The Foundation has awarded the following grants in 2008:
Center for Public Interest Research
The Student PIRGs
Boston, MA
($36,000/two years)
April 2008
To support the work of the Student PIRGs’ Global Warming Project in New England, which organizes on more than 23 campuses in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The Global Warming Project blends peer education on global warming solutions with advocacy and action, connecting students to issues and solutions beyond their campus boundaries.
College of the Atlantic
($25,000/one year)
April 2008
To provide partial funding to organize and carry out the development of a protocol to guide the purchase of greenhouse gas offset investments by some 500 American colleges. The initiative is being carried out by the Presidents Climate Commitment under the auspices of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Sustainable Endowments Institute
New York, NY
($40,000/two years)
April 2008
To support the work of the Sustainable Endowments Institute as it grows its Summer Research Fellows program, which builds its capacity to include more institutions in the College Sustainability Report Card, and also supporting its efforts to develop an improved website to respond to the increasing interest and popularity of the Report Card.
University of New Hampshire
New Hampshire Carbon Challenge
Durham, NH
($20,000 / one year)
July 2008
To support the New Hampshire Carbon Challenge as it continues to design and deliver innovative energy saving and cost effective strategies and tools for households, businesses and municipalities that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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