International Development and Trade $490,000

A. Promoting Policy And Program Change In U.s. And Multilateral Institutions That Govern International Development And Trade

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR): $30,000 For its Global Economic Policy Project, which seeks to foster a more accurate and balanced debate on key international economic issues, promote accountability, and improve governance at multilateral economic institutions.

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL): $30,000 For its Reforming International Financial Institutions (IFIs) project, which aims to improve the social and environmental effects of IFIs and Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) by promoting transparency, public participation and accountability in these institutions and lessening their negative impact on the environment, health and human rights.

Center of Concern: $30,000 For its Global Women's Project, which uses research, advocacy and education to promote economic and social justice for women, their families and their communities.

Community Partners: $20,000 Recommended for the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization (FNTG) in its efforts to raise awareness in the funding community of the relevance of trade, globalization and global justice issues on many domestic and international funding issues, and to help diverse groups of funders to see the impact of the global economy and its framework on their issues.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS): $40,000 For its Strategies to Promote Sustainable Trade and Development project, which seeks to promote alternative approaches to development in Latin America.

Public Citizen Foundation: $30,000 For the Western Hemisphere Project of Global Trade Watch, which utilizes public education and organizing, research, analysis, monitoring, and international networking and media work to address trade and globalization issues in the Western hemisphere.

Tufts University: $15,000 For its Global Development and Environment Institute’s Working Groups project, which educates Latin American government officials about alternatives to the neoliberal economic model, particularly policies relating to foreign direct investment and agriculture and rural development.

B. Supporting Communities And Populations Directly Affected By International Development And Trade

Amazon Watch: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which works in partnership with indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin to defend environmentally pristine areas from industrial mega-projects and informs investors and financial institutions about the financial risks of investing in such projects (First installment of a two-year, $60,000 grant).

Bank Information Center (BIC): $30,000 For its project to build synergies and capacity among indigenous and extractive industries (EI) resistance movements in Central America and the Andean Region, which will promote indigenous peoples' direct engagement with international financial institutions (IFIs) and their greater influence over IFI projects and policies in the region.

Center for International Environmental Law: $50,000 For its Empowering Indigenous Communities Concerned About Mining in Guatemala project, which provides legal counsel and services and international campaign support to indigenous communities in Guatemala affected by the Marlin goldmine.

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP): $30,000 For its International Financial Flows and the Rights of Forest Peoples project, which promotes respect for the rights of forest peoples and environmental sustainability by international financial institutions as well as by international development and conservation agencies.

International Rivers (IR): $30,000 For its Mesoamerica Program, which works with communities that have been or will be affected by dams funded by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), helping communities to oppose socially and environmentally destructive mega-projects and to propose alternative development plans.

Oregon Fair Trade Campaign (OFTC): $10,000 For its Trade Stories Project, which aims to increase public participation and accountability in trade policymaking.

Polaris Institute USA: $10,000 Recommended for Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS), a global network of organizations, activists and social movements committed to challenging current trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the world's most powerful corporations and promoting alternative proposals that will instead benefit the world's peoples and the environment.

Quixote Center: $30,000 Recommended for the Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART), a national network of labor, family farm, religious, women's, environmental, development and research organizations that promotes equitable and sustainable trade and development, particularly in the Americas

Sierra Club Foundation: $25,000 For its Responsible Trade Program, which seeks to create U.S. public support for trade policies that protect people and the environment.