2000 Grants
Conservation
Animal Alliance
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000 for the Sea Turtle Protection and Preservation Program in the Oaxaca coastal region of Mexico.
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bangalore, India
$25,000 to support conservation education and research projects in the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas, India.
Bombay Natural History Society
Mumbai, India
$11,975 to identify key sites for conservation in South India and build local support through public education and training in conservation planning and research.
CEDARENA
San Jose, Costa Rica
$10,000 to create land trusts in Costa Rica and promote the conservation of private lands along the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor.
Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestiere (CEFRECOF)
Kampala, Uganda
$23,100 to support the training component of a botanical forest census project in the Ituri Forest in the Eastern Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
$7,097 to train students at the State Pedagogical University of Mongolia in freshwater biomonitoring and methods for designing a water quality monitoring programs.
EarthRights International
Washington, D.C.
$20,000 to provide technical assistance to non- governmental organizations in Thailand and Burma seeking alternatives to the projects of international financial institutions such as the Yadana Pipeline and the Tasang Dam.
Ecology Action
Willits, CA
$15,000 f/b/o ECOPOL to expand biointensive-farming training programs in Mexico.
El Porvenir
Sacramento, CA
$14,339 to support reforestation research and training projects designed to conserve small watersheds in Matagalpa Province, Nicaragua.
Enersol Associates
Chelmsford, MA
$15,000 to test solar powered clean water delivery systems in the Dominican Republic.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Eugene, OR
$15,000 to support a technology circuit rider for legal environmental advocacy organizations in Latin America.
Fiscalia del Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
$10,000 for the legal and media campaign to halt the destruction of the rainforests by multinational logging companies in Chile.
Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC
$10,000 to support the International Monetary Fund Reform Campaign.
Grassroots International
Boston, MA
$15,000 to support the training and development of large scale
agrosilvaculture brigades in Haiti's Central Plateau.
Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda
Jalpan de Sierra, Mexico
$15,015 to support a public awareness campaign and community development projects that protect the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
$25,000 to conduct a tree census of a control plot in the Khao Ban Tat Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand and train local conservation professionals.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
$23,070 to support community outreach, training and education programs related to the protection of orangutans in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Instituto Sertao
Fortaleza, Brazil
$7,000 to study the decline of the carnuba palm tree forests in northeast Brazil and engage local communities in carnuba conservation efforts.
International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$25,000 to provide technical, research and strategic assistance to a network of Latin American groups promoting alternatives to hydroelectric dams, industrial waterways and river diversion projects.
National Audubon Society
New York, NY
$12,360 for research, training and technical assistance that mitigates agricultural and conservation conflicts between a migratory bird and rice and sorghum farmers in Venezuela.
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY
$10,000 to support a fellowship of an Ecuadorian doctoral student in Botany.
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biology
University Park, PA
$10,000 to study the impact of cattle and water buffalo in floodplain forests of the lower Amazon.
Population Biology Foundation
Missoula, MT
$9,525 to assess the conservation status of Ecuador's declining amphibians.
Project Underground
Berkeley, CA
$12,000 to involve local residents in developing, testing and mass-producing a water testing kit to monitor pollution caused by gold mines in Northern Peru.
Rainforest Foundation USA
New York, NY
$10,000 to develop an indigenous people's legal services and training center in Guyana that helps Amerindians protect the environment and assert their territorial rights.
Rhode Island Zoological Society
Providence, RI
$14,390 to train local conservation biologists and work with landowners, government officials and local organizations to establish a conservation area in the rainforest on the Huon Peninsula in Papua New Guinea
Trees, Water and People
Fort Collins, CO
$15,710 to refine and promote the use of a new fuel-efficient cook stove in partnership with local
non-governmental organizations in El Salvador and Guatemala.
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
$12,000 for a comparative study of the health and environmental implications of indigenous and non-indigenous land management systems in the frontier zones of the Peruvian Amazon.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, NY
$20,000 to support research and training programs of the Andean conservation center based in the Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otun-Quimbaya and the Ucumari Regional Park in Colombia.
Woods Hole Research Center
Woods Hole, MA
$20,000 to build collaboration among universities, grassroots organizations, government agencies for rainforest management and develop the extractive reserves model that promotes low impact forest use in the Amazon Basin.
Food
International Potato Center
Lima, Peru
$16,500 to study genetic resistance to bacterial wilt disease in potatoes and ultimately develop more resilient potato varieties.
Permacultura America Latina
Santa Fe, NM
$15,050 to train 62 farmers and agriculturists from 23 rural settlements in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil in permaculture, seed production and sustainable agriculture
Rural Development Institute
Seattle, WA
$15,000 for a pilot research and training project to provide extended land tenure as an incentive for sustainable farming practices, increased agricultural productivity and land restoration in Dongang County China.
University of Vermont - Entomology Research Laboratory
Burlington, VT
$28,882 for research to develop indigenous insect-killing fungi as a viable, cost-effective tool for the use in a comprehensive integrated pest management program for Sunn Pest.
Health
Concern America
Santa Ana, CA
$15,000 to train 100 health promoters, midwives, and health workers in forty communities in Guatemala in strategies to improve nutrition, sanitation, women's health, income-generation and community participation.
Direct Relief International
Santa Barbara, CA
$7,000 to develop a new health training component that combines primary care with health education in isolated indigenous villages along the Beni river in Bolivia.
Dooley Foundation-Intermed
New York, NY
$20,000 for an outreach program that provides health care, health education and health worker training to Miskito and Sumo Indians living in the Coco River area of Nicaragua.
Escuela De Enfermeria Stella Maris
Michoacan, Mexico
$9,600 to support scholarships for nursing students who will work in underserved villages in Mexico
Hesperian Foundation
Berkeley, CA
$25,000 to develop A Community Guide to Environmental Health.
Interchurch Medical Assistance
New Windsor, Maryland
$15,000 to support the Tanzania Onchocerciasis Control Program.
Medical Training Worldwide
Novato, CA
$13,400 to support the International Laparoscopic Surgery Program in Latin America.
Minnesota International Health Volunteers
Minneapolis, MN
$13,000 to expand the Traditional Healer Collaboration Program that trains 150 participants in the treatment of malaria and STD prevention in Ssembabule, Uganda
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
$16,190 for research on the relationship between the decrease in shistosomiases and the presence of snail-eating fishes in Lake Malawi Africa and the development of fishery management strategies with local stakeholders to increase the populations of these fishes.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
New York, NY
$15,000 to support sexuality education and reproductive health services to adolescents and women in Cameroon.
Population Services International
Washington, D.C.
$20,000 to launch an oral contraceptive social marketing project in Paraguay in partnership with Promocion y Mejoramiento de la Salud (PROMESA).
World Neighbors
Oklahoma City, OK
$19,123 to help indigenous women's groups cultivate medicinal plants and promote traditional healing practices in Rabinal, Guatemala.
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