Grants

   This information was taken from the book Environmental Grantmaking Foundations, 1993 Directory, by the Environmental Data Research Institute.

EPA Grants and Fellowship Information - http://www.epa.gov/epahome/grants.htm

ARCO Foundation - http://www.ntlf.com/html/grants/5977.htm

  • looking for individual leadership and volunteerism
  • interested in education
  • they have a large budget
  • emphasis on environmental career awareness


Nathan Cummings Foundation - http://www.nathancummings.net/index.htm

  • good budget
  • likes programs of national significance
  • into participation, conferences, networking
  • gives multi-year grants

Echoing Green Foundation - http://www.echoinggreen.org/

  • looks for innovative projects
  • into education, the environment, and public service
  • gives multi-year grants

Educational Foundation of America - http://www.efaw.org/
  • into solid waste issues

  • gives seed money for innovative programs

  • GE Fund - http://www.ge.com/foundation/grant_initiatives/education.html
    • higher education is a priority
    • large budget
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - http://www.hewlett.org/
  • like non-partisan projects

    Ittleson Foundation, Inc. - http://www.ittlesonfoundation.org/

  • interested in results that impact the real world
  • wants to recruit young people into the environmental field
  • into education

  • likes projects with national scope

    The Henry M. Jackson Foundation - http://www.hmjackson.org/
    • into the environment as it pertains to natural resource management
    • likes programs with national significance
    • likes programs that train people for careers in environ- mental fields

    Laird, Norton Foundation - http://www.lairdnorton.org/

  • interests are conservation and forestry
  • likes educational institutions

    The Max and Anna Levinson Foundation - http://www.levinsonfoundation.org/
    • into conservation, public education, and citizen action
    • likes educational institutions

    The Martin Foundation, Inc.
  • interested in recycling
  • likes natural resource conservation
  • interested in funding national programs

    Charles Stewart Mott Foundation - http://www.mott.org/

  • large budget
  • into general environmentally friendly grant-making

     

  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. - http://www.rbf.org/

    • into municipal waste recycling
    • large budget

    Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc. - http://www.rffund.org/

    • into conservation
    • likes citizen education and participation

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    Threshold Foundation -     http://www.thoreau.org/Tenants/threshold.html
  • hard- core environmentalists
  • likes projects with national scope that enable people to live lightly on the earth

    Town Creek Foundation, Inc. - http://www.towncreekfdn.org/

  • likes involvement in monitoring govt. bodies responsible for enforcing environmental legislation
  • into the preservation and enhancement of the human environment in the US
  • likes waste reduction issues
    Turner Foundation, Inc. - http://www.turnerfoundation.org/
    • into the conservation of natural resources
    		  

     

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