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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

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND JUSTICE

Breast Cancer Fund

(2007)            $5,000

1388 Sutter Street
Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94109

www.breastcancerfund.org

To support the translation, publication, and distribution of The Timing of Puberty in U.S. Girls: What We Know, What We Need to Know.

Breast Cancer Fund

(2007)            $10,000

1388 Sutter Street
Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94109

www.breastcancerfund.org

To support Environmental Cancer Causation and Primary Prevention: A National Strategy; analyzing cancer causation and prevention efforts in the national non-profit cancer sector.

Environmental Media Services

(2006)            $2,500

1320 18th Street, NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036

www.ems.org

In support of Environmental Media Services/Science Communication Network’s media project for the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health.  Tides Center served as fiscal sponsor.

Green Environment Fund

(2006)            $5,000

15 Yair Rozenblum St.
69583, Tel Aviv
Israel

www.nif.org/content.cfm?id=2366&currBody=1

For development of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment and other Environmental Health initiatives in Israel.  New Israel Fund served as fiscal sponsor.

Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health

(2006)            $15,000

6 West 48th Street
New York, NY 10036

www.rockpa.org/special_programs/gulf-coast-fund/

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

Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership

(2007)            $10,000

85 Nachalat Binyamin St.
66102, Tel Aviv
Israel

http://heschel.org.il/oldsite/index_eng.html

To build a capacity in Israel among health professionals, health-affected groups and others around environmental health advocacy.  American Friends of Heschel Center served as fiscal sponsor.

Institute for Children’s Environmental Health 

(2007)            $5,000

1646 Dow Road
Freeland, WA 98249

www.iceh.org

To support the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health’s work enhancing the understanding about research linking nutritional, toxicological, social, and genetic factors to learning and developmental disabilities.  Tides Center served as a fiscal sponsor.

Institute for Inquiry

(2007)            $2,300

PO Box 335
Davenport, CA 95017

www.wildduckreview.com

To support the development and production of A Wireless Age?, a video, audio, and text inquiry exploring the biological and cultural changes associated with wireless technologies.

Sage Associates

(2007)            $2,500

1396 Danielson Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93108

www.sageassociates.net
www.emrpolicy.org

To provide travel and participation costs to the World Health Organization Workshop on Developing and Implementing Protective Measures for Extremely Low Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields in Geneva, Switzerland in June, 2007.  EMR Policy Institute served as fiscal sponsor.

Science and Environmental Health Network

(2007)            $10,000

PMB 282
217 Welch Avenue
Suite 101
Ames, IA 50014

www.sehn.org

To support the position of Science Director for the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.

Stanford University

(2006)            $10,000

PO. Box 44253
San Francisco, CA 94144-4253

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.

University of Massachusetts Lowell- Environmental Health Initiative

(2007)            $7,176

Environmental Health Initiative
600 Suffolk St., 5th Floor
Lowell, MA 01854

www.sustainableproduction.org

To update the 2005 report, Environmental & Occupational Causes of Cancer: A Review of Recent Scientific Evidence.  University of Massachusetts Lowell served as fiscal sponsor.

 

BOLINAS COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Bolinas Children’s Center

(2007)            $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

(2007)            $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 Firehouse and Clinic

(2006)            $5,000

P.O. Box 126
Bolinas, CA 94924

www.bolinasfirehouseandclinic.org/

For the Bolinas Firehouse and Clinic project to support the Carolyn Brown Community Meeting Room at the Bolinas Firehouse.  Coastal Health Alliance served as fiscal sponsor.

Bolinas Museum

(2007)            $1,000

P.O. Box 450
Bolinas, CA 94924

www.bolinasmuseum.org

For general support.

Bolinas-Stinson Beach Library Improvement Society

(2007)            $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

(2007)            $1,000

P.O. Box 274
Bolinas, CA 94924

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

Coastal Health Alliance

(2007)            $1,000

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

www.coastalhealth.net

For general support.

Firehouse Community Park Agency

(2007)            $1,000

P.O. Box 249
Bolinas, CA  94924

For continued support of the Bolinas Skateboard Park.

West Marin Community Radio

(2007)            $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

(2007)            $1,000

Marin Literacy Program
San Rafael Public Library
1100 E Street
San Rafaeel, CA 94901

www.marinliteracy.org

For continued support to provide a weekly English class for women through the Marin Literacy Program.   LVA Marin Literacy Project served as fiscal sponsor.

West Marin Senior Services

(2007)            $1,000

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

www.wmss.org

For general support.

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Upstream Fund

(2006)            $25,000

The Philanthropic Collaborative
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers
101 Second Street
24th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

For general support.

 

COMMONWEAL

Commonweal

(2007)            $375,000

P.O. Box 316
Bolinas, CA 94924

www.commonweal.org

For general support.

 

GRANTMAKER ACTIVITIES

Council on Foundations

(2006)            $1,590

1828 L Street, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC  20036

www.cof.org

For Jenifer Altman Foundation’s membership in the Council on Foundations for 2007.

Environmental Grantmakers Association

(2007)            $1,000

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

www.ega.org

To support the Environmental Grantmakers Association 2007 Fall Retreat session, An Arranged Marriage, discussing the link between reproductive health and the environment.  Rockefeller Family Fund served as fiscal sponsor.

Grantmakers in Health

(2007)            $2,500

1100 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 1200
Washington D.C. 20036-4110

www.gih.org

To support Jenifer Altman Foundation’s membership with Grantmakers in Health in 2007.

Health and Environmental Funders Network 

(2007)            $5,000

1990 M Street, Suite 250
Washington, DC  20036

www.hefn.org
www.cgbd.org 

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

Northern California Grantmakers

(2007)            $789

625 Market Street
15th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

www.ncg.org

For Jenifer Altman Foundation’s membership in Northern California Grantmakers for 2007. 

 

 

 

 

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