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Global Exchange
- Burma Project
2017
Mission St., Ste 303
San Francisco, CA 94110
http://www.globalexchange.org
Phone: (415) 255-7296
FAX: (415) 255-7498
Email:
mary@globalexchange.org
EIN: 94-3066686
Founded: 1988
Exempt since 1988
Self-description: Global
Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to
promoting political, social and environmental justice globally.
Actual: Rabid anti-capitalist, anti-corporate attack group,
generally opposes United States policy on any issue.
NoDOG Connection:
Global Exchange's Burma Project Assisted the
Oil
and Gas Accountability Project and the
Dogwood Initiative to prepare the 2004 Denver, Colorado workshop,
Corporate Energy Campaigning:
Using financial pressure for conservation.
Global
Exchange describes its Burma Project in a 2004 grant application to The
Threshold Foundation for its anti-oil and gas "Unocal Corporate
Accountability Campaign":
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Burma
Project/Global Exchange $20,000
Unocal Corporate Accountability Campaign
Burma Project works to support the people of Burma in their
struggle for human rights and the
protection of their environment. It uses strategies inspired by
the anti-apartheid movement to provide
US support for the Burmese democracy movement including:
coordinating corporate campaigns to reduce the financial
support for Burma's military regime and
creating political pressure on the regime to force them to move
towards
democracy
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Profile: Global Exchange, a combination
human rights NGO, travel agency, and coffee
store, was incorporated December 28, 1987, in San Francisco,
California, Kirsten Moller, executive director.
Co-founders were
Kevin Danaher and his wife Medea Benjamin.
Danaher (Ph.D. Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz) is a
noted anti-globalization activist and author of
Globalize This! The Battle
Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule
(2000) and
Insurrection: The Citizen Challenge to Corporate Power (2003).
Medea Benjamin, born Susie Benjamin, renamed herself in college
after the Greek mythological character Medea, sorceress who
murdered her three sons to spite her husband
Jason for taking a new wife (Masters, Public
Health., Columbia University; Masters, Economics, New School for Social
Research) and is a high profile anti-war, anti-corporate,
pro-Cuba activist.
Global Exchange
began by providing “reality tours” to human rights
problem areas such as Cuba, Palestine, and Zapatista-held Mexico,
hoping to recruit travelers as activists
against the Cuban Embargo and for other
anti-American issues. They have built a substantial cadre of activists.
Global Exchange
spent $1.2 million of its $4.1 million 2005 revenue on
reality tours and sold $1.8 million in coffee and other goods at
a profit of over $950,000. Socialist ideology,
capitalist methodology.
The group is
highly networked, with ties to Joshua Mailman’s Social
Venture Network, the Energy Action anti-oil coalition, and the
government of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, where
“reality tours” boomed.
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Global Exchange Revenue
and Expenses 2007
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Revenue |
|
Expenses |
|
Contributions |
$1,958,403 |
|
Government Grants |
$0 |
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Program Services |
$1,583,746 |
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Investments |
$19,424 |
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Special Events |
$135,137 |
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Sales |
$1,062,027 |
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Other |
$7,552 |
|
|
|
Program Services |
$3,915,949 |
|
Administration |
$295,540 |
|
Other |
$658,273 |
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Total Expenditures |
$4,869,762 |
|
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Total Revenue |
$4,766,289 |
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NET GAIN/LOSS |
$(103,473) |
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Global Exchange Officers and Directors,
2007
| Name |
Title |
Compensation |
| Ted Lewis
|
Director |
$65,000 |
| Kirsten
Irgens-Moller |
Executive Director |
$52,905 |
| Medea Benjamin
|
Director |
$48,600 |
| Kevin Danaher
|
Secretary |
$28,125 |
| Kate Raven
|
Director |
$26,625 |
| Michele Frank, MD
|
Director |
$0 |
| Tony Newman
|
Director |
$0 |
| Isao Fujimoto
|
Director |
$0 |
| Delvis Fernandez
|
Director |
$0 |
| Walter Turner
|
President |
$0 |
| Wanda Whitaker
|
Vice President |
$0 |
| Jason Mark
|
Director |
$0 |
| John Harrington
|
Treasurer |
$0 |
| Pierre Labossiere
|
Director |
$0 |
| Walter Riley
|
Director |
$0 |
| Bob Wing
|
Director |
$0 |
| Deborah James
|
Director |
$0 |
| Thuyen Nguyen
|
Director |
$0 |
| Rick Tejada-Flores
|
Director |
$0 |
| Bama Athreya
|
Director |
$0 |
| Tran Tuong Nhu
|
Director |
$0 |
| Randy Durband
|
Director |
$0 |
| Clare Campbell
|
Director |
$0 |
Global Exchange Foundation Grants Chart
Global Exchange Foundation Grants,
2004-2007
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Donor Foundation
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Amount |
Year |
Grant Description |
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CLOUD MOUNTAIN
FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$30,000 |
2007 |
News and information |
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ANGELICA FOUNDATION
La Jolla
California |
$5,000 |
2006 |
2006 Grant Mexico
program collaborative |
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GENERAL SERVICE
FOUNDATION
Aspen
Colorado |
$10,000 |
2006 |
Post election
observation mission to the 2006 Mexican Presidential election |
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MARY, MARTHA & EMMETT J.
DOERR CHARITABLE TRUST
Milwaukee
Wisconsin |
$7,500 |
2006 |
Guatemala Relief Fund, a
project of Maya traditions |
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WALLACE GLOBAL FUND
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$75,000 |
2006 |
General support |
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LEF FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
$10,000 |
2006 |
Funds in support of
Global Exchange |
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BENJAMIN FUND INC
San Francisco
California |
$60,000 |
2006 |
Peace and social justice |
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NEW PRIORITIES
FOUNDATION
Spokane
Washington |
$12,500 |
2006 |
General support |
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THE IARA LEE & GEORGE
GUND III FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
$5,000 |
2006 |
Humanitarian / edu women
say no to war campaign |
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CLOUD MOUNTAIN
FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$20,000 |
2006 |
News and information |
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ANGELICA FOUNDATION
La Jolla
California |
$17,000 |
2006 |
Year 2006 program |
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ANGELICA FOUNDATION
La Jolla
California |
$5,000 |
2006 |
2006 grant John Hgibbler
other campaign in Mexico |
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OREGON COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
Portland
Oregon |
$5,000 |
2005 |
Livability through
citizen involvement |
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OVERBROOK FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$5,000 |
2005 |
Center for Micro Finance
Training |
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LISA AND SIDNEY LONG
FOUNDATION
Alamo
California |
$5,000 |
2005 |
Support current social &
environmental justice programs worldwide |
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SCHUMANN CENTER FOR
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY INC
Montclair
New Jersey |
$140,000 |
2005 |
A grant of $140000- To
fund the public education campaign on the United Nations to
improve global, social, economic and on-line reporting of
environmental issues |
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CLOUD MOUNTAIN
FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$15,000 |
2005 |
News and information |
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CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
FOUNDATION INC
New York
New York |
$30,000 |
2005 |
Cuba program |
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NEW PRIORITIES
FOUNDATION
Spokane
Washington |
$10,000 |
2005 |
General support |
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BENJAMIN FUND INC
San Francisco
California |
$94,700 |
2005 |
Peace and social justice |
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ALBERT KUNSTADTER FAMILY
FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$10,000 |
2005 |
Support trien beach
rbsto |
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ANGELICA FOUNDATION
La Jolla
California |
$10,000 |
2005 |
Capise program grant |
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WILLIAM H DONNER
FOUNDATION INC
New York
New York |
$18,303 |
2005 |
Project support |
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EL NORTE FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
$5,000 |
2005 |
Guatemala relief |
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COMMON COUNSEL
FOUNDATION
Oakland
California |
$5,000 |
2005 |
Community, civil
liberties & economic justice issues |
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NEW PRIORITIES
FOUNDATION
Spokane
Washington |
$12,500 |
2004 |
General support |
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OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
New York
New York |
$80,000 |
2004 |
To provide support for
operational expenses |
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LEF FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
$10,000 |
2004 |
Funds in support of
Global Exchange |
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EL NORTE FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
$5,000 |
2004 |
Charitable and
educational |
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CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
FOUNDATION INC
New York
New York |
$22,500 |
2004 |
Cuba |
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CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
FOUNDATION INC
New York
New York |
$5,000 |
2004 |
NYD |
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CLOUD MOUNTAIN
FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$15,000 |
2004 |
News and information |
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OVERBROOK FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$5,000 |
2004 |
Parwaz micro lending
institution |
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OREGON COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
Portland
Oregon |
$5,000 |
2004 |
Livability through
citizen involvement |
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THE COTSWOLD FOUNDATION
Broomall
Pennsylvania |
$5,000 |
2004 |
General purposes |
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THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
$20,000 |
2004 |
Burma Project
NoDOG grant |
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