2004 Grants
Amerindian Legal Services Centre
Georgetown, Guyana
$15,000 to provide legal assistance and training to help nine Amerindian groups in Guyana stop illegal mining on
native land.
Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente
Oakland, CA
$25,000 for research, advocacy and education efforts to protect public health and reduce the environmental impacts of lead smelting in La Oroya, Peru.
Asociacion para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible
Cusco, Peru
$10,264 to support an inventory and evaluation of natural enemies of quinua in three communities of Cusco, Peru.
Blacksmith Institute
New York, NY
$20, 000 to support the pollution remediation work of the Msimbazi River Action Network in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Bonobo Conservation Initiative
Washington, DC
$25,000 to train members of Centre de Recherche en Ecologie et Forestrie how to conduct biological/ecological surveys in the Congo Basin.
Boston University f/b/o Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology
Boston, MA
$8,700 to study the relationship between feeding and roosting resources and the abundance of tent-roosting bats in
Southwestern Costa Rica.
CABI Bioscience
Surrey, England
$15,000 to work with Can Tho University and the Vietnam Gardeners Association to document, evaluate, and promote ant-based methods of pest control in Vietnam and Indonesia.
Carmen Pampa Fund
St-Paul, MN
$10,000 to support the sustainable agriculture and nutrition extension program of the Unidad Academica Campesina- Carmen Pampa in the Department of La Paz, Bolivia.
Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment
Los Angeles, CA
$24,490 to conduct research, train local community members as field biologists/naturalists guides, and organize communities to produce management plans for the Choco rainforests in Ecuador.
Centro de Derechos Economicos y Sociales
Quito, Ecuador
$20,000 for research and training that helps indigenous communities in Ecuador protect land, biodiversity, and human rights threatened by extractive industries, free trade agreements, and international financial institutions.
Concern America
Santa Ana, CA
$15,000 to train a network of community health promoters in 30 villages in Peten, Guatemala.
CUSO
Ottawa, Canada
$20,000 to train village-level farmer trainers and their district-level governmental counterparts
in Sekong, Laos how to improve yields of organic rice and other crops.
Duke University Center for Tropical Conservation
Durham, NC
$14,685 to monitor the diet and ecology of the rare giant river otter in Peru's Manu National Park.
Ecology Action f/b/o ECOPOL
Willits, CA
$20,000 to support the expansion of biointensive sustainable mini-farming programs Mexico and Latin America.
Fauna and Flora International
Washington, DC
$23,310 to develop a community-led Siamese crocodile conservation project in the highlands of the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia.
Family Care International
New York, NY
$18,000 for a pilot project to improve post abortion care and women's health programs in hospitals in Niamey, Niger and the surrounding communities.
Fiscalia Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
$14,210 to support research, community outreach, and legal advocacy efforts to protect the habitat of the Aysen region of Southern Chile from destruction by dams, mining, and manufacturing.
Global Community Monitor
San Francisco, CA
$15,000 to provide training, technical assistance, and support to Community Environmental Monitor in Cuddalore, India in 'bucket brigade' air quality monitoring and advocacy strategies.
Grassroots International Inc.
Boston, MA
$15, 000 to support the Urban Agriculture in the Gaza Strip program of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief
Committee.
Harvard University f/b/o Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Project
Cambridge, MA
$25, 075 for education campaigns, habitat protection planning, and staff training to protect orangutans in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Hesperian Foundation
Berkeley, CA
$20,000 to support the development of a food and nutrition chapter of the
revised, Where There Is No Doctor, handbook for health promoters.
Ipas
Chapel Hill, NC
$15,000 for a training program that helps health care providers increase access to care for survivors of sexual violence in Mexico.
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental de Amazonia
Brasilia, Brazil
$6,000 to support a study titled 'The effect of gap size on animals and its implication on forest regeneration in Amazonia'.
Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas
Sao Paulo, Brasil
$20,000 to study the relationship between forest fragmentation and diseases among jaguars and peccaries in the Morro do Diabo State Park and other protected areas in Parana-Paranepanema eco-region in Brazil.
International Center
Washington, DC
$20,000 to expand a circuit rider program to maintain wells, pumps, and water systems in villages in Central America.
International Potato Center
Lima, Peru
$25,000 to identify bacterial wilt resistant potato varieties.
International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$25,000 to strengthen the capacity of non-governmental organizations in Brazil and other Latin American countries to confront large-scale river infrastructure projects.
Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership
Portland, ME
$23,546 to support an assessment and planning project led by the Justinian University Hospital and the University of Miami Family Practice program to develop a women's health program in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.
Mano a Mano Medical Resources
Mendota Heights, MN
$17,000 to train 120 new health promoters and support a network of 360 health promoters working in rural health clinics
in Bolivia.
Manor House Agricultural Centre
Kitale, Kenya
$18,240 to develop a network of independent mini-biointensive farming training and agricultural extension centers in Kenya.
Marie Stopes International
London, England
$10,000 to develop a clinic-based health care insurance scheme for workers in the Owino Market in Kampala, Uganda.
Midwives for Midwives and Women's Health International
Catskill, NY
$10,000 to support a midwifery training program in Antigua, Guatemala.
Missouri Botanical Garden
St. Louis, MO
$25,000 for a botanical inventory and conservation education program designed to improve park systems management in the Bach Ma National Park located in central Vietnam.
Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
Ruherengeri, Rwanda
$4,105 to train laboratory technicians new screening techniques for tuberculosis and parasites transmitted by farm animals and gorillas in Ruhengeri Province, Rwanda.
Our Bodies Ourselves
Boston, MA
$20,000 to support international translation and cultural adaptation of the book,
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century.
Population Action International
Washington, DC
$20,000 to support an international campaign to document the impact of the Global Gag Rule restrictions on family planning and develop strategies to mitigate its impact.
Population Communications International
New York, NY
$15,000 to support a radio program about adolescent health for Mexican teens.
Population Services International
Washington, DC
$10,000 for a social marketing campaign designed to increase affordable contraceptive options in Paraguay.
Potters for Peace
Denver, CO
$22,158 to train Nicaraguan communities in the construction, follow-up, and evaluation of colloidal silver impregnated ceramic water filters.
Raptor Research Center, Boise State University
Boise, ID
$23,050 to support a study titled: 'Conservation of the Cinereous Vultures in the Livestock Herding Economy of Central Mongolia'.
Rhode Island Zoological Society
Providence, RI
$18,275 to support biological research, mapping projects, training programs, and community outreach components of a conservation program on the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea.
Silliman University Marine Laboratory
Dumaguete City, Philippines
$16,370 to test a new coral reef rehabilitation strategy in Negros Oriental and Cebu,
Philippines.
Students Partnership Worldwide South Africa
Washington, DC
$24,595 to train volunteers for a large-scale community health education program in South Africa and increase the capacity of schools to address health and resource problems.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland
$11,154 to support field research projects and training of Malagasy graduate students in bat ecology.
Water Aid
London, England
$20,000 for strengthening local capacity to develop, implement and document EcoSan
toilets as a sustainable and replicable sanitation, health and agriculture solution in rural Malawi.
Wild Foundation
Ojai, CA
$12,000 to support research and training programs to protect the last remaining elephant heard in North Africa in the Gourma
Elephant Reserve in Mali.
Woods Hole Research Center
Woods Hole, MA
$20,000 to train teachers, natural resource managers, and government officials about land use and sustainable development in the Acre River Basin of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru in southwestern Amazonia.
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