2007 Grants
Africa Rice Centre (WARDA)
Cotonou, Benin
$20,000 to develop a network that promotes ant-based pest management practices for fruit and nut trees in Africa. The project will assess the effectiveness of various approaches and develop materials and tools that advance the practice.
Amazon Watch
San Francisco, CA
$25,000 to support advocacy and capacity-building of organizations in the Lower Urumbamba River Valley in the Peruvian Amazon.
Amazon-Africa Aid Organization
Ann Arbor. MI
$22,500 to train Quilombo community health care workers to provide basic health care and develop health promotion programs in 28 remote villages in a biological preserve on the Trombetas River in Oriximinia, Para, Brazil.
Asia Tropical Ecology Network Inc.
Quezon City, Philippines
$10,000 to support the founding organizational meeting of a new conservation science organization focused Tropical Asia.
Associação Pró-Muriqui
São Paulo, Brazil
$15,000 to study the population density, geographical distribution and conservation status of the remaining wild population of the endangered Southern Muriqui in the Carlos Botelho State Park in the State of Sao Paulo.
Blacksmith Institute
New York, NY
$10,000 to support a leaded gasoline ban in Tanzania by developing regulation, enforcement, and testing programs in collaboration with the Ministries of Environment and Industry and the National Environment Management Council.
CAMFED USA Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$24,900 to train 250 young rural women in Tanzania how to design and implement strategies to protect their communities and peers from HIV.
Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, Inc.
Banilad, Cebu City, Central Philippines
$23,817 to examine mechanisms by which no-take marine protected areas enhance surrounding fish yields and promote food security.
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Tapachula, Chiapas Mexico
$12,000 for an evaluation of critical mammals in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (MABR) in the lacandon Forest of Chiapas, Mexico
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
$21,400 to develop water saving rice farming strategies in South Asia. The project includes field research to examine how nutrient dynamics, soil fertility, and pest-related constraints respond to different water management regimes in rice.
Ecology Action f/b/o ECOPOL
Willits, CA
$25,000 to support the development of biointensive mini-farming programs in Mexico and Latin America.
Fauna and Flora International, Inc.
Washington, DC
$27,300 for the continuation of the Community-based Crocodile Conservation program in Cambodia
Global Health through Education, Training and Service
Attleboro, MA
$10,000 to provide training to workers and employers in occupational health and safety, fund research on occupational health risks, and build new alliances to advocate for improved health conditions for workers.
Grassroots International Inc.
Boston , MA
$20,000 to support urban agriculture programs the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees and increase food production in the Gaza Strip.
Harvard University, Department of Anthropology
Cambridge, MA
$30,000 to protect orangutan habitat and increase local conservation capacity through environmental education and training programs in the Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Hesperian Foundation
Berkeley, CA
$10,000 to publish the Community Guide to Environmental Health.
Instituto para Conservação dos Carnívoros Neotropicais - Instituto Pró-Carnivoros
Atibaia, Sao Paolo, Brazil
$13,930 for a study that examines the ecological consequences of landscape change on mid-sized and large bodied mammals in the Brazilian Amazon.
International Development Enterprises
Lakewood, CO
$25,000 to train farmers in Bangladesh how to produce high-value products and connect to local markets. The project will also help farmers use low-cost agricultural technologies and enhance supply chains that support increased production and distribution.
International Rivers
Berkeley, CA
$30,000, to build local capacity to respond to increased promotion of destructive river infrastructure projects as a solution for poverty and economic development in Africa and to promote viable, sustainable, socially just solutions for meeting the continent's water needs.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Nairobi, Kenya
$12,000 to characterize indigenous northern Kenyan sheep populations using DNA molecular markers.
Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership
Portland, ME
$24,990 to launch a two-year community directed treatment (CDT) program to treat hookworm in Cap Haitien in collaboration with the Justinian Hospital, Fort Saint Michel Clinic, and the Ministry of Health.
Las Lianas Resource Center for Science, Culture & Environment
Amherst, MA
$18,000 to support the Indigenous Aquaculture Initiative: A Community-based Research and Village-to-Village Extension project.
Marie Stopes International, Ltd.
Boulder, CO
$9,665 to increase use of sexual and reproductive health services among market workers in the St. Balikuddembe Market in Kampala, Uganda.
Newton/San Juan del Sur Sister City Project
Newton Highlands, MA
$14,085 to support a six-village intestinal parasite eradication campaign that includes treatment, education, and filtration programs in the San Juan Del Sur district of Nicaragua.
Occupational Knowledge International
San Francisco, CA
$4,515 to develop and implement an environmental certification program for lead battery manufacturing in India in collaboration with Development Alternatives, and the National Centre for Lead Poisoning in India.
One H.E.A.R.T. Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$15,000 to train birth attendants in Tibet.
Our Bodies Ourselves
Boston, MA
$10,000 to support international translation and cultural adaptation projects to publish the book, 'Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century.
PCI Media Impact
New York, NY
$30,000 to train Latin American organizations that promote sexual and reproductive health how to produce radio shows and social marketing activities.
Population Action International
Washington, DC
$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.
Project Seahorse Foundation for Marine Conservation
Cebu City, Phillipines
$24,851 to develop marine protected areas in the Central Philipines.
Solar Electric Light Fund
Washington, DC
$25,000 to test low-cost solar-electric powered micro-irrigation pumps in two villages in Kalale District, Republic of Benin. This project is collaboration with the ADESCKA and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.
Students Partnership Worldwide USA
Washington, DC
$15,000, to support the replication of a youth-led volunteer community health education program in Uganda.
Sustainable Sciences Institute
San Francisco, CA
$25,000 to streamline the Nicaraguan National Immunization System and reduce maternal mortality using information technology.
Tides Center f/b/o Global Community Monitor
San Francisco, CA
$25,000 to provide training, technical assistance, and support to Community Environmental Monitor (CEM) in Cuddalore, India in the 'bucket brigade' air quality monitoring and advocacy strategies used worldwide to make air polluting industries more accountable.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$27,600 to support a comprehensive conservation, training, and education program in the Ecuadorian Chocó
University of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka
$12,022 for a project to study and conserve mixed-species bird flocks in Sri Lanka.
Washington University Department of Anthropology
St. Louis, MO
$26,161 for two-year study of the primate ecology of the endangered Toque Monkey, the purple faced langur, the grey langur, and the slender loris in Sri Lanka's dry evergreen forests.
WaterAid America, Inc.
New York NY
$28,175 for a two-year pilot assessment of the Poldaw ultra-deep well hand pump in three villages in Ethiopia. The project is part of a broader East African regional initiative that will also take place in Tanzania and Uganda.
Wildlife Trust f/b/o/ Consortium for Conservation Medicine
New York, NY
$25,500 for research, training, and capacity building to prevent Nipah Virus infection in Bangladesh.
Woodland Park Zoological Society
Seattle, WA
United States
$24,400 to map clan boundaries in and near the 150,000 acre conservation area on the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea. The project will also support the training and development of local conservation leaders and landowners.
Wuqu' Kawoq, S.A.
Bethel, VT
$9,879 to train indigenous Kaqchikel-speaking midwives in Guatemala.
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
$26,215 for the Biology Department's Vietnamese Bee Research and Development Center study of bee pollination in Vietnam's coffee growing area.
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