Key Places

Center for Public Interest Research

$250,000/ 1 year

Boston, MA

To support the efforts of Public Interest Research Groups in Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Wisconsin to become more active in state level environmental issues.

FLORIDA

Clean Water Network

$250,000/ 2 years

A grant to Natural Resources Defense Council to support the efforts of Clean Water Network's national office and regional Florida office to use media and grassroots advocacy to raise public awareness of the need for strong clean water policies.
 

EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund

$100,000/ 1 year

To support the Florida Sustainable Waters Program to protect Florida’s water resources through strategic litigation and public policy development.

MICHIGAN

Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice

$40,000/ 1 year

Detroit, MI

To fund the Environmental Justice Training Project to provide technical assistance on environmental issues to communities in the Greater Detroit area.

Michigan Environmental Council

$1.5 million/ 3 years

Lansing, MI

To fund a collaborative project with 12 Michigan environmental advocacy organizations to strengthen the capacity of these groups to promote positive environmental change.

NEW MEXICO

New Mexico Mining Act Network

$100,000/ 2 years

Santa Fe, NM

A grant to New Mexico Community Foundation to support the New Mexico Mining Act Network's efforts to coordinate a network of seven organizations that will work to create and enforce strong environmental policies for mining operations in the state of New Mexico. 

WISCONSIN

Center on Wisconsin Strategy

$25,000/ 1 year

Madison, WI

A grant to the University of Wisconsin, Madison to support the Center on Wisconsin Strategy's efforts to provide the environmental movement in Wisconsin with an ongoing analysis of the proposed state budget and its impact on people and ecosystems.

River Alliance of Wisconsin

$50,000/ 1 year

Madison, WI

To support a 12-month advocacy effort to obtain the strongest possible state regulations governing the control of polluted runoff in Wisconsin.

Human Health & the Environment

American Lung Association

$75,000/ 1 year

Washington, DC

To support the National Ambient Air Quality Standard Review Project to protect revised standards that set the legally allowable limits for various air pollutants in the United States.

Citizens Policy Center

$50,000/ 1 year

Cleveland, OH

To support grassroots organizing designed to increase pressure for the enforcement of environmental laws and to press the Center’s petition to have the U.S. EPA supersede the Ohio EPA.

Endometriosis Association

$90,000/ 3 years

Milwaukee,WI

To mobilize women and girls who have been affected by endometriosis to take action on behalf of their health by participating in campaigns to stop human exposure to environmental contaminants.

Friends of the Earth

$150,000/ 2 years

Washington, DC

To support human health and the environment programs, including right-to-know initiatives, community support programs, and air monitoring of methyl bromide applications in Florida.

Ohio Environmental Council

$50,000/ 1 year

Columbus, OH

To reduce the pathogens dumped into Ohio’s waters by concentrated animal feedlot operations.

OMB Watch

$300,000/ 2 years

Washington, DC

To support an initiative to strengthen the public’s right to know about toxics, health, and corporate power in order to protect public health and the environment.

Oregon Environmental Council

$50,000/ 1 year

Portland, OR

To support the Healthy Environment Initiative to educate the public and decision makers about environmental risks to human health, to build partnerships and effective advocacy campaigns in support of new public policies to address those threats, and to secure major policy reforms.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

$60,000/ 1 year

San Jose, CA

To support sustainable water work in the San Francisco Bay region, the International Campaign for Responsible Technology, environmental health and justice programs, and the Clean Computer Campaign to champion the best practices in high-tech manufacturing.

U.S. PIRG Education Fund

$200,000/ 1 year

Washington, DC

To support the Campaign to Stop Global Warming to educate the public about the threat of global warming and the opportunities for domestic action, and the Toxics and Public Health Campaign to defend and expand the public’s right to know and to promote new strategies for protecting the public from toxic pollution.

Vermont Public Interest Research & Education Fund

$50,000/ 1 year

Montpelier, VT  

To support the Environment & Health Campaign to eliminate human health hazards stemming from environmental pollutants by conducting campaigns to advocate for the right to clean water, to protect children from exposure to environmental toxics, and to maintain a healthy food supply.

Water Keeper Alliance

$15,000/ 1 year

White Plains, NY

To support a national conference on sustainable hog farming with the North Carolina River Keepers and the organizations of the North Carolina Hog Roundtable.

Religion & the Environment

National Catholic Rural Life Conference

$100,000/ 1 year

Des Moines, IA

To expand the Conference’s advocacy of care of creation within the context of Catholic Church’s social teaching and to deepen its collaboration on issues with mainstream environmental groups.

National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

$150,000/ 1 year

New York, NY 

To deepen the public’s understanding of global warming by educating congregations and creating energy-efficient, zero-emission houses of worship, and by developing opportunities for faith communities to buy green power.

Global Warming

Transnational Resource Action Center

$5,000/ 1 year

San Francisco, CA

A grant to The Tides Center to support the Transnational Resource Action Center's participation in the climate negotiations in The Hague and the Transnational Resource Action Center Climate Justice Summit.

Corporate Power

Free the Planet!

$30,000/ 1 year

Washington, DC

A grant to Green Corps to support Free the Planet's efforts to build student environmental networks on major campuses in Florida, Michigan and North Carolina, and to help campus environmentalists organize student and faculty opposition to global warming, damage to wilderness areas, and genetic engineering.

State Environmental Leadership Program

$600,000/ 2 years

Washington, DC

A grant to Environmental Support Center to support the State Environmental Leadership Program's efforts to counter the influence of corporate power at the state level by establishing a permanent coordination and strategy capability for state-level environmental advocacy groups.

Texas Fund for Energy and Environmental Education

$60,000/ 1 year

Austin, TX  

To convene organizers and activists involved in corporate action campaigns at a two-day conference at which participants from the environmental movement and other movements can share history, best practices and plans for the future.

Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project

$150,000/ 1 year

Billings, MT 

To strengthen the work of seven state chapter-based organizations, based in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, and Oregon, and to coordinate the defensive and offensive multi-state environmental policy campaigns run by those groups.

Cross Program Grants 

Center  for Environmental Citizenship

$250,000/ 2 years

Washington, DC

To recruit, train and track the college students who are likely to become organizers and leaders of the environmental movement in the decades ahead.

Environmental Defense

$300,000/ 2 years

New York, NY           

To support and expand the activities of the Action Network, a web-based activists tool that can be used by environmental and other advocacy groups to mobilize activists.

Environmental Support Center

$200,000/ 1 year

Washington, DC   

To serve as a resource for state-based grassroots organizations in Beldon’s Key Places and among Beldon’s Human Health & the Environment grantees to help the organizations to improve management, increase funding, build infrastructure, boost advocacy capacity and strengthen leadership. 

National Environmental Trust

$100,000/ 1 year

Washington, DC

To support programs to provide public education campaign expertise and communications services on national environmental issues.

Partnership Project

$350,000/ 1 year

Washington, DC

To support programs designed to bring the full measure of the national environmental community to bear on shared policy concerns, and to encourage policymakers to place a higher priority on environmental issues.

Sierra Club Foundation

$350,000/ 1 year

San Francisco, CA    

To support programs to provide public education compaign support on national environmental issues..

Vermont Law School

$2,500/ 1 year

South Royalton, VT    

To support the preparation and filing of an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in the Palazzolo case, a regulatory takings challenge spearheaded by the Georgetown University Law Center’s Environmental Policy Project, concerning a decision by the Rhode Island coastal council preventing the fill of 18 acres of private coastal wetlands.

Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education

$50,000/ 1 year

Seattle, WA

To encourage voter participation by environmentalists in Washington State and to share the Alliance’s innovations with other state organizations

Dedicated Fund

The Beldon Board of Trustees also approved the following recommendations for grants from the Beldon Dedicated Fund of the Rockefeller Family Fund.

Coalition Collaborative

$50,000/ 2 years

Okemos, MI

A grant to Northeast Action to support Coalition Collaborative's efforts to provide ongoing support, cross-training, and annual conference coordination for a national network of 52 regional and state-level multi-issue progressive coalitions.

Dakota Resource Council

$90,000/ 3 years

Dickinson, ND

To organize citizens and promote public policy that protects human health and the environment and challenges corporate control of the food industry in North Dakota.

Dakota Rural Action

$90,000/ 3 years

Brookings, SD  

To organize citizens and promote public policy that protects human health and the environment and challenges corporate control of the food industry in South Dakota.

Idaho Rural Council

$30,000/ 1 year

Bliss, ID

To organize citizens and promote public policy that protects human health and the environment and challenges corporate control of the food industry in Idaho.

Maine Citizen Leadership Fund

$90,000/ 3 years

Portland, ME

To maintain a diverse coalition of labor, environmental and social justice organizations in Maine, and to conduct public education and advocacy campaigns on the issues these groups have in common, such as exposing corporate influence over the state government.

Northeast Action

$80,000/ 2 years

Boston, MA

To support the ePower Project to provide grassroots citizen action groups and progressive coalitions in the Northeast with the computer hardware, software and training they need to advance their organizing and advocacy work.

Northern Plains Resource Council

$90,000/ 3 years

Billings, MT    

To organize citizens and promote public policy that protects human health and the environment and challenges corporate control of the food industry in Montana.

Powder River Basin Resource Council

$90,000/ 3 years

Sheridan, WY

To organize citizens and promote public policy that protects human health and the environment and challenges corporate control of the food industry in Wyoming.

Western Colorado Congress

$90,000/ 3 years

Montrose, CO