
Grants
Over $2 million granted since November 1st, 2008.
Amigos de San Pancho, A.C. (Nayarit, Mexico): $6,300 to support the "Riviera Recicla" Program which aims to educate communities in Nayarit on sustainable waste management, reduce the amount of roadside trash and decrease the region's energy/carbon footprint through coordination of recycling efforts while ensuring that benefits are reaped locally.
Arizona Water Institute (Arizona): $30,550 to support the "Arizona-Baja California Sur Partnership for Water Sustainability," a collaborative technical exchange between hydrological professionals in Arizona and Baja California Sur.
Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (Oakland, CA): $125,485 to provide international legal support for environmental protection in Panama and the Baja California region, Mexico.
Asociación SHARE de Guatemala (San Lucas Sacatepequez, Guatemala): $25,000 to support a village banking based micro-credit program in the communities located in Chimaltenango and Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A. C. (CEMDA) (Mexico City): $200,000 for community consultation, strengthening Mexican environmental law, educating stakeholders, and doing legal research to benefit biodiversity conservation and environmental issues in the Gulf of California region in Mexico.
Centro Mexicano Para La Defensa Del Medio Ambiente A.C. (Ensenada, BC, Mexico): $120,000 to provide operational and program support to undertake environmental legal defense support and training to environmental NGOs in Northwest Mexico.
Centro Mujeres (La Paz, BCS, Mexico): $40,000 to support the program "Advocates COPADO", aimed at reducing teen pregnancy and increasing individual and community responsibility towards the exercising of positive sexuality by young people. This is done by working directly with teens through leadership training, health prevention campaigns and outreach activities.
Cleantech Education Foundation (La Jolla, CA): $10,000 for general operating support.
Comunidad Vision y Desarrollo, A.C. (La Paz, BCS, Mexico): $32,500 for general operating support.
Corredor Historico CAREM, A.C. (Tecate, BC, Mexico): $4,000 will be awarded to the Mexican National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) to assist in publishing a magazine in Spanish and English about areas of history, archeology and anthropology of Baja California. $6,000 will be awarded to CAREM for programs related to the Kumiai indigenous community of Tecate, Baja California; $9,500 to finance the publication of the book "The Land of Calafia -- A brief history of Peninsular California (1533-1848).
Eco-Alianza de Loreto (Loreto Centro, BCS, Mexico): $20,000 for general operating support.
Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, A.C. (Tijuana, BC, Mexico): $20,000 to support "Mujer Segura", a reproductive health education program for female sex workers; $95,704 to support their youth program "Gente Joven de Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud".
Fundación Ayuda Niños La Paz, A.C. (La Paz, BCS, Mexico): $20,000 for student scholarships and/or a new library.
Fundación Comunitaria Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico): $84,336 to provide ongoing support for the Oaxaca Community Foundation's income-generation projects; $64,896 programmatic support.
Fundación MarViva (Panama City, Panama): $125,000 for patrolling and enforcement in the Parque Nacional Marino Golfo de Chiriqui (Paridas) in Panama.
Fundación Miguel Batista (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic): $119,838 for programmatic and operational support.
Guardianes del Agua A.C. (La Paz, BCS, Mexico): $55,000 for general operating support.
Lake Chapala Society A.C. (Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico): $11,000 to support the programs of the Lake Chapala Society, which include financial aid assistance to local youth, assistance to young girls that have been victims of domestic violence, support the local red cross chapter, and supply food to homeless and abandoned children in the village of San Juan Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico.
Liga M.A.C. (San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico): $70,000 to support the ACE program for scholarships and the Emergency Medical Aid and Despensa (Food Vouchers) program.
Los Niños (Tijuana, BC, Mexico): $10,000 to support the "Family Financial Security-Micro Enterprise" program.
Maijañuí, A.C. (San Ignacio, BCS, Mexico): $25,000 to carry out community development programs for "Ejido Luis Echeverria Alvarez" from the Maijañuí Conservation and Development Fund.
Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation of America (Molalla, OR ): $3,000 to grant wishes for stage 4 breast cancer patients.
Marine Conservation Science Institute (Fallbrook, CA): $13,930 to monitor the population of white sharks at Guadalupe Island through the use of satellite tagging and photo-identification.
Museo Sol del Niño (Mexicali, BC, Mexico): $100,000 to support Museo Sol del Niño's "Energy and Technology for our Environment" Program.
North Coast Cetacean Society (Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada): $5,000 to purchase building materials for lab construction.
Pro Peninsula (San Diego, CA): $2,000 to support the 11th Annual Grupo Tortuguero Meeting that will take place in Loreto, BCS, January 30th through February 1st.
Pronatura Noroeste (Ensenada, BC, Mexico): $8,400 to support land conservation and marine stewardship at Playa La Unica near Bahia de Los Angeles for 2007.
Pronatura Noroeste (Ensenada, BC, Mexico): $35,000 to improve the organizational effectiveness of conservation activities in northwestern Mexico and the Gulf of California; $200,000 to support the expansion and strengthening of a regional marine protected areas (MPA) initiative to promote the recovery and conservation of key fisheries resources in the Gulf of California; $32,683 to develop the Baja Eco Info, web GIS based mapping tool for priority coastal communities along the Baja California Peninsula.
Protection and Education Re: Animals, Culture and Environment (Denver, CO): $2,400 to support the program "Riviera Recicla Regional", a recycling effort in Punta de Mita.
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria (Oaxaca, Mexico): $70,000 to provide programmatic support for 2009.
PVO México, A.C. (Mexico City): $50,000 for programmatic support.
Red Social de Tijuana, I.B.P. (Tijuana, BC, Mexico): $5,000 for programmatic support.
San Diego Natural History Museum (San Diego, CA): $ 20,000 to support the implementation of Proyecto Bio-regional de Educación Ambiental (PROBEA).
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (La Jolla, CA): $12,000 to support the costs associated with a planned collecting trip to Baja California Sur to replenish the Aquarium's Sea of Cortez habitat displays for a future permanent exhbition.
San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, CA): $11,500 to develop the Baja Eco Info, web GIS based mapping tool for priority coastal communities along the Baja California Peninsula threatened by potential development with an emphasis on La Paz and Loreto; $45,618 to support the project "TB in the San Diego-Baja California region Time for Binational Community Based Solutions" that will convene critical public health authorities, private business and academics on both sides of the border to identify fundable proposals to strengthen TB control in the San Diego region.
Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparajá A.C. (La Paz, BCS, Mexico): $130,000 to support the initiative "Water Dialogues: Promoting an integrated perspective for the use and management of water in La Paz"
The Nature Conservancy (Arlington, VA): $20,000 to support an economic analysis of the Petaquilla mining operations in Panama.
U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership (San Diego, CA): $156,000 for programmatic and operational support.
University of California Davis-Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology (Davis, CA): $40,000 to support the project titled, "The Revillagigedo Archipelago as critical habitat for migratory sharks and the establishment of a chain of marine reserves in the eastern tropical Pacific".
Unidos Por Mata Ortiz, A.C (Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico): $6,000 to fund a computer project at the Mata Ortiz Telesecundaria school.
Vigilantes de Bahía Magdalena, A.C. (Puerto San Carlos,BCS, Mexico): $30,000 for general operating support.
Zoological Society of San Diego (San Diego, CA): $20,000 to support the "Conservation Education Laboratory Visits for San Diego Unified Charter Schools" Program.
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