ICF Granted Out Over $1 million from Nov. 2005 to March 31, 2006

Whale watching with Los Niños del Capitan.Aquatic Adventures (San Diego CA) to support the BAHÍA after school program- $5,000.

Archaeological Institute of America, Orange County Society to support the public education Maya symposium in October, "Mysteries of Ancient Maya Murals" - $4,600.

Asociación SHARE de Guatemala (Guatemala, Guatemala) Support for an emergency response to rehabilitate water systems for the communities of Agua Tibia, El Duraznal and Rio Hondo in Comitancillo, San Marcos, Guatemala- $20,000.

Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (National City, CA) to help combat human trafficking, commercial and sexual exploitation along the US-Mexico Border- $20,000.

Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A.C. (CEMDA) (Mexico City, Mexico) to support training efforts in their La Paz office for development and implementation of environmental public policy-$70,000.

Ecology Project International (EPI) (Missoula, MT) Support for the Baja Field Ecology Program that links students from the US and La Paz, Mexico to the environment through field based research on Isla Espiritu Santo-$10,000.

Fundación Albatros Media (Panama City, Panama) Support for the creation of four, four-minute videos on the importance of the Las Perlas archipelago in Panama -$39,500.

Fundación Ayuda Niños La Paz (La Paz, México) to fund scholarships for middle school and high school students-$10,000.

Fundacion Comunitaria Oaxaca to establish the Friends of International Community Foundation Fund for the benefit of ICF. This Mexican donor advised fund is being established to faciliate ICF grantmaking in Oaxaca, México on a more cost effective basis-$16,400.

Fundación de Apoyo para Niños Especiales (Tijuana, Mexico) for therapeutic care for special needs children-$4,000.

Fundación Deborah Wayne (San Ignacio, BCS, Mexico) to support a medical fair in January-$850.

Fundación La Puerta (Tecate, Mexico) General operating support-$3,300.

Fundación Miguel Batista (Dominican Republic) for general operating expenses for the baseball league, retirement home and medical clinic-$101,330.

Fundación Para la Protección de la Niñez (Tijuana, BC, Mexico) Support for a Christmas concert ($3,500), to provide assistance to a retirement home in Mexicali ($5,500), to purchase approximately 150 food baskets and blankets for families and to purchase toys for 350-400families ($11,000) and to purchase food baskets for families in Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali and Rosarito ($8,000)-$26,000.

High Tech High (San Diego, CA) To provide scholarships for low income students to participate in international immersion trips to China, Mexico, Australia, Costa Rica, and Peru- $10,000.

International Center for Journalists (Washington DC) to support a multi phase program in La Paz and Loreto to improve the ability of Mexican Journalists to produce in depth stories on sustainable development issues in the Baja Peninsula-$15,000. Los Niños del Capitán (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) General operating support-$20,000

North Coast Cetacean Society (British Columbia, Canada) to purchase an additional hydrophone, equipment for research, and general operating costs to run the research station-$33,000.

ProEsteros, A.C. (Ensenada) to begin outreach to schools in Guerrero Negro, Laguna San Ignacio, and Magdalena Bay about gray whales-$3,500.

Pro Peninsula (San Diego, CA) To provide programmatic support to Vigilantes de Bahía Magdalena-$10,000; to support the 8th annual meeting of the Grupo Tortuguero in Loreto, BCS, Mexico-$1,500.

Promoción y Docencia, A.C. (Tijuana, BC) for continuation of the “Manos a la Obra? project in Colonia San Bernardo, Los Laureles Canyon in Tijuana, BC-$2,336.85.

Pronatura Noroeste (Ensenada, BC, Mexico) For programmatic support related to the sustainable development and biodiversity conservation of Bahia de Los Angeles-$100,000; to support land conservation and marine stewardship at Playa La Unica near Bahía de Los Angeles, BC, Mexico-$4,200; for "Conservation and Management Plan for the San Lorenzo Archipelago National Park"-$15,000; and to support the due diligence required to undertake a second conservation easement in San Ignacio Lagoon-$80,161.

PVO México, A.C. (Mexico City) To support the victims of Hurricane Stan ($10,000 USD) in Chiapas and to provide scholarships for special needs children to attend school-$25,000.

San Diego Natural History Museum (San Diego, CA) In support of the Sustainable Northwest Initiative (NOS) to develop and implement a vision for sustainable development for the Gulf of California Region-$20,000.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama City, Panama) For conservation activities in the Las Perlas archipelago- $119,700; for a marine education and outreach program that will develop educational material on whale conservation- $11,700. To support the Punta Culebra Nature Center that provides environmental education to Panamanian children-$25,004.

The Greater New Orleans Foundation (New Orleans, USA) To support Hurricane Katrina relief effort through the Rebuild New Orleans Fund-$6,918. Tulsa Community Foundation (Tulsa, OK) For general operating support-$895.

UCSD Graduate School of Intl. Relations and Pacific Studies (La Jolla, California) To support a lecture series on the interdependency of the border region- $10,300.

United Nations Foundation (Washington DC) in support of the United Nations Development Program’s efforts to support affected communities in the aftermath of the devastating 2005 South Asian Earthquake through: a) transitional schooling (including the provision of shelter, teaching aids, teacher training, and social mobilization; and b) rehabilitation of livelihoods and small infrastructure schemes through grants to village-based organizations-$11,600.

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (UABCS) (La Paz, Mexico) To complete GIS mapping of ecological and socio-economic data in support of the Alternative Futures Study for Loreto, BCS- $20,969.

Utah State University (Logan, Utah) To provide charitable support for the establishment of the Gombe School of Environment & Society (GOSECO) in Gombe Tanzania and assist in the fulfillment of the school’s phase II plan-$15,000.

Vigilantes de Bahía Magdalena, A.C. (Bahía Magdalena, Mexico) To support water monitoring in Magdalena Bay-$10,000. Wildcoast (Imperial Beach, CA) to complete the protection of 20,000 acres of privately-held lands in Laguna San Ignacio, BCS, Mexico and to carry out a media and outreach campaign in Mexico-$40,000.

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