Current Grants - 2011 |
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| Slow Money | Brookline , MA | $4,000.00 |
| Project: General operating support for development of Slow Money, including hiring an executive director | ||
| Post Carbon Institute | Santa Rosa, , CA | $12,000.00 |
| Project: Research and publication plus Website of a guidebook on financing the transition. This guide will document best practices for generating necessary capital to build local community reliance. | ||
| Environmental Health Fund | Jamaica Plain , MA | $6,000.00 |
| Project: General operating support to help build the organizational capacity of the American Sustainable Business Council to advance policy strategies to develop a just and sustainable economy. | ||
| Quivira Coalition | Santa Fe , NM | $10,000.00 |
| Project: General operating funds to cover miscellaneous expenses for projects of resilience, carbon sequestering, youth education, environmental restoration and improvement of ranch management projects. | ||
| Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute | Santa Fe, , NM | $10,000.00 |
| Project: General operating funds to help the Institute support regional farmers and farming sustainability as well as providing necessary support for community education, gatherings and local food accessability. | ||
| Northeast Recycling Council | Brattleboro , VT | $2,500.00 |
| Project: Promote environmental sustainability through working with farmers and organizations in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts on manure management and composting education. | ||
| Highfields Center for Composting | Hardwick , VT | $2,500.00 |
| Project: Close the Loop St. Albans - building composting infrastructure including composting facilities and collection systems capable of managing 20,000 of Vermont food scraps by 2017. | ||
| CISA - Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture | South Deerfield , MA | $2,500.00 |
| Project: Hampden County: Growing Access to Local Food and the Local Hero Program in Hampden County and inner city Springfield, Massachusetts. | ||
| American Friends Service Committee | Philadelphia , PA | $6,000.00 |
| Project: Youth Civic Engagement Program, Palestine and Israel - to empower Palestinian youths to take leading roles and responsibilities as citizens and agents for peace, justice and social change. | ||
| American Friends Service Committee | Philadelphia , PA | $6,000.00 |
| Project: Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan - US and French artists have come together to create a meditation on the impact of war and a memorial to Afghan casualties, an exhibit of 45 4' x 6' paintings. | ||
| Grow Food Northampton | Northhampton , MA | $5,500.00 |
| Project: Raise money to purchase 117 acres for local farming and farming capacity building and education (pay after 12/27/2010) | ||
| Florida Organic Growers, Inc. | Gainesville , FL | $4,000.00 |
| Project: General operating support for development of new education and outreach programs to increase access to healthy local foods and to teach whole systems farming techniques to speciality crops producers.. | ||
| Conservation Trust for Florida, Inc. | Micanopy , FL | $8,000.00 |
| Project: Land conservation outreach and web based referral project for beginning farmers and ranchers. To provide training and information on how to use asset based farming opportunities and conservation programs and to connect experienced and beginning farmers with a goal of increasing the number of small family farms in Florida | ||
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | New York , NY | $12,000.00 |
| Project: General operating support for reproductive healthcare rights and education for men and women in the United States. | ||
| Santa Fe Alliance | Santa Fe , NM | $4,000.00 |
| Project: General operating support for marketing, education and development of the Farm to Restaurant project. (Expenditure Responsibility) | ||
| The Arts Company, Inc. | Cambridge , MA | $2,500.00 |
| Project: General support of a curated arts project on food and food programs in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. | ||
| Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc. | Springfield , MA | $2,500.00 |
| Project: General operating support for an educational program to bring together families, schools and farms to learn about local healthy food. | ||
| CISA | South Deerfield , MA | $10,000.00 |
| Project: Pioneer Valley Grows: establishing funding and capacity building in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts focused on local food production and distribution. | ||
| Triskeles Foundation, Inc. | Exton , PA | $2,500.00 |
| Project: General operating support for the program Food for Thought, a summer program to educate youth about eating healthy foods and the business of the farm to table process. | ||
| Blue Oven Kitchens, Inc. | Gainesville , FL | $5,500.00 |
| Project: To convene a buy local campaign to educate the community and potential local entrepreneurs, secure a facility to produce products and teach classes on healthy meal preparation, food safety and canning and general support for moving and storing donated equipment. (Expenditure Responsibility) | ||
| Cooperative Communities, Inc. | Gainesville , FL | $5,000.00 |
| Project: Cooperative development, capacity building and food system education for board members, managers, community members and public in development of a viable cooperative grocery store and other aspects of a healthy local food system. (Expenditure Responsibility) | ||
We support community investment, as one of the cornerstones that integrates our
mission and our assets. We have created a continuing roll over plan by investing in three Calvert Social Investment Foundation notes, one in each of the last
three years, which allows the foundation to always be contributing to the support of affordable housing, micro business development and community infrastructure in the NE, SE and SW regions of the U.S. |
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