AMAZON WATCH
One Hallidie Plaza
Suite 402
San Francisco, CA 94102
www.amazonwatch.org
Phone (415) 487-9600
Email contact:
elisa@amazonwatch.org
EIN 95-4604782
Founded: 1996
Exempt since: 1999
 Self
description:
Amazon Watch works to
defend the Amazon rainforest and support its indigenous peoples
against the social and environmental impacts of the extractive
industries.
Actual:
Rabidly opposes all
industry, particularly oil and gas. Aggressively pressures indigenous people to stop
supporting desirable economic developments wanted by villages and
tribes; calls in multinational power and pressure groups such as
Oxfam to praise the enemies of economic development and to harass,
harangue and discredit its supporters.
NoDOG
Connection: 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.
The following excerpt from the Dogwood Initiative newsletter of
October, 2004, exposes the Amazon Watch collusion with the NoDOG
groups:
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HOW CAN WE RESPOND?
UNITED FINANCIAL PRESSURE
By
Will Horter
[extreme anti-industry activist,
leader of Alliance to Stop LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) and Dogwood
Initiative. Based in Victoria, B.C. - The Librarian]
Follow
the money. That’s the mantra activists across North America are
repeating after attending the Corporate Energy Campaigning:
Using financial pressure for conservation workshop in
Denver.
In
September [2004], this effort took a big step forward, when Dogwood
Initiative co-hosted Corporate Energy Campaigning: Using
financial pressure for conservation, with the Colorado-based Oil
& Gas Accountability Project.
Dogwood Initiative organized the workshop jointly with the
Colorado-based Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP),
which is widely respected in the western U.S. for its organizing on
oil and gas issues. Together we assembled 40 key activists from
across North America for an in-depth training and strategy session
on how to counter the growing power and impacts of the oil industry.
Participants came from the Yukon, Alberta, BC, Ontario, Alaska,
Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Maine. They
have been fighting the impacts of the oil industry on their
communities and environment. Traditional approaches like community
organizing, government relations, legal challenges, and public
education have served them well. All agree, however, that new tools
are needed.
Financial pressure is one such tool. Though a powerful force in
historic campaigns to end slavery (sugar boycotts) and free South Africa
from Apartheid (divestment), financial campaigns targeting oil
companies are a relatively new approach.
As
scandals create demand for stricter corporate governance, our
ability to influence industry increases. Financiers—whether they are
shareholders, banks, insurance companies or other entities—are risk
averse, and we have strategies to enhance risk to create leverage.
We
gathered experts who have successfully used these strategies—experts
on financing and corporate research, shareholder activism, credit
ratings, and corporate dialogue. Our experts were drawn from a
“who’s-who” of successful corporate campaigners. Friends of the
Earth and Rainforest Action Network sent trainers , and
people from Amazon Watch and the Burma Project were
involved in the preparation.
The workshop’s biggest success was
the support generated for a new continental fossil fuel campaign.
The activists created a Steering Committee, and approved organizing
principles, criteria for target selection, and a short-list of
target companies.
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Foundation grants
to Amazon Watch
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Donor
Foundation
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Grant |
Year
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Grant Description |
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MORIAH FUND INC
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$30,000 |
2006 |
For general support |
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BAY AND PAUL
FOUNDATIONS INC
New York
New York |
$7,000 |
2006 |
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OVERBROOK FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$30,000 |
2006 |
Indigenous Lands
Protection Project in the Southern Ecuadorian Amazon |
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CONSERVATION FOOD
AND HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
Boston
Massachusetts |
$25,000 |
2006 |
In support of
advocacy and local capacity building in the lower Urubama
river valley in the Peruvian Amazon |
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CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint
Michigan |
$100,000 |
2006 |
To monitor natural
resource extraction and infrastructure projects financed by
international financial institutional and private bank that
negatively affects the environment and indigenous communities
in the Amazon River basin |
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WALLACE GLOBAL FUND
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$90,000 |
2006 |
General support |
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RACHAEL & BEN
VAUGHAN FOUNDATION
Austin
Texas |
$5,000 |
2006 |
Protect rainforest &
rights of indigenous people |
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THE MENTAL INSIGHT
FOUNDATION
Sonoma
California |
$15,000 |
2006 |
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RICHARD AND RHODA
GOLDMAN FUND
San Francisco
California |
$75,000 |
2006 |
No go zones and
California markets campaign to protect the rainforests of the
Andean region of the Amazon from oil exploration and
extraction |
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THE MENTAL INSIGHT
FOUNDATION
Sonoma
California |
$5,000 |
2005 |
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WALLACE GLOBAL FUND
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$50,000 |
2005 |
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OVERBROOK FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$25,000 |
2005 |
Indigenous lands
Protection project |
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BAY AND PAUL
FOUNDATIONS INC
New York
New York |
$12,000 |
2005 |
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KOHN FOUNDATION
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania |
$25,000 |
2005 |
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KOWITZ FAMILY
FOUNDATION
Dallas
Texas |
$12,500 |
2005 |
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MAILMAN FOUNDATION
INC
New York
New York |
$7,500 |
2005 |
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MORIAH FUND INC
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$30,000 |
2005 |
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CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint
Michigan |
$163,333 |
2005 |
To monitor natural
resource extraction and infrastructure projects financed by
international financial institutions and private banks that
negatively affect the environment and indigenous communities
in the Amazon River basin |
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CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint
Michigan |
$80,000 |
2004 |
To Monitor Natural
Resource Extraction and Infrastructure projects financed by
international financial institutions and private banks that
negatively affect the Environment and Indigenous communities
in the Amazon River Basin |
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MAILMAN FOUNDATION
INC
New York
New York |
$10,000 |
2004 |
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MORIAH FUND INC
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$30,000 |
2004 |
For general support |
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GLOBAL GREENGRANTS
FUND INC
Boulder
Colorado |
$5,000 |
2004 |
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THE THRESHOLD
FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
$20,000 |
2004 |
Amazon Watch
partners with South American indigenous/environmental NGO's to
protect Amazonian ecosystems and indigenous lands threatened
by internationally financed industrial mega-projects, such as
oil/gas pipelines |
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OVERBROOK FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
$50,000 |
2004 |
Work with the Shuar
and Achuar peoples of Ecuador |
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FARO FOUNDATION
Los Angeles
California |
$50,000 |
2004 |
General donation |
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RACHAEL & BEN
VAUGHAN FOUNDATION
Austin
Texas |
$5,000 |
2004 |
Defend tropical
wilderness from industrial mega |
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THE MENTAL INSIGHT
FOUNDATION
Sonoma
California |
$15,000 |
2004 |
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RICHARD AND RHODA
GOLDMAN FUND
San Francisco
California |
$75,000 |
2004 |
No go zones and
California markets projects permanently protect
rainforests of the Andean region of the Amazon from oil
exploration and drilling |
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WALLACE GLOBAL FUND
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$50,000 |
2004 |
General support-year
1 |
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MORIAH FUND INC
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$20,000 |
2003 |
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CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint
Michigan |
$26,667 |
2003 |
To monitor natural
resource extraction and infrastructure projects financed by
international financial institutions and private banks that
negatively affect the environment and indigenous communities
in the Amazon River basin |
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FOUNDATION FOR DEEP
ECOLOGY
Sausalito
California |
$5,000 |
2003 |
General Support |
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THE MENTAL INSIGHT
FOUNDATION
Sonoma
California |
$15,000 |
2002 |
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RICHARD AND RHODA
GOLDMAN FUND
San Francisco
California |
$50,000 |
2002 |
Assist local
communities in defending against threats from large oil and
gas projects in the intact lowland rainforests of the
Andean/Amazon region $100,000/2 years (2001-2002) |
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CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint
Michigan |
$80,000 |
2002 |
To support an
organization that works with indigenous groups in Amazon River
basin countries to protect the environment and advance human
rights |
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MORIAH FUND INC
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$25,000 |
2002 |
For general support |
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BLUE MOON FUND INC
Charlottesville
Virginia |
$100,000 |
2002 |
For general support |
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BLUE MOON FUND INC
Charlottesville
Virginia |
$100,000 |
2001 |
For General Support |
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MORIAH FUND INC
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
$25,000 |
2001 |
For general support |
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TURNER FOUNDATION
INC
Atlanta
Georgia |
$20,000 |
2001 |
For general support
to investigate and publicize proposed projects in culturally
and environmentally sensitive areas of the Amazon |
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CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint
Michigan |
$80,000 |
2001 |
To support an
organization that works with indigenous groups in Amazon River
basin countries to protect the environment and advance human
rights (501c3 - Public Charity) |
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RICHARD AND RHODA
GOLDMAN FUND
San Francisco
California |
$50,000 |
2001 |
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TURNER FOUNDATION
INC
Atlanta
Georgia |
$20,000 |
2000 |
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CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint
Michigan |
$75,000 |
2000 |
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BLUE MOON FUND INC
Charlottesville
Virginia |
$77,000 |
2000 |
To work with
indigenous partners in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela
to challenge Mega-projects such as pipelines, power lines and
roads that threaten ecosystems in national parks and
indigenous reserves. |
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EDUCATIONAL
FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
Westport
Connecticut |
$6,500 |
1999 |
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