2012 Environment Grantees

 

THE ENVIRONMENT

  Latin American Biodiversity Conservation
  Sustainable Consumption / Production
  Media
  Other







 

 

2012 Human Rights Grantees

 

HUMAN RIGHTS

  Domestic Human Rights
  US Human Rights Movement
  Gender Rights
 

  Marriage Equality/LGBT

 

  Reproductive Justice

 
Trafficking

 

  Other
    
  International Human Rights
 

 Human Rights Defenders

 

 Gender Rights

 
Reproductive Rights
 
LGBT Rights

 
Below is a list of grants made in 2012. To learn more about our grants made in 2011, please click here to view the Foundation's 2011 Annual Report on Grants
 

THE ENVIRONMENT

 
2012
     

Latin American Biodiversity Conservation

 
  ALTROPICO  
$20,000
  Chiles-Mataje Corridor project  

National Audubon Society

 
$30,000
 

Creating Landowner Incentives to Preserve and Restore the Last Forests in Veracruz, Mexico

 
     
   
 
Sustainable Consumption/Production
 
  Corporate Ethics International  
$10,000

Business Ethics Network

 
 

Dogwood Alliance

 
$10,000

Fast Food Campaign

 
 

Environmental Defense Fund

 
$50,000
 

Sustainable Corporate Production and Consumption

 

Environmental Paper Network

 
$20,000
 

General Operating Support

 
  Health Care Without Harm  
$50,000
  Healthier Hospitals Initiative    

Natural Resources Defense Council

 
$75,000
 

New York Recycling and Sustainability Project

 

Product Policy Institute

 
$25,000
 

Community Producer Responsibility Campaign

 
       
       
         
         

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Human Rights

 
2012
       

Domestic Human Rights

 
  US Human Rights Movement  
 

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation

 
$70,000
 

Human Rights Program

 
   
  Gender Rights  
   
 
Marriage Equality
 
 

Civil Marriage Collaborative (Proteus Fund)

 
$100,000
 

Achieving Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples

 
     
 
Anti-Trafficking
   
  Freedom Network USA  
$30,000
  Freedom Network Training and Advocacy    
   
  Media  
 

Free Press

 
$45,000
 

Media Reform Activities

 

New America Media (Pacific News Services)

 
$40,000
 

Combat Voter Suppression Through Collective Ethnic Media Advocacy

 
   
 

International Human Rights

 

 

 

 

Human Rights Defenders  
 

Committee to Protect Journalists

 
$25,000

Press Freedom Work in Latin America

 
 

Environmental Defender Law Center

 
$25,000

General Operating Support

 
 

Human Rights Watch

 
$45,000
 

Combating Human Rights Violations in Mexico

 
 

Indian Law Resource Center

 
$35,000
 

Defending Maya Q'eqchi' Lands and Resources in Guatemala

 
   
Gender Rights  
 

LGBT Rights

 
  International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission  
$25,000
  Latin America and Caribbean Program Human Rights Institute    
       
       
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Click here to view The Overbrook Foundation's 2011 Annual Report on Grants
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