Grants Awarded 2008

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 Purpose

Grant Amount

    Term

African Rift Valley

Arba Minch University

To underwrite convening of a first workshop to explore integration of the university's expertise with indigenous knowledge of agro-biodiversity, architecture, montane landscape management and indigenous irrigation practices in their neighboring Rift valley communities to initiate dialogue between knowledge systems.

$13,472

6

months

Center for Indigenous Questions

To underwrite establishment of this new organization to build the capacity of Ethiopia's Southwestern community associations on program management, monitoring and reporting, and to facilitate mutual learning and collaboration between associations, government and donor agencies.

$150,000

12

months

Norwegian Church Aid

To underwrite a survey of the development of tourism in Southwest Ethiopia to explore the opportunities for enduring partnerships between tourism and local communities and stewards of the region's biological and cultural diversity.

$40,000

12

months

University of California, Berkeley

To underwrite a partnership between communities and international and national scientists to assess changes in the environmental and livelihood systems in the Lower Omo Basin of Southern Ethiopia, and to enhance potential for community-based conservation, restoration and development.

$248,336

12

months

Total African Rift Valley (4 Grants)

$451,808

Central Asia and Turkey

GOLA Culture, Arts and Ecology NGO

Supplementary support for the 2008 and 2009 "Green Yayla Culture, Arts and Ecology Festivals" of local music, dance, drama, history, folklore and ecological education coupled with livelihood development including through crafts and ecotourism in the mountain pastures of the Turkish Black Sea.

$220,000

24

months

Humanities Education Central Asian Partnership

Further support to enable teachers and students of the Aga Khan Humanities Project to develop and network place-based education approaches using digital technologies to connect with living cultural heritage and landscapes, transfer knowledge inter-generationally and partner with local institutions.

$190,000

24

months

Total Central Asia and Turkey (2 Grants)

$410,000

Global Biocultural Initiative - Institutions and Policies

Bioversity International

To support web-based collection and collation of experiences of indigenous peoples in using agro-biodiversity as part of their response to climate change in order to inform global policies of the critical role of seed saving farmers in biodiversity maintenance and adaptation to climate change.

$141,000

13

months

Ecoagriculture Partners

To underwrite participation of community-based farmer and indigenous organizations in the 2008 UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) process to engage how national governments implement the Program of Work (POW) on agricultural biodiversity.

$50,000

7

months

Edmonds Institute

To fund district, national and Caribbean workshops in Dominica to develop models for sensitizing community representatives and local NGOs on how rights to control, manage and benefit from biodiversity are handled under the Convention on Biological Diversity and other international treaties.

$25,700

5

months

Total Global Biocultural Initiative –

Institutions and Policies (3 Grants)

$216,700

Global Biocultural Initiative - Wisdom and Practice

American Museum of Natural History

To support realization of the International Symposium “Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy" to assess progress and shape future directions for this emerging field around sustaining the interdependent biological and cultural diversities.

$137,000

12

months

Asociación para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible (ANDES)

To underwrite hosting (management, communications, events and travel bursaries) of the 11th Congress of International Society of Ethnobiology in June 2008 in Cusco, Peru, to promote dialogue among indigenous peoples, the scientific community and decision-makers on sustaining biocultural diversity.

$110,000

10

months

Collective Heritage Institute

To expand Bioneers efforts to share environmental and social inspirations for and practical solutions to uniting nature, culture and spirit in an Earth-honoring vision of Collective Heritage, through increasing international participation in the annual Bioneers Conference, attending international convenings and providing Spanish translation of its materials.

$80,000

10

months

International Institute for Environment and Development

To publish materials enhancing global understanding of Collective Biocultural Heritage and its protection from alienation and erosion, and to  engage policy makers, indigenous networks and local organizations in supporting local stewards who sustain customary resource rights and ensure resilient and adaptive ways of life.

$180,005

24

months

International Society of Ethnobiology

To underwrite institutional development, including a re-envisioning exercise with its members to frame new strategies, streamlining operations, enhancing membership benefits, expanding and diversifying membership, and supporting Indigenous and local participation in the biennial congresses in 2008 and 2010.

$360,000

36

months

Inuit Circumpolar Council

To underwrite the international Steering Committee to develop the agenda, build the momentum in the global indigenous and funding communities and host the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change in 2009, and to take recommendations to national and international agencies.

$300,000

21

months

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

To partially underwrite the Music and Arts components of the Resilience Alliance 2008 Conference on "Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation in Turbulent Times" in Stockholm, Sweden, April 2008 to engage audiences' imaginatively with ideas about complexity, diversity and sustainability.

$50,000

9

months

Tides Foundation

To underwrite the third phase (years 5 & 6) of the Genesis Project -- a long-term photo documentary and educational exploration of the origins and importance of biological and cultural diversity through support for the field trips of celebrated photographer Sebastião Salgado.

$300,000

24

months

Total Global Biocultural Initiative –

Wisdom and Practice (8 Grants)

$1,517,005

Grantmaking Association

Grantmakers Without Borders

To provide general support to underwrite their efforts to increase funding for international social change.

$30,000

24

months

Total Grantmaking Association (1 Grant)

$30,000

Greater Southwest

A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center

To underwrite the creation of a Zuni cultural map of the rivers and springs of the Colorado Plateau that both enables Zuni artists to illustrate their relationship (historical and current) with their watershed as a cultural landscape and illuminates Zuni perspectives around the value of water. 

$74,800

12

months

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity

Co-financing of staffing costs for the Gulf of California Working Group of the Consultative Group on Biodiversity in order to promote strategic collaboration among funders around environmental conservation in this region, including in respect of the indigenous stakeholders.

$20,000

12

months

Fundacion del Empresariado Chihuahuense

Co-funding with Mexican private and public agencies for a major comprehensive indigenous higher education program to enable Warijio, Pina, Pima, and Rarámuri students to access the Autonomous University of Chihuahua and other state higher education institutions to train a generation of Indigenous professionals. 

$130,031

18

months

Grand Canyon Trust

Support for sustainable agriculture and water management with North Leupp Family Farms and Navajo Waters Association, on the floodplain of the Little Colorado River on the Navajo Reservation including for a solar pump design and digital video for inter-generational knowledge transfer.

$75,000

19

months

International Funders for Indigenous Peoples

To underwrite costs of IFIP's first regional conference in Querétaro, Mexico: "Awakening Consciousness & Forming Alliances: Indigenous Peoples and Philanthropy," on January 18 & 19, 2008, to gather donors and civic leaders around strengthening indigenous philanthropy.

$40,000

6

months

Lore of the Land, Inc.

To document the Acequia cultures of traditional irrigated farming of the Upper Río Grande and Northern Mexico and to digitize the research, publications and archives of Mr. Estevan Arellano for a new website at the University of New Mexico to galvanize renewal in sustainable water use.

$31,500

12

months

Lore of the Land, Inc.

To launch the Watershed Consciousness Project to document and share the diversity of cultural understandings of water informing the American Southwest to generate a 13-episode radio program, an interactive website, a book manuscript and ongoing self-directed indigenous aural history programs. 

$150,000

24

months

Ocean Foundation*

To underwrite exchange visits between Indigenous communities in North Western Australia and the Comcaác of Northern Mexico around traditional knowledge and protection of marine turtles to begin at the International Sea Turtle Society Symposium in Loreto, Baja California in January 2008; and a scholarship program in environmental studies for a group of Comcaác youth.

$30,000

13

months

 Total Greater Southwest (8 Grants)

$551,331

Melanesia

Vanuatu Cultural Centre

Assist implementation of the Government of Vanuatu’s Year of the Traditional Economy program by incorporating indigenous knowledge and resource management into the school science curriculum, public education on land issues, and traditional management of the reefs and revitalization of the trade in shell money in the Rowa Atoll.

$160,000

12

months

 Total Melanesia (1 Grant)

$160,000

Northern Australia

Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation

To support management of Dhimurru and Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Areas and other land and sea territory of the Yolngu of Northeast Arnhem Land, through collation of traditional ecological knowledge and integration with western science, and its use for both-way school programs for children.

$170,000

12

months

Earthwatch Institute--Australia

To underwrite a three-day Queensland Climate Summit in Cairns in May 2008 for thirty two secondary school students of both Indigenous and non-indigenous heritage from across northern Queensland to learn about the impacts of climate change on their and their region’s future.

$34,300

5

months

Kimberley Land Council Aboriginal Corporation

To support the Traditional Custodians of the Yawuru and Goolarabooloo peoples to manage and protect the cultural and ecological values of Minyirr Park (Broome, Western Australia) and provide training and business opportunities for developing cultural tourism and a Youth Camp.

$155,500

24

months

Major Brisbane Festivals Pty Ltd.

To support the Black Arm Band Project at the 2008 Brisbane Festival to celebrate Indigenous cultural survival and expression comprising the Black Arm Band Concert: murundak, performances by local Indigenous artists and community engagement and development programs.

$100,000

8

months

Ocean Foundation*

To underwrite exchange visits between Indigenous communities in North Western Australia and the Comcaác of Northern Mexico around traditional knowledge and protection of marine turtles to begin at the International Sea Turtle Society Symposium in Loreto, Baja California in January 2008; and a scholarship program in environmental studies for a group of  Comcaác youth.

$30,000

13

months

Yalanjiwarra Jalunji Marrjanga Aboriginal Corporation

To enable the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people to map their territories, secure their cultural knowledge (including through digital technology) and develop their institutional capacities to manage their lands and economic development in the rainforest-reef region of northeast Queensland.

$300,000

24

months

 Total Northern Australia (6 Grants)

$789,800

The Bay Area

Arts of Peace, Inc.

To underwrite production, broadcast and distribution of two one-hour radio programs on (1) Resilience Thinking, and (2) Biocultural Diversity, to be developed for the award-winning, internationally syndicated weekly radio program, A World of Possibilities to bring these concepts to wider audiences.

$40,000

12

months

Total The Bay Area (1 Grant)

$40,000

 Grand Totals (33 Grants)*

$4,166,644

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.