| Organization Name |
Project Description |
Grant Amount |
| Africa Rift Valley |
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| Addis Ababa University |
Through a pioneering partnership between university and indigenous experts this research project will combine anthropological, taxonomic and ecological approaches to document and analyze the Ethnobotany of Pastoral peoples of the Southern Rift Valley and Southwestern Ethiopia: Konso, Hamer, Mursi, D'asanech, Meen and Dizi. |
$100,000 |
| Association Internationale d`Aide a la Recherche Scientifique, a la Formation et au Developpement de l`Archeologie Africaine |
This grant underwrites field research towards a doctorate in Konso - Gewada in South West Ethiopia on sacred places, erected stones and funeral rites within these cultures by Metasebia Bekele. |
$88,700 |
| Bureau of Information & Culture of Southern Nations and Nationalities and Peoples Regional State |
The grant will enable over forty-five indigenous southwest Ethiopian ethnic groups to present their music and dances for the first time at festivals in five provincial capitals and in the regional state capital, Awassa. |
$95,000 |
| Debub University |
The grant underwrites laying ground work for establishing a mutidisciplinary program incorporating the social and environmental sciences at one of the newest universities located in Awassa the capital of the Southern Regional State of Ethiopia. |
$100,000 |
| Earth Island Institute |
The grant underwrites technical assistance for the cultural mapping of the traditionally managed landscapes of Konso and Zala communities and their partners in Southern Ethiopia including developing a community land mapping program. |
$15,260 |
| Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society |
Underwrite a collaborative social and biological study with local elders of the importance for bio-cultural diversity of living indigenous sacred sites in four woredas of the Gamo Gofa Montagnard region of Southwest Ethiopia. |
$86,406 |
| Institute for Sustainable Development (Ethiopia) |
The grant underwrites institutional development, publications, and community-based indigenous agricultural, food, forestry, land management and traditional boat-building programs in Tigray and Gamo Gofa regions of Ethiopia. |
$100,000 |
| Little Big Men |
The grant underwrites partial funding for a documentary film about the indigenous leadership of the Konso montagnard community of Southern Ethiopia and how they connect their past, their future, their lands and royal funeral traditions and their sacred groves. |
$46,680 |
| Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
To underwrite completion and write-up of field research on traditions of mediation of conflict in Eastern Shewa, Ethiopia, in a diverse setting of ethnicity. It illuminates connections between means of conflict settlement, ritual practice and the natural environment. |
$18,590 |
| Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
Underwrites field research costs for an Ethiopian PhD student (Getinet Assefa) to study the rich and complex indigenous institutions in Southwest Ethiopia that contribute to local governance, resource management and development. |
$39,000 |
| Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture |
This grant partially underwrites the accommodation costs of participants from across the country in the first "Folk Music and Dance Festival Ethiopia 2004", a national event celebrating the creativity and diversity of Ethiopian Musical and cultural expression also supported by a wide range of Ethiopian public and private institutions. |
$100,000 |
| National Museum of Ethiopia |
Planning grant to identify indigenous experts and their scientific counterparts with knowledge of traditional systems of agriculture, pastoralism, land management and crafts to develop a future program of exhibitions and lectures to transform public understanding of the history and creativity of Ethiopian rural society. |
$68,100 |
| North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance |
The grant underwrites participation of a group of folk musicians from an historically despised mana craft workers caste from Ethiopia's Southwest to attend Strictly Mundial, the 17th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference, February 24-27, 2005 to be held in Montreal, Canada. |
$65,428 |
| Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa |
To underwrite a collaborative study between graduate student Zelalem Worku and indigenous Gamo elders on the linkages between migration patterns, cultural values and HIV-AIDS infection among migrant cotton weavers of the Gamo Gofa mountains residing in Addis Ababa. |
$14,860 |
| Wildlife Trust |
Underwrites research and involvement of Afar and Issa community representatives in the conservation of the African Wild Ass and the Grevy`s Zebra in the African Rift Valley, Ethiopia. |
$27,500 |
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Africa Rift Valley Total |
$965,524 |
| Central Asia and Turkey |
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| Aigine |
Support for a non-governmental organization to promote guardianship of sacred sites through research, documentation, protection, education, creative collaboration, and cultural centers. |
$97,600 |
| ANG Foundation |
To support the Nezahat Gokyigit Botanic Garden in Istanbul to explore creative child-friendly educational outreach approaches to environmental education and botanic illustration with local schools and communities. |
$96,996 |
| Anthropology Center |
To support the development of this new non-governmental applied research institution working on the maintenance and revival of the diverse cultural heritage of Tajikistan and its connection to place, and to underwrite two preliminary team research efforts around traditional drama and sacred sites. |
$61,535 |
| European Forum for World Music Festivals |
To demonstrate the connection between traditional music and landscape, and their cross generation transmission in Turkey through a workshop with Laz musicians and to make a film about how children learn traditional musics in Turkey for the Strictly Mundial festival in Istanbul. |
$100,000 |
| Global Heritage Fund |
To enable the Global Heritage Fund to develop a vision report for the restoration of the city of Kars in NE Turkey with local stakeholders identifying the context for future investment in cultural revitalization in the Ottoman sector of Kars. |
$24,000 |
| Global Heritage Fund |
A planning grant for the physical and cultural restoration of the Ottoman settlement of Kars, Turkey, in collaboration with Turkish foundations, the Chrest Foundation, and Kars Municipality. |
$40,000 |
| Harvard University |
Working in collaboration with Turkish partners, this grant supports Harvard's Center for Urban Development Studies to strengthen the capacity of the municipality of Kars (N.E. Turkey) to dialog with various stakeholders, including civil society and low-income dwellers in the revitalization of the Ottoman core of this city. |
$80,000 |
| International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) |
Planning grant to the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) to build partnerships between farmers, non-governmental organizations and scientists to promote agro-biodiversity in Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic. |
$70,110 |
| Internews Network |
To develop proposals to restore traditional music and folklore archives in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with the aim of physical restoration of the tapes, the training of researchers to do context-sensitive research, and to develop radio and other programs to disseminate the traditions in the archives back to the general population. |
$100,000 |
| Mountain Institute |
To identify opportunities to support efforts of high mountain NGOs to develop communities' environmental adaptability through programs that employ their culturally valued assets, skills, and priorities in areas of Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. |
$99,705 |
| Restaurateurs Sans Frontieres |
To underwrite experiments in cultural restoration that enable local museums to contribute towards sustaining plural identities and local cultural life engaged with place and history; including efforts in photography, music, archeology and painting in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic |
$90,800 |
| Soros Center for Contemporary Art |
To encourage Central Asian explorations through video art of the relationships between landscape and culture by holding a seminar to explore the issues, training on video art production, a regional competition and a regional festival of selected works. |
$100,000 |
| Stanford University |
A planning grant to develop a proposal that combines cultural and environmental education for youth in Kars, Turkey, in collaboration with other institutions. |
$14,272 |
| |
Central Asia and Turkey Total |
$975,018 |
| Cross-Cutting Regions |
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| Cultural Survival |
To underwrite production, translation (into Spanish, Russian and French), printing and distribution costs of the publication Voices to indigenous communities internationally, produce web versions of Voices on the Cultural Survival website and research for a special issue on Fair Trade and indigenous people. |
$40,000 |
| Fauna and Flora International (UK) |
Support a collaboration between ResourceAfrica's Southern African community theater specialists and Cambodian performing arts group Sovanna Phum to produce a play around community visions of conservation in the Mekong Delta at the World Conservation Congress in Bangkok, November 2004. |
$66,585 |
| First Nations Development Institute |
To foster greater foundation commitment and more effective grantmaking for indigenous peoples internationally by improving networking opportunities, enhancing collaboration, building capacity, and promoting linkages among new and experienced donors. |
$35,000 |
| Island Press (Center for Resource Economics) |
To support the editorial development, production, marketing, and dissemination of Gary Nabhan's book, Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity. |
$50,000 |
| Marine Conservation Biology Institute |
Underwrite selected Mia J. Tegner Awards in Marine Environmental History and Historical Ecology for work that addresses the contirbutions of traditional ecological knowledge for the management of the resources of the western Indian Ocean and the southeast Pacific. |
$53,000 |
| Montalvo Association |
Underwrite exploratory research and networking around local and international strategies for maintaining global musical diversity and meeting the needs of audiences (local and global, traditional and new), musicians, and the musical traditions themselves. |
$100,000 |
| Music for the Earth |
To underwrite the production of music about the migration of birds between Europe and the African Rift Valley by an international ensemble of musicians, comprising of those along the flyway and the Paul Winter Consort, which will be performed in 12 countries. |
$100,000 |
| Rare |
Seed funding for "Rare Art", a collaboration between a conservation organization (RARE) and four US contemporary art museums to support production of new art by sixteen international contemporary artists at UNESCO World Heritage sites to inspire public understanding of natural and cultural heritage conservation. |
$100,000 |
| Resilience Alliance |
To co-finance production of workbooks and case studies to build scientific and public understanding of the application of the concepts of resilience, adaptability and transformability to the management of socio-ecological systems through their "Operationalizing Resilience" project. |
$100,000 |
| Terralingua |
Supplementary support to complete the Global Source Book on Biocultural Diversity: A Tool for Education and for Building a Community of Practice, a publication designed to communicate the theory and practice of biocultural diversity maintenance to diverse audiences worldwide. |
$95,000 |
| Tides Foundation |
This grant underwrites participation in the International Forum on Indigenous Mapping in Vancouver (Canada) in March 2004 of 60 people from 25 countries, including TCF priority regions, to share experience with mapping to advance cultural vitality, resource management and legal rights of indigenous and tribal peoples. |
$70,000 |
| University of Florida |
To develop further a GIS-based global biocultural database and maps to build and disseminate understanding of the spatial relationships between biological and cultural diversity at both global and selected regional levels (namely Mesoamerica, the Hindu Kush and Northern Australia/Melanesia). |
$65,339 |
| Wild Foundation |
To organize and plan the integration of indigenous content for the 8th World Wilderness Congress in Alaska, 2005, especially around sharing the efforts of indigenous peoples to manage their own wildlands and to address climate change. |
$50,000 |
| |
Cross-Cutting Regions Total |
$924,924 |
| Greater Southwest (SW United States / NW Mexico) |
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| (SEED) Source for Educational Empowerment and Community Development |
To conduct a needs analysis and to plan and design an indigenous leadership graduate level program based on indigenous ways of knowing which will serve native communities in northern New Mexico and the Colorado Plateau. |
$100,000 |
| American Indian College Fund |
Underwrite travel and accommodation costs for participants from Native American language programs for a convening to discuss future strategies for advancing immersion schooling in the USA. |
$4,306.42 |
| Arizona Ethnobotanical Research Association |
To train Hopi and Navajo College students how to conduct culturally sensitive ethnobotanical research, plant and landscape conservation and environmental management. |
$32,000 |
| Black Mesa Trust |
To convene regional, national, and international gatherings in order to share traditional Hopi science, teachings, and myths that inform a proper and respectful relationship with water, and develop and implement special programs to educate and prepare a new generation of Hopi and other indigenous tribal leaders on the Colorado Plateau. |
$80,000 |
| Bread for the Journey, Inc. |
To support the travel of Hopi elders and youth to Mexico to undertake analysis of petroglyphs, historic sites, and spoken and written local documentation in order to corroborate and document Hopi Migration Histories. |
$14,886 |
| Cultural Conservancy |
Storyscape Projects that assist Southwestern US native communities in preservation and revitalization of culture, language, song, story, and lands. This grant underwrites a compilation CD of this work and a manual to serve as a comprehensive teaching tool enabling indigenous communities to make their own recordings. |
$100,000 |
| Developing Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc. |
To promote the re-vitalization of Navajo agriculture and small-scale food service entrepreneurs in the Navajo Nation and to enhance Navajo economic opportunity as well as to promote more diverse and healthier diets. |
$100,000 |
| Fuerza Ambiental A.C. |
Fuerza Ambiental proposes to complete ethno-ecological mapping and community planning, and initiate implementation of forest managment and watershed restoration plans in four Tarahumara and Tepehuan communities of Northwest Mexico. |
$75,000 |
| Native Seeds/SEARCH |
To start a program on traditional agriculture and sustainable crafts production with the Mayo people of Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, and expand the distribution of native agricultural crop seeds in the Greater American Southwest. |
$100,000 |
| Nature Conservancy |
To increase the capacity of the Mexican Parks Service (Consejo Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas) to work with the Indigenous peoples of Northwest Mexico on resource rights and management in the protected areas under CONANP jurisdiction. |
$60,000 |
| NatureServe |
To build a database to improve the management of the Pinacate Biosphere Reserve on the US/Mexico Border enabling the documentation of Tohono O'odham biological and cultural knowledge of their traditional territories. |
$60,600 |
| Northern Arizona University |
To develop a sacred sites and gathering grounds "toolkit" as a clearinghouse that indigenous communities in the Greater American Southwest will use towards sacred lands management and protection and train tribal natural resource managers and cultural preservation officers and other community leaders to develop policies and practices that safeguard their traditional sites and sacred lands. |
$100,000 |
| Slow Food USA |
To cover the travel costs of bringing 44 Indigenous people from communities across North America to participate at the Terra Madre: World Meeting of Food Communities in Turin, Italy. |
$40,000 |
| Sonoran Institute |
To support oral historical and ethnocartographic efforts by both US and Mexican O’odham and Cocopah groups on their Sonoran Desert and Colorado River Delta territories. The efforts will support the cultural stewardship of their lands. |
$100,000 |
| Tohono O`odham Community Action |
Bridge Grant to support TOCA's ongoing programming in this Sonoran Desert Indian tribe including production and distribution of traditional foods, traditional athletics, and basketry, access to additional public and private lands for collection of weaving materials. |
$75,000 |
| World Hope Foundation |
To support the Save the Peaks Coalition to build collaboration between thirteen tribes on the Colorado Plateau and some environmental groups to safeguard the ecologically important San Francisco peaks which are sacred to the tribes of this part of the US Southwest from further ski development. |
$25,455 |
| |
Greater Southwest Total |
$1,067,247.42 |
| Local Charitable Giving |
|
|
| Living Wisdom School |
Theater production of the Life of Kwan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Compassion. |
$8,000 |
| Community Association for Rehabilitation, Inc. |
To support the Infant Development Program, which will provide early intervention to approximately 190 infants ages birth to three in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, who are at risk of, or have been diagnosed with developmental delays. |
$9,000 |
| Community Foundation Silicon Valley – Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund |
2004 Holiday Fund |
$4,000 |
| Community Services Agency |
Emergency Assistance Program |
$4,000 |
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|
| |
Local Charitable Giving Total |
$25,000 |
| Membership of Grantmaking Associations |
|
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| Consultative Group on Biological Diversity |
General support dues (2004 and 2005) for the CBBD network of North American funders of environmental concerns to support learning and collaboration between foundations towards biodiversity conservation. |
$10,000 |
| Council on Foundations |
General support dues for the Council on Foundations, a membership organization of grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide that provides leadership expertise, legal services and networking opportunities to members and to the general public. |
$9,730 |
| Environmental Grantmakers Association/Rockefeller Family Fund |
To support the general costs for the Environmental Grantmakers Association's annual retreat in Kaua'i, Hawaii, October 3-6. |
$20,000 |
| Northern California Grantmakers |
General support dues for the Northern California Grantmakers, an association of foundations, corporate contributions programs and other private grantmakers working to enhance the effectiveness of philanthropy, and strengthen the ties between philanthropy and its many stakeholders. |
$9,500 |
| |
Membership of Grantmaking Associations Total |
$49,230 |
| N. Australia / Melanesia |
|
|
| Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation Pty Ltd |
To document, maintain and apply ecological and cultural knowledge of the Kuku-Thaypan people on their traditional country located within Lakfield National Park, Cape York Peninsula for future generations. |
$78,885 |
| Bumma Bippera Media Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation |
To enhance the Indigenous Community Radio/Media services of Northern Queensland, including expansion to neighboring Papua New Guinea and the Solomon and Cook Islands. |
$100,000 |
| Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management |
To develop a strategy for a community-driven leadership approach in natural and cultural resource management, to support the development of a scholarship program and improve communication through the dissemination of newletters on caring for country in Northern Australia. |
$86,544 |
| CRC Reef Research Ltd. |
To hold a workshop at IMPAC - Townsville for Melanesian and other Pacific policy makers and relevant stakeholders, aimed at incorporating traditional management knowledge and customary laws into local, state and national legal frameworks for better involvement of communities in sustainable development and biodiversity management. |
$25,000 |
| Gimuy Cultural Development Aboriginal Corporation |
Gimuy Cultural Node: Support, development and operationalization of a touch-screen interpretive program to enable residents and visitors to Cairns waterfront (Queensland, Australia) to learn about the history, culture, arts, and environment relationships of the indigenous Gimuy Walubara Yidinji and other neighboring peoples. |
$46,214 |
| Guru-Gulu Gungandji Aborignal Corporation |
To revitalize Gungandji culture and reconnect young people with their traditional country through bringing back the stories, language, art, music and dance and linking these to livelihood development and land and sea management. |
$68,321 |
| Kimberley Language Resource Centre |
Underwrite the development of management protocols for--and the assembly, use and dissemination of--the indigenous biological knowledge of the Kimberly language communities, in particular around freshwater ecology and in collaboration with appropriate land and conservation bodies. |
$100,000 |
| Nature Conservancy |
To co-finance the establishment a network of Melanesian community leaders interested in conservation and natural resource management for the benefit of their traditional lands, cultures and communities. |
$37,970 |
| Northern Land Council |
Mapping and management: Conserving indigenous knowledge of West Arnhem Plateau, Australia. Support will enable new generations to learn their clans' traditional cultural and land management knowledge to facilitate their re-occupation of their territories and their caring for country so as to halt declines in cultural and bio-diversity. |
$100,000 |
| Queensland Arts Council |
To stage, tour and document the musical play, Blow'im by Elverina Johnson, about the development of Aboriginal Brass Bands in the early twentieth century as part of the QAC Ontour inschools program to educate and inspire school children. |
$37,000 |
| Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association |
To enhance the experience of Australia's Top End remote area indigenous video producers and filmmakers through an exchange visit with the Chiapas Media Project, Mexico. |
$50,000 |
| Torres Strait Regional Authority |
To enable curators from the new Torres Strait Cultural Centre to visit museums in the US, Canada, Japan and Cambridge (UK) to review their cultural holdings; discuss collaboration and repatriation, and to network with other Indigenous curators on cultural heritage issues. |
$20,000 |
| Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE |
To strengthen delivery of teacher education in remote area indigenous learning centers of Northern Queensland to increase the number of registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (TSI) teachers available to teach in Indigenous communities. |
$95,850 |
| University of Queensland |
For the continuation of work being undertaken by the researchers and the five remaining Yanyuwa language speakers to record and document language and cultural knowledge for future generations through the production of a CD (plus booklet) and a set of four bilingual comic books. |
$13,000 |
| UNU Institute of Advanced Studies |
To explore the viability of a United Nations University Research and Training Centre on Traditional Knowledge based in Australia with a focus on regional and global traditional ecological knowledge. |
$87,500 |
| Yalanjiwarra Jalunji Marrjanga Aboriginal Corporation |
To establish a framework to strengthen Eastern Kuku Yalanji Traditional Governance by utilising traditional cultural decision-making and management processes to work towards the securing of a future for their traditional lands and culture in Northern Queensland |
$70,000 |
| Yothu Yindi Foundation Aboriginal Corporation |
To underwrite the "Indigenous Livelihoods" and "Leaders and Leadership" Forum at the 2004 Garma Festival of Traditional Culture of East Arnhem Land (Australia), cover participation of indigenous people in the Festival including Yolngu traditional elders and artists, and contribute to general festival costs. |
$73,900 |
| |
N. Australia / Melanesia Total |
$1,090,184 |
| The Bay Area |
|
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| Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center |
Contribution to the capital campaign of this Bay Area community music and dance center in Berkeley with a uniquely globally diverse traditional and contemporary music program in order that they may purchase their building. |
$20,000 |
| Ballet Afsaneh Art and Culture Society |
To develop an in-house version of a DVD of contemporary Iranian poetry performed to dance, to develop a marketing website for the DVD, and to work further on a text manuscript of the poems. |
$40,000 |
| California College of the Arts |
Planning grant to the Center for Art and Public Life program of the College to support young Iranian-American artists in a pilot exhibit inviting inter-generational and inter-cultural dialogue among members of the Iranian Diaspora and with the wider public in the Bay Area. |
$25,000 |
| Earth Island Institute |
To support the Sacred Land Film Project to plan and hold three Bay Area Screenings of the film, In The Light Of Reverence, in conjunction with Mini Conferences spotlighting individual threatened sacred sites. |
$20,000 |
| Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center, Inc. |
The grant underwrites the celebration for the first time of Ethiopian New Year in Oakland, California, which will showcase culture and tradition to create better understanding and appreciation of community among Ethiopians and others. |
$26,800 |
| Ethiopian Community Services, Inc. |
Underwrite building a database of the estimated 25,000 Ethiopian Diaspora living in Santa Clara County, California; celebration of the Ethiopian New year "EnKU TA Tash"; and a feasibility study for a cultural center. |
$55,000 |
| Ethiopian Community Services, Inc. |
The grant underwrites a weekend private school program for second-generation Ethiopian Diaspora children to acquire Amharic language skills and to orient them in Ethiopian culture and social life to enable their active membership of host and home communities. |
$33,000 |
| Friends of Farallone PTA |
To enable Farallone View Elementary School in Moss Beach, California to purchase materials to expand their innovative three-dimensional art program to engage with the cultural and artistic expression of Australia and Papua New Guinea. |
$2,840 |
| Montalvo Association |
Core support for the inaugural year of an international residency program for artists (working in the full range of media, including music) at a leading Bay Area multi-disciplinary arts center. |
$40,000 |
| Pacific News Service/ Afghan Journal |
To enable the Afghan Story, a project of Pacific News Services, to hold a writing competition for Bay-Area Afghan-American youth that focuses on connecting their experiences with those of their homeland and elders, in collaboration with prominent Afghan-American writers and Afghan-American organizations. |
$25,000 |
| Will Rogers Middle School / San Juan Unified School District |
Support an ongoing project to connect the communities of Kersa in Ethiopia and Fair Oaks California through the school children using multimedia tools, community events and the publication of short stories. |
$26,000 |
| |
The Bay Area Total |
$313,640 |
| |
Grand Total |
$5,410,767.42 |
