| Sierra Business Council Truckee, CA |
For cooperative efforts to confront the challenges to economic, social, and environmental sustainability faced by rural communities. |
$80,000
over 2 years |
| Southwest Community Resources Albuquerque, NM |
For legal defense against a libel suit brought by rubbish removal companies objecting to Southwest's successful campaign against a dangerous medical waste incinerator. |
$5,000
|
| Sustainable Northwest Portland, OR |
To promote environmentally sound economic development in rural communities. |
$70,000
over 2 years |
| Taxpayers for Common $ense Foundation Washington, DC |
For the Green Scissors campaign to build public awareness and support for fiscal reform by discovering and exposing boondoggle highway projects and other wasteful subsidies that harm the environment. |
$40,000
|
| Tides Center San Francisco, CA |
For Americans for a Sustainable Economy, to reform tax codes to reduce pollution, and to promote other environmentally sound economic and fiscal policies. |
$40,000
|
| Washington Office on Environmental Justice Washington, DC |
For final support as the office closed down its operations and developed future program strategies. |
$20,000
|
| World Resources Institute Washington, DC |
To build private and government support for action on climate. |
$50,000
(1997 payment) |
Spirit, Values & Ethics
| American Fisheries Society Bethesda, MD |
To support a collaboration of environmental, conservation, hunting, and fishing groups aimed at informing the public about the need to protect our natural resources. |
$35,000
|
| Chinook Learning Community Clinton, WA |
For retreats, courses, and activities to develop environmental commitment. |
$60,000
(1997 payment) |
| Colorado Sacred Earth Institute Boulder, CO |
To integrate spiritual practice and ecological values into mainstream institutions and professional networks. |
$70,000
over 2 years |
| Colorado Sacred Earth Institute Boulder, CO |
To support intergenerational dialogue among environmental leaders and the development of a network of young activists. |
$2,000
|
| Colorado Sacred Earth Institute Boulder, CO |
To develop a fundraising plan for the institute. |
$5,000
|
| Consultative Group on Biological Diversity San Francisco, CA |
To improve collaboration on grantmaking to address environmental and health issues. |
$500
|
| Learning Alliance New York , NY |
To develop spirit-based approaches to environmentalism, fostering better community and consumption values. |
$50,000
(1997 payment) |
| National Religious Partnership for the Environment New York, NY |
To promote religious participation in the cause of environmental sustainability and justice. |
$126,000
(1997 payment) |
| National Religious Partnership for the Environment New York, NY |
For professional and personal growth retreats of the Green Group, an organization of the nation's foremost activists and thinkers on the environment and environmental sustainability. |
$48,000
|
| National Religious Partnership for the Environment New York, NY |
For media work. |
$4,000
|
| Tides Center San Francisco, CA |
For the Vallecitos Mountain Refuge, to provide a resource for contemplative practice and spiritual renewal for environmental and social activists. |
$75,000
over 2 years |
| Tides Center San Francisco, CA |
For planning a retreat of activists and writers to reflect on the course of the environmental movement. |
$2,000
|
Transportation
| American Lung Association Washington, DC |
For work with local chapters in all 50 states and with other health, environment, and public interest organizations to promote clean air and tighter health-based air quality standards. |
$50,000
|
| Breakthrough Technologies Institute Washington, DC |
For the Clean Air Media Center, which provides media assistance to organizations working to educate the public about the public health and economic benefits of clean air policies. |
$50,000
|
| Business and Professional People for the Public Interest Chicago, IL |
For a collaborative effort to improve transportation, air quality, and land use planning in Northeastern Illinois. |
$40,000
|
| Center for Neighborhood Technology Chicago, IL |
For land use planning, economic development, and communications programs that encourage environmentally sound transportation projects. |
$50,000
(1997 payment) |
| Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Denver, CO |
For the Colorado Sustainable Transportation Project, to establish policies and funding mechanisms at the state and local levels that support land-use preservation policies and alternatives to the automobile. |
$100,000
over 2 years |
| El Puente de Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY |
To promote community awareness and involvement in establishing proper protocols for the removal of lead paint from the Williamsburg Bridge. |
$20,000
|
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest Chicago, IL |
To promote high-speed rail development in the region and to provide legal and technical assistance to other transportation reform campaigns throughout the midwest. |
$50,000
(1997 payment) |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest Chicago, IL |
To ensure that small grassroots organizations can participate meaningfully and effectively in public decision-making on transportation. |
$25,000
|
| Labor Community Strategy Center Los Angeles, CA |
For the Billions for Buses Campaign to enforce a major agreement with the Los Angeles Transit Authority to improve public transportation throughout the city. |
$100,000
over 2 years |
| Labor Community Strategy Center Los Angeles, CA |
To publicize the city's plan to reduce overcrowding on buses and to add new clean-fuel vehicles. |
$18,000
|
| Natural Resources Council of Maine Augusta, ME |
To develop and implement citizen and policy maker education resources aimed at reducing automobile use in Maine, and for national coalition efforts on transportation reform and clean air. |
$40,000
|
| Natural Resources Defense Council New York, NY |
For public education efforts in support of clean air and transportation reform policies such as the clean-fuel bus plans in New York and Los Angeles, which provide a model for other cities. |
$300,000
over 3 years |
| Natural Resources Defense Council New York, NY |
For a public education campaign to generate support for tougher Clean Air Act health standards during the EPA hearings. |
$5,000
|
| New York City Environmental Justice Alliance New York, NY |
To advocate for equitable, clean, accessible, safe, and environmentally sound transportation in New York City. |
$35,000
|
| New York Public Interest Research Group Fund New York, NY |
For the Straphangers Campaign to improve the New York City transit system and increase ridership by campaigning for better service and fare incentives. |
$35,000
|
| Regional Plan Association, New York, NY |
To improve mobility throughout the region by developing more transit options for New York City residents. |
$30,000
|
| Tri-State Transportation Campaign New York, NY |
To promote a regional transportation system that enhances environmental health, economic efficiency, and social equity in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut metropolitan area |
$50,000
|
| Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, MA |
To promote alternative transportation strategies and help policy makers and communities solve pollution and transportation problems. |
$50,000
|
| United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Washington, DC |
To defend and strengthen clean air standards through research, public education, media outreach, and citizen organizing. |
$50,000
|
Communications
| Artemis Wildlife Foundation Helena, MT |
For a weekly public affairs radio program exploring social, economic, and environmental issues in the West. |
$5,000
|
| Brown University Providence, RI |
To support a public education and outreach initiative around the Brown Is Green environmental stewardship program. |
$15,000
|
| Center for Environmental Citizenship Washington, DC |
For the Green Campus News Network, an information service linking environmental groups to students through campus media and the Internet. |
$50,000
|
| Environmental Media Services Washington, DC |
For promotion of the book Asphalt Nation, which describes the social, economic, and environmental consequences of U.S. reliance on the automobile. |
$5,000
|
| Media Alliance San Francisco, CA |
For the Independent Press Association's national effort to encourage magazines to use environmentally friendly paper sources through development of a paper-buying cooperative. |
$4,000
|
| Safe Energy Communication Council Washington, DC |
Planning grant for the Independent Press Association's national effort to get magazines to use environmentally-friendly paper sources. |
$30,000
|
| Self Reliance Foundation Santa Fe, NM |
For development and dissemination of an environmental radio series for Spanish-speaking communities nationwide. |
$25,000
|
| Tides Center Albuquerque, NM |
For Environmental Media Services, to coordinate media strategies and events explaining the environmental, economic, and scientific reasons for passage of a strong treaty at the Kyoto Climate Treaty Summit |
$50,000
|
Out of Program
| Environmental Support Center Washington, DC |
To provide training and technical assistance to local, state, and regional environmental organizations. |
$65,000
over 2 years |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund Washington, DC |
To educate and motivate citizens on how to strengthen and sustain environmental protections at the state and local level. |
$70,000
over 2 years |
| Western States Center Portland, OR |
To provide general support for programs to increase the size and effectiveness of the environmental movement in the West. |
$80,000
over 2 years ($40,000 from interprogram) |