Grants List 2011
CS Fund & Warsh/Mott Legacy
Friends of the Earth US
$60,000 for the Emerging Technologies Campaign, which promotes precautionary regulation of nanotechnology and synthetic biology through public education, campaigning and policy advocacy.
Global Exchange
$65,000 for the California Rights Based Organizing Campaign, which helps communities assert the right to local self-governance and the Rights of Nature in the face of environmentally and economically devastating corporate activities, and works to advance the Rights of Nature internationally.
Government Accountability Project
$85,000 in general support of work protecting the public interest and promoting government and corporate accountability by defending whistleblowers and advancing occupational free speech.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
$60,000 for their Nanotech and Agriculture Project, which advocates improved regulation and oversight of agricultural and food nanotechnology in domestic and international policy.
Institute for Food & Development Policy
$46,660 for the Campesino a Campesino Pollinator Project for trainings in pollinator restoration and conservation and to launch a campaign for the territorial-wide recovery of native pollinator populations as central to the defense of Indigenous agrobiodiversity and food sovereignty.
International Center for Technology Assessment
$100,000 plus $20,000 in matching funds for legal work, policy advocacy and coalition building to challenge the widespread use of untested and unregulated nanotechnologies.
La Via Campesina
$41,818 to support a regional meeting of agroecology farmer-leaders in southern Africa and exchange visits to Tanzania for the region's top farmer-promoters. (Fiscal sponsor: Center for the Study of the Americas)
Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
$49,900 for the development of a case study on the human and environmental health hazards of carbon nanotube (CNT) production, and development of an alternatives assessment framework for CNTs. (fiscal sponsor: University of Massachusetts – Lowell)
Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project
$40,000 to promote the use of the Precautionary Principle in environmental and chemical policymaking. (Fiscal sponsor: Clean Water Fund)
