Environment $1,588,000
United States
A. Conserving Forests and Wetlands
Northeast
Appalachian Mountain Club: $25,000
For continued support of its Campaign to Protect the Northern Forests,
which seeks to protect wildlands, maintain well-managed forests, and promote
sustainable communities in the northern forest region of New York, Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont.
Appalachian Mountain Club: $40,000
Recommended for continued support of the Northern Forest Alliance, which
works to protect wildlands, maintain well-managed forests, and promote
sustainable communities in the Northern Forest.
Forest Watch: $20,000
For its work to conserve open space in Vermont through research and promotion
of the concept of preferential tax policies.
Natural Resources Council of Maine: $35,000
For its North Woods Project, which aims to protect the ecological systems,
wild character, and sustainable timber base of Maine's North Woods, focusing
on remote wildland regions. (This is the first installment of a two-year
$70,000 grant.)
Northern Forest Center: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which works to elaborate the
economic, social, and cultural attributes of the Northern Forest region,
including developing the Northern Forest Wealth Index, the Heritage Development
Network, and a travelling Northern Forest Exhibition.
Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks: $35,000
To work with private owners of small forestlands in the Adirondacks to
help them attain Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) sustainable forestry
certification and, in the long-term, to build a network of certified forestlands
across the Adirondacks and organize landowner marketing cooperatives that
can supply certified wood to local manufacturers.
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests: $10,000
For its project, Citizens for New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage,
whose activities include outreach, education, and advocacy work toward
the successful implementation and dedicated funding of the newly created
New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program.
The Wilderness Society: $25,000
To promote public and private purchase of forest areas in Maine and to
protect key wildlands by fostering grassroots support for these goals.
Southeast
Appalachian Voices: $25,000
To work with local communities to stop the proliferation of chipmills
in the southern and central Appalachians and promote sustainable forestry.
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisana: $20,000
For its No Time to Lose Campaign, which works for the restoration and
stewardship of the bays, wetlands and estuaries of coastal Louisiana.
Dogwood Alliance: $25,000
Recommended for the Southeast Forest Project, to stop chip mill proliferation
in the southeastern U.S. and to reduce the impacts of those that are presently
operating.
Dogwood Alliance: $27,000 To strengthen the network
of forest protection advocates, challenge new chip mill permits, build
statewide coalitions in NC, TN, MO, and VA, organize and oversee the federal
assessment of southeastern forests, and educate landowners about alternatives
to clearcutting.
Gulf Restoration Network: $23,000
To reform policies and practices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in
an effort to stem wetland losses in the Gulf of Mexico region.
National Audubon Society: $30,000
For its efforts to stop or reduce the proliferation of chipmills in the
Southeast.
North Carolina Coastal Federation: $20,000
For its ShoreKeeper Program, which seeks to protect North Carolina's coast
through public education, strengthening of state environmental policies
and regulations, and restoration and protection of key coastal habitats.
Save Our Cumberland Mountains: $20,000
To promote sustainable forest policies and practices at a local, state-wide
(Tennessee), and regional level. (To be matched 1:1)
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which focuses on growth management
and environmental protection in eastern South Carolina.
Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC): $40,000
For its Forest and Wetland Biodiversity Project, which conducts legal
and policy work to conserve forests and wetlands in six southeastern states.
(This is the second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)
SouthWings, Inc.: $15,000
For general support of this organization, which provides the environmental
community with overflights as a tool to document and dramatize the need
for preservation and restoration of forest ecosystems of the Southeast.
Wild Alabama: $22,500
For general support of this organization, which works to protect the biological
richness of Alabama and other southeastern forests, both on public and
private lands.
WildLaw: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to conserve biodiversity
in the national forests, and is engaged in other environmental protection
efforts, with an emphasis on the Southeast.
Middle Atlantic
Chesapeake Bay Foundation: $30,000
To bolster wetlands protection efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation:
$35,000
For its project, Watersheds and Television Weather Reporting: A Prototype
for the Chesapeake Bay Region Using Advanced On-Air and On-Line Technology
for Watershed Education, Protection and Grassroots Organizing, an effort
to establish a watershed-monitoring network to report regional watershed
conditions on WRC-TV, and to provide watershed watchers with the materials
and protocols they need to participate.
National
American Lands Alliance: $25,000
For the Eastern Forest Protection and Recovery Project, which seeks to
communicate the national significance of threats to, and conservation
opportunities in, eastern forests, and which seeks to better integrate
eastern forest activists into national forest protection efforts.
Certified Forest Products Council: $35,000
For general support of this organization, which aims to increase the use,
purchase, and sale of wood and wood products from independently certified
well-managed forests.
Coastal Rainforest Coalition: $35,000
To lead a national markets campaign to obtain a commitment from a major
office products supplier to require its suppliers to end purchases of
paper derived from ancient forests, reduce overall fiber consumption and
shift to post-consumer recycled, agricultural, and independently certified
fibers.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP): $25,000
For IATP's Community Forestry Resource Center, an outreach and technical
assistance activity that works with cooperatives of owners of small forest
parcels to improve forest management.
National Audubon Society: $25,000
To strengthen local wetlands capacity in Audubon chapters through training
workshops, coalition building, the sharing of successful strategies, and
ongoing support for local activists.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): $20,000
For NRDC’s project, the Clean Water Network, which coordinates a
national grassroots campaign to strengthen federal wetlands and water
quality policies and their enforcement.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): $30,000
For Forests for Tomorrow, an NRDC project, which seeks to make the production,
trade, and use of wood products more environmentally sound, and which
includes the promotion of FSC certification. (This is the first installment
of a two-year $65,000 grant.)
Pinchot Institute for Conservation: $20,000
For general support of the Institute, which aims to foster sustainable
forest management, working with Federal land management agencies, state
governments, universities, conservation organizations, timber companies
and others.
River Network: $25,000
For the third year of the Clean Water Organizing Project, which helps
local citizen-led river and watershed advocacy groups take actions in
their communities based on provisions of the Clean Water Act.
The Forest Trust: $40,000
For the Forest Stewards Guild project, a national association of foresters
that promotes more socially and environmentally responsible forest management.
(This is the first installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)
Tides Center: $20,000
For Environmental Media Services, a Tides Center project, which plans
to create a long-term campaign to protect America's private forests.
US Working Group Inc.: $35,000
For general support of the US Working Group, also known as the Forest
Stewardship Council US, which aims to promote sound forest management
by promulgating certification standards for the US, auditing the work
of the certifiers who conduct the reviews of on-the-ground timber harvesting
operations, and helping create demand for and supply of certified wood.
World Wildlife Fund: $30,000
To promote certification of forest products to improve forest management,
and to initiate a southern forest sustainability study.
B.Strengthening Support for Biodiversity Conservation
Southeast
Alabama Rivers Alliance (ARA): $20,000
For general support of ARA, which works to protect Alabama's aquatic biodiversity
through its Healthy Rivers Campaign, Alabama Watershed Leadership Program,
and Watershed Awareness and Research Program. (To be matched 1:1 and paid
in 2001)
Institute for Conservation Leadership: $20,000
For its work to help southeastern environmental and conservation organizations
choose, plan and execute campaigns that strengthen their organizations
over the longer term.
National
American Littoral Society: $20,000
Recommended for Restore America's Estuaries, a coalition of eleven member
groups working to restore estuaries around the U.S.
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CBGD): $5,000
For general support for this funders’ collaborative concerned with
the conservation of biodiversity.
Defenders of Wildlife: $25,000
For the Endangered Species Coalition, a project of Defenders of Wildlife,
which aims to maintain strong protection for endangered species through
a variety of educational activities.
Environmental Support Center: $50,500
To provide training and organizational assistance to NGOs in the eastern
United States working on biodiversity conservation.
Green Corps: $40,000
For general support of this organization, which plans to expand its Environmental
Leadership Training Program to meet the growing need for new leadership
in the organizing, advocacy, and public policy fields of the environmental
movement and to increase the depth and scope of student environmental
activism on college campuses.
Pacific Rivers Council: $25,000
To protect and restore the rivers and watersheds of the southern Appalachians.
C. Promoting Environmental Improvement
Natural Resources Defense Council: $125,000 To direct a grassroots and
media campaign to support establishment of the Grand Canyon-Parachant
National Monument, in memory of Daniel and Gus Efroymson.
International
A. Conservation of Forests and Wetlands
Center for the Support of Native Lands: $45,000
For general support of the Center, which works to protect the land rights
of indigenous groups in Central America, map their territories, protect
forests and other natural resources and collaborate with them on environmental
assessments.
Indian Law Resource Center: $30,000
For the Center's Honduras and Nicaragua project, which aims to protect
and strengthen the communities and cultures of Indian people, promote
biodiversity, and help indigenous peoples attain legal and political rights
to their lands. (This is the first installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)
The Forest Management Trust, Inc.: $27,000
For Mujeres Artesanas: The Women Artisans Project - A Transition to Local
Leadership, in Quintana Roo, Mexico, to strengthen a women's small business
enterprise that makes craft products from locally produced certified wood.
Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation: $30,000
For a campaign to protect the temperate rainforests of British Columbia’s
north and central coast.
B. Strengthening Support for Biodiversity Conservation
Center for Economic and Social Rights: $25,000
Recommended for the Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, which works with
indigenous communities to prevent or mitigate the social and environmental
impacts of oil exploration and industrial development on the Ecuadorean
Amazon and its people.
Center for International Environmental Law: $50,000
For general support of this organization, whose efforts include reforming
international economic institutions, strengthening international environmental
law, protecting individuals and communities, and building public interest
law capacity.
Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF): $20,000
To support follow-up field analyses undertaken by Latin American graduates
of CSF's Economic and Policy Solutions for Ecosystem Conservation course.
Rainforest Alliance: $40,000
For its green certification project for agricultural producers in Latin
America that minimizes environmental impacts and improves the social aspects
of production. (This is the first installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation, Inc./Atlantic Center for the
Environment: $38,000
For its Latin American Fellows Project to Promote Land Conservation and
Stewardship. (This is the second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)
C. Promoting Environmental Improvement
Ecologia: $20,000
For its Baltic Mini-Grant Program, which supports small-scale projects
proposed by environmental NGOs in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. (Match
required)
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