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Environment $1,533,000United States A. Conserving Forests and Wetlands Northeast Appalachian Mountain Club: $55,000 Recommended for support of the Northern Forest Alliance, a coalition which works 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 For continued support of the Northern Forest Campaign, which provides leadership in protecting wildlands, maintaining well-managed forests, and promoting sustainable communities in the Northern Forest region. (Second installment of a two-year $85,000 grant.) Natural Resources Council of Maine: $40,000 To support the North Woods project whose goal is to protect the ecological systems, wild character, and sustainable timber base of Maine's North Woods, focusing on remote wildland regions of particularly high ecological significance. The Northern Forest Center:$20,000 For general support of this organization, which aims to build a public consensus to conserve and enhance the cultural, civic, economic, and ecological wealth of the Northern Forest. Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks: $30,000
For support of its Adirondack Park Sustainable Forestry Project, which
aims to make Forest Stewardship Council
(FSC) certification affordable and accessible to independent, non-industrialized
forest owners in the Adirondack park, build a network of certified forestlands
across the Adirondacks, and organize a sustainable forestry marketing
cooperative in the area. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)
Appalachian Voices: $25,000 For support of its project to promote sustainable forestry on private lands in the central and southern Appalachians. Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisana: $20,000 For No Time to Lose, a campaign for the restoration and stewardship of the bays, wetlands and estuaries of coastal Louisiana. Dogwood Alliance:$50,000 For general support of the Dogwood Alliance, which seeks to protect southern forests by strengthening the network of forest protection advocates, challenging new chip mill permits, building statewide coalitions, reducing demand for forest products, and educating landowners about alternatives to clearcutting. (Second installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.) Environmental Support Center: $35,000 For a joint project with the Institute for Conservation Leadership to provide capacity building services for environmental organizations in the southeastern United States. Gulf Restoration Network: $25,000 For support of its Wetlands Defense Campaign, which aims to reform policies and practices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in an effort to stem wetland losses in the Gulf region. Institute for Conservation Leadership: $35,000 For a joint project with the Environmental Support Center to provide capacity building services to environmental and conservation organizations in the southeastern United States. Save Our Cumberland Mountains: $15,000 For its Forest Organizing Project, which promotes sustainable forest policies and practices at a local, state-wide (Tennessee), and regional level. Southern Environmental Law Center: $45,000 For support of its Forest and Wetland Biodiversity Project, which works to improve policies on forests and wetlands conservation in six southeastern states. (Second installment of a two-year $90,000 grant.) Wild Alabama: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks 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 provides legal representation to environmental and community organizations for protection of endangered species and biodiversity, with special emphasis on the southeast, national forest protection, and assisting private landowners to manage their forests sustainably.
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation: $35,000 For support of its Watersheds and Television Weather Reporting: A Prototype for the Chesapeake Bay Region project, including the development of a Potomac/Anacostia River-based network of 'watershed watchers,' and which will help convert local television weather reporting into broader environmental reports.
American Lands Alliance: $20,000 For support of its Wildlands Protection Project, which aims to protect federal wildlands by defending recent gains made in forest protection and laying the groundwork for a proactive agenda. Forest Ethics: $40,000 For support of the Paper Campaign, which aims 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, and to initiate a similar campaign against the next largest office products supplier. Forest Stewardship Council (FSC): $35,000 For support of its Strategic Plan for Social Involvement, which aims to strengthen and expand implementation and promotion of the social values of the Forest Stewardship Council's system of certification of forest products. The Forest Trust: $40,000 To support the Forest Stewards Guild project, a national association of foresters that promotes more socially and environmentally responsible forest management. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP): $30,000 To support IATP's Community Forestry Resource Center, which provides outreach and technical assistance to private forest landowners and their communities and helps them establish Forest Stewardship Council - certified forestry cooperatives. National Wildlife Federation $30,000 For support of its Emergency Wetlands Protection Project, which seeks to respond to the Supreme Court ruling eliminating protection for isolated waters; this is a multi-year project to bring greater public attention to this ruling and to build support for state and federal solutions to the conservation of these valuable systems. Natural Resources Defense Council:$40,000 For the Clean Water Network project, which will continue its campaign to protect and defend clean water and conserve wetlands.
Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment: $25,000 For general support of this organization, whose mission is to protect Appalachian communities and the natural environment that supports them; revitalize communities by helping to develop and implement an environmentally sustainable economic policy for the region; and conserve and restore the wilderness, through research, litigation, and outreach. Potomac Riverkeeper: $20,000 For general support of this organization, whose mission is to work synergistically with local communities, governments, non-profits, and businesses, to achieve a clean and safe Potomac River.
Alabama Rivers Alliance: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to protect Alabama's aquatic biodiversity, focusing on rivers and watersheds. Appalachian Sustainable Development: $25,000 For support of the Sustainable Forestry & Wood Products Project, which aims to increase public commitment to sustainable forestry in the Central Appalachian region, and develop markets for sustainably harvested wood. Land Trust Alliance:$20,000 For the Southeast Land Trust Capacity-Building Program, which aims to strengthen land trusts in the southeastern United States through training and assistance programs, promoting networking and coordination, and outreach. (Second installment of a two-year $40,000 grant.) Pacific Rivers Council: $30,000 For support of the Southern Appalachian National Forest Protection Project, which aims to help protect and restore the biologically diverse Conasauga River and other imperiled Southern Appalachian rivers, their watersheds, and native aquatic species. Western North Carolina Alliance: $30,000 For support of its project to increase resources for land conservation and reform of development patterns to support community redevelopment rather than uncontrolled sprawl in western North Carolina, working in coalition with affordable housing advocates, environmentalists, members of the faith community and others.
The Biodiversity Project: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which works to promote biodiversity conservation by designing and implementing innovative communication strategies that help people make the connection between their well-being and biodiversity. Endangered Species Coalition: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which advocates for protection of endangered species at the national, state, and local levels. Green Corps: $40,000 For general support of this organization, whose Environmental Leadership Training Program identifies aspiring young leaders and trains them as activists to respond effectively to environmental problems. Natural Resources Defense Council: $40,000 To support its long-term initiative to mobilize consumer based market forces and public policy to make the production, trade, and use of wood products more environmentally sound, and which includes advancing all aspects of the FSC certification movement. Restore America's Estuaries: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which is working with a network of eleven community-based estuary conservation groups to restore coastal habitats in the US. Society for Conservation Biology (SCB): $25,000 For support of the development of its Executive Office, whose goal is to focus the collective voice and talents of SCB members to inform policy debates and help solve real-world conservation problems, and to manage the affairs of this professional society. (Second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)
The Student Conservation Association, Inc.: $5,000 For support of the National Capital Region Urban and Diversity Outreach Program, which provides young D.C. residents with skills that enable them to articulate and achieve their education and employment goals while working on important conservation projects in the District.
A. Conserving Forests and Wetlands The Forestry Fund: $20,000 For its Linking Business with Responsible Forest Management - Central America Project, to support forest managers in Central America who have achieved FSC certification or are working towards it to better market their timber. Harrop-Procter Watershed Protection Society: $20,000 For support of the Harrop-Procter Community Forest Project, which aims to demonstrate economically viable, community controlled ecosystem-based forestry. Indian Law Resource Center: $30,000 To support the Center's work in Honduras and Nicaragua to protect and strengthen the communities and cultures of Indian people, promote biodiversity, and help indigenous peoples attain legal rights to their lands as well as political rights. International Human Rights Law Group: $25,000 For support of its Communal Lands project, which will work to educate Nicaraguan NGOs about the practical implications of the Awas Tigni decision and then work with them to develop advocacy campaigns to ensure the government's accountability for implementation of the decision. (The Awas Tigni decision was an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that requires the government of Nicaragua to recognize and protect indigenous land rights.) Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $45,000 Recommended for the Center for Support of Native Lands, whose mission is to protect the land rights of indigenous groups in Latin America, map their territories, and collaborate with them on environmental assessments.
Amazon Watch: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which works to defend tropical wilderness areas and indigenous communities from industrial mega-projects such as oil drilling, pipelines, and roads, through public education, grassroots campaigns, and outreach to the investment community about the financial risks of investing in projects that have negative social and environmental impacts. Center for Economic and Social Rights: $30,000 Recommended for the Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía, 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: $40,000 For general support of this organization,
which aims to reform international financial institutions, strengthen
international environmental law, protect individuals and communities,
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