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Our lives are touched by those who lived centuries ago, and we hope that our lives will mean something to those who will live centuries from now. It's a great 'chain of being,' someone once told me, and I think our job is to hope, to dream and to do the best we can to hold up our small segment of that chain.
-- Dorothy Day
 
Biennial Report

2003-2005 Grants

Environmental Health and Justice

Bolinas Community Projects

Special Projects

Commonweal

Grantmaker Activities

 

Environmental Health and Justice

Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (2004) $2,500

1050 South Jefferson Davis Parkway
Suite 333
New Orleans, LA  70125

www.ehumanrights.org

To support the Agriculture Street Campaign Against Superfund De-Listing, a collaboration of Concerned Citizens of the Agriculture Street Landfill Superfund Site, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Louisiana Chapter, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, and Advocates for Environmental Human Rights.

Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange
Basel Action Network
(2004) $2,000

1305 Fourth Ave., Suite 606
Seattle, WA  98101

www.ban.org

For continued general support of the Basel Action Network, a global network that seeks to prevent all forms of toxic trade - in toxic wastes, toxic products and toxic technologies.  Tides center served as fiscal sponsor.

California Communities Against Toxics (2004) $2,000

PO Box 845
Rosamond, CA 93560

www.stoptoxics.org

For the 14th annual California Communities Against Toxics conference in Sacramento, California, June 2004.  The Agape Foundation served as fiscal sponsor.

Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (2005) $5,000

P. O. Box 6806
Falls Church, VA 22040-6806

www.chej.org

In support of public relations work to end the intentional exposure of toxic chemicals to children in scientific research. 

Center for Science in the Public Interest (2004) $3,000

1875 Connecticut Avenue NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC  20009-5728

www.cspinet.org/integrity/conflictedscience_conf.html

To support the Integrity in Science conference about corporate political influence on science-based policy making in Washington, DC, July 2004.

Environment California Research and Policy Center (2004) $2,000

369 Broadway, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA  94133

www.environmentcalifornia.org

To support the Environmental Legislative Education Day in Sacramento for environmental health and environmental justice activists and community groups.

Friends of the River Ganges (2004) $2,500

691 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA  94103

www.sacredland.org/world_sites_pages/Ganges.html#

In support of the cleanup of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.  Crabgrass served as fiscal sponsor.

Mt. Sinai Hospital School of Medicine (2004) $10,000

Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
Box 1057 - One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, NY  10029-6574

To conduct an analysis of the economic costs of American children’s exposure to methyl mercury in the environment.

Parkinson Association of Minnesota (2004) $2,500

c/o 6701 Country Club Drive
Golden Valley, MN  55428

http://www.parkinsonmn.org/

In support of the 2nd Annual Young-Onset Parkinson Network conference in Bloomington, Minnesota, July 2004.  National Parkinson Foundation, Inc. served as fiscal sponsor.

Pesticide Action Network North America
and UC Berkeley
(2003) $3,000

334 Hilgard Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720-3110

http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2003/Pusztai-Losey-Hayes-Chapela10dec03.htm

To coordinate a briefing entitled, “The Pulse of Scientific Freedom in the Age of the Biotech Industry” in Berkeley, California, December 2003.

Science and Environmental Health Network (2004) $5,000

3704 W. Lincoln Way, #282
Ames, IA  50014

www.sehn.org

http://database.healthandenvironment.org/

For continued support to develop and maintain a disease and environment spreadsheet that enables users to identify environmental factors linked to specific diseases.

Upstream Fund (2005) $25,000

The Philanthropic Collaborative
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers
437 Madison Ave. 37th Floor
New York, NY 10022

www.jaf.org/Upstream.html

For general support.

 
World Wildlife Fund (2004) $2,000

1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037-1132

www.worldwildlife.org

In support of a strategy meeting regarding the Precautionary Principle in Washington, DC, February, 2004.

 

BOLINAS COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Bolinas Children’s Center

(2004) $1,000

P.O. Box 283
Bolinas, CA  94924

For general support of the Bolinas Children’s Center.  Community Action Marin served as fiscal sponsor.    

Bolinas Stinson Summer Camp

(2004) $1,000

c/o Bolinas Community Inc.
PO Box 925
Bolinas, CA  94924

For general support of a summer camp in Bolinas/Stinson Beach.  Bolinas Community Center served as fiscal sponsor.   

Coastal Health Alliance

(2003) $5,000

P.O.  Box 910
Pt. Reyes Station, CA 94956

www.coastalhealth.net

To construct a family practice clinic in Bolinas, California.

Dance Palace, Inc.

(2004) $1,000

P.O. Box 217
Point Reyes Station,  CA  94956

www.dancepalace.org

For support of the Dance Palace Performances for Schools Program in West Marin, providing children from pre-school through grade 12 with an understanding and appreciation for the arts through live performance.

West Marin Senior Services

(2004) $1,000

P.O.  Box 791
Pt. Reyes Station, CA  94956

www.wmss.org

For general support.


SPECIAL PROJECTS

Center for Civic Participation

(2004) $10,000

2105 First Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

www.iatp.org

To identify models that sustain grassroots education and civic engagement projects.

Collective Heritage Institute

(2004) $2,500

Old Lamy Schoolhouse
6 Cerro Circle
Lamy, NM  87540

www.bioneers.org

In support of the Bioneers Conference in October 2004.

Global Leadership Network

(2004) $5,000

3833 N. 57th Street
Boulder, CO  80302

www.mediatorsfoundation.org

For the Global Leadership Network meeting in Bolinas, California, August 2004.  Mediators Foundation served as fiscal sponsor.

Global Leadership Network

(2005) $5,000

3833 N. 57th Street
Boulder, CO  80302

www.mediatorsfoundation.org

In support of the Global Leadership Network’s Project Launch Meeting in April 2005 to begin three leadership projects.  Mediators Foundation served as fiscal sponsor.

Institute for Inquiry

(2004) $1,000

5151 Bonny Doon Rd.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

www.wildduckreview.com

In support of the Institute for Inquiry’s founding activities.

Susan Halpern - The Etiquette of Illness

(2004) $5,000

760 Euclid Avenue
Berkeley, CA  94708

For the dissemination of the book, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can’t Find the Words.  Smith Farm Center for Healing Arts served as fiscal sponsor.

Vallecitos Mountain Refuge

(2003) $2,500

P.O.  Box 3160
Taos, NM  87571

www.vallecitos.org

For support of the Annual Meditation Retreat for Activists of Color at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge.           


COMMONWEAL

Commonweal

(2004) $310,000

(2005) $375,000

PO Box 316
Bolinas, CA 94924

www.commonweal.org

For general support.


GRANTMAKER ACTIVITIES

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity 

(2004) $3,000

PO Box 29361
San Francisco, CA 94129

www.cgbd.org

For general support and membership in the 2004-2005 biennium.       

Environmental Grantmakers Association

(2004) $5,000

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

www.ega.org

In support of environmental health and environmental justice sessions at the Environmental Grantmakers Association Fall Retreat in Kauai, Hawaii, October 2004.  Rockefeller Family Fund served as fiscal sponsor.


Funders Network on Trade and Globalization

(2004) $2,500

37 Maddux Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94124

www.fntg.org

For general support of the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization, promoting global policies and relationships that foster environmentally sustainable, human-centered economic development.  Rockefeller Family Fund served as fiscal sponsor. 

Health and Environmental Funders Network 

(2003) $2,500 (2004) $2,500

8823 Hawkins Lane
Chevy Chase, MD  20815

www.hefn.org

For general support of the Health and Environmental Funders Network. Consultative Group on Biological Diversity served as fiscal sponsor.

Health and Environmental Funders Network 

(2004) $5,000

8823 Hawkins Lane
Chevy Chase, MD  20815

www.hefn.org

For environmental health and justice funders to work collaboratively towards precautionary regulation of chemicals and other environmental threats to health. Consultative Group on Biological Diversity served as fiscal sponsor.

 

 

 

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