"Biological Diversity And The Human Communities That Depend On It"

Alaska Oceans Network, Anchorage, Alaska

To launch a new network of conservation groups, fishing groups, professional observers and Native organizations that will work collaboratively to restore and maintain a healthy marine ecosystem in Alaska, in particular the North Pacific Ocean.
 

$300,000
(3 years)

American Oceans Campaign, Washington, DC

For an initiative to promote fish habitat protection in New England.
 

$75,000

American Rivers, Washington, DC

For an integrated set of strategies to strengthen the collective voice of river conservation, restoration and more effective riverfront revitalization.
 

$200,000
(2 years)

Audubon Society Of New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire

Support for an initiative designed to ensure that biodiversity conservation in New Hampshire is included in the decisions that affect its environment, particularly in its rapidly urbanizing areas.

$200,000
(2 years)

Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association, West Chatham, Massachusetts

For a campaign by commercial fishermen and other concerned coastal residents for reform of New England ground fisheries management to make it environmentally sustainable.

$45,000

Coastal Conservation Association Of Florida, Talahassee, Florida

For an initiative to document problems with the federal management of fisheries in the Southeast and financial conflicts of interest on the federal fishery management councils, and then develop and advocate management approaches that address these problems.

$80,000

Defenders Of Wildlife, Washington, DC

Support for projects in Oregon and Florida that are building a cohesive decision-making process to reconcile the demands of growth and transportation development with the need to conserve species and habitat to protect biodiversity.
 

$125,000

Island Institute, Rockland, Maine

For a program that promotes the restoration and wise management of Gulf of Maine fisheries based on the concept of co-management.
 

$75,000

Lead Partnership Group, Taylorsville, California

Support for the ongoing development and implementation of a collaborative process that will lead to improved national forest management practices that also promote community well-being based on the involvement of all interested parties, both local and national.
 

$150,000
(2 years)

Marine Fish Conservation Network, Washington, DC

Support to stop the erosion of the conservation provisions added to the Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1996, ensure their effective implementation and promote strong conservation provisions when the Act is reauthorized.
 

$135,000

National Network Of Forest Practitioners, Boston, Massachusetts
 

Support for a grassroots alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses in rural communities who are dedicated to finding practical ways to integrate economic development, environmental protection and social justice.

$40,000

Natural Heritage Institute, Berkeley, California

For a program to research, develop and foster improvement in the process of negotiating, approving and implementing multi-species habitat conservation plans.

$75,000

New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts
 

To support the work of an individual to take advantage of his position on the New England Fisheries Management Council to promote strong conservation measures around themes that reflect the vision of the fishing community.
 

$50,000
(2 years)

Pacific Rivers Council, Eugene, Oregon
 

For an initiative to develop and implement a comprehensive watershed restoration and management plan in several of the federally administered Southern Appalachian National Forests.
 

$100,000

Sierra Business Council, Truckee, California
 

General support for an association of more than 580 member businesses to secure the economic and environmental health of the Sierra Nevada.
 

$300,000
(3 years)

Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, Asheville, North Carolina

For a campaign to permanently protect Southern Appalachian public forest lands and critical private land holdings.
 

$100,000

Sustainable Northwest, Portland, Oregon

Support for a project that seeks to make forest restoration more viable for rural Northwest communities by better commercializing the by-products of forest ecosystem management.
 

$100,000

Taxpayers For Common Sense, Washington, DC

For a campaign to reform the U.S. Forest Service budget by eliminating timber sale subsidies and improving fiscal and environmental accountability of the Forest Service timber management program.

$100,000

Wilderness Society, Washington, DC

For a project to reestablish a network of wildlands and thereby create a healthy wilderness system in the Northern Rockies.

$200,000
(2 years)

Special Initiative On Sustainable Forestry
For fiscal years 2000 and 2001, Surdna has expanded its grantmaking to organizations promoting sustainable forestry. This special initiative recognizes a unique moment of opportunity in the field and builds on the foundation's previous six years of grantmaking in this area.
 

Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston, Massachusetts
 

For a project that will protect ecologically significant working forestlands across the east by providing leadership in a new eastern forest campaign whose vision for the region includes a matrix of working forests, conservation easements, responsible landowners and a network of wildlands protected by public ownership.
 

$150,000
(2 years)

Global Forest Foundation, Washington, DC

To create the tools and processes needed to translate corporate forest policy commitments into reality in North America. This work includes the development of significant new mapping resources on critical forest ecosystems.

$850,000
(3 years)

National Council For Science And The Environment, Washington, DC
 

Support for the planning stage of a project designed to strengthen the scientific basis for discussions, comparisons and evaluations of forest management practices and their impact on biodiversity.
 

$60,000

Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York
 

Support for a forest initiative which works to shift wood production and consumption away from threatened forests, and promotes Forest Stewardship Council certification and wood use efficiency.
 

$300,000
(3 years)

Open Space Conservancy, New York, New York
 

For a regional investment fund whose monies will be used to protect ecologically sensitive forest land in the Northern Forest.

$2,075,000

Pinchot Institute For Conservation, Washington, DC
 

Support for a nationwide pilot project to demonstrate the applicability of forest certification on tribal lands.

$250,000

Rainforest Alliance, New York, New York
 

Support for the TREES Program, an offshoot of the Smartwood Certification program which will ensure equitable access to forestry certification, special attention to certifications of forests with high conservation or community values and development of innovative new certification models.
 

$500,000
(2 years)

Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, California
 

For planning to develop a mobile forestry education project that will take science-based lessons on forestry into rural communities of Northern California and Southern Oregon.
 

$50,000

World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC

For efforts to enhance Forest Stewardship Council certification efforts and improve forest management practices across the United States.

$250,000
(2 years)

Human Systems

Americans For Equitable Climate Solutions, Washington, DC

Support for a 'common assets' policy proposal that would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions without diminishing economic growth or violating basic principles of fairness.
 

$100,000

Community Rights Counsel, Washington, DC
 

For support of a public interest law firm that helps communities defend critical health and environmental protections, particularly in the area of land use.
 

$75,000

Council On The Environment Of New York City, New York, New York
 

Support to provide input and oversight for a faculty and student enrichment program at the New York High School for Environmental Studies.
 

$25,000

Environmental Leadership Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 

For a leadership development program that is training and supporting a new generation of environmental leaders, characterized by diversity, innovative thinking, coalition building and effective communication.
 

$110,000

Environmental Support Center, Washington, DC
 

Renewed support for its work as an intermediary to enhance the organizational effectiveness of grassroots environmental advocacy organizations and to strengthen its State Leadership Program.
 

$150,000

Green Media Toolshed, Washington, DC
 

Support for a cooperatively run national clearinghouse of media related tools and information to be used by member local, regional and national nonprofit environment, conservation and preservation groups.
 

$100,000

Organizing Project, Portland, Oregon
 

For a process of education for leaders of institutions (schools, congregations, unions and civic groups) and families about the potential of environmentally centered economic development to create living wage jobs for families in the Pacific Northwest.
 

$60,000

Partnership Project, Washington, DC
 

For a broad-based collaboration among leading environmental groups to build and enhance collective membership lists, to facilitate coordinated actions on shared campaigns, and to make use of the Internet as an organizing and communications medium.
 

$50,000

Redefining Progress, Oakland, California
 

Redefining Progress, Oakland, California
 

$150,000

Resource Renewal Institute, San Francisco, California
 

For a campaign to advance the concept and policy implementation of green planning -- an approach to environmental planning and recovery that is comprehensive, integrated, and long-term.
 

$50,000

Sustainability Institute, Hartland, Vermont

For capacity building to enable the organization to educate and communicate to a broad audience its two powerful sets of concepts: systems thinking and sustainability.
 

$100,000

The Natural Step, San Francisco, California
 

Support for the expanded dissemination of a science-based framework on ecological and economic sustainability to the business community.
 

$675,000
(3 years)

Tufts University - Global Development And Environment Institute, Medford, Massachusetts

Support for salaries of researchers on the most comprehensive text available on sustainable development.
 

$30,000

Transportation And Urban/Suburban Land Use

Biodiversity Project, Madison, Wisconsin
 

Support to enhance the communication strategies and skills of national, regional, state and local groups working to educate the public on smart growth and land conservation issues.
 

$75,000

Center For Clean Air Policy, Washington, DC
 

Support to conclude a multi-disciplinary initiative that is identifying and addressing barriers to the greater use of mass transit and other alternatives to private autos and develop marketing concepts to make transit services more attractive.
 

$75,000

Colorado Open Lands, Lakewood, Colorado
 

To assist communities along the front range of Colorado, where growth is occurring at a rapid pace, with the development of innovative land protection programs and partnerships.
 

$80,000

Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation, Denver, Colorado

For a transportation campaign that is focused on promoting alternative transportation and on fighting sprawl-induced highway projects in the Denver region.
 

$100,000

Congress For The New Urbanism, San Francisco, California
 

For two initiatives: one to develop and disseminate specific tools such as zoning code reform that encourage the private sector to build in more sustainable and environmentally friendly patterns; the second to create and test models for the revitalization of declining shopping centers and malls in a way that also promotes smart growth. This grant spans two program areas, and the organization received an equal amount under the Community Revitalization Program.
 

$50,000

Conservation Fund, Arlington, Virginia

For a program that will use development as a tool for conservation through partnerships with the private sector, especially the real estate development industry, and advance the concept of green infrastructure as a strategic approach to land conservation.
 

$100,000

Conservation Law Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts

For a program of transportation and land use reform in New England that addresses sprawl-inducing infrastructure projects, urban livability and environmental justice issues in the region's smaller cities and state by state "fix it first" campaigns to counter highway expansion projects.
 

$450,000
(3 years)

East Bay Community Foundation, Oakland, California

Support for an initiative on smart growth and livable communities in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, California that is being led by the East Bay Community Foundation.
 

$100,000
(2 years)

Funders' Network For Smart Growth And Livable Communities, Miami, Florida

Support for an organization that is a resource and focal point for foundations, nonprofit organizations and other partners working to solve the problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.
 

$30,000

Land Trust Alliance, Washington, DC

To launch a comprehensive initiative to improve and sustain the quality of land trusts that will help insure the consistency of private land conservation across the nation.
 

$200,000
(2 years)

Pace University Land Use Law Center, White Plains, New York

Continued support for a training program for local leaders in the New York tri-state metropolitan area on local land use strategies.
 

$200,000
(2 years)

Planning And Conservation League Foundation, Sacramento, California

Support for a joint proposal from several California conservation and environmental justice groups for a campaign to build a statewide coalition to change transportation funding policy in California.
 

$50,000

Scenic America, Washington, DC

For a campaign to promote highway design that is sensitive to the environment, to aesthetics, to the character of place and which fully involves citizens that are affected by it.
 

$85,000

Smart Growth America, Washington, DC

Support for a coalition of the nation's leading advocates for smart growth.

$100,000

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, Charleston, South Carolina

Support to enable the executive director of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League to build the smart growth field and advance the smart growth agenda throughout the South and nationally.
 

$50,000

Southern Environmental Law Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

Support for a southeast regional program of transportation reform and related land use reform issues.

$250,000
(2 years)

Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse, Washington, DC

For a Web-based clearinghouse on smart growth related information, targeted in particular towards grassroots activists.
 

$30,000

Surface Transportation Policy Project, Washington, DC

To help expand the national coalition of transportation reform advocates and to develop the policy framework for a major new transportation reform campaign.
 

$150,000

Texas Citizen Fund, Austin, Texas

For the Just Transportation Alliance to build, train and support local citizen alliances in 32 Texas cities to increase informed citizen involvement in transportation planning and implementation.

$100,000
(2 years)

Surdna Initiative On Smart Growth And Community Livability
The Surdna Initiative on Smart Growth and Community Livability is a special project that is focused on New Jersey, New Mexico, Maryland, and Salt Lake City, Utah. At present, there are few good models of best practice to emulate or even to describe as successful. The Surdna Initiative will foster a range of efforts in different geographical and organizational contexts where strategic support and intentional collaboration could yield consequential results in a discrete time frame. In addition to making grants, Surdna has structured a process of mutual learning between key players from the four selected sites and is designing a process for dissemination about the project and its achievements.
 

1000 Friends Of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
 

Support to work with its partner organizations to expand a statewide smart growth coalition and to implement a campaign to change the direction of growth management in New Mexico.

$330,000

Center For State Public Interest Research
Boston, Massachusetts

Support for the activities of state public interest research group activists in New Mexico and Maryland to craft meaningful policy solutions to the sprawl problem and build grassroots support for reform at the state level.

$100,000

Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Annapolis, Maryland

To work with the Baltimore Regional Partnership to integrate activities at the local, state and regional levels of government on the development of a Baltimore region land use and transportation plan.

$295,000

Envision Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

To implement the growth strategy that Envision Utah developed for the Greater Wasatch Area surrounding Salt Lake City.

$200,000

Isles, Inc.
Trenton, New Jersey

To implement a process to promote smart growth by integrating urban and suburban organizing and development strategies.

$200,000
(2 years)

New Jersey Future
Trenton, New Jersey

For an education campaign for candidates and voters in the November 2001 New Jersey gubernatorial and legislative election to ensure that smart growth and related issues are among the major issues of the 2001 campaign.

$150,000

Western Environmental Law Center, Taos, New Mexico

To provide legal counsel and technical assistance to local governments in New Mexico in the adoption, implementation and enforcement of land use subdivision regulations and ordinances regulating mining, logging and growth and development.

$100,000
(2 years)

Energy

Center For Resource Solutions, San Francisco, California

To support the "Green-e" power certification and verification initiative.

$100,000

Clean Energy Group, Montpelier, Vermont

For the creation of a national network of state-based clean energy funds. The network will provide information and brokering assistance to facilitate the most high leverage use of state monies to promote clean energy technologies, companies and markets.

$100,000

Minnesota Project - Sustainable Energy For Economic Develoment, St. Paul, Minnesota

For a campaign to promote renewable energy development in Minnesota.

$260,000
(2 years)

Pace University School Of Law, White Plains, New York

Support for outreach and marketing of the Power Scorecard, a tool to help consumers compare the environmental profile of all the power products available to them.

$50,000

Public Citizen Foundation, Washington, DC

For a national campaign to promote the benefits of community choice, a policy mechanism that enables consumers to gain enough market power to leverage lower electricity rates and to incorporate a preference for renewable energy in their community's power procurement procedures.

$50,000

Renewable Energy Policy Project, Washington, DC

For development and implementation of an outreach program to support the preparation and release of a major new report on opportunities for renewable energy and energy efficiency in the southern U.S.

$50,000

Southern Alliance For Clean Energy, Knoxville, Tennessee

For a campaign to promote the use of clean energy in the Tennessee Valley through consumer education about renewable energy, energy efficiency and Tennessee Valley Authority's green power program.