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Grants Awarded 2006 Please Note: An asterisk (*) indicates a grant that is shared by multiple program areas. For the purpose of the total number of grants, such a grant is only counted once. Organization Name Grant Description Grant Amount African Rift Valley Action for Environmental Public Advocacy Underwrites training, capacity building and legal support for thirty culture and environment community associations and local government officials in $120,000 (over two years) African Conservation Fund This grant underwrites preparation and hosting for the bringing together of community, national and international conservation experts to a four-day workshop in Arba Minch, Ethiopia, in early 2007 on "The Future of Pastoralism, Wildlife and Landscape Conservation in the Ethiopian Rift Valley" to work towards a shared vision and strategy for securing the region's unique biological and cultural diversity. $119,440 Aid to Artisans To assess the artisan situation in the Gamo Gofa, in $50,000 Culture and Art Society of This grant underwrites the publishing of a Boran Cultural Dictionary and its public launching as a partnership between indigenous experts and a team of lexicographers in support of cultural expression, transmission and propagation of living indigenous knowledge in $11,050 Culture and Art Society of To underwrite a small grants program to community cultural and environment associations in $900,000 (over two years) Culture and Art Society of To co-finance a program enabling the stewards of artisanal craft traditions in the Central Montagnard region of Southwestern Ethiopia to train the new generation and raise product aesthetics and quality in order to guarantee continued demand and usability of crafts products to secure livelihoods. $88,554 (over two years) Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society Supplementary funding for the sacred groves of Southern Ethiopia project to allow dissemination of findings and community restoration efforts in the four woredas of first-round study areas of the Gamo Gofa, and expansion to the remaining woredas of Gamo Gofa and to the $183,744 (over two years) Fauna & Flora International ( To underwrite capacity building for Rendille and Boran peoples of $100,000 To underwrite the publication and launch of an edited collection of field studies of resettlement and displacement in $22,160 Friends of The grant funds will underwrite the purchase of books, archival materials and maintenance facilities and support digitization and cataloguing in the library of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES), of the $150,000 (over two years) Global Music Exchange To underwrite the "1000 Stars 2006" Arba Minch Festival of Folk Music and Dance through a partnership with Gughe (a recently established local music and arts association) and the regional and town governments to celebrate the diversity of local music and their links to identities, landscapes and life ways. $146,031 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Supplementary grant to underwrite completion of a doctoral research project: "Value Systems, Indigenous Institutions and Development in South-Western Ethiopia" through supporting field research with the Guraghe and other Oromo-speaking groups. $26,945 Music for the Earth Underwrites the "Great Rift Valley Suite," the bringing together of musicians from the US, Uganda and Ethiopia's Southwest to perform in Addis Ababa to raise awareness and appreciation for bird migrations and the music of the people living in the Rift Valley. $53,346 National Museums of Research on the changing symbiotic relationship between the honeyguide (a bird that guides honey hunters to bees' nests in exchange for wax and grubs) and honey gathers to explore how to maintain this relationship for mutual benefit which has sustained since time immemorial. $62,003 To support a conservation science fellowship for a Senior Research Scientist to implement ornithological and bio-cultural diversity field research, education and local partnerships in $75,296 (over three years) Tsalke Education and Integrated Development Association The grant underwrites support to marginalized children of a migrant weaving community of Southwest Ethiopian residing in the capital to receive education, to express their culture and to connect with their montagnard landscape including through music and food festivals. $100,531 The grant underwrites the set-up and maintenance of a website focusing on the history and cultural knowledge of the Mursi of Ethiopia and on the challenges and opportunities facing them currently. $41,540 (over two years) Word for the World Underwrites collation and publication of a folklore collection and a Maale- Amharic Dictionary to support indigenous language literacy and the valuing of cultural heritage among the Maale Community of $64,740 (over two years) Total African Rift Valley (18 grants*) $2,315,380 Central Asia and Afghan Communicator To strengthen the revival of the arts in Afghanistan by providing books and basic supplies to Afghan artists, to network art students and curators in Kabul and Herat and link them with artists from the Afghan Diaspora in North America, and to organize exhibitions locally and in the US. $26,500 Anadolu Kultur A.S. Supplementary support for the strengthening of the cultural life of Kars (NE Turkey), including in women's handicrafts, filmmaking for community development, cultural heritage and creative photography at the Arts High School, and through creating and strengthening local community-based organizations and NGOs. $150,000 To develop pilot projects that link agricultural biodiversity to village livelihoods in $60,000 To strengthen the understanding of sacred places within Tajik culture and to support the protection of sacred places in $158,700 (over two years) Ballet Afsaneh Art and Culture Society To conduct and supervise research in collaboration with local scholars and students on the relationship between dance, culture and place in Badakhshan, leading to the setup of a local organization and a longer-term training program for young students. To support related place-based cultural programs. $150,000 (over two years) Bioversity International - IPGRI To support research and capacity building with local partners around fruit and horticultural agro-biodiversity in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, identifying pockets of agro-biodiversity and their traditional custodians, and fostering exchange and collaboration between farmers, scientists and NGOs in community conservation and development efforts. $160,000 (over two years) CAT Action Treasury To fund a folklorist to collaborate with Wakhi ethnographers to document the traditions of the people of Wakhan in $32,000 Door Dog Music Productions To support local efforts to put together a Laz Yayla Music and Culture Festival on the high mountain pastures of the Black Sea Coast in NE Turkey in 2006, in preparation for a possible larger festival in 2007. $37,000 To strengthen a local eco-tourism auditing and certification organization, and to promote eco-tourism certification among stakeholders in three regions of the $30,000 Fauna & Flora International ( To continue to strengthen the capacity of Beshat (CBF), a community-environment and development support organization in the $200,000 (over two years) Humanities Education Central Asian Partnership To develop skills and curricular materials on placed-based writing connected with traditional knowledge, pastoral peoples and sacred places for students and teachers of selected universities in the $79,000 Institute for International Urban Development Supplement to continue capacity-building work with the Kars Provincial and Municipal Administrations in NE Turkey to promote biodiverse agriculture, ecotourism and urban agriculture, as well as to assist government to collaborate with nine villages in $164,000 (over two years) To collaborate with scientists in the $52,000 Kinoservice, LTD To make a film for local and international dissemination celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the birth of Jalaleddin Rumi the poet showing his poetic tradition to be alive at community level and linked to recital, music, dance and sacred place in a variety of ways across Tajikistan. $59,588 Mountain Institute Phase two of a program to support partnerships with local organizations to link the guardianship of sacred places to livelihoods and landscape management (including through pilgrimage/ecotourism and crafts) in $200,000 (over two years) Mountain Regions Cultural Development Programme To enhance cultural resilience by supporting traditional master-apprentice partnerships that include opportunities for innovation, performances at sacred places, and connecting musicians with each other and local, regional and international festivals and markets. $105,400 Odam va Olam To establish the technical capacity for digital restoration of music and folklore archives in $77,914 Pamir Biological Institute To identify and support custodians of traditional seed varieties to enhance agro-biodiversity and investigate the biodiversity of the sacred places of Badakhshan in $33,345 To underwrite travel and performance fees for Indigenous dancers and musicians from northern $15,000 Society for Conservation Biology* Continued support for internationalizing the association and strengthening the inter-disciplinarity of conservation science, and for funding participation in a workshop on integrating Central Asian and Turkish conservationists into Eurasian Conservation Biology at the European Congress of SCB. $32,340 To support a conservation science fellowship for a Senior Research Scientist to implement ornithological and bio-cultural diversity field research, education and local partnerships in $110,083 (over three years) To conduct a preliminary exploration of, and dialogue with, custodians of traditional agro-biodiversity in Badakhshan Provinces of $30,000 Planning grant to develop a proposal in collaboration between organizations working in the field with custodians of traditional knowledge with universities and other environmental organizations in $20,000 Yara Arts Group To co-finance the dramatization of the Kyrgyz epic of Janyl Myrza, a 17th century woman warrior, with the Sakhna drama troupe of the $20,000 Total Central Asia and grants*) $2,002,870 Disaster Giving Action for Environmental Public Advocacy To underwrite the delivery of heifers, she-goats and sorghum seed through indigenous friendship networks to Nyangatom and D'assanetch pastoralists of the $50,000 Battery Dance Company To co-finance production and performance of a dance tribute to the victims of Katrina and the Tsunami to support their healing and the restoration of their relationship to water, drawing on contemporary dance, Indian classical dance, jazz and Indian ragas and chants. $25,000 Total Disaster Giving (2 grants) $75,000 Global Biocultural Initiative - Institutions and Policies Future of Music Coalition Underwrites participation in international music and intellectual property conferences to build understanding and alliances between musicians and others globally for more equitable technology and intellectual property standards to sustain musical diversity and musicians' rights. $25,000 Gaia Foundation Co-fund community-level exchange between Africa and $40,000 International Indian Treaty Council Partially underwrite the organization of--and participation in--the 2nd Global Consultation on the Right to Food, Food Security and Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples, in November 2006, $35,000 International Institute for Environment and Development Bridging funding for a suite of action research, publication, networking and policy activities to promote global understanding of collective bio-cultural heritage. $40,000 IUCN-US To complete for publication the development of Technical Guidelines for the Conservation and Management of Sacred Natural Sites to increase the understanding, care and the continued use of sacred sites around the world. $20,350 To support the Environmental Rights Fund for Indigenous Peoples (ERFIP) to underwrite participation of seven Indigenous representatives in the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8) and related preparatory meetings in Curitiba, Brazil in March 2006. $30,000 Society for Ecological Restoration Underwrite first two years of an exploration of the relationships between the religious and ecological principles of the ancient Sanskrit Hindu literature of Vedas, Upanishads and Puranas, as a means for mobilizing ecological restoration. $30,000 (over two years) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) To underwrite participation of twenty speakers at "The Future of Drylands" conference ( $50,000 University of Supports Phase II of Rare-Art by partially underwriting field residencies for twelve international contemporary artists at twelve world heritage sites to create new artwork that explores the relationships between people and these sites. $100,000 (over two years) Total Global Biocultural Initiative - Institutions and Policies (9 grants) $370,350 Global Biocultural Initiative - Landscapes and Communities Center for Economic Justice To underwrite travel, food and lodging costs for 300 participants from rural areas of $30,000 Community Development Institute To support the incubation phase of the Living Cultural Storybases initiative to develop simple and sustainable technological systems for strengthening orally based traditional knowledge systems under the control of Indigenous and local communities. $20,000 Cultural Survival Continued support for translating a semi-annual news publication (Voices) and web-based materials and their production in English, Russian, Spanish and French to share the experiences of indigenous communities worldwide. $80,000 (over two years) Earth Island Institute Support for the research and development stage of the four-part film series Losing Sacred Ground to inform global publics about the issues behind contested sacred landscapes worldwide. $150,000 International Association for the Study of Common Property Underwrite the attendance of about eighteen participants at the 11th IASCP conference, to be held in $50,000 Island Press (Center for Resource Economics) Dissemination of the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in the $90,000 Long Now Foundation Strengthening the website-based community toolsets for endangered language activists of the Rosetta Project Digital Language Archive as part of its transitional funding program. $62,861 Marine Conservation Biology Institute Continued support for the Mia J. Tegner Memorial Grants in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology to underwrite small research grants that interface the contributions of indigenous knowledge with ecological history and conservation, especially in the South Pacific. $60,000 (over two years) Resilience Phase Two of "Operationalising Resilience," to build scientific and public understanding of the application of the concepts of resilience, adaptability and transformability to the management of socio-ecological systems. $200,000 Society for Conservation Biology* Continued support for internationalizing the association and strengthening the inter-disciplinarity of conservation science, and for funding participation in a workshop on integrating Central Asian and Turkish conservationists into Eurasian Conservation Biology at the European Congress of SCB. $105,000 (over two years) To support a conservation science fellowship for a Senior Research Scientist to implement ornithological and bio-cultural diversity field research, education and local partnerships in $288,321 (over three years) Terralingua Explore methods to assess global changes in biocultural diversity and traditional environmental knowledge so as to inform international debate and treaties, through developing the Index of Linguistic Diversity and the Traditional Environmental Knowledge Vitality Index. $200,000 (over two years) Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop To develop a cadre of young indigenous leaders for their own natural resource management, governance and economic development through a training program for Native Hawaiians, Alaskans and Maori that integrates indigenous and western environmental stewardship knowledge and skills. $50,000 Worldwide Indigenous Science Network To collaborate with local non-governmental organizations to connect and convene the guardians of sacred places in Central Asia, $200,000 (over two years) Total Global Biocultural Initiative - Landscapes and Communities (14 grants*) $1,586,182 Grantmaking Association 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 General support for Foundation Center-San Francisco, an organization whose mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about $4,000 (over two years) Grants Managers Network 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 sharing best practices. $5,000 International Funders for Indigenous Peoples Core support for this program's efforts to increase the quality and quantity of giving by the international philanthropic community to Indigenous issues globally. $100,000 (over two years) 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. $9,500 Total Grantmaking Association (5 grants) $128,230 Greater Southwest To support (a) updating the holdings of their unique ethno-botanical herbarium and providing two Native student apprenticeships and (b) to underwrite the cost of hosting a Colorado Plateau summit of Native biocultural leaders and their allies. $80,000 (over two years) Center of Southwest Culture, Inc. To support travel and lodging costs related to the completion of an indigenous exchange program between Zia Pueblo in $8,000 Consejo EcoRegional Sierra Tarahumara To support bio-cultural mapping, community ecological land-use planning and watershed restoration projects with Tepehuan and Rarámuri indigenous communities in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico. $60,000 Conservation Strategy Fund To support the planning and execution of a scenario and visioning workshop in partnership with traditional agricultural communities of the New Mexico Acequia Association in the Greater Southwest to foster strategic adaptation and resilience to environmental and social challenges. $50,000 Cultural Conservancy Sacred Land Foundation Support the writing of a book about the future of foodways in the Greater Southwest that reflects the relationship between the diversity of foods, cultures, landscapes and identities across the region to inform and inspire Indigenous and mainstream movements around efforts to sustain and revitalize this diversity. $75,100 Espanola Public Schools To purchase digital editing equipment and for continued support for the ESE! Youth Video Festival at $65,000 (over two years) Fuerza Ambiental A.C. To continue support for the restoration and protection of riparian zones, management of rangeland, monitoring of natural resources, in order to elevate quality of sustainable livelihood for eight Tarahumara communities. $80,000 Fundacion del Empresariado Chihuahuense To co-fund a part-time coordinator for the Programa Interinstitucional de Atencion al Indigena (PIAI), to enhance collaboration between funders and other agencies around Indigenous issues and the natural and cultural resources of the State of Chihuahua in Northwestern Mexico. $20,000 (over two years) Hualapai Tribe To support a tribal program with the Hualapai of the Colorado River and $40,000 Native Movement To support youth-organized biocultural workshops on the Colorado Plateau focused on community sustainability and building alternative economic systems and relations on a local level, particularly around foodways. $40,000 Native Seeds/SEARCH Further support for two projects: (a) biocultural and agricultural capacity building among the Rarámuri of the Tarahumara Plateau of Northwest Mexico and (b) grow-out of heirloom seed varieties for community distribution across the Greater Southwest in both in situ and ex situ conservation efforts. $200,000 (over two years) Northern To underwrite travel, lodging and administrative expenses for Rarámuri, Huichol, Hopi and Seri cultural knowledge holders to participate in a colloquium bringing together Uto-Aztecan speakers and their neighbors across the US-Mexico border with western scholars of these societies. $30,000 To underwrite the planning and design of the "Garden of the Ancients" community agricultural project with the $70,000 To underwrite the participation of $100,000 Slow Food To underwrite travel costs for an American and Mexican Indian delegation to Terra Madre and to support activities towards the protection of tepary beans in the American Southwest and $200,000 (over two years) Sonoran Institute To increase the institutional capacity of Hia Ced O'odham and Kwapa communities of the $200,000 To support the intergenerational continuity of traditional Hispano and Indigenous livelihoods, knowledge and wisdom for farm and ranch families in $60,000 Terralingua To support community efforts to bolster biocultural traditions and to restore ecological health of their landscapes through collaborative youth-centered educational and ecological restoration projects in the Sierra Tarahumara. $150,000 (over two years) Total Greater Southwest (18 grants) $1,528,100 Local Charitable Giving Child Family Health International To complement an on-going outreach program for 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. $5,000 To support the Whole Families/Whole Foods program in providing elementary school students and their families with organic community gardening and nutrition-education opportunities in East Palo Alto, CA. $5,000 Each One Reach One, Inc. This grant underwrites general support for an organization that provides academic and artistic mentors and tutors to incarcerated youth throughout juvenile detention centers in $6,000 Environmental Volunteers Support for the Kids-In-Nature Environmental Stewardship Program, which provides classroom-based science education and field trip programs in $5,000 To underwrite expenses of a children's theater production at this $4,000 Total Local Charitable Giving (5 grants) $25,000 FIELD / The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development To provide training and capacity-building activities for forty delegates from Pacific Island States to negotiate on behalf of their countries the implementation of the international legal regimes on biodiversity, climate change and trade-related agreements at international negotiating sessions. $100,000 Seed Savers Network Partial funding for production of a film "The Guardians of the Seed" for community and international distribution about the role of traditional seed savers in the foodways, cultures and indigenous agricultural systems of $40,000 United Support two further workshops in a series bringing together experts in customary law and practice and coastal natural resource management from the $200,000 Wildlife Conservation Society To continue longstanding support for a field training, mentoring and professional development program in conservation science for Papua New Guinean university students to enable them to advance their training within and outside the country and develop careers in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. $253,000 (over two years) Total $593,000 Aboriginal Rainforest Council Inc. To identify needs and opportunities for capacity building and training for land and cultural heritage management amongst the Rainforest Aboriginal communities of northeast $64,755 Australian Conservation Foundation Underwrites the report dissemination and implementation planning phase of the Kimberley Appropriate Economies Roundtable which created a regional development vision with Indigenous Traditional Owners and other stakeholders that is in concert with the environment and culture of this part of $30,000 Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation To support the intergenerational transfer and maintenance of Kaanju language and traditional knowledge on Kaanju Ngaachi (homelands) to strengthen and enhance local Indigenous cultures and communities and the links between cultural and biological diversity across the Wenlock and Pascoe Rivers region in central Cape York Peninsula, Northern Australia. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management To support attendance of representatives of the Northern Australia Indigenous Land and Seas Management Alliance (NAILSMA) at the 2006 International Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in New Mexico, 19-22nd June 2006, to strengthen development of NAILSMA's new Business Development Unit to support culture-based economies for Indigenous communities across Northern Australia. $16,500 To enable residents from Dauan, Saibai and $43,626 Girringun Aboriginal Corporation To enable Traditional Owners to plan and pilot practical programs and protocols to support sustained inter-generational traditional cultural and environmental knowledge transfer among nine tribes in the southern Wet Tropics and Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Areas of Northern Queensland to support future generations' engagement in joint management of their traditional lands. $35,308 Indigemedia Incorporated To create a broadband website presenting, in an artistic, cultural and educational context, the interlinked stories, art and environment of the Yolngu people of the $100,000 KickArts Contemporary Arts To support the production of catalogues for the solo exhibitions for two significant Australian Indigenous artists, Zane Saunders and Arone Raymond Meeks, from north Queensland, at the KickArts Contemporary Arts Gallery in Cairns, Australia. $23,000 To underwrite travel and performance fees for Indigenous dancers and musicians from Northern Australia and the Torres Strait in the Dreaming Festival at Woodford in $199,766 To develop a new performance work in collaboration with Torres Strait Islander children celebrating the rich diversity of their traditional and contemporary arts and culture for presentation at QPAC's Out of the Box Festival of Early Childhood in Brisbane, June 2006, and to tour the Islands. $39,000 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) Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE To continue the Remote Area Teacher Education Program (RATEP) to enable the development and delivery of teacher training courses to twenty indigenous Australians from four or five of the smaller remote area Indigenous communities on Cape York Peninsula, Northern Australia. $200,000 (over two years) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) To support the preparation and undertaking of an International Experts Workshop in Cairns (Australia) on Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development involving twenty-five to thirty scientific and indigenous knowledge experts, and follow-up publication of a Manual on Indigenous Knowledge. $112,350 United To support the process to choose the host institution for a United Nations University Research and Training Centre on Traditional Knowledge and to negotiate the necessary arrangements and obtain international support. $84,000 Wunan Foundation, Inc. Build community leadership, governance, business and economic capacities of remote area indigenous communities and their organizations in the East Kimberley region, $80,940 Total $1,288,870 The Bay Area Advocates for Indigenous To support restoration of indigenous environmental knowledge and culture through underwriting master-apprentice approaches to the revitalization of Californian native languages through inter-generational language transmission. $40,000 (over two years) Coevolution Institute Underwrite community environmental education and stewardship programs with Bay Area schools around valuing invertebrate diversity and establishing pollinator gardens and habitats that also improve quality of life. $20,000 Community Works To support inter-generational and cross-cultural dialogue in the diverse community of Richmond, CA, by enabling school children to document and share with their classmates and the wider public their family histories and identities and to document the experience in a study guide. $20,000 Environmental Media Fund, Inc. General operating support to enable continued provision of free services and technical assistance to independent, diverse and underserved media, producers and audiences in the international environmental and social change arenas. $33,500 Ethiopian Arts Forum Supplementary support for cultural events in the Bay Area--theater, poetry, music and an exhibition of paintings—to enhance cultural connectedness and awareness among Ethiopian Americans, including with their homeland, as well as raise the profile of Ethiopian cultural expression with other Bay Area communities. $30,000 Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center Support for the creation of an "Iddir" so as to assure dignified and culturally appropriate mutual support for Ethiopians living in the Bay Area. Iddir is a traditional community institution that provides loans and counsel in time of need (such as bereavement, sickness, marriage, unemployment). $40,000 Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center The grant underwrites the joint celebration of Ethiopian New Year in $25,000 Ethiopian Community Services, Inc. The grant underwrites the joint celebration of the Ethiopian New Year in $25,000 Ethiopian Cultural Institute, Inc. To provide a third 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. $20,000 Hesperian Foundation Development of the land and food components of the manual, A Community Guide to Environmental Health, in the tradition of this venerable Bay Area institution's Where There is No Doctor. $40,000 International Forum on Globalization Support for Phase II of the Indigenous Peoples & Globalization Program involving an array of publication, conference and educational activities to communicate indigenous concerns about global economic globalization and its impacts. $30,000 Long Now Foundation Underwrites venue rental for the monthly Seminars About Long Term Thinking, in $20,000 To plan collaborations with Afghan-American community organizations in the Bay Area, including at the 2008 Kite Festival in $40,000 To support the research and development phase of artistic collaborative projects between Indigenous artists living in the Sonoran Desert region of Arizona and Northwest Mexico and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. $25,000 To support the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival in educating the general public through film about the relationship between people and the marine environment in order to enhance engagement in protecting oceanic biocultural diversity. $20,000 Society for Art Publications of the For a writers' workshop led by celebrated author Tamim Ansary to support the cultural expression of both young Afghan-American writers in the Bay Area and older Afghan-American immigrants, enabling people to gain voice and publish their stories. $40,000 To provide support for four Martu Aboriginal people from $21,285 To support participant travel to a workshop to review findings from six international case studies of resilience in environmental institutions in advancing ecologically and culturally sensitive development, for publication in the volume Ecologies of Hope. $5,500 Yore Folk Ensemble To introduce the Semah dance tradition of the Alevi people of $25,000 Total The Bay Area (19 grants) $520,285 Grand Totals (129 grants*) $10,433,267 Please Note: An asterisk (*) indicates a grant that is shared by multiple program areas. 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