Fin whale off the Los Cabos coast,
Baja California Sur, Mexico
 Pablo Sainz Villegas,
Music Without Borders Concert
 Oaxaca marketplace
International Community Foundation's Education
Forum
in Colima, Mexico
Laguna Verde restoration project in Santa Maria
Tavehua,
Oaxaca, Mexico
 Liga M.A.C. in San Jose
del Cabo, BCS, Mexico
Eco-lodges in Laguna San
Ignacio, BCS, Mexico
Fundación Juconi in Ecuador
Art enrichment program, Los Niños del
Capitán, A.C., Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico
Art enrichment program, Los Niños del
Capitán, A.C., Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico
Music Beyond Borders musicians
Pediatric care at Tijuana General Hospital
ANCON team in Cerro Punta, Panama
In-Kind donation school bus, Colima, Mexico
School children in afterschool care
program at FECHAC, Chihuahua, Mexico
Reading in the Fronteras Unidas
ProSalud library, Tijuana, Mexico
Arizona Water Institute
(Tucson, AZ, USA) to support the “Arizona-Baja California Sur
Partnership for Water Sustainability,” a collaborative technical
exchange between hydrological professionals in Arizona and Baja
California Sur – $30,550.
Asociación Contra la Ceguera Amazonica
(Coronel Portillo, Peru) to purchase a piece of equipment for ACCEA – $4,590.
Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente
(Oakland, CA, USA) to provide international legal support for
environmental protection in Panama and the Baja California region,
Mexico – $125,485.
Asociación SHARE de Guatemala
(San Lucas Sacatepeque, Guatemala) to support a village banking
based micro-credit program in the communities located in
Chimaltenango and Huehuetenango, Guatemala – $25,000.
Cancer Infantil de Baja California, A.C.
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico) to support the purchase of equipment for the
recently renovated cancer center at the Tijuana General
Hospital – $11,000.
Casa Hogar Cabo San Lucas
(Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico) for general operating
support – $11,000.
Center for Biological Diversity, Inc.
(Tucson, AZ, USA) to undertake legal review and strategy
development in the U.S. and Mexico regarding financial disclosure
and environmental legal protocols in support of the Retiring
Responsibility Abroad program – $15,000.
Center for Responsible Travel
(Washington, D.C., USA) to provide technical advice to the
International Community Foundation on its “Retiring Responsibly
Abroad” initiative in Mexico and Panama and to present this initiative
at the CREST Innovators Conference in 2009 – $10,000.
Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A. C. (CEMDA)
(Mexico City, Mexico) for community consultation, strengthening the
Mexican environmental law, educating stakeholders, and doing legal
research to benefit biodiversity conservation and environmental
issues in the Gulf of California region in Mexico – $200,000; for
technical advice and direct expenses on the Puerto Escondido
project in Loreto, BCS, Mexico – $4,500.
Centro Mexicano para la Defensa del Medioambiente, A.C. (DAN)
(Ensenada, BC, Mexico) to provide operational support to DAN to
implement its legal and organizational strategy specific to future
development efforts in and around Punta Colonet, B.C. including: 1)
legal strategy, 2) environmental education and media, and 3) defense
of the natural resources – $20,000; to provide operational and
program support to undertake environmental legal defense support
and training to environmental NGOs in Northwest Mexico –
$120,000; to provide legal support, advice and training to
environmental organizations (including local Waterkeepers) and local
communities in the Gulf of California region – $14,000.
Centro Mujeres, A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) to support the program “Advocates
COPADO”, aimed at reducing teen pregnancy and increasing
individual and community responsibility toward 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 – $40,000.
China Youth Development Foundation
(Beijing, PR China) to provide charitable support for the Hope School
Project to build a “Hope Primary School” in Yao County in the Shan'xi
Province, China – $25,000.
Chula Vista Nature Center
(Chula Vista, CA) for general operating support – $250,000.
Cleantech Education Foundation
(La Jolla, CA) for general operating support – $10,000.
Comunidad Visión y Desarrollo, A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) to support increased civic engagement and
public awareness in the city of La Paz, BCS, Mexico – $6,000; for
general operating support – $32,500.
Comunidad y Biodiversidad A.C.
(Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico) to support the project: “Restoration of
marine natural capital in the Mesoamerican Reef system using
community-based marine reserves” – $74,074; to support alternative
fisheries ecosystem based management in nine pilot sites over two
years – $200,000.
Corredor Historico CAREM, A.C.
(Tecate, BCS, Mexico) to support 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. CAREM will serve as the fiscal
sponsor for INAH – $4,000; to CAREM for programs related to the
Kumiai indigenous community of Tecate, Baja California – $6,000; to
finance the publication of the book “The Land of Calafia – A brief
history of Peninsular California (1533-1848) – $9,500.
Eco-Alianza de Loreto, A.C.
(Loreto, BCS, Mexico) to hire an executive assistant and for office
expenses – $20,000; to support the organization's work as the Loreto
Bay Keeper – $15,730.
Ecology Project International
(Missoula, MT, USA) to provide three scholarships for Panamanian
university students to attend course with EARTH University in Costa
Rica – $1,500.
Elementary Institute of Science
(San Diego, CA, USA) for general operating support – $25,000.
Entre Amigos de San Pancho, A.C.
(Nayarit, Mexico) 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 our
region's energy/carbon footprint through coordination of recycling
efforts while ensuring that benefits are reaped locally – $6,300; to
support the collection of recyclables and coordination with the Riviera
Recicla Program in San Francisco, Nayarit, Mexico – $2,400.
Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza
(Mexico City, Mexico) for the “Discovering the Deep-Sea Biodiversity
of the Gulf of California Expedition” – $30,000; for the establishment
of an endowment fund at the Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación
de la Naturaelza for the protection of the Bahia de Los Angeles
Biosphere Reserve – $125,000.
Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, A.C.
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico) to support Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud's
reproductive health education to women sex workers program “Mujer
Segura” – $20,000; Programmatic support for “Gente Joven de
Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud” – $95,704; to support the library at Valle
Verde and the Gente Joven programs that promote literacy and youth
engagement – $30,390; for programmatic and administrative support
related to the Baja California Diabetes Care and Prevention Wireless
Reach Binational Partnership: Empowering Communities to Promote
Diabetes Prevention & Disease Management through 3G Wireless
Technologies – $29,608.
Fundación Avifauna Eugene Eisenmann
(Panama City, Panama) for environmental education scholarships to
visit the Panama Rainforest Discovery Center in the Panama Canal
Zone – $10,000.
Fundación Ayuda Niños La Paz, A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) to fund scholarships for over 200 middle
school and high school students in La Paz, Mexico – $42,000; to
cover expenses for the construction of a library/learning center –
$10,000; for programmatic support – $20,000; for general operating
support – $45,000.
Fundación Casa Alianza México I.A.P.
(Mexico City, Mexico) to support Casa Alianza's work in providing
therapy and psychological services to children that have been victims
of sexual exploitation – $15,000.
Fundación Comunitaria Oaxaca, A.C.
(Oaxaca City, Oax, Mexico) to support the Laguna Verde restoration
and community development project in Santa Maria Tavehua –
$33,534; for operating support for the 2008/2009 fiscal year –
$150,000; to provide ongoing support for the Oaxaca Community
Foundation's income-generation projects – $84,336; for
programmatic support – $85,882.41.
Fundación MarViva
(Panama City, Panama) for patrolling and enforcement in the Parque
Nacional Marino Golfo de Chiriqui – $125,000.
Fundación Miguel Batista
(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) to provide programmatic and
operational support to Fundación Miguel Batista – $119,838.
Fundación Pro Ayuda a la Mujer Origen
(Mexico City, Mexico) to support the project “Hogares en Armonia,
Campana de Prevencion y Atencion a la Violencia Familiar” (Homes
in Harmony, Prevention and Awareness Campaign against Domestic
Violence) – $5,000.
Fundación Samaritana (FUNSAMANA)
(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) to purchase school supplies
and backpacks to support approximately 1,000 low-income
elementary school children in the Dominican Republic that were
impacted by floods – $5,000.
Fundación Tarpuy
(Cordoba, Argentina) to continue support Fundación Tarpuy’s
programs: 1) PROCOM: scholarships for doctoral students in
engineering; 2) MINKAY: cultural program aimed at promoting and
raising awareness about Argentina's indigenous Quichua culture; 3)
ESCALAR: scholarship program for Junior High and Senior High
School students from low-income backgrounds. 4) JUNTOS: a
program that provides meals to pre-school and elementary children
from extremely poor neighborhoods of Cordoba – $48,031.
Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C.
(Ensenada, BC, Mexico) for general support – $50,000.
Grupo Ecologista Antares A.C.
(Loreto, BCS, Mexico) for the “Jovenes Exploradores” program –
$5,000.
Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) to strengthen the Grupo Tortuguero –
$30,000.
Guardianes del Agua A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) to provide operational support to La Paz
Coastkeeper to implement its programs in the following areas: 1)
water quality monitoring, 2) environmental education and public
outreach, and 3) monitoring enforcement of the rule of law – $20,000;
to coordinate the legal defense of el Mogote in the development of
Entremares, the second Mogote project planned – $4,800; for
general operating support – $55,000; for water quality monitoring,
education, advocacy and enforcement, and beach concession
programs – $20,000.
Iberoamericana University Foundation
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico) to support the “Reading and Learning Skills”
program, an initiative that implements the use of a “bookmobile” to
reach out to poorer neighborhoods surrounding the Iberoamericana
University to help improve the reading and learning skills of the
children from the nearby public schools, orphanages and
hospitals – $6,750.
Iemanya Oceanica
(Westlake Village, CA, USA) to provide partial funding for equipment
to tag eight juvenile great white sharks at Guadalupe Island with the
purpose of understanding their early life history and provide basic
information for the design of protective measures in Mexican
waters – $10,000.
Lake Chapala Society A.C.
(Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico) 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 for the local red cross chapter, and to supply food
to homeless an abandoned children in the village of San Juan
Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico – $11,000.
Liga M.A.C.
(San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico) to support Liga M.A.C.’s ongoing
primary service projects: ACE (student support), Emergency Medical
Aid and Despensa (Food Vouchers) – $70,000.
Los Niños, Inc.
(Chula Vista, CA, USA) to support the “Family Financial Security-
Micro Enterprise” program. This grant will provide capital to three
loan groups in the US-Mexico border region (approximately 20
borrowers) and support micro credit training/outreach – $10,000.
Maijañuí, A.C.
(San Ignacio, BCS, Mexico) to carry out community development
programs for “Ejido Luis Echeverria Alvarez” – $25,000.
Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation of America
(Molalla, OR, USA) to grant wishes for stage four breast cancer
patients – $3,000.
Marine Conservation Science Institute
(Fallbrook, CA, USA) to monitor the population of white sharks at
Guadalupe Island through the use of satellite tagging and photoidentification – $13,930.
Museo Sol del Niño
(Mexicali, BC, Mexico) to support Museo Sol del Niño's “Energy and
Technology for our Environment” Program – $100,000.
Noroeste Sustenable A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) for a sustainable horticulture garden at El
Mangle in La Paz – $20,000.
North Coast Cetacean Society
(Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada) to purchase building materials for lab
construction – $5,000.
Ocean Discovery Institute
(formerly Aquatic Adventures) (San Diego, CA, USA) to support the
BAHIA program, which will direct 21 youth through an intensive study
of the sciences in classroom-based, laboratory and field settings in
Bahia de Los Angeles, BCS, Mexico – $5,000.
Optimist Club CSL- Project Kidsmart
(Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico) support for English program,
scholarships, uniforms, and shoes for 34 youth aged 12-18 in the
Cabo San Lucas area – $13,450.
Patronato Pro-Hospital Civil de Tijuana, A.C.
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico) to support the purchase of equipment for the
recently renovated cancer center of the Tijuana General Hospital –
$2,000.
Prevencasa, A.C.
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico) for programmatic support – $1,400; to provide
programmatic support for “Alcance a Las Jovenes II”, phase II of an
outreach program for underage sex workers in Tijuana – $20,000.
Pro Peninsula
(San Diego, CA, USA) to support the 11th Annual Grupo Tortuguero
Meeting in Loreto, BCS, Mexico – $2,000.
Project Amigo
(Colima, Mexico) to support educational scholarships for students in
middle school through the University level, and to support periodic
health care provision in Cerro de Ortega, Colima, Mexico – $91,400.
Pronatura Noroeste
(Ensenada, BC, Mexico) to support land conservation and marine
stewardship at Playa La Unica near Bahía de Los Angeles for 2008 –
$8,400; to improve the organizational effectiveness of conservation
activities in northwestern Mexico and the Gulf of California – $35,000;
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 (GC)
with a focus on four marine priority sites: the Bahía de los Angeles
and San Lorenzo Archipelago MPAs, the San José Archipelago, the
Cerralvo Archipelago, and the Marismas Nacionales – $200,000; 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 –
$32,683.
Protection and Education Re: Animals, Culture and Environment-
P.E.A.C.E
(Denver, CO, USA) to support the program “Riviera Recicla Regional”,
for community workers to help with a recycling effort in Punta de Mita,
Mexico – $2,400.
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria
(Oaxaca, Oax, Mexico) to purchase two vehicles intended for
community visits – $40,000; to provide programmatic support for 2009– $70,000.
Punta de Mita Foundation
(Punta de Mita, Jalisco, Mexico) for education committee projects that
include supporting after-school programs of PEACE (local nonprofit),
and the construction and renovation of several classrooms in the
public schools of Punta de Mita – $95,000.
PVO Mexico, A.C.
(Mexico City, Mexico) to cover travel expenses to Colima, Mexico –
$1,000; for programmatic support – $50,000.
Red Social de Tijuana, I.B.P.
(Tijuana, BC, Mexico) for programmatic support – $5,000.
San Diego Natural History Museum
(San Diego, CA, USA) to support Proyecto Bio-regional de Educación
Ambiental (PROBEA) and its environmental training to teachers in the
Loreto region – $20,000.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
(La Jolla, CA, USA) to provide partial support the participation of
graduate students from Baja California at the upcoming International
Meeting of Students in Physical Oceanography (IMSPO) – $4,000; 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 exhibition – $12,000; to support a
collecting trip in the Gulf of California for the Birch Aquarium –
$10,000.
Scripps Whittier Institute for Diabetes
(La Jolla, CA, USA) for programmatic and administrative support
related to the Baja California Diabetes Care and Prevention “Wireless
Reach” Binational Partnership: Empowering Communities to Promote
Diabetes Prevention & Disease Management through 3G Wireless
Technologies – $171,971.
SDSU Foundation
(San Diego, CA) to support the project “Tuberculosis (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 – $45,618;
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 –
$11,500.
Shanghai Charity Foundation
(Shanghai, China) to provide charitable support for the Shanghai
Opera Art College Scholarship Program to assist talented students
from poor families complete their art studies, and continue promoting
the Shanghai opera tradition – $11,670.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
(Washington, D.C., USA) for teacher training workshops at the
Galeta Marine Station, Panama – $29,853; to support the “Migration,
Demography, and Conservation of Whale Sharks in the Eastern
Tropical Pacific” project – $150,000.
Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparajá A.C.
(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) to support the program “Facing a Crossroads:
Conservation of key land habitats in Southern Baja California” –
$80,000; to support the initiative “Water Dialogues: Promoting an
integrated perspective for the use and management of water in La
Paz” – $130,000; for land acquisition in the San Cosme-Punto
Mechudo Corridor – $105,000.
Terra Peninsular, A.C.
(Ensenada, BC, Mexico) to prepare a site conservation plan for the
Sierra Juarez – $17,000.
The Nature Conservancy
(Arlington, VA, USA) to support an economic analysis of the
Petaquilla mining operations – $20,000.
The Palapa Society of Todos Santos, A.C.
(Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico) to support a scholarship program for
academically gifted for students from low-income families – $6,000.
U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
(San Diego, CA, USA) for operating and programmatic support –
$436,415.
UCD-Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology
(Davis, CA, USA) to support, “The Revillagigedo Archipelago as
critical habitat for migratory sharks and the establishment of a chain
of marine reserves in the eastern tropical Pacific” – $40,000.
Unidos Por Mata Ortiz, A.C.
(Mata Ortiz, Chih, Mexico) for a computer project at the Mata Ortiz
Telesecundaria school – $6,000.
United Nations Foundation
(Washington D.C., USA) to support post-earthquake disaster relief
efforts in the Sichuan Province of China through the Central
Emergency Response Fund (CERF) of the United Nations
Foundation – $56,868; to support post-disaster relief efforts in
Myanmar – $1,916.
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
(Mexicali, BC, Mexico) for programmatic and administrative support
related to the Baja California Diabetes Care and Prevention “Wireless
Reach” Binational Partnership: Empowering Communities to Promote
Diabetes Prevention & Disease Management through 3G Wireless
Technologies – $96,803; to support a two year grant ($20,000/year)
to support Genetic Conservation of Rhizophora Mangle and
Aviccenia Germinans in Northwestern, Mexico – $40,000.
Vigilantes de Bahía Magdalena, A.C.
(Puerto San Carlos, BCS, Mexico) to provide programmatic support
to Vigilantes de Bahia Magdalena for the remainder of the 2008 year– $9,000; general operating support – $30,000; for monitoring and
protection of natural resources in Magdalena Bay, including water
quality, mangroves, and sea turtles, in addition to legal defense, and
outreach and education – $20,000.
Wildcoast
(Imperial Beach, CA, USA) general operating support – $15,000.
Zoological Society of San Diego
(San Diego, CA, USA) to purchase 18 kennels in support of the
Zoological Society of San Diego's efforts in protecting the California
Condor in northern Baja California – $2,209; to support the“Conservation Education Laboratory Visits for San Diego Unified
Charter Schools” program – $20,000.
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