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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

2005-2006 Grants

Environmental Health and Justice

Bolinas Community Projects

Special Projects

Commonweal

Grantmaker Activities

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & JUSTICE

Center for Environmental Health

(2006)  $3,200

528 61st Street, Suite A
Oakland, CA 94609

http://www.cehca.org/

To provide travel and participation costs for representatives from eight environmental health and environmental justice groups to attend the California Chemical Industry Conference on policy reform in May 2006.

Common Ground Relief

(2006)  $800

331 Atlantic Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70114

http://www.commongroundrelief.org/

For the Common Ground Relief Lower Ninth Ward Project.  Community Futures Collective served as fiscal sponsor.

Environmental Grantmakers Association

(2006)  $5,000

55 Exchange Place, Suite 405
New York,  NY 10005-1965

www.ega.org

For the Environmental Grantmakers Association Katrina Information Coordinator position.  Rockefeller Family Fund served as fiscal sponsor.

Gulf Coast Community Renewal and Ecological Health Fund

(2005)  $5,000

437 Madison Avenue
37th Floor

New York, NY 10022

http://rockpa.org/special_programs/gulf-coast-fund/

In support of the Gulf Coast Community Renewal and Ecological Health Fund.  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors served as fiscal sponsor.

Southern Mutual Help Association

(2005)  $10,000

PO Box 9813
New Iberia, LA  70562

www.southernmutualhealth.org/

To support the collection and analysis of water, soil and sludge samples with regard to environmental toxicants in environmental justice communities impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 

Southwest Workers Union

(2005)  $2,500

PO Box 830706
San Antonio, TX 78283

www.swunion.org

In support of the Gulf Coast Justice and Solidarity Tour.  Centro por la Justicia served as fiscal sponsor.

Stanford University

(2005)  $10,000

Program in Human Biology

Building 80, Inner Quad
Stanford, CA  94305-2160

www.stanford.edu

To support a student-of-color research assistantship in the Environmental Health Initiative, providing consultations and technical assistance to participants in the Health and Environmental Funders Network and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.

Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation

(2006)  $500

60 South Market Street
Suite 1000
San Jose, CA 95113-2336

www.kirschfoundation.org

To support travel expenses for environmental justice colleagues to present at the California Environmental Health and Environmental Justice Funders Convening on April, 2006 in Los Angeles, CA.

BOLINAS COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Bolinas Children’s Center

(2005)  $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 Community Center

(2005)  $1,000

P. O. Box 122
Bolinas, CA 94924

For general support of the Bolinas Community Center.  Bolinas Community Inc. served as fiscal sponsor.

Bolinas Museum

(2005)  $1,000

P.O.  Box 450
Bolinas, CA 94924

www.bolinasmuseum.org

For general support.

Bolinas-Stinson Beach Library Improvement Society

(2005)  $1,000

P.O.  Box 65
Stinson Beach, CA  94970

www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/LB/main/wmarin/Bolindex.cfm

For general support.

Bolinas Stinson Science Summer Camp

(2005)  $1,000

PO Box 274
Bolinas, CA  94924

For general support of Bolinas-Stinson Summer Camp.  Bolinas Community Inc. served as fiscal sponsor.

Coastal Health Alliance

(2005)  $1,000

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

www.coastalhealth.net

To support work with Commonweal to develop an integrative health program in Bolinas, California.

Firehouse Community Park Agency

(2005)  $1,000

P.O. Box 249
Bolinas, CA  94924

For continued support of the Bolinas Skateboard Park.

West Marin Community Radio

(2005)  $1,000

P.O. Box 1262
Pt. Reyes Station, CA  94956-1262

www.kwmr.org

For continued general support of KWMR Radio in Bolinas.

West Marin Literacy Program

(2005)  $1,000

P.O.  Box 224
Olema, CA 94950

www.marinliteracy.org

For continued support to provide a weekly English class for Latina women through the Marin Literacy Program.  Literary Volunteers of America, Inc. served as fiscal sponsor.

West Marin Senior Services

(2005)  $1,000

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

www.wmss.org

For general support.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Global Leadership Network

(2005)  $5,000

3833 N. 57th Street
Boulder, CO  80301

www.mediatorsfoundation.org

For the Global Leadership Network’s February 2006 Leadership is Global meeting.  Mediators Foundation served as fiscal sponsor.

COMMONWEAL

Commonweal

(2006)  $375,000

PO Box 316
Bolinas, CA  94924

www.commonweal.org

For general support.

GRANTMAKER ACTIVITIES

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity 

(2005)  $3,000

PO Box 29361
San Francisco, CA 94129

www.cgbd.org

For Jenifer Altman Foundation’s membership in CGBD for the 2006-2007 biennium.

Council on Foundations

(2005)  $1,560

PO Box 0021
Washington, DC  20055

www.cof.org

For Jenifer Altman Foundation’s membership in the Council on Foundations for 2006.

Environmental Grantmakers Association

(2006)  $1,380

55 Exchange Place, Suite 405
New York,  NY 10005-1965

www.ega.org

For Jenifer Altman Foundation membership in Environmental Grantmakers Association for the 2006-2007 biennium.  Rockefeller Family Fund served as fiscal sponsor.

Grantmakers in Health

(2005)  $2,000

1100 Connecticut Ave. NW,  Suite 1200
Washington DC  20036

www.gih.org

To support membership with Grantmakers in Health to continue to raise the profile of environmental health and justice issues.

Health and Environmental Funders Network 

(2005)  $2,500

1990 M Street, Suite 250
Washington, DC  20036

www.hefn.org

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

Northern California Grantmakers

(2006)  $777

625 Market Street
15th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

www.ncg.org

For Jenifer Altman Foundation’s membership in Northern California Grantmakers for 2006.

 

 

 

The Jenifer Altman Foundation, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Presidio Building 1016, First Floor, P.O. Box 29209, San Francisco, CA 94129 USA. 415.561.2182 info@jaf.org