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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR GRANTSEEKERS February 17, 2004Requests for funding are no longer being accepted.As a result of an extensive planning and restructuring process, the Greenville Foundation has ended its grantmaking operations. The Greenville office in Sonoma, Ca., managed by Virginia Hubbell Associates, closed permanently on December 31st, 2003. This website (www.greenville-foundation.org) will remain active for an indefinite period of time. Greenville profusely thanks all of the organizations that have applied for funding during the last 55 years. It has been a rewarding process of learning, involvement, and support. Many of the organizations that we funded have websites, listed on these pages: Education, Environment, Human & Social Issues, International, Religion, Other. Visit them and learn about their work. |
The Foundation is convinced that environment grant dollars can have the most far-reaching impact when directed toward keystone issues and those that have previously attracted less attention and support. Such issues, if left unaddressed, will continue to act as significant roadblocks to the broader societal goal of comprehensive environmental stewardship. Greenville is also concerned with how these strategic issues should best be approached. Lasting solutions are won through processes that address the concerns of all stakeholders.
Human communities and natural environments are interdependent. The Foundation is interested in projects that address this fact by developing win-win solutions: collaborative approaches that provide for both the long-term stewardship of natural resources and the well-being of communities that are economically and socially reliant on these resources. Successful grants will assist these communities in their transition to sustainability while protecting the full spectrum of natural elements that make up healthy ecosystems.
Projects that support the development of non-polluting renewable energy options in:
Black
Mesa Weavers for Life and Land, Newton,
MA -- $20,000
To revive solar-powered well pumps serving traditional Dine Navajo-Churro sheep
growers and weavers in northeast Arizona.
Climate
Solutions, Olympia, WA -- $12,000
For the Harvesting Clean Energy Program, a project to accelerate renewable
energy development in WA, OR, ID, and MT.
Palang Tai,
Nautilus Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
-- $15,000
To support "Thai Renewable Energy: Plugged In," a program working
towards widespread implementation of cost-effective, small-scale, net-metered
renewable energy in Thailand.
San Juan College Foundation, Farmington, NM --
$18,000
To support the Solar Electric Cart Project, 3.5 kw solar energy system to supply
electricity to the 34 golf carts servicing the San Juan College campus and
provide hands-on training for students in the Renewable Energy program.
Vote Solar Initiative, San Francisco, CA --
$18,480
To support Vote Solar Initiative's efforts with local governments to build
large scale, cost effective energy projects.
Center for Sustainable
Environments at Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ - $10,000
To advance participation of Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Apache food producers in community
supported agriculture programs and farmers markets of northern Arizona.
Green
Empowerment, Portland, OR - $16,000
To support the "Saloy Micro-Hydro & Watershed Project," a project
to bring electricity to 750 families in Mindanao, Philippines and rehabilitate
62 acres of rainforest.
Pacific Marine Conservation
Council, Astoria, OR - $20,000
To support an effort to restore depleted stocks of rockfish and to enhance
the economics of West Coast fishing communities.
Solar Cookers International, Sacramento, CA - $15,000
To support a project to train Kenyans in the use of solar cooking and water
pasteurizating tools in order to reduce dependence on scarce wood and charcoal.
Sustainable Conservation, San Francisco, CA - $19,000
To support a project to develop economically viable solutions to the growing
problems of dairy production waste.
American Corn
Growers Foundation, Washington DC - $25,000
To support "Wealth from the Wild," a program to promote wind energy
generation and to recognize the economic and environmental benefits of
wind power for small and mid-sized farmers.
Asia Pacific
Environmental Exchange FA Tides Center, Seattle, WA - $20,000
To support a project that serves public interest ecological goals
to protect biodiversity, secure sustainable fishery and forestry, and
support higher wage employment for workers in these industries in the
Carbon River Valley region of Washington state.
Borneo
Project, Berkeley CA - $15,000
To support the construction of an eight kilowatt micro-hydro
electrification system that will provide continuous, renewable, clean
energy to a community of 400 in Malaysian Borneo.
Catron County
Citizens Group, Inc., Glenwood NM - $18,000
To support the "New Mexico Proactive Range Monitoring Program," an
effort to achieve long-term stewardship of rangeland resources and
enhance the economic and social well-being of the local ranching
community.
Center for Permaculture as Native
Science, Mission, SD - $12,000
To support efforts on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, to
design, install and maintain sun and wind power systems.
Costanoan
Indian Research, Inc., Hollister, CA - $14,800
To support the "Indian Canyon
Power Project" with the purchase of a 1,000 watt solar electric
power system at Indian Canyon near Hollister, CA.
Eastern Oregon
Renewable Energies Non-Profit, Canyon City OR - $5,000
To support classes and services to eastern Oregon communities that seek
responsible energy choices.
Native
Seeds/SEARCH, Inc., Tucson AZ - $15,000
To support a project to preserve and cultivate 39 native seed varieties
in order to encourage conservation and cultural heritage among the
Tarahumara Indians of Mexico.
Solar
Electric Light Fund, Washington DC - $21,000
To support a project that will bring solar power to Tanzania's East
African Gombe Stream Region Research Center and neighboring villages.
Trees, Water and People,
Fort Collins, CO - $20,000
To support a project to establish the use of solar coffee dryers in
Honduras, Central America.
Western
Slope Environmental Resource Council, Inc., Paonia, CO - $15,000
To support participation in the North Fork Coal Working Group, a
collaborative effort to protect the environment, culture and economy in
the coal mining communities of the North Fork Valley of Colorado.
Center
for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley, CA - $21,000
To support the Food Systems Project, assisting Bay Area school
districts make the shift from industrial based food system to a locally
based, biological one.
Artemis
Wildlife Foundation, Artemis Common Ground, Helena, MT - $15,000
To improve ecological conditions, enhance the economic viability of
ranching and increase cooperation among community interests in Montana's
Madison Valley.
Center
for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff,
AZ - $18,000
To support the Center green certification program offered as an
economic incentive to indigenous craftspeople who sustainably harvest
and protect plant populations and habitats on the Colorado Plateau
Project.
Council
for Responsible Genetics, Inc., Cambridge, MA - $15,000
To support the Safe Seed Pledge, a project to help preserve
non-genetically engineered seeds and biological diversity.
Dakota
Resource Council, Dickinson, ND - $20,000
To support the expansion of North Dakota Sustainable Energy for
Economic Development coalition's effort to create strong, knowledgeable
grassroots support for development of wind energy.
Ecotrust,
Portland, OR - $20,000
To support a program focused on the conversion and development of
organic dairy farms in the Coquille Valley of coastal Oregon.
Land and
Water Fund of the Rockies, Boulder, CO - $15,000
To support a consumer campaign for developing a community based
approach for demand of renewable energies.
Nautilus
Institute for Security & Sustainable Development, Berkeley, CA -
$20,000
To support the US-DPRK Village
Renewable Energy Project. The project seeks to install solar cell
powered ultraviolet light water purification units at the village level
in North Korea.
Northern
Plains Resource Council, Billings, MT - $15,000
To support the Stillwater Complex Good Neighbor Campaign, an
alternative approach for protecting the natural resources and
communities of two watersheds impacted by hard rock mines.
Quivira
Coalition, Inc., Santa Fe, NM - $15,000
To support the Cerros de Taos Rangeland Project, to restore
approximately 8,000 acres of degraded rangeland near the town of Taos.
TransFair
USA, Oakland, CA - $15,000
To support the Fair Trade Coffee Certification Project, which aims to
certify 4 million pounds of sustainable fair trade coffee from
small-scale cooperatives in Latin America, Asia and Africa for sale in
the U.S.
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California
Rangeland Trust, Sacramento, CA - $15,000
To support the Rangeland Conservation Tools Project, a program of
workshops for ranchers to create voluntary land management guidelines,
and production of an experts directory.
Columbia-Pacific
Resource Conservation & Development Council, Aberdeen, WA -
$10,000
For the Satsop Sustainable Forestry Demonstration Project, an
environmentally sound and economically feasible alternative forestry
model.
Corporation
for the Northern Rockies, Livingston, MT - $20,000
To support the Sustainable Ranch Lands Program, a comprehensive
program to help ranchers in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming increase their
profitability, protect fragile ecosystems and open space through the use
of sustainable management practices.
Dakota
Resource Council, Dickinson, ND - $15,000
To help build support for wind demonstration projects in North Dakota.
Eastern
Oregon Renewable Energies Non-Profit, Canyon City, OR - $5,000
To support the Renewable Energy Education Project serving Eastern
Oregon and the inland west.
The
Food Alliance, Portland, OR - $12,000
To support Food Alliance-Approved, a recognition program designed to
encourage sustainable agriculture practices on farms and ranches in the
Northwest.
Greater
Yellowstone Coalition, Bozeman, MT - $15,000
To help the gateway community of West Yellowstone conduct a community
economic development plan and a marketing analysis that will lead to a
healthy and diverse post-snowmobile economy.
Rainforest
Alliance, New York, NY - $20,000
For the ECO-O.K.
Conservation Agriculture Project and Certification System, which is
working to raise standards for tropical agriculture by improving the
environmental and social impact of this industry on local communities
and ecosystems.
RARE
Inc., Center for Tropical Conservation, Philadelphia, PA - $18,000
To support the Ecotourism Promoter Training Program in the Dominican
Republic, a capacity-building project designed to foster a corps of
local professionals who are trained in community-based sustainable
tourism development.
Renewable
Northwest Project, Portland, OR - $21,200
To support the second year of a three-year campaign to educate
residential and commercial consumers on the consequences of energy
production and to encourage them to purchase renewable energy.
Seacology,
Berkeley, California - $14,800
To support a mangrove conservation, an economic development program in
the Kiralakele region of Sri Lanka. The project will be executed by
the Small Fishers Federation of Lanka, working closely with
traditional fishermen and the region's active fisherwomen community.
Sustainable
Conservation, San Francisco, CA - $ 20,000
To support a program that streamlines regulatory review for farmers
willing to implement conservation practices on their properties which
reduce erosion of sediments and pesticides, improve farm operations,
enhance habitat and better water quality.
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Campo
Nuevo, Inc., Bolivia - $18,000
To support expansion of Campo Nuevo's demonstration site and
educational program to promote the use of small-scale water power to
benefit the rural population of Bolivia.
Center
for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems in Ecological Horticulture
University of California at Santa Cruz, CA - $15,000
To support the establishment of a Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA) Training and Demonstration Project.
Center for
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, Sacramento, CA -
$15,000
To support "The California Clean Power Education Campaign," a
grassroots, public education campaign highlighting the benefits of green
power.
Center
for Resource Solutions, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To provide equipment for a series of water pumps and solar power
applications in five nature reserves in the US and three in Mexico.
Corporation
for the Northern Rockies, Livingston, MT - $19,000
To support "Welcome to the West Project," a program to protect
fragile ecosystems and open space on private land from the impacts of
rural residential development in the Northern Rockies.
Fiber
Futures FA Materials for the Future Foundation, San Francisco, CA -
$10,000
To support a business assistance program to develop a process for
closed-loop manufacturing using agricultural residues in the rural West.
Greater
Yellowstone Coalition, Bozeman, MT - $15,000
To support the organization of new constituencies for a sound
winter use plan in the gateway communities around the Yellowstone
National Park.
Island
Institute, Sitka, AK - $7,000
To support an initiative for civic collaboration to address the
divisiveness that damages community and underlies virtually all natural
resource issues in Southeast Alaska.
Land and
Water Fund of the Rockies, Boulder, CO - $15,000
To expand a market-oriented community-based approach for promoting
wind energy and other renewable resources throughout Colorado.
Nautilus
Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, Berkeley, CA -
$14,000
To support "The US-DPRK Windpower Project," an effort to foster
reconciliation between North and South Korea to provide solar cell
equipment to backup the windpower system installed on the west coast of
North Korea.
Northwest
Natural Resource Group, Port Townsend, WA - $15,000
To support "Washington SmartWood Program," a market based
conservation strategy that rewards landowners who practice ecologically
and socially sound forestry.
RARE
Center for Tropical Conservation, Philadelphia, PA - $15,000
To establish a Nature Guide Training Program, in Honduras, to
prepare rural adults to participate in and benefit from the
development of sustainable ecotourism in their communities.
Regeneration
Project FA Tides Center, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support a project to mobilize Californian churches and
congregations to practice energy efficiency and use renewable energy.
Shorebank
Enterprise Pacific, Ilwaco, WA - $15,000
To support "RainKist," a program designed to provide economic,
environmental and social benefits from conservation based business
practices in the specialty forest products industry.
Siskiyou
Regional Education Project, Cave Junction, OR - $10,000
To support a two-year nationwide campaign to protect the Wild Siskiyou
Rivers from mining, logging, road building and development.
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Columbia-Pacific
Resource Conservation and Development Council, Aberdeen,
WA - $10,000
To support "The Campaign for Watershed Reinvestment through
Restoration," a three year effort to restore environmental degradation
and alleviate poverty and economic dislocation in the Northwest.
Corporation
for the Northern Rockies, Livingston, MT - $10,000
To support "The Sustainable Ranch Lands Project," a comprehensive
program to provide training and economic incentives to ranchers using
sustainable agricultural methods in the Northern Rockies.
Dakota Resource
Council, Dickinson, ND - $5,000
Toward "Wind Generation for the Next Generation," a project to train
North Dakota elementary and secondary teachers to create effective wind
energy curricula in the classroom.
Enersol
Associates, Inc., North Chelmsford, MA - $10,000
To support solar-based community water pumping activities in rural
unelectrified areas of Honduras.
Friends of the
Earth, Seattle, WA - $10,000
To support the Elwha River Restoration Project to restore the natural
ecosystem and historic salmon runs of Washington's Elwha River.
The Hopi Foundation, Hotevilla, AZ - $10,000
To support the development of NativeSUN's Energy Center building in
Kykotsmovi, Arizona which serves as their office and marketing center.
Institute
for Sustainable Forestry, Redway, CA - $10,000
To provide forestry technical services in hardwood trees, log grading,
and log procurement to Wild Iris Forest Products demonstrating a
sustainable industry based on SmartWood Certified ecological forest
management in Northwest California.
National
Center for Appropriate Technology, Butte, MT - $10,000
To support the Montana Rivers Project, an effort to protect and restore
fish and wildlife by increasing flows in Montana rivers that are
threatened by massive irrigation withdrawals.
Nature Conservancy, Tucson, AZ - $18,000
To establish a demonstration photovoltaic power system in Aravaipa
Canyon, Arizona.
Renewable Energy for African Development,
Washington, DC - $10,000
To support "The Africa Solar Community Development Project," a program
which uses solar energy to provide lights and power to households and
small business in Botswana, Africa.
Solar
Cookers International, Sacramento, CA - $10,000
To improve solar cooking programs in three refugee camps in Kenya and
Ethiopia.
Sustainable
Conservation, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support "Partners in Restoration Project," a program to motivate
farmers to implement conservation practices on their property, in the
Elkhorn Slough Watershed of Monterey County.
Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego,
CA - $19,750
To support a seed bank to conserve essential habitat and habitat edges
in San Diego County through botanical research, collection, storage
and distribution of vital native plant materials.
Zuni Conservation Project, Zuni, NM - $20,000
To support the "Zuni Sustainable Energy Project," a Zuni reservation
based project aimed at providing renewable energy service and education
to Zuni households and remote agricultural camps.
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