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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 & JUSTICE

Breast Cancer Fund

(2008)                        $10,000

www.breastcancerfund.org

For support of work on the Collaborative on Health and the Environment Coordinating Committee.

Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health

(2009)                        $10,000

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

For general support.   Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors served as fiscal sponsor.

Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership

(2008)                        $10,000

www.amheschel.org

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

International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

(2008)                        $1,000

www.bhopal.net

www.studentsforbhopal.org

For general support.  Pesticide Action Network North America served as fiscal sponsor.

San Francisco Medical Society

(2008)                        $10,000

www.sfms.org

To support events held in conjunction with the 2008-2009 President's Cancer Panel meetings.

Science and Environmental Health Network

(2009)                        $10,000

www.steingraber.com

To support a writing project on children’s environmental health: The Environmental Life of Children: Field Notes of an Ecologist Mother.

BOLINAS COMMUNITY PROJECTS

                       
Bolinas-Stinson Beach Library Improvement Society

(2009)                        $500

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

For general support.

Bolinas Stinson Science Summer Camp

(2009)                        $500

For general support.  Bolinas Community Inc. served as fiscal sponsor.

Regenerative Design Institute

(2008)                        $2,000

www.regenerativedesign.org

To support the Regenerative Youth Project.

West Marin Literacy Program

(2009)                        $500

www.marinliteracy.org

To support a weekly English language class for women.   LVA Marin Literacy Project served as fiscal sponsor.

West Marin Senior Services

(2009)                        $500

www.wmss.org

For general support.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Project Vote

(2008)                        $5,000

www.projectvote.org

To support the 2008 Voter Participation Program.

 

COMMONWEAL

Commonweal

(2009)                        $375,000

www.commonweal.org

For general support.

GRANTMAKER ACTIVITIES

Grantmakers in Health

(2009)                        $2,500

www.gih.org

Membership support for 2008.

Health and Environmental Funders Network  

(2008)                        $5,000

www.hefn.org

For general support. Consultative Group on Biological Diversity served as fiscal sponsor.

Health and Environmental Funders Network

(2009)                        $5,000

www.hefn.org

For general support. Consultative Group on Biological Diversity served as fiscal sponsor.

Northern California Grantmakers

(2009)                        $915

www.ncg.org

Membership support for 2009.

 

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