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Application Guidelines
If Funded
2002 Foundation Awards
ART
Anchorage House, Inc., Beverly, MA
– $3,000
For the Creative Development Project in
this residential treatment program for adolescents.
Music at Eden’s Edge, Essex, MA
– $5,000
To fund the Youth Chamber Concert Series
in elementary schools in Gloucester, Newburyport, Salem,
Ipswich & Lynn, MA.
Windhover, Rockport, MA – $5,000
To support this local dance troupe.
ZUMIX, E. Boston, MA – $5,000
For the Hands-On youth development
project.
Brown Bag Opera, Boston, MA –
$3,000
For the Shakespeare Educational Opera in
Everett & Revere, MA
Fishtown Artspace, Gloucester, MA –
$7,500
Scholarships for Gloucester teens taking
portfolio classes.
Gloucester Legends, Gloucester, MA
– $5,000
Artists in residencies for public schools
in Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Lynn, Manchester & Beverly.
Castillo, Igor, Guatemala – $5,000
To support the theater & art program
“Perceiving the Earth”.
Ipswich Dance Foundation, Ipswich, MA
– $5,000
To support this aerial dance company.
EDUCATION
Diagnostic Women’s Movement for
Science, Ghana – $10,000
For science and math education for girls
Hands-On Based Education and Science,
Salem, MA – $5,000
To provide boat-based marine science
& environmental education programs for students in Salem,
MA.
Nagata-Yamauchi Educational Fund –
$5,000
To create three computer centers in
Guatemala
Para Todos los NiÑos –
$ 5,400
To supply schools & libraries with
educational materials for children in Honduras.
Lesson One – $5,000
To institute “Skills for
Life” program at an elementary school in Lynn, MA.
Outward Bound, ME – $1,000
Scholarships for needy teens.
Jifunze Project – $10,000
To support the Jifunze Educational Center
in Tanzania.
ENVIRONMENT
African Blackwood Conservation Project,
Tanzania – $2,000
To support the Mpingo Woman’s Group
in their reforestation and sustainable agriculture projects.
Alliance for International Reforestation
– $10,000
To fund environmental education for rural
schoolchildren in Guatemala.
ATAR, Bolivia – $4,100
Sustainable organic horticulture in
Bolivia.
AXIAL, Peru –$10,000
Agricultural ecology project and
preservation of local culture in Peru.
EarthWorks Projects – $8,000
To work on environmental education
programs in the inner city of Boston.
E-Law, Nicaragua – $5,000
To support legal work on marine issues.
El Porvenir, Nicaragua – $10,000
Reforestation projects in Nicaragua.
EPIC – $13,000
Sustainable agriculture in Honduras
FIMA, Chile – $10,000
To continue the program
“Environmental Education for Judges, Ministers and
Officials Within the Chilean Judicial System”.
Garden Futures, Boston, MA – $5,000
To continue support for the Neighborhood
Open Spaces Training Institute.
Gulf of Maine Expedition – $5,000
For a sea kayaking challenge to raise
awareness of environmental issues in the Gulf of Maine.
International Marinelife Alliance, PNG
– $10,000
To protect coral reef environments in the
New Ireland Province of PNG.
Kechuaymara, Bolivia – $7,000
To diversify agricultural production and
improve irrigation techniques.
Lipke Secondary School Environmental
Club, Ghana – $3,000
To buy tools for this environmental club
for children.
Massachusetts Audubon Society, MA –
$5,000
For an environmental education program in
Rockport, MA
Mepekofe Friends of the Environment,
Ghana – $1,000
Sustainable agriculture and sustainable
forestry.
Micro Region of Cerro Guazapa (CESTA), El
Salvador – $10,000
To fund a base-line environmental study
for an inter-municipal organization.
Mundo Azul, Peru – $10,000
To clean up the harbor of Pucusana.
Plenty, Dominica – $7,000
To help the NGO WAIKADA with Land Use
Reform Initiatives.
SIRDEP, Cameroon – $8,000
Sustainable forestry program in Cameroon.
UNAHI, CA – $11,000
Reforestation and cultural survival
project in the Philippines.
People Allied for Nature, NY –
$4,000
Environmental education for the children
in villages abutting the Loma Alta Ecological Reserve in
Ecuador.
Pico Bonito National Park Foundation,
Honduras – $10,000
To help eleven villages protect their
water sources.
PROCESO, Guatemala – $3,000
To teach a course on appropriate
technologies to high school students in Guatemala.
Project Link, Essex, MA – $5,000
For an environmental education project in
Manchester & Essex, MA.
ROCA, Inc., Chelsea, MA – $5,000
To continue the Youth STAR Wetlands
Restoration project in Chelsea Creek.
SIRDEP, Cameroon – $8,000
Sustainable forestry & apiculture
projects in Cameroon.
Soil & Water Conservation Foundation,
Philippines – $10,000
Environmental education in the Sierra
Bullones, Philippines.
Sustainable Harvest International,
Nicaragua – $7,000
To support a field extensionist in
Nicaragua.
Tayja-Saruta Sarayacu, Ecuador –
$10,000
To begin a legal campaign and take legal
action to protect 600,000 hectares of land against the
Argentinean Petroleum Oil Company.
UNAHI Mindanao, Philippines –
$11,000
For a reforestation and cultural project.
Wildlife Conservation Society, PNG
– $10,000
To fund the Mekil Conservation Initiative
at the Mekil Research Station in PNG.
ZIDO, Tanzania – $5,000
Reforestation and training project in
Tanzania.
SCIENCE
Sustainable Sciences Institute, CA
– $10,000
To support research to control and
prevent infectious diseases in developing countries.
SOCIAL
Ahead, Inc., MD – $5,000
To reduce water borne diseases in
children and develop a model for treating contaminated water in
Tanzania.
Upper West Side-Tipitapa Sister City
– $10,000
To work with the Nicaraguan NGO
COMPALCIHT to fund two or three feeding centers.
Relevant Financial Information (Fiscal year ending Nov. 2002 – IRS form
990PF)
Assets: $7,600,000
Grant Expenses: $493,000
Administrative expenses: $59,000
Revenue: $279,000
Areas of grants awarded in % of total
grants (2002 figures)
Environment: 61%
Education: 4%
Social: 15%
Art: 10%
Science: 4%
ArtCorps: 6%
Geographical distribution
International: 76%
Community: 24%
