To hire Lara Hansen as a consultant to work jointly with American Rivers and the Sierra Club on implementing climate change adaptation measures in the Puget Sound region. Lara will be the resource person on climate adaptation strategies...
To provide a second year of funding for Jason Selwitz as Director of the Service Learning Department. Green Empowerment (GE) works with NGO partners in developing countries in southeast Asia and Latin America to develop renewable energy and...
$40,000 awarded to Pinchot Institute for Conservation in
To hire Amy Rogers as a Pinchot Institute Research Fellow to develop research and conservation plans that will create an ecologically and economically sustainable wildlife corridor connecting the two most significant remaining forest tracts...
To hire Kate Smith as Senior Research Scientist with the Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM), Wildlife Trust, to oversee three projects, all aimed at preventing negative outcomes associated with the importation of live animals into...
40,000 awarded to Hubbard Brook Research Foundation in
To hire Will Yandik as full-time staff in charge of the policy and outreach components of Hubbard Brook Research Foundation’s Science Links Carbon Project. The Carbon Project is a collaborative effort headed by the Hubbard Brook Research...
20,000 awarded to Environmental Grantmakers Association in
The Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) recently instituted a research fellowship program whereby every year it contracts with a scholar to undertake research designed to inform the environmental philanthropic community on a variety...
40,000 awarded to Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory in
To provide funds for a second year for Brett Thelen's position as Science Director for the Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory (AVEO), allowing her to expand and strengthen the work she has done to date in her first year on the job in...
This project takes the current effort to implement more effective and energy efficient wastewater treatment solutions on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India to the next level. The primary focus of the first year of this partnership was for...
35,000 awarded to Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corp. in
Beverly Craig was hired as a consultant to help this organization move forward on at least two brownfields redevelopment sites in Dorchester. Beverly has extensive experience in urban brownfield redevelopment from her six years as...
The Center for Food Safety hired Lisa Bunin as the organization’s first Campaigns Director, working out of the organization’s San Francisco office. CFS has grown in recent years and while it has deep legal, outreach, research and advocacy...