Campus Programs
| Center For Environmental Citizenship, Inc.
Campus Green Vote & EarthNet Washington, DC |
For CEC's programs to train college students how to be effective advocates for the environment, and for its EarthNet Computer Networking Project to educate students about timely environmental issues. |
$120,000
2 years |
| Green Corps Inc.
Student Environmental Action and Leadership Project Boston, MA |
For Free the Planet!'s Student Environmental Action and Leadership Program, which recruits and trains student leaders around the country to coordinate regional and state environmental projects. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Green Corps Inc.
Student Environmental Collaborative Boston, MA |
For the Campaign for a Green Future, a multi-year collaborative effort of five national student environmental organizations aimed at strengthening the student environmental movement, while impacting several high-priority environmental issues. |
$100,000
1 year |
| Green Corps Inc.
Environmental Leadership Training Program Boston, MA |
For Green Corps' Environmental Leadership Training Program, which hires recent college graduates to lead grassroots environmental campaigns. |
$120,000
2 years |
| Humane Society of the United States
The Center for Respect of Life and Environment |
For programs to promote education for sustainability in US colleges and universities. | $85,000
1 year |
| Occidental College
Eco-Oxy/Eco-Los Angeles |
For development of the Pollution Prevention Education and Research Center's new project, Eco-Oxy/Eco-Los Angeles, an education and urban greening initiative linking Occidental College and community institutions in the city of Los Angeles. | $40,000 1 year |
| Second Nature, Inc.
Education for Sustainability Boston, MA |
To increase the capacity of institutions of higher learning to make environmental sustainability a central principle in teaching, research, operations and community outreach. | $250,000 2 years |
| Tides Center
SEAC, General Support |
For general support of the Student Environmental Action Coalition's programs to build the capacity of young people to organize for environmental justice. | $25,000 1 year |
| Tides Center
Environmental Leadership Program |
For a fellowship program to train and support young scholars and professionals in becoming "public intellectuals" who can shape public opinion and influence policy on environmental issues. | $160,000
3 years |
| World Resources Institute
Business Environment Learning and Leadership Program |
For the World Resources Institute's Business-Environment Learning and Leadership Program, which works to integrate environmental learning and values into business education. | $150,000
2 years |
Economic & Fiscal Policies
| Community Networking Resources Inc.
Border Justice Campaign Albuquerque, NM |
For the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice's Border Justice Campaign, which seeks to develop a cross-border network of community organizations with a common agenda for action, and to hold corporate polluters and government agencies accountable. |
$30,000
1 year |
| Economic Policy Institute
Sustainable Economics Program |
For support of EPI's research, information dissemination, and coalition building around sustainable economic policy. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Environmental Health Coalition
Border Environmental Justice Campaign San Diego, CA |
For the Environmental Health Coalition's Border Justice Campaign, which promotes pollution prevention as a cost-effective component of industrial activity, advances viable clean-up strategies for hazardous waste, enhances the public's right to know, and builds the capacity of the anti-toxics movement in Southern California and northern Baja, California. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Global Action Plan for the Earth
The Community Lifestyle Campaign Woodstock, NY |
For expansion of GAP's Household EcoTeam Program through service contracts with local government agencies. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Environmental Justice Project Washington, DC |
For The Commitee's Environmental Justice Project, which provides direct legal and technical support to communities experiencing discriminatory or disparate impacts in application of environmental laws. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Northwest Environment Watch
General Support |
To foster an environmentally sound economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest through research, publishing, and information dissemination about the benefits of sustainability. |
$60,000
1 year |
| Public Health Institute Inc.
Just Transition Consortium for Jobs and Environment New York, NY |
For the Public Health Institute's efforts to build partnerships between progressive labor groups, environmental justice communities, and other environmental organizations, in order to help foster a more united movement for economic and environmental justice. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Taxpayers for Common $ense Foundation
Green Scissors Campaign Washington, DC |
For their Green Scissors Program, which works to raise public awareness of wasteful tax policies which harm the environment. |
$40,000
1 year |
| Tides Center
Center for A Sustainable Economy (General Support) San Francisco, CA |
For general support of the Center for a Sustainable Economy's programs to promote innovative policy approaches that integrate the goals of sound economic growth, environmental quality, fairness, and vibrant communities. |
$40,000
1 year
|
| Tides Center
Honor The Earth, Environmental Native Organizing and Regranting San Francisco, CA |
For Honor the Earth's support of front-line Native environmental groups through regranting, advocacy, media outreach and leadership development. | $30,000
1 year |
| World Resources Institute
Climate Protection Initiative Washington, DC |
To encourage the development of economically feasible policies, programs and products that also reduce the risk of global climate change. | $70,000
1 year |
Environmental Vision & Values
| Tides Center
Vallecitos-Sustaining Ecology Retreat San Francisco, CA |
For the Vallecitos Mountain Refuge Sustaining Ecology Retreat, which will bring together 25 leaders from a cross section of the environmental movement to "rethink" environmentalism, launch a more integrated vision, and encourage ways to reinvigorate the movement for the next century. |
$28,000
1 year |
| Trust for Public Land
Our Land, Our People: Creating Positive Change in The Conservation Movement Norwich, VT |
To establish a fellowship program to explore, inspire, and document new thinking for the conservation movement. |
$100,000
1 year |
Transportation & Land Use
| Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
Transportation, Air Quality and Land Use Planning Project Chicago, IL |
To continue a collaborative project among five public interest environmental and health organizations to improve transportation, air quality and land-use planning in Northeastern Illinois |
$40,000
1 year |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology
Transportation and Air Quality Programs |
To promote environmentally and economically sound transportation options by organizing citizens to have a voice in transportation policy and planning; promoting transportation investments that stimulate economic development in low and moderate income communities; and advancing creative strategies for transit enhancement. |
$180,000
2 years |
| Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated
Project To Reduce Driving Pollution New York, NY |
For EDF's Project to Reduce Driving Pollution, which provides state-of-the-art transportation reform "modeling" and other technical assistance to state and regional transportation advocates nationwide. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
Midwest Transportation and Land Use Reform Project |
To provide legal, technical, communications and strategic assistance to local organizations working on transportation, sprawl and land use issues in the Midwest; and for the Midwest high-speed rail initiative. |
$180,000
2 years |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
Midwest Grassroots Transportation and Land Use Reform Fund Chicago, IL |
For ELPC's Midwest Grassroots Transportation and Land-Use Reform Regranting Program to support neighborhood-based sprawl and highway fighting projects. |
$25,000
1 year |
| New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc.
Transporation Program New York, NY |
For NYCEJA's Transportation Program, which works to increase the proactive participation of low-income communities and people of color in the formulation of transportation policy in New York City. |
$35,000
1 year |
| New York Public Interest Research Group Fund, Inc.
Straphangers Campaign New York, NY |
For NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign to work for improvements and increases in New York City bus and subway service, structure a coalition for transit rebuilding, and advocate for intelligent implementation of transit passes. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Regional Plan Association Inc.
Regional Express Rail New York, NY |
For a project aimed at transforming the transit system of the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region through strategic investments that will add capacity, shorten travel times, reduce overcrowding, and provide new service to major destinations such as the region's airports. |
$40,000
1 year |
| Sierra Club Foundation
Global Warming Project San Francisco, CA |
For the Sierra Club Foundation's work to educate the American public about the urgency of improving automobile efficiency and reducing use of the private auto to curb global warming. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Surface Transportation Policy Project
General Support |
For programs to promote environmentally sound transportation policy on the national, regional and local level. |
$95,000
1 year |
| Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc.
NYC Transportation Policy Reform New York, NY |
For public education, advocacy and community mobilization efforts in support of state and city transportation policies that promote more efficient, equitable and environmentally sound transportation alternatives. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Union of Concerned Scientists, Inc.
Climate Change Impacts of Transportation Cambridge, MA |
To take advantage of debates over climate change and the Kyoto treaty to build public support for environmentally sound transportation policies. |
$35,000
1 year |
| United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc.
Clean The Air Campaign Washington, DC |
For US PIRF's Clear the Air Campaign to defend strengthened clean-air standards through research, public education and citizen organizing. |
$50,000
1 year |