W. Alton Jones Foundation's Sustainable World Program:
Sustaining the World or Just Extreme Enviros?


1998 Grants to Support the Climate and Multilateral Climate Treaties
1997 Grants to Support the Climate and Multilateral Climate Treaties
1996 Grants to Support Multilateral Climate Treaties
1998 Grants to Promote the Economic Value of Biodiversity
1998 Grants to Promote Economics for a Sustainable Planet
1998 Grants to Create Economic Models that are Environmentally Sustainable
1996 Grants to Create Economic Models that are Environmentally Sustainable
1998 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs
1997 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs
1996 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs
1995 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs
1994 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs
1998 General Grants to Support the Global Climate Treaties
1998 Grants to Promote a Hydrogen Economy
1998 Grants to Promote Renewable Energy in Developing Countries
1998 Grants to Eliminate Systemic Contamination General
1998 Grants to Eliminate ContaminationPesticides and Endocrine Disrupters
1997 Grants to Eliminate ContaminationPesticides and Endocrine Disrupters
1996 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Affecting Children's Health Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters
1995 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Affecting Children's Health Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters
1994 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Affecting Children's Health Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters
1998 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Media
1997 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Media
1996 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Law and Media
1995 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Law and Media
1994 Sustainable World Grants related to Media

1998 Grants to Support the Climate and Multilateral Climate Treaties

Center for International Environmental Law
Washington, DC
$100,000
To promote implementation of the Kyoto Climate Protocol in ways that enhance forest and biodiversity conservation.

Consumer's Choice Council
Washington, DC
$75,000
To promote the adoption of green procurement practices within the Asian Development Bank and among the Bank's client nations.

Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
London, England
$150,000
To undertake research, training and analytical assistance in support of efforts by the Alliance of Small Island States to address climate disruption.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Minneapolis, MN
$75,000
To provide information and policy analysis on existing and new trade initiatives that impact on the environment.

International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths
El Cerrito, CA
$200,000
To analyze the costs and benefits of the Kyoto Climate Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions and publish the results of this analysis.

National Environmental Trust
Washington, DC
$300,000
To educate policymakers, the media, businesses and the general public about the causes and impacts of climate disruption and the many economically sound options to avert it.

National Wildlife Federation
Vienna, VA
$100,000
For an educational effort to improve public understanding of the potential consequences of global climate disruption for wildlife and habitats.

Ozone Action
Washington, DC
$100,000
To organize nontraditional constituencies to form a coordinated voice on the need to address climate disruption in the U.S.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Washington, DC
$200,000
To involve physicians and public health professionals in educational efforts with the public, decision makers and the media on the health effects of global climate disruption and persistent toxic chemicals.

United Nations Foundation
Washington, DC
$110,000
To facilitate closer cooperation between the U.S. and China on fostering Chinese development of energy policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC
$200,000
To promote public awareness about climate disruption.

Verification Research, Training and Information Centre
London, England
$150,000
To evaluate uncertainties inherent in measuring greenhouse gas emissions and to develop recommendations for incorporating these uncertainties in monitoring compliance with the Kyoto Climate Protocol.

World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC
$100,000
To educate the public and business leaders about the need to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Worldwatch Institute
Washington, DC
$300,000
To produce Vital Signs 1999 and Vital Signs 2000, annual compilations of global environmental trends.

1997 Grants to Support the Climate and Multilateral Climate Treaties

Center for International Environmental Law
Washington, DC
$75,000
To complete an assesment of joint implementation (JI) forest projects to determine whether sequestering carbon through JI is an appropriate and viable means to help developed countries fulfill their obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Environmental Media Services
Washington, DC
$40,000
To design and implement a media campaign to promote "The Heat is On" and its findings to national print and broadcast media and in selected markets around the country.

Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
London, ENGLAND
$50,000
To provide assistance to the Alliance of Small Island States during the negotiations of a legally binding protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Kiko Forum
JAPAN
$50,000
To focus local, regional, and international media on the Third Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP3) and to educate the public about the need for the Japanese government to play a leadership role in the COP3 negotiations.

National Environmental Trust (Formerly Environmental Information Center)
Washington, DC
$250,000
To educate the media, public, and policy makers on the impacts of climate change and climate change mitigation strategies.

Ozone Action
Washington, DC
$40,000
To educate the public, policymakers, the media and elected officials on climate change and to enable the dissemination of critical information to decision makers.

Grassroots

Atmosphere Alliance, A project of the Earth Island Institute
Olympia, WA
$30,000
To build multisector networks in the Northwest to change policies and attract proclimate investment in an effort to reduce fossil fuel burning.

1996 Grants to Support Multilateral Climate Treaties

Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
$120,000
Boston, MA To promote a wider understanding of the human health implications of global environmental change among physicians and other health care professionals.

Center for International Environmental Law
Washington, DC
$60,000
To ensure that joint implementation projects developed under the Framework Convention on Climate Change protect forests and biodiversity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY
$200,000 over 2 years
For public and policymaker education on global warming, and to pursue strengthening of international climate accords.

Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
London, ENGLAND
$50,000
To provide legal research and analysis to small island and lowlying developing countries on the implementation of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and opreation of the Global Environmental Facility.

International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths, A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
El Cerrito, CA
$150,000 over 2 years
For analysis and dissemination of policy options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

U.S. Climate Action Network, A project of the Tides Center
Washington, DC
$100,000
To increase understanding of climate change issues and to publicize the international scientific consensus about the destructive impacts of humaninduced climate change.

Verification Technology Information Centre
London, ENGLAND
$80,000 over 2 years
To research and analyze verification issues related to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Grassroots

Atmosphere Alliance, A project of the Earth Island Institute
Olympia, WA
$30,000
To develop a regional action plan in the northwestern United States to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

1998 Grants to Promote the Economic Value of Biodiversity

Certified Forest Products Council
Beaverton, OR
$80,000
To support continued publication of Understory, CFPC's quarterly journal, and to support activities directed toward educating architects about responsible wood use.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To facilitate collaboration among foundations working to conserve biological diversity.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To maximize the collective impact of public education about biodiversity across a host of institutions.

Island Press
Washington, DC
$100,000
To develop a series of multimedia programs on conservation biology and related topics.

National Geographic Society
Washington, DC
$50,000
To collaborate with National Public Radio for production of NPR's "Radio Expeditions."

1998 Grants to Promote Economics for a Sustainable Planet General

Bank Information Center
Washington, DC
$250,000
To provide citizens worldwide with timely information about environmentally destructive loan projects and policies of Multilateral Development Banks, especially the World Bank and InterAmerican Development Bank.

Both Ends
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
$75,000
To increase transparency, accountability and environmental performance at the Multilateral Development Banks, especially the World Bank.

Clean Water Fund
Washington, DC
$200,000
To promote Polluter Pay policies at the federal, state and local levels through targeted investments and tax shifting.

Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY
$200,000
To coordinate advocacy efforts to ensure that the World Bank's Forest Policy Implementation Process results in the maximization of biodiversity and primary forest protection.

United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC
$200,000
To promote Polluter Pay policies at the federal, state and local levels through targeted investments and tax shifting.

1998 Grants to Create Economic Models that are Environmentally Sustainable

Energy Outreach Center
Olympia, WA
$25,000
To host the nation's first conference for state leaders interested in using the tax code to promote a sustainable economy, with the Center for a Sustainable Economy.

Maine Center for Economic Policy
Augusta, ME
$80,000
To formulate and distribute recommendations on the potential for Maine to undergo an environmental tax shift, in cooperation with Mainewatch Institute.

Mainewatch Institute
Hallowell, ME
$80,000
To formulate and distribute recommendations on the potential for Maine to undergo an environmental tax shift, in cooperation with Maine Center for Economic Policy.

Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy
St. Paul, MN
$200,000
To advance public understanding in Minnesota about the benefits of an environmental tax shift through ongoing communications and research work.

Oregon Environmental Council
Portland, OR
$35,000
To explore how the Oregon tax system can be harnessed to promote environmental objectives, including a reduction in use and emission of toxic chemicals, and more sustainable growth patterns and resource extraction.

Pacific Forest Trust
Boonville, CA
$80,000
To promote stewardship forestry and financial incentives to meet landowner needs and public expectations on private forest lands in the Pacific Northwest.

Redefining Progress
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To gain public attention for and broaden the research base behind a revenueneutral environmental tax shift.

Sierra Business Council
Truckee, CA
$10,000
To publish the Sierra Nevada Wealth Index, documenting practical benefits of finding solutions to community problems that meet social, economic and environmental needs.

Sonoran Institute
Tucson, AZ
$100,000
To promote communitybased conservation that preserves ecological integrity while meeting the economic and social aspirations of landowners and communities.

Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility
Burlington, VT
$75,000
To explore how the Vermont tax system can be used to promote environmental objectives, including a transition to cleaner energy sources and more sustainable growth patterns, in cooperation with Vermont Natural Resources Council.

Vermont Natural Resources Council
Montpelier, VT
$75,000
To cooperate in efforts examining the benefits of taxshifting for Vermont's environment and economy.

1996 Grants to Create Economic Models that are Environmentally Sustainable

Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC
$75,000
To monitor and publicize lending practices of the private investment sector that negatively affect the biodiversity and environmental health of developing countries.

International Institute for Energy Conservation
Washington, DC
$250,000 over 2 years
For collaboration among nongovernmental organizations, governments, and multilateral development banks to identify and promote energyefficient projects in developing countries.

Japan Tropical Forest Action Network, A project of the Public Media Center
Tokyo, JAPAN
$75,000
To advocate for sustainable forest management practices in Siberia and Irian Jaya, and to address the role of Japanese bilateral and multilateral aid in these regions.

Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy
St. Paul, MN
$70,000 To advocate for the internalizing of enviromental costs through marketbased mechanisms and pollution taxes.

Redefining Progress
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To promote tax reform that would encourage enterprise and opportunity while discouraging pollution and waste.

Sonoran Institute
Tuscon, AZ
$40,000
To build communitybased partnerships in the rural west to combat environmental backlash.

Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
$63,000
For a study comparing the environmental and financial performance of 1,000 publicly traded companies in the U.S..

Grassroots

Foothill Conservancy
Pine Grove, CA
$10,000
To initiate a citizenbased community planning process to address and resolve environmental threats to the Mokelumne River.

Sierra Nevada Alliance
Mammoth Lakes, CA
$38,000
To promote sustainable Sierra communities through problemsolving and collaborative planning.

1998 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs

Alabama Environmental Council
Birmingham, AL
$35,000
To build a stronger voice for environmental protection in Alabama through grassroots training, public education, a tollfree Hotline, an electronic network of activists and public dedication of Natural Wonder areas.

Artemis Wildlife Foundation
Helena, MT
$150,000
To develop and implement a marketing plan for beef from cattle raised using grazing practices that will sustain western landscapes and western ranch families.

Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$210,000
To improve communication about "the environmental predicament" to the general public and decisionmakers by drawing attention to the scientific connections linking environmental disasters.

Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research
Washington, DC
$240,000
To gather and disseminate information that highlights disinformation efforts by vested interests seeking to undermine environmental protection.

Idaho Conservation League
Boise, ID
$40,000
To strengthen environmental voices in Idaho.

Maine Audubon Society
Falmouth, ME
$66,000
To track and counter wise use activity in Maine.

Natural Resources Council of Maine
Augusta, ME
$30,000
To counter the wise use movement in Maine and build mainstream support for natural resource protection.

Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Portland, OR
$10,000
To strengthen the ability of Oregon environmental groups to mobilize members.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Washington, DC
$200,000
To work with public employees in state natural resource management and environmental protection agencies to expose the dramatic decline in regulatory enforcement and to build a base of employee activists.

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
Charleston, SC
$40,000
To build positive models of responsible development and workable conservation in South Carolina.

Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education
Seattle, WA
$80,000
To strengthen the capacity of Washington state's grassroots conservation movement and develop a constituency for conservation based on popular issues.

Western Organization of Resource Councils
Billings, MT
$60,000
To strengthen environmental leadership and build more effective grassroots groups to promote sustainable environmental protection in Montana and eastern Oregon.

Western States Center
Portland, OR
$100,000
To counter environmental backlash in eight western states through grassroots training, research and investigation, public education and coalition building.

1997 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs

Americans for a Sustainable Economy, A Project of the Tides Center
Washington, DC
$250,000 over 2 years
To develop and promote sustainable tax reform and undertake constituency outreach to the nonenvironmental advocacy community, and to engage public officials and the general public in this debate.

Artemis Wildlife Foundation
Helena, MT
$100,000
To implement the foundational phase of Conservation Beef (CB), a program to use conservationoriented market forces to develop economically sustainable and ecologically sound cattle ranching in biologically significant landscapes.

Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC
$250,000 over two years
To promote reform of economic policies that undermine public protection, and to harness the tax code to work for environmental sustainability.

Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy
St. Paul, MN
$75,000
To conduct nonpartisan public opinion research to assist in framing messages and communications about the impact of global climate change on Minnesota and the efficacy of a sustainable tax shift.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Washington, DC
$75,000
To organize employees to counter environmental destruction and the wiseuse movement's campaign to intimidate federal and state land managers.

Redefining Progress
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To gain public support for and broaden the research base behind a proposal to reduce taxes on labor, enterprise and capital formation and replace the revenue with levies on pollution, waste and inefficient resource use.

Sierra Business Council
Truckee, CA
$100,000 over two years
To demonstrate the practical benefits of finding solutions to community problems that meet social, economic and environmental needs.

Sierra Club of Canada
Ottawa, CANADA
$75,000
To conduct an analysis to determine the appropriate economic instrument to reduce and eventually phase out coalfired electricity generation in Ontario, Canada.

Sonoran Institute
Tuscon, AZ
$80,000
To promote communitybased conservation to preserve the ecological integrity of protected areas while meeting the economic and social aspirations of adjoining landowners and communities.

Taxpayers for Common Sense Foundation
Washington, DC
$100,00 over 2 years
To educate decision makers about the need to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and to promote shifting the burden of taxation from income and capital to pollution and naturalresource depletion.

Union of Concerned Scientists
Cambridge, MA
$300,000 over two years
To mobilize a network of scientists to counter misinformation about environmental science and encourage responsible media coverage of environmental issues.

U.S. PIRG Education Fund
Washington, DC
$25,000
To use a circuit rider to improve the communications of more than 50 field offices and to build an external communications network of organizations interested in promoting the "polluter pays" concept.

U.S. PIRG Education Fund
Washington, DC
$175,000
To build broad public and official support for "Polluter Pay" policies in the context of federal clean water, safe drinking water, toxics cleanup, federal fiscal structures, and related statelevel policies.

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To conduct a survey of ecological collapses, and to identify factors making some societies more vulnerable than others, and to describe those findings to the international public.

Grassroots

Alabama Environmental Council
Birmingham, AL
$35,000
To monitor and respond to threats to the state's natural environment and public health.

Maine Audubon Society
Falmouth, ME
$30,000
To promote sustainable economic opportunities and to coordinate efforts in the conservation community to counter antienvironmental efforts.

Progressive Leaders Project, A Project of the Western States Center
Weddenbern, OR
$30,000
To provide information and encourage community involvement in county decisionmaking concerning natural resource management.

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
Charleston, SC
$40,000
To promote a positive environmental agenda in South Carolina.

Tennessee Environmental Council
Nashville, TN
$25,000
To establish a toll free Watchdog Helpline that will allow Tennessee citizens to report environmental problems in their communities.

Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To establish a network of conservation training in Oregon.

Western Organization of Resource Councils
Billings, MT
$30,000
To conduct trainings, workshops, leadership schoold and exchanges and to produce training materials to increase the capacity of grassroots leadership in the region.

Western States Center
Portland, OR
$40,000
To track and document incidents of wise use violence and harassment against environmentalists and ofer information and support to targets of violence.

1996 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs

Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$200,000 over 2 years
To counter current environmental science backlash through policy research and through education of the public, scientists, environmentalists and the media.

Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, A project of the Tides Center
Washington, DC
$240,000 over 2 years
For a national information clearinghouse to collect and disseminate information on environmental backlash.

Environmental Information Center
Washington, DC
$175,000
To engage the media, the public and policymakers in the debate over environmental issues and policies.

Ozone Action
Washington, DC
$30,000
To counter media misinformation which undermines the public debate on ozone depletion and climate change.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Washington, DC
$75,000
To document and verify incidents of violence and harrassment against public employees of environmental agencies and pursue legal solutions.

Grassroots

Great Lakes United
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To serve as a resource center, clearinghouse, and training facility for local groups to counter environmental backlash in the Great Lakes region.

Institute for Washington's Future
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To demonstrate the positive relationship between conservation and economic opportunity, and to encourage religious leadership in promoting environmental protection.

Message Works,A project of Wahington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education
Seattle, WA
$7,500
To analyze the sucessful strategies used by a coalition of environmental, labor and community organizations to defeat an extreme "takings" initiative in Washington state.

1,000 Friends of Florida
Tallahassee, FL
$35,000
To assess public understanding in Florida of the property rights movement and to promote sustainable growth management.

People for Puget Sound
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To document and publicize the economic benefits of an environmentally healthy Puget Sound.

Progressive Leaders Project, A Project of the Western States Center
Weddenbern, OR
$30,000
To provide information and encourage community involvement in county decisionmaking concerning natural resource management.

Save the Dunes Council
Michigan City, IN
$8,400
To educate the legal community and others about the implications of "takings," and to develop strategies to counter environmental backlash.

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
Charleston, SC
$40,000
To reduce threats to environmental protection in South Carolina and to build support for land use planning and regulatory programs that protect the environment.

Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To improve the public outreach strategies of grassroots groups in Washington state focused on environmental protection.

Washington Environmental Council
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To develop new strategies to promote environmental protection in Washington state.

Western Colorado Congress
Montrose, CO
$40,000
To develop a citizens' plan for management of the San Juan National Forest that both protects forest resouces and sustains the local economy.

Western States Center
Portland, OR
$40,000
To counter environmental backlash and to monitor and expose violence against environmental activists in the western United States.

1995 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs

Center for Environmental Citizenship
Washington, DC
$20,000
To engage young people in discussions about environmental, economic and social challenges.

Center for Global Change, University of Maryland
College Park, MD
$150,000 over 2 years
To advance environmental tax reform which promotes economic wellbeing and ensures environmental sustainability.

Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research A Project of the Environmental Working Group at the Tides Foundation
Washington, DC
$120,000 For a national information clearinghouse to collect and disseminate information on environmental backlash.

Keystone Center
Keystone, CO
$100,000
To address the problems raised by unfunded federal environmental mandates and to advance solutions.

National Wildlife Federation
Washington, DC
$33,600
For analysis and public education about government "takings" in New Hampshire.

New Hampshire Wildlife Federation Trust New Hampshire Wildlife Trust, Inc.
Concord, NH
$68,522
To hold an educational workshop and presidential candidate forum to address the federal government's appropriate role in protecting the environment.

Public Education Center
Washington, DC
$70,000
For investigative reporting in Virginia to examine efforts by government and pollution industries to undermine existing environmental protection standards.

Scenic America
Washington, DC
$35,000
To inform civic leaders nationwide about the need to balance private property rights and natural resource conservation issues.

Union of Concerned Scientists
Cambridge, MA
$300,000 over 2 years
To mobilize a network of scientists to counter misinformation about environmental science and encourage responsible media coverage of environmental issues.

The Wilderness Society
Washington, DC
$100,000
To build a grassroots network of citizens to advance environmental protection and to press for reform of environmentally destructive laws in the western United States.

Grassroots

Alabama Environmental Council, Alabama Conservancy, Inc. Birmingham, AL
$60,000 over 2 years
To address issues raised by "takings" advocates and preserve policies which protect the environment and public health.

Columbia River Bioregional Education Project
Orville, WA
$11,000
To promote communitybased environmental protection and to help counter antienvironmental efforts in the Okanogan Valley of eastern Washington.

Dakota Rural Action
Brookings, SD
$27,500
To examine the impacts of "takings" and other deregulatory proposals on local and state governments and taxpayers.

Friends of the Columbia Gorge
Portland, OR
$30,000
To promote public support of environmental protection in the Columbia River Gorge.

Idaho Conservation League
Boise, ID
$40,000
To promote public support for clean water in Idaho, and expand support for environmental protections generally.

Maine Audubon Society
Falmouth, ME
$24,000
To promote sustainable economic opportunities and to coordinate efforts in the conservation community to counter antienvironmental efforts.

Piedmont Environmental Council
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To educate the public and the media in Virginia about property rights and government "takings."

Vermont Natural Resources Council
Montpelier, VT
$40,000
To improve environmental decisionmaking and to counter the environmental backlash movement in Vermont.

Virginia Conservation Network, Conservation Council of Virginia Foundation, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$40,000
To analyze and monitor environmental policy and programs in Virginia, including groundwater protection and pesticide reduction.

Western Colorado Congress
Montrose, CO
$40,000
To build grassroots alliances for sustainable economies western Colorado.

Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project
Billings, MT
$30,000
For public education and leadership training to protect and preserve sound environmental polices in Montana, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Idaho.

1994 Grants to Balance Economic and Environmental Needs

Center for Policy Alternatives
Washington, DC
$50,000
To engage at the state level in public education about unfunded mandates.

Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, A Project of the Environmental Working Group at the Tides Foundation
Washington, DC
$150,000
For a national information clearinghouse that collects and disseminates information about the activities of organizations opposing environmental protection.

Land and Water Fund of the Rockies
Boulder, CO
$40,000
For legal analyses and advocacy to protect state and local environmental regulations from extreme interpretations of Constitutional provisions against "takings" without compensation.

National Religious Partnership for the Environment
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the engagement of four major American faith groups in conversations with their memberships about the environment.

National Wildlife Federation
Washington, DC
$50,000
For economic analysis of the impacts of proposed legislation in New Hampshire that would implement extreme interpretations of government "takings."

The Wilderness Society
Washington, DC
$100,000
To expand the set of public constituencies encouraging sustainable development of natural resources in the Western U.S.

Grassroots

Coalition for a Livable Washington
Seattle, WA
$22,500
To create a grassroots network focusing on economic and environmentally sustainable development in rural timber communities.

Columbia River Bioregional Education Project, Columbiana
Orville, WA
$5,000
To support local citizens efforts to advance sustainable management of natural resources in the Okanogan Valley of eastern Washington.

Idaho Conservation League
Boise, ID
$37,000
For litigation challenging "custom and culture" ordinances which protect resource extractive practices, and for public education on this issue and "regulatory takings" claims.

Maine Audubon Society
Falmouth, ME
$35,625
To assist Maine's conservation community in countering backlash against local environmental protection.

Sierra Business Council, A Project of the Tides Foundation
Truckee, CA
$60,000 over 2 years
For economic and environmental analysis of the Sierra Nevada region of California that will encourage business community support for environmental protection.

Skylands CLEAN, Inc.
Ringwood, NJ
$9,000
For research and public education about threats to environmental protection in the New Jersey Highlands.

Vermont Natural Resources Council
Montpelier, VT
$25,000
To convene a Vermont Conservation Communications Group, which will promote cooperation and communication among Vermont's environmental organizations.

Western Colorado Congress
Montrose, CO
$32,500
To prevent groundwater contamination due to coalbed methane development in the San Juan basin, and to assist conservation activists in countering distortions by opponents to environmental protection.

1998 General Grants to Support the Global Climate Treaties

Alliance for Affordable Energy
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To rally Louisiana constituencies to advocate for decisive action to avoid climate disruption.

Atmosphere Alliance
Olympia, WA
$60,000
To build a broad constituency for climate protection in the Northwest.

Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
$350,000
To provide technical analyses assisting Chinese participation in international efforts to protect the climate from disruption.

Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
Boston, MA
$150,000
To promote a statebased greenhouse gas mitigation strategy focusing on power plant emissions and their impact on public health.

Toxics Action Center
Boston, MA
$20,000
To establish a Web site building on the book by Ross Gelbspan, The Heat Is On.

1998 Grants to Promote a Hydrogen Economy

Ark Environmental Foundation
London, England
$99,000
To prepare a business plan for holding an international Clean Motor Show in 2001 at a new exhibition site in London's docklands area.

Beijing General Research Institute for NonFerrous Metals
Beijing, China
$110,000
To collaborate with Daimler/Ballard to educate Chinese decisionmakers about the environmental and technological advantages of fuel cellpowered vehicles.

Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
$48,0000
To analyze the role of alternative fuels in catalyzing or retarding the longterm transition to a hydrogen energy economy.

Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental
Mexico City, Mexico
$200,000
To advocate the use of fuel cell powered vehicles in Mexico City as a means of improving air quality.

Cross Creek Initiative
Gainesville, FL
$55,000
To coordinate the beta test of hydrogen fuel cellpowered wheelchairs.

Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California
Davis, CA
$120,000
To organize and conduct multidisciplinary research of fuel cell vehicles and disseminate the results of this research to the scientific community and the public.

Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California
Davis, CA
$70,000
To conduct a feasibility study and enlist key actors to demonstrate successfully at least one fuel cell vehicle and fuel technology combination.

International Institute for Energy Conservation
Washington, DC
$200,000
To work with public and private capital sources to finance renewable energy and energy conservation projects that mitigate global climate disruption.

Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY
$260,000
To work to remove remaining barriers to the introduction of commercial quantities of stationary fuel cells in the northeastern U.S.

New York Conservation Education Fund
New York, NY
$46,000
To use the programs established by the 1996 Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act to promote fuel cell development and deployment in New York state.

Union of Concerned Scientists
Cambridge, MA
$150,000
To promote development and implementation of fuel cell vehicle technology in California.

University of Nevada
Reno, NV
$200,000
For technical analyses advancing the use of fuel cells to replace twostroke gasoline engines in scooter use in Taiwan.

1998 Grants to Promote Renewable Energy in Developing Countries

Alliance to Save Energy
Washington, DC
$106,000
To decrease energy consumption in China using energyefficient technologies and services.

Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
$65,000
To encourage biomass power generation serving villagescale markets in China.

Dakota Resource Council Education Project
Dickinson, ND
$25,000
To advocate development of clean energy sources in North Dakota.

Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY
$100,000
To build community support for a busway system in Los Angeles, California.

International Institute for Energy Conservation
Washington, DC
$112,000
To foster a renewableenergy market in Asia by linking manufacturers with financiers, distributors and wholesale dealers, local retailers, service providers and end users.

Iowa Citizen Action Network Education Foundation
Des Moines, IA
$25,000
To promote increased use of "home grown" renewableenergy resources.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA
$80,000
To promote energyefficient building design, construction and operations in China.

Learning from Curitiba
Los Angeles, CA
$286,000
To promote public understanding of the benefits for Los Angeles of implementing busways based on the experience of Curitiba, Brazil.

Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY
$300,000
To develop a model energy project in Chongqing, China, that will help guide energy policy development and investment.

Nebraska Citizen Action Education Fund
Lincoln, NE
$25,000
To promote the economic and environmental benefits of investing in the state's renewable resources.

The Regeneration Project
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To encourage Episcopal Church bodies and parishioners in California and Massachusetts to implement energy efficiency measures and choose clean sources of electricity.

Texas Citizen Fund
Austin, TX
$30,000
To coordinate activities of the Texas Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition in promoting renewable energy.

World Resources Institute
Washington, DC
$400,000
To initiate a collaborative project working with transportation, energy and health policy experts in China, Brazil, Mexico and Chile.

World Resources Institute
Washington, DC
$200,000
To build local partnerships in Brazil, Colombia and Central America supporting new business formation in the renewableenergy sector.

World Wide Fund for Nature
Beijing, China
$200,000
To conduct business development training for renewable energy entrepreneurs, managers and technicians in China.

1998 Grants to Eliminate Systemic Contamination General

Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
Washington, DC
$80,000
To identify and address obstacles impeding elimination of leaded gasoline worldwide.

Alternatives for Community and Environment
Roxbury, MA
$80,000
To develop local solutions to address the public health impacts of air pollution in Boston's innercity neighborhoods.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
Washington, DC
$50,000
To activate volunteer members to implement strategies for lessening the incidence of lead poisoning in Washington, DC.

California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
San Francisco, CA
$250,000
To work in the Los Angeles region with newly registered Latino voters on environmental issues, increasing their awareness of and participation in issues related to clean air.

Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
$83,000
To promote the phaseout of leaded gasoline around the world, with a particular emphasis on Russia.

Children's Council of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To reduce lead hazards in child care facilities, in collaboration with the Healthy Children Organizing Project.

Children's Health Environmental Coalition
Malibu, CA
$100,000
To develop a Web site providing information to parents, care providers, teachers and kids about concrete steps they can take to reduce exposure to contaminants in their everyday lives.

Columbia University
New York, NY
$100,000
To combine advanced molecular biological tools and community organizing to examine the ways that pesticides and other contaminants are affecting childrenÕs health and to help residents of Washington Heights and Harlem to make choices that reduce risks to Children's health.

Commonweal
Bolinas, CA
$175,000
To encourage the health care industry to reduce dioxin and mercury emissions from hospital waste management practices and to participate internationally in efforts to eliminate persistent organic pollutants from commerce.

Communities for a Better Environment
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To raise awareness about the incidence and severity of asthma related to air quality in southeast Los Angeles, and develop the capacity of local residents to push for reductions in pollution.

Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
New Orleans, LA
$130,000
To assist local communities in the Mississippi River Industrial Corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans in efforts to reduce toxic emissions that threaten children's health.

Environmental Advocates
Albany, NY
$35,000
To build a coalition to address New YorkÕs serious urban air quality issues and attendant public health consequences, particularly childhood asthma.

Environmental Media Services
Washington, DC
$300,000
To promote media understanding of environmental threats to children's health using a rapid response team to spotlight important, inaccurate or misleading news coverage.

GalvestonHouston Association for Smog Prevention
Houston, TX
$70,000
For research and education to promote improved air quality in the GalvestonHouston area, in collaboration with Mothers for Clean Air.

Health Care Without Harm
Jamaica Plain, MA
$75,000
To coordinate the efforts of diverse constituencies around the country in research, education and advocacy to reform hospital waste management practices.

Healthy Children Organizing Project
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To mobilize local government agencies to educate the families they serve and abate lead hazards in their own facilities, in collaboration with Children's Council of San Francisco, San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, and St. Peter's Housing Committee.

Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
Baltimore, MD
$8,000
To promote the phaseout of leaded gasoline around the world, with a particular emphasis on Russia.

Louisiana Environmental Action Network
Baton Rouge, LA
$80,000
To work with the religious community to educate Louisiana communities about the risks posed by toxic air pollutants and expand grassroots organizing to new constituencies.

Mothers for Clean Air
Houston, TX
$21,000
To organize local communities to demand improved air quality in the GalvestonHouston area, in collaboration with GalvestonHouston Association for Smog Prevention.

National Environmental Trust
Washington, DC
$500,000
To build public awareness of the special vulnerability of children to environmental contamination.

National Religious Partnership for the Environment
New York, NY
$450,000
To work with the leadership of different faith groups within the U.S., providing support for their deliberations about the responsibilities of people of faith in environmental protection.

Ohio Environmental Council
Columbus, OH
$33,000
To conduct research and public education about the health impacts of air emissions in the Ohio River Valley, in collaboration with Ohio River Valley Environmental Coalition, Inc., and RECOVER.

Ohio River Valley Environmental Coalition, Inc.
Proctorville, OH
$13,200
To conduct research and public education about the health impacts of air emissions in the Ohio River Valley, in collaboration with the Ohio Environmental Council and RECOVER.

Regional Coalition for Ohio Valley Environmental Restoration
Marietta, OH
$3,000
To conduct research and public education about the health impacts of air emissions in the Ohio River Valley, in collaboration with the Ohio Environmental Council and the Ohio River Valley Environmental Council.

San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To reduce lead hazards in soil and to push local government agencies to abate lead hazards in public parks and outdoor facilities, in collaboration with the Healthy Children Organizing Project.

St. Peter's Housing Committee
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To reduce lead hazards in lowincome private housing, particularly in the Mission District, in collaboration with the Healthy Children Organizing Project.

Science and Environmental Health Network
Windsor, ND
$120,000
To promote the precautionary principle as a new foundation for decisions affecting the environment and public health.

Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
New Orleans, LA
$280,000
To collaborate with the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice on efforts to protect children's health from toxic emissions.

West Harlem Environmental Action
New York, NY
$35,000
To develop and analyze a geographic information system for northern Manhattan assessing the disproportionate prevalence of polluting facilities in this densely populated area.

Wisconsin Citizen Action
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To protect Milwaukee's children from lead poisoning through voluntary and mandated abatement of lead hazards.

Wisconsin Citizen Education Fund
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To encourage participation by environmental health experts in steps to establish a health conversion foundation in Wisconsin.

1998 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters

Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Riverside, CA
$15,000
To highlight the extensive use of pesticides in agriculture, structural fumigation, schools and parks throughout Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and to work with other California organizations to promote pesticide use reduction.

Citizens Policy Center
Cleveland, OH
$60,000
To expose the increasing incidence of herbicide contamination of Ohio's drinking water and press for more protective pesticide policies.

Community Alliance with Family Farmers Foundation
Davis, CA
$60,000
To promote solutions on reducing pesticide use that are palatable to both the environmental and the agricultural communities.

Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$125,000
To perform cropspecific assessments of the impacts of alternative pest management systems likely to be implemented if particular pesticides are restricted.

Ecology Center of Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
$50,000
To increase awareness in Michigan of the excessive industrial emissions in the state and craft solutions to reduce health risks posed by exposure to persistent toxic compounds.

Environment and Human Health, Inc.
North Haven, CT
$15,000
To educate the public and policymakers about the potential for water contamination and related health risks caused by the extensive use of lawn and treecare pesticides in suburban Connecticut.

Environmental Working Group
Washington, DC
$400,000
To promote public and policymaker understanding of the risks that pesticides and other contaminants pose to children's health.

Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education
Los Angeles, CA
$170,000
To publish reports (in English and Spanish) on U.S. pesticide export practices.

Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC
$20,000
To encourage California's Department of Pesticide Regulation to withdraw registration of methyl bromide and to provide incentives for development and implementation of less toxic alternative methods of pest control.

Iowa Environmental Council
Des Moines, IA
$30,000
To initiate a research and public education effort concerning pesticide use in Iowa and to generate demand for policies that are protective of human health and the environment.

Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation
Tallahassee, FL
$40,000
To promote leasttoxic methods of pest control in schools in Florida and Georgia.

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
Boston, MA
$25,000
To educate the public and decisionmakers about the dangers of many chemical pesticides and the availability of safer alternatives, a cooperative project with the Toxics Action Center.

Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet
New York, NY
$50,000
To shift suppliers' practices away from chemicaldependent agricultural products by promoting demand for sustainably grown produce.

New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Albany, NY
$30,000
To provide information on alternatives to using dangerous pesticides in schools, in collaboration with the New York Healthy Schools Network.

New York Healthy Schools Network
Albany, NY
$15,000 To integrate pesticide use reduction into a broader effort to make schools a healthier learning environment, in collaboration with the New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Eugene, OR
$50,000
To promote awareness of pesticide risks in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and to identify practical alternatives.

People for Healthy Forests
Sonora, CA
$16,000
To educate the public and policymakers about the risks of herbicide use within the Stanislaus National Forest and U.S. Forest Service lands, and advocate for the reduction of such chemicals.

Pesticide Watch Education Fund
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To coordinate the Community Coalition to End Pesticide Drift, a network of California grassroots organizations aiming to protect the public from health problems caused by pesticides drifting offsite from agricultural applications.

Texas Center for Policy Studies
Austin, TX
$30,000
To advocate for policies that provide information on pesticide use to the public.

Toxics Action Center
Boston, MA
$15,000
To educate the public and decisionmakers about the dangers of many chemical pesticides and the availability of safer alternatives, a cooperative project with Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund.

Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Montpelier, VT
$30,000
To gather, analyze and disseminate data on frog deformities that may be caused by pesticide use in Vermont.

Wisconsin's Environmental Decade Institute
Madison, WI
$30,000
To advocate for policies that reduce the use of pesticides in schools and provide information on pesticide use to the public.

Western Environmental Law Center
Eugene, OR
$70,000
To challenge California's Department of Pesticide Regulation to withdraw registration of methyl bromide.

1997 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters

Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College of the City University of New York
Flushing, NY
$90,000
To apply the atrazine transport model to the task of generating information about the human and wildlife populations that may be significantly exposed to major airborne endocrine disruptors.

Commonwealth
Bolinas, CA
$75,000
To promote public, professional, and political awareness of the need to protect the health of children by reducing their exposure to fetal contaminations.

Pesticide Action Network, North American Regional Center
San Francisco, CA
$90,000 over 2 years
To expand information and publication services on pesticides and alternatives.

University of FloridaDepartment of Zoology
Gainesville, FL
$41,000
To inject into policy discussions considerations of the links between toxicology and basic biological mechanisms at the cellular and molecular levels.

Grassroots

CALPRIG at San Diego Charitable Trust
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To produce an assessment of toxic exposures focused on pesticides and reproductive health disorders in California, in collaboration with California Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Ecology Center of Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
$28,000
To increase awareness about hormone disrupting chemicals in the Great Lakes region.

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Poughkeepsie, NY
$50,000 over 2 years
To campaign for the reduction of PCB tolerance levels in Hudson River fish in collaboration with Scenic Hudson, Inc

Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation

$20,000
To promote leasttoxic methods of pest control in schools in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.

Michigan Environmental Council
Lansing, MI
$20,000
To increase awareness about hormone disrupting chemicals in the Great Lakes region.

New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Law and Policy Center
Trenton, NJ
$18,000
To produce an assessment of toxic exposures focused on industrial emissions and reproductive health disorders in New Jersey in collaboration with New Jersey Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Eugene, OR
$30,000
To promote the public's right to know about the toxicity of "inert" ingredients in pesticides, in collaboration with Western Environmental Law Center,

Pesticide Action Network
San Francisco, CA
$90,000
To expand international information and publication services on pesticides and alternatives.

Pesticide Watch Education Fund
San Francisco, CA
$28,000
To protect children's health, from contamination by airborne pesticide drift.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Newark, NJ
$8,000
To produce an assessment of toxic exposures focused on industrial emissions and reproductive health disorders in New Jersey in collaboration with New Jersey Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Newark, NJ
$15,000
To produce an assessment of toxic exposures focused on industrial emissions and reproductive health disorders in California, in collaboration with California Public Interest Research Group Charitable Trust.

Safer Pest Control Project, A Project of the Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund
Chicago, IL
$60,000 over 2 years
To reduce pesticide use in Chicago public schools and housing, and to inform state decisionmakers and the public about pesticide risks and costeffective alternatives.

Scenic Hudson
Poughkeepsie, NY 50,000 over 2 years
To campaign for the reduction of PCB tolerance levels in Hudson River fish, in collaboration with Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.

Southern Echo, Inc.
Jackson, MS
$20,000
To limit toxic emissions, pesticide use, and other environmental health hazards in Mississippi by the creation of "Environmental Safety Zones."

Washington Toxics Coaltion
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To promote public awareness and understanding of the endocrine disrupting effects of many common pollutants in our environment.

Western Environmental Law Center
Eugene, OR
$30,000
To promote the public's right to know about the toxicity of "inert" ingredients in pesticides, in collaboration with Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides.

1996 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Affecting Children's Health Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters

Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
$220,000 over
two years For surveys in coastal Louisiana to assess the impact of endocrine disrupters on coastal ecosystems and human health, and to inform decisionmakers about the science underlying environmental policy issues.

Center for the Biology of Natural Systems,Queens College of the City University of New York
Flushing, NY
$150,000
To analyze the human risk, especially to children, from long range air transport of toxic chemicals.

Environmental Working Group, A Project of the Tides Foundation
Washington, DC
$300,000 over two years
To conduct research and educate the publc and policymakers about the risks of pesticide use, particularly for children and the unborn.

Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education
Los Angeles, CA
$85,000
To document and analyze U.S. pesticide export practices.

Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet
New York, NY
$100,000
To create consumer demand for food produced without pesticides.

Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet
New York, NY
$40,000
To increase the supply and demand for food produced without pesticides in conjunction with the Virginia Association for Biological Farming.

National Campaign for Pesticide Policy Reform, A Project of the Tides Center
Washington, DC
$150,000
For public, press and policymaker education about the need for pesticide reform.

Grassroots

Community Alliance with Family Farmers Foundation
Davis, CA
$25,000
To bring together environmentalists and farmers to advocate for pesticide use reduction and other sustainable agricultural practices.

Community Coalition to End Pesticide Drift, A project of the Pesticide Watch Education Fund
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To assist volunteer organizations working to end the contamination hazard posed by pesticides drifting offsite from agricultural applications.

Ecology Center of Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
For research and public education about hormonedisrupting chemicals in the Great Lakes region.

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Albany, NY
$35,000
To heighten awareness of the health risks, especially to children, created by contamination of the Hudson River ecosystem.

Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation
Albany, NY
$40,000
To reduce pesticide use and exposure in Florida's schools.

New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Albany, NY
$30,000
To assist parents, teachers and others in implementing leasttoxic pesticide control practices in schools.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Eugene, OR
$30,000
To educate the public about the hazards of pesticide use, to promote disclosure of inert pesticide ingredients and to encourage alternative pest management practices.

Pesticide Watch Education Fund
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To protect health, and particularly children's health, from contamination by airborne pesticides.

Safer Pest Control Project, A Project of the Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To reduce pesticide use in Chicago public schools and housing, and to inform state decisionmakers and the public about pesticide health threats and costeffective alternatives.

Scenic Hudson
Poughkeepsie, NY
$35,000
To heighten awareness of health risks, especially to children, created by contamination of the Hudson River's ecosystem.

Virginia Association for Biological Farming
Blacksburg, VA
$40,000
To increase the supply and demand for food produced in Virginia with few or no pesticides.

Virginia Citizens Fund
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To build public support for implementing leasttoxic methods of pest control in and around school buildings and public spaces.

Western Environmental Law Center
Eugene, OR
$30,000
For litigation seeking mandatory disclosure and regulation of inert ingredients in pesticide products, and to organize citizen action in support of full disclosure.

1995 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Affecting Children's Health Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters

Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
$80,000
For surveys in coastal Louisiana to assess the impact of endocrine disrupters on wildlife populations, coastal ecosystems,and human health.

Citizens Fund
Washington, DC
$60,000
To inform the public about health and environmental threats posed by pesticides and to promote protection and policy reform.

Commonweal
Bolinas, CA
$20,000
For a conference about the impact of endocrine disrupters on human health and biological diversity.

Environmental Working Group, A Project of the Tides Foundation
Washington, DC
$125,000
For research and public education to reduce the use and risks of agricultural chemicals.

Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To document and analyze U.S. pesticide export practices.

Liberty Tree Alliance, A Project of Public Interest Projects
New York, NY
$50,000
To protect children from environmental threats to their health, particularly from exposure to chemicals that disrupt endocrine systems.

Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet
New York, NY
$75,000
To create consumer demand for food produced without pesticides.

National Association of Physicians for the Environment
Bethesda, MD
$140,000
To inform the medical community about environmental threats to public health, and encourage physicians to advocate for stronger environmental protections.

National Campaign for Pesticide Policy Reform, A Project of the National Audubon Society
Washington, DC
$150,000
For public, press and policymaker education about the need for pesticide reform.

Pesticide Action Network, North America Regional Center
San Francisco, CA
$80,000 over 2 years
To disseminate information on the risks of pesticide exposure, alternatives to pesticides, and opportunities for pesticide reform.

Grassroots

Agricultural Resources Center
Carrboro, NC
$35,000
To advocate for reform in pesticide policies within North Carolina and on a national level, and to promote sustainable alternatives to pesticides.

Alternatives for Community and Environment
Roxbury, MA
$25,000
To engage commnities in cleaning up and preventing urban pollution.

Mississippi River Basin Alliance
St. Louis, MO
$25,400
To assist grassroots organizations in the Mississippi River basin in testing the drinking water supplies in their communities for toxic herbicides and pesticides.

New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Albany, NY
$35,000
To assist parents, teachers, and others in implementing leasttoxic pesticide control practices in schools.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Eugene, OR
$40,000
To educate the public about the hazards of pesticide use, to promote disclosure of inert pesticide ingredients and to encourage alternative practices.

Parents for Pesticide Alternatives
Snellville, GA
$11,000
For publiceducation about the hazards posed to children's health by pesticide use and about alternatives to commonly used toxic chemicals.

Safer Pest Control Project, A Project of the Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund
Chicago, IL
$40,000
For a coalition of groups to work together to reduce pesticide use and improve pesticide regulations in Illinois.

Western Environmental Law Center
Eugene, OR
$40,000
For litigation seeking mandatory disclosure and regulation of inert ingredients in pesticide products.

1994 Grants to Eliminate Contamination Affecting Children's Health Pesticides and Endocrine Disrupters

Citizens Fund
Washington, DC
$53,000
To develop a capacity to use computer-based communication in advocacy for groundwater protection in Virginia.

Environmental Working Group, A Project of the Tides Foundation
Washington, DC
$135,000
To analyze risks created by current patterns of pesticide contamination in U.S. food and water supplies, and to inform the public about the findings. Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education
Los Angeles, CA
$26,000
To analyze and document U.S. pesticide export practices.

INFORM
New York, NY
$15,000
To develop a comprehensive overview of trends in the manufacture and use of synthetic chemicals containing chlorine.

National Association of Physicians for the Environment
Bethesda, MD
$100,000
To organize medical specialty and sub-specialty organizations to support environmental protection activities related to biodiversity and air pollution.

National Campaign for Pesticide Policy Reform, A Project of the National Audubon Society
Washington, DC
$160,000
To facilitate coordination among nongovernmental organizations working to educate the public about the hazards created by inadequacies of current pesticide regulations.

Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY
$50,000
To analyze existing pesticide regulations and recommend improvements.

Pesticide Action Network, North America Regional Center
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To make available via computer-based communications health and environmental data about the risks created through pesticide exposures.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Washington, DC
$80,000
To engage physicians in public advocacy encouraging improvement of pesticide regulations.

Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
Washington, DC
$60,000
To write and distribute factual materials for editors and journalists about the impacts of environmental contaminants on children's health.

Society of Environmental Journalists
Philadelphia, PA
$63,400
For workshops and seminars for journalists on the science and politics of environmental protection, especially in relation to environmental factors threatening children's health.

University of Missouri,Division of Biological Sciences
Columbia, MO
$22,680
To assess through a review of relevant scientific literature the commonness of very low dose effects by contaminants.

World Resources Institute
Washington, DC
$40,000
To assess the potential impact of pesticide exposure on the ability of human immune systems to withstand disease.

Grassroots

Agricultural Resources Center
Carrboro, NC
$22,500
For public education highlighting the public health threats of pesticides and promoting the economic feasibility of alternatives.

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Sacramento, CA
$25,000
To promote reduced use of pesticides and to present alternatives to pesticide use for the health and safety of farmers and farmworkers.

Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation
Tallahassee, FL
$40,000
For public education and hands-on work with pesticide users about the effects of pesticide run-off on Florida's natural resources.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Eugene, OR
$30,000
For public education on hazards posed by pesticide use and on the practicality of alternatives.

Safer Pest Control Project, A Project of the Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To provide technical assistance to local advocates on options for pesticide use reduction in Illinois.

Southern Mutual Help Association
New Iberia, LA
$40,000 over 2 years
Sustainable Agriculture / Environmental Policy Alternatives project

Washington Citizens for Resource Conservation
Seattle, WA
$60,000 over 2 years
To encourage markets for non-chlorine bleached paper with a "Reach for Unbleached" project.

Washington Toxics Coalition
Seattle, WA
$28,500
To promote pesticide reform in the state of Washington through groundwater education and the use of sustainable agriculture. environment.

1998 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Media

American Communications Foundation
Mill Valley, CA
$250,000
To produce radio programs on environmental subjects for "The Osgood Files," and for major local TV stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Environmental Research Foundation
Annapolis, MD
$75,000
To upgrade and maintain a Web site of environmental information and to hire a Spanishspeaking staffer to launch a Web page carrying Spanish translations of Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly.

IPS Inter Press Service
Washington, DC
$130,000 To produce indepth features, news and analysis about developments affecting the global environment.

Public Education Center
Washington, DC
$100,000
To encourage media coverage of serious environmental problems in Virginia.

National Strategy for Nonprofit Technology
New York, NY
$25,000
To undertake a national assessment of needs and opportunities within the nonprofit sector for using computing and related technologies.

Self Reliance Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
$100,000
To produce four episodes for "Mundo 2000," a Spanishlanguage radio program focusing on environmental topics.

Society of Environmental Journalists
Philadelphia, PA
$150,000
To facilitate communication among reporters and editors working on environmental issues and encourage professional development of environmental journalism.

WAMC Public Radio
Stockbridge, MA
$100,000
To produce radio coverage of environmental issues, with topical indepth coverage of timely events.

1997 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Media

Liberty Tree Alliance, A Project of Public Interest Projects
New York, NY
$75,000
To continue development, production, and promotion of a Web site designed to provide solid information and provacative commentary to journalists, students, enviromental educators, and environmental activists.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$200,000 over 2 years
To support an ongoing series of onehour educational radio programs by NPR and National Geographic which focus on the world's environment and species.

Persephone Productions
Arlington, VA
$35,000
To produce two segments for the public television journalism program "To the Contrary" examining the status of Congressional action on key environmental issues.

Public Education Center
Washington, DC
$400,000 over 2 years
To stimulate television and print press coverage of important environmental issues.

Self Reliance Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
$75,000
To link Spanishspeaking people in twenty countries by a new hispanic radio network which will gather updated environmental news information and, for the first time, allow listeners from throughout the Western Hemisphere to take part in a live public debate format.

WAMC Public Radio
Stockbridge, MA
$90,000
To produce a nationally syndicated, weekly radio program (including the first national, environmental callin program) on the environment and people who affect it.

World Media Foundation
Cambridge, MA
$250,000 over 2 years
To continue reporting on the profound effects toxic pollution has on human behavior and development, and the necessity for preventing further environmental degredation in order to sustain life.

1996 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Law and Media

Environmental Law

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, ELAW U.S.
Eugene, OR
$100,000
To network with and support environmental activists in Siberia, Amazonia and Indonesia.

Fundacion para la Defensa del Interes Publico
Bogota, COLUMBIA
$50,000
For legal efforts to enforce Columbia's environmental laws.

Media

American Communications Foundation
Mill Valley, CA
$173,000 over 2 years
To develop environmental material for use on radio in "The Osgood Files."

Good Wood Alliance
Burlington, VT
$40,000 over 2 years
To produce Understory, the journal of the Good Wood Alliance.

IPSInter Press Service
Rome, ITALY
$110,000 over 2 years
For reporting and analysis of issues affecting the global environment.

Liberty Tree Alliance, A Project of Public Interest Projects
New York, NY
$100,000
To develop an Internet Web site to engage college students in environmental issues.

Society of Environmental Journalists
Philadelphia, PA
$150,000 over 2 years
To improve the quality and visibility of responsible reporting on key environmental policy issues.

WAMC Public Radio
Stockbridge, MA
$150,000
To support the radio programs "The Environment Show" and "Talking Green."

Worldwatch Institute
Washington, DC
$200,000 over 2 years
To produce and distribute Vital Signs 1997 and Vital Signs 1998

1995 Sustainable World Grants related to Environmental Law and Media

Environmental Law

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, ELAW U.S.
Eugene, OR
$100,000
To network with and support environmental activists in Siberia, Amazonia and Indonesia.

Environmental Law Institute
Washington, DC
$200,000 over 2 years
To identify new legal approaches to preserving biological diversity and to encourage the introduction of these concepts into the judicial system.

Media

American Communications Foundation
Mill Valley, CA
$85,000
To develop environmental material for use on radio in "The Osgood Files."

Center for International Environmental Law
Washington, DC
$5,000
To establish the Environmental Information Alliance and support the development of "EcoNet Plus."

Foundation for American Communications
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To train journalists to cover environmental issues in the context of major current events, and to put these issues into a local perspective.

Good Wood Alliance
Burlington, VT
$20,000
To produce Understory, the journal of the Good Wood Alliance.

IPSInter Press Service
Rome, ITALY
$55,000
For reporting and analysis of issues affecting the global environment.

Public Education Center
Washington, DC
$250,000 over 2 years
To develop investigative stories related to natural resource protection of potential interest to major media outlets.

Self Reliance Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
$75,000
To produce "Salvemos Nuestro Planeta", an educational Spanish language radio program on environmental issues.

Society of Environmental Journalists
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To improve the quality and visibility of responsible reporting on key environmental policy issues.

World Media Foundation
Cambridge, MA
$250,000 over 2 years
For a weekly environmental news and information program, LIVING ON EARTH.

1994 Sustainable World Grants related to Media

American Communications Foundation
Mill Valley, CA
$69,000
To research and script environmental stories of potential use on radio in "The Osgood Files."

Center for Investigative Reporting
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To develop investigative stories about aquifer and drinking water quality, international trade in toxic wastes, and efforts on mining reform.

Center for Public Integrity
Washington, DC
$50,000
To examine how public opinion and public policy are manipulated and distorted by organizations that produce certain chemical products.

Communications Consortium Media Center
Washington, DC
$26,000
To distribute "Greenwire", a daily electronic environmental news source.

Investigative Reporting Project, A Project of the Tides Foundation
Takoma Park, MD
$34,100
To support a professional, independent reporter to pursue stories on environmental issues and place them in venues that do not typically carry these stories.

IPSInter Press Service
Rome, ITALY
$25,000
To employ a global environment editor in Washington, DC.

Public Education Center Washington, DC
$125,000
To develop investigative stories related to natural resource protection of potential interest to major media outlets.

Self Reliance Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
$75,000
To produce "Salvemos Nuestro Planeta"(Let's Save Our Planet), an educational Spanishlanguage radio program on environmental issues.

Worldwatch Institute
Washington, DC
$300,000 over 2 years
For publication of Vital Signs, a series assessing important trends linking human prosperity to the condition of the environment.


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