1997 GRANTS MAIN INDEX • GRANTS & FINANCES

Outreach and Education

The following grants, usually of a one-time nature, support projects that lie outside traditional program guidelines, but ones which the Fund believes support and advance overall progress toward sustainable development. The Fund welcomes innovative, inter-disciplinary, and cross-cutting proposals of global significance which work to engage diverse constituencies, increase public awareness, encourage international cooperation and collaboration, and/or strengthen capacity within institutions.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - $7,815

Building on past support for the Forgotten Pollinators Campaign, this grant supports a workshop to update and refine the economic value of alternative pollinator populations for US agriculture.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) - $8,000 over two years

General operating support. The CGBD works to create partnerships between funders to strategically address the challenges of accelerated natural resource degradation and its increasing threat to global biodiversity.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) - $10,000

Third year of support for The Biodiversity Project, to chart key opportunities for advancing biodiversity awareness in North America in both the policy and environmental education arenas.

Tides Foundation - $8,750

Support to Global Greengrants Fund to explore the feasibility of and interest in the development of a sustainable development donor network.

The Xerces Society - $43,425

Continued support for Butterfly Farming in Developing Countries. The current phase focuses on creating steady market demand for sustainably harvested butterflies. Xerces is expanding its consortium of conservation buyers in North America to strengthen the market based on conservation and sustainable use of rain forest resources.