International
Forum on Globalization, Inc.
1009
GENERAL KENNEDY AVE 2
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94129
http://www.ifg.org
Phone: (415)
561-7650
Email contact:
info@ifg.org
EIN:
94-3262147
Exempt since: 1997
Description: International anti-capitalist organization pushing for the
eradication of corporations and the centralization
of global economic rulemaking in new command centers to be created
in the United Nations. The creation of Jerry Mander and the money of
Doug Tompkins' Foundation for Deep Ecology.
The IFOG plan for your life: Read the report,
Alternatives to Economic Globalization.
Our analysis of the
plan:
Global Green Goals: How Environmentalists Intend to Rule the World.
For a complete
chart of IFOG member organizations,
click here.
Financial condition, 2000,
International Forum on Globalization, Inc.
|
Revenue |
|
Expenses |
|
Contributions |
$933,017 |
|
Government Grants |
$0 |
|
Program Services |
$0 |
|
Investments |
$9,184 |
|
Special Events |
$(331,676) |
|
Sales |
$1,480 |
|
Other |
$23,854 |
|
|
|
Program Services |
$240,544 |
|
Administration |
$150,523 |
|
Other |
$43,382 |
|
Total Expenditures |
$434,449 |
|
|
Total Revenue |
$635,859 |
|
NET
GAIN/LOSS |
$201,410 |
|
|
Board of Directors, International
Forum on Globalization
|
Jerry Mander,
President |
Debi Barker,
Secretary/Treasurer |
|
Maude Barlow,
Director |
John
Cavanagh, Director |
|
Tony Clarke,
Director |
Edward
Goldsmith, Director |
|
Martin Khor,
Director |
Andy
Kimbrell, Director |
|
Helena
Norberg-Hodge, Director |
Mark
Ritchie, Director |
|
Vandana Shiva,
Director |
Lori
Wallach, Director |
|
|
 See profile of
Jerry Mander
 See profile of
Doug Tompkins
Profiles of other IFOG directors:
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Debi Barker, co-director of
IFOG. Worked for Doug Tompkins'
Foundation for Deep Ecology (1993), helped organize meetings with non-profit
groups in 1994 that formed IFOG. She currently serves on the boards of
the
International Center for Technology Assessment
(ICTA) and
the Sustainable Cotton Project. ICTA receives large annual
donations directed by Mander from Foundation for Deep Ecology, $75,000 in 2000.
-
Maude Barlow is chair of the
anti-corporate organization, Council of Canadians, and co-author of Global
Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule.
Received $20,000 from Foundation for Deep Ecology, 2000.
-
John Cavanagh,
Director, Institute for Policy Studies,
Washington, D.C.; Fellow,
Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. They don’t get a lot more anti-American or
anti-capitalist than this man.
Receives large annual donations
directed by Mander from Foundation for Deep Ecology, $75,000 in 2000.
-
Tony Clarke, Director, Polaris
Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, chair IFOG’s committee on corporations.
Works with social movements around the world on the theme of
destroying corporations.
Former national chair,
Action Canada Network; social policy director,
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Doctoral
degree in social ethics,
University of Chicago. Publications include The
Emergence of Corporate Rule - And What We Can Do About It and
Behind the Mitre: The Moral Leadership Crisis in the Canadian Catholic Church.
-
Edward Goldsmith, British catastrophist
and anti-technology advocate, brother of the late billionaire, Sir Jimmy
Goldsmith, and founder of the journal The Ecologist.
Dual British-French citizenship. He is president of Ecoropa
(a non-profit he established in France
- received $10,000
from Foundation for Deep Ecology, 2000); member of the board of the JMG
Foundation (part of the fortune left by his brother), principal environmental
consultant to the
Ecological Foundation (UK); member of the
council of The Rainforest
Foundation (UK); and trustee of the
Foundation for Gaia
(UK). Co-editor with Jerry Mander
of The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Towards the Local
(1997).
-
Martin Khor, aka Martin Khor
Kok Peng, is director of the
Third World Network, a nonprofit organization based in Penang, Malaysia, with
offices in Delhi, India; Montevideo, Uruguay; Geneva; London; and Accra,
Ghana. Also director of Consumer's Association of Penang
(Malaysia). Khor's groups receive large annual grants directed by Mander from Tompkins' Foundation
for Deep Ecology, $405,000 in 2000.
-
Andy
Kimbrell, executive director,
Center for
Food Safety; president,
International Center for Technology Assessment, both Washington, D.C.
Director, The Turning Point Project.
-
Helena Norberg-Hodge,
co-founder, IFOG; founder and
director of ISEC (International Society for Ecology & Culture), based in Devon, United
Kingdom, with emphasis on local food and farming.
A linguist by training, educated in Sweden, Germany, England and
the United States, speaks seven languages. Lectures
world-wide, at Smithsonian Institution,
Harvard, Oxford universities. Also
directs the Ladakh Project on the Tibetan plateau. Author
of Ancient Futures.
Co-founder, Global Eco-village Network.
-
Mark
Ritchie, president,
Institute for Agriculture Trade Policy in Minneapolis,
Minnesota (1988-present). Undergraduate
degree, Iowa State University,
1971. 1972-1976, manager, consumer cooperative
in Northern California. 1976,
executive director,
Center for Rural Studies, San Francisco.
1981, research and resource manager,
Miller Meester company (communications firm).
Current board of directors,
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.
-
Vandana Shiva, Indian small-farm advocate
strongly opposed to biotechnology, is founder and director of the Research
Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, based in Delhi. She is also the ecology
advisor of the Third World Network, and is author of “Biopiracy: The Plunder of
Nature and Knowledge.” Receives large annual donations
directed by Mander from Foundation for Deep Ecology, $165,000 in 2000.
-
Lori Wallach, director of
Public
Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, a Ralph Nader group.
Receives substantial annual grants directed by Mander from Foundation for Deep
Ecology, $85,000 in 2001.
Grants to International Forum on Globalization:
Foundation Name: HKH Foundation
(the AMAX mining fortune)
Abstract: For environmental protection program
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep
Ecology
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $195,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep
Ecology
Abstract: For International Forum on Food and Agriculture
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Abstract: For efforts to develop positive vision for global
governance
Amount: $150,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Duration: 2-year grant
Foundation Name: Turner Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: To expose negative effects of international trade
agreements on forests and other natural resources in developing
nations, and advocate for inclusion of environmental considerations
in World Trade Organization negotiations
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name: The Educational
Foundation of America
Abstract: For general support to programs that oppose the World
Trade Organization
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name: Rockefeller Brothers
Fund, Inc.
Abstract: For retreat, in collaboration with American Lands Alliance
and Pacific Environment and Resources Center, to educate forest
conservation advocates and nongovernmental organization (NGO)
leaders about environmental consequences of increased trade in
forest products
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name: John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Abstract: For activities to strengthen citizen responses to
globalization and to encourage engagement with World Trade
Organization
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Duration: 2-year grant
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep
Ecology
Abstract: For International Forum on Food and Agriculture
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep Ecology
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name: The Ford Foundation
Abstract: For publications component of program to stimulate public
discussions and develop reform options for World Trade Organization
Amount: $150,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name: The
Educational Foundation of America
Abstract: For Committee on the Environment
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: HKH Foundation
Amount: $25,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep
Ecology
Abstract: For International Forum on Food and Agriculture
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep Ecology
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $150,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep Ecology
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $57,500 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: Foundation for Deep
Ecology
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $30,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Abstract: For activities related to emergence of corporate
governance
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Duration: 2-year grant
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