Natural Resources
Current patterns of unsustainable consumption and production are irreversibly harming the natural systems that sustain life, exacerbating economic inequalities and threatening human health and the survival of indigenous peoples.
The Fund seeks initiatives that minimize the risks that these current patterns pose to the health of people and ecosystems around the world; integrate environmental objectives into public and private economic and policy decisions; strengthen civil society participation in economic and environmental governance; and improve or enforce protection of key environmental resources and biodiversity.
Objective I: Climate change
Strategies:
1. Promote clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency
Clean Air Task Force - $40,000
To support work analyzing the carbon impact of biofuels and the potential for "bio-char" to enhance sequestration of carbon in soils.
Fresh Energy - $75,000
To establish a new media center.
Renewable Energy Policy Project - $30,000
For their work correlating manufacturing of components needed for renewable energy technology with manufacturing capacity in several states, to show the economic benefits of renewable energy development.
SmartPower - $50,000
To support the growth of clean energy markets in the Southeast and to work with state climate planning coalitions.
Tides Center/Honor the Earth - $30,000
Second year of a two year grant to support the Energy Justice Initiative, which demonstrates renewable energy projects on Native lands and develops tribal policies to promote clean energy and greenhouse gas reductions.
United States Public Interest Research Groups - $50,000
A grant for the New Energy Future project.
2. Apply accountability/watchdog pressure on government and corporations
Bank Information Center - $35,000
Continued support for this leading World Bank watch group.
Chesapeake Climate Action Network - $50,000
For the launch of the Climate Emergency Council and grassroots activism to provoke state and federal governments to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment California - $50,000
To support passage of AB32, which requires the California Air Resources Board to develop regulations and market mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Institute for Policy Studies - $60,000
Continued support for the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network.
Oil Change International - $100,000
To support the Separation of Oil And State campaign and build a larger constituency for action to reduce global warming among international development campaigners.
Rainforest Action Network - $80,000 a year for up to 2 years
For campaigns against new coal development and for international finance reform.
3. Develop new approaches to produce U.S. leadership
Clean Air Cool Planet - $50,000
A grant for the New Hampshire Global Warming Education Project.
National Environmental Trust - $80,000 a year for up to 2 years
For their Global Warming Public Education Campaign, designed to intensify and coordinate educational efforts by the environmental community for promoting federal limits on carbon emissions in the United States.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy - $35,000
To support regional strategies to reduce global warming pollution through state-level policies in the Southeast.
Union of Concerned Scientists - $75,000
Continued support for the Climate Solutions Campaign, which develops technical solutions that are credible and understandable and focuses on specific programs at the state and regional levels to motivate change.
World Resources Institute - $100,000 a year for up to 2 years
Continued support for their work to leverage U.S. leadership on climate change through a bottom up strategy of state and interstate climate policies and to ensure that the international process moves forward.
4. Influence markets to support reductions in greenhouse gases
Ceres - $50,000
To mobilize institutional investors to recognize the financial risk of ignoring climate change and to pressure corporations to take voluntary action, taking particular note of the financial risks posed by new coal development and extraction of oil from the tar sands in Canada.
E&Co. $50,000
Second year of a two-year grant to continue developing and implementing E&Co.’s "enterprise development model." The method promotes clean energy enterprises that will provide power to the world’s 2.4 billion people who rely on traditional fuels and the 1.6 billion who have no access at all to energy sources.
World Resources Institute $80,000
Second year of a two-year grant for work on international financial institutional reform, focusing on oil and gas extraction.
5. Build diverse constituencies for reform
Alaska Conservation Foundation - $15,000
To support the national Mayors and Climate Change trip in Alaska.
Environmental Law & Policy Center - $40,000
Second year of a two-year grant to drive clean energy and energy efficiency solutions in the Midwest, especially through proving and expanding the clean energy provisions of the Farm Bill (to be reauthorized in 2007) and building support among farmers and policymakers.
ICLEI - $35,000
To support the Cities for Climate Protection project and develop a national policy center.
National Wildlife Federation - $61,600
To support work demonstrating the impact of climate change on conservation interests and build activism among those who enjoy or depend on them.
Physicians for Social Responsibility - $50,000
Second year of a two-year grant to mobilize the health community and reframe the debate on energy, climate change, and clean air policy as one that directly affects public health policy.
Objective 2: Consumption
Strategies:
1. Create consumer and institutional pressure
Forest Ethics - $40,000
General support for efforts to transform the paper and wood industries in North America though market pressure designed to help shift consumer and corporate behavior, especially in the catalog industry.
Forest Stewardship Council, International - $40,000
To establish an FSC China national office, as China is now the top importing country worldwide of industrial roundwood, leading to a dramatic increase in illegal logging in South East Asia.
Forest Stewardship Council, U.S. - $65,000
Core support for market campaigns to increase FSC visibility in the green building and paper industries in the United States, and to promote the highest standard of certification and maintain the integrity of the FSC brand.
Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation - $30,000
General support to Markets Initiative for their work with Canadian publishing companies to help them develop environmentally sound purchasing policies, with the primary goal of eliminating any use of products that come from ancient and endangered forests.
World Wildlife Fund - $75,000
To support work to eliminate environmentally destructive fishing subsidies in the World Trade Organization.
2. Hold government and corporations accountable through and accountability measures.
Oxfam America - $75,000 a year for up to two years
Support for their Extractive Industries Program, which builds the capacity of indigenous groups and local communities to defend their economic, cultural and social rights, while at the same time working to reform the policies of corporations and financial institutions to take into account environmental and human rights impacts of the projects they fund.
3. Build markets for environmentally preferable products that also enhance the livelihoods of local communities
Alliance for Sustainable Colorado - $30,000
Assistance for replicating progressive, environmentally-sound coalition-building center model to advance diverse social advocacy initiatives in other states.
California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund - $50,000
A grant to educate Californians on a statewide proposition that would handcuff local growth controls and strip citizens of the ability to protect their own land and communities.
Corporate Ethics International - $75,000
Funding for the Strategic Corporate Initiative, a multi-year effort to craft the next generation of corporate reform strategies, and continue oversight of Wal-Mart’s impact on local economies.
Center for Economic Security - $15,000
Support for analysis of opportunities for expanding the emerging local, healthy food production and distribution network.
Environmental Working Group - $25,000
A grant for identifying and publicizing unproductive U.S. taxpayer subsidies to wealthy and corporate farms.
Forest Trends - $50,000
For their work building communication and shared interests between local communities and market players while at the same time offering sustainable forestry alternatives to development projects.
Futurewise - $50,000
Support for coordinating grassroots mobilization for sound smart growth policies in Washington State and building public awareness of potential impacts of land use ballot measure.
Good Jobs First - $30,000
A grant to advance sound local and state economic and tax policies and prevent millions of dollars of tax abatements that underwrite giant retailers’ expansion.
Idaho Smart Growth - $30,000
Funding to diverse coalition for public education on a ballot measure threatening to devalue community property and eliminate local control over land use.
Institute for Local Self Reliance - $50,000
Support for outreach activities to build widespread awareness and usage of the “New Rules Project,” offering elected officials and civic leaders tested and vetted ordinances that spur sustainable local governance.
Mid-Atlantic Co-Housing Association - $30,000
Assistance to accelerate co-housing development through publications that detail the favorable financial reality of creating co-housing units, thus attracting potential community members and green developers.
Rainforest Alliance - $75,000
General Support for their core programs to develop and implement best management practices, promote sustainably certified products such as coffee and chocolate, and provide certification services.
Sonoran Institute/Montana Smart Growth Coalition - $30,000
Support for public education activities regarding citizen control over land use decisions and to advance understanding of the need for sustainable planning.
Sustainable Production & Consumption Funders Working Group - $10,000
Support for helping foundations and non-profits identify opportunities and threats regarding corporate and public practices and policies within the consumption issue area.
University of California, Berkeley, Consumer Information Lab - $25,000
Funding to enable consumers to use their cell phones to scan barcodes and retrieve detailed product and company information regarding health, environmental, social, and other measures.
Willits Economic Localization - $50,000
A grant to build organizational planning and staffing capacity to expand and replicate a comprehensive sustainable community initiative now underway in this northern California town.
Worldwatch Institute - $40,000
Support to enable research and widely disseminate data on international and indigenous sustainable communities and promote replication of these programs.
4. Advocate for sustainable and just land use and against sprawl
Center for Public Integrity - $65,000
Support for investigative accountability project on ballot initiatives designed to undermine prudent state and local land use policies.
Institute for Community Preservation - $50,000
Assistance for a multi-county organizing and technical capacity-building initiative to help local groups create progressive state and local land use policies.
Land Trust Alliance - $100,000
A grant to spearhead a diverse coalition to make permanent new federal tax deduction increases for conserved land and oversee IRS rulemaking as it implements these new land use rules.
Piedmont Environmental Council - $30,000
A grant to Virginia’s regional land and community preservation organization to engage groups in designing a generic land use and anti-sprawl organizing model.
Rails to Trails - $40,000
Funding for an initiative to shift $2 billion from federal highway construction into fully integrated transportation systems that link local walking, hiking and bicycling sidewalks and pathways.
Resource Media - $50,000
Support to assist specific state groups with comprehensive media services to advocate prudent land use policies and communicate the crucial need to establish sustainability as a social norm.
Sightline Institute - $50,000
A grant to initiate sustainable community planning while enhancing the capacity of Northwest regional civic, political and business leaders to make positive land use choices.
Smart Growth America - $75,000
Funding to provide local, statewide and national sustainable development groups with leadership, timely and useful data, technical assistance, and coalition-building support.
Objective 3: International Finance and Trade
Strategies:
1. Empower marginalized local communities to exert grassroots pressure on trade and finance institutions
Amazon Watch - $90,000 a year for up to 2 years.
Support for protecting Amazon basin ecosystems and the rights of the region's indigenous peoples, by bringing the voices and concerns of indigenous and local
communities to decision makers and the media.
Center for International Environmental Law - $75,200 a year for up to 2 years.
General support for their work pushing for stronger environmental and equity policies in international trade law and deepening the connections between human rights and environmental laws.
Corner House - $65,000 a year for up to 2 years
Support for Human Rights, Trade, Investment and the Environment Project, which calls attention to the environmental and social impacts of large infrastructure projects like dams, mines and pipelines, and to advocate for reform within the UK export credit agency and the World Trade Organization.
Council of Canadians - $40,000
Continued support for the “Blue Planet Project,” a broad coalition of grassroots movements and the NGO community working to secure water as a fundamental human right.
FERN - $55,000
General support for FERN to work on the democratization and governance of financial flows, including the Export Credit Agencies and Investment Treaties, which directly affect people on the ground in developing countries.
First Peoples - $10,000
The Indigenous Peoples Protected Area and Fund international initiative
seeks to provide financial and technical resources directly to
indigenous communities to build their capacity to plan, establish,
manage and sustain their protected areas. Many or most of the world's
major centers of biodiversity coincide with areas occupied or controlled
by Indigenous peoples.
Forest Peoples Programme - $35,000
A UK-based NGO that provides direct assistance to indigenous peoples'
organizations who struggle to control the use of their land and its
resources. FPP focuses particularly on destruction of forests that are
under threat from logging, mining, hydropower, etc.
Global Greengrants Fund - $25,000
This General support grant will allow them to re-grant funds to groups on the front lines of environmental action confronting the challenges of habitat loss, deforestation, air pollution, environmental toxins, resource extraction, and marine and coastal ecosystem destruction.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) - $35,000
For their work in driving policy reform in the areas of trade, agriculture and food systems, by connecting what is happening globally to the local level and making people care.
International Accountability Project - $40,000
The IAP works at both the grassroots and international levels to ensure
respect for human rights and the environment and that banks and
corporations are held accountable for their actions. IAP provides
legal support to individuals and communities who are the most affected
by projects such as mines and dams.
2. Address corporate abuses, transparency and accountability, and promote sound public policy solutions
Center for Science and the Environment - $50,000
General support for work confronting corporate abuse and government collusion in India, which sends important signals to the international community.
Democracy Center - $50,000 a year for up to two years
Through fiscal sponsor the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds, support for the Democracy Center's Stories from the Front Row, which helps ordinary citizens better relate to the seemingly distant and arcane world of trade and globalization, through a combination of investigation, reporting, campaigning, and advocacy training.
EarthRights International - $30,000
General support for one of the few groups actively bridging human rights and environmental concerns, at the forefront of the movement to build a system of global justice to hold governments and corporations accountable for environmental and social degradation.
Environmental Defense - $50,000
For their work raising awareness of the environmental and social risks associated with development lending institutions.
Friends of the Earth, International - $85,000 a year for up to 2 years
General support for their work promoting sustainable economic thinking using local priorities as a guide, mobilizing and educating local communities to advocate for their own rights, as well as working to catalyze international financial institutions in creating policies geared towards sustainable development.
Friends of the Earth, U.S. - $60,000 a year for up to 2 years
General support for their work reforming and monitoring international financial institutions for the protection and preservation of community rights and natural habitats.
International Indian Treaty Council - $35,000
General support for the IITC, one of the major voices and official links for indigenous communities throughout the Americas and the Pacific, helping protect their rights, cultures and sacred lands from corporations and bureaucracies.
Mani Tese - $50,000
Continued support for their MDBs, ECAs, FDI Reform Campaign, with a larger focus this year on human rights violations by ECA-backed projects.
Sage Foundation/Halifax Initiative Coalition - $45,000
General support for Halifax’s work monitoring, and advocating for reform of, the policies of the international financial institutions.
Urgewald - $60,000 a year for up to 2 years.
For their work to try to strengthen the environmental and social standards of German banks, export credit agencies, and international financial institutions in which Germany is a shareholder, challenging those institutions that continue to lag behind.
3. Support a strong, effective non-governmental community who can press for reform through watchdog and other mechanisms
BankTrack - $25,000
Based in the Netherlands, BankTrack coordinates the large network of NGOs campaigning for private bank reform. This network seeks to reform the private financial sector and steer it towards social and environmental sustainability.
International Forum on Globalization - $100,000
General support for their work to provide an alternative vision to the current globalization paradigm and continue educating activists, policy makers, media, and the public about the negative effects of economic globalization and the development strategies of the WTO; and project support for a series of convenings around the triple crisis of climate change, peak oil, and global resource depletion.
Public Citizen - $115,000 a year for up to two years
Support for the Global Trade Watch project of this public interest research, advocacy and litigation group that promotes government and corporate accountability in an area on which few have focused: how the new generation of international commercial pacts, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), were opening a backdoor attack on local, national and international public interest policies.
Objective 4: Ecosystems/Biodiversity
Fauna & Flora International - $100,000 a year for up to 2 years
Support for gorilla conservation work in Africa, to raise worldwide awareness of biodiversity conservation and demonstrate how to more effectively use conservation tools at local, national, and international levels.
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism - $40,000
This group, based in Nevada, works internationally to provide leadership
and help to indigenous communities whose rights to their resources are
under threat. They are especially concerned about the human rights
dimensions to biotechnology and lack of respect for traditional
knowledge.
The Nature Conservancy, Pennsylvania - $100,000
To help Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Forestry certify and manage the almost 20% of the State’s total forestlands which it has committed to preserving as old-growth reserves.
Ocean Foundation - $100,000
Core support and support for their efforts to protect whales.
Pacific Environment - $50,000
For their work protecting marine biodiversity in the North Pacific, particularly around Russia’s Sakhalin Island, through promoting grassroots activism, strengthening communities and reforming international policies.
RARE - $50,000
Continued general support for their work to achieve conservation results in the world’s most threatened natural areas through community-based education and innovative economic development solutions.
WildAid - $75,000
To reduce the consumption of endangered species in China using the 2008 Beijing Olympics And athletes to focus attention on the problem.
World Wildlife Fund/TRAFFIC - $75,000
Continued general support to ensure that wildlife trade is conducted at sustainable levels and in accordance with domestic and international laws and agreements.
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