Vision of the Foundation
Application Guidelines
If Funded
1997 Foundation Awards
ART
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston, MA
– $ 3,000
to sponsor students to attend the 97
Festival Exhibition
Underground Railway Theater, Boston, MA
– $ 10,000
for support of the 1998 season
Windhover Ctr. for the Performing Arts,
Rockport, MA – $ 2,000
for the 1997 dance season
Young Audiences, Boston, MA – $
5,000
for a storyteller in public elementary
schools
Education
Afya Bora Mobile Unit, Tanzania – $
5,000
for an English Language Skills Primary
School
EcoLogic Development Fund, Cambridge, MA
– $ 10,000 for an environmental education program in
Guatemala
Essex Elementary School PTO, Essex, MA
– $ 5,000
for an environmental education program
Instituto Indigena Nuestra Senore del
Cossorro – $ 7,800
to support a teacher’s school in
Guatemala
Lesson One, Boston, MA – $ 7,500
for a violence prevention project in an
elementary school in Peabody, MA
SAVOIR, Middlebury, VT – $ 5,000
for an African textbook distribution
program
Social
A Woman’s Voice, Austin, TX –
$ 5,000
to prevent female genital mutilation in
Kenya
Art for Health, Baltimore, MD –
$20,000
for malaria prevention in Cote
d’Ivoire
Council for Responsible Genetics, Boston,
MA – $ 5,000
to support the New England Coalition
Against Genetic Discrimination
ICSEE, Waltham, MA – $12,000
for water quality projects in Zanzibar
Industry for the Poor, FL – $ 5,000
for a water purification program in
Columbia
Pedals for Progress, PA – $10,000
for a recycled bicycle program in Ecuador
Environment
Boston Harbor Association, Boston, MA
– $ 5,000
to expand the ’Harbor Bound’
education program
Boston Urban Gardeners, Boston, MA
– $5,000
for a children’s summer
environmmental education program
Building Materials Resource Center,
Boston, MA – $10,000
for a donor outreach coordinator
Conservation International, Washington,
DC – $10,000
for coral reef protection in Papua New
Guinea
Conservation Law Foundation, Boston, MA
– $10,000
for the New England National Forest
Protection Campaign
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY – $
5,000
to address environmental issues at Lake
Atitlan, Guatemala
Cynthia Knowles, (individual) – $
1,000
for a recycling project in Coyhaique,
Chile
Development Gap – $ 5,000
to work with the Dominican Conservation
Association on a land use accountability project
E-Law, Portland, OR – $10,000
to work with the Centre pour
l’Environnnement et le Developpement in Cameroon
Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, Amherst,
MA – $ 5,000
to support the Conservation and Regional
Exchange and Seed Savers Project
EcoLogic Development Fund, Cambridge, MA
– $23,000
for the Bio-Itzá Reserve Forest
Guards and mediation process
Ecological Enterprises – $20,000
to implement an eco-timber &
non-timber forest project in Papua New Guinea (2 yrs.)
Environmental Foundation Ltd., Sri Lanka
– $ 12,000
to subsidize an environmental laboratory
in Sri Lanka (2 yrs.)
Environmental Grantmakers Ass. – $
200
annual dues
Forest Tree and Environment Club,
Cameroon – $ 5,000
for a forestry nursery project in
Cameroon
Global Habitat, Boston, MA – $
6,000
for an environmental newsletter for
Boston school children
Gloucester Fisherman’s Wives,
Gloucester, MA – $ 7,000
for combined research between commercial
fisherman and scientists
Green Mountain Forest Watch, VT –
$10,000
to conduct the New England National
Forest Protection Campaign
Heather Newbold, (individual) – $
6,000
to complete a book on environmentalists
Idea Wild, Fort Collins, CO – $
5,000
for biodiversity programs in Latin
America
Mangrove Action Project – $ 6,000
to support a shrimp aquaculture event
Natural Resources Council of ME – $
7,500
to establish the Sustainable Forest
Management Audit Program in Maine
Outward Bound, ME – $ 1,000
for their scholarship fund
Quebec Labrador Foundation, Ipswich, MA
– $ 5,000
for a Guatemalan workshop and fellowship
Red Tomato, Canton, MA – $ 5,000
to increase regional markets for local
organically grown foods
Salem Sound 2000, Salem, MA –
$10,000
for organizational capacity building
St. Barth Marine Sanctuary, St. Barth,
FWI – $ 730
for general support
World Wildlife Fund – $15,000
for 3 social & environmental projects
in Papua New Guinea
Year End Total: $327,730
Relevant Financial Information (Fiscal year ending Nov.1997)
Assets: $5,093,008
Revenue: $581,125
Operating Expenses: $88,434
Grants Awarded: $327,730
Areas of grants awarded in % of total
grants (1997 figures)
Environment: 64%
Education: 12%
Social: 17%
Art: 6%
Science: 1%
Geographical distribution
International: 59%
Community: 39%
National: 2%
Inquiries received: 280
Grants funded: 44
