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Organization Name
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Grant Description
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Grant Amount
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African Rift Valley
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Action for Environmental Public Advocacy
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To underwrite the institutional and legal establishment of sixteen southwest Ethiopian montagnard and lowland agro-pastoral community associations to develop local capacities to sustain cultural expression and landscape.
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$54,740
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African Conservation Center in Nairobi
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To disseminate lessons learned on landscape-scale rangeland management from exchanges between African Maasai nomadic pastoralists and American "cowboys" and "cowgirls" through publications, a KiSwahili language video, web-based materials, and community workshops.
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$29,000
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|
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African Wildlife Foundation
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To underwrite landscape level research and management of Grevy's Zebra in the Samburu Heartlands in Kenya, linking conservation with community development; alongside comparative study of the conservation of the Grevy's Zebra in Southern Ethiopia.
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$200,000
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(over two years)
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Arba Minch Vocational Technical School
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The grant underwrites the creation of a new training program in indigenous crafts, including weaving, grinding stone making and pottery to encourage local artistic creation and cultural expression in the Central Montagnard Area in South West Ethiopia.
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$53,000
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Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
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To underwrite the visit of a diverse group of twenty Ethiopian local leaders to the American Southwest to share in the experiences of native organizations and groups in the US around place-based development that values cultures and landscapes.
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$196,360
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Culture and Art Society of Ethiopia
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The grant underwrites capacity building for this new arts and cultural organization and finances launching of new programs to popularize indigenous music at university campuses and urban theaters and the publishing of a literary anthology of five young Ethiopian poets.
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$55,000
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Culture and Art Society of Ethiopia
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To underwrite three projects: compiling of a tri-lingual Mursi dictionary with this agro-pastoral lowland people; collaborative research with Tsamai, Arbore, Hamar and Birale pastoralists on their indigenous veterinary knowledge; and establishing a computer lab at Chencha Secondary school in the Central Montagnard Region to prepare students for university entry.
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$200,000
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Culture and Art Society of Ethiopia
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To underwrite field research by five MA students of the Addis Abeba University in indigenous conflict management systems between tribal groups across Southern Ethiopia, and on local systems of pasture management in the central Montagnard areas of southwest Ethiopia
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$72,670
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Ethiopian Community Services, Inc.
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To underwrite the cost of publishing two issues of the "International Journal of Ethiopian Studies", a scholarly peer reviewed journal published in the US to foster research and reflection on Ethiopian social, economic and cultural issues within the country and worldwide.
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$50,712
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Fauna & Flora International (UK)
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To undertake field studies and meetings to develop new approaches to conservation with the pastoral peoples of Southern Ethiopia's Rift and Omo Valleys in close collaboration with the Bureau of Agriculture of the Southern Regional State and Debub University's Center for the Study of Environment and Society.
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$49,760
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Global Music Exchange
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To underwrite audiovisual presentation, recording and dissemination of the Folk Music and Dance Festival of Ethiopia in Arba Minch in the Ethiopian Southwest (December 2005) to convey links between music, landscapes and lifeways and enable local and international dissemination of these remarkable diverse traditions.
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$117,530
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Parka Environmental & Cultural Protection Association
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To work with traditional "parka" farmers groups to restore culturally-based environmental awareness and ways of tackling local development and natural resource challenges, and to protect sites of cultural and biological diversity in the Konso montagnard landscape of Southwest Ethiopia.
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$58,400
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Society for the Practice and Maintenance of Indigenous Cultural Environmental and Spiritual Knowledge
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To underwrite activities of a new local association dedicated to revitalizing indigenous landscape management and conservation systems, including mountain pastures and foodways through awareness raising, festivals and awards in three local government woredas in the Montagnard Region of Gamo Gofa in Southwest Ethiopia.
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$40,200
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Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Bureau of Information and Culture (SNNPRS)
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To underwrite participation of over forty-five indigenous southwest Ethiopian ethnic groups at the second Regional Folk Music and Dance Festival to be held in Arba Minch, Ethiopia, to celebrate their traditions and to share them with the world.
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$90,000
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Tabor Cultural Foods and Drinks Heritage Preservation and Promotion Association
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To underwrite the cost of surveying of the indigenous food situation, to organize a festival of Southern Ethiopian indigenous food in Awasa town and to build the capacity of Tabor Cultural Foods and Drinks Heritage Promotion Association.
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$39,575
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The Hakluyt Society
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To underwrite translation of the valuable manuscript "História da Etiopia" by Pedro Paez (who lived in Southern Ethiopia from 1603 to 1621), for its printing and distribution to make available new perspectives on the history of the region to the present generation.
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$29,226
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Universiteit Utrecht
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Scholarship for travel, maintenance, and tuition for an indigenous student from southwest Ethiopia to study comparative public law and good governance in the Netherlands to build capacity for indigenous rights and development in southwest Ethiopia.
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$31,560
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Yakima Ome Gutara Association
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To support an Indigenous Seeds and Food Day for a neighborhood cultural association in the Yakima Village in Wolaita in the central Montagnard Area, Ethiopia to spread enthusiasm and understanding of traditional foodways and agro-biodiversity and their link to cultural vitality.
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$10,937
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Total Africa Rift Valley (18 grants)
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$1,378,670
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Central Asia and Turkey
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|
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Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development
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To enhance culture and land-based livelihoods by assisting Kyrgyz craftswomen in the Murghab high-altitude plateau of Badakhshan, Tajikistan in product design, use of natural dyes and creative use of a wider variety of traditional patterns linked to their legends, which will also be documented.
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$17,000
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|
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Aid to Artisans
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To develop a framework for crafts development in Badakhshan (Tajikistan) in collaboration with local and regional NGOs, and to enhance the capacity of the Mountain Societies Development Support Program (MSDSP) to support traditional artisans to market their work regionally and internationally.
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$100,000
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|
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Aigine
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To support collaboration with local guardians and local government to protect sacred places in the Talas region, to start biological assessment of sacred places, and to enable the voices of guardians through networking and support; and finally to start applied research on sacred places in the Issyk-Kul province in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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$106,000
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Ak Terek Public Fund
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For action-based research to enhance adaptability to environmental and climate change among pastoralists and to support their cultural connections to their land in the high altitude grasslands (jailoos) of the Tien Shan Mountains in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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$101,656
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Anadolu Kultur A.S.
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To develop programs engaging the local community with the broader cultural heritage and urban revitalization project in Kars, NE Turkey, including cultural-educational activities for Namik Kamal House, bio-diverse Caucasian food ways, oral histories with the History Foundation, and youth documentary film training in collaboration with Troya Media.
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$48,925
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Ballet Afsaneh Art and Culture Society
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Underwrite travel costs of two Bay Area artists to Dushanbe to work with Tajik counterparts on the understanding and support of the diverse traditional dance and related cultural expression in Tajikistan.
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$25,119
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CAT Action Treasury
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Planning grant to generate proposals in collaboration with local organizations on how ecological and cultural keystone species in the Murghab plateau and Wakhan Corridor of Tajikistan (including snow leopard, Marco Polo mountain sheep and various plants) can be sustained through connecting their conservation to enhancing local livelihoods.
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$47,000
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|
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Door Dog Music Productions
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To plan an international cultural festival in the Yaylas (high mountain pastures) of NE Turkey in 2007 as a foundation for cultural revival.
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$88,000
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Global Heritage Fund
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Restoration of the former home of Namik Kemal, a renowned Turkish writer from Kars (Turkey) to serve as a center for cultural and biological education for the Ottoman neighborhood, particularly the youth and university students of Kars.
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$120,000
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Institute for International Urban Development
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To develop local and regional government policy to support agro-biodiversity, agro-processing, and socially inclusive eco-tourism in the Kars area of N.E. Turkey.
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$70,000
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|
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Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
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To provide support for participation of Central Asian (including Afghan) artists and curators in the Istanbul Biennial Festival in September 2005, including the showing of landscape-related video art from Central Asia.
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$24,610
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Mountain Regions Cultural Development Programme
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To pilot the development of new music groups, performance and recordings in Badakhshan and Dushanbe (Tajikistan) to develop ways to combine traditional and contemporary approaches in music in connection with the land.
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$50,767
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Restaurateurs Sans frontieres - CENTRAL ASIA
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To develop proposals to turn several small museums into centers of living culture and learning in Tolok, Son Kul area in the Kyrgyz Republic, and in Badakhshan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and to assist the set-up of a Central Asian organization to restore folklore traditions.
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$125,000
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SAGE Gateshead
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To support the development, protection, and marketing of local musics that combine traditional and contemporary themes and influences in Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan.
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$136,563
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Stanford University
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To support work in Kars, NE Turkey on ornithological and agro-biodiversity research and project development in agro-biodiversity in collaboration with Turkish organic food producers, as well as educational outreach to school children in collaboration with Anadolu Kultur.
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$51,251
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|
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Triad Institute
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To conduct a pilot workshop on place-based writing in Dushanbe for students and teachers at the Aga Khan Humanities Project for Central Asia to help young people from Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic better connect their cultures and landscapes.
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$45,000
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|
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Total Central Asia and Turkey (16 grants)
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$1,156,891
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Cross-Cutting Regions
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Banff Centre
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To support participant travel and organizational costs of the "Cultures at Risk" Summit in Banff, Canada in August 2005 for three days of education, sharing and exploration of traditional Mountain Culture resilience and relationships with place, and expressions of cultural identity and landscape through the arts.
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$50,000
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Environmental Research Mapping and Information Systems in Africa (ERMIS Africa)
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To underwrite participation of 22 Ethiopian, Central Asian and First Nation Canadian participants in an international conference and training on participatory mapping in Nairobi in September 2005, and the follow up publication and dissemination to build and share knowledge of cultural mapping among indigenous and local communities worldwide.
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$104,728
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|
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Fernwood Press (Pty) Limited
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Partially underwrite production and distribution costs of African Basketry: Grassroots Art from Southern Africa to build appreciation of a cultural tradition that connects artistic expression, ways of life and livelihoods, and plants as fibres and dyes.
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$25,000
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Underwrite development and communication of the conceptual framework for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) program to recognize and sustain unique agro-biodiversity and land-use systems around the world.
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$51,763
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|
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greenmuseum.org
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To develop through Funder's Forums and a symposium the funding and institutional infastructure for the environmental art movement so as to facilitate further expansion of place-based art that helps improve relationships with the natural world.
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$50,000
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|
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International Forum on Globalization
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Co-finance the distribution costs of the report "Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Resistance to Economic Globalization" to inform debate worldwide on ways to address negative impacts of globalization on diversity.
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$10,900
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|
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International Society of Ethnobiology
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To increase indigenous participation internationally in the field of ethnobiology through underwriting development of the Darrell Posey Fellowship program; website, journal, services and resources to members; and through the Global Coalition partnership on key issues such as property rights, ethics and biocultural diversity.
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$200,000
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IUCN-US
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To underwrite participation of sacred place guardians and others at the Symposium in Japan in June 2005 "Conserving Cultural and Biological Diversity; the Role of Sacred Natural Sites and Cultural Landscapes" (co- organized with UNESCO and United Nations University as part of the World Expo "Celebrating Diversity"), to advance recognition of the roles of traditional guardians in sacred place and cultural landscape management.
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$55,000
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|
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Northern Arizona University Foundation
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Documentation and dissemination of the loss of agro-biodiversity in four of the world's Vavilovian centers of plant domestication, and of the efforts being made to maintain this crucial resource for agriculture, farming cultures and foodways.
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$190,070
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(over two years)
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People and Plants International
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To develop and share diverse practical methods for returning the findings of ethno-ecological research to local communities so that they can use them for conservation, cultural and resource management purposes.
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$100,000
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|
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Society for Conservation Biology
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To contribute towards the organizational costs of "Conservation Without Borders" the twentieth annual congress of the Society for Conservation Biology, to be held in San Jose California in June 2006.
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$37,500
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|
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Society for Ecological Restoration International
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To bring 40 indigenous participants to The Society for Ecological Restoration's International Annual Conference in Zaragoza, Spain to share climate change experiences with researchers and for the DVD filming and dissemination of the proceedings.
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$110,000
|
|
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Tides Foundation
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To co-fund Stage II of the Genesis Project of Sebastião Salgado, a photo documentary and educational project to bring global attention to the origins and importance of biological and cultural diversity.
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$300,000
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(over two years)
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United Nations Environment Programme - Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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To underwrite attendance of nine indigenous representatives from Australia, Melanesia, the Pacific, Asia and Africa at the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Bangkok to negotiate the development of international regimes for access and benefit sharing.
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$31,000
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United Nations Environment Programme - Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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To support participation of indigenous and local community representatives in the meetings of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Article 8(j) (on traditional knowledge) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Granada, Spain, January - February 2006.
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$58,700
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|
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White Earth Land Recovery Project
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To support an Indigenous Peoples Conference on Biocolonialism in Arizona in February 2006 to share experiences, investigate options and develop strategies to protect traditional knowledge, biological resources and food-ways from biopiracy.
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$74,040
|
|
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WILD Foundation
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To support the 8th World Wilderness Congress in Anchorage, Alaska, specifically activities (a) integrating indigenous and western knowledge of the ecological impacts of climate change, (b) case studies of indigenous peoples' own wildland conservation efforts, and (c) Native Alaskan cultural events at the Congress to celebrate the on-going stewardship of their wildlands.
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$75,000
|
|
|
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Total Cross-Cutting Regions (17 grants)
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$1,523,701
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|
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Greater Southwest
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Anthropological Research, LLC
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To strengthen understanding of the past and present of the Zuni Salt Lake cultural landscape to help secure its future through collaborative research involving Indigenous knowledge keepers of four Pueblo tribes of the US Southwest and anthropologists.
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$70,000
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(over two years)
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Center of Southwest Culture, Inc.
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To support a mutual cultural exchange between Zia Pueblo Elders of New Mexico and Raramuri Elders from Chihuahua, Mexico.
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$35,000
|
|
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Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible, A.C.
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To publish and disseminate in English and Spanish findings on practice from the International Association for the Study of Common Property conference in Oaxaca in 2004 on environmental services compensation; conservation and commons management; Indigenous resource rights, traditional knowledge and identity; managing the global commons; and on markets and certification.
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$40,150
|
|
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Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
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To support Crow Canyon's response to Pueblo Indian desires to explore together their past heritage and culture through participatory archaeological research on the changing agricultural practices and the paleoenvironment of the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.
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$45,000
|
|
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Cultural Conservancy Sacred Land Foundation
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Continued support for the Storyscape Project to increase tribal and public awareness of biocultural conservation, traditional foodways, sacred lands, environmental protection, and the restoration of native song and lands through a DVD, CD, and curriculum manual.
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$110,000
|
|
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Developing Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc.
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To extend agricultural support services to Navajo traditional farmers and small-scale food service entrepreneurs, and to link agricultural restoration efforts to cultural and educational programs for youth.
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$170,000
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(over two years)
|
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Drylands Institute
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To document, encourage, and preserve traditional Yoeme (Yaqui) knowledge and use of both wild and cultivated plants and the traditions surrounding their Pascola mask making through a book, DVD and educational materials for their schools.
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$50,000
|
|
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Environmental Grantmakers Association
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To strengthen collaboration between funders and indigenous farmers and foodways by providing general support and travel stipends for indigenous participants to the 3rd Annual Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders Forum in Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico in June 2005.
|
$20,000
|
|
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Espanola Public Schools
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To support the ESE! Youth Video Festival at Espanola Valley High School to celebrate and encourage Hispano and Indigenous youth in northern New Mexico involvement in in their cultural heritage through video making.
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$19,520
|
|
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Hopi Foundation
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To support community efforts to revitalize Hopi desert agricultural systems, through the restoration of traditional orchards and terraces, a photo exhibit of historic Hopi agriculture, and the convening of a Hopi Food and Agriculture symposium.
|
$60,000
|
|
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Indigenous Language Institute
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To support a collaboration with Nambe Pueblo to involve Nambe youth in an environmental and language restoration program work at a culturally important lake and waterfall in Northern New Mexico.
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$100,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
International Sonoran Desert Alliance
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To support the planning and design phase with Hia Ced O'odham artists and consultants for an exhibition, retail gallery, and performance space on cultural expression and land at the old Curley School site in Ajo, Arizona.
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$100,000
|
|
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Native Seeds/SEARCH
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Donation of 2004 Nissan Murano to Native Seeds/SEARCH to be used for field operations.
|
$29,150
|
|
|
Native Seeds/SEARCH
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To continue to build local capacity among the Tarahumara and Mayo of Northwest Mexico and general crop growout of heirloom seed of the Greater Southwest through seed banking, outreach to local traditional farmers, and both in situ and ex situ conservation efforts.
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$200,000
|
|
|
New Mexico Acequia Association
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To support efforts to maintain the acequias of northern New Mexico (ancient irrigration and community water management systems) by engaging youth to document the techniques while being mentored by current traditional farmers, so as to cultivate the next generation of acequia farmers and community water activists.
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$100,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
Northern Arizona University Foundation, Inc
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To strengthen local Comca'ac (Seri) Indian capacity to assure transmission and innovation around their traditional art forms of music, dance and traditional navigation connected to the creatures, land and seascapes of their territory in northwest Mexico.
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$100,000
|
|
|
Taos Pueblo Education & Training Division
|
To strengthen sustainable agriculture, health, lifestyle, culture, economic development, renewable energy, ecology, and education through a youth oriented Sustainability Initiative including the construction of a 3000 sq. ft. greenhouse.
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$50,000
|
|
|
Tohono O`odham Community Action
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Continuing support for a Celebration of Basketry and Native Foods Festival, programming connected to the production and distribution of traditional desert foods, traditional athletics, basketry, and access to public and private lands for the collection of weaving materials.
|
$200,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
Triadigm Foundation - A National Heritage Foundation
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To explore creation of a centralized Story Catcher Internet portal to provide on-line collaborative gathering space promoting the activities and successes of Colorado Plateau sustainable-living organizations and community initiatives.
|
$15,000
|
|
|
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Total Greater Southwest (19 grants)
|
$1,513,820
|
|
|
Melanesia
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|
|
|
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Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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To underwrite botanical fieldwork in Papua New Guinea in collaboration with local institutions, to provide systematic biodiversity information for the islands, and continue TCF support for publication of the Flowering Plants of Papuasia and update the reference book Common Forest Trees.
|
$55,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc.
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For Traditional Landowner Legal Support and Environmental Law and Policy Reform in Support of Biodiversity Conservation in Papua New Guinea.
|
$45,300
|
|
|
Griffith University
|
To undertake a participatory review of the Indigenous Intellectual Property rights issues in Northern Australia and Melanesia to lay the foundation for a 5-year program to strengthen the capacity of Indigenous communities in the region to protect and promote their cultural and biological heritage.
|
$95,000
|
|
|
Macquarie University
|
To collect, distil and disseminate lessons learned within Melanesia about legal reform in support of community-based environmental management.
|
$59,211
|
|
|
PNG University of Technology
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Small Scale Pilot Project on Seed Collection, Propagation, Cultivation and Trial Extraction and Bottling of Nonie Juice in PNG.
|
$13,811
|
|
|
United Nations University
|
To underwrite the costs of participants from Melanesia and Micronesia at the third workshop in a program on incorporating traditional knowledge and customary law as the basis for developing long-term policies and practices for the sustainable management of the Pacific region's natural resources.
|
$75,000
|
|
|
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Total Melanesia (6 grants)
|
$343,322
|
|
|
Northern Australia
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|
|
|
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Area, Cultures and Histories Program, Queensland Museum
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To support cultural activities and community participation in the opening ceremony and launch of the Queensland Museum's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures Centre in Brisbane.
|
$31,676
|
|
|
Australian Conservation Foundation
|
To co-fund a roundtable of stakeholders of the Fitzroy Basin to chart an ecologically, culturally, socially and economically sustainable future for this region of the Kimberly of Northern Australia, grounded in the vision and values of the peoples of the region and Indigenous governance.
|
$42,000
|
|
|
Australian Tropical Research Foundation
|
To enable Kuku Yalanji Australian Aboriginal elders to travel to New York to participate on a photographic and art exhibition of the Daintree Rainforest Land Trust featuring the interaction of the Kuku Yalanji with the forest through their art, history, culture, music and dance.
|
$45,000
|
|
|
Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management
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To hold two Indigenous Knowledge forums and additional smaller 'bush based' workshops to enable representatives from remote communities to discuss issues concerning the status and future of Indigenous knowledge systems across the savannah regions of Northern Australia.
|
$200,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
Griffith University
|
To support an innovative mentorship program at the Cape York Institute to build the capacity of young Indigenous people in Far North Queensland to navigate between different worlds, cultures and geographies and enable them to maximise their opportunities for education, careers and leadership.
|
$84,000
|
|
|
Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council
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To assess the ecological and cultural values of the Mitchell River Delta wetlands in Far North Queensland Australia towards developing a wetland management plan and nomination as an indigenous protected area, and possibly ultimately as a Ramsar Convention Wetland site.
|
$100,000
|
|
|
Lumbu Indigenous Community Foundation
|
To underwrite a series of planning workshops across Australia based on "The Lumbu Way", a framework utilizing Indigenous Knowledge to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations to promote governance, capacity and sustainability on communities' own terms.
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$200,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
Madjulla Inc.
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To implement and evaluate the pilot Nyikina Language and Culture course as part of the process of developing a cultural recovery and maintenance program that can be ultimately managed and delivered by the Nyikina people of the Kimberley region of northwest Australia themselves.
|
$100,000
|
|
|
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
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To provide assistance to the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Marika families to assemble a comprehensive visual arts exhibition about Yalangabara, a site sacred to the Rirratjingu clan of northeast Arnhem Land, expressing their connection of art, land, history and people.
|
$84,800
|
|
|
Music Arts Dance Films Pty Ltd.
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To film for posterity the final funeral rites of Bill Neidjie, in accordance with his wishes as the last Gagudju-speaking member of the Bunitj clan, remembering the life of the elder who was decisive in securing world heritage status for Kakadu site in Northern Australia.
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$20,000
|
|
|
Queensland Folk Federation
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To cover participation costs for leading Indigenous artists, weavers and musicians from the northern and western regions of Australia to participate in Australia's inaugural International Indigenous Festival, "The Dreaming".
|
$80,200
|
|
|
Queensland Music Festival Pty Ltd
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To enable the "Cooktown Celebration" in northern Queensland to feature thirty distinguished Melanesian musicians for a week-long celebration involving cultural exchange, exploration and reconnection with the local Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Australian South Sea Islander communities.
|
$100,000
|
|
|
Queensland University of Technology
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To develop skills in digital technology and content production focusing on school children and adolescents, but also including teachers and community members of the Woorabinda Aboriginal community of central north Queensland to increase their educational achievement and leadership potential.
|
$24,000
|
|
|
The University of Queensland
|
To enable the successful establishment of the International Journal of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies and the publication and distribution of its first four hard-copy issues to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of racism.
|
$60,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
Woomera Aboriginal Corporation
|
To underwrite the Mornington Island Youth Culture Program to ensure the continuity of Lardil traditional knowledge of culture and country and associated song and dance traditions in the Gulf of Carpenteria by linking young people with the custodians of this rich cultural expression.
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$67,800
|
|
|
Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation
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To develop and present a contemporary Indigenous production, Jila's Bush Meeting, incorporating physical theatre, circus, movement, visual arts, soundscapes, illusion and new media set and based in the Kimberly region of northwest Australia.
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$100,000
|
|
|
Yothu Yindi Foundation Aboriginal Corporation
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To underwrite the Indigenous Cultural Livelihoods and Leadership forums and related activities and indigenous participation in the 2005 and 2006 Garma Festivals in Arnhem Land, Australia; and finance a Communications Consultancy to develop and implement a communications, publications and reporting strategy and program.
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$200,000
|
(over two years)
|
|
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Total Northern Australia (17 grants)
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$1,539,476
|
|
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The Bay Area
|
|
|
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Afghan Coalition
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To support performances of a play based on the 10th Century Story of the Trial of the Animals Against Humans in the Court of the Genies, involving participation of the Afghan-American youth in the San Francisco Bay Area.
|
$50,000
|
|
|
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
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To underwrite an outreach program to connect this important Berkeley community cultural space with the changing diaspora in San Francisco's Bay Area.
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$20,000
|
|
|
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
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Co-fund the creation of Life: A Journey Through Time (a multimedia collaboration between nature photographer Frans Lanting, composer Philip Glass and mixed media artist Alex Nichols) to illuminate the "Gaia" hypothesis for presentation at the August 2006 festival and beyond.
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$30,000
|
|
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California College of the Arts
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To nurture community-based art within the Bay Area Iranian-American community through photographic documentation by teenagers of their daily lives in the Bay Area, identifying and inviting families to participate in photographic portraits of their space, and the set-up of a Community Council.
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$25,000
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Door Dog Music Productions
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To highlight the shared importance of Nouruz, the Persian New Year, among the Afghan, Azerbaijani, Iranian, Kurdish, and Turkish diaspora communities in the Bay area in a performance combining music, poetry, dance and film at the San Francisco World Music Festival (SFWMF).
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$25,000
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Ethiopian Cultural Institute, Inc.
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The grant provides a second year of support to a weekend school program for second-generation Ethiopian children to acquire Amharic language skills and heritage awareness in the Santa Clara Valley of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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$28,000
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Ethiopian Arts Forum
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To underwrite three Bay Area cultural events by this new organization involving poetry recital, the staging of folk music and dance, drama, an art/artifact and costumes exhibition as a means of cultural connection, sharing of heritage and engendering cultural awareness among Diaspora Ethiopians.
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$25,000
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Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center, Inc.
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The grant underwrites the celebration for the second time of Ethiopian New Year in Oakland, California, to showcase culture and tradition and promote understanding and appreciation of community among Ethiopians and others.
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$25,000
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Ethiopian Community Services, Inc.
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The grant underwrites the celebration for the second time of Ethiopian New Year in San Jose, California, to showcase culture and tradition and promote understanding and appreciation of community among Ethiopians and others.
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$25,000
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Hunters Point Family
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Support of an environmental health program to provide youth living in low-income environmentally hazardous San Francisco public housing developments with training and support to grow, market and value healthy organic food from their community gardens.
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$25,000
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Mexican Heritage Corporation
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To support a community-based strategic re-development and re-vitalization of a multicultural visual and performing arts center (the Mexican Heritage Plaza) in San Jose, California.
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$40,000
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New Music Works
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To underwrite three projects focusing on creative interactions between contemporary and traditional artistic expression and nature, in particular a joint event with the University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum celebrating the botanical and cultural heritage of New Zealand/Aoteorea
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$30,000
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University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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To underwrite a Central Asian Film Festival in the Bay Area of films made between 1945 and 2003 from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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$10,000
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White Earth Land Recovery Project
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To work with California paddy rice producers around not growing genetically engineered wild rice (a native cereal managed on the lakes of Minnesota by the Ashinaabeg people) and installing fair labeling of wild rice, and to begin an educational campaign in California to inform consumers about the fair trade aspects of wild rice.
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$20,000
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Total The Bay Area (14 grants)
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$378,000
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Disaster Giving
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Global Greengrants Fund
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Special Tsunami Recovery Program to underwrite a small grants program to support grass roots ecological and community livelihood restoration efforts around the Indian Ocean with particular focus in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands.
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$77,000
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Total Disaster Giving (1 grant)
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$77,000
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Grantmaking Associations
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Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
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General support (2006 and 2007) for this association of North American funders of environmental concerns to support learning and collaboration between foundations towards biodiversity conservation internationally.
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$10,000
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(for two years)
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Council on Foundations
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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.
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$9,730
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First Nations Development Institute
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For core support for the International Funders for Indigenous People to increase foundation commitment and more effective grantmaking towards indigenous people worldwide through increased networking, enhancing collaborations, capacity building, and promoting linkages.
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$42,500
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Native Americans in Philanthropy
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General support for Native Americans in Philanthropy, a national organization created to increase the effectiveness of philanthropy related to Native people particularly in the United States.
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$5,000
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Northern California Grantmakers
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General support dues for the Northern California Grantmakers, a regional association of foundations, corporate contributions programs and other private grantmakers committed to enhancing the effectiveness of philanthropy, and strengthening the ties between philanthropy and its many stakeholders.
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$9,239
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Rockefeller Family Fund
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General support for the Grants Managers Network (GMN), a project of the Rockefeller Family Fund. The Network provides grants managers valuable opportunities for professional development and a forum for learning from each other about best practices.
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$1,000
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Rockefeller Family Fund
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General support for the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) a group of North American funders that support learning and collaboration between foundations on diverse approaches to tackling environmental issues.
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$6,373
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Tides Center
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Provision of general support to the African Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG), an association of foundations making grants in Africa to enable collaboration, the sharing of experience, and the raising of the profile of Africa among grantmakers.
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$3,000
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(for two years)
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Tides Center
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To provide general support to Grantmakers without Borders (Gw/oB) towards their support for increasing strategic and compassionate funding for international societal change.
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$10,000
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(over two years)
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Total Grantmaking Associations (9 grants)
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$96,842
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|
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Local Charitable Giving
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Child Family Health International
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To undertake an outreach program to health science students at selected Bay Area colleges to raise their awareness of the issue of the waste of unwanted medical supplies in US hospitals and how these can be salvaged and distributed worldwide.
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$4,000
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Community School of Music and Arts
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To support a Financial Aid Program to provide access to quality music and arts education programs to low-income and talented students in this Mountain View institution in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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$3,000
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Community Services Agency
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To support independence and self-sufficiency of people in need in the towns of Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills in the San Francisco Bay Area through the Emergency Assistance program.
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$4,000
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Living Wisdom School
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To underwrite volunteer stipends for a theater production on non-violence and the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. at a local Bay Area school.
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$4,000
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
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Support for Hurricane Katrina relief effort to enable PPFA affiliates, in the Gulf States and beyond, to provide free and/or deeply discounted health care services to those displaced by this devastating storm.
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$10,000
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Total Local Charitable Giving (5 grants)
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$25,000
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Grand Total 2005 including Multi-Year Commitments (122 grants)
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$8,032,722
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