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International Funding Interest Grants 1993 - 1997 |
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These older International grants are listed for historical interest. Please
note that the most recent and useful examples of grants which fit our current
International funding interests are found on the International
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Baja Outreach, San Diego, CA - $12,000
To support the expansion of Baja Outreach Women's Sewing Cooperative and establish
a child care center for the Coop members' children.
Borneo Project FA Earth Island Institute, Berkeley,
CA - $5,000
To support the Women's Association of Uma Bawang, to organize small-scale cooperative
farming and economic enterprises in the northern rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysia.
Center for Non-Violent Conflict Resolution FA STAR Project
Delphi International, Washington, DC - $10,000
To support the "Intercultural Dialogue Project," a reconciliation
initiative to establish communications and concrete working relationships between
conflicting ethnic communities in Southern Serbia and Kosovo.
Coffee Kids, Santa Fe, NM - $8,000
To support the capitalization, training component, and administration of Coffee
Kids' revolving credit loan program in Latin America.
Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula, Inc., Willits, CA
- $5,000
Toward biointensive sustainable mini-farming programs in Tarahumaran communities
in Mexico.
Hesperian Foundation, Berkeley, CA - $8,000
For the establishment of a Creative Adaptations fund for allocating small grants
($500-$1000) to women's groups in developing countries to interpret the publication,
"Where Women Have No Doctor," in nonliterate ways, such as street
theatre, radio programs, and comic books.
Institute for a New South Africa, Berkeley, CA -$8,000
To support "Women in Governance," a public administration exchange
program aimed at newly-elected South African women town councillors, who will
spend one month in mentored fellowships in American communities, and one month
in intensive leadership and local government training workshops in South Africa.
International Development Exchange (IDEX), San Francisco,
CA - $6,000
Toward two income-generating poultry cooperatives for indigenous women in Chiapas,
Mexico.
Overseas Development Network, San Francisco, CA -$6,500
To support Credit Against Poverty, a micro-credit lending program of its partner
organization, Zimbabwe Friends of the Unemployed/Zimbabwe Unemployment Benefit
Fund.
Project Underground FA The Agape Foundation, San Francisco,
CA - $13,500
To support two communities threatened by gold mining companies operated in Peru
and Indonesia which threaten the communities human rights.
SIPAZ FA Fellowship of Reconciliation, Inc., Santa Cruz,
CA - $7,500
In continuing support of nonviolent conflict resolution in Chiapas, Mexico.
Seed Savers Exchange, Inc., Decorah, IA - $7,500
Toward plant collecting expeditions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union and related maintenance of endangered food crops at Heritage Farm.
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, Sonoma,
CA - $10,000
To support a training workshop for Ogoni (Nigeria) activists.
Washington Office on Latin America, Washington, DC -
$10,000
To support the "Women's Empowerment Project" to provide long-term
technical assistance to Central American organizations on the promotion of women's
rights.
Amnesty International USA, New York, NY — $8,000
To support human rights education programs in Brazil.
Earthstewards Network, Bainbridge Island, WA — $8,000
To support the Israeli-Palestine Compassionate Listening Project.
Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula, Inc., Willits, CA
— $5,000
To support biointensive mini-farming in Mexico and Latin America.
Economists Allied for Arms Reduction , New York, NY
— $10,000
For "The Economic Benefits of Militarization", a joint project with
the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress.
Gwaffe United Women Welfare Support Association
FA African Action on AIDS, Guttenberg, NJ — $8,000
For several small-scale self-help women's projects in Uganda.
International Association of University Presidents,
Southport, CT — $8,000
To expand the group's disarmament education programs to the Balkans and Middle
East.
Katalysis, Stockton, CA — $8,000
To support income generating projects of the Women's Program" in Guatemala.
Media Network FA Alternative Media Information Center,
Inc., New York, NY — $10,000
To produce and distribute the documentary, "War Crimes Against Women."
Public Media, Inc., New York, NY — $10,000
To support SOA, a documentary about human rights abuses and the U.S. Army School
of the Americas.
SIPAZ FA Fellowship of Reconciliation, Inc., Santa Cruz,
CA — $5,000
To provide international "witness" in Chiapas for the purpose of reducing
human rights violations.
Star Project/Hope 21 FA Delphi Research Associates,
Washington, DC — $10,000
To develop conflict resolution skills training among teens in Croatia.
Survivors International, San Francisco, CA — $5,000
To support continued education and outreach efforts on behalf of survivors of
torture residing in the Bay Area.
Women for Women in Bosnia, Washington, DC — $10,000
To develop a micro-credit lending program for refugee women returning to their
homes and communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
African Action on AIDS, Guttenberg, NJ — $7,000
To support the purchase and installation of an oil mill for the Mirembe Widows'
Association, a self-sufficiency program for Ugandan women widowed by AIDS.
Freedom from Hunger, Davis, CA — $5,000
Support for "Credit with Education" programs in Honduras directed
toward improving women's self-sufficiency.
International Development Exchange (IDEX), San Francisco,
CA — $7,000
To support a domestic-worker training center in Guatemala and a day-care center
in Mexico in order to increase small-scale economic development opportunities
for women.
Middle East Children's Alliance, Berkeley, CA —
$5,000
To purchase play equipment for a children's park in a West Bank commu nity.
Overseas Development Network, San Francisco, CA —
$7,000
To support a women's agricultural project in Bolivia and a speaking tour by
Bolivian participants on United States college campuses.
Powerful Choices, Seattle, WA — $20,000
To support NONA, a women's multicultural, multimedia center helping displaced
women from Croatia experience healing through the arts.
Quaker United Nations Office, New York, NY — $10,000
To support an off-the-record colloquium of United Nations diplomats on implementation
of the International Convention to Combat Desertification.
Seed Savers Exchange, Decorah, IA — $8,000
To support collection and preservation of heirloom variety fruit, vegetables
and grains from Eastern Europe.
Water for People, Denver, CO — $7,500
To support two Honduran circuit riders to train and support village and municipal
water boards in the sustainable management, maintenance and operation of local
water resources.
World Concern, Seattle, WA — $8,000
To support a small-scale poultry development project as a means of economic
recovery for women and their families in Northwestern Haiti.
CARE Foundation, Los Angeles, CA — $5,000
Support for a development project focused on improving the health and economic
status of women in rural Bangladesh through education and credit availability.
Centre for Living with Dying, Santa Clara, CA —
$10,000
To bring the Centre's volunteer-based model of grief counseling and care giving
to Moscow.
El Porvenir, Sacramento, CA — $8,000
Support for a sanitation project in Nicaragua.
Film Arts Foundation, Berkeley, CA — $10,000
To support the documentary Regret to Inform, which uses stories of American
and Vietnamese widows of the Vietnam war to dramatize the devastating human
and societal effects of war.
Freedom From Hunger, Davis, CA — $20,000
To support micro-enterprise lending among poor women in Ghana and Honduras.
Haitian Health Foundation, Norwich, CT — $5,000
To provide layer hens for self-help projects in rural Haiti.
Hesperian Foundation, Palo Alto, CA — $10,000
To support community-based research for a health-care book for women in developing
countries entitled Where There is No Doctor for Women.
Institute for International Sport, Kingston, RI —
$5,000
To support a program in which Israeli and Palestinian teenagers participate
in cross-community interactions and communication via sports.
Survivors International, San Francisco, CA — $10,000
To support educational outreach efforts to assist refugees, suffering the effects
of torture, to rebuild their lives.
Tonantzin Land Institute, Albuquerque, NM — $9,000
To assist a consortium of international indigenous organizations in their efforts
to promote historic and customary claims to ancestral lands as a human rights
issue.
Aesculapius International Medicine, Washington, DC $15,000
Support to expand a program in Guatemala to train local women as community
health educators.
Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge, MA $15,000
Support to complete a study of South African township organizations that
have been a primary force in working toward black empowerment.
Bread for the World, Washington, DC $5,000
Support for development and distribution of the 1993 report on the "World
Hunger Project."
Center For Development and Population Activities, Washington,
DC $4,500
To support an increase in family planning and educational training for young
women in Mexico.
Columbia University, New York, NY $5,011
Support for a program for the prevention and treatment of diarrhea in young
children in Mexico.
Freedom from Hunger, Davis, CA $25,000
To support expansion of its "Credit with Education and Sustainable Food
Production Training Program," for women in rural Honduras.
Insulin for Life, San Francisco, CA $6,000
Support for an insulin program for people in Central America.
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America, Mill
Valley, CA $5,000
Support for an information center in El Salvador linking community projects
on solar energy, agronomic alternatives and models for community development.
National Peace Foundation, Washington, DC $10,000
For support of training programs in conflict resolution for American schoolteachers.
Tides Foundation, San Francisco, CA $5,000
Toward a community development project, "Women Cultivators of the Earth,"
which provides nutrition, health and sustainable gardening training to women
in Oaxaca, Mexico.
The International Center, Washington, DC $5,000
Support for natural resource and community development programs in Guatemala.
Women of Vision, Tacoma, WA $4,000
Support for a conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, to create opportunities
for women to improve their status and the status of their children.
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December 7, 2002