IN THE SERVICE OF LIFE PROGRAM

On occasion, the Jenifer Altman Foundation awards grants of $5,000 to individuals who have made significant contributions to human health or the health of the earth. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals in this category.

LENORE LEFER

For many years of exceptional direct service to people facing cancer, heart disease, AIDS, and other life-threatening diseases. Her special gifts as a therapist and group leader transform the lives of the people who seek wisdom, healing and solace from her.

ANDREA RAVINETT MARTIN (1946 - 2003)

For outstanding work around the prevention and treatment of breast cancer: from public and legislative education to the fight for funding and better clinical services for women of all economic backgrounds. She founded The Breast Cancer Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to her life-affirming vision.

PETER WARSHALL

For pioneering and wide-ranging work toward a more just and sustainable world. He has worked as a naturalist, an anthropologists, and is a public intellectual for our time, educating an international community of readers through Whole Earth magazine and other publications.

DIANE WILSON

For courage and dedication in educating people about the chemical tragedy of Bhopal, India. A fourth generation fisherman and long time environmental activist, she is the inspiration behind UnReasonable Women for the Earth, founded in 2002. She co-founded Code Pink in response to the war in Iraq. She has protested the pollution of 5 major chemical plants and has stood in solidarity with strikers in India against the Dow/Union Carbide 1984 chemical disaster.