2006 Grants
Abalimi Bezekhaya
Phillipi, South Africa
$14,550 to support an urban farming project in townships near Cape Town,
South Africa.
Action Group for Health Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
Kampala, Uganda
$20,000 for a campaign to monitor drug, equipment, and staffing shortages
and advocate to improve health infrastructure in Uganda
Africa Rice Centre (WARDA)
Cotonou, Benin
$15,000 to promote ant-based pest control in West and East Africa
Amazon Watch
San Francisco, California
$25,000 in support of Advocacy and Local Capacity-Building in the Lower Urubamba River Valley in the Peruvian Amazon
Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
$21,140 to study the effect of forest fragmentation on tree regeneration and seed dispersal in the Amazon
Committee for Health Rights in Central America f/b/o Global Health through Educational Training
Attleboro, Masschusetts
$20,000 in support of the Promocion de la Salud y Seguridad de Trabajadores (PROSSTRAB) (Promotion of Workers' Health and Safety) project
The Common Ground Program
Kitale, Kenya
$20,025 to support the development of a biointensive farming demonstration
and training center in Western Province, Kenya
Development Aid from People to People in Zambia
Ndola, Zambia
$24,410 in to support the expansion of a "pumps for trees" program to improve tree cover, nutrition, and health in Zambia
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
Atlanta, Georgia
$24,271 to support the Ecosystem Health Program
Earth Island Institute f/b/o UniversitÁrea Protegida
San Francisco, California
$20,000 to support student research, education, and community conservation projects
in Nicaragua.
EarthRights International
Washington, D.C.
$20,000 to support the Peru Mobile Training and Campaigns Program
Ecology Action f/b/o/ ECOPOL
Willits, California
$22,000 to promote biointensive farming in Mexico.
Fauna and Flora International, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
$30,993 to support community-based crocodile conservation projects in Cambodia
Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka
Colombo, Sri Lanka
$13,515 to conserve mixed-species bird flocks in Sri Lanka
Global Community Monitor
San Francisco, California
$25,000 to support the India Community Environmental Monitoring (CEM) Program
Grassroots International Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts
$25,000 to support the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee's urban agriculture
program in the Gaza Strip. The Hesperian Foundation
Berkeley, California
$10,000 to support the development and publication of a community guide to environmental health
Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas
Teodoro Sampaio, Brazil
$25,000 to support the conservation status of jaguars, pumas and tapirs and their potential as landscape detectives for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
$25,500 for education campaigns, habitat protection planning, and staff training to protect orangutans in the Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente
Oakland, California
$25,000 for research, advocacy and education efforts to protect public health and reduce the environmental impacts of lead smelting in La Oroya, Peru
Intermed International, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000 to support a maternal/child health promotion project in Nicaragua
International Hospital for Children
Richmond, Virginia
$25,000 in support of a folic acid intervention study in Guatemala
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
$26,200 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
Richmond, Virginia
$10,000 to develop Centers of Excellence in several hospitals in Mexico that provide care for women survivors of sexual violence and offer legal abortion
Lambi Fund of Haiti
Washington, D. C.
$15,000 to support a reforestation training program for Haitian farmers
Las Lianas Resource Center for Science, Culture & Environment
Amherst, Massachusetts
$18,000 to support the Indigenous Aquaculture Initiative
Marie Stopes International
London, United Kingdom
$10,000 in continued support of development of a clinic-based health care insurance scheme for workers in the Owino Market in Kampala, Uganda
Missouri Botanical Garden
St. Louis, Missouri
$25,000 in continued support of a botanical inventory and conservation education program designed to improve park systems management in the Bach Ma National Park located in central Vietnam
Oceana Inc
Washington, D.C.
$18,000 to stopping bottom trawl fishing in Chile.
One H.E.A.R.T. Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah
$25,000 for pregnancy and village outreach in Tibet - Lhasa Prefecture
Our Bodies Ourselves
Boston, Massachusetts
$10,000 to help women's organizations in developing countries translate and
adapt the popular women's health book.
Population Communications International Incorporated
New York, NY
$15,000 to train organizations in broadcasting techniques and
entertainment education methodology that increases awareness of
reproductive health and rights in Mexico.
Partners in Health
Boston, Massachusetts
$25,000 for the prevention of mother-to-child transmisison of HIV in Haiti
Population Action International (PAI)
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 Media Center Inc.
Shelburne, Vermont
$20,000 to expand dramatic radio programs that promote reproductive health and
prevent HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
Project Concern International
San Diego, California
$18,780 to increase sexual and reproductive healthcare and family planning services in Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Project Seahorse Foundation for Marine Conservation
Cebu City, Philippines
$24,990 to increase marine protected areas in the Central Philippines.
The Research Foundation of the State University of New York
Buffalo, NY
$17,900 to develop and implement a new drinking water quality index in Cambodia
Students Partnership Worldwide USA
Washington, D.C.
$24,838 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 California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
$27,180 to support conservation training and education programs in the Ecuadorian Chocó
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
$11,000 to support crocodile conservation in West Africa.
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
$18,000 to support termite management on agricultural lands with indigenous Insect-Killing Fungi in Ethiopia
Venture Strategies for Health and Development
Berkeley, California
$25,000 to promote the use of for controlling postpartum hemorrhage in Ethiopia
Wildlife Trust
New York, New York
$25,000 to support the prevention food-borne Nipah virus infection in Bangladesh
Woodland Park Zoological Society
Seattle, Washington
$20,755 to support the Papua New Guinea Conservation Program's Indigenous
Mapping Project.
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