2011 Environment Grantees

 

THE ENVIRONMENT

  Latin American Biodiversity Conservation
  Sustainable Consumption / Production
  Media
  Other







 

 

2011 Human Rights Grantees

 

HUMAN RIGHTS

  Domestic Human Rights
  US Human Rights Movement
  Gender Rights
 

  Marriage Equality/LGBT

 

  Reproductive Justice

 

  Other
    
  International Human Rights
 

 Human Rights Defenders

 

 Gender Rights

   
   

 

THE ENVIRONMENT

 
     

Latin American Biodiversity Conservation

 
2011

 
$50,000
 

Sustainable Forest Protection: Promoting Indigenous-Led REDD in the Brazilian

 
  Amazon Watch  
$40,000
  Ecuador Rainforest Protection Program  

 
$40,000
 

International Program and No Dirty Gold Markets Campaign

 

 
$55,000
 

Leveraging the U.S. Lacey Act and Promoting Forest Conservation in Latin America

 

 
$75,000
 

Phase II: Training Tomorrow's Land Stewards to Conserve the Watersheds of Southern Sangay National Park, Ecuador

 
  IMAFLORA  
$43,000
  Biodiversity Conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by Improvements in Cocoa Production  
  ISEAL Alliance  
$25,000
  General Operating Support  

National Audubon Society

 
$30,000
 

Creating Landowner Incentives to Preserve and Restore the Last Forests in Veracruz, Mexico

 
  Nature and Culture International (NCI)  
$50,000
  Payment for Environmental Services, Watersheds and Land Conservation in Southern Ecuador  
  New York Botanical Garden  
$50,000
  Professional Woodsmen for Managed Forests in Amazonian Brazil  
   People and Plants International  
$60,000
  Promoting Community-Based Forestry and Conservation in Central Mexico  
  Pronatura Noroeste A.C.  
$50,000
  Protection of the Cabo Pulmo National Park Region, Baja California Sur, Mexico  

Rainforest Action Network

 
$45,000
 

RAN Tropical Forests Program

 

Rainforest Alliance

 
$75,000
 

Achieving Conservation and Community Development through Healthy Sustainable Tourism Destinations

 

Root Capital

 
$80,000
 

Fostering Innovation and Biodiversity Conservation in Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua

 
 

Solidaridad

 
$50,000
 

Islands of Hope

 
  Wildlife Conservation Society  
$75,000
  Conserving Natural Resources and Improving Rural Livelihoods through Community-led Production Systems in the Pantanal and Cerrado of Brazil and Yasuni National Park, Ecuador  
     
   
 
Sustainable Consumption/Production
 
 

350.org

 
$50,000
  Keystone XL Campaign  
 

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)

 
$10,000
 

Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference

 
  As You Sow  
$40,000
  Shareholder Action for Sustainable Consumption and Production  
  Catalog Choice  
$75,000
  Catalog Choice Preference Service Operations and Business Development  
  Clean Production Action  
$70,000
 

Fast Food Securing Market Adoption of the Green Screen by Strengthening CPA's Organization Structure, and Expanding the Impact of the Business NGO Working Group

 
  Corporate Ethics International  
$10,000

Business Ethics Network

 
  The DC Project  
$25,000
  General Operating Support  
 

Dogwood Alliance

 
$10,000

Fast Food Campaign

 
 

Environmental Defense Fund

 
$75,000
 

Sustainable Corporate Production and Consumption

 

Environmental Paper Network

 
$20,000
 

General Operating Support

 
  ForestEthics  
$40,000
  General Operating Support  
  Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)  
$40,000
  Advancing a New Materials Economy & Making Recycling Work in the United States  
  Global Development Incubator  
$125,000
  Strategic Analysis of Structures and Mechanisms to Enhance Cohesion in the Conservation Community  
  Global Green USA  
$30,000
  Coalition for Resource Recovery's Food Service Packaging Recycling Pilot  

Green for All

 
$30,000
 

General Operating Support

 

Green Press Initiative

 
$25,000
 

General Operating Support

 
  GreenBlue Institute  
$45,000
  General Operating Support  

In Our Backyards (ioby.org)

 
$50,000
  Plugging in the Platform: Improving ioby’s Marketing Strategy  
  The Keystone Center  
$25,000
 

The Green Products Roundtable

 

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

 
$40,000

Recycling and Good Jobs in the Regional Waste Industry

 

Natural Resources Defense Council

 
$75,000
 

NRDC New York Recycling and Sustainability Project

 

Product Policy Institute

 
$25,000
 

Community Producer Responsibility Campaign

 

Product Stewardship Institute

 
$20,000
 

Driving Product Stewardship for Phone Books and Packaging

 
  The Story of Stuff  
$40,000
  General Operating Support  

The Tides Center

 
$15,000
 

Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption

 
  U.S. Green Building - New York Chapter  
$50,000
  General Operating Support and Green Codes Advocacy for Urban Green Council  
       
   
 
Media
 

Grist.org

 
$55,000
 

General Operating Support and Ask Umbra

 
  Island Press  
$35,000
  Designing a Sustainably Built Environment  

National Public Radio

 
$25,000
 

Coverage of Environmental and Human Rights Issues on NPR News

 
  University of Washington Foundation  
$45,000
  Conservation Magazine  
         

   
 
Other
 

Natural Resources Defense Council (Sustainable Transportation Campaign)

 
$30,000
 

General Operating Support

 
  National Wildlife Federation  
$35,000
  Keeping Peat in the Ground      
         

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Human Rights

 
2011
       

Domestic Human Rights

 
  US Human Rights Movement  
 

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation

 
$75,000
 

Human Rights Program

 
 

Brennan Center for Justice

 
$50,000
  Convenings on Money in Politics  
 

Facing History and Ourselves

 
$40,000
 

Fundamental Freedoms

 
 

The Hastings Center

 
$35,000
 

Undocumented Patients After Health Reform: Human Rights, Access to Health Care & the Ethics of the Safety Net

 
 

Innocence Project

 
$45,000
 

Uniting Science and Law on Behalf of Justice: Policy Program

 
 

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Educational Fund

 
$50,000
 

The CEDAW Public Education Project

 
 

National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI)

 
$50,000
 

General Operating Support

 
 

New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation

 
$50,000
 

Defending Civil Liberties Through a Human Rights Framework

 
 

Public Interest Projects (The US Human Rights Fund)

 
$150,000
 

General Operating Support

 
 

Public Interest Projects (The US Human Rights Fund)

 
$50,000
  Human Rights Convening  
 

Urban Justice Center

 
$55,000
  The Human Rights Project and Sex Workers Project  
       
   
  Gender Rights  
   
 
Marriage Equality
 
 

Civil Marriage Collaborative (Proteus Fund)

 
$100,000
 

Achieving Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples

 
 

Freedom to Marry

 
$50,000
 

General Operating Support

 
  Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)  
$25,000
 

Challenging the Constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

 
 

Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund

 
$75,000
 

General Operating Support

 
   
 
Reproductive Justice
 
 

Advocates for Youth

 
$50,000
 

General Operating Support

 
 

Center for Reproductive Rights

 
$100,000

U.S. Legal Program and Latin America Regional Office

 
 

Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program

 
$30,000

Training New Generations of Reproductive Rights Advocates, Activists, Practitioners and Leaders

 
  National Advocates for Pregnant Women  
$25,000

General Operating Support  
  National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum  
$30,000
  General Operating Support  
  Third Wave Foundation  
$40,000
  Reproductive Health and Justice Initiative  
  Tides Center/Groundswell Fund/Catalyst Fund  
$50,000
  Catalyst Fund  
  Western States Center  
$30,000
  Gender Justice Leading for Human Rights  
   
       
  Media  
  Breakthrough USA  
$45,000
  General Operating Support  
 

Center for Public Integrity

 
$45,000
 
"Consider the Source"
 
 

Free Press

 
$50,000
 

Media Reform Activities

 

Mother Jones

 
$35,000
 

Reporting on Domestic Human Rights Issues in the United States

 

National Public Radio

 
$25,000
 

Coverage of Environmental and Human Rights Issues on NPR News

 

New America Media (Pacific News Services)

 
$50,000
 

Efforts to Expand Diversity in the Digial Media World

 
  New Press  
$35,000
 

Using Books to Advance Domestic Human Rights Reform

 
 

WNYC

 
$65,000
 

On the Media

 
       
   
  Other - Joint Grants With Environment Program  
 

Green For All

 
$30,000
 

General Operating Support

 
 
 
       
 
Other - Movement Building
 
 

Alliance for Justice

 
$35,000
 

Advocacy Training

 
 

Generational Alliance

 
$30,000
 

General Operating Support

 
       
   
 

International Human Rights

 

 

 

 

Human Rights Defenders  
 

Committee to Protect Journalists

 
$25,000

Press Freedom Work in Latin America

 
 

Environmental Defenders Law Center

 
$25,000

General Operating Support

 
  Front Line  
$50,000

Protection of Latin American Human Rights Defenders  
 

Human Rights Watch

 
$50,000
 

Combating Human Rights Violations in Mexico

 
 

Indian Law Resource Center

 
$35,000
 

Defending Maya Q'eqchi' Lands and Resources in Guatemala

 
 

Peace Brigades International

 
$30,000
 

Latin America Program

 
   Reporters Without Borders  
$35,000

Defending Freedom of Information in Latin America  
 

Urgent Action Fund of Latin America for Women's Human Rights

 
$40,000
 

General Operating Support

 
 

WITNESS

 
$50,000
 

Promoting Video Advocacy in the Americas

 
       
   
  Gender Rights  
  Disability Rights International  
$50,000
  Building Capacity of Activists to Prevent and End Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Mexico and Guatemala  
 

Human Rights Center, University of Chile Law School

 
$50,000
 

Fellowship Program

 
 

International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere

 
$40,000
 

General Operating Support

 
  Ipas  
$40,000
  Advocacy and Action on Abortion Policy in Latin America    
       
       
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