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