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1997-1998 Annual Report

BIOTECHNOLOGY

ANPED
(2000) $20,000 and $5,000

PO Box 12201
London SW17 9ZL, United Kingdom
www.anped.org

For public education and advocacy work in Eastern Europe regarding the risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and to support a strategy meeting related to GMOs in the Ukraine. Integrative Strategies Forum served as fiscal sponsor.


CETOS INSTITUTE
(1999) $1,500

P.O. Box 673
39120 Ocean Dr., Suite C-2-1
Gualala, CA 95445
www.cetos.org

To test the phytoestrogen levels of genetically modified soybeans as compared to conventional soybeans.


FREE AGENCY
(2000) $1,500

260 East Tenth Street
New York, NY 10009

For public education regarding the risks of genetically modified organisms. Center for Technology Assessment served as fiscal sponsor.


FUNDERS WORKING GROUP ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
(2001) $15,000

2151 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94115

To support a conference in New York, March 2002 entitled, "Living with the Genie: Governing Science and Technology in the 21st Century," to raise public awareness about the governance issues implicated in emerging technologies. Blue Mountain Center serves as fiscal sponsor.


INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY (IATP)
(2000) $1,500

2105 First Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
www.iatp.org

To support the participation of two representatives from Eastern Europe to help shape the Protocol on Biosafety at the January 2000 Conference in Montreal of the Parties to the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity.


THE PHILANTHROPIC COLLABORATIVE FWGB RAPID RESPONSE FUND
(2000) $1,500

437 Madison Avenue, 37th Floor
New York, NY 10022

In support of a rally and press conference in Oakland, California at the December 1999 U.S. Food and Drug Administration hearings concerning genetically modified organisms.


PUBLIC MEDIA CENTER
(2000) $10,000

Energy & Resources Group
466 Green Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
www.publicmediacenter.org

For public education and advocacy work regarding the risks of certain human genome technologies.


WILD DUCK REVIEW (1999) $1,500
P. O. Box 388
Nevada City, CA 95959
www.wildduckreview.com

To produce an issue of the Wild Duck Review examining biotechnology from an ecological perspective. Literature Alive! served as fiscal sponsor.


WILD DUCK REVIEW
(1999) $1,500
(see above)

For reprinting and distributing 10,000 additional copies of Wild Duck Review Vol. V, No. 2 on biotechnology. Literature Alive! served as fiscal sponsor.


WILD DUCK REVIEW
(2000) $5,000

(see above)

To produce an issue of Wild Duck Review examining the issues raised by human biotechnology. Literature Alive! served as fiscal sponsor.

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