Table of Contents Message from the Chair Message from the President 2005 Grants List Financial Reports Program Guidelines Staff Board of Trustees  
Discretionary

Center for Civic Participation

A grant to Center for Civic Participation for general support activities, including efforts to increase civic engagement by individuals and organizations in the United States.

Minneapolis, MN                              $100,000                           1 Year

Center for Community Change

A grant to Center for Community Change to support its Community Voting Project to support and strengthen grassroots organizing groups as they integrate civic engagement strategies into their ongoing programs.

Washington, DC                               $50,000                             1 Year

Clean Water Fund

A general support grant to Clean Water Fund to support its various activities, including efforts to strengthen and expand ongoing grassroots organizing and outreach programs.

Washington, DC                               $525,000                           2 Years

Common Cause Education Fund

A general support grant to Common Cause Education Fund to promote fairer elections and stronger civic engagement.

Washington, DC                               $300,000                           1 Year

Common Cause Education Fund

A general support grant to Common Cause Education Fund to promote fairer elections and stronger civic engagement.

Washington, DC                               $100,000                           1 Year

Common Cause Education Fund

A general support grant to Common Cause Education Fund to promote fairer elections and stronger civic engagement.

Washington, DC                               $300,000                           1 Year

Environmental Grantmakers Association

A project of Rockefeller Family Fund, New York, NY.  A grant to Rockefeller Family Fund recommended for its support of the efforts of Environmental Grantmakers Association to promote, diversify, and expand environmental philanthropy.

New York, NY                                   $100,000                           4 Years

League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

A general support grant to League of Conservation Voters Education Fund to strengthen state environmental movements and increase the participation of environmental supporters.

Washington, DC                               $600,000                           1 Year

Partnership Project

A general support grant to Partnership Project in support of its various activities, including its Collaborative Environmental Campaign to coordinate the activities of its member groups in defense of environmental protections.

Washington, DC                               $550,000                           1 Year

Rockefeller Family Fund

A general support grant to Rockefeller Family Fund to promote work in environmental advocacy, civic participation, and a variety of other activities.

New York, NY                                   $600,000                           1 Year

Sierra Club Foundation

A grant to Sierra Club Foundation to support its Building Environmental Community Campaign.

San Francisco, CA                           $400,000                           2 Years

State Environmental Leadership Program

A general support grant to State Environmental Leadership Program to strengthen the advocacy, organizing, media, fundraising, and operating capacity of state environmental advocacy groups, including those essential to the success of Beldon's Key States program.

Madison, WI                                     $175,000                           1 Year

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

A general support grant to Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership to amplify the voice of hunters and anglers as advocates for sound environmental policy.

Washington, DC                               $100,000                           1 Year

US Action Education Fund

A general support grant to US Action Education Fund to support its various activities, including efforts to provide information, technical assistance, and leadership development to state, regional, and national organizations.

Washington, DC                               $300,000                           2 Years

Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education

A general support grant to Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education to support its various civic engagement and capacity building programs.

Seattle, WA                                      $50,000                             1 Year

Wellstone Action Fund

A general support grant to Wellstone Action Fund for training and leadership development supporting the organizing and advocacy community.

St. Paul, MN                                    $100,000                           2 Years

Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project

A general support grant to Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project to support its various activities, including its efforts to strengthen the advocacy, organizing, media, fund raising, and operating capacity of advocacy groups in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains region.

Billings, MT                                      $75,000                             1 Year

Human Health and the Environment
Environmental Justice

Alternatives for Community and Environment

A grant to Alternatives for Community and Environment for its Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project to develop environmental justice leadership among youth through an environmental justice curriculum, an internship program, and youth-led projects.

Roxbury, MA                                    $100,000                           2 Years

Asian Pacific Environmental Network

A grant to Asian Pacific Environmental Network for its Asian Youth Advocates Program to develop the leadership and organizing capacity of young Asian Pacific Islander women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Oakland, CA                                    $35,000                             1 Year

Labor Community Strategy Center

A grant to Labor Community Strategy Center for its National School for Strategic Organizing, which trains over 50 environmental and social justice leaders each year.

Los Angeles, CA                               $75,000                             1 Year

People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights

A project of The Tides Center, San Francisco, CA.  A grant to The Tides Center for support of its project People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights, which sponsors the Common Roots: Youth Organizer Program, in conjunction with the Chinese Progressive Association, to develop low-income immigrant youth of Chinese and Latino descent in San Francisco's Chinatown and Mission districts into youth leaders and organizers for environmental and economic justice.

San Francisco, CA                           $35,000                             1 Year

Southern Echo

A general support grant to Southern Echo for its various activities, including its effort to assist groups to enhance the role and capacity of young people to develop policy solutions to environmental problems.

Jackson, MS                                     $75,000                             1 Year


Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice

A project of Community Networking Resources, Albuquerque, NM.  A grant to Community Networking Resources recommended for its support of Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice and its Environmental Justice Youth Leadership Development Campaign.

Albuquerque, NM                             $35,000                             1 Year

Southwest Organizing Project

A project of Southwest Community Resources, Albuquerque, NM.  A grant to Southwest Community Resources recommended for its support of the efforts of Southwest Organizing Project to train youth in disenfranchised communities in the Southwest to be environmental justice advocates and leaders.

Albuquerque, NM                             $50,000                             1 Year

Southwest Public Workers' Union

A project of Centro por la Justicia, San Antonio, TX.  A grant to Centro por la Justicia recommended for its support of the efforts of Southwest Public Workers' Union to provide education, advocacy and organizing training, and leadership development to youth in low-income communities in southern Texas.

San Antonio, TX                               $25,000                             1 Year

 

Human Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides

A grant to Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides for its Coordinated Grassroots Campaign on Children, Pesticides and Alternatives Project to build a broader and deeper base of support for restricting toxic chemical use.

Washington, DC                               $50,000                             1 Year

Center for Health, Environment and Justice

A grant to Center for Health, Environment and Justice for a 2006 organizing and advocacy conference on the precautionary principle, including state and local follow-up activities.

Falls Church, VA                             $100,000                           1 Year

Center for International Environmental Law

A grant to Center for International Environmental Law for its Creating U.S. Chemical Reform: Building Blocks and Bridges Project to develop a strategy for enacting comprehensive chemical policy reform at the state level.

Washington, DC                               $75,000                             1 Year

Center for Progressive Reform

A general support grant to Center for Progressive Reform to support its various activities, including efforts to ensure that state and federal regulatory agencies can rely upon unbiased and reliable scientific information and advice in implementing health, safety, and environmental laws.

Edgewater, MD                                $200,000                           2 Years

Center for Science in the Public Interest

A grant to Center for Science in the Public Interest for its Integrity in Science Project to expose and prevent the destructive influence of corporate interests on scientific research, publications, and science-based environmental policy.

Washington, DC                               $100,000                           1 Year

Citizens' Environmental Coalition

A grant to Citizens' Environmental Coalition for its Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, a coalition of New York State organizations working to unite diverse constituencies around the shared need for protection from toxic hazards and the shared goal of precautionary policies.

Albany, NY                                       $15,000                             1 Year

Citizens' Environmental Coalition

A grant to Citizens' Environmental Coalition for its Alliance for a Toxic Free Future and its Environmental Health and Justice Caucus, both of which promote state level and New York City toxic-free purchasing policies.

Albany, NY                                       $100,000                           1 Year

Clean Air Task Force

A grant to Clean Air Task Force for its Citizen Diesel Emissions Monitoring Project to partner with local groups to engage citizens and health professionals in directly monitoring and publicizing the exposure of school children, transit riders, and downtown and highway-side communities to toxic soot and smog.

Boston, MA                                      $75,000                             1 Year

Coming Clean Collaborative

A project of Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Berea, KY.  A grant to Kentucky Environmental Foundation recommended for its support of the efforts of Coming Clean Collaborative to coordinate a multi-tactic campaign against the chemical industry.

Berea, KY                                         $60,000                             1 Year

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity

A grant to Consultative Group on Biological Diversity for its Health and Environmental Funders Network to build and strengthen the emerging field of philanthropy at the nexus of health and the environment.

Washington, DC                               $40,000                             2 Years

Ecology Center

A grant to Ecology Center for its leadership and participation in national and Michigan-based campaigns to eliminate persistent bioaccumulative toxins in the health care and chemical industries.

Ann Arbor, MI                                  $60,000                             1 Year

Environmental Media Services

A grant to Environmental Media Services for its Science Communication Network to expand the number and disciplines of scientists and medical experts willing and ready to talk with the media on issues of environmental health.

Washington, DC                               $75,000                             1 Year

Environmental Defense

A grant to Environmental Defense for it Health Program to phase out persistent toxic chemicals and develop precautionary chemicals policies.

New York, NY                                   $100,000                           1 Year

Environmental Health Sciences

A project of Virginia Organizing Project, Charlottesville, VA.  A grant to Virginia Organizing Project recommended for its support of the efforts of Environmental Health Sciences to translate and communicate emerging environmental health research and broaden the base of support for environmental protection.

Charlottesville, VA                          $100,000                           1 Year

Environmental Health Strategy Center

A project of The Tides Center, San Francisco, CA.  A grant to The Tides Center for support of its project Environmental Health Strategy Center to phase out persistent toxic chemicals and develop a state-based precautionary chemicals policy.

Bangor, ME                                      $100,000                           2 Years

Environmental Research Foundation

A general support grant to Environmental Research Foundation to inform community-based activists, journalists, government officials, health-affected groups, and medical professionals about the relationship between human health and environmental deterioration, and innovative policies to remedy these problems.

New Brunswick, NJ                          $25,000                             1 Year

Environmental Working Group

A grant to Environmental Working Group for its Toxics and Health Program to demonstrate the link between chemical exposure and health using body burden monitoring data.

Washington, DC                               $200,000                           1 Year

Focus Project

A grant to Focus Project for its Working Group on Community Right-to-Know Project to promote public awareness of toxic exposure and health, and work to protect and strengthen state and federal right-to-know policies.

Washington, DC                               $60,000                             1 Year

Green Media Toolshed

A grant to Green Media Toolshed for its Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity Project.

Washington, DC                               $43,000                             1 Year

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

A grant to Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy for its Food and Health Program for work towards statewide chemical policy reform.

Minneapolis, MN                              $75,000                             1 Year

National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

A project of Edmund S. Muskie Foundation, Bethesda, MD.  A grant to Edmund S. Muskie Foundation recommended for its support of the efforts of National Caucus of Environmental Legislators and its Brominated Flame Retardant Project.

Bethesda, MD                                   $25,000                             1 Year

Natural Resources Council of Maine

A grant to Natural Resources Council of Maine for its Reducing Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemicals in Maine Project.

Augusta, ME                                    $25,000                             1 Year

Natural Resources Defense Council

A grant to Natural Resources Defense Council for its Environmental Health Project to ensure that the science used by government to develop regulations of toxic chemicals is free from manipulation by industry groups.

New York, NY                                   $200,000                           1 Year

New Jersey Work Environment Council

A general support grant to New Jersey Work Environment Council for its various activities, including its efforts on chemical security.

Trenton, NJ                                      $25,000                             1 Year

Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund

A grant to Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund for its Good Neighbor and Public Education Campaigns to prevent toxic pollution in Ohio and to push for the phaseout of perfluorochemicals.

Cleveland, OH                                 $50,000                             1 Year

Pesticide Action Network North America

A grant to Pesticide Action Network North America for its Persistent Pesticides Campaign to collaborate with organizations in Michigan and North Carolina to ban specific high profile compounds and to reduce exposure to all persistent pesticides.

San Francisco, CA                           $130,000                           1 Year

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

A grant to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors for its Gulf Coast Ecological Health and Community Renewal Fund.

New York, NY                                   $50,000                             1 Year

Science and Environmental Health Network

A grant to Science and Environmental Health Network for its Science Analysis for Environmental Health Project.

Ames, IA                                           $50,000                             1 Year

Union of Concerned Scientists

A grant to Union of Concerned Scientists for its Restoring Scientific Integrity Campaign to bring back objectivity, transparency, and nonpartisanship to the process through which scientific knowledge is factored into federal policy decision making.

Cambridge, MA                               $100,000                           1 Year

West Harlem Environmental Action

A grant to West Harlem Environmental Action for its Environmental Health and Justice Caucus of the Alliance for a Toxic Free Future, a coalition of New York State organizations working to unite diverse constituencies around the shared need for protection from toxic hazards and the shared goal of precautionary policies.

New York, NY                                   $15,000                             4 Months

New Advocates

American Nurses Association

A project of American Nurses Foundation, Washington, DC.  A grant to American Nurses Foundation recommended for support of its project RN No Harm, which is designed to activate nurses as advocates for environmental health.

Silver Spring, MD                            $150,000                           1 Year

Breast Cancer Action

A general support grant to Breast Cancer Action to deploy its membership in national, state, and local efforts to reduce human exposure to toxic chemicals and advocate for greater use of the precautionary principle.

San Francisco, CA                           $50,000                             1 Year

Breast Cancer Fund

A grant to Breast Cancer Fund for its Washington State Program.

San Francisco, CA                           $35,000                             1 Year

Californians for Pesticide Reform

A project of Pesticide Action Network North America, San Francisco, CA.  A grant to Pesticide Action Network North America recommended for its support of the efforts of Californians for Pesticide Reform to coordinate a state level environmental advocacy coalition of 175 groups led by new advocacy voices in the health-affected, medical, and parent/teacher communities.

San Francisco, CA                           $75,000                             1 Year

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

A project of Breast Cancer Fund, San Francisco, CA.  A grant to Breast Cancer Fund recommended for support of its project the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

San Francisco, CA                           $300,000                           1 Year

Center for Children's Health and the Environment

A project of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.  A grant to Mount Sinai School of Medicine recommended for its support of the efforts of Center for Children's Health and the Environment and its Reduction of Children's Exposures to Toxic Pesticides Project.

New York, NY                                   $75,000                             1 Year

Commonweal

A grant to Commonweal for its project the Collaborative on Health and the Environment to inform and engage organizations that represent health-affected people in environmental health advocacy and issue campaigns.

Bolinas, CA                                      $200,000                           2 Years

Health Care Without Harm

A grant to Health Care Without Harm for its project to expand the involvement and activism of nurses in environmental health, with a special emphasis on the transformation of chemicals policy.

Arlington, VA                                   $200,000                           1 Year

Institute for Children's Environmental Health

A project of The Tides Center, San Francisco, CA.  A grant to The Tides Center for support of its project Institute for Children's Environmental Health, which sponsors the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative.

Freeland, WA                                   $50,000                             2 Years

Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition

A grant to Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition for its Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project, a coalition of Massachusetts organizations working to achieve fundamental reform at the state-level policymaking and regulation on chemical use--stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment.

Quincy, MA                                      $100,000                           1 Year

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

A grant to Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy for its Protecting the Public from Pesticides Project to increase public awareness and involvement, and ensure positive and lasting changes to Minnesota's pesticide policy.

St. Paul, MN                                    $55,000                             1 Year

Silent Spring Institute

A general support grant to Silent Spring Institute for its various activities, including efforts to develop tools for science-based advocacy.

Newton, MA                                     $150,000                           2 Years

Trust for America's Health

A grant to Trust for America's Health for its Expanding Biomonitoring through Education and Collaboration Project to continue its work advancing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state public health laboratories' biomonitoring programs.

Washington, DC                               $100,000                           1 Year

Key States

Center for Civic Participation

A general support grant to Center for Civic Participation to support continued assessment and planning work among advocacy organizations in several states.

Minneapolis, MN                              $100,000                           1 Year

Center for Public Interest Research

A general support grant to the Center for Public Interest Research for organizing and policy work in the Key States.

Boston, MA                                      $300,000                           1 Year

Clean Water Fund

A general support grant to Clean Water Fund to support its various activities, including its efforts to strengthen and expand ongoing grassroots organizing and outreach programs in Florida and the Upper Midwest.

Washington, DC                               $400,000                           1 Year

 

Florida

Center for Civic Participation

A grant to the Center for Civic Participation for its Save the Voter's Voice Project, a coalition working to educate Floridians about the right to petition their government through the citizen initiative process.

Minneapolis, MN                              $42,000                             1 Year

Clean Water Network

A project of Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA.   A grant to Natural Resources Defense Council for the Florida office of its Clean Water Network project to continue advocacy, litigation and media work around water issues in Florida.

Washington, DC                               $50,000                             1 Year

Florida Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

A project of American Institute for Social Justice, Washington, DC.  A grant to American Institute for Social Justice recommended for its support of the efforts of Florida Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to bring together the environmental and labor communities to advocate for effective environmental and human health policies.

Miami, FL                                        $200,000                           1 Year

 

Michigan

Michigan Environmental Council

A grant to Michigan Environmental Council for its Fundraising Capacity Building Project.

Lansing, MI                                      $100,000                           1 Year

Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

A general support grant to Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund to strengthen the capacity of the environmental and conservation movement to mobilize citizens as informed voters and advocates.

Ann Arbor, MI                                  $180,000                           2 Years

 National Wildlife Federation

A grant to the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes Resource Center for its work organizing donors in Michigan, and for its Clean the Rain State Mercury Project.

Ann Arbor, MI                                  $75,000                             1 Year

 

Minnesota

Land Stewardship Project

A grant to support the Land Stewardship Project's Farm and Rural organizing project to build support for environmental protection among rural constituencies in Minnesota.

Minneapolis, MN                              $50,000                             1 Year

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

A grant to Minnesota Council of Nonprofits for its Minnesota Participation Project to engage diverse constituencies in training, capacity building, organizing, and civic engagement.

St. Paul, MN                                    $110,000                           2 Years

Minnesota League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

A general support grant to the Minnesota League of Conservation Voters Education Fund for its ongoing work to educate citizens and organizations on effective participation in government for conservation goals.

St. Paul, MN                                    $100,000                           2 Years

 

North Carolina

Conservation Council of North Carolina Foundation

A general support grant to Conservation Council of North Carolina Foundation to provide advocacy tools and build a stronger network among the state's environmental advocates.

Raleigh, NC                                      $50,000                             1 Year

North Carolina Conservation Network

A general support grant to North Carolina Conservation Network for its facilitation and coordination of environmental advocacy efforts in North Carolina.

Raleigh, NC                                      $210,000                           1 Year

North Carolina Conservation Network

A grant to North Carolina Conservation Network for its 'Playing to Win' collaborative of six state-level advocacy organizations working to increase the power of the state's environmental community.

Raleigh, NC                                      $50,000                             1 Year

Pamlico-Tar River Foundation

A general support grant to Pamlico-Tar River Foundation to support its various programs, including a partnership with Neuse River Foundation to advocate for protecting and cleaning two of the largest watersheds in the state, and for stronger enforcement of current clean water laws in North Carolina.

Washington, NC                               $50,000                             1 Year

 

Wisconsin

Clean Wisconsin

A general support grant to Clean Wisconsin to continue its advocacy and organizing work to protect Wisconsin's air, water and special places.

Madison, WI                                     $150,000                           1 Year

Midwest Environmental Advocates

A general support grant to support Midwest Environmental Advocates' various programs, including its outreach to diverse local groups in key areas of the state, and providing a credible threat of litigation to protect Wisconsin's air, water and land.

Madison, WI                                     $100,000                           1 Year

Proteus Fund

A grant to Proteus Fund to support the Wisconsin Blueprint Project to identify opportunities to strengthen the power of the advocacy community in Wisconsin.

Amherst, MA                                    $35,000                             1 Year

Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund

A general support grant to Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund to increase and diversify the advocacy capacity of the state's environmental community by leading a diverse and cooperative coalition of groups and mobilizing citizens across issues and constituencies throughout the state.

Madison, WI                                     $150,000                           1 Year

Wisconsin Conservation Voters Institute

A general support grant to Wisconsin Conservation Voters Institute for its continued role in strategically convening the environmental advocacy community through the Wisconsin Conservation Power Project, and for its ongoing work to connect conservation-minded citizens with the policy making process.

Madison, WI                                     $200,000                           2 Years

Wisconsin Conservation Voters Institute

A general support grant to Wisconsin Conservation Voters Institute for its various activities, including developing a statewide, multi-issue, multi-constituency field organizing plan.

Madison, WI                                     $125,000                           1 Year