Greenville Foundation

Greenville Foundation, based in Sonoma, California, USA

Although the Greenville Foundation no longer makes grants, this page and the final grantmaking guidelines and instructions are available for your reference.

International Funding Interests

The Foundation believes that global security is achieved through improving the conditions that support and enhance peace and reconciliation and an individual's quality of life. Cognizant of, and concerned about, the deteriorating conditions and growing needs of individuals worldwide, the Foundation seeks to support programs that promote a spirit of self-determination, self-sufficiency, dignity and harmonious human relations.

International applicants are required to have a United States based fiscal agent and are required to submit information pertaining to their fiscal agent. The Foundation will not accept, or consider, international applications that do not have a United States based fiscal agent. Please see the Foundation Center's helpful information about the purpose of a fiscal agent and suggestions for finding one.

International Grants 2003

Development Group for Alternative Policies, Washington, DC -- $15,000
To support communities to design and promote alternative development policies as an alternative to the World Bank.

Middle East Research and Information Project, Washington, DC -- $15,000
To support the Media Outreach Program, a project that brings critical and progressive views on Middle East politics and the role of the U.S. in the region to the media and general public.

Peaceworkers, San Francisco, CA -- $25,000
To support the annual cost of one trained Peaceforce team worker helping Sri Lankan civilans establish a lasting foundation for peace.

Seed Savers Exchange, Inc., Decorah, IA -- $16,480
To protect heirloom seeds from Romania for resale in the U.S for income.

Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN - $25,000
To support a project to train Sierra Lenonean citizens to act as community mental health paraprofessionals to work with individuals traumatized by war.

Floresta USA, Inc., San Diego, CA - $15,000
To support a project to empower women in Oaxaca, Mexico to establish sustainable model farms that would produce vegetables, fruit trees, medicinal plants and raise animals.

Seed Inc., Haiti Community Development Loan Fund, Brookline, MA - $20,000
To support a project to install solar irrigation systems for sustainable agriculture with peasant cooperatives in Haiti's Northeast and Central Plateau regions.

International Grants 2002

Africa Faith and Justice Network, Washington, DC - $20,000
To support the "Africa Grassroots Response Initiative," a project to protect the rights of small scale farmers against commercial agriculture interests.

Arts of Peace, Inc. (Mainstream Media Project), Arcata CA - $15,000
To support intensive radio-based public education programming examining the possibilities for a new U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Center for Community Based Development at Clark University, Department of International Development, Community and Environment, Worcester, MA - $14,000
To support a program of community-level peace building that offers a viable alternative to the externally motivated peace process currently being fostered in Somalia, East Africa.

Center for the Support of Native Lands, Arlington VA - $15,000
To support a subsistence mapping project for indigenous communities in Livingston, Guatemala in an effort for locals to gain legal title to the land.

Educate the Children, Inc., Ithaca NY - $15,000
To support "Woman Centered Literacy and Empowerment in Godavari, Nepal," a program to extend the model of community development to include adult literacy, women's group formation, agriculture, income-generation, health and livestock components.

Feminist Majority Foundation, Los Angeles CA - $20,000
To support the "Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan," a public education and grassroots organizing campaign dedicated to exposing the human rights violations against women and girls under the Taliban's system of gender apartheid.

Latin American Council of Churches FA Pacific Southwest Conference on World Christian Mission, El Sobrante CA - $20,000
To support a pilot project to demostrate the viability of a low cost mechanism to
transfer money from the U.S. to NGO's in Central America - a citizen's Western Union.

Middle East Research and Information Project, Inc., Washington DC - $15,000
To support the Media Outreach Program, a program that brings reporting and analysis on Middle East politics and the role of the U.S. in the region to the media and general public.

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala, Washington DC - $17,000
To support the "Genocide Watch Project," a human rights monitoring program that protects witnesses in genocide trials in Guatemala, Central America.

Tibet Justice Center, Berkeley CA - $10,000
To support the "Democracy Project," a program that seeks to combine the Tibetan motivation for nonviolence with the technical skills necessary to build a functioning demo-cracy-in-exile and to negotiate a creative and lasting resolution to the Tibet/China conflict.

International Grants 2001

Accion de Lucha Antipetrolera, Washington, DC - $12,000
To support and expand a campaign to stop proposed oil development along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and to protect the rights of local communities to preserve their environment, culture and livelihoods.

Albert Einstein Institution, Boston, MA - $7,500
To increase the effectiveness of nonviolent action by preparing a handbook for use by resistance groups.

Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN - $20,000
To support traumatized refugees from Sierra Leone, living in Guinea, to prepare for eventual repatriation and reconciliation.

Ecology and Population, Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula, Willits, CA - $5,000
To support ECOPOL's teaching of the "Grow Biointensive" sustainable small-scale agriculture system to the rural poor in Mexico and Latin America.

Global Fund for Women, Inc., San Francisco, CA - $12,000
To support the Economic Opportunity Initiative, a small grants program supporting grassroots women's organizations working to overturn economic, social and legal barriers to women's self-sufficiency.

Madre, Inc., New York, NY - $15,000
To support Madre in partnership with Benimpuhwe to provide potable water and livestock to 180 rural families in Rwanda.

Middle East Research and Information Project, Washington, DC - $20,000
To support the Middle East Policy Monitor Project, an initiative in policy outreach and public education.

Peaceworkers, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To support the research and development stage of establishing a global nonviolent peace force that will focus on strategic relationship building, organization capacity building, large-scale nonviolent intervention, best practices and training to serve people living in conflict areas.

Pesticide Action Network North America, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To support the World Bank Accountability Project ensuring that World Bank agricultural development projects empower community members, especially women, promote sustainable, small-scale farming in China.

Project Underground, Berkeley, CA - $15,000
To support the Newmont Campaign, a network of indigenous communities opposed to Newmont Gold Mining Company in Nevada, California, Peru, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Rural Advancement Foundation International, Winnipeg, MB - $25,000
To support a State of the World Farmers Report, 1992-2002, to be offered in advance of the 2002 World Earth Summit in Rio on Agenda 21.

Whirlwind Women of Whirlwind Wheelchair International, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support the Uganda Disabled Women's Whirlwind Wheelchair Project, providing technical support, design updates and mentoring to Ugandan disabled women who have founded an appropriate technology wheelchair production operation.

Women, Law & Development International, Washington, DC - $5,000
To support participants in the Central and East Africa Human Rights Advocacy Capacity Building Initiative to produce a publication of case studies documenting strategies implemented to change women's basic rights in their countries.

International Grants 2000

Amazonian Peoples’ Resource Initiative, FA University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas - $14,000
To support sustainable agriculture and income generating activities of indigenous women in the Amazonian region of Peru.

The Bihar Project, Inc, Boston, MA - $15,000
To empower the most disenfranchised women in rural Nepal and India through a rural development project that trains women to take control of their lives by improving their immediate environment and communities.

Feminist Majority Foundation, Los Angeles, CA - $25,000
To support the Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, a public education and grassroots organizing campaign dedicated to exposing the human rights violations against women and girls under the Taliban’s system of gender apartheid, and mobilizing public opinion, and US and UN action to restore women’s rights to work, education and freedom of movement.

Floresta U.S.A., Inc., San Diego, CA - $10,000
To support income generation in rural subsistence farming communities in southern Haiti.

Ghorat Community Health (Eritrea) FA, World Vision, Monrovia, CA - $19,000
To develop model sustainable agriculture systems and communal gardens with Eritrean rural women to enhance family self-sufficiency.

Institute for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA - $15,000
For the Pastoralist Peace Project, Phase II: A Regional Workshop for Enhancing Women's Peacebuilding Capacity in Northeastern Kenya."

International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, Berkeley, CA - $20,000
To support the Democracy Project, which seeks to combine the Tibetan motivation for nonviolence with the technical skills necessary to build a functioning democracy-in-exile and to negotiate a creative and lasting resolution to the Tibet/China conflict; which process and resolution can then serve as a world model.

Iris Films, Berkeley, CA - $15,000
"Long Night's Journey Into Day," a feature length documentary film about the peace and reconciliation process in South Africa.

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala FA, Fund for Popular Education, Washington, D. C. - $15,000
To support NISGUA’s human rights monitoring for Guatemalan witnesses in a genocide trial.

Peace Action Council FA Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizations, Sausalito, CA - $20,000
Seed funds to develop the international conflict prevention capacity of the Peace Action Council.

Plenty International, Summertown, TN - $8,000
To provide sustainable agriculture training and soy foods processing workshops for Phase II of a Soybean agriculture and nutrition project among Mayan subsistence farmers in the southernmost Toledo District of Belize, Central America.

Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), Arlington, VA - $20,000
The Northern Mali Peace and Reconciliation Project, an innovative initiative promoting peace through radio programming in Northern Mali.

Women for Women International, Washington, DC - $20,000
In support of Project Kosova, a new initiative encompassing technical and job skills training, and trainings on women and entrepreneurship and women's role in civil society reconstruction for Kosovar women survivors of war.

International Grants 1999

Arts of Peace, Inc., Arcata, CA - $10,000
To support public education efforts concerning the costs and consequences of NATO intervention in Kosovo.

Borneo Project FA Earth Island Institute, Berkeley, CA - $6,000
To support the development of an indigenous women’s arts and handicraft cooperative in Borneo.

Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc., Cambridge, MA - $25,000
To support the production of "From Victims to Visionaries," a documentary about young leaders who are survivors of political violence and human rights atrocities throughout the world and who've dedicated their lives to resolving conflict, preventing future violence and promoting peace.

Center for Ethics and Social Policy FA Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA - $10,000
To support "Power, Ethics, and Policy in Global Politics," a project exploring the relationship of culture, religion, and ethics, to the formation and implementation of international policy.

Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula, Inc., Willits, CA - $5,000
To support La Milpa, a biointensive sustainable mini-farming group working in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Feminist Majority Foundation, Los Angeles, CA - $20,000
To support the "Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan," a public education advocacy and grassroots organizing campaign to restore and protect women’s rights against the Taliban regime.

International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, Berkeley, CA - $15,000
To assist the Tibetan Government-in-exile to develop its democratic institutions, and to increase support of the international community for Tibet and non-violent conflict resolution through participation in relevant international forums.

Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, Maryknoll, NY - $10,000
To support sustainable agriculture projects for three Subanen farming communities in the Philippines.

Project Underground FA The Agape Foundation, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To support a network of communities in the south struggling against unjust and non-sustainable oil development and human rights abuses.

Religious Task Force on Central America & Mexico, Washington DC - $25,000
To support a program to gather stories and share the wisdom of a 20-year old movement of solidarity between people of faith in the United States and Central America and Mexico with the larger U.S. society.

Rural Advancement Foundation International USA, Pittsboro, NC - $20,000
To conduct global research and coordinate a campaign to defend small farmers worldwide against piracy of their seed varieties, and to challenge current global intellectual property policies and practices.

Trickle Up Program, New York, NY - $6,480
To support the creation of microenterprises in zones affected by Hurricane Mitch, in Nicaragua.

Washington Office on Latin America, Washington, DC - $10,000
To support an Advocacy Training Program which provides long-term technical assistance to Central American organizations working to reform public security systems.

Whirlwind Women of Whirlwind Wheelchair International, FA San Francisco State University, CA - $17,000
To provide wheelchair building technical training to women in Kampala, Uganda involved in constructing appropriate-scale wheelchairs.

International Grants 1998

Abya Yala Fund, Tides Center, San Jose Poaquil, Guatemala - $10,000
To support a program for the recuperation of indigenous knowledge and use of medicinal plants.

Arts of Peace, Inc., Arcata, CA - $10,000
To underwrite a public education campaign on commercial and public radio stations and networks nationwide concerning the costs and consequences of further NATO expansion.

Coffee Kids, Inc., Santa Fe, NM - $13,000
To establish "Women's Group in Saving Solidarity," a credit loan fund to benefit women living in the coffee growing communities of Ixuatlan del Cafe, Veracruz, Mexico and Huatusco, Mexico.

Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC - $15,000
Fund To support the Arms Sales Monitoring Project which serves to broaden the constituency, across the country, of individuals and organizations who understand that they have a stake in global militarization and weapons proliferation.

Fourth Freedom Forum, Goshen, IN - $6,500
To support a transnational citizen education and action program to prevent the renewed militarization of Europe as a result of NATO expansion.

Grassroots International, Boston, MA - $22,875
To support a small-scale farming project for low-income Eritrean women which provides land, tools, training, and other resources to grow food for themselves and their families, in three communities.

Institute for Food and Development, Oakland, CA - $10,000
Policy To support urban farmers in Havana, Cuba through a farm tour of US farming cities.

Institute for Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA - $20,000
To support "Training for a Collaborative Future," a narrative peacebuilding strategy for traditional livestock herders and government representatives in the drylands of Northern Kenya.

International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, Berkeley, CA - $10,000
To assist the Tibetan Government-in-exile to develop its democratic process and to undertake a worldwide study on legal forms for self-governance in preparation for negotiations between Tibet and China.

Overseas Development Network, San Francisco, - $20,000
To provide leadership training and promote income generating opportunities for indigenous women in Copusquia, Bolivia.

Tuwereza Joint Women's Development Association, Kawolo, Uganda - $6,500
Toward a diary and water project for women living in the Mukono district of Uganda.

Village Enterprise Fund, San Carlos, CA - $10,000
To support the "Gamgaba Out-Cast Development Project," a program to provide small business grants to out-cast women living in Mamprusi, Ghana.

International Funding Interests and Grants

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR GRANTSEEKERS February 17, 2004

Requests for funding are no longer being accepted.

Although the Greenville Foundation no longer makes grants, this page and the final grantmaking guidelines and instructions are available for your reference.