ACT for Arte Accion Copan Ruinas - Honduras
$5,000 - Using artistic methodology to work with students to impact
their life building skills.
Fishtown ArtSpace - Gloucester
$4,000 - Funding for Dogtown Summer Art Camp as part of their free
youth art program.
Red Brick Arts Foundation - North Shore
$5,000 - To develop an outreach program with Beverly Schools &
N.S. Collaborative.
Thien Chi - Vietnam
$4,000 - theatrical performances to educate about alcoholism, clean
water, hygiene, AIDS, domestic violence, waste disposal and vaccinations.
Windhover Center for Performing Art - North Shore
$3,000 – To support the 2006 performing season.
ENVIRONMENT
African Blackwood Conservation Project - Tanzania
$6,500 – To continue support of the Fonga Women’s Group by
establishing a tree nursery.
ABOLANDO - Bolivia
$5,000 – To spread the knowledge of the environment among youth
by using arts.
ASMUDES - Bolivia
$8,000 - to improve the management of natural resources (soil, water
and vegetation) through the installation of agroforestal systems with
native and exotic plant species.
Aymara Women's Dairy Association – Bolivia
$7,000 – organization of indigenous women that promotes sustainable
agro ecological development to improve the quality of life.
Belo Rural Development Project - Cameroon
$5,000 - to create 13 demonstration farms with the Vetiver grass system.
Centre for Nursery & Eru Propagation - Cameroon
$10,000 – to introduce Eru cultivation
Dodowa Youth Environmental Protection Association, Ghana
$5,000 – Tree planting and environmental education.
EKAS Arts- Cameroon
$5,000 – campaign through illustrations in newspaper to discourage
the abusive use of pesticides and herbicides; erosion control; &
proper animal husbandry.
Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America – El Salvador
$7,400 – To use radio to promote better health and sustainability
of the Bay of Jiquilisco.
Friends of the Environment - Bahamas
$8,000 – provide environmental education to the students in grades
1-12 on Abaci
FUNDAHMER - El Salvador
$10,000 - To strengthen domestic agriculture and family nutrition, provide
environmental & sustainable agricultural education.
Global Resource Alliance - Tanzania
$5,000 – To form green clubs to bring awareness to bush burning
and tree cutting.
Global Village Cameroon
$5,000 – to engage students in learning about environmental issues.
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center - MA
$3,000 – to create an interdisciplinary exhibit, "SALT”.
GOSESO - Tanzania
$8,000 – to create the Gombe School of Environment & Society
Ipswich River Watershed - MA
$4,000 – to create public educational materials about the status
of the fish population in the Ipswich River.
Kestrel Educational Adventures
$5,000 – to inspire students to become environmentally conscious
citizens through creative and playful environmental education.
Mahonia Na Dari – PNG
$5,000 – to support the marine education awareness techniques for
community based marine education trainers
Mangrove Action Project - Honduras & Guatemala This is a request
for funding to continue MAP’s curriculum project with 30+ teachers
in the schools on the Caribbean coasts of Honduras and Guatemala. In
addition, they would like to carry out follow-up in-class evaluations
to see how well it was introduced to the schools on the Pacific coast.
The majority of funds will be spent on organizing.
$9,000 - to continue MAP’s curriculum project.
Norwalk-Nagarote Sister City Program - Nicaragua
$8,000 - for a US/Nicaragua tree planting partnership.
NGO Environmental Watch Group – PNG
$8,000 – a watchdog group focused on monitoring mining operations
in the Eastern Highland.
Northeastern University Marine Science Center
$4,000 - to support marine environmental education through program for
ninth grade students in Salem and Gloucester.
Prolansate - Honduras
$5,000 – to implement agroforestry systems in 9 villages in the
buffer zone of the Jeannette Kawas National Park.
Rural Education and Development – Ghana
$4,000 – to support of the Environmental and Sanitation Project
Save the Grass to Save the Grasscutters - Ghana
$5,000 – To domesticate grasscutters (rodent) and prevent bush
burning.
Strategic Humanitarian Services – Cameroon
$7,500 – For a Neem tree planting project
The Reformation Theatre Group, Cameroon
$5,000 – Protect endangered primates through theatre production.
The Lobster Conservancy – North Shore
$5,000 – For the volunteer based Juvenile Lobster Monitoring program.
Trees for the Future - Honduras
$6,000 - reforestation project in the uplands of Honduras
$5,000 – To design and implement a quest in the Gore Hall Pinnacles and the Grass Rides at Appleton Farm.
UniversiArea Protegida - Nicaragua
$8,000 – To support the environmental education scholarship program
with the Nicaraguan University.
Wildlife Conservation & Agroforestry Project – Ghana
4,000 – Environmental education program to address the issues of
bush burning and water pollution.
Wildlife Conservation Society - PNG
$10,000 – For the field study Mekil Conservation Initiative.
SPECIAL PROJECT
ArtCorps
$133,000 – to help NGOs communicate their message more effectively
using volunteer artists.
