This grant provides a third and final year of support for Steve Rasmussen Cancian’s role in the Yosemite National Institutes/Headlands Institute Sustainable Campus Project as landscape designer and to serve as Coordinator of the...
40,000 awarded to Environmental Investigation Agency in
To move Andrea Johnson into the role of Latin America Forest Campaigner, taking the lead on building and strengthening the organization's ability to document and build awareness around the issue of illegal logging in Latin America. The...
25,000 awarded to South Yuba River Citizens League in
South Yuba River Citizens League received funding to support Katrina’s position as Senior River Scientist for a second year, building on the successes of her first year in this position. In her first year with SYRCL, Katrina made...
39,998 awarded to University of New Hampshire Complex Systems Research Center in
The University of New Hampshire's Complex Systems Research Center hired Jeanne Anderson as a researcher for this project, which entailed the use of multiple forms of remote sensing techniques. These techniques include very new technologies...
Green Empowerment (GE) hired Jason Selwitz as their first Service Learning Coordinator to oversee projects and fundraising in the newly created Service Learning Department of the organization. GE has recently expanded its activities to...
40,000 awarded to ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability in
This grant supported the expansion of Garrett Fitzgerald’s position at ICLEI to include bringing the Communities 21 Program up to full capacity, taking the lead on this initiative for the organization. This project will allow Garrett to...
40,000 awarded to http://www.advancedconservation.org in
The Mitigation Strategies project is the central focus of this new organization’s work. The project will address the issue of fisheries bycatch and related mortality in seabird and sea turtle species. Through research, demonstration...
37,000 awarded to Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory in
To hire Brett Thelen as the organization’s first Science Director. Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory (AVEO) links volunteers with scientists to gather ecological data aimed at improving conservation decision-making and planning in...
To employ Bailey Green as a Senior Affiliate of the Pacific Institute to develop a proposal for a more sustainable and effective wastewater treatment technique for the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Bailey’s role as Senior Affiliate will...
40,000 awarded to The Adirondack Nature Conservancy in
To hire Robert Long to coordinate a one-year research project on the habitat needs and potential connectivity of habitat blocks for large carnivores between the Green Mountains in Vermont and the Adirondacks in New York, to inform...
