General support to advance a progressive agenda and develop the next generation of progressive leaders.
2008
$75,000
For project support of scientific work linking the disappearance of California red-legged frogs to pesticide use, and to support legal challenges to EPA's "no effects" findings and against the pesticide industry.
$100,000 (year 2 of a 2-year grant)
Support for the Center’s Community Voting Project, an effort that is building voter identification, registration, data analysis, turnout, and voter protection strategies in eighteen states around the country.
$50,000
In support of their work on several important environmental rights and international law cases, including the Wiwa and Bowoto cases in Nigeria, involving Shell and Chevron respectively.
$65,000
Ongoing general support for this leading civil liberties law firm that has recruited, coordinated and trained more than 500 volunteer attorneys from around the country to provide legal help to Guantanamo detainees and others captured in the name of the war on terror.
$15,000
For research and investigative reporting by environmental writer Heather Rogers, who is preparing to publish a groundbreaking book called "Made in the Shade" about the underbelly of "green capitalism" that looks critically at the carbon trading regime, offset projects, and environmental protection standards.
$140,000 (3 grants)
To help invigorate the U.S.–based peace movement, the International Socialist Review, and the 2009 Socialism Conference.
$15,000
A grant for research, writing, and distribution of a report on the need for, and opportunities to, reform the U.S. food system and advance local, healthy, sustainable food systems.
$25,000
For research, advocacy and public education on the relationship between human population and the environment with a focus on population, energy and climate change issues.
$50,000
In support of efforts to educate and mobilize U.S. policymakers and constituencies in support of increasing funding for international family planning and ensuring reproductive health and rights.
2008
