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GRANTS AND CHARITABLE EXPENSES – FISCAL YEAR 2006
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Asociación Pro Personas con Parálisis Cerebral (APAC)
(Mexico City, Mexico)
To support the construction of a rehabilitation center – $7,700.

Aquatic Adventures
(San Diego, CA)
To support the BAHIA after school program – $5,000.

Asociación de Amigos de M.A.P.
(Mexico City, Mexico)
To establish a space in the Museo de Arte Popular for popular art highlighted as
exceptional and worthy of recognition – $150,000.

Asociación de Artes del Mar de Cortéz, A.C.
(Los Barilles, BCS, Mexico)
Programmatic support for the the Centro Multicultural de Artes – $270.

Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ANCON)
(Panama City, Panama)
For conservation activities to protect La Amistad Biosphere Reserve
in Panama – $85,295.


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

Baton Rouge Area Foundation
(Baton Rouge, LA)
For the “The Hurricane Katrina New Orleans Recovery Fund” – $11,000.

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

Casa de Menor Migrante (YMCA)
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico)
Renovation of kitchen facilities for migrant youth shelter – $500.

Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A. C. (CEMDA)
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
Programmatic support for CEMDA’s office in La Paz – $33,302; For training efforts in their La Paz office – $110,000; and for CEMDA’s legal and advocacy work in Loreto, as well as an environmental intern and a business plan for opening an office in Loreto, BCS, Mexico – $25,000.


Centro Mujeres
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
To support the first year of a six year project entitled “Plain Talk” for parents designed to meet communication needs and promote family dialogue – $40,000; To support the expansion of the “Project Flor de Paz” in Loreto – $20,000.

CETYS Universidad
(Ensenada, BC, Mexico)
For materials, programming, and scholarships to benefit undergraduate engineering students in the Movilidad Program – $20,250.

Comunidad Vision y Desarrollo, A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
To support communications, education, institutional development and advocacy efforts for work on quality of life indicators and policy transparency in La Paz – $40,000; For general operating support – $50,000.

Conservación del Territorio Insular Mexicano (ISLA)
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
Support for research on recreational fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California-$1,825; For general operations as the second part of a two-year grant – $35,000.

Corredor Histórico CAREM
(Tecate, BC, Mexico)
For media room equipment-$10,000; To provide technical support for multimedia
services – $1,000.

Cruz Roja Mexicali
(Mexicali, BC, Mexico)
For emergency medical supplies – $4,976.

Cruz Roja Torreón
(Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico)
For medical supplies to respond to emergency needs in the Torreón area – $5,000.

Ecology Project International
(Missoula, MT)
General operating support – $100,000; 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 – $50,000.

Flying Samaritans
(San Diego, California)
To support a pediatric health fair in Casa San Eugenia in La Morita, Tijuana, Mexico – $1,000.

Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, A.C.
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico)
To support a library coordinator and assistant at an elementary school in Valle Verde – $18,585; to support a reading room within a teen center at the Pro Salud headquarters – $11,480; and continued support for the school
library in Valle Verde, Tijuana, Mexico – $12,000.

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 Avifauna Eugene Eisenmann
(Panama City, Panama)
To support Phase 1 construction of the “Panama Rainforest Discovery Center” – $20,000.

Fundación Ayuda Niños La Paz, A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
Scholarships for middle school and high school students and for general operating support – $33,000.

Fundación Cadavieco
(Mexico City, Mexico)
To support art therapy and support for HIV positive orphans in the “Casa de La Sal” home – $5,000.

Fundación Comunitaria Oaxaca
(Oaxaca, Mexico)
To establish the Friends of the International Community Foundation Fund for the benefit of nonprofits in Oaxaca – $16,400.

Fundación de Apoyo para Niños
Especiales (Tijuana, BC, Mexico)
To support the participation of low-income children with special needs in a therapeutic care program for children with special needs –
$10,000.

Fundación Deborah Wayne
(San Ignacio, BC, Mexico)
To support a medical fair including an eyecare and dental clinic in San Ignacio, Baja California, Mexico – $850.

Fundación del Empresariado Chihuahuense (FECHAC)
(Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico)
For medical equipment for the 4 satellite Red Cross centers in the city of Chihuahua – $5,000.

Fundación Hogar Esperanza
(Santiago, Chile)
To help fund educational expenses for 28 children for the 2006 school year – $5,000.

Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico)
Support for the Kyoto Prize scholarships for university students – $31,500.

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

Fundación Mar Viva
(Panama City, Panama)
To provide operational support to Mar Viva’s patrolling efforts in Coiba National Park in Panama – $101,545.

Fundación Miguel Batista
(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
General operational support for a baseball league for underprivileged youth, as well as a retirement home and medical clinic in San Pedro de Marcoris – $101,330.

Fundación Para la Protección de la Niñez
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico)
Support for a Christmas concert, a retirement home in Mexicali, and to purchase food baskets, blankets, and toys for families in Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali and Rosarito – $26,000; to support “Day of the Child” activities in Chihuahua, Torreón, Mexicali, Ensenada, Rosarito and Tecate, and to
purchase 15 computers for a school in Valle de las Palmas area of Tecate – $52,200.

Fundación Pro Ayuda a la Mujer Origen
(Mexico City, Mexico)
For efforts to educate residents of the Colonia Agricola Oriental on the prevention and intervention of domestic violence and to offer free psychological and legal consulting – $5,000.

Fundación Tarpuy
(Córdoba, Argentina)
Funding for a digital communication scholarship program for post graduate
university students (PROCOM),and to support the MINKAY program that promotes art and culture in schools – $100,245; support for ESCALAR program that includes scholarships, tutoring, and English classes to 15 students entering middle school who are economically disadvantaged – $68,380; for continued support for MINKAY and PROCOM for two years – $197,762.

Grupo de los Cien Internacional, A.C.
(Mexico City)
For general support – $25,000.

Grupo Ecologista Antares (GEA)
(Loreto, BCS, Mexico)
Funding for the “Environmental Organizations of Baja California Sur” Sixth Conference – $8,280; to support GEA’s strategic and institutional development planning process over the coming year – $10,000.

High Tech High International
(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.

Iberoamericana University Foundation
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico)
Programmatic support for the “Bookmobile” literacy program for public schools in Tijuana – $8,058.

International Center for Journalists
(Washington DC)
To improve the ability of Mexican journalists to produce in-depth stories on sustainable development issues in the Baja Peninsula – $15,000.

International Development Exchange
(San Francisco, CA)
Support for disaster relief in Guatemala – $11,600.

Junto Con Los Niños de Puebla, A.C.
(Puebla, Puebla, Mexico)
For the Juconi House program to help integrate troubled youth into mainstream society – $5,000.

Liga MAC, A.C.
(San José del Cabo, BCS, Mexico)
Programmatic support for a community center, emergency medical assistance, a scholarship program, and a school dormitory-$17,000.


Los Niños
(Mexicali, BC, Mexico)
To support outreach and development of a Green Areas project at three schools in the Progreso Colonia of Mexicali – $9,700.

Los Niños del Capitán
(Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico)
For general operating expenses – $20,000.

Maijañuí, A.C.
(San Ignacio, BCS, Mexico)
To carry out community economic development programs for "Ejido Luis
Echeverria Alvarez" – $25,000.

Museo Sol del Niño
(Mexicali, Mexico)
To sponsor the museum guides program and the summer science program for 2006 – $200,000.

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.

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

ProEsteros, A.C.
(Ensenada, BC. Mexico)
Programmatic support to begin outreach to schools in San Quintin, Laguna San Ignacio, and Magdalena Bay about gray whales – $3,500.

Project Amigo
(Colima, Mexico)
Programmatic support to fund a pilot homework club project, fund a university scholarship, and provide support to a home for women university students – $25,000.

Pronatura Noroeste
(Ensenada, BC, Mexico)
Operational support – $40,000; To support monitoring via satellite of a 116,000-acre conservation easement at Ejido Luis Echeverria Alvarez in San Ignacio Lagoon, BCS Mexico – $39,000; To support to securing ten conservation easements on private parcels in Ejido Luis Echeverria Alvarez – $122,160; To support institutional development to strengthen fundraising, media outreach, and branding for Pronatura’s Northwestern Mexico program – $35,000; 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 Bahia de Los Angeles, BC, Mexico – $84,000; To establish three conservation easements in Bahia de Los Angeles – $38,864; For the “Conservation and Management Plan for the San Lorenzo Archipelago National Park” – $15,000; and to support the due diligence required to undertake additional conservation easements in Laguna San Ignacio – $80,161.

PVO México, A.C.
(Mexico City, Mexico)
To support the victims of Hurricane Stan in Chiapas and to provide scholarships for special needs children to attend school – $25,000; support for the construction of a Cultural Learning Space in San José del Rincón, Estado de México – $15,000.

San Diego Coastkeeper
(San Diego, CA)
Programmatic support for World Water Monitoring Day in Tijuana, B.C., Mexico – $2,220.

San Diego Natural History Museum
(San Diego, CA)
Programmatic support for PROBEA (Proyecto Bi-regional de Educación Ambiental) to carry out environmental education curriculum design and teacher training over three years in La Paz, BC, Mexico – $179,310; for PROBEA to carry out an environmental education project at Ecoparque for school children in Tijuana – $50,000; and support for the Wyland mural project for the La Paz, Mexico – $1,500. 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.

Shanghai Teacher’s Award Foundation Nanhui District
(Shanghai, China)
Support for student and teacher scholarships and contruction of rural migrant schools – $67,517.

Siempre Semillas
(La Ribera, BCS, Mexico)
Funding to construct a solar well – $3,040; to build a community kitchen for their educational programs – $5,000; and to purchase a computer and satellite system for their office – $2,700.

SIO-Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
(La Jolla, CA)
For an extension of a previous grant to include desalinization research for Baja California Sur – $10,000; Funding to support a fellowship – $5,000; and to support research related to coastal fisheries modeling for the Alternative Futures Study of Loreto – $5,000.

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 and research for humpback whales – $11,700. To support the Punta Culebra Nature Center that provides environmental education to Panamanian children – $25,004.

Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparajá A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
Programmatic support for the conservation of the San Cosme-Punto Mechudo Corridor in Baja California Sur – $90,785; general operating support – $110,400; and to cover research costs related to the creation of a municipal protected area in Balandra, BCS, Mexico – $25,000; to support a strategic planning process for a new water program and general support for the water program – $15,000; for operational support and to implement their conservation agenda – $70,000.

The Greater New Orleans Foundation
(New Orleans, LA)
To support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts through the Rebuild New Orleans Fund – $6,918.

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

Unidos Por Mata Ortiz, A.C.
(Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico)
To help remodel a junior high school – $8,000.

United Nations Foundation
(Washington, DC)
Support for the Earthquake Relief and Early Recovery Project in Pakistan with a focus on school reconstruction – $11,600.

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (UABCS)
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
Funding to complete GIS mapping of ecological and socio-economic data in support of the Alternative Futures Study for Loreto, BCS, Mexico – $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 Bahia Magdalena, A.C.
(San Carlos, BCS, 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 to tour operators and the general public in Mexico. – $40,000; and for general support – $10,000.

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