CLIMATE CHANGE

Architecture 2030
www.architecture2030.org
Santa Fe, NM
$150,000
General support

Climate Registry
www.theclimateregistry.org
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
First year of a two-year $150,000 grant to support start-up operational expenses.

National Wildlife Federation
www.nwf.org
Reston, VA
$47,000
To earn matching support for advancing national forest climate policy.

Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
www.neep.org
Lexington, MA
$150,000
To support and adopt public policies in the northeast that advance energy efficiency goals.

Pacific Forest Trust
www.pacificforest.org
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To catalyze and coordinate a coherent forest climate policy within New England and Mid-Atlantic regions.

The Wilderness Society
www.wilderness.org
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support climate change policy in the East.

EASTERN ECOSYSTEMS

Appalachian Mountain Club
www.outdoors.org
Boston, MA
$50,000
Second year of a two-year, $100,000 grant to support the 100-Mile Wilderness Conservation Campaign.

Blue Ridge Forever
www.blueridgeforever.info
Asheville, NC
$35,000
Second year of a three-year $105,000 grant to support the campaign to protect 50,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Fiscal Agent: Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy

Center for Climate Strategies
www.climatestrategies.us
Harrisburg, PA
$50,000
To provide leadership support and awareness building, and implement climate policy actions in South Carolina and other southern regions. Fiscal Agent: Enterprising Environmental Solutions

Center for Whole Communities
www.wholecommunities.org
Fayston, VT
$25,000
To support Whole Thinking Leadership Retreats.

Consultative Group on Biodiversity
www.cgbd.org
San Francisco, CA
$3,500
First year of a two-year, $7,000 grant for general operational support.

Forest Guild
www.forestguild.org
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To promote sustainable New England forests.

Land Trust Alliance
www.lta.org
Washington, DC
$25,000
Second year of a two-year, $50,000 grant to support the Southeast Program.

Lowcountry Open Land Trust
www.lolt.org
Charleston, SC
$30,000
To establish a baseline of carbon preserved on LOLT eased lands along with ongoing preservation efforts.

MACED
www.maced.org
Berea, KY
$40,000
To support forest owners practice sustainable forestry with management plans and carbon sequestration credits.

Model Forest Policy Program
www.mfpp.org
Roanoke, VA
$40,000
To foster and adopt sustainable water and forest strategies in Cookeville, TN. Fiscal Agent: Urban Century Institute

National Parks Conservation Association
www.npca.org
Washington, DC
$75,000
First year of a two-year, $150,000 grant to support legal actions, and state and federal legislation to reduce air pollution in Southern Appalachia.

Natural Resources Defense Council
www.nrdc.org
New York, NY
$50,000
To protect key forests in the Cumberland Plateau BioGem from conversion and fragmentation through campaign initiatives.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund
www.grassrootsfund.org
Montpelier, VT
$40,000
Second year of a two-year, $80,000 grant to increase the number of community energy and climate action grassroots initiatives in New England.

Northern Forest Alliance
www.northernforestalliance.org
Stowe, VT
$40,000
Second year of a two-year $100,000 grant for coordination of land conservation, community forests, and wood to energy projects. Fiscal Agent: Appalachian Mountain Club

Northern Forest Center
www.northernforest.org
Concord, NH
$40,000
Second year of a two-year, $80,000 grant to promote economic, cultural, and environmental health in the northern forest.

Open Space Institute, Inc.
www.osiny.org
New York, NY
$50,000
To produce a report that will analyze timber ownership shifts in eastern forests.

Pinchot Institute for Conservation
www.pinchot.org
Washington, DC
$50,000
To fund two regional workshops on the effects and risks of the rapidly expanding wood bioenergy faciliities opening in Northeastern and Southeastern forests.

Rainforest Alliance
www.rainforest-alliance.org
New York, NY
$60,500
To provide training and services to landowners, manufacturers and distributors to improve practices and the economic status of timber enterprises in Southern Appalachia.

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
www.coastalconservationleague.org
Charleston, SC
$75,000
First year of a two-year $150,000 grant to develop a statewide educational campaign that addresses the threat of climate change, and to implement climate policy approaches for the state.

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
www.appalachian.org
Asheville, NC
$25,000
Second year of a two-year $50,000 grant to secure the southern Blue Ridge landscape through conservation planning.

Southern Environmental Law Center
www.selcva.org
Charlottesville, VA
$50,000
Second year of two-year, $100,000 grant to support environmental advocacy in Coastal South Carolina.

Southern Forests Network
www.southernsustainableforests.org
Asheville, NC
$15,000
Second year of a two-year, $35,000 grant to facilitate sustainable and community forestry in the Southern Appalachians.

SouthWings
www.southwings.org
Asheville, NC
$25,000
General support to use flights to bring awareness to conservation issues.

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS

As You Sow
www.asyousow.org
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To continue to work towards recycling and resource efficiency in electronics, beverage containers, and paper using shareholder activism.

Catalog Choice
www.catalogchoice.org
Berkeley, CA
$75,000
To support the expansion of the Catalog Choice initiative. Fiscal Agent: Ecology Center

Center for a New American Dream
www.newdream.org
Takoma Park, MD
$75,000
To provide information and resources to major buyers of paper enabling the move to environmentally preferable paper.

Center for Biological Diversity
www.ega.org
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Funders Workgroup on Sustainable Production and Consumption.

Clean Water Fund - Massachusetts
www.cleanwaterfund.org
Boston, MA
$30,000
First year of a two-year $60,000 grant to help Massachusetts and Rhode Island establish policies that promote producer responsibility.

Co-op America
www.ecopaperaction.org
Washington, DC
$30,000
Second year of a two-year $60,000 grant to convert magazine publishers to environmentally-friendly paper practices.

Electronics TakeBack Coalition
www.computertakeback.com
San Fransico, CA
$100,000
First year of a two-year, $200,000 grant to promote green design and responsible recycling in the electronics industry. Fiscal Agent: Tides Center

Environmental Defense
www.environmentaldefense.org
Boston, MA
$25,000
Second year of a two-year $50,000 grant to promote and improve the web-based Paper Calculator.

Environmental Law and Policy Center
www.elpc.org
Chicago, IL
$25,000
Second year of a two-year $60,000 grant to support a public advocacy and education campaign for Illinois e-waste policy.

Environmental Paper Network
www.environmentalpaper.org
Asheville, NC
$30,000
Second year of a two-year $60,000 grant to support the coordination of the Network.

ForestEthics
www.forestethics.org
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To continue to bring about an effective junk mail opt-out system.

Freecycle Network
www.freecycle.org
Tucson, AZ
$40,000
General support for new website rollout.

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth
www.fundersnetwork.org
Coral Gables, FL
$20,000
To support a convening of the Green Building/Green Neighborhood Working Group in Boston.

Green Press Initiative
www.greenpressinitiative.org
Asheville, NC
$30,000
To advance shifts in the U.S. book and newspaper industries concerning the use of environmentally preferable paper. Fiscal Agent: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs

Health Care Without Harm
www.noharm.org
Jamaica Plain, MA
$75,000
First year of a two-year, $150,000 grant with the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems to implement the next generation of Green Guide for Health Care tools.

Health Care Without Harm
www.noharm.org
Jamaica Plain, MA
$5,000
To support a reception at the USGB conference in Boston.

Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
www.uml.edu/centers/LCSP/
Lowell, MA
$100,000
First year of a two-year $180,000 grant to expand its capacities in systems approaches and to work with Electronics Take-Back Campaign to apply these approaches.

Markets Initiative
www.marketsinitiative.org
Vancouver, BC, Canada
$40,000
To support market-based paper reform in North America. Fiscal Agent: Tides Foundation

Product Policy Institute
www.productpolicy.org
Athens, GA
$30,000
To develop state environmental policies that advance producer responsibility. Fiscal Agent: Product Policy Project Inc.

U.S. Green Building Council, NY Chapter
New York, NY
$30,000
To develop an education program responsive to the learning styles of the construction industry.

GREEN AND OPEN SPACE

Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation
www.allstonbrightoncdc.org
Brighton, MA
$40,000
To organize and advocate for significant open space preservation and to strengthen and expand the neighborhood’s green network

Boston Natural Areas Network
www.bostonnatural.org
Boston, MA
$45,000
First year of a two-year, $90,000 grant to support local stewardship efforts.

Boston Park Advocates Coaliton
Boston, MA
$10,000
To organize workshops that will strengthen and build the park advocacy network in Boston. Fiscal Agent: Franklin Park Coalition

Bronx Land Trust
www.nycgardenlandtrust.org
Bronx, NY
$12,000
Second year of a two-year, $22,000 grant to support the stewardship of land trust gardens in New York City by expanding their base of volunteer leadership.

Bronx River Alliance
www.bronxriver.org
Bronx, NY
$35,000
First year of a two-year, $70,000 grant to involve the community in stewardship and implementation of the Bronx River Greenway.

Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
www.brooklyngreenway.org
Brooklyn , NY
$40,000
To involve the community in the advocacy, planning, and implementation of a 14-mile greenway in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Queens Land Trust
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
Second year of a two-year, $22,000 grant to support the stewardship of land trust gardens in New York City by expanding their base of volunteer leadership.

Chelsea Creek Action Group
www.chelseacollab.org
Chelsea, MA
$50,000
Second year of a two-year, $100,000 grant to advocate for, preserve, and restore the open space along Chelsea Creek and its tributary Mill Creek.

Dorchester Housing and Open Space Action Team
www.genevacliffs.org
Dorchester, MA
$30,000
To provide outreach help to build participation in the Friends of Geneva Cliffs and engage the community in revitalization efforts. Fiscal Agent: Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation

Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative
www.dbedc.com
Dorchester, MA
$30,000
To support the development of the Fairmont Greenway through organizing and the hire of a landscape architect. Fiscal Agent: Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative

Franklin Park Coalition
www.franklinparkcoalition.org
Jamaica Plain, MA
$30,000
First year of a two-year $65,000 grant to advocate for better park management and build the organization.

Green Guerillas
www.greenguerillas.org
New York, NY
$30,000
To help gardeners get organized, recruit new membership, sustain coalitions, and obtain crititical resources.

Manhattan Land Trust
www.nycgardenlandtrust.org
New York, NY
$12,000
Second year of a two-year, $22,000 grant to support the stewardship of land trust gardens in New York City by expanding their base of volunteer leadership.

New Yorkers for Parks
www.ny4p.org
New York, NY
$25,000
Second year of a two-year, $50,000 grant to support the Parkland Alienation Reform Coalition (PARC) project.

Pratt Center for Community Development
www.prattcenter.net
Brooklyn, NY
$17,500
To promote and plan for the creation, equitable distribution, and stewardship of greenways and public plazas throughout NYC.

Southside Community Land Trust
www.southsideclt.org
Providence, RI
$20,000
General support with a match to support building the organization's donor base.

Sustainable South Bronx
www.ssbx.org
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support community greening in the South Bronx through planting street trees and planning and implementation of a greenway.

UPROSE
www.uprose.org
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
Second year of a two-year $50,000 grant toward operating support for youth-led environmental justice and green space campaigns.

Urban Ecology Institute
www.urbaneco.org
Chestnut Hill, MA
$45,000
First year of a two-year, $90,000 grant to support the Sustainable Cities Program and to strengthen neighborhood participation in land transformation projects.

Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council
www.woonasquatucket.org
Providence, RI
$35,000
Second year of a two-year $70,000 general support grant to promote green space development, preservation, and stewardship in Providence on the Woonasquatucket River Greenway.

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice
www.ympj.org
Bronx, NY
$40,000
To support youth organizers working on youth-led environmental justice campaigns.

YOUTH ORGANIZING

Alternatives for Community and Environment
www.ace-ej.org
Roxbury, MA
$25,000
To nurture youth development and leadership in Roxbury through an environmental justice curriculum, youth-led organizing campaigns, and base building.

Alternatives for Community and Environment
www.ace-ej.org
Roxbury, MA
$1,500
To support a learning tour of organizations working on environmental justice and green jobs issues in New York City for youth leaders from the Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project (REEP).

Boston-area Youth Organizing Project
www.byop.org
Boston, MA
$35,000
First year of a two-year $75,000 grant to advance school-based and citywide youth organizing campaigns. Fiscal Agent: Third Sector New England

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
www.caaav.org
Bronx, NY
$35,000
To support Asian youth in leading campaigns that address issues of concern to residents in the Bronx and Chinatown.

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
www.cypresshills.org
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support Future of Tomorrow’s youth-led campaigns.

Design Studio for Social Intervention
www.ds4si.org
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support up to 200 youth from 20 different Boston-area youth groups in campaign development and deployment. Fiscal Agent: Third Sector New England

Direct Action for Rights and Equality
www.daretowin.org
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support the implementation of the Students’ Rights Board; develop new youth campaigns; and build their base of leaders.

DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving
www.drumnation.org
Jackson Heights, NY
$30,000
Second year of a two-year $60,000 grant toward YouthPower! to expand their base, develop leadership, and advance their youth-led organzing campaigns.

Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
www.furee.org
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support the development of the youth organizing program.

FIERCE
www.fiercenyc.org
New York, NY
$30,000
First year of a two-year, $60,000 grant to support organizing training and leadership development for LGBT youth of color and their youth-led led campaigns.

FIERCE
www.fiercenyc.org
New York, NY
$1,000
To support training, travel, and associated costs for one member to attend SOUL’s 2008 National Youth Organizing Training Institute.

Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing
www.fcyo.org
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a funder-practitioner collaborative that redistributes grants for youth organizing nationally. Fiscal Agent: Jewish Funds for Justice

Hyde Square Task Force
www.hydesquare.org
Jamaica Plain, MA
$40,000
First year of a two-year $80,000 grant to support youth-led campaigns.

Make the Road New York
www.maketheroad.org
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
Second year of a two-year $70,000 grant to support youth-led community organizing campaigns and youth leadership development.

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
www.miracoalition.org
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the New American Democracy Fellowship and the Student Immigrant Movement.

Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
www.northwestbronx.org
Bronx, NY
$40,000
First year of a two-year $85,000 grant to organize neighborhood youth on local and citywide campaigns that build leadership, organizing, and civic engagement skills.

Providence Youth Student Movement
www.prysm.us
Providence, RI
$35,000
Second year of a two-year $70,000 general support grant to support youth-led organizing and organizational development.

Reflect and Strengthen
www.reflectandstrengthen.org
Dorchester, MA
$20,000
To support the Our Sisters Behind the Wall youth organizing campaign.

Reflect and Strengthen
www.reflectandstrengthen.org
Dorchester, MA
$1,000
To support training, travel, and associated costs for two members to attend SOUL’s 2008 National Youth Organizing Training Institute.

Right to the City
www.righttothecity.org
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the first RTTC youth convening for 26 youth organizers from across the country. Fiscal Agent: FIERCE

Sistas on the Rise
www.sistasontherise.org
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support young women mothers of color in organizing for better public school programs for teen mothers.

Sistas on the Rise
www.sistasontherise.org
Bronx, NY
$1,000
To support training, travel, and associated costs for one member to attend SOUL’s 2008 National Youth Organizing Training Institute.

Sociedad Latina
www.sociedadlatina.org
Roxbury, MA
$30,000
To improve conditions in the Boston Public Schools, educate about sustainable/green design, and advocate for Mission Hill residents.

Youth 4 Change
www.youthinactionri.org
Providence, RI
$35,000
To support the development of Youth 4 Change, a multi-organization alliance focused on youth civic engagement and organizing. Fiscal Agent: Youth In Action

Youth in Action
www.youthinactionri.org
Providence, RI
$30,000
To support leadership development, peer education programs, and YIA's participation in citywide coalitions.

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice
www.ympj.org
Bronx, NY
$1,000
To support training, travel, and associated costs for one member to attend SOUL’s 2008 National Youth Organizing Training Institute.

Youth on Board
www.youthonboard.org
Somerville, MA
$25,000
Second year of a two-year, $50,000 grant to support work with the Boston Student Advisory Council in identifying and addressing issues of concern to students in the school district.

MEMBERSHIPS

Environmental Grantmakers Association
www.ega.org
New York, NY
$2,680
2008 Annual Membership Dues

Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts
www.agmconnect.org
Boston, MA
$6,050
2008 Annual Membership Dues