Grantees
Total Grants
in 2010
Environmental Grants
in 2010
Environmental Grants
in 2010
2010 Environmental Grants
Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
to enable scientists Clyde Goulden and Robert Peck to conduct research in summer 2011 in Mongolia for an exhibition on the effects of climate change.
American Littoral Society
Highlands, New Jersey
$3,500
to support the Regional Marine Conservation Project: Arctic Funders Group Secretariat in 2010.
American Museum of Natural History
New York, New York
$15,000
to bring staff of the Network of Conservation Education Practitioners from the United States to Mongolia in 2010 to develop a new conservation curriculum and to hold conservation workshops.
Bank Information Center
Washington, DC
$25,000
to support a series of exchanges between American, Russian, and Central European environmental leaders in 2011 as part of BIC's Europe and Central Asia Program, which focuses on improving the lending policies of international financial institutions.
Blacksmith Institute
New York, New York
$20,000
to bring American specialists to Gorlovka, Ukraine, in 2010 and 2011 to assist with planning and implementation of the clean-up of a former weapons plant.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn, NY
$6,000
to enable the staff of the Tblisi Botanical Garden to travel to New York to discuss public outreach initiatives with BBG staff and to tour BBG and other New York area botanic gardens in May 2011.
California Waterfowl Association
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
to enable Russian and Mongolian biologists' to participate in the North American Arctic Goose Conference in Portland, Oregon in January 2011.
Denver Zoological Foundation
Denver, CO
$24,000
to support bilateral exchanges between Mongolian and American experts in conservation education, cultural resources management, and wildlife veterinarian practices in 2011.
Earth Day Network
Washington, D.C.
$12,500
to support participation by an emerging environmental leader in EDN's 2010-2011 Eastern European Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C.
Earth Island Institute
Berkeley, California
$2,500
to enable an American parks specialist to participate in the Center for Safe Energy's exchange to strengthen environmental volunteerism at Lake Baikal in summer 2010.
Earth Island Institute
Berkeley, California
$40,000
to support American capacity-building specialists' travel to Lake Baikal to work with NGO staff and to enable Russian ecotourism specialists, trail-building leaders, and an eco-education practitioner to participate in trainings in the United States in 2010.
Earth Island Institute
Berkeley, California
$25,000
to support a bilateral Mongolian-American exchange in summer 2010 to provide NGO management and community outreach training for emerging environmental leaders from Mongolia.
Earth Island Institute
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
to enable American experts from the Center for Safe Energy to travel to Ukraine and Russia to develop ecotourism and advance wildlife preservation techniques, to lead seminars on NGO administration and cooperation, and to lead lectures on park administration and sustainability at the first ever Lake Baikal Conference in spring 2011.
EarthCorps
Seattle, WA
$20,000
to support participation by emerging environmental leaders from Central Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, and Russia in EarthCorps' Extern Training Programs in 2011.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Eugene, OR
$20,000
to enable environmental lawyers from Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Ukraine to participate in ELAW's Empowering Grassroots Attorneys to Protect Communities and the Environment Program coinciding with the University of Oregon's 29th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in 2011.
Freshwaters Illustrated
Corvallis, OR
$15,000
to support American, Mongolian, and Russian participation in a workshop on the conservation of Lake Hovsgol in Mongolia in June 2011.
The Green Mountain Club
Waterbury Center, Vermont
$7,000
to support a bilateral exchange of American and Ukrainian trail experts in 2010 and 2011 to improve the Transcarpathian Hiking Trail.
Hanford Challenge
Seattle, Washington
$35,000
to support Russian activists' participation in hearings and related activities in the United States in spring 2011 as part of the Global Nuclear Legacy Project.
International Crane Foundation
Baraboo, WI
$25,000
to support American and Russian participation in a workshop on managing the spring hunting of waterbirds in the Volgograd region in September 2011, and to support American participation in a workshop on water management in the Amur region in summer 2011.
Inuit Circumpolar Council
Anchorage, Alaska
$25,000
to bring an Inuit delegation from Chukotka, Russia, to participate in the ICC's General Assembly in Nuuk, Greenland, in summer 2010.
The Nature Conservancy
New York, NY
$50,000
to support a series of American-Mongolian exchanges in 2011 focused on building enduring conservation capacity in Mongolia.
The Northern Forum
Anchorage, Alaska
$15,000
to support participation by American bear experts in Northern Forum's Brown Bear Working Group meeting in Terney, Russia, in August 2010.
The Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative
Jackson, Wyoming
$18,000
to support travel by American scientists to Mongolia in 2010 to conduct research on the impacts of climate change on the wolverine and pika populations.
Pacific Environment
San Francisco, California
$40,000
to support Pacific Environment's Russian Far East Conservation Fund in 2010.
Pacific Environment
San Francisco, California
$110,000
to support American indigenous leaders' collaboration with their counterparts in Russia on negotiating with oil and mining companies; to bring indigenous leaders from the Altai to the United States to learn techniques to preserve native land; and to support American wildfire experts' travel to Russia to discuss mitigation of black carbon in 2010 and 2011.
Pacific Environment
San Francisco, California
$25,000
to support Pacific Environment's pilot Fire Prevention Program in Russia in 2010.
Pacific Environment
San Francisco, California
$10,000
to support Russian participation in a workshop on sustainable development and economic modernization organized by the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in collaboration with the Kennan Institute in December 2010.
Pacific Environment
San Francisco, CA
$29,000
to enable members of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North to attend Arctic Council meetings in 2011.
The Peregrine Fund
Boise, Idaho
$20,000
to bring Russian gyrfalcon researchers to Idaho in February 2011 to participate in the scientific conference Gyrfalcons and Ptarmigan in a Changing World.
Project for Public Spaces
New York, New York
$18,000
to bring American sustainable development and urban planning experts to the Czech and Slovak republics to participate in planning conferences and to allow Eastern and Central European representatives of the Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development to travel to New York for PPS fellowships in 2010 and 2011.
Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Ipswich, MA
$40,000
to support a series of exchanges between American and Central and Southeastern European conservation professionals in 2011 as part of QLF's Central and Southeastern Europe Stewardship Project.
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ
$50,000
to support American, Kazakh, Turkmen, and Uzbek scientists' research on desertification in the Aral Sea Disaster Zone in summer and fall 2011.
Tahoe-Baikal Institute
South Lake Tahoe, CA
$35,000
to enable emerging Russian environmental leaders to participate in TBI's Summer Environmental Exchange and to support SEE alumni participation in the 2011 Alumni Internship Program.
The Tributary Fund
Bozeman, MT
$25,000
to support a bilateral exchange in 2011 between American conservation education specialists and Mongolian Buddhist lamas and community leaders to develop community-based conservation projects and strategies in Mongolia.
Trout Conservancy
Missoula, MT
$10,000
to support American scientists' participation in the conservation and restoration of Neretva River's native trout populations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia in spring 2011.
The Wild Salmon Center
Portland, Oregon
$35,000
to bring Russian sport fishing guides and lease holders from Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, and Sakhalin to Alaska in fall 2010 for training in ecologically sustainable fishing tourism.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
$25,000
to enable WCS staff members to travel to Mongolia in spring 2010 to organize and implement training in biodiversity offsets for Mongolian government officials and other stakeholders.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, NY
$25,000
to support a bilateral Russian-American training exchange of veterinarians and technicians addressing tiger health and wildlife conservation in the Russian Far East in spring 2011.
World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC
$30,000
to support a bilateral American-Russian exchange of educators, conservationists, and filmmakers to develop an environmental curriculum for the IMAX film Baikal: The Blue Pearl of Siberia in 2011.