Grants Awarded 2007

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

Association for Research and Conservation of Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Landscape  

An inventory of cultural and natural heritage of world heritage sites in Konso and Zala will be prepared to help with the preparation of cultural mapping, to be submitted to UNESCO.  Possibilities for making other cultural maps of the region will be studied.

$99,918

Association for Research and Conservation of Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Landscape  

Underwrites the publishing and the launching of four books written on local histories, linguistics and national history as a contribution to regional cultural expression by authors coming from the Ethiopian Southwest.

$40,000

Centre for Pastoralist Development and Empowerment 

Underwrites reconnecting Gabbra pastoralists to their sacred mountains and Borana neighbors in the Kenya-Ethiopia borderlands and for documentation of the Forole Pilgrimage and Hurri Hills by the Gabbra themselves in video, artifacts, stories and recorded indigenous botanical knowledge.

$30,650

Community Vision Ethiopia

To support the development of a new local NGO to facilitate the delivery of traditional dairy products to the market and to reinvigorate traditional livestock keeping methods to sustain the environment and to maintain healthy food systems in the Qucha area of the Gamo Gofa highlands in Southwest Ethiopia.

$30,000

Community-based Cultural and Natural Resources Development Association 

To support and provide capacity building for a new local association to strengthen local knowledge and systems of caring for landscape, craftwork and cultural and natural resource management among the stone terrace montagnards of Zala, Southern Ethiopia.

$60,000

(over two years)

Culture and Art Society of Ethiopia  

To underwrite manuscript compilation and publishing of two important books: "Amharic Grammar" and "Aromatic Plants of Ethiopia," authored by senior professors of Addis Abeba University, to build and share cultural knowledge.

$40,000

Culture and Art Society of Ethiopia

The grant underwrites research on indigenous ways of healing livestock in the Gamo Gofa highlands and for publishing results of earlier research on the traditional veterinary knowledge of pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia.

$179,900

Ethiopia Reads  

The grant underwrites the cost of illustrating, translating, publishing and distributing twenty-four folk stories collected from around Ethiopia to make them available for children in both English and Amharic to support heritage transmission and cultural pluralism across the nation.

$100,000

(over two years)

Gughe Indigenous Art and Music Association  

To underwrite the "1000 Stars Millennium Festival of Traditional Music and Dance" in Arba Minch in December 2007 to celebrate the diversity of local music and its links to identities, landscapes and lifeways on the occasion of the Ethiopian Millennium, and to build the capacity of GIAMA to document and share these musical traditions.

$202,766

GURAPAU Group  

To support partnerships between Elmolo fisher people of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya and local researchers to document and revitalize their language, ethno-ecological knowledge, cultural heritage and sacred sites and restore identity and lost pride as a basis for community development.

$30,164

Parka Environmental & Cultural Protection Association

Supplementary funding for capacity building and for support to the traditional agricultural labor groups in Konso, Ethiopia, that maintain this famed terraced agricultural landscape with its sacred forests and traditional agro-forestry, and for associated cultural programs including a festival and story telling.

$84,100

(over two years)

Society for the Practice and Maintenance of Indigenous Cultural Environmental and Spiritual Knowledge  

To underwrite community events celebrating and strengthening indigenous institutions of cultural and environmental governance to validate practices that care for landscapes and communities in Bonke, Kamba, and the Gughe Mountain Region of Southwest Ethiopia.

$60,000

(over two years)

Tabor Cultural Foods and Drinks Heritage Preservation and Promotion Association  

To underwrite valuing of the diverse foodways of Southern Ethiopia through a series of food festivals and related events and awards to support agro-biodiversity, healthy living and validation of heritage.

$96,040

(over two years)

University College London 

To underwrite studies of the status of hunter-gatherer societies in South and Southwest Ethiopia to establish the issues that threaten their livelihoods, to learn how they are coping with current realities and to identify the support they would like to receive to persist as groups building on their traditions.

$41,800

University of California, Santa Cruz

To underwrite a joint Ethio-US agro-ecological assessment of the Gamo Gofa highland agricultural landscapes of Ethiopia to propose the region as one of FAO's Globally Ingenious/Important Agricultural Heritage Systems.

$40,000

University of California, Santa Cruz

To underwrite the cost of a UC Santa Cruz student to attend the "Ecology and the Management of Ethiopian Highlands" workshop to be held from November 15-30, 2007, as a contribution towards their research on agro-biodiversity and land use in the southern highlands.

$2,650

University of Kent

The grant underwrites training two southwest Ethiopian students at masters level in community and biodiversity conservation in order to provide future leadership to community-based conservation in the region.

$114,175

Waso Trustland Project

Underwrites a cultural festival and botanic garden at Kambiya Garba, Isolo, Northern Kenya to bring people together to celebrate the heritage and plant diversity of this desert region, and a temporary exhibition at the model Boran village of Guyo Tupi to enhance the benefits of eco-cultural tourism.

$30,200

 Total African Rift Valley (18 Grants)

$1,282,363

Central Asia and Turkey

Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development 

To support work with Kyrgyz pastoral communities in the Murghab plateau of Badakhshan Province in Tajikistan to develop environmentally-sustainable approaches for pastures, sustainable energy, eco-tourism and crafts, as well as to strengthen two local partners, Yak House and the Murghab Eco-Tourism Agency.

$100,000

Aigine

To continue developing sacred place programs in the Kyrgyz Republic underwriting dialogues between custodians of sacred places and religious leaders, strengthening the interpretation of these sites in the culture and from academic perspectives, developing TV and education programs, supporting local efforts to maintain the sites and enhancing skills of female sacred place custodians.

$183,000

(over two years)

Ak Terek Public Fund

Supplementary support to help herders' groups adapt sustainably to changes in the landscapes in the high mountain pastures of Tolok and Kokjar communities in Son Kul Lake region of the Western Tien Shan mountains in the Kyrgyz Republic.

$180,000

(over two years)

Anatolia Foundation

Supplementary support for the production, processing and marketing of heirloom wheat, flax, barley, and honey from the Caucasian bee; organic certification of farmers; research and support of local herbs and crafts; and promotion of local foods, in Kars Province of NE Turkey.

$200,000

(over two years)

Anthropology Center

To support archival research and to publish a book on ancient textual sources on traditional knowledge of growing grains, vines, fruits and medicinal plants in Tajikistan, as well as their use in food preparation and traditional recipes and foodways.

$15,000

Bashat (CBF)

To strengthen the capacity of local associations of non-governmental organizations in the high mountain areas of Northern and Southern Kyrgyz Republic to enhance biodiversity and protect sacred landscapes through community participation and enhancing livelihoods.

$50,000

CAT Action Treasury

For work with local NGO partners to build capacity for community-based resource management in Badakhshan (in both Tajikistan and Afghanistan) by supporting policy dialogues, and training and study tours for local environmental organizations, village organizations, and ecotourism and safari hunting entities.

$140,000

Cooperation for Development

To identify traditional knowledge holders in Southern Tajikistan in farming, herding and beekeeping and explore new approaches that build on diversity and resilience, including through visits to the Kyrgyz Republic and Afghanistan to learn about traditional knowledge and participatory programs.

$31,100

Cornell University

To enable custodians of indigenous knowledge of agro-biodiversity, pastoralism and medicinal herbs in Badakhshan and Wakhan of Tajikistan and Afghanistan to forge links with scientists and NGOs to enhance resilience in the face of climate and other change in these mountain areas.

$158,300

(over two years)

Cultural Heritage

To strengthen national pride and cultural pluralism by holding an international conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of the poet Jalaleddin Rumi and to publish his poetry (which is little available in Tajikistan) and the conference proceedings.

$40,000

Door Dog Music Productions

Exploratory travel in Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan to establish collaborations with custodians and allies of traditional and related musics in the region.

$25,000

Eco-Centre "Pamir"

To underwrite a series of collaborations in Badakhshan between scientists from the Pamir Biological Institute and local NGOs and stewards including in agro-biodiversity (especially wheats), in natural dyes and insect repellants for crafts, and to monitor the impact of alternative energy sources on montane shrub depletion in the Murghab plateau.

$161,300

(over two years)

GOLA Culture Arts and Ecology NGO

To support the "Green Yayla Culture, Arts and Ecology Festival" of local music, dance, drama, folklore and ecological education in the mountain pastures of the Black Sea Area of Turkey.

$76,000

Institution Kyrgyz Ate

To support in Kyrgyzstan the preservation and revival of the natural and cultural heritage of the Kyrgyz horse through rediscovery, recognition and breeding of the horse, and through an international festival of the musical poetic and horsemanship repertory associated with the Kyrgyz horse.

$60,000

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts

To bring artists and curators from Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan to the Tenth Istanbul Biennial Festival of Arts to participate in events, a seminar, and a workshop in collaboration with Bilgi University.

$21,510

Mountain Societies Development Support Program

To support development of environmentally sustainable crafts and community-based recognition of the archeological heritage in Badakhshan as part of efforts to build an economy based on cultural expression and ecotourism in this isolated mountain region.

$100,000

NGO "Zan va Zamin" ("Women and Earth")

To support the identification of traditional knowledge around agro-biodiversity among women in the Hamadoni, Muminabad, Baljuvon, Khovaling, Shurabad, Darvaz, Vanj districts in Southern Tajikistan through research, networking, public promotion and developing ideas linking traditional knowledge to livelihoods.

$30,000

Odam va Olam

To restore archives of music and folklore in government and private collections in Central Asia both technically through digitization and culturally by sharing the materials with the communities from which they were collected.

$130,000

(over two years)

Rural Development Fund 

To conduct participatory research on traditional knowledge among pastoralists in the Eastern Chui region of the Kungei Ala Too mountains in the Kyrgyz Republic, with the aim of contributing to tenure and other policies that better support resilience in these high mountain pastures.

$50,000

SEEDS - Social Enterprise & Ecological Development Systems

To use a public competition to encourage local innovators in Badakhshan, Tajikistan, to develop solutions for energy conservation and production using local materials to ensure landscape sustainability.

$30,000

University of California, Los Angeles

To support collaborations with local organizations in Central Asia to gather and organize traditional knowledge using digital technology in ways that respect traditional ways of knowing and to use the results to enrich teaching and learning for university students in the region.

$75,000

(over two years)

 Total Central Asia and Turkey (21 Grants)

$1,856,210

Global Biocultural Initiative - Institutions and Policies

Center for Political Ecology

To co-fund production of action research publications on linkages between human rights, environmental crisis and violence based on case studies around the world and analysis of global trends in order to impact public understanding and global institutional agendas.

$100,000

(over two years)

Ecoagriculture Partners

Underwrite establishment of the Community Knowledge Service program in Asia as part of a broader international effort to develop systems for local and indigenous communities to exchange experience and document knowledge and innovations that promote their unique bio-cultural heritage while enhancing livelihoods.

$20,000

ETC Group

Partially underwrite for Indigenous and other partners globally strategic research and its dissemination around the socioeconomic, legal and scientific issues of the conservation and use of plant genetic resources, intellectual property (IP) and biotechnology, and enclosures of the genetic commons.

$100,000

Future of Music Coalition

Partially underwrite the convening of a meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to expand international understanding and alliances between musicians and their allies globally for more equitable technology and intellectual property standards to sustain musical diversity and secure the rights of musicians.

$25,000

Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)

To underwrite specialized training in Addis Ababa (for Eastern Africa) and Bloemfontein (for Southern Africa) for twenty-five African indigenous leaders to fully understand their human rights under African and UN charters including rights to maintain distinctive customs and traditional ecological knowledge and practices.

$46,739

International Ecotourism Society

To underwrite the costs of ten indigenous participants at the Global Ecotourism Conference in Oslo, Norway in May, 2007 to contribute to development of practices and standards that reflect the aspirations and values of indigenous peoples around their landscapes and cultures.

$31,900

International Indian Treaty Council

Partially underwrite the field testing in five communities of Cultural Indicators agreed during the 2nd Global Consultation on the Right to Food, Food Security and Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples held in Nicaragua in September 2006 to transform approaches to agricultural development.

$30,000

League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development

Underwrite activities towards gaining recognition for the role of traditional livestock-keeping communities as stewards of livestock biodiversity at the Interlaken International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources and the Madrid Conference (COP8) of the UN Convention on Combating Desertification (UN-CCD).

$30,000

Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples

To underwrite the participation of eighteen representatives of indigenous peoples in the 5th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ad Hoc Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing and related meetings to be held in Montreal, Canada from October 4 to 19, 2007.

$62,000

Slow Food International

To partially underwrite organization of the 2007 International Slow Food Congress in Puebla (Mexico) to support the evolution in governance of the movement to integrate communities and indigenous people globally and to build an exploratory partnership with small scale food producers and restaurant chefs in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya.

$141,332

Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education)

Underwrite a series of events gathering Indigenous people and international agricultural development specialists to identify and share experience with development paradigms that respect Indigenous rights and values, support resilient livelihoods, and sustain biological and cultural diversity.

$200,000

United Nations Development Programme

Underwrite efforts across Asia of the Regional Initiative on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Development (RIPP) including community-level dialogues; a regional conference on the stewardship role of indigenous peoples in biodiversity, landscapes and cultural expression; a side event at the 2008 Permanent Forum; and pilot programs with Indigenous stewards.

$194,000

(over two years)

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

To underwrite a study on identity, power and rights of Indigenous peoples to highlight repercussions of international development programs on indigenous peoples and the environment and seek to foster collaboration between governments, multinational institutions and indigenous communities for more sustainable development approaches.

$100,000

United Nations University*

Continued support towards the establishment the United Nations University International Institute on Traditional Knowledge and to initiate a research program with global mandate for the Institute to enhance the respect, understanding and deployment of traditional knowledge to address pressing practical problems.

$200,000

(over two years)

University of Kent

Underwrite work with Arunci shepherds in Central Italy, Batak farmers in The Philippines and the Ese Eja of Western Amazonia on field methods for isolated indigenous communities to use digital technologies to share stories and ecological knowledge with each other and with international policy processes.

$118,000

(over two years)

World Intellectual Property Organization

Contribution to the Voluntary Fund of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, to enable participation of representatives of indigenous and local community organizations in relevant international meetings on intellectual property rights issues.

$50,000

(over two years)

 Total Global Biocultural Initiative –

Institutions and Policies (16 Grants)

$1,448,971

Global Biocultural Initiative - Landscapes and Communities

American Museum of Natural History

To support planning and initial organization of an international symposium on the Conservation of Biocultural Diversity in 2008 in partnership with other institutions, to advance this new field and provide practical recommendations for policy and practice of conservation and sustainable development.

$90,000

Asociación para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible (ANDES)

To support the planning of the XIth Congress of International Society of Ethnobiology to be held in Cusco, Peru (22-28 June, 2008), which will be aimed at promoting a dialogue among Indigenous peoples, the scientific community and decision-makers on sustaining biocultural diversity.

$40,000

Collective Heritage Institute

To underwrite participation of ten indigenous and international presenters at the 18th Annual Bioneers Conference to share real life stories of how, based on a reciprocal relationship with nature, people can overcome environmental and cultural challenges of modern times.

$20,000

Community Development Institute

To support the development of the Living Cultural Storybases Project to provide low-cost digital solutions that nurture oral transmission of traditional knowledge under the full control of Indigenous and local peoples through pilot efforts with Tuareg, Quechua and Aymara communities.

$200,000

Earth Island Institute

To underwrite partial production costs for two segments of the “Losing Sacred Ground” film series that brings together for a global audience the voices and stories of stewards of biocultural diversity around the world as they struggle to maintain relationship with their sacred landscapes.

$200,000

Global Diversity Fund

To underwrite the costs of organizing two courses on biocultural diversity and ethnoecological methodology to provide advanced training to over twenty applied researchers and practitioners from countries with high biocultural diversity, including TCF regions.

$75,000

Inuit Circumpolar Council

To underwrite planning of the 2008 Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change with indigenous people from around the world to adopt a global declaration and ten-year work plan, and set up an Indigenous global network and/or organization to implement it.

$24,500

Long Now Foundation

To grow the on-line community for the Rosetta Project (a global publicly accessible and partially wiki-based digital archive of ~7,000 languages) to increase participation by linguists, and activists and speakers towards sharing materials for sustaining global linguistic diversity.

$11,575

Music for the Earth

To underwrite the production of music by the "Great Rift Valley Orchestra," an international ensemble comprising the Paul Winter Consort and local musicians, about the world's largest bird migration that links Africa to Eurasia.

$200,000

National Geographic Society

To strengthen public understanding of the links between cultural and biological diversity through establishing a series of NGS biocultural diversity grants and an Emerging Explorer Award in this field, and to seed a long-term partnership between TCF and NGS around developing and disseminating the biocultural diversity paradigm.

$100,000

People and Plants International

To address forest management and property rights issues by enhancing local capacity to integrate scientific approaches and data with local knowledge and expertise, as well as to help communities represent themselves through using Participatory Video (PV) methodology for culturally-appropriate storytelling.

$160,000

Resilience Alliance 

To provide partial support for the RA core activities and Regional Resilience initiative, as well as assist with focusing on the Resilience of Indigenous Social-Ecological Systems as historically tested approaches to increasing resilience of resource use and management practices.

$300,000

Society for Conservation Biology

To underwrite logistical and administrative costs of organizing the Partnerships for Innovation in Landscape Restoration pre-conference workshop of the 21st Annual Society for Conservation Biology Meeting in South Africa and to enable greater participation in the SCB by African conservation practitioners.

$61,000

Society for Ecological Restoration International

To enable the participation of five international and four San Francisco Bay Area indigenous presenters in the Ecological Society of America's conference "Ecological Restoration in a Changing World," August 5-10, 2007, in San Jose, California.

$19,000

Society of Ethnobiology 

To support indigenous community participation in the Society of Ethnobiology's 2007 and 2008 annual conferences and other related activities.

$10,000

Survival International

Underwrite a second edition (in English and Spanish) of the booklet "There You Go!" that deploys beautiful illustrations and wry humor to take a satirical message about "development" and its impact on indigenous peoples to new audiences.

$25,040

The Triad Institute

To support the development of hotfrog.org, a storytelling mechanism, a virtual meeting place, and a self-assembling archive rooted in first-rate storytelling, community narratives and social networking around the issues of global economy, environmental degradation and social justice

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$150,000

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

To support a workshop within UNESCO's Main Line of Action (MLA) on "Enhancing the linkages between biological and cultural diversity as a key basis for sustainable development" to develop a conceptual framework and identify methodologies for exploring the interdependent relationship between cultural and biological diversity and develop guidelines for integrating these into global policy decision-making agendas.

$18,800

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

To support a community workshop process to craft a sustainable landscape management and energy plan for a rural Athabascan community of Huslia, Alaska, to explore scalable planning to enhance resilience of indigenous communities in the face of global change.

$10,000

University of Florida

Further support for development of the GIS database of biocultural diversity to elucidate interrelationships between biological and cultural diversity at global and regional scales and to increase the dissemination of the results of this research.

$66,651

University of New South Wales

To support a global scoping exercise to identify options and lay the foundation for fostering collaboration between indigenous communities, NGOs, and decisions makers worldwide around climate change adaptation and resilience building.

$41,055

 Total Global Biocultural Initiative –

Landscapes and Communities (21 Grants)

$1,822,621

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.

$9,860

Environmental Grantmakers Association

Support for the 2006 EGA Fall Retreat (Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California), and the 2007 Fall Retreat (Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico), to strengthen the field of environmental grantmaking and for underwriting sessions relevant to TCF grantmaking.

$25,000

Grantmakers in the Arts

To provide general support to the 2007 annual conference in Taos New Mexico to help the Grantmakers in the Arts association ground the meeting in the place, cultures, foodways and diverse artistic expression of Northern New Mexico.

$20,000

Grants Managers Network

General support for the Grants Managers Network (GMN), an association that provides grants managers valuable opportunities for professional development and a forum for sharing best practices.

$5,000

Northern California Grantmakers

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.

$12,000

Tides Center

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.

$3,000

(over two years)

 Total Grantmaking Association (6 Grants)

$74,860

Greater Southwest

American Indian Institute

Support for Native American delegations from New Mexico, Arizona and the Borderlands to attend the 30th annual International Elders & Youth Council: "How Indigenous People Can Call on Prophecies to Deal with Climate Change" at the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana, in July of 2007.

$15,000

Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo,  A. C.

To strengthen capacity of Seri/Comcáac youth for sustainable development through estuary monitoring and ecotourism rooted in traditional resource management and seascape stewardship in the Infiernillo Channel of the Sea of Cortez (Mexico).

$70,000

Consejo EcoRegional Sierra Tarahumara

To protect forest and canyon landscapes with six Rarámuri and Tepehuan communities in the Urique-Sinforosa corridor in the southern Sierra Tarahumara (Chihuahua, Mexico) through biocultural mapping and indigenous music, poetry, puppetry and participatory education programs.

$65,000

Consultoría Técnica Comunitaria, A.C.

To value maize diversity and sustainable agriculture in eleven mountain and lowland Rarámuri and Tepehuan/Odami communities including a Maize Festival and a photo exhibition, and community training and mobilization including for meadow restoration as farmer reserves for valuable plants.

$60,000

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Supplementary support for a collaboration between archeologists and Pueblo Indian farmers and students to understand modern and ancient Anasazi agricultural systems and climate variability, to produce a variety of educational programs including a video tailored to Native students in the region.

$45,000

Cultural Conservancy Sacred Land Foundation

Support to continue "The Salt Song Trail" film project, a cultural documentary being filmed with and by its own participants to revitalize Southern Paiute cultural relationships with their environment.

$65,000

Forest Guardians 

To partner with the Navajo community organization Diné CARE to mount a grassroots and legal campaign to protect Diné cultural sites and endangered wildlife in Eastern Dinetah (also known as the San Juan Basin) threatened by oil and gas development while promoting an alternative energy vision that is more ecologically and economically just.

$60,000

Fuerza Ambiental A.C. 

To underwrite a partnership with the federal indigenous development agency (CDI) and three municipalities for a participatory planning process to enable Rarámuri to engage in ecotourism on their own terms to secure the culture and landscape in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico.

$60,000

Indian Dispute Resolution Services, Inc.

To assist the White Mountain Apache and Ramah Navajo Tribes to take advantage of the 2004 Tribal Forest Protection Act to deploy culturally informed management systems on their reservations and ancestral homelands to sustain forests and local economies as part of a national program with five tribes to see this Act implemented.

$75,000

(over two years) 

Indigenous Language Institute

Support to for the digital documentation of Hopi language, traditions, songs and culture for purposes of securing this knowledge for future generations of Hopi people.

$35,000

Native Movement

Supplementary funding for Native youth-organized "Bioregional Lifeways" initiatives to build community sustainability and interdependency for alternative systems of food, housing and clothing in five communities on the Colorado Plateau.

$80,000

Naturalia, A.C. 

To support the Yoeme (Yaqui) tribe in Sonora Mexico by partnering with a local women's group, Jamut Boo'o, to protect their natural and cultural heritage through the creation of a reserve under Yaqui control in the Sierra Bacatete, with the jaguar as flag species.

$75,000

Northern Arizona University Foundation

To underwrite a series of trainings and collaborations between Comca'ac (Seri) leaders and youth and Mexican and US specialists to strengthen local experience and capacity to protect and fruitfully manage their desert lands and, especially, their mangrove resources on the Sea of Cortez.

$53,445

(over two years)

Pueblo of Pojoaque

Support to re-establish agriculture to build an economically viable local food system and to sustain healthy communities, by restoring fields, intensifying and diversifying crop production, and by engaging youth and families in sustainable agriculture.

$100,000

Pueblo of Tesuque

Support to Tesuque Agricultural Initiative to expand its traditional food and herb cultivation program and to serve as an educational and inspirational resource for Tesuque Pueblo and the wider Greater Southwest.

$75,000

San Diego Society of Natural History

Support for research to document the value of mangroves for traditional coastal communities around the Sea of Cortés, and the losses faced when mangrove ecosystems and coastal lagoons are degraded or converted to other economic uses.

$20,000

Seventh Generation Fund

Support for the Traditional Native American Farmers Association to provide agricultural training programs (mostly for youth) among the Pueblos of Northern New Mexico and with the Natwani Coalition at Wepo Springs on Hopi.

$50,000

Sierra Madre Alliance

Support to foster bio-cultural diversity in the Sierra Madre through securing indigenous land tenure, sustainable forest resource management, ecological restoration and economic development to four indigenous pueblos in the southern part of the Sierra Tarahumara.

$100,000

Sierra Madre Alliance

To support Awé Tibuka Rarámuri, an association of 105 indigenous authorities in Bocoyna region of the Sierra Madre in Chihuahua, to register and manage their organization, and for the protection and renewal of an ancient ceremonial site as a cultural center for their programs.

$20,000

Taos Land Trust

To sustain biocultural diversity on traditional Hispano and Indigenous lands by helping families retain and pass on intact landholdings and traditional wisdom through conservation education, profitable family farming and local food security.

$50,000

Taos Pueblo Education & Training Division

To revitalize community agriculture at Taos Pueblo with integrated goals in cultural education, food security, health and economic development through exploring innovations in renewable energy and sustainable water use.

$26,000

University of California, Berkeley

Two-year support for a student fellowship program to stimulate participatory research on community forestry in Native communities of the Southwest United States that will facilitate development of socially just and ecologically sustainable natural resource management systems.

$100,000

(over two years)

White Earth Land Recovery Project

Support for coordinating and educational work with Native and local communities in the Southwest region, Minnesota, Hawaii, and internationally, to protect seed sovereignty and biodiversity from genetic contamination.

$100,000

Yoemem Tekia Foundation

Support for a binational collaboration between Yaqui in the US and in Mexico to build organizational capacity, and to restore medicinal, cultural and food plant biodiversity; traditional knowledge and farming practices in Yaqui Indian Pueblos of Rio Yaqui, Sonora Mexico.

$50,000

 Total Greater Southwest (24 Grants)

$1,449,445

Local Charitable Giving

Downtown Streets, Inc.

To enable eight homeless people in the Bay Area to participate in a transitional program where they help keep the streets of Palo Alto clean and safe with the aim of enabling their independence and re-entry into the workforce.

$7,500

Each One Reach One, Inc.

General support to provide mentors and tutors, both academic and artistic, to incarcerated youth in San Mateo County juvenile detention centers here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

$8,000

East Palo Alto Kids Foundation

Support for a Leveled Book Resource Library for teachers and students at the Stanford New School in East Palo Alto in the Bay Area to enable teachers to match children's current reading levels and build their skills to bring them up to grade level.

$7,500

East Palo Alto Kids Foundation

To underwrite the cost of instructional materials for workshops and events for parents of children enrolled in the Ravenswood Child Development Center in East Palo Alto in order to strengthen their involvement in their children's schooling.

$7,500

Fresh Lifelines for Youth

To assist this remarkable local effort to help young people "at risk" to expand from its initial program area to North Santa Clara County here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and underwrite youth community service and social activities for the new at Mountain View High School program.

$8,000

Furry Friends, Pet Assisted Therapy Services

To provide general support to Furry Friends Pet Assisted Therapy Services, an all-volunteer organization connecting Bay Area pets (and their owners) to individuals with special needs in local hospitals and other facilities.

$3,500

Sustainable Community Gardens 

Support for Full Circle Farm, a hands-on agricultural program for Santa Clara Unified School District students to connect sustainably with their nutritive health and natural environment by learning gardening skills, creating relationships with the land, and taking on leadership roles.

$8,000

Total Local Charitable Giving (7 Grants) 

$50,000

Melanesia

Botanical Research Institute of Texas

To further support systematic botanical fieldwork in New Guinea with local institutions, to update important reference books on forest trees and poorly known plant groups, and to build a publicly accessible digital database on the distribution of plant diversity on the island.

$200,000

(over two years)

Global Greengrants Fund

Underwrite a small grants program to community-based organizations across Melanesia for environmental, social justice and cultural activities that tackle local problems and build grassroots capacity for sustainable development.

$75,000

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, South Pacific Regional Environment Programme

To support participation of eighteen community-based representatives at the 8th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in Alotau, Papua New Guinea, October 22-27, 2007, which has the theme "Conservation Serving Communities in a Rapidly Changing World."

$50,000

United Nations University*

Continued support towards the establishment the United Nations University International Institute on Traditional Knowledge and to initiate a research program with global mandate for the Institute to enhance the respect, understanding and deployment of traditional knowledge to address pressing practical problems.

$200,000

(over two years)

 Total Melanesia (4 Grants)

$525,000

Northern Australia

Arts Nexus Inc 

To compose music to create a new musical identity for the Great Barrier Reef that incorporates its biological, historical and cultural heritage though integrating Western and Indigenous Australian musics, working with the Traditional Owners and ABC Classics of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

$120,000

(over two years)

Australian Conservation Foundation 

A third round of support for collaboration with Kimberley Roundtable partners – the Kimberley Land Council and Environs Kimberley - to work with Indigenous traditional owners to promote economic development founded upon respect for the cultural and environmental assets of this region of NW Australia.

$100,000

(over two years)

Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait

To underwrite travel, accommodation and registration costs of Indigenous Traditional Owners from the Wet Tropics of northern Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands at the annual Native Title Conference in Cairns Australia in June 2007.

$15,017

Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre- A division of the Yirrkala Dhanbul Community Association Inc.  

To support the launch of the Mulka Centre at the Buku Larrnggay Art Centre at Yirrkala in East Arnhem Land to facilitate community access and management of Yolngu cultural heritage (through a digital archive) by partially underwriting salary, operational and program evaluation costs.

$120,000

Charles Darwin University

To consolidate NAILSMA's activities across Northern Australia, to further develop the Culture-Based Economic Framework, and to engage Traditional Owners in implementing a range of business development and sustainable conservation and natural resource utilization measures to enable the long-term financially-viable occupation of their traditional estates.

$1,000,000

Griffith University

To assist the Cape York Institute's Youth Talent Development Program by providing further support to the Indigenous student mentorship and tutorial program to promote the successful completion by students of their university education and to develop their personal leadership and professional capabilities to contribute to the economic, social and cultural renewal of their communities.

$100,000

(over two years)

James Cook University

To establish the Centre for Sustainable Indigenous Communities to undertake practical research on environment and livelihood issues with Indigenous groups in Northeast Queensland to help them achieve their long-term goals of cultural, environmental and economic sustainability on their country.

$180,000

(over two years)

Kimberley Land Council Aboriginal Corporation

To enhance the capacity of the of the Kimberley Land Council Land and Sea Management Unit (KLC LSMU) to work with Aboriginal Traditional Owners of the Kimberley region of North Western Australia to live on and sustainably manage and benefit from their land and marine estates.

$42,000

Madjulla Inc. 

Supplementary support for the Nyikina Language and Culture Project for securing inter-generational transmission of language with elders and youth through a cultural immersion program and the creation of comprehensive audio and written language materials with this Kimberly community.

$40,000

Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 

To continue support for the Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu Sisters exhibition that focuses on three generations of art around the relationship to country with the Yolngu of Yirrkala in NE Arnhem Land, in particular, to prepare, publish and launch the catalogue and its accompanying public lecture series.

$70,000

Queensland Folk Federation

Supplementary grant to support the participation of Indigenous performers from Arnhem Land, Cape York Peninsula, the Kimberley and the Torres Strait Islands in The Dreaming Festival 2007 at Woodford, Queensland Australia.

$50,000

State of Queensland

To fund travel of six Wik representatives from Aurukun West Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, to The Netherlands to sing in their gift of ceremonial Law Poles, to resolve a bloody conflict in 1606 when a ship of the Dutch East Indies fleet were the first Europeans to make landfall in Australia and were repulsed by the Wik.

$41,200

United Nations University*

Continued support towards the establishment the United Nations University International Institute on Traditional Knowledge and to initiate a research program with global mandate for the Institute to enhance the respect, understanding and deployment of traditional knowledge to address pressing practical problems.

$500,000

(over two years)

Yothu Yindi Foundation Aboriginal Corporation

To support the participation of Yolngu people from remote communities within northeast Arnhem Land in the Garma Festival of Traditional Culture, to take part in important ceremonies and other cultural celebrations and to attend the key forum on Indigenous health and the youth forum.

$60,000

Yothu Yindi Foundation Aboriginal Corporation

To assist a group of senior Indigenous women leaders in Northeast Arnhem Land to create the Dilthan Yolngnha Healing Centre to apply traditional healing practices and to document the efficacy of these services in order to establish a case for their expansion and mainstream funding.

$30,000

 Total Northern Australia (15 Grants)

$2,468,217

The Bay Area

Acterra

To support the pilot stage of the Youth in Nature program that connects underserved youth with their local environment through place-based, hands-on habitat restoration activities built on understanding of the history and future of the local landscapes.

$20,000

Cultural Conservancy Sacred Land Foundation

To partially underwrite development of a native foods and medicinal garden program with the Friendship House Association of American Indians (in Oakland), alongside workshops and fieldtrips to connect the urban American Indian community in the Bay Area to traditional foodways and cultural land management practices.

$20,000

Door Dog Music Productions

To commission a musical composition by Imamyar Hasanov of Azerbaijan inspired by the poetry of Jalaleddin Rumi, and a performance of this work involving the lute (Arabic Al 'Oud) with instruments from Afghanistan, Iran, China and elsewhere.

$25,000

Ethiopian Arts Forum

To underwrite arts events to enable Ethiopians to welcome their new millennium in 2007-8 and to stage similar cultural activities in 2009 engaging Bay Area Ethiopian-Americans and others in the cultural heritage of that region.

$50,000

(over two years)

Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center

To underwrite the celebration of the Ethiopian New Year days, enabling the Ethiopian Diaspora community of the Greater Bay Area to welcome and honor their new millennium (2007) and to celebrate Enkutatash in the following year (2008).

$40,000

Ethiopian Community Services, Inc.

Supplementary support to continue to underwrite the annual celebration of the Ethiopian New Year to enable Ethiopians to welcome their new Millennium (2007), engaging Bay Area Ethiopian-Americans and others in this major cultural event in the region.

$40,000

Ethiopian Cultural Institute, Inc.

Underwrites the training of Amharic and Guraghe language skills in Saturday school for Diaspora children in San Jose with emphasis on thematically chosen subjects involving dance, food, handicraft and language to build the pupils' knowledge of Ethiopian culture, history and tradition.

$50,000

(over two years)

Institute for Inquiry

To provide seed funding to this Santa Cruz-based institution to (1) facilitate development of an alternative journalistic inquiry process that explores the interconnectedness of physical, biological and cultural dimensions of life, and (2) learn about the effectiveness of such inquiries in engaging audience.

$40,000

Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc.

Seed funding towards research, preliminary production and fundraising for an hour-long documentary, Lake Tulare - Resilience and Survival in the 21st Century, to generate debate on the legacy of water management in California in light of the demise of this immense Central Valley lake, once homeland to the Yokut people.

$60,000

La Pocha Nostra

To underwrite visual and performance arts presentations and dialogue with five Oaxacan artists at the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco and also in Tucson on the current situation in Oaxaca, Mexico.

$20,000

Long Now Foundation

To underwrite venue rental for the award-winning monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT), in San Francisco, to encourage a deeper deca-millennial perspective on human and planetary processes.

$20,000

Redwood Day School

To make a short documentary film appropriate for use in K-8 art classes at the Redwood Day School in the San Francisco Bay Area with Aboriginal artists at Yirrkala and Ramingining in Australia's Northern Territory creating artworks and talking about their artistic and cultural traditions.

$7,750

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

To support an exhibition of Afghan war rugs alongside an exhibit of textiles woven in wartime from other cultures of the world to highlight the beauty and importance of Afghan women's textile arts during times of conflict and migration and to discuss these in two community forums.

$30,000

Stanford University

For continued partial support for the 2007 First Nations Futures Program, a partnership of Kamehameha Schools (Hawaii) the Ngai Tahu tribe of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Stanford University, to develop holistic leadership models for indigenous communities based on integration of traditional and western knowledge systems and practices.

$30,000

University of California, Santa Cruz

To support ethnobiological interpretation of the UCSC Arboretum regional collections and to lay the foundation for partnership with the Bay Area and wider California Native American community to plan, manage, interpret and use botanical resources within the California Native Plant Garden.

$40,000

World Arts West

To underwrite fees for local dancers and musicians participating in the 2007 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and the "People Like Me" Arts Education Program for children.

$40,000

Total The Bay Area (16 Grants)

$532,750

 Grand Totals (146 Grants)*

$11,510,437

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