Grants Awarded 2010

As of 3/31/10

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

Bioversity International*

To foster an alliance between indigenous peoples, local communities, international research and advocacy organizations to co-create research and advocacy agendas to enhance agrobiodiversity, strengthen and maintain diverse local food systems within an Indigenous Peoples and food sovereignty framework.

$30,000

12

months

Common River

To foster a sense of pride in Sidama food, folklore and architectural traditions in the community of Aleta Wondo, in Southern Ethiopia, and to build a synergy between these traditions and emerging ideas to validate this tradition and to enhance a culturally based progress.

$50,000

24

months

Ethiopian Arts Forum

To underwrite the staging of an exhibition of paintings and sculptures of a Diaspora artist in Ethiopia's capital and Rift Valley towns to create a dialogue between artists in the Diaspora, the general public and artists in the homeland.

$53,290

12

months

Total African Rift Valley (3 Grants)

$133,290

Central Asia and Turkey

Bioversity International*

To foster an alliance between indigenous peoples, local communities, international research and advocacy organizations to co-create research and advocacy agendas to enhance agrobiodiversity, strengthen and maintain diverse local food systems within an Indigenous Peoples and food sovereignty framework.

$50,000

12

months

Center of Museum Initiatives

Capacity building of a museum in Naryn Province (Kyrgyzstan) and support of its innovative program utilizing the space and expertise of local and national museums for promotion of biocultural thinking, place-based education and appreciation of the concepts of resilience and co-evolution.

$25,000

12

months

International Humanities Center

To underwrite production of a special issue on contemporary Central Asia of the arts and ideas journal "Gallerie" to foster broad awareness and understanding of the region and explore the role of artistic creativity and culture in regional development.

$25,000

7

months

Mountain Societies Development Support Programme, Kyrgyz Republic

To provide children in pastoralist communities of Karakulja district (Southern Kyrgyzstan) with culturally appropriate quality learning opportunities and enhance their biocultural learning through establishment of mobile kindergartens and mobile libraries on jailoos -- high mountain pastures.

$25,000

10

months

Public Fund - Central Asia-Arts Management (CAAM)

To support and promote Central Asian art of musical improvisation through cultural restoration of archival records of Kyrgyz traditional instrumental tunes -- K'uus, production of an anthology of these tunes and to underwrite an ethnojazz program of the annual Bishkek jazz festival.

$170,000

24

months

Taalim-Forum Public Foundation

To facilitate biocultural learning in Kyrgyzstan through advancing place-based education, support of community initiatives related to biocultural diversity, backing the Ak-Talaa village resource center in Naryn province and continuation of the training program in participatory video.

$185,000

24

months

University of Central Asia

To support publication of original academic research on musical arts of Pamir, Tajikistan and a herder's manual, designed for pastoralist communities, Pasture Committees and governmental authorities as a practical tool for improvement of pasture and livestock management in Kyrgyzstan.

$50,000

16

months

Total Central Asia and Turkey (7 grants)

$530,000

Disaster Giving

Lambi Fund of Haiti

General support for secondary relief and rehabilitation efforts to Haiti earthquake victims.

$20,000

11

months

Total Disaster Giving (1 grant)

$20,000

Global Biocultural Initiative

Bioversity International*

To foster an alliance between indigenous peoples, local communities, international research and advocacy organizations to co-create research and advocacy agendas to enhance agrobiodiversity, strengthen and maintain diverse local food systems within an Indigenous Peoples and food sovereignty framework.

$270,000

12

months

Conféderation Européenne des Propriétaires Forestiers

Support for travel and meetings to increase dialogue and cooperation between a coalition of forest "rights holders groups" to advocate globally the importance of locally controlled forestry, especially within the context of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).

$35,000

6

months

Cross Cultural Journeys Foundation

To support participation of international group of indigenous elders in the Beyond Sustainability meeting in Hawai'i in June 2010, in order for them to share their insights with global leaders from mainstream sectors about how to bring about systemic change in the way humankind deals with the planet.

$20,000

6

months

Gaia Foundation

Supporting production of audio-visual and written materials, based on years of experience in protecting and sustaining sacred sites in Africa, South America and Asia, to stimulate discussion of long-term strategies on sacred sites protection at the International Society of Ethnobiology 2010 Congress.

$40,000

10

months

Global Diversity Fund, Inc.

To support an ongoing exchange of experience and practice in community-based approaches to biocultural heritage with partners from Christensen priority regions including at the International Society for Ethnobiology and International Funders for Indigenous Peoples meetings in Tofino, June 2010.

$40,000

12

months

Hokotehi Moriori Trust

To support a meeting of representatives from indigenous communities at the International Society for Ethnobiology 2010 Congress to provide a group forum for learning about and presenting sacred peace keeping traditions and their importance for sustaining biocultural diversity and resilience

$21,000

8

months

International Society of Ethnobiology

Supplemental. 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.

$70,000

12

months

Snowchange Cooperative

To enable representatives of nomadic communities to share their experience in maintaining traditional modes of transmission of pastoral knowledge through a "Nomadic Education" initiative, while providing an opportunity for developing a strategy and a plan for future collaborative work.

$20,000

10

months

UNIFEM South Asia

To support globally important applied research around indigenous women's knowledge and practice within selected shifting cultivation systems of Himalayan South Asia  in the face of growing commercialization, land and forest privatization, climate change and changes in gender relations

$30,000

9

months

Total Global Biocultural Initiative (9 grants)

$546,000

Grantmaking Association

Council on Foundations

Renewal of general support and annual 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.

$14,650

12

months

Total Grantmaking Association (1 grant)

$14,650

Greater Southwest

Consejo EcoRegional Sierra Tarahumara

To develop community strategies around adaptation to climate change effects through biodiversity monitoring and community consultation in the Tarahumara's Urique--Batopilas Biological Corridor.

$100,000

24

months

Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment

Underwriting to build a community educational campaign for renewable energy as an alternative to coal fired power for the Navajo Nation and to litigate for mitigation and remediation from the coal carbon waste at Navajo Mine.

$30,000

12

months

Fundacion Tarahumara Jose A Llaguno A B P

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

$200,000

24

months

Native Movement

Support helps advance the Navajo Green Jobs Campaign through outreach and education and two pilot projects to model green economy options.

$70,000

12

months

Total Greater Southwest (4 Grants)

$400,000

Melanesia

Bioversity International*

To foster an alliance between indigenous peoples, local communities, international research and advocacy organizations to co-create research and advocacy agendas to enhance agrobiodiversity, strengthen and maintain diverse local food systems within an Indigenous Peoples and food sovereignty framework.

$50,000

12

months

Bismarck Ramu Group, Ltd.

To provide continued support for indigenous landholder capacity-building on environmental issues, land rights, and legal literacy in Madang, Papua New Guinea.

$200,000

24

months

Nancy Sullivan Ltd

To support  research and biocultural documentation of a series of caves at the headwaters of the Arafundi and Karawari Rivers in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, to protect the area from urgent threats including industrial logging and mining.

$30,000

11

months

Total Melanesia (3 grants)

$280,000

Northern Australia

Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts

To support a collaborative cultural exchange program between two innovative Indigenous performing arts organizations based in Australia (ACPA) and Brazil (Silo Cultural) to enrich personal, artistic and cultural practices of participating students and wider Indigenous arts communities in both countries.

$50,000

6

months

Australian Conservation Foundation

To support the return of Wuthathi Traditional Owners to their traditional lands in the Shelburne Bay region on eastern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, and to assist them in the care, management and preservation of their culturally and ecologically significant lands.

$50,000

24

months

Oxfam Australia

To support participation of approximately 20 Indigenous women from north Australia at a summit in Canberra as part of the 2010 Straight Talk national program which seeks to build lasting relationships between Australian Indigenous women and women in parliament.

$50,000

12

months

Total Northern Australia (3 grants)

$150,000

The Bay Area

Ballet Afsaneh Art and Culture Society

To support the preparation, production and presentation of "Project Intersections", a series of performance collaborations of Bay Area Central and South Asian dance and music artists, and of the annual Festival of the Silk Road.

$20,000

9

months

International Indian Treaty Council

Support for workshops and meetings with Bay Area Indigenous community members and organizations to discuss and exchange information around addressing climate change, including assessment of local impacts and causes, strategies for adaptation and mitigation.

$15,000

12

months

Total The Bay Area (2 grants)

$35,000

 Grand Totals (30 Grants)*

$2,108,940

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.