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2011 GRANTS, YEAR TO DATE
As You Sow
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To engage major food and beverage retailers through shareholder activism to implement in-store paper recycling systems and goals.
Canopy
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To protect forests through environmentally sensitive practices in the print and publishing sectors.
Catalog Choice
Berkeley, CA
$75,000
To reduce unwanted catalogs and direct mail appeals.
Environmental Paper Network
Asheville, NC
$35,000
To provide networking services for groups working on responsible production and consumption of paper products.
ForestEthics
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To sustain pressure on major companies to improve how they procure and consume paper and paper-based packaging.
Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
To advance understanding, foster collaboration, and enhance the overall effectiveness of grantmaking concerning sustainable production and consumption.
Green America
Washington, DC
$30,000
General support for the Better Paper Project, which works to change the magazine industry's paper practices.
Green Press Initiative
Asheville, NC
$40,000
To reduce the carbon footprint of books and newspapers, eliminate fiber sourced from endangered areas, and catalyze adoption of environmentally responsible paper policies.
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY
$50,000
To continue protecting key forests in the Cumberland Plateau BioGem.
Product Stewardship Institute
Boston, MA
$25,000
To reduce the number of unwanted Yellow Pages and increase the number recycled.
American Rivers
Washington, DC
$40,000
To secure long-term protections for hardwood forests critical to preserving clean water in the Southern Appalachians.
Audubon South Carolina
Harleyville, SC
$35,000
To protect, restore, and expand the Francis Beidler Forest and other critical habitats in the the Edisto River Basin.
Blue Ridge Forever
Asheville, NC
$20,000
To coordinate a network of land trusts focused on land protection in western North Carolina.
Consultative Group on Biodiversity
San Francisco, CA
3500
Second year of a two-year, $7,000 grant for general operational support.
Dogwood Alliance
Asheville, NC
$50,000
To advance forest conservation in the Southeast through the development of viable ecosystem markets, beginning with carbon.
Forest Guild
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To create a guide for the sustainable production, harvest, and handling of forest biomass for renewable energy in the Southeast.
Land Trust Alliance
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support land trusts in the S. Appalachians and SC coast that conserve lands.
Lowcountry Open Land Trust
Charleston, SC
$25,000
To increase protected lands in the Lowcountry and focus on land that will aid climate adaptation.
National Parks Conservation Association
Washington, DC
$20,000
General support to help protect ridgelines in East Tennessee from the threat of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Open Space Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$125,000
To provide capital grants and loans for the purchase of land and easements, protecting priority wildlife habitat in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Asheville, NC
$35,000
Year two of a two-year grant to protect land in the highlands of western North Carolina.
SouthWings
Asheville, NC
$25,000
General support for an aviation service that provides aerial perspectives of environmental threats and opportunities for conservation.
Center for Climate Strategies
Washington, DC
$100,000
Year two of a two-year grant that supports economic research on the effects of climate policy in the Southeast.
Clean Air-Cool Planet
Portsmouth, NH
$80,000
To help build a region-wide movement of local energy committees and commissions that have the resources and capacity needed to effectively address energy efficiency in their towns.
Coastal Conservation League
Charleston, SC
$75,000
To adopt a statewide clean energy standard and energy efficiency financing mechanism, and support the formation of a state green business association capable of effectively advocating for progressive energy policies.
Connecticut Fund for the Environment
New Haven, CT
$20,000
To survey existing energy efficiency financing programs and identify what has worked where and why.
Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
$95,000
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the implementation and expansion of energy efficiency in New England.
Environment Northeast
Rockport, ME
$100,000
To build a sustained and effective efficiency funding infrastructure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the state and regional levels.
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Lexington, MA
$150,000
Year two of a two-year grant that supports public policies in the northeast that advance energy efficiency goals.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Asheville, NC
$150,000
To establish energy efficiency as a priority in the Southeast and support state, utility, and regulator energy efficiency programs.
Southern Environmental Law Center
Charlottesville, VA
$150,000
To help the Southeast meet its future energy needs in ways that prevent further degradation of air quality and that curtail the region’s disproportionate contribution to global climate change.
Sustainable Endowments Institute
Cambridge, MA
$30,000
To support the Billion Dollar Challenge, that will establish internal green revolving funds to be used for energy efficiency projects.
US Climate Action Network
Washington, DC
$50,000
To build, manage, and strengthen the Southeastern network of non-profit partners engaged in climate and energy policy initiatives.
Alliance for Educational Justice
Oakland, CA
$30,000
To support a youth-led national alliance of multi-generational groups which organizes to hold government accountable for developing non-punitive school reforms to support student achievement.
Campaign for Quality Education
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
To support a youth-led statewide alliance of grassroots, civil rights, policy and research organizations committed to educational equity for all communities served by California’s public schools.
Coleman Advocates/YMAC
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support San Francisco youth in organizing for students’ right to voice concerns about their education.
DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving
Jackson Heights, NY
$45,000
To develop the leadership of low-income South Asian and Muslim immigrant youth as social justice movement leaders.
Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
General operating support and support to include MFF grantees in their Regenerations: Leadership Pipeline grantmaking cohort, which creates infrastructure necessary to bridge youth organizers with later developmental stages in their lives to sustain and build their leadership in the social justice movement.
Hyde Square Task Force
Jamaica Plain, MA
$45,000
To empower youth to examine the social, economic, and political forces affecting their lives and act as agents of change in their communities and schools.
InnerCity Struggle
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To promote safe, healthy, and non-violent communities by organizing youth and families to work towards economic, social, and educational justice.
Make the Road New York
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
To support young people in becoming effective spokespeople, activists, decision-makers and organizers on issues important to them.
Movement Strategy Center
Oakland, CA
$22,250
General operating support to do capacity-building and provide organizational development support for the progressive leadership pipeline, and provide critical support for national sector alliances and movement initiatives.
Padres y Jovenes Unidos
Denver, CO
$45,000
To equip youth members with the tools they need to organize for social, racial, economic, and educational justice.
School of Unity and Liberation
Oakland, CA
$22,250
General operating support for a national movement-building education and training center and support and to include all MFF grantees in SOUL's National Youth Organizing Training Institute.
SouthWest Organizing Project
Albequerque, NM
$45,000
To empower the disenfranchised of the southwest to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice.
Urban Youth Collaborative
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a citywide coalition of low-income youth of color to lead campaigns that address both ends of the School to Prison Pipeline.
Added Value
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To train and employ teens and young adults to actively engage with their communities and increase access to healthy food through urban agriculture.
Capital District Community Gardens
Troy, NY
$26,000
To increase food access and economic opportunities by providing entrepreneurial training and employment to teens on urban farms.
Federation of Neighborhood Centers
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To build the capacity of youth to transform their communities into sustainable neighborhoods through urban farming centers.
FRESH New London
New London, CT
$26,000
General support for urban growing, youth employment, and academic year gardening programs.
Green Guerillas
New York, NY
$25,000
To support year-round urban farming, youth leadership, and in-school and after-school programs on school grounds.
Hartford Food System
Hartford, CT
$21,000
To develop summer youth employment program into a year-round leadership and organizing project on urban farming and food justice.
Massachusetts Avenue Project
Buffalo, NY
$42,000
To support youth to become community leaders and meet the neighborhood food security needs through urban farming and other initiatives.
North Star Fund
New York, NY
$5,000
To support launch of Community Food Funders network.
Nuestras Raices
Holyoke, MA
$50,000
To convert a vacant lot into an urban garden and train and employ youth in farming, organizing, and entrepreneurship.
St. Mary's Nutrition Center
Lewiston, ME
$40,000
To increase the sustainability of the Nutrition Center to train and employ young people and grow and distribute food from urban farms.
The Food Project
Lincoln, MA
$50,000
To support growing food and youth training and employment on urban farms in Boston, Lynn, and Gloucester.
United Community Centers
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To build the capacity of youth to address food justice in the community through local/regional agriculture and community development.
Visions, Inc.
Roxbury, MA
$3,000
To support capacity building follow-up with three MFF grantees who have attended The Institute training on urban farming and youth development.
MAKING PAPER PRODUCTION SUSTAINABLE
CONSERVING ECOLOGICALLY VALUABLE LAND
PROMOTING ENERGY EFFICIENCY
YOUTH TRANSFORMING URBAN COMMUNITIES
GREENING URBAN COMMUNITIES
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