2005 Foundation Awards

ART 

Music at Eden’s Edge - North Shore
$3,000 - To support the Youth Chamber Concert Series.

North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra - North Shore
$5,000 – Educational outreach program.

Red Brick Arts Foundation - North Shore
$5,000 - To develop an outreach program with Beverly Schools.

Underground Railway Theatre - Cambridge
$3,000 – To support Public Art ACTS program.

Windhover Center for Performing Art - North Shore
$3,000 – To support the 2005 performing season.


EDUCATION 

Trustees of Reservations – Ipswich
$5,000 – To construct education displays about organic and sustainable agriculture at Appleton Farm.


ENVIRONMENT

Action for Community Transformation - Honduras
$3,500 – To teach environmental awareness through the arts.

African Blackwood Conservation Project - Tanzania
$3,000 – To support the Fonga Women’s Group by establishing a tree nursery.

African Conservation Foundation - Tanzania
$6,500 – To support “Nature for Kids” program in the Arusha Region.

ASMUDES - Bolivia
$7,000 – To improve the management of natural resources through the installation of agroforestal systems.

Centre Ecologique de Libanona - Madagascar
$8,000 – To develop a marine & coastal ecosystem module for their training center.

Centre for Environment, People & Culture - PNG
$10,000 – For an environmental awareness & training program in the rainforest on the west coast of Manus.

Community Development Agency - PNG
$7,000 –For environmental awareness on effects of mining and logging in Simbu Province.

Enhancement of Environment Project - Ghana
$3,000 – For environmental education regarding plastic waste disposal.

Environmental Management Trust - Tanzania
$4,000 – To address environmental pollution resulting from untreated waste water.

Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America – El Salvador
$8,600 – To use radio to promote better health and sustainability of the Bay of Jiquilisco.

FUNDAHMER - El Salvador
$2,500 - To strengthen domestic agriculture and family nutrition, provide environmental & sustainable agricultural education.

FUPNAPIB - Honduras
$7,000 – To implement a community-led watershed conservation model within eight watersheds in the Pico Bonito National Park.

Gate of Hope Humanity Organization - Ghana
$5,000 – To form green clubs to bring awareness to bush burning and tree cutting.

Greenwood - Honduras
$5,000 –To provide forest management training, woodworking instruction and niche marketing of forest products.

Mana Foundation - Ecuador
$9,000 – For environmental education in the Western Andes.

Mano a Mano Medical Resources -Bolivia
$5,000 – To promote the use of solar ovens with reforestation.

National Audubon Society - Bolivia
$10,000 – To support a community-based Conservation in the Bolivian Yungas.

Norwalk-Nagarote Sister City Program - Nicaragua
$8,000 - for a US/Nicaragua tree planting partnership.

Percibiendo La Tierra - Guatemala
$9,000 - To develop ecological awareness in middle-school aged children through theater.

Reef Relief - Bahamas
$6,000 – For marine education and protection & establishing a conch hatchery.

Mundo Azul - Peru
$10,000 –For a waste dump clean-up project.

The Reformation Theatre Group - Cameroon
$8,000 – To protect endangered primates through theatre production.

Save America’s Forest Fund - Ecuador
$5,000 – For the Yasuni Rainforest Campaign to preserve biodiversity and cultures of the Huaorini and Quichuia.

Save the Grass to Save the Grasscutters - Ghana
$5,000 – To domesticate grasscutters (rodent) and prevent bush burning.

Sustainable Harvest International - Nicaragua
$3,000 – For a capacity building grant for a volunteer coordinator.

The Food Project – North Shore
$2,500– For food production by youth and distribution to local food pantries.

The Lobster Conservancy – North Shore
$5,000 – For the volunteer based Juvenile Lobster Monitoring program.

Twantoh Mixed Farming Group - Cameroon
$10,000 – For horticulture organic crop production to farmers and schools in the Boyo Division.

UniversiArea Protegida - Nicaragua
$10,000 – To support the environmental education scholarship program with the Nicaraguan University.

Widikum Womens Farming Group - Cameroon
$3,000 – To introduce organic farming and increase knowledge of Ethno-veterinary medicine.

Wildlife Conservation Society - PNG
$10,000 – For the field study Mekil Conservation Initiative.


SOCIAL

Does Pueblos Sister City - Nicaragua
$3,000 – For a women’s empowerment project.

SPECIAL PROJECT

ArtCorps
$65,000 – to help NGOs communicate their message more effectively using volunteer artists.


Relevant Financial Information (Fiscal year ending Dec. 2005 - IRS form 990PF)
Assets: $8,309,000
Grant Expenses: $480,000
Administrative expenses: $72,300
Revenue: $205,000
Areas of grants awarded in % of total grants (2004 figures)
Environment: 67%
Education: 2% 
Social: 1% 
Art: 7% 
ArtCorps: 23% 
Geographical distribution 
International: 88% 
Community: 12% 
 
 
 
Special Project
ARTCORPS
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