Grants List 2011
CS Fund & Warsh/Mott Legacy
EarthRights International
$70,000 to support litigation and campaigns to hold corporations that commit environmentally based human rights abuses accountable in US courts, and to support efforts to build human rights and corporate accountability law abroad.
Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula
$45,000 toward training, providing technical expertise, and assisting international partners for GROW BIOINTENSIVE, a method of growing food that builds soil, utilizes open-pollinated seeds, and rejects 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)
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.
Environmental Defender Law Center
$50,000 in general support of efforts to defend environmental activists and communities from destructive resource development projects and establish legal accountability for corporate violations of human and environmental rights.
ETC Group
$150,000 in general support of ETC's efforts to promote conservation of food crop germplasm and agricultural biodiversity, and to encourage socially responsible development of new technologies (Fiscal sponsor: Friends of Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration).
Federation of American Scientists
$30,000 for the Project on Government Secrecy, which is dedicated to reforming classification policy in order to ensure public access to government information.
First Amendment Coalition
$40,000 in general support of work to protect free speech, press for a more open and accountable government, and encourage public participation in civic affairs.
Foundation Center
$2,000 in general support of educational programs on foundation fundraising at the Center's San Francisco office.
