Grants List 2009 CS Fund & Warsh/Mott Legacy

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Center for International Environmental Law $60,000 for work to advance a precaution-based framework for regulating nanotechnology in the European Union as well as in other countries. Community Environment Legal Defense Fund $30,000 plus $25,000 in matching funds for their programs to help communities assert local, democratic decision-making in the face of unwanted corporate actions. The Constitution Project $30,000 for the Rule of Law Program, a bipartisan effort to defend constitutional safeguards and promote transparency and accountability in government. EarthRights International $95,000 to support litigation to hold corporations that engage in environmentally based human rights violations accountable in US courts; and to support efforts to build human rights and corporate accountability law abroad. Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula $40,000 toward training, providing technical experts, and assisting international partners for GROW BIOINTENSIVE, a method of growing food that builds soil, utilizes open-pollinated seeds, and eschews synthetic chemical inputs. ECOPOL $20,000 to teach biointensive farming methods and establish sustainable family mini-farms throughout Latin America. (Fiscal sponsor: Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula) Educational Broadcasting Corp. $64,000 for civil liberties programming on Jump Start Productions’ NOW on PBS, a weekly public affairs show providing independent news coverage. Electronic Frontier Foundation $30,000 for the FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government project, which works to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act and prevent excessive government secrecy. Pages  1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 Top of page