Vision of the Foundation
Application Guidelines
If Funded
1996 Foundation Awards
ART
Brown Bag Opera, Boston, MA – $
5,000 to bring an Educational Opera Project to public
schools on the North Shore of Massachusetts.
Music at Eden’s Edge, MA – $
5,000
for a 1996 Youth Chamber Series.
Revolving Museum, Boston, MA – $
5,000
for the “Ice Cream Art Truck”
project.
Windhover, Rockport, MA – $ 1,000
for the 1996 dance season.
ZUMIX, E. Boston, MA – $ 7,000
to support the development of the
Community Arts Program.
Education
Boston Partners in Education, Boston, MA
– $ 5,000
to support the Math/Science Initiative in
the Boston Public Schools for one year.
Children’s Chance, Hopkins, MN
– $ 2,500
to provide used textbooks to school in
Jamaica.
Ecologic Development Fund – $ 5,000
to work with the Guatemalan NGO, FUNDARY
to establish youth and environmental education.
International Collaborative for Science,
Education & the Environment, Waltham, MA – $5,000 for
seed money to begin the Roxbury Science Workshop for one year.
Lesson One Foundation, Inc., Boston, MA
– $ 7,500
for a violence prevention and conflict
resolution program in the Welch Elementary School in Peabody,
MA.
Primary Source, Cambridge, MA – $
4,000
for a multicultural curriculum project in
Cambridge, MA public schools.
Environment
Boston Urban Gardeners, Boston, MA
– $ 5,000
for a Summer Environmental Youth
Education Program.
Christensen Research Institute, Papua New
Guinea – $12,000
for the training of one local individual
in marine conservation biology.
Community Farms Outreach, Waltham, MA
– $10,000
to support a community farm by purchasing
new equipment and hiring a farming expert.
CGBD – $ 1,000
annual contribution for biodiversity
networking association.
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative,
Boston, MA – $ 5,000
to continue testing and treating soil
used for community gardens.
E-Law, Eugene, OR – $ 5,500
to begin environmental advocacy in
Cameroon, West Africa.
EcoLogic Development Fund, Cambridge, MA
– $ 2,988
to work with the Bio-Itza Committee in
Guatemala to identify and document the value of herbs and other
useful plant products.
Environmental Grantmakers Assn. – $
200
annual membership dues.
Essex Elementary School PTO, Essex, MA
– $ 4,312
for an environmental education project
and naturalist-in-residence.
Global Habitat, Boston, MA – $
6,000
for continued expansion of the students
environmental newsletter Greenspeak.
Institute for the Conservation of
Tropical Environments, Stony Brook, NY – $ 7,000
to conduct research on a marine protected
area off the island of Nosy Ve in Madagascar.
Idea Wild, Fort Collins, CO – $
5,000
for continuation of a biodiversity and
conservation education program in Latin America.
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota,
FL – $ 5,000
for the Natural Resource Conservation
project in Cameroon, West Africa.
Neighborhood of Affordable Housing,
Boston, MA – $ 5,000
to incorporate permanent public art in
the O’Donnell Schoolyard of East Boston, MA.
Pacific Environment & Resources
Center, Sausilito, CA – $ 6,000
to bring environmental education training
to teachers of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Pueblo Partisans, Alberta, Canada –
$ 5,000
to support the Comitancillo Sustainable
Agro-Forestry Project in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Quebec Labrador Foundation, Ipswich, MA
– $ 8,000
to support the land conservation and
stewardship program in Dominica, West Indies.
Rainforest Action Network, San Francisco,
CA – $ 5,000
to support the Amazon Defense Front in
Ecuador.
Salem Harbor CDC, Salem, MA – $
6,000
for renovation of vacant lots into
community gardens, parks or green spaces.
Share Foundatio’n, San Francisco,
CA – $ 5,000
to support a sustainable agriculture
project in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
Sustainable Ecosystems Institute, Eugene,
OR – $21,000
to set up a monitoring system for the
marine sanctuary in St. BarthÎlemy, FWI.
TrEES, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – $
5,000
to ensure sustainable environmental
practices within daycare centers in Malaysia.
Wau Ecology Institute (2nd yr.), Papua
New Guinea – $ 5,000
to work with local landowners in the
Prince Alexander Range to protect natural ecosystems.
Social
Coffee Kids, Providence, RI – $
7,000
for a women’s micro-enterprise
project in Santiago Aitilan, Guatemala.
SECDO, Sri Lanka – $ 2,778
to build latrines for farm workers.
Trickle Up, New York, NY – $ 5,000
for the Soroptimist International project
in Cameroon, West Africa.
Year End Total: $206,778
Areas of grant distribution in % of total
grants (1996 figures)
Environment: 65%
Education: 16%
Art: 14%
Social: 5%
Geographical distribution
Developing countries: 58%
Community: 41%
National: 1%
Inquiries received: 287
Grants funded: 37
