The Foundaton awarded the following grants in our 2004-2005 grant cycle:

Climate Change — Northeast Landscape Conservation Yellowstone to Yukon Public Lands Management Northern Appalachians

Marine Ecosystem Stewardship Building Environmental Advocacy Other Interests

Climate Change Science and Policy

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine
($7,500 / three months) To fund two student interns to explore opportunities for advancing climate change curricula at Bowdoin and to research effective strategies for implementing climate change mitigation practices on college and university campuses throughout the Northeast.

Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership
Albany, New York
($10,000 / six months) For its work with the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions to promote and showcase environmental best practices at the 2004 Democratic National Convention to establish a legacy for future conventions.

($10,000 / six months) For the Boston City Hall green roof demonstration project.
Clean Air-Cool Planet
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
($60,000 / two years) To support the employment of a Kendall Fellow to assist in expanding climate solution programs for greenhouse gas emission reductions in corporations, colleges and universities, and communities in the Northeast.

($300,000 / two years) Continued operating support to advance understanding of the phenomena and implications associated with global climate change and to promote greenhouse gas emission reductions in corporate, community, and campus sectors in the Northeast.

($5,000 / two months) To enable New England climate change activists from public and nonprofit sectors to participate in a New York conference, Global Warming Solutions 2005.

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
Boston, Massachusetts
($150,000 / two years) To bolster CERES' Sustainable Governance project, an effort to bring climate change issues and policy options to American corporate boards of directors and chief executive officers through the voices of shareholders and good science.

Colby College
Waterville, Maine
($25,000 / sixteen months) Funding to host a Green Campus Summit for students, faculty, and facilities staff from colleges and universities in Maine and Atlantic Canada to focus on strategies to address climate change policy options at the campus level.

Connecticut Green Building Council
Litchfield, Connecticut
($50,000 / one year) To support the Council's efforts to identify and assess issues relating to the design and construction of high performance/healthy public schools throughout the state.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
San Francisco, California
($10,000 / two years) To support the Climate and Energy Working Group focused on expanding the field of climate and energy philanthropy, and promoting strategic grantmaking in these closely related fields.

Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($30,000 / six months) To develop a long-term strategy in the Atlantic Provinces to change energy policies that will help this region meet Canada's national commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in support of the Kyoto Protocol.

($25,000 / three months) Interim assistance to implement a five-year strategy to change energy policies in Atlantic Canada that will help this region to meet Canada's national commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in support of the Kyoto Protocol.

Edmund Muskie Foundation
Bethesda, Maryland
($5,000 / eight months)
To assist American state legislators attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP-11 meeting November 2005 in Montreal, Canada.

Henry P. Kendall Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($100,000 / nine months) For a Foundation Administered Project to support small-scale climate change program initiatives. Funds will be used primarily to initiate advances in high performance/healthy school construction in New England and Atlantic Canada. Staff will also pursue options for programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New England universities under the "umbrella" established by the formal collaboration of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers.

Jordan Institute
Concord, New Hampshire
($60,000 / one year)
Funding to help implement a new, comprehensive strategy to promote the design and construction of healthy, high performance schools throughout the State of New Hampshire.

($80,000 / two years) Funding to promote and assist the adoption of a comprehensive strategy to design and construct high performance / healthy schools throughout the State of New Hampshire.

Museum of Science
Boston, Massachusetts
($11,000 / six months)
Partial funding to illustrate the impact of climate change over the last half century through comparisons of aerial photographs of glaciers in Alaska and the Alps.

National Academy of Sciences 
Washington, District of Columbia
($50,000 / eighteen months) To conduct a nation-wide study, Review and Assessment of the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools.  The results of this undertaking are expected to provide insights into the Foundation's efforts to promote high performance design and school construction throughout New England and Atlantic Canada.

Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Lexington, Massachusetts
($150,000 / fifteen months) To implement a program to stimulate the design and construction of high performance/healthy schools throughout the Northeast region. The program will emphasize energy-efficient building practices as the standard for K-12 school construction and renovations, embodying a strong and coherent message relating climate change risks.

($33,000 / eight months) Funding to initiate technical and project management assistance for communities in Rhode Island to raise awareness and build support for high performance school building design.

($115,000 / fifteen months) Funding to expand a program to stimulate the design and construction of high performance/healthy schools throughout the Northeast region.

Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management 
Boston, Massachusetts
($7,500 / four months) To support activities associated with the Climate Change and Natural Resources Adaptation Symposium organized under the authority of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers.

($11,000 / three months) To support the work of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) by providing funding for two meetings: the RGGI stakeholders' and the States' Agency Heads.

Sage Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia
($57,000 / one year) To support research and the development of policy options and recommendations that if adopted by Canada's federal government would advance Canadian goals well beyond current targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as represented by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

($60,000 / one year) Continued funding for research and development of long-term strategies and policy options to serve the Canadian Government's plans to meet targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as stipulated in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

State of Maine Bureau of General Services
Augusta, Maine
($25,000 / six months) For its work with the New Buildings Institute to develop a Performance Criteria Guide for the construction or substantial renovation of all state-funded buildings, including public schools.  The Guide will define and present a set of measures to achieve energy savings that lower by 20 percent Maine's current energy code standard for commercial, institutional, and state-owned buildings, as mandated by Maine's legislature.

State of Maine Office of Energy Independence and Security
Augusta, Maine
($25,000 / six months) To support statewide radio announcements highlighting high energy prices and global warming concerns to encourage energy conservation and efficiency among Maine's citizenry.

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
($60,000 / one year) Continued support for the Tufts Climate Initiative, a university-wide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a program of analysis, education, and advocacy within the University.

Union of Concerned Scientists
Cambridge, Massachusetts
($67,000 / one year)
Start-up funding to initiate an assessment of projected regional climate change impacts in the Northeast with the expectation that science-based scenarios can deepen commitments to stronger state and regional climate policy actions within the region.

Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
Burlington, Vermont
($76,000 / one year) To support the Alliance for Climate Action's efforts to engage Vermont stakeholders in a strategic planning process designed to advance high performance school design and construction throughout the State.

Yale Student Environmental Coalition
New Haven, Connecticut
($15,000 / six months) To support the Climate Campaign's coordination and expansion of efforts by students at Northeast colleges and universities to develop climate change solutions at the campus, state, and regional policy levels.

American Wildlands
Bozeman, Montana
($50,000 / two years) To support its Safe Passages program, which emphasizes advocacy and collaboration in seeking to reduce the impacts of roads and highways on wildlife throughout the U.S. Northern Rockies.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – British Columbia Chapter
Vancouver, British Columbia
($35,000 / one year) Continued funding to support its efforts to secure the 100,000-acre expansion of Waterton Lakes National Park into the Flathead Valley of southeastern British Columbia, a key wildlife habitat linkage on the Canadian-U.S. border.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Calgary/Banff Chapter
Calgary, Alberta
($12,000 / one year) To support its Rocky Mountain Highways project, aimed at ameliorating the impacts of the two national highways that bisect significant wildlife corridors in the Canadian Rockies.

Defenders of Wildlife Canada
Canmore, Alberta
($30,000 / one year) General support to mitigate the impact of roads on wildlife within the Canadian portion of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Five Valleys Land Trust
Missoula, Montana
($100,000 / two years)
To support the activities of the Heart of the Rockies, a collaboration of 24 land trusts in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. The Collaboration seeks to secure protection of private lands important to wildlife survival, habitat connectivity, and open space in the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Miistakis Institute for the Rockies
Calgary, Alberta
($60,000 / one year)
($40,000 / one year) Continued core funding to enhance and to promote ecosystem research in the central Rocky Mountains shared by Canada and the United States, an important segment of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Montana Outdoor Science School
Bozeman, Montana
($3,000 / thirteen months) Funding to implement an outdoor science education program for 1st to 8th graders at LaMotte Elementary School.

National Parks Conservation Association
Washington, District of Columbia
($100,000 / two years)

Funding to support a two-year Kendall Fellow to fill a research/policy position in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, a transboundary region in the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape that embraces parts of British Columbia, Alberta, and Montana.

Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative
Jackson, Wyoming
($17,000 / three months) To organize and present a three-day workshop focused on the challenges inherent in landscape-scale conservation in the Yellowstone to Yukon region and on developing solutions and implementation strategies to respond to them.

Northwest Connections
Condon, Montana
($60,000 / twenty seven months) Operating support for a program dedicated to protecting and restoring wildlife habitat connections within the Swan Valley and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem of western Montana, a region constituting important linkages in the 2000-mile Yellowstone to Yukon landscape.

Prickly Pear Land Trust
Helena, Montana
($25,000 / two years) To assist in strengthening and expanding the operations of the Montana Association of Land Trusts, a collaboration designed to advance a statewide understanding of private land conservation.

Sonoran Institute
Tucson, Arizona
($20,000 / one year) To develop a business and marketing plan for the Institute's customized economic research services and to develop new income streams for community-based collaborative conservation.

Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project
Denver, Colorado
($10,000 / six month) Support for the "Rockies Wildlife Crossing Field Course" in April 2005. The purpose of this three-day course is to provide examples of regional connectivity analyses and to share the successes and challenges of incorporating effective wildlife mitigation measures for highway construction into transportation planning.

The Nature Conservancy of Montana
Helena, Montana
($11,500 / six months) Support for the production of a case-statement video designed to advance ranchland conservation along the Rocky Mountain Front.

($250,000 / three years) Continued funding to assist the Blackfoot Challenge in conserving 88,000 acres of timberlands, wetlands, riparian areas, and ranchlands in Western Montana's Blackfoot Valley. Supporting wide-ranging carnivores, imperiled plant and fish species, and an economically important rural heritage, the Blackfoot Valley represents an important link in the strategy to ensure that the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape remains connected over the long term.

The Wilderness Society
Bozeman, Montana
($35,000 / one year) General support for its leadership activities in protecting roadless areas, preventing energy development in ecologically significant areas, developing new voices for conservation, and providing guidance on strategy and implementation for partner organizations in the Montana and Wyoming portion of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
($45,000 / eighteen months) Continued support for the University's Transboundary Policy, Planning and Management Program focused on natural resource conservation issues in the Crown of the Continent region of the Rockies shared by Canada and the U.S.

University of Montana
Missoula, Montana
($74,000 / eighteen months) Continued support for the University's Transboundary Policy, Planning and Management Program focused on natural resource conservation issues in the Crown of the Continent region of the Rockies shared by Canada and the U.S.

Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana
($45,000 / one year) Support for scientific investigation to improve understanding of the biological and genetic efficacy of highway wildlife crossings—in general and within Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks. Research results are intended to inform Trans Canada Highway planning and budget allocations in Banff and Lake Louise National Parks.

Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
($20,000 / one year) To complete field research on the habitats used by grizzly bears in the Greater Nahanni Ecosystem in Canada's Northwest Territories. The research will be used to inform the ecological case for expanding the boundaries of Nahanni National Park Reserve.

Wildsight
Kimberley, British Columbia
($40,000 / one year)
($30,000 / one year) Continued funding to sustain and energize its efforts to advance local nature conservation activities in British Columbia's southern Rocky Mountains, a key region connecting the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape.

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Canmore, Alberta
($300,000 / three years) To further solidify its role as the lead institutional activist organization dedicated to promoting adoption of a landscape conservation ethic in the 2,000-mile stretch of the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mountains reaching from Wyoming to the Yukon. The purposes of the grant are to promote the Yellowstone to Yukon vision throughout the region, solidify Y2Y's diverse and wide-ranging partnerships, and strengthen the organization.

($10,000 / one year) To support a photographic exhibition of the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape to be held at New York's American Museum of Natural History in 2006.

Landscape Conservation:
Public Lands Management
Environmental Careers Organization
Boston, Massachusetts
($10,000 / one year) To enable ECO to explore potential for extending its reach into regional "markets" for the placement of environmental interns in federal agencies.

University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
($46,000 / two years) To support a two-year pilot program of providing business planning expertise, through student consultants, to Canada's national parks in the Rocky Mountain region.

University of Utah, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment
Salt Lake City, Utah
($7,000 / one year) To support research project seeking to identify current threats to the integrity of Glacier National Park and to determine whether federal agencies have altered their strategies or behaviors over the last 20 years.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society–New Brunswick Chapter
Fredericton, New Brunswick
($40,000 / two year) To advance long-term protection of New Brunswick's wild ecosystems in parks, wilderness, and other natural areas through raising awareness, promoting action among individuals, and working cooperatively with governments, First Nations, and businesses.

Forest Watch
Montpelier, Vermont
($75,000 / one year) General support for Two Countries, One Forest (Deux Pays, Une Forêt) to advance science and communications efforts, and develop governance and staffing as this landscape-scale conservation collaborative moves into its next phase of development, protecting and connecting nature from New York to Nova Scotia.

Henry P. Kendall Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($25,000 / one year) A Foundation Administered Project to support its landscape conservation program in the Northern Appalachian transboundary region.

Keeping Track
Huntington, Vermont
($22,400 / six months) For a training program for staff from the New Hampshire Departments of Transportation and Fish and Game to learn techniques for determining the potential or existing impacts of highway construction on wildlife.

Northern Forest Canoe Trail
Waitsfield, Vermont
($35,000 / two years) To support the establishment and stewardship of a water trail that traces historic Native American travel routes across New York, Vermont, Quebec, New Hampshire, Maine and New Brunswick.

Northern Forest Center
Concord, New Hampshire
($10,000 / six months) Support for the Center's strategic planning process, including the development of federal policy initiatives to increase funding for the Northern Forest region, spanning New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

The Sierra Club Foundation
San Francisco, California
($30,000 / one year) Support for the Maine Chapter to advocate for wilderness protection in the 100 Mile Wilderness, a region stretching from Monson to Mount Katahdin in the heart of Maine.

($50,000 / one year) For wilderness protection in Maine, including the 100 Mile Wilderness, a region stretching from Monson to Mount Katahdin in the heart of Maine, and for support of its efforts to organize community-based wilderness advocacy.

State of Maine Department of Conservation
Augusta, Maine
($100,000 / one year) Support for professional staff to advance and implement conservation land acquisition projects across the State of Maine.

($10,000 / one year) Supplementary funding to undertake a planning initiative to identify future priorities for wilderness protection throughout the State of Maine.

The Nature Conservancy – Maine Chapter
Brunswick, Maine
($125,000 / two years) General support for the development of TNC's innovative land protection efforts in the Northern Appalachian region and publication and distribution of its Northern Appalachian/Acadian Ecoregional Plan.

Wildlands Project
Richmond, Vermont
($30,000 / one year) General support to complete its Northern Appalachian and Southern Canadian Shield Wildlands Network Design. Funds will also be used to design an outreach strategy for the dissemination of the design to conservationists throughout the region.

($25,000 / six months) Support to complete its Northern Appalachian and Southern Canadian Shield Wildlands Network Design. Grounded in ecosystem science, the Network Design will take the form of spacially explicit GIS maps and accompanying data that describe a regional landscape conservation network.

Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
($25,000 / one year) To support its Human Footprint analysis measuring the human impacts on land throughout the Northern Appalachian region and its Northeastern Mesocarnivore initiative to advance region-wide conservation planning and wildlife protection.

Bay of Fundy Marine Resource Centre
Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia
($100,000 / two years) To further development of the activities of Saltwater Network, a community-based fisheries management and stewardship initiative dedicated to long-term ecological sustainability of the transboundary (Canada and U.S.) Gulf of Maine.

($55,000 / one year)
($40,000 / one year)
General support to build institutional capacity to lead the development of community-based marine stewardship activities in the upper reaches of the Gulf of Maine.

Coastal Enterprises Inc.
Portland, Maine
($11,000 / three months)
Support for a Community-Based Marine Management and Development Workshop serving participants from Alaska, Belize, and the Gulf of Maine in Canada and the United States.

($4,000 / three months)
To cover partial costs for the publication and distribution of a report entitled Opportunities and Obstacles for Community-Based Management in the United States.

Cobscook Bay Resource Center
Eastport, Maine
($35,000 / one year) General support for its efforts to encourage and strengthen community-based approaches to marine resource management in the Cobscook Bay region in the Gulf of Maine.

Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
($15,400 / two years) Funding to combat four decades of environmental degradation in northern New Brunswick's Bay of Chaleur by researching the health impacts of toxic contaminants on the ecosystem and surrounding communities, and organizing those communities to advocate for increased protection of the region, especially against the first proposed hazardous waste incinerator in the province.

Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($50,000 / two years) Continued funding for its fisheries and ocean policy conservation initiatives focused on the Gulf of Maine and the offshore Atlantic shelf.

Maine Lobstermen's Association
Kennebunk, Maine
($5,000 / four months) To fund a "Lobster Summit" for fishermen from Canada and the United States. The purposes of the Summit are to gain agreement on standard lobster harvesting size in the Gulf of Maine and to lay the basis for future cooperative research that can lead to conservation-oriented policies in the Gulf of Maine.

Maine Seacoast Mission
Yarmouth, Maine
($95,000 / one year) To facilitate the first phase of a long-term project to restore the inshore groundfisheries in the Downeast Maine portion of the Gulf of Maine. The ultimate goal of the initiative is to enhance the robustness of the biological and social system associated with fisheries management in this region.

($50,000 / one year) Funding to facilitate the second phase of a long-term experimental research and management effort to restore the inshore groundfisheries in the Downeast Maine portion of the Gulf of Maine.

Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Saco, Maine
($65,000 / eighteen months) Operating support to promote fisheries conservation / stewardship through inclusive collaborative management strategies in the Gulf of Maine.

St. Francis Xavier University, Centre for Community-Based Management
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
($40,000 / one year) Support for the establishment of a marine resource centre in southwestern New Brunswick designed to build the capacity and enhance the advocacy of organizations working to protect marine resources and the character of coastal communities throughout this region of the Gulf of Maine.

University of Maine – Marine Sciences Program
Orono, Maine
($200,000 / two years) Support to sustain and strengthen the University's three-year Master's program in marine science and policy, a unique dual degree program intended to prepare future talent for positions in public management conservation, and possibly fisheries organizations.

Alaska Conservation Foundation
Anchorage, Alaska
($5,000 / three months) To develop a multi-year plan for building a conservation majority in the State of Alaska to serve the long-term objective of protecting the integrity of its ecosystems.

($100,000 / two years)

Continued support for its Conservation Internship Program, a well-established effort that recruits young talent to Alaska and provides career-oriented educational and professional experience to these interns while also supplying needed aid to Alaska's conservation community.

($15,000 / one year)

Support for consulting assistance centered on board committee organization and roles; definition and articulation of board and executive director roles; board member recruitment strategies; and a strategy review of ACF's development operations.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Nova Scotia Chapter
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($30,000 / one year) To build the organizational capacity of the Chapter, thereby increasing its effectiveness in protecting marine and terrestrial biological diversity in the Maritime provinces and northwestern Atlantic.

($25,000 / one year)

General operating funds to support its marine and terrestrial nature conservation activities.
Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($4,800 / three months) To organize Environmental NGOs in Atlantic Canada: Strengthening Our Impact, the third in a series of regional environmental conferences to gather and motivate activists throughout Atlantic Canada.

Trustees for Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
($25,000 / one year)

Operating support to undertake research and develop policy and legal strategies for securing the ecological integrity of Alaska's public lands and marine resources.

($60,000 / two years)

General funding to further its work in securing the ecological integrity of Alaska's public lands and marine resources, and to support its legal intern program.

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts
($158,500 / six months) General operating support to stabilize the Institute's capacity to deliver and expand its technical programs for Boston youth, in keeping with Benjamin Franklin's legacy.

($42,500 / two months) To develop a comprehensive understanding of the Institute's physical plant needs and a plan to address those needs.

($21,000 / six months) General Operating Support.

Boston Natural Areas Network
Boston, MA
($25,000 / one year) An unrestricted grant for operational support.

Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network
Toronto, Ontario
($4,000 / one month) Support for the 2005 annual national conference, How Change Happens: The Role of Environmental Grantmakers in Effecting Social Transformation, designed to provide professional development for environmental grantmakers on current topics in the field and to provide a forum for networking and collaboration among environmental grantmakers.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
San Francisco, California
($10,000 / two years) Operational support for the 2004-2005 biennium to continue its role as a grantmaker forum of close to 50 foundations focusing attention on issues and program opportunities related to the conservation and restoration of biological diversity.

Eagle Eye Institute
Somerville, Massachusetts
($35,000 / one year)
($25,000 / one year) General support to assist the Institute in providing urban youth with access to hands-on, exploratory learning in nature and exposure to natural resource fields.

High Country Foundation
Paonia, Colorado
($10,000 / six months)
To design and develop a campaign to invigorate its Intern Fund, for the purpose of providing long-term financial resources to support the inclusion of journalism interns in the editorial and operational activities of High Country News.

Heritage Museums and Gardens
Sandwich, Massachusetts
($10,000 / one year)

To support the 2004 Annual Appeal.

($15,000 / one year)

To support the 2005 Annual Appeal


The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation
Toronto, Ontario
($10,000 / one year)

An unrestricted grant for operational support.


Land Trust Alliance
Washington, District of Columbia
($50,000 / one year)
To support the Alliance's program dedicated to the conservation of American lands and landscapes.

($5,000 / three months) For the acquistion of the book "Investing in Nature" by William J. Ginn, to be distributed to the 2005 Land Trust Rally participants. New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, Massachusetts
($17,500 / one year)
($25,000 / one year) To provide general support for the operations of the Museum.

Trustees of Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
($15,000 / six months)
To provide business planning expertise through MBA student consultants to the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife and to the Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation.

The Trustees of Reservations
Beverly, Massachusetts
($1,090,000± / six years)
Endowment and gifts-in-kind to support the operations of Moose Hill Farm in Sharon, Massachusetts.

Virginia Thurston Healing Garden
Harvard, Massachusetts
($5,000 / six months)
General operating support to provide counseling, complementary therapies, and educational programs for women with breast cancer, their partners, and families.