2003 Grants
Conservation
Amazon Conservation Team
Arlington, VA
$4,000 to integrate indigenous health practices into primary care programs in the interior of Suriname.
Amazon Environmental Research Institute - IPAM
Belem, Brazil
$15,275 for a study titled 'The effect of Gap Size on Animals and its Implication on Forest Regeneration in Amazonia'.
American Bird Conservancy
The Plains, VA
$15,000 to support farmer workshops and the biodiversity monitoring components of a large-scale effort to improve the productivity of degraded pasturelands in Colombia.
Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology
Boston, MA
$21,033 for a study titled 'Ecological function of the surviving haplochromine cichlids in Lake Victoria, Kenya'.
Center for International Environmental Law
Washington, DC
$10,000 to work with Partners of Community Organization Sabah, and inform communities about the new biodiversity law and promote the protection and management of indigenous biological resources and traditional knowledge in Sabah, Malaysia.
EarthRights International
Washington , DC
$20,000 to provide technical assistance to non-governmental organizations in Thailand and Burma seeking alternatives to the projects of international financial institutions.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Eugene, OR
$15,000 to train environmental law organizations how to collect, analyze, and use representative samples of water, air, and soil to legally document contaminated ecosystems.
Environmental Law Institute
Washington, DC
$25,000 to support a training symposium in collaboration with the University of Nairobi titled ' Environmental Law, Policy, and Access to Justice in Kenya' for Kenyan High Court judges.
Fauna and Flora International
San Francisco, CA
$23,194 to develop a Siamese crocodile conservation project in the highlands of the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia.
Field Museum
Chicago, IL
$10,000 for a training project with the East Usambara Conservation Area Management Program to develop conservation tools to understand and protect the biodiversity of East Arc Mountains in
Tanzania.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
$17,350 to support community outreach, training, and education programs related to the protection of orangutans in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$30,000 to strengthen the technical and strategic capacity of non-governmental organizations in Brazil and other Latin American Countries to address social and environmental concerns of large dam projects.
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
$4,758 for a study titled: 'Effects of Deforestation and Forest Regeneration on Hypocrealean Fungal Diversity”.
Rainforest Foundation, USA
New York, NY
$25,000 for the Amerindian Legal Services Center in Guyana.
Rhode Island Zoological Society
Providence, RI
$17,780 to train local conservation biologists and work with landowners, government officials, and organizations to establish a conservation area in the rain forest on the Huon Peninsula in Papua, New Guinea.
Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
$13,167 to test the use of dung beetles and their biomass as a bio-indicator for mammal biomass in the Western and Central Amazon.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
$9,800 for a study titled 'Evaluating the Economic Basis for Payments for Watershed Services around Amboro National Park, Bolivia'.
Food
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Belmont, MA
$25,000 to support conservation research, training, and education programs in India's Western Ghats.
Bioma
Rio Branco, Brazil
$24,550 For a project titled: "Balancing forest conservation and income generation: Towards a policy framework for sustainable non-timber forest product use and extractive reserves in Southwestern Amazonia"
Ecology Action
Willits, CA
$15,000 f/b/o ECOPOL to expand biointensive-farming training programs in Mexico.
Ecology Action
Willits, CA
$16,938 f/b/o Common Ground to establish a biointensive mini-agricultural center in Kenya's Western Province.
Grassroots International
Boston, MA
$15,000 for the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee's urban agriculture program in refugee camps in the Gaza strip.
United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa
Accra, Ghana
$20,000 to support a research and training project that promotes seed production and optimal seed storage of the wild leafy vegetables, Corchorus sp and Cleome gynandra.
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
$26,800 to support Integrated Pest Management training program related to wheat production in Afghanistan.
Health
Ashoka
Arlington, VA
$3,700 to support an Ashoka fellow developing prevention and treatment strategies to prevent fluorosis in India.
Blacksmith Institute
New York, NY
$20,000 to support water pollution initiatives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania led by EnviPro and Clean Mikocheni Trust.
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Boston, MA
$22,000 for the translation and adaptation of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'.
Child Family Health International
San Francisco, CA
$10,000 to support a health promoter training program in the state of Uttaranchal, northern India.
Concern America
Santa Ana, CA
$15,000 to train health workers and midwives in health promotion, family planning, and community development activities in Peten, Guatemala.
Family Care International
New York, NY
$18,000 for a pilot training initiative to reduce unsafe abortions in Niger.
Population Services International
Washington, DC
$25,000 for a social marketing campaign to promote more affordable contraceptive options in Paraguay.
PROSALUD
Miami, FL
$20,000 for a social marketing campaign in Ecuador to educate physicians, pharmacy staff, and health care workers, about the emergency contraceptive pill.
Hesperian Foundation
Berkeley, CA
$15,000 to support planning workshops for the new edition of 'Where There Is No Doctor' health manual.
Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense
Oakland, CA
$25,000 for research, advocacy, and education efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of lead smelting in La Oroya, Peru.
IPAS
Chapel Hill, NC
$15,000 to support a training and education campaign to increase access to comprehensive care for survivors of sexual violence in Mexico.
Mano a Mano Medical Resources
Mendota Heights, MN
$17,000 to establish community health promotion programs in new rural medical clinics in Bolivia.
Midwives for Midwives and Women's Health International
Catskill, NY
$15,000 train midwives at the Ixmucane Clinic in Antigua, Guatemala.
Students Partnership Worldwide
North Conway, NH
$21,463 to replicate a youth-led community health education program in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa.
WaterAid
London, England
$15,000 replicate compost-producing latrines as a sustainable sanitation, health, and agriculture technology in rural Malawi.
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