FY 2002 Grants List

Domestic Biodiversity

Alaska Conservation Foundation	Contact Them Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska Conservation Foundation was awarded $15,000 to continue assisting grassroots efforts in the state, and coordinate and lead several of their own initiatives to protect the land and water of Alaska. Alaska Conservation Foundation now provides services to over 80 conservation organizations in Alaska and hopes to expand their effectiveness and reach in the coming years. Their goals for this year are: to increase their successful grantmaking to grassroots organizations in AK, to grow their organizational effectiveness training offerings, to expand all of their programs, and to continue the push for a conservation majority in the state.

American Rivers	Contact Them Seattle, Washington
$20,000 was awarded to American Rivers for their Endangered Salmon Project. The declining population of wild salmon in the Northwest is a direct result of inadequate river habitat for the spawning and rearing of the species. The Northwest Office of American Rivers will address this by defending the existing laws protecting them and by pursuing meaningful reform of river management practices. American Rivers' two campaigns in this arena primarily focus on the two most imperiled riparian habitats of the region; the Columbia-Snake rivers and Puget Sound rivers. Also included in the campaigns will be dam reform and removal litigation, estuary restoration, and instream flow enhancement.

The Bay Institute of San Francisco	Contact Them San Rafael, California
Weeden funds support two different initiatives underway at TBI. The San Joaquin River Restoration Initiative is a large environmental coalition working collaboratively to address the complex water supply issues of the San Joaquin River. The project involves a scientific and policy engagement to restore fisheries, and develop communication tools to educate policymakers, the public, and the media about the health of watersheds. The second initiative, the Healthy Ecosystems Initiative, seeks to shape and monitor long-term state and federal efforts to achieve endangered species recovery and habitat restoration. Both programs aim to communicate to a broad audience the importance of the health of riparian ecosystem within California's Central Valley.

Biodiversity Project	Contact Them Madison, WI
Biodiversity Project received $10,000 in general support for their work building a long-term constituency for biodiversity issues. BP has four collaborative campaigns for the coming year: Make the Connection to Water Campaign; Eastern Forests Campaign; Consumer Education Campaign; and the Biodiversity Friendly Communities Campaign. In support of these campaigns, BP is producing several message kits that contain background papers and communication strategies, including an Ethics and Biodiversity message kit as a capacity building tool for environmental leaders.

Idaho Conservation League	Contact Them Boise, Idaho
$20,000 supports Idaho Conservation League defense of roadless areas and the implementation of place-based campaigns to protect biological diversity and outdoor values. Through litigation, member and public outreach, public education, paid media, coalition work, place-based campaigning, and lobbying, ICL believes it will have the most effect on wildlands decisions in Idaho. This year they will continue to devote resources to legislating the conservation of the vast Boulder-White Cloud wilderness area as well as the Owyhee Canyon land region in the southwestern part of the state.

Island Conservation & Ecology Group	Contact Them Davenport, California
ICEG works to protect seabirds and endemic species in northwest Mexico from the threat of extinction, aiming for the recovery of whole, functioning island ecosystems. $20,000 of Weeden funds support ICEG's work in northwest Mexico to conserve seabirds and island ecosystems including renewed educational efforts on the 23 islands where they have already removed non-native mammals as well as program expansion to larger, more complex island ecosystems.

Land and Water Fund of the Rockies	Contact Them Boulder, Colorado
A $50,000 grant was given to the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies to support their Rocky Mountain Energy Campaign. Currently, fossil fuel development is the greatest threat to wildlands, water resources, and western communities in the Rockies region. On behalf of conservation organizations, outfitters, hunters, farmers, ranchers, and private citizens, the Campaign supports the development of a responsible energy policy for the Interior West, preservation of the West's remaining wild places, and the protection of citizens and communities from unchecked and unregulated energy development.

Land Trust Alliance	Contact Them Washinton, DC
The Land Trust Alliance was awarded $20,000 for their Public Policy program that works with land trusts to leverage government support for the conservation of private lands. In 2002, the Program has four main objectives. In a continued effort to create tax incentives for private land conservation, LTA is working with Congress to expand the income tax deduction for conservation easements and cut capital gains tax in half when land or easements are sold. The second campaign focuses on the implementation of the new Farm Bill. Working with the USDA and land trusts, LTA will ensure that the funding designated for programs to purchase conservation easements is spent effectively. LTA will also work with the land trust community in the debate over the restructuring of the federal highway system. Lastly, to ensure that conservation easements maximize conservation benefits and are actively enforced, LTA will continue to educate policymakers in Washington on effective easement development.

Montana Wilderness Association	Contact Them Helena, Montana
$20,000 was given to MWA for their Quiet Trails Campaign of which thelong-term goal is the protection of 10 million acres of undesignated roadless public land in Montana. Currently, the major threat to these wildlands is off-road vehicle traffic. ORV use in Montana is unrestricted on most public lands, leading to polluted air and water, damaged native vegetation, displacement of wildlife, and exclusion of traditional outdoor recreationists. Using community organizing, MWA will seek resolutions on several site and policy-specific issues, such as eliminating ORV use in the Gallatin National Forest. With continued strategic legal action against the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, MWA will work to limit trail development and ORV use.

Natural Trails and Water Coalition	Contact Them Missoula, Montana
The Coalition consists of 80 member groups representing over one million people. In the first year of their campaign, Natural Trails and Waters succeeded in pressuring the National Park Service into establishing a policy removing snowmobiles from most National Parks and banning personal watercraft from many parks. However, under the current Bush administration, the Coalition has been forced into a more defensive role, but, nonetheless, hopes to engage in several offensive strategies. $50,000 was given to their core campaign that aims to: prevent rollbacks of existing protections in National Parks, challenge the Forest Service on new user-created routes, influence precedent setting land and transportation management plans being prepared by the Forest Service and BLM, develop and implement a litigation strategy, and develop a campaign strategy to achieve reform during the reauthorization of the Symms Act (which funds motorized trail development).

Northwest Environment Watch	Contact Them Seattle, Washington
A $25,000 grant supports a two year plan to develop a "NEW Index of Sustainability," and an accompanying outreach strategy. This index aims to compete with GDP and other economic indexes, thereby helping to reshape the public agenda. Examples of possible indicators include: the status of wild salmon to reflect ecosystem health; concentrations of toxic chemicals in breast milk to show ambient pollution levels, and greenhouse gas emissions. The NEW Index will be devised and maintained by a panel of scientific and communication experts who will confront what NEW finds to be the two largest challenges, adequate and accurate indicators and credibility with the public. The goal is to create an index that will be the Northwest's recognized barometer of long-term progress.

Pacific Rivers Council	Contact Them Eugene, Oregon
The Pacific Rivers Council was awarded $20,000 for their Amphibian and Watershed Protection Initiative. Using sound science, legal and policy initiatives, and public outreach, PRC is working to protect our aquatic biodiversity. Protecting habitat of wide-ranging (and widely ignored) species, such as frogs, allows PRC to protect vast tracts of land and many times whole watersheds. PRC has found that the ESA is their most powerful tool to achieve amphibian protection, and by sing the existing data on habitat areas, PRC will map amphibian hot-spots to show the landscapes that most urgently need protection. With public and agency attention on the immediacy of watershed-level protection necessary for amphibians, PRC hopes to put frogs and other amphibians in the center of regional conservation debates and the forefront of an aquatic conservation dialogue.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility	Contact Them Washington DC
$20,000 will support PEER's on-going campaign to reform the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) through insider disclosures and enforcement advocacy, and to expand and improve FWS enforcement in other key agencies where wildlife issues are prevalent. Within the FWS, PEER formed the Refuge Keeper program several years ago (with Weeden support) which has been a vehicle for employee activism and a support mechanism for refuge workers. In the coming year, PEER will be advocating for more resources to reach individual refuge units (an ongoing problem), the prevention of oil prospecting, mining, unsustainable hunting and water rights claims in refuges.

River Network	Contact Them Portland, Oregon
This year, $30,000 of continued general support will assist grassroots river activism and watershed protection efforts nationwide, including the Third National River Rally. Weeden funds will support capacity building within the river and watershed protection movement and the coordination and presentation of the River Rally in 2002, including the sponsoring of Chilean activists. Capacity building will take shape through organizational development and other assistance to river and watershed conservation groups nationwide, as well as the provision of resources and support to activists through the River Source Center. Lastly, River Network's will continue their Clean Water Program which empowers citizens to help implement the Clean Water Act.

Siskiyou Project	Contact Them Cave Junction, Oregon
$20,000 was given to Siskiyou Project for their work protecting Siskiyou Wild Rivers. The Siskiyou Wild Rivers region, one million acres of National Forest and BLM land, is a significant and threatened portion of the Siskiyou-Klamath region. Unstable roads dump fish-suffocating sediment into rivers, over-allocated streams barely have enough water to support fish populations, ancient trees continue to be logged, ORV use increases, and mining is a huge threat in this area. Although their Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Monument campaign was not approved, it successfully brought attention to the area which now tops Oregon's conservation agenda. Within the community, the Project will continue to provide workshops for local activists, educate landowners about conservation easements, sponsor more than 50 hikes, and host, for the second year, their successful Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival.

Sky Island Alliance	Contact Them Albuquerque, New Mexico
$25,000 of renewed general support assists Sky Island with their continued work in 2002. Over the past year the Alliance has consolidated and re-organized themselves, established a strategic and financial plan called the Sky Islands Wildlands Network Conservation Plan, and continued with their on-the-ground habitat restoration and species protection in the West. Their objectives for 2001 are organized into four Program Areas: Rewilding, which includes wildlife monitoring, wilderness designation work, and road-closures; Ecosystem Defense, involving the Alliance in a proactive and positive way with decisionmakers, planners, resource managers; and Mexico, the renewed support of the Jano Research Station in Chihuahua with a Janos Research Station Fund; Outreach, an October festival, community outreach meetings, and a listserv network. About a third of the requested funding would support the Outreach Program, which seems especially vital now with the continuing threat of sprawl and disconnected habitats in the Southwest.

Southeast Alaska Conservation Council	Contact Them Juneau, Alaska
SEACC is a coalition of 18 local community member organizations working to educate the public, coordinate grassroots efforts, and work with resource management agencies and public officials. $20,000 continues to support their efforts to defend and protect wildlands in the Tongass National Forest (the largest remaining coastal temperate forest in the US) and neighboring areas. 2002 will be especially focused on grassroots support and mobilization, specifically: work to safeguard protected Southeast Alaska wildlands, defend special unprotected wildlands and lobby for a lower Tongass logging level, increase grassroots support of Tongass wildlands, develop and initiate strategies to prevent more ecosystem fragmentation, foster strategies for a smaller-scale timber industry and for more diverse economies in Southeast Alaska communities, and monitor and fight damaging development plans for existing and proposed mines.

Waterwatch of Oregon	Contact Them Portland, Oregon
A grant of $25,000 supports the Western Water Project (a joint venture with Trout Unlimited), which supports conservation efforts in water allocation and management in the Western states. Goals this year include; seeking water for refuges, rivers, and lakes in the Klamath Basin, promoting restoration of Oregon rivers affected by federal water projects, using the Endangered Species Act to restore flows in the Walla Walla River, working towards a stronger conservation community working on western water issues, and maintaining their work elsewhere in Oregon to restore and protect stream flows. The Klamath Basin, where the Bureau of Reclamation has been in the spotlight for irrigation decisions made during summer 2001 drought will be a major focus of the project.

Western Land Exchange Project	Contact Them Seattle, Washington
$20,000 continues to support WLXP’s policy, outreach, and advocacy efforts to empower local community and environmental groups to take an active role in land exchanges. WLXP has built a solid network of activists who monitor land trades in their areas and work with them to protect fragile ecosystems from extraction and development that is facilitated by the exchange of public lands to corporate interests. WLXP has worked for over four years with national, state, and community groups, to prevent logging, mining, and development of land for subdivisions, golf courses, and retirement communities, the primary threats that are driving the conversion of habitat in the West. Activities for the coming year include: progress with media exposure, continuing Congressional outreach, public education (using publications developed by the project over the last several years), and increasing the interest and support of national organizations and grassroots groups.

Western Organization of Resource Councils	Contact Them Billings, Montana
WORC's mission is to advance the vision of a democratic, sustainable, and just society through community action. They work toward this goal by supporting and unifying 44 local chapters and community groups in the western states. A $15,000 grant supports their Campaign for Clean Energy and Responsible Development. This effort, in cooperation with the Rocky Mountain Energy Campaign, was developed to (1) address a need for more responsible energy development policies, (2) increase efficiency and the use of renewable energy, (3) spur wider participation in energy decisions by consumers, activists, and landowners, (4) promote greater awareness and understanding of the impacts of energy decisions, and (5) strengthen protections for landowners impacted by energy development. Through five state-based campaigns, the development and eventual passage of a Bill of Rights for Oil and Gas Field Residents and the promotion of energy regulations and environmental reviews, WORC hopes to ensure current energy development efforts do not sacrifice community and environmental interests.

Wilderness Watch	Contact Them Missoula, Montana
Wilderness Watch received $20,000 for The Wilderness Defense & Stewardship Program. In the past year, WW has made progress in assuring the development of wilderness management plans reflect the spirit and letter of the Wilderness Act. This year's Program confronts two core issues; developing and maintaining the integrity of Wilderness Management Plans and challenging questionable Forest Service and Department of Interior wilderness management strategies. This will be accomplished through engagement with government agencies in the shaping of management plans, legal challenges to plans that degrade wilderness, and the building of awareness of both organizations and individuals.

Wildlands Project	Contact Them Richmond, Vermont
$30,000 was awarded the Wildlands Project for their Continental Conservation Programs. The Wildlands Project envisions connected systems of wildlands throughout North America, and seeks to achieve this with science-based land use designs that sustain both nature and people. After merging with the Wild Earth Society (home of Wild Earth magazine) in 2001, they have refocused their agenda on science, advocacy, and education programs. After releasing the Sky Islands Wildlands Network conservation plan, the Project and its partners will host a conference in October to organize the member groups and introduce the effort to the public, agencies, land trusts, and the media.

Worldwatch Institute	Contact Them Washington, DC
$25,000 in general support was given to Worldwatch. Every year, Worldwatch generates 8,000 press clips, sells thousands of copies of its books, and is referenced by government officials and policy experts. Over the coming year, Worldwatch hopes to identify which publications and programs have the most reach and effect worldwide, and carefully review audience reaction and the impact of each of their print and electronic media efforts. By identifying high-profile opportunities, strengthening their relationships with the national and global press, working with governments and policy-making institutions, in addition to publishers and NGOs, Worldwatch will identify how, when, and where to publicize their research.

International Biodiversity

American Lands Alliance	Contact Them Washington, DC
ALA was awarded $50,000 for their work protecting the temperate rainforests of Chile. This year their campaign has three major goals: stopping immediate threats such as the coastal highway and the Boise Cascade chip mill, initiating a Global Temperate Rainforest Conference, and influencing the proposed FTAA and US-Chile bilateral agreements. Any bilateral agreement between Chile and the US or the passage of the FTAA would create an economically beneficial environment for US logging companies (such as Boise). This opportunity would be enhanced by the construction of the Coastal Highway that would cut through previously inaccessible Valdivian forest.

American Museum of Natural History	Contact Them New York, New York
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation received $25,000 to continue their community grants program initiated in several Integrated Management areas of Bolivia. The Center contributes to the development of ecotourism in Bolivia with the training in interpretive guiding of locals, construction of trails, and the development and construction of exhibits for community museums and interpretive centers. Weeden funds will specifically support the unification of community and scientific expertise to enable effective local and regional planning and sustainable resource management.

Centro de Asistencia Legal Popular	Contact Them Washington DC
$10,000 funding supports CEALP’s continued project in Panama that uses local organizing, legal expertise and international advocacy to stop projects that threaten to destroy biological and cultural diversity of the Central American corridor. The central threats include the completion of the Pan-American Highway which will "close" the Darien Gap, the development of a Copper mine, and two major dams in the Panama Canal Zone. CEALP’s campaign works with local people and in partnership with other organizations, and aims to catalyze a regional movement by spreading lessons learned in Panama to neighboring countries.

Defensores del Bosque Chilenos	Contact Them Santiago, Chile
Defensores received $20,000 to support their popular newsletter "Voces del Bosque". The publication focuses on the most pressing issues facing Chilean forests and has prompted both authorities and supporters to act for their protection. Defensores also participates in legislative decisions that effect Chilean forests through litigation and the monitoring of Free Trade agreements. Other work includes their promotion of and participation in the creation of a Gondwana Sanctuary that will span Chile, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand.

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide	Contact Them Eugene, Oregon
$30,000 was awarded E-LAW to expand their access to the scientific and legal resources they need to defend Bolivia's biodiversity. This will be accomplished by including Bolivia's environmental law resources in the widely-used E-LAW website, bringing two lawyers to E-LAW's Annual International Meeting, and linking Bolivian advocates with partners in Peru and Colombia also working to protect Andean forests. On a more global front, E-LAW U.S. is engaged in several initiatives to further the goal of empowering local advocates worldwide, with special emphasis on helping those advocates use Environmental Impact Statements (many times the strongest tool an environmental lawyer has) to give citizens a voice and challenge environmental abuses.

Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia	Contact Them Victoria, BC Canada
$25,000 supports their project to produce and deliver community training tools, inter-net resources, and community-specific technical support designed to assist activists and community members in responding effectively to the challenges posed by Canadian mineral investment in the Andean region of South America. The project builds and expands on a solid base of international strategic cooperation built over the past three years between mining-focused NGOs in Canada and Peru. Expansion of efforts into other Andean countries will begin with Chile and Bolivia where foreign mining investment is heaviest and existing network ties are the strongest.

Fiscalia del Medio Ambiente	Contact Them Santiago, Chile
Awarded $22, 040, FIMA, the leading public interest law firm working in Chile, has been designated the legal representative of the biggest environmental coalition in the history of Chile. FIMA will act on their behalf in the citizen participation stage of the Environmental Impact Assessment process of a new $3 billion dollar aluminum project proposed by the Canadian company Noranda. The Alumysa Project includes the building of three dams in the relatively undeveloped Region XI, deforestation, increases in ocean water temperatures, as well as air pollution in the area. FIMA aims to educate the community, build citizen capabilities, and develop international strategies (they are currently working with Sierra Legal in Canada and the Interamerican Association of Environmental Defense). FIMA has also started a legal campaign to involve scientists in evaluating the EIA, in order to get an additional extension of the comment period, and to force the government to recognize its responsibility to enforce environmental law.

ForestEthics	Contact Them Portland, Oregon
ForestEthics received $50,000 for their work protecting Chile's native forests from non-native radiata pine plantations. In the past, ForestEthics has focused their campaign on the largest U.S. importer of Chilean wood, NorPac, and the largest milling company in the U.S., Woodgrain. To sustain the pressure on the U.S. market, ForestEthics will appeal to the "green building" movement, engage the media, and involve colleges in addition to informing NorPac employees of the detrimental results of these timber practices in Chile. While maintaining this momentum in the U.S., the focus of the coming year will be on industry and government in Chile. Alliances with Chilean NGO's (including grantees Terram, FIMA, and Defensores del Bosque) have been cemented over the past year, forming a coalition that will carry the campaign forward. Demands to companies are two-fold; no new plantations on native forest land, and FSC certification of all Chilean wood purchased.

Fundacion Terram	Contact Them Santiago, Chile
Terram received $25,000 for their campaign, promoting sustainable salmon farming practices in Chile. Having researched the detrimental economic and ecological effects of salmon farming and explored alternatives, Terram now aims to generate a public debate to promote the sustainable management of salmon farming. The results of Terram's environmental impact study will be published, along with a video demonstrating the environmental risks of current practices. An international seminar is being organized for May, and Terram would like to engage in some litigation to reform the industry. With the involvement of the public and other stakeholders (including a network of local artesenal fishermen), Terram hopes public policy will be reevaluated and eventually changed.

Global Greengrants Fund	Contact Them Boulder, Colorado
GGF builds a local network of environmentally oriented organizations through a small grants program. $20,000 of Weeden funds is allocated towards grants in the Altai Region of Central Siberia where the absence of state control makes capacity building essential. A committee of local environmental activists and the Pacific Environment and Resource Center serve as advisors for the grant making process. The activities of the most recent grantees range from children's environmental education, TV and radio programming to raise awareness of key social and environmental issues, and programs to monitor and protect natural resources. The other $10,000 of grant money goes towards building a similar granting program in neighboring China.

Pacific Environment	Contact Them Oakland, California
Pacific Environment received $30,000 for their work protecting the environment of the Pacific Rim by strengthening democracy, empowering grassroots advocacy, and working to redefine international policies. In the Altai Region, Pacific Environment collaborates with the Fund for 21st Century Altai, the leading NGO working for the Altai, and the Altai State University Ecoclub, a leader in environmental education and activism. Goals for the coming year are: halting the proposed Katun River dam; promoting transboundary conservation; protecting wilderness in the Altai; and increasing citizen monitoring campaigns.

PROTÉGÉ	Santiago, Chile
With a $15,000 grant from the Foundation, PROTÉGÉ is helping create the first Chilean Lands Conservation Congress. Globally, land conservation is developing to a larger and larger degree on private lands, maintained by the private sector. In Chile, privately protected areas are being created by a diverse and diffused group of individuals, NGOs, real estate companies, government institutions, lumber companies, and indigenous communities. These areas take shape as private parks, land acquisition for conservation, indigenous parks, eco-sensitive real estate developments, and eco-tourism sites. However, as of yet, there is no connection between any of these groups on a sustained or informed basis. PROTÉGÉ proposes a three-day event, uniting approximately 200 people involved in this movement in Chile. The rally will include training and education in the legal, social, and ecological aspects of private lands conservation, as well as a prime opportunity to network and coordinate organizations. The goal of such an event would be the long-term development of a coordinated movement and national attention to the possibilities of private lands conservation in Chile.

Round River Conservation Studies	Contact Them New York, New York
Round River received $25,000 for their Taku River Tlingit Wildlife Conservation Project. As the largest intact wilderness coastal watershed in North America and the traditional territory of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation, the Taku watershed has been very vulnerable to development threats. Round River plans to develop a Land Management Plan that would integrate the cultural and ecological uses of the land to finalize land use designations for all the traditional territory. Concurrently, Round River is training and building the capacity of Tlingit people to chart and develop conservation plans, wildlife management, heritage, and economic development plans on their own.

Sacred Earth Network	Contact Them Amherst, Massachusetts
Awarded $30,000 for their Russian Environmental Partnership Program, this year, SEN will focus all its efforts on the Altai. Following their method of providing direct assistance to the environmental movement in Eurasia, SEN will team up, and be directly involved with local organizations, indigenous leaders, and the staff and residents of protected territories. As Russia's political leaders focus on resource extraction, SEN sees a need to foster both grassroots organizations and improve the capacity of indigenous people to protect their land. Their work in the Altai will include supplying organizations with computer technology, educating organizations on the use of sustainable energy technology, and implementing demonstration projects for clean energy technologies.

Wildlife Conservation Society	Contact Them Bronx, New York
WCS received $10,000 for their work preserving wildlife in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park in Southern Chile. The Park is home to numerous rare plants and animals and has virtually no protection from poachers and cattle ranchers. WCS has suggested adding 17,000 hectares of marine area to the Park and will work with the Chilean National Parks Service to accomplish this. Weeden funds will support two park wardens to control access to prime wildlife habitat and allow WCS to conduct research and compile an extensive wildlife survey and threat assessment. In three years, WCS hopes to have identified wildlife and marine bird and mammal habitat and developed specific management recommendations for the Park.


Population & Consumption

Adbusters Media Foundation	Contact Them Vancouver, BC Canada
Adbusters received $20,000 for their international Buy Nothing Day campaign that hopes to make Buy Nothing Day a "party, a protest, and a collective moment of change" on par with Earth Day celebrations. BND's objective is to be a catalyst for positive alternatives to consumerism. Weeden funds will support the creation of a "toolkit" that will be sent to over 300 grassroots organizations who will plan Buy Nothing Day events worldwide. This activist toolkit will contain: the arguments for sustainable consumption, resources for activists, an overview of the issues surrounding consumption and economics, and media relations information. Buy Nothing Day will be held on Nov. 23, 2002, the day after Thanksgiving and traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year.

Californians for Population Stabilization	Contact Them Los Angeles, California
A $20,000 general support grant will assist efforts to protect the environment through the promotion of population stabilization. Particular emphasis is placed on California, the US, and immigration issues. This year several campaignsare supported with Weeden funds. The Overpopulation Awareness Campaign will focus on advertising both in the mainstream media and with ads in the UCLA newspaper. The Open Dialogue Program is a spokesperson training program for CAPS activists. Lastly, the Demographic Data Program will be an outreach and communications program with the help of a part-time demographer.

CASA	Contact Them Guanajuato, Mexico
CASA was awarded $40,000 for their work promoting reproductive rights and education in Mexico. Over the last two decades three programs have evolved into the main focus of the organization; peer counseling, health care and midwifery, and child development. In the next two years, there will be an increased emphasis on advocacy and policy work. Building on their successes, CASA will engage in more work with Mexican-Americans, as well as involving environmental NGOs in reproductive health and family planning by sharing CASA's approach and experience.

Catholics for a Free Choice	Contact Them Washington, DC
Catholics for a Free Choice received $30,000 for it's Latin America program. The program has two goals in the coming year: increase the number of Catholics active in the prochoice movement and increase the visibility of prochoice arguments. CFFC hopes to focus each of its spinoff organizations in Latin America (Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir) on the pertinent and urgent issues facing their respective countries. These organizations will receive more resources to build their staff and expand their programs in an effort to increase their number of activists and supporters.

Center for Immigration Studies	Contact Them Washington, DC
The Center for Immigration Studies was awarded $50,000 for their work contributing to the public debate on immigration issues. As the leading source of information on the demographic and economic impacts of immigration in the United States, CIS is positioned to significantly contribute to the public debate on immigration issues. In the coming year there are four main studies CIS will focus on; Middle Eastern Population, an analysis of how terrorists enter the U.S., a Sprawl Study linking population growth and urban sprawl, and a Housing Study demonstrating immigration's detrimental effect on the availability of low-cost housing.

Center for a New American Dream	Contact Them Takoma Park, Maryland
The Center for a New American Dream received $25,000 for their work changing for Americans' consumption patterns in order to foster healthier outlooks and environments. Center media campaigns have reached a potential audience of 200 million Americans with the message that consumption need not be a way of life. This year, a range of intitiatives will be implemented to widen their public education campaigns. With new marketing, two new books, an educational video, and the media campaigns, the Center hopes to move a larger audience to action. Beyond the general public, the Center will create a powerful network of individuals and institutions who will push this movement forward.

Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America	Contact Them Oakland, California
DASA received $25,000 for their work to educate influential individuals and large audiences on the negative impacts of our current immigration policy. With a focus on the post-September 11th media coverage and the lack of attention to a failed immigration policy, DASA hopes to raise immigration to a level of major concern in the US by 2004. As part of their four-year plan, DASA will; continue to educate the public through opinion pieces and talk show appearances, provide educational materials to grassroots reform groups, use ads and opinion polls to educate residents, and continue to research and provide news articles and credible data to influential individuals.

E Magazine	Contact Them Westport, Connecticut
A $20,000 grant was given to E Magazine to support the research, writing, publication and promotion of their ongoing series on population and immigration. Since 1990 they have published 5 cover stories on these issues, and in the coming two years, they would like to print shorter, more specific articles over a longer period of time. By publishing one short article in at least every other issue, E Magazine hopes to push the population topic into the foreground of environmental issues.

INFORM	Contact Them New York, New York
Having evaluated government policies and the benefits of sustainable consumption, INFORM was awarded $15,000 for their work to alter government procurement policies. Targeting California, New York, and New Jersey, INFORM aims to promote progress towards environmentally sustainable consumption policies and practices by creating public awareness, government policy initiatives, and government agency programs that advance sustainability. Addressing the over-consumption of materials and subsequent production of waste pollution in the U.S., INFORM will engage in education and outreach on waste prevention strategies. Using four main procurement strategies: purchasing of longer lasting more durable products, purchasing that favors product take-back by the manufacturer, purchasing of products containing fewer toxic chemicals, and purchasing of products with recycled content, INFORM will encourage government agencies to shift consumption patterns. Government agencies have the ability to lead by example as well as setting the specifications for goods and their use of resource-efficient products can also create a marketplace for these goods.

Ipas	Contact Them Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Ipas received $25,000 of continued funding for their project to increase women's access to and improve the quality of legal abortion services in Mexico. While every state in Mexico permits abortion (with restrictions), very few women have access to these services. Ipas works with the health sector, both public and private, to create the legal abortion services that are currently unavailable. In the past three years of the project, Ipas has had four main successes; mobilizing key individuals in the health and judicial systems to expand services, developing a model of care for rape survivors, training more than 600 health professionals on legal abortion issues, and initiating a program to train health professionals in the provision of comprehensive services for rape survivors.

Mainstream Media Project	Contact Them Arcata, California
MMP uses the mainstream broadcast media to raise public awareness about leading-edge thinking and activity on a range of urgent national and global issues. By placing hundreds of policy analysts and social innovators on the radio, MMP demonstrates for individuals their role in societal change. This year, MMP received $25,000 for their campaign to demonstrate the initiatives of a wide range of national, regional, and local groups, in addition to providing strategies for lifestyle improvements, publicizing the impact of consumer choices, and provide the resources to join with other interested individuals in one's local community.

Northwest Earth Institute	Contact Them Portland, Oregon
NEI develops and disseminates discussion courses that connect environmental degradation with individual lifestyle and give participants the tools to change their impact on the environment. A $25,000 grant supports Phase II of the development of a National Network of Earth Institutes, which uses the NEI model nationwide. Phase I involved the initial creation of program materials, a structure for replicating the programs in communities throughout the U.S. (to date 264 communities in 47 states and provinces have been involved), a network of participating communities, and increased visibility in the media as well as at the grassroots level. Phase II (currently underway) has five goals: to create a permanent Earth Institute Center for program development, to continue to produce high quality work products for the Network, to increase the effectiveness of Network member groups based on input from participating groups, to fully integrate Northwest communities into the Network, and to complete an outside study to verify the impact of the programs.

NumbersUSA	Contact Them Arlington, Virginia
NumbersUSA received $25,000 for their "Re-Casting the Debate on Urban Sprawl" program with which Numbers wants to systematically change the way our leaders see sprawl. Numbers seeks to persuade environmental leaders, officials, Congress, the news media, and the general public that sprawl issues cannot be separated from population growth. Their study "Weighing Sprawl Factors in U.S. Cities" will continue to be distributed and presented to leaders nationwide. Staff will meet with members of Congress to build support for sprawl legislation while the growing volunteer network will contact their state and local representatives to discuss and provide materials on sprawl in their region. The website www.sprawlcity.org, will be developed into an interactive tool, with a page demonstrating population's effects on sprawl for each urban area in the lower 48.

Population Coalition	Contact Them Redlands, California
Population Coalition was awarded $25,000 for their campaign to demonstrate the correlation between population stabilization and a genuine, lasting security, both in the U.S. and abroad. By educating the American public on all the major issues of population (population doubling times, the need for family planning, overconsumption, growth pressures, status of women, etc.), Population Coalition will show the link between population pressures and conditions of unrest and instability in countries already facing poverty, disease, and ecological deterioration. By framing the issues in positive, strong language and images, Population Coalition's publications seek to educate by appealing to readers who may have no previous interest in population issues.

Population Communications International	Contact Them New York, New York
PCI was awarded $50,000 for their radio program, Ombligos al Sol (Bellybuttons to the Sun) which mixes national and international news with music, reviews of current movies and theater, and mini-dramas examining social problems such as STD/HIV transmission, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse. The show is broadcasted once a week with Televisa Radio and an evaluation of listener call-ins reveal that youth between the ages of 13 and 22 listen to the program and help PCI focus on the most pertinent issues to feature. As the audience grows, so does the need for high-quality health services, PCI is working to develop relationships with health care providers and organizations to improve services and guide young adults to make wise health decisions.