Here is a list of our most recent 15 grants.
You can view the most recent reports for each project on the respective project page.
GirlTrek, a national nonprofit and health movement that has inspired tens of thousands of African-American women and girls to lead more active lives and make meaningful, long-term commitments to their health is launching a city expansion in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Through an innovative walking program, grassroots organizing and leadership training for local volunteers, GirlTrek will inspire a walking revolution that improves the total health of African-American families and communities in the Twin Cities.
Since 2010, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership’s reforestation efforts have planted nearly 900,000 trees, representing over 100 endemic tree species in Kianjavato, southeastern Madagascar. As part of a pilot project, we aim to augment the commercial crop or non-timber tier of the reforestation program by focusing on six commercial crops, Lychee, Bamboo, Coffee, Cocoa, Ravensara, and Cannelle. By creating local entrepreneur opportunities linked to ecotourism, we intend to create an economically balanced and sustainable program.
The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) will provide critical legal and scientific support to public interest environmental lawyers across Africa who are challenging environmental injustices and protecting communities. Communities across Africa are suffering the impacts of a major push for resources, energy, and land. ELAW will reach out to lawyers who are defending communities and protecting the environment, support the work they are doing, and connect them to each other. ELAW will help build a strong corps of lawyers across Africa who are fighting for environmental justice.
This project was designed as a survival and preservation strategy by the Jotï, a Venezuelan Amazonian group (1300 people). Aware of their vulnerability as a distinctive ethnic group and confronted by safety, epidemiological and environmental threats the Jotï decided consensually in a communal meeting to write a book about them from their own perspectives, devised a content-table and requested Eglee & Stanford Zent to write the text while they take care of all images including the maps of their ancestral lands, pictures and illustrations.
The Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness’ campaign – Building a Sustainable Future – incorporates community organizing and comprehensive advocacy to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ecosystem from sulfide mining pollution. The campaign has four main objectives: Engage citizens through sophisticated grassroots organizing, create broad media pressure against current sulfide mining proposals, provide a strong and influential conservation voice at the Minnesota State Capitol, and build a body of sound scientific data to support conservation efforts into the future.
The Better Beaches for Jamaicans Project seeks to improve the management and ecological health of three Jamaican public bathing beaches. The Jamaica Environment Trust will organize workshops to train local community groups on their legal rights, basic business administration, customer service, environmental conservation, beach safety and sanitation; establish a Jamaican ‘Big up wi beach’ online network; and campaign for a coherent and comprehensive policy framework for Jamaican beaches.