The Foundation has awarded the following grants in 2006 - 2007:
Increased Energy Efficiency - a Winning Approach
The six-state regional electric grid operator, known as ISO-New England, announced an agreement in March 2006 that will qualify energy efficiency and demand side resources to compete in a newly structured multi-billion dollar electricity market. With additional financing dedicated to efficiency investments, New England could reduce demand for electricity, permanently reform regional energy policy, and set a national policy precedent. Efficiency provides direct economic benefits in the form of lower energy bills, job creation and increased economic productivity.
Rules for this new market, currently called New England Installed-Capacity
Market, are being developed. Advocacy efforts are under way to
advance the efficiency provisions through the complicated review
processes. Reduced demand for energy, mainly through efficiency
policies, will go far to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The
grantees listed below form a strong team for creating and implementing
the energy efficiency agenda. Kendall Foundation funding was provided
to each collaborating organization on the basis of its individual
strengths.
Center for Resource Solutions
San Francisco, California
($50,000 / 9 months)
October 2006
To analyze the current status of White Tags (energy efficiency
certificates or credits) in the U.S. and abroad, assess their
credibility and veracity, their present and future market value,
and their potential use as a policy tool that would support the
increased use and financing of energy efficiency technologies
and measures in New England.
Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($50,000/ nine months)
June 2006
To support the design of strategies to promote energy efficiency
as an approved resource within the Capacity Market, including
negotiation, collaboration and preparation for necessary interventions
at all stages of the process including potential litigation.
Conservation Services Group
Westborough, Massachusetts
($50,000/ nine months)
June 2006
To convene, facilitate and support the participation of energy
and public policy experts in a collaborative effort to develop
rules and procedures for the approval and verification of efficiency,
Combined Heat & Power, and other demand-side resource opportunities.
Environment Northeast
Rockport, Maine
($70,900/ nine months)
June 2006
To research, develop and then widely disseminate materials and
recommendations that advance the energy policy solution offered
by efficiency in regional markets, with the goal of educating
key policy makers, business, consumer and advocacy organizations
on why and how to support this policy solution.
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership
Lexington, Massachusetts
($70,000/ nine months)
June 2006
To serve as a central information resource on energy efficiency,
while coordinating the state public utility commissions and other
state officials to develop common measurement and verification
protocols for qualifying demand resources and working to obtain
broad support for these protocols.
Regulatory Assistance Project
Montpelier, Vermont
($63,000/ nine months)
June 2006
To continue its work refining policy development and preparing
the case for supporting the efficiency recommendations, rebutting
claims of efficiency naysayers, and providing analysis to key
parties in selected states and industry.
Acadia University
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
($10,000 / six months)
June, 2007
To support a student-led transboundary summit focused on university sustainability practices. Student participants will come from colleges and universities in New England, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada.
Alliance for Public Accountability
Roslindale, Massachusetts
($30,000 / six months)
October 2006
To conduct a northeast biofuels policy analysis that includes an assessment of the market potential for biofuels in the northeast region and a discussion of possible strategies for executing a comprehensive biofuels action plan. The document will serve as a catalyst for substantive policy discussions and coalition building on the regional level.
Boston Natural Areas Network
Boston, Massachusetts
($50,000 / two years)
December 2007
For unrestricted general operating support to help them provide a wide array of programming with their three focus areas of Community Gardens, Greenways, and Urban Wilds in Boston.
Ceres
Boston, Massachusetts
($160,000 / eighteen months)
March 2007
To improve corporate policies and practices on climate change in New England by securing ambitious corporate greenhouse gas reduction and energy efficiency commitments and by gaining business and investor support for climate change policy solutions.
Clean Air Cool Planet
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
($200,000 / two years)
January 2007
For continued operating support to advance understanding of the phenomena and implications associated with changes in the global climate and to promote greenhouse gas emission reductions (climate solutions) in corporate, community and campus sectors in the Northeast region.
Clean Power Now
Hyannis, Massachusetts
($15,000 / one year)
January 2007
To support general operations and advocacy efforts for viable renewable energy projects on the Cape & Islands, which include promoting the development of Cape Wind through engagement in the regulatory process and educating the public of the project’s economic and environmental benefits.
The Climate Registry
Los Angeles, California
($50,000 / one year)
December 2007
To support the launch of this new organization that will create a common greenhouse gas accounting and reporting framework focused on states, provinces, reigions, and tribes.
The Commonwealth Foundation
Cambridge, Massachusetts
($100,000 / one year)
December 2007
To support the work of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network as the network expands to new communities, advocates on behalf of its members for state policies that support municipal climate solutions, and supplies educational tools and support to Massachusetts citizens interested in living a lower carbon lifestyle.
Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($250,000/ two years)
January 2007
To assist the Conservation Law Foundation’s efforts to expand and strengthen its legislative and regulatory climate and energy policy strategies in the six New England states.
Conservation Services Group
Westborough, Massachusetts
($60,000 / nine months)
March 2007
To ensure that demand-side resources, such as energy efficiency and clean distributed power, are granted full participation in both the transition and Forward Capacity Markets for electricity being implemented by ISO-New England. Also to provide expert advice to the Cambridge Energy Alliance as the Forward Capacity Market is used in a new financial model for delivering massive city-wide energy efficiency services.
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
San Francisco, California
($14,000 / two years)
December 2007
In operational support, particularly for the management and activities of the Climate and Energy Funders Group.
Council of State Governments
Lexington, Kentucky
($6,000 / three months)
June 2006
To support, "The Energy Challenge for
the Northeast: A workshop for State Policymakers," held on
May 11-12, 2006 in Cambridge, MA.
Earth Island Institute
San Francisco, California
($50,000 / one year)
January 2007
To support Northeast and Atlantic Canada regional work of the Campus Climate Challenge, a long-term, youth-led initiative aimed at fostering a grassroots movement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy on college and university campuses across the United States and Canada.
Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($400,000 / two years)
May 2006
Assistance to implement a five-year strategy to move Atlantic
Canada toward a "sustainable energy future." The campaign
will promote adoption of renewable energy and improved energy
efficiency rooted in community economic development as high priority
solutions to climate change.
Environment Northeast
Rockport, Maine
($60,000 / one year)
October 2006
To enable Environment Northeast to provide technical assistance
to organizations in the four provinces of Atlantic Canada that
are promoting sustainable energy and greenhouse gas reduction
policies.
($100,000 / one year)
March 2007
To conduct modeling and economic analyses for the New England region that will clearly demonstrate that energy efficiency implementation is cost-effective, will stabilize energy prices in the region, and offers significant greenhouse gas reductions.
($45,000 / nine months)
December 2007
To support intervention in Massachusetts and Connecticut regulatory dockets to advocate for well-designed electricity decoupling decisions. Funds will also be used to support ENE's work to help develop recommendations to expand the rules for forest carbon offset allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and to help coordinate a stakeholder review process to build support for those recommendations.
Global Environment & Technology Foundation
Arlington, Virginia
($7,500 / one year)
June 2006
To support the development, publication, and distribution of The
Costs and Benefits of Greening America's Schools, a concise
report that details the financial arguments for constructing high
performance/healthy public schools.
Green House Network
Lake Oswego, Oregon
($25,000 / nine months)
January 2007
To support the build-up phase of "Focus the Nation," a national initiative that is coordinating teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges, universities and high schools in the United States to engage in campus discussions on "Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century". The project will culminate January 31, 2008, in the form of one-day, national symposia held simultaneously on campuses across the country.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
($21,400 / six months)
October 2006
To fund an evaluation of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health
and the Global Environment's decade-long effort to educate future
physicians and public health professionals about the scientific
basis of global environmental change and its consequences for
human health.
ICLEI
Oakland, California
($150,000 / two years)
January 2007
For ICLEI’s Northeast Regional Capacity Center to provide technical assistance to 10-12 municipal governments in New England to accelerate the implementation of municipal activities that generate quantifiable reductions in overall energy use, and greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, while also building the capacity of local governments for continued implementation.
Henry P. Kendall Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($341,000 / one year)
June 2006
($514,000 / one year)
January 2007
Foundation Administered Project, Climate Change/ Energy to enable the Foundation to further develop our Climate Change/Energy Program. Project funding would be used to support Foundation program staff, to engage key consultants, to fund program development meetings, and to cover miscellaneous costs.
Mainewatch Institute
Portland, Maine
($6,000 / three months)
May 2006
Support for the conference "Climate Change in Maine: Reducing Risks, Reducing Costs and Planning for the Future".
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Augusta, Maine
($15,000 / six months)
December 2007
To support a wind power deployment analysis that will seek to identify the capacity for land-based and off-shore wind power in Maine, based on realistic goals, real wind data, protection of natural resource values and experience from the wind development industry. The analysis aims to help decision-makers and the public in Maine and other New England states connect realistic build-out scenarios with current state and regional renewable energy standards and climate policy goals.
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Lexington, Massachusetts
($23,200 / six months)
December 2007
Funding for a workshop to assess the demand and utility of providing technical support to states and communities across the country that are adopting new high performance (green) standards-daylighting, better air and acoustics, energy efficiencies-for the design and construction of K-12 schools.
($200,000 / one year)
June, 2007
To strengthen and extend its program to stimulate the design and construction of high performance/healthy schools throughout the six New England states. The program emphasizes energy-efficient building practices as a standard for new K-12 school construction and renovation, embodying a strong and coherent message relating climate change threats associated with fossil fuel consumption.
Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
Boston, Massachusetts
($10,500 / six months)
May 2006
Continued support of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
by providing funding for two meetings: the RGGI Agency Heads meeting
in New York City in March 2006, and the States' Agency Heads meeting
in May 2006.
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
Greenfield, Massachusetts
($7,500 / three months)
March 2007
To support the one-day workshop, Climate Change: 1,000 Solutions, held at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston on March 13, 2007.
Resources for the Future
Washington, DC
($12,000 / three months)
October 2006
Assistance to conduct a summer 2006 workshop - Implementing the
Minimum 25% Public Benefit Allocation - for states participating
in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The workshop
focused on providing auction structure and design technical assistance
to state officials. An auction will likely be the primary way
for states to meet the RGGI agreement that 25% of emission allowances
shall be allocated for consumer benefit or strategic energy purposes.
Rocky Mountain Institute
Boulder, Colorado
($38,040 / six months)
September 2007
To support the development and implementation of a Rocky Mountain Institute-led locally-based design charrette focused on identifying opportunities and strategies to reduce the City of Cambridge’s energy demand.
Stanford University / Food Security and Environmental Program
Stanford, California
($225,000 / three years)
January 2007
To support three conferences organized and hosted by Stanford’s Food Security and Environment Program with the goal of identifying and illuminating fundamental agricultural productivity and food security issues associated with projected changes in the planet’s climate.
Third Sector New England
Boston, Massachusetts
($250,000 / one year)
March 2007
To support the work of the Cambridge Energy Alliance to design, market, finance, manage, and document efficiency improvements in the use of energy, water, and transportation, and to achieve a substantial reduction in the carbon footprint of the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tri State Coalition for Responsible Investing
Montclair, New Jersey
($5,000 / six months)
September 2007
To support the work of Campaign ExxonMobil and the preparation work required for the ExxonMobil annual meeting held in Dallas on May 30, 2007, which included a 31% shareholder vote supporting Resolution 15. This resolution requested that the Board of Directors set goals for reducing greenhouse gas emission from both ExxonMobil's operations and products.
Union of Concerned Scientists
Cambridge, Massachusetts
($100,000 / eighteen months)
May 2006
Supplementary
funding to complete an assessment of projected regional climate change impacts in the Northeast with the expectation that credible science-based scenarios can deepen commitments to stronger state and regional climate response actions within this region. A concerted public information effort is a second major project component.
University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire
($14,000 / one year)
April 2007
To support the New Hampshire Carbon Challenge’s work to raise awareness among citizens that they are part of the climate solution and can achieve carbon reductions and realize financial savings through simple environmental changes.
University of Washington Foundation
Seattle, Washington
($10,000 / one
year)
May 2006
Support
for research to determine the effects of Black Carbon particulate
(or Soot) deposition on the reflectivity of ice and snow in the
Arctic region, a process which is thought to be a primary contributor
to the rapid warming that has been observed in the Arctic over
the past several years.
Yale University- Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium
New Haven, Connecticut
($16,500 / one year)
September 2007
To support the growth and development of this emerging network of campus sustainability professionals from the U.S. Northeast and eastern Canada.
Clearwater Resource Council
Seeley Lake, Montana
($30,000 / one year)
January 2007
For initial funding to advance its land conservation planning activities. This start-up is linked to broad-scaled efforts dedicated to protecting the ecological integrity of the Crown of the Continent region, a key segment in the vast Yellowstone to Yukon landscape conservation initiative.
Miistakis Institute for the Rockies
Ottawa, Ontario
($105,000 / three years)
January 2007
Continued core funding to enhance its capacity to advance ecosystem research in the central Rocky Mountains shared by Canada and the United States, a key segment of the Yellowstone to Yukon Landscape Conservation Initiative.
Montana State University, Western Transportation Institute
Bozeman, Montana
($45,000
/ one year)
March 2007
To support research, monitoring and transfer of science-based information on wildlife highway crossings that will directly inform transportation planning.
($5,000 / one year)
March 2007
To convene a Road Ecology Workshop for nonprofit organizations working in the Yellowstone to Yukon region.
National Parks Conservation Association
Washington, D.C.
($25,000 / six months)
January 2007
For a novel transboundary (US/Canada) collaboration centered on the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. The planned partnership, to be facilitated by NPCA and the National Geographic Society, includes local, state, provincial, and tribal participation in a community-based process focused on landscape protection.
Predator
Conservation Alliance
Bozeman, Montana
($25,000 / one year)
May 2006
To support its transition to an organization focused on fostering
coexistence between native carnivores and ranching communities.
Swan
Ecosystem Center
Condon, Montana
($6,000 / nine month)
May 2006
A supplementary
grant for the completion of an Oral History, Swan Valley, A
Century of Change.
($8,200 / ten months)
March 2007
To support the completion of Part II of its oral history project covering the Upper Swan Valley of Western Montana. Parts I and II of the history will be published and archived in the Mansfield Library of the University of Montana.
Trust
for Public Land - Rocky Mountain Program Office
Bozeman, Montana
($30,000 / nine months)
May 2006
Funding to conduct the Montana Working Forest Assessment for the
purpose of developing a comprehensive view of large-scale and
long-term land conservation opportunities across the forested
landscape of Montana.
($50,000 / one year)
January 2007
To pursue large land conservation strategies in the Crown of the Continent region of Northwest Montana, a key component in the transboundary Yellowstone to Yukon Landscape Conservation Initiative.
University of
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
($116,500 / three years)
June 2006
To support the University's Transboundary Policy, Planning, and
Management Initiative, a joint venture with the University of
Montana.
University
of Montana
Missoula, Montana
($113,000 / three years)
June 2006
To support 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. This is a joint venture with the University
of Calgary.
University of Montana / College of Forestry and Conservation
Missoula, Montana
($25,000 / one year)
March 2007
To continue support for community-based efforts to define and map linkage zones for safe wildlife movement within the Northern Montana Rockies. Concerted attention is being given to highway crossings and to abutting private lands in order to reduce wildlife mortality, especially the loss of endangered grizzly bears.
University of Montana / Flathead Lake Biological Station
Polson, Montana
($33,000 / one year)
March 2007
To support conservation research and policy analysis in the Crown of the Continent region embracing portions of Montana and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.
University of Montana Foundation
Missoula, Montana
($20,000 / one year)
March 2007
Tto create The Crown Conservation Fund to advance conservation of ecosystem processes and protect core habitats and interactive corridors for both aquatic and terrestrial organisms in America's Northern Rockies.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
($60,000 / one year)
March 2007
To advance efforts to identify impacts and incorporate climate change considerations into wildlife conservation strategies and on-the-ground conservation practices in the Intermountain West of North America.
Yellowstone to
Yukon Conservation Initiative
Canmore, Alberta
($5,000 / three months)
October 2006
To implement a one-day conference, Picture a Province,
to highlight large-scale conservation opportunities within the
Yellowstone to Yukon region, focusing specifically on the Bow
Valley watershed, the southern Eastern Rocky slopes, and the Crowsnest
Pass.
($150,000 / two years)
February 2007
To bolster the implementation of its strategy to promote the vision of an ecologically connected landscape among residents and communities located within the 2,000-mile stretch of the Rocky Mountains that reaches from the Tetons in Wyoming to the tundra of the Yukon Territory.
Conservation
Council of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
($9,000 / one year)
October 2006
Supplemental funding to support the Council's environmental justice
campaign in Belledune. Funds will be used to help combat four
decades of environmental degradation in northern New Brunswick's
Bay of Chaleur by identifying the health impacts of toxic contaminants
on the ecosystem and surrounding communities, and organizing those
communities to advocate for increased protection of the Bay.
Defenders of Wildlife
Washington, D.C.
($40,000 / one year)
March 2007
To convene a Road Ecology Workshop for transportation planners and resource professionals in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine for the purpose of sharing GIS data, expertise and technologies and to facilitate the integration of conservation considerations early in the transportation planning process.
Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($50,000 / one year)
March 2007
To support its work to advance the Colin Stewart Forest Forum (CSFF), a conservation planning process involving Nova Scotia's leading conservation organizations, the provincial government, and forestry companies with the goal of securing protection of over 5 million acres of provincial forest land, including over 500,000 acres that could be designated as "forever wild".
Forest
Watch
Montpelier, Vermont
($60,000 / eighteen months)
May 2006
Support for the Future Human Footprint project - an effort to
anticipate dynamic threats to regional biodiversity from human
development and to develop a means for prioritizing conservation
action based on the immediacy of those threats across the Canadian
and U.S. landscape of Northern Appalachia.
Hubbard
Brook Research Foundation
Hanover, New Hampshire
($15,000 / one year)
May 2006
Project support for a collaborative endeavor to test a scientific
modeling process that simulates the effects of disturbances, with
special emphasis on acid rain, on northeastern U.S. forest ecosystems.
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust
Portland, Maine
($3,500 / six months)
October 2006
To conduct an ecological inventory of the High Peaks Region of
western Maine as a basis for conservation planning.
Maine
Audubon Society
Falmouth, Maine
($6,500 / four months)
October 2006
Interim support to develop a Road Ecology program plan and three-year
action agenda for addressing wildlife and habitat impacts of Maine's
roads and highways. Funds will be used to initiate development
of a statewide habitat connectivity study and publish a public
education brochure.
($80,000 / two years)
January 2007
For its efforts to develop and implement a comprehensive Road Ecology program in the State of Maine. Funds will be used to devise strategies for, and develop informational resources that support, inclusion of wildlife habitat considerations in transportation and development planning.
Northern
Forest Alliance
(A Project of Appalachian Mountain Club)
Stowe, Vermont
($80,000 / two years)
October 2006
General support for their work to conserve forest habitat connectivity
and ecological integrity by drawing and prioritizing federal funding
and coordinated advocacy across the "Northern Forest"
Region of New England.
Open
Space Institute
New York, New York
($30,000 / six months)
May 2006
Support for the development of a comparative economic analysis
of the Plum Creek Timber Company's Comprehensive Development Plan
for the Moosehead Lake Region of central Maine, and for outreach
related to negotiations pertaining to the content of that development
proposal.
Pacific
Forest Trust
San Francisco, California
($7,500 / six months)
October 2006
To convene New England landowners and conservation leaders to
explore the feasibility of building a coalition and developing
a strategy to achieve integration of forest management-related
carbon emissions and sequestration into state and regional climate
mitigation policy frameworks.
Pinchot Institute for Conservation
Washington, DC
($25,000 / one year)
June 2007
For the development of an analytical report on the potential impacts of wood-based bioenergy industry on U.S. forests. The report will provide the substantive basis for a series of workshops where participants will work to identify risks of wood-based biofuels development to conservation values and generate policy and management recommendations aimed at minimizing those risks.
The Sierra Club Foundation
San Francisco, California
($30,000 / one year)
January 2007
For its work with the Sierra Club-Maine Chapter in advocating for wilderness protection in Maine, promoting and supporting conservation the 100-Mile Wilderness, a region stretching from Monson to Mount Katahdin in the heart of Maine.
The Nature Conservancy - Maine Chapter
Brunswick, Maine
($100,000/ two years)
January 2007
To support its role in advancing the regional landscape conservation initiative, Two Countries, One Forest, and for implementation of innovative conservation finance strategies in both the Greater Northern Appalachian and Yellowstone to Yukon landscapes.
Two Countries, One Forest
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($150,000 / two years)
October 2006
For its work to advance scientific analysis and communications
efforts in support of implementing a conservation vision for the
Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion, spanning the forested
landscape from New York to Nova Scotia.
The Wildlands Project
Richmond, Vermont
($4,000 / three months)
October 2006
Support for its joint efforts with the Nature Conservancy (Canada),
Forest Watch, and the Northeast Wilderness Trust to define and
map a proposed conservation area in the transboundary Green-Sutton
Mountain region of northern Vermont and Southern Quebec, and for
travel and meeting costs associated with planning a regional gathering
of potential collaborators and stakeholders.
($35,000 / one year)
June 2007
To support a core group of organizations working to advance the Northern Green Mountain Initiative, a broadly-based, locally-supported collaboration whose goal is to establish a transboundary conservation area in the Northern Green Mountains.
Wildlife
Conservation Society - Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($35,000 / one year)
May 2006
Support to complete The Human Footprint of the Northern Appalachians
landscape analysis and to conduct a research project in the Gaspé
Peninsula of Quebec focused on wildlife linkages with Maine and
New Brunswick.
($20,000 / one year)
June 2007
To support its work with the 2C1Forest Science Team, and for development of the Northern Appalachians Ecoregional Planning Atlas, an interactive, online mapping service for partner organizations throughout the region.
Yale
University
New Haven, Connecticut
($15,000 / six months)
May 2006
Support for "Forest Certification in the Northern Appalachians",
a research initiative to assess the potential of Forest Stewardship
Council (FSC) certification as a tool to restore and protect the
ecological integrity of managed forests in the Northern Appalachians
ecoregion.
Environment Northeast
Rockport, Maine
($45,000 / nine months)
December 2007
To support intervention in Massachusetts and Connecticut regulatory dockets to advocate for well-designed electricity decoupling decisions. Funds will also be used to support ENE's work to help develop recommendations to expand the rules for forest carbon offset allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and to help coordinate a stakeholder review process to build support for those recommendations.
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
Manomet, Massachusetts
($60,000 / one year)
December 2007
To support Manomet's leadership and facilitation of a stakeholder review process for recommendations to expand forest carbon project allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Funds will also be used to develop a forest-carbon offset project "scorecard" that will allow forestland owners to measure carbon flux on their properties, and for one or more model carbon sequestration projects in the state of Maine.
Pacific Forest Trust
San Francisco, California
($100,000 / two years)
December 2007
To catalyze and coordinate efforts to incorporate expansive forest carbon sequestration project allowances to climate change mitigation laws and agreements at the national level, as well as in key states and reigons of the U.S. Funds will be used to support PFT's communications, education, and technical assistance in support of this agenda.
Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($20,000 / six months)
June 2006
To support a strategic planning workshop to develop an implementation
plan for an Ocean Wilderness Network in the ecological region
comprised of the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and the Scotian
Shelf.
St. Francis Xavier
University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
($75,000 / thirty months)
June 2006
To develop a community-based resource center in New Brunswick that will assist in the organizational development and strengthening of fishermen's associations and the maintenance of clean and healthy
coastal waters. St. Francis Xavier University serves as the fiscal agent to the Coastal Livelihoods Trust of St. Andrews.
Sitka Conservation Society
Sitka, Alaska
($60,000 / three years)
January 2007
For its conservation advocacy over the next three years. Its efforts are dedicated to halting logging in old growth forests, to protecting unroaded wilderness areas, and to developing broader local understanding and support for conservation measures in the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska.
Trust for Public Land / Community Preservation Coalition
Boston, Massachusetts
($30,000 / one year)
June 2007
To support the development of a comprehensive strategic business plan that will guide the transition of the Community Preservation Coalition to a new membership-based model and further its goal of advancing community support for open space conservation and affordable housing in Massachusetts.
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts
($36,000 / one year)
June 2006
To assist the Institute to continue to improve
retention rates through student advising and support, and student
engagement opportunities; and to support four high-profile events
to raise the Institute's profile.
($37,500 / six months)
June 2006
A challenge grant used to match donors gifts
to balance the Institute's budget in 2006 and strengthen its case
in the research for funding as it lays the groundwork for a capital
campaign.
Boston Natural Areas Network
Boston, Massachusetts
($30,000 / one year)
October 2006
To support its merger with The Trustees of Reservations and to establish an endowment that will support BNAN's Boston conservation programs.
Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network
Toronto, Ontario
($10,000 / two years)
May 2006
To support its efforts to energize Canadian philanthropy directed
toward the protection of Canada's vast natural resources.
Carroll School
Lincoln, Massacusetts
($5,000 / one year)
For unrestricted general support.
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
San Francisco, California
($10,000 / two years)
May 2006
Operational support for the 2006-2007 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)
November 2006
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.
($70,000 / two years)
For 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.
Environmental Careers Organization
Boston, Massachusetts
($10,000 / one year)
May 2006
To underwrite the initial planning costs of the Land Conservation
Career Diversity Program, an internship program aimed at promoting
diversity in land conservation organizations.
Green
Star
Anchorage, Alaska
($80,000 / two years)
May 2006
For its work with Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) to increase
the production of renewable energy in Alaska, taking advantage
of vast sources that have scarcely been utilized. Kendall funds
would be used to partially support a two-year internship designed
to build REAP's strength and to provide a young person an unusual
opportunity for professional development in a field of emerging
importance.
Heritage Museums
and Gardens
Sandwich, Massachusetts
($15,000 / twleve months)
November 2006
To support the 2006 Annual Appeal.
High Country News
Paonia, Colorado
($25,000 / six months)
January 2007
To help it develop and implement an Internship Fund Campaign. This fund is designed to enhance the quality of the Internship Program and to give it a long-term and reliable funding source so that HCN can continue to offer pre-career opportunities to aspiring environmental journalists.
Land Trust Alliance
Washington, DC
($50,000 / one year)
October 2006
To support the Alliance's program dedicated to the conservation of American lands and landscapes.
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, Massachusetts
($25,000 / one year)
October 2006
To provide general support for the operations of the Museum.
SickKids Foundation
Toronto, Ontario
($5,000 / one year)
November 2006
An unrestricted grant for operational support.
The
Nature Conservancy- Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
($7,500 / three months)
October 2006
To support a two day retreat at Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts,
of Massachusetts land conservationists focused on the development
of strategies to increase (connected) forested landscapes throughout
the Commonwealth.
Trust for Public
Land - New England Regional Office
Boston, Massachusetts
($25,000 / seven months)
June 2006
To support two projects within the Trust's Conservation and Recreation
Campaign: (1) an Economic Valuation of Massachusetts Parks and
Conservation Lands, a project to present the value of MA parks
and lands in terms that business and political leaders can appreciate;
(2) an Urban Parks Conference aimed at broadening the constituency
of urban park supporters, engaging committed organizations, and
implementing plans for effecting change in the 2007 recreation
season.
Virginia Thurston Healing Garden
Harvard, Massachusetts
($5,000 / one year)
January 2006
General operating support to provide counseling, complementary therapies, and educational programs for women with breast cancer, their partners, and families.
($6,000 / one year)
December 2007
For unrestricted general support.
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