Grants List 2011
CS Fund & Warsh/Mott Legacy
Project on Government Oversight
$30,000 for the Congressional Oversight Training Program, which educates Congresspeople and their staff about tools for pursuing executive branch accountability. Also, $20,000 for the Inspector General Reform Project, which works to improve the strength, efficiency, and accountability of federal agency watchdogs.
Public Citizen Foundation
$125,000 in support of Global Trade Watch, which aims to make US and international trade policy and institutions socially equitable, environmentally sustainable, and democratically accountable.
Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA
$40,000 for a campaign to reinvigorate classical (non-biotech) plant breeding in the US through coalition building and outreach.
Sierra Club Foundation
$75,000 for efforts by the Responsible Trade Program to educate the public, policymakers, and other environmental organizations about the environmental impacts of international trade agreements.
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
$30,000 for the Solar Nanotechnology Safety Initiative to address the increasing use of nanotechnologies by solar energy companies, and to ensure safety for workers, consumers, and the environment.
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
$42,341 in support of The FOIA Project to bring transparency to the federal Freedom of Information Act process, especially in regard to decisions to deny public access to information.
União Nacional de Camponeses
$45,006 in support of efforts to build agroecological training capacity in order to enable African farmers to advance agroecology as their vision for the future of agriculture. (Fiscal sponsor: Friends of Action Group on Erosion, Technology & Concentration)
Union of Concerned Scientists
$30,000 for the Biotech and Synthetic Biology Crop Policy Program, which works to strengthen US policy governing genetically modified organisms, and educate the public and policymakers about hazards of genetically engineering food crops to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.
The Xerces Society
$40,000 for the Pollinator Conservation in Agriculture Program, which works to advance the conservation of native agricultural pollinators and their habitat through advocacy, education and outreach, and applied research.
Yale Law School
$50K in matching funds to launch the Media Freedom Clinic, which is dedicated to increasing government transparency and supporting traditional and new media through litigation and FOIA. (Fiscal sponsor: Yale University)
