Vision of the Foundation
Application Guidelines
If Funded
2001 Foundation Awards
ART $34,700
Brown Bag Opera – $ 3,000
for the Shakespeare Project in the school
systems of Revere and Everett, MA.
Cantata Singers – $ 5,000
to support the Classroom Cantatas program
in the Boston Public School System.
Emmanuel Music Children’s Choir
– $ 5,000
for one year’s support of this
children’s choir in Boston.
Fishtown Artspace, Inc. – $ 9,700
to support scholarships for teens
attending the Studio/Portfolio Art class in Gloucester, MA.
Windhover – $ 3,000
for support of a dance company in
Rockport, MA
Young Audiences – $ 4,000
for storytelling programs in schools on
the north shore of Massachusetts
EDUCATION $31,000
Hands Across the Water – $7,000
to ship used textbooks and computers to
schools in Tanzania and Ghana.
Jifunze Project of ICSEE – $10,000
to support the science resource center in
Kibaya, Tanzania.
Project for School Innovation –
$5,000
to expand the KidLab Project in Boston.
University of Georgia – $9,000
for the Center of Science Education for
Young Children and the Environment in the Philippines.
ENVIRONMENT –
$312,600
ANDEH (National Association of Peace
Scholars) – $5,000
to train life science teachers in
environmental education in Honduras.
Asociacion Mama Killa – $ 10,000
to support sustainable agriculture
efforts in Bolivia.
Cameroonian Association of Environmental
Education – $10,000
to fund the evaluation of an
environmental education program and to train teachers in
Cameroon.
CEADA – $ 10,000
for environmental legal counsel and
information resources in the Lakes District in Chile.
CELCOR – $ 15,000
to provide legal support to local
communities in Papua New Guinea.
Dudley St. Neighborhood Initiative
– $ 5,000
to support efforts to implement
recommendations on containing solid waste in Boston’s
inner city.
EarthWorks Project – $ 8,000
to create mini-orchards as an
environmental education project in the Boston Public Schools.
El Porvenir – $ 15,000
to expand a reforestation and water
project in Nicaragua.
Enersol Associates, Inc. – $10,000
to work with the NGO ADESOL in Honduras
on solar powered community water systems.
EPIC – $13,000
for re-building effors in Honduras.
Specifically to train farmers about restoring hillside farms
and future mitigation efforts.
Essex County Community Foundation –
$5,000
to support their Environmental
Stewardship Initiative.
Forests.org – $20,000
to support the Papua New Guinea e-mail
news service.
Foster Parrots, Ltd. – $ 13,000
to support an environmental education
program in eastern Massachusetts about parrots and their
tropical habitats.
Fundacion Jatun Sacha – $ 3,500
to expand a reforestation program in
Ecuador.
Idea Wild – $7,000
to fund small equipment purchases for
researchers and scientists in Latin America.
Ipswich River Watershed Association
– $ 6,000
to research and investigate low dissolved
oxygen and its effects in the Ipswich River.
ISIS – $10,000
to continue supporting fresh water
aquaculture projects in Ecuador.
Jakana– $ 8,400
to fund the first phase of an
environmental education program in Bolivia.
Mangrove Action Project – $12,000
to work with a Honduran NGO on
environmental education.
Parker River Clean Water Association
– $10,000
for the 2001 SYEFEST program – an
environmental education program for elementary teachers.
People Allied for Nature, Ltd. –
$10,000
for environmental education programs in
elementary schools near Loma Alta, Ecuador.
PLENTY International – $ 7,000
to work with the NGO WAIKADA on land use
initiatives in Dominica.
PROLANSATE – $7,000
for environmental education program in
elementary schools in the communities surrounding the Jeannette
Kawas National Park in Honduras.
Red Tomato – $10,000
to support local New England organic
farmers.
Restore the North Woods – $ 6,000
to support a feasibility study on the
creation of a Maine Woods National Park.
Rhode Island Zoological Society – $
6,000
to study tree kangaroos and their habitat
in Papua New Guinea.
Shoals Rodrigues – $ 7,200
to study the health of the coral reef and
fish population off the coast of Mauritius.
SIRDEP – $ 8,000
to support the Ndaka/Addaffum Community
Forest Project in Cameroon.
Soil and Water Conservation Foundation
– $ 7,000
for an environmental education program in
the Philippines.
St. Croix Aquarium – $15,000
to support the Coral Reef Conservation
Education Program in St. Croix.
Steward, Angela – $3,500
for evaluation of a sustainable
agriculture project in Honduras.
Sustainable Harvest International –
$7,000
to continue a reforestation program on
the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
The Food Project – $ 5,000
to expand a youth community agriculture
project in eastern Massachusetts.
Trees, Water and People – $10,000
to promote the use of Justa stoves as a
means of reducing firewood consumption and to address health
problems in Honduras.
UNAHI – Mindanao – $10,000
to continue a reforestation and community
strengthening project with the Higaonan tribe in the
Philippines.
SOCIAL – $17,000
Association for the Development and
Defense of Women – $5,000
to work with women and girls to reduce
sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies in El
Salvador.
MADRE – $7,000
to work with a women’s health
center in Nicaragua on obstetrical and gynecological issues.
Moonrise – $5,000
to support a summer camp program for
inner city children in Boston.
SPECIAL PROJECT
ArtCorps – $15,000
to help NGOs communicate their message
more effective by using volunteer artists. See Artcorps
Relevant Financial Information (Fiscal year ending Nov. 2001)
Assets: $8,475,000
Grant Expenses: $569,600
Administrative expenses:
$84,777
Grant awards: $412,300
Areas of grants awarded in % of total
grants: (2001 figures)
Environment: 76%
Education: 7%
Social: 5%
Art: 8%
ArtCorps: 4%
Geographical distribution
International: 73%
Community: 27%
