2005 Grants
Boston Women's Health Collective f/b/o Our Bodies Ourselves
Boston, MA
$20,000 to support international translation and cultural adaptation
projects to publish the book, 'Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century'
Buffalo State College
Buffalo, NY
$9,000 to introduce a potable water quality index that monitors drinking water and assesses health risks in Cambodia.
CAMFED USA Foundation
Washington, D.C.
$19,900 to train a large network of young women as peer health educators in rural Tanzania.
Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
$25,012 to train local community members as field biologists and produce management plans for the Choco rainforests in Ecuador.
Children in Crisis
London, UK
$12,893 to support a midwife training program in Yushu, China.
Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, Inc.
Banilad, Cebu City, Philippines
$18,640 to study reef restoration strategies and develop a community-based management plan in the Banilad Marine Protected area in the Central
Philippines.
Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula: f/b/o Common Ground Program
Kitale, Kenya
$15,000 to develop a biointensive farming demonstration center in the Teso District of the Western Province, Kenya.
Concern America
Santa Ana. CA
$15,000 to train and strengthen a network of community health workers, midwives, and environmental health promoters in Peten, Guatemala.
Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund International
Atlanta, GA
$10,000 to reduce the threat of disease cross-transmission between humans and at-risk fauna through research, education, diagnostic training, and treatment in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dooley Foundation-Intermed International
New York, NY
$15,000 to train rural birth attendants and health promoters and develop community-based health programs for infants and children in the Coco River region of Nicaragua.
Duke University
Durham, NC
$9,875 to assess the current distribution and status of endangered large carnivores in the 10 national parks of the Western Ghats, India.
Earth Island Institute f/b/o UniversitArea Protegida
San Francisco, CA
$15,000 for student research, conservation projects, and environmental education programs in Nicaragua.
Ecology Action f/b/o/ ECOPOL
Willets, CA
$22,000 to support biointensive sustainable mini-farming programs Mexico and Latin America.
Environmental Law Institute
Washington DC
$25,000 to support an environmental law training program for Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan members of the judiciary.
Food and Agricultural Research Management (FARM- Africa)
London, UK
$17,106 to increase seed and vegetable production in Babati District,
Tanzania through farmer-based field research. Fauna and Flora International, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
$25,000 to develop a community-led Siamese crocodile conservation project in the highlands of the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia.
Fundacion Natura Bolivia
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
$14,600 to train residents how to implement a payment for environmental services scheme
near the Amboro National Park in Bolivia.
Grassroots International Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000 for the Urban Agriculture in the Gaza Strip program, which will work closely with the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC) to increase urban food production.
Igorot Tribal Assistance Group Inc.
La Trinidad, Phillipines
$11,379 to test the efficacy biological pest control of the Diamond Black moth in Benguet,
Philippines.
International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$30,000 to strengthen the capacity of non-governmental organizations in Brazil and other Latin American countries to confront large-scale river infrastructure projects.
Harvard University f/b/o Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation
Project
Cambridge, MA
$25,150 for education campaigns, habitat protection planning, and staff training to protect orangutans in the Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas
Teodoro Sampaio, Sao Paulo Brazil
$25,000 to support a conservation program in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest that uses biological research, reforestation, farmer education, and advocacy to protect forest fragments.
The International Center
Washington, DC
$25,000 to implement a circuit rider program to maintain rural water systems in Central America.
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
$24,800 to gather hydrological and ecological data and develop model payment of environmental services schemes in the tropical cloud mountain forests of central Veracruz, Mexico.
Ipas
Chapel Hill, NC
$15,000 to develop Centers of Excellence in several hospitals in Mexico that provide care for women survivors of sexual violence and offer legal abortion.
Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
$11,102 for a study titled: Herpetofauna Biomass Differences Between Old and Young Geomorphologies of the Amazon Basin.
Mano a Mano Medical Resources
Mendota Heights, MN
$17,000 to train health promoters and support their network in rural health clinics in Bolivia.
Marie Stopes International
London, England
$9,965 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
$15,000 to support a midwifery training program in Antigua, Guatemala.
Nature Conservation Foundation
Mysore, India
$15,000 to monitor rainforest vegetation and birds in 10 restoration and control sites in the Western Ghats.
One H.E.A.R.T. Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000 to support the training of birth attendants in Tibet.
Partners in Health
Hampden, ME
$20,000 to adapt a model tuburculosis treatment regime to use with people with HIV in Lima, Peru.
Population Action International
Washington, D.C.
$25,000 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 train local Mexican communities in broadcasting technique and entertainment education methodology related to reproductive health and rights issues.
Population Media Center Inc.
Shelburne, VT
$20,000 to produce a radio serial drama to help prevent HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.
Project Seahorse Foundation for Marine Conservation
Cebu City, Philipines
$24,875 to advance no-take marine protected areas in the central Philipines.
Rhode Island Zoological Society
Providence, RI
$19,071 to support the Papua New Guinea Conservation Program's Indigenous Mapping Project.
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Washington, D.C.
$24,515 to support training of local environmental organizations in
community development and conservation in the Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary in
Myanmar.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Balboa, Ancon, Panama
$24,770 to support the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project near Manaus, Brazil.
Students Partnership Worldwide USA
Washington, D.C.
$15,000 to support a large scale peer-based AIDS and reproductive health promotion program in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Tides Foundation f/b/o Global Community Monitor
San Francisco, CA
$25,000 to provide training, technical assistance, and support to Community Environmental Monitor in Cuddalore, India in 'bucket brigade' air quality monitoring.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, UK
$16,160 to support the training and research of Malagasy biologists of the
University of Antananarivo related to the conservation and protection of endemic
fruit bats.
University of East Anglia, Norwich
Norwich, United Kingdom
$12,000 to quantify the ecological and biodiversity value of large scale tree plantations and second growth forests for 15 key indicator groups of animals and plants in the Rio Jari region of Brazil.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, NY
$8,500 to test a commodity trading scheme that helps farmers increase access to better markets and practice farming, hunting, and gathering in ways that does not harm the environment.
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