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        • Grants: Year 2004
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        • Grants: Year 2003
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        • Grants: Year 2004
          • Objective I / Strategy 1
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        • Grants: Year 2003
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        • Grants: Year 2004
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        • Grants: Year 2003
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2005: Objective II / Strategy 2

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2005: Objective II / Strategy 2

OBJECTIVE II: To facilitate environmental justice by ensuring that communities, especially those vulnerable due to low- to moderate- socioeconomic statues, race, or ethnicity, are protected from environmental degradation.

Strategy 2: To increase public access to information and decision-making about environmental policies.

List of grants that fall under this Objective/Strategy:

Educational Broadcasting Corporation/NOW on PBS 

Center for American Progress/Get Ready - Reconstructing the Gulf: Global Warming Preparedness 

Commonweal/Collaborative on Health and the Environment 

Ella Baker Center For Human Rights in California/Reclaim the Future 

Liberty Hill Foundation/Environmental Justice Technical Assistance Program 

Midwest States Center/General Support 

National Environmental Trust/Environmental Policy Public Education Campaign

Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc./Environmental Grantmakers Association 

Tides Center/People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights

Working Partnerships USA/General Support

 

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