ICF AWARDS $492,889 IN GRANTS SINCE AUGUST 2002

Los Niños de Baja California, A.C. was awarded $6,853 to provide support to purchase a van to transport people from their neighborhoods to the Aldea Ecológica and Los Niños projects at Ecoparque.

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C. received $10,000 for the creation of two temporary classrooms to hold session for children visiting Ecoparque. Five thousand dollars of the grant will go towards developing a strategic plan for land use and infrastructure to build an Environmental Education Center at Ecoparque. COLEF was also awarded a $13,000 grant to support research that will examine the social and economic linkages between migrant and settled populations in Tijuana and San Diego County. A third grant for $6,853 was issued to this Tijuana-based research institution to cover expenses related to the seminar “Regional Reflections on the 2002 World Summit: Equity and Sustainable Development in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region.” The academic seminar will held December 5-6, 2002.

Esperanza International, Inc. received $6,923 for the completion of the phase two of Pueblo Esperanza in La Gloria, Tijuana.

Provincia Mexicana del Instituto de Nuesta Sra. de la Caridad used their $6,000 grant to remodel a section of the Provincial house to be used for training new members of the order.

Patronato Pro-Heroico Cuerpo de Bomberos de Ensenada, A.C. was awarded $19,000 to support the purchase of fire hoses and make improvement to fire trucks.

Universidad Iberoamericana was awarded over $30,000 to support the on-going construction of the Loyola Library in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California.

Fundación para Los Niños de La Paz, A.C. was awarded $2,000 for scholarships.

Los Niños was awarded $7,500 to support the Aldea Ecológica program in Tijuana. This grant will provide operational support for staff salaries, office materials, and $1,000 towards purchasing a van.

Camino Real Misionero de las Californias Fundación CAREM, A.C. was granted $4,600 for their annual educational publication, two informational signs and producing brochures.

Shanghai City Nanhui District Teacher's Foundation received a total of $60,000. Of that, $37,500 went to Xiangnong Agricultural Technology Middle School for construction of a new teaching building and $22,500 for the construction of nine new primary schools in Gaungnan.

London Health Sciences Foundation received $100,000 to help fund a clinical study related to sleep disordered breathing in professional football players.

Centro de Artes Escénicas del Noroeste, A.C. received $1,600 to promote a concert of traditional ethnic-based music among Baja California donor businessmen to raise funds for CECUT's scholarships program.

Fundación Villa Esperanza, A.C. was awarded $5,560 to furnish part of the Gessel Therapy Room in "Casa Hogar para Varones" and orphanage for boys. The grant will serve to provide a video recorder, microphone, closed circuit T.V., and a room.

Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, A.C. was awarded $5,000 to cover expenses related to the Filantropía 2002 event.

Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, A.C. received $5,000 for general support to Frontera's Baja Pro Salud Golf Tournament 2002.

The San Diego Foundation was awarded $22,000 for regranting to the Combined Organization for the Visual Arts (COVA) for its Border Arts Workshop Initiative outreach in Baja California. The grant supports work in the community of Maclovio Rojas Women's Center and Youth Sports Facility.

Fundación Tarpuy, Córdoba, Argentina was awarded a $1,000 grant to support general operating costs associated with a scholarship program for students in the area of technological development, scientific creativity, and artistic and cultural activities.

Investigación y Conservación de Mamíferos Marinos de Ensenada, A.C. (ICMME) was awarded $20,000 to contribute with baseline data to the proposed Bahía de Los Angeles National Park by assessing the diversity, distribution, and abundance of cetaceans in Canal de Ballenas and Canal Salsipuedes with boat surveys and photoidentification and to initiate an environmental education program for the Bahía de Los Angeles community specific to marine mammal diversity and conservation.

Pro Esteros, Lagunas y Marismas de las Californias, A.C. received $20,000 to support the establishment of a community group to protect the Mona Estuary of Bahía de los Angeles.

Pronatura Noroeste-Mar de Cortés, A.C. received $20,000 to train local residents from Bahía de Los Angeles to serve as managers of the proposed Bahía de Los Angeles National Park.

Conservación del Territorio Insular Mexicano, A.C. (ISLA) was awarded $20,000 to work with the communities and sport-fishing stakeholders to obtain the basic information to involve them in the conservation, management and appropriate economic activities related to marine protected areas and enlist their support for the activities of the park staff.

Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C. (COBI) was awarded $20,000 for the design and evaluation of no-take (no fishing) marine reserves: a strategy for managing the Gulf of California marine ecosystem.

Grupo Ecologista Antares, A.C. (GEA), a group based in Loreto, B.C.S. received $20,000 for one of three monitoring stations within the Park to aid in effective enforcement of fishing and other use regulations.

Pro Peninsula, a San Diego based non-profit organization received $20,000 for the establishment of a Bahía de Los Angeles Park Visitor/Community Center.

Wildcoast, an Imperial Beach based non-profit organization was awarded $20,000 to undertake the communications effort at the local, state and national level to build a constituency in favor of the establishment of the Bahía de los Angeles National Marine Park.

The Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans, Inc., (CEDO) a U.S. based non-profit organization was awarded $20,000 for preparation of a bilingual comprehensive resource book on the Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve.