Description: Established by Douglas Tompkins with his share of the Esprit clothing fortune. Intensely anti-capitalist and anti-corporate grantmaker who made his fortune as a hypercapitalist, making clothes in California and Third World sweatshops.
Primary funder of International Forum on Globalization and may of its its constituent groups.
FDE's portfolio holds stocks or bonds of Allstate, which insures fossil-fuel-using cars; Citicorp, and three foreign banks, which fund the globalization Tompkins tries to stop; Fannie Mae, funder of suburbanization; Grupo Televisa, the Mexican TV network, ironic since program director Jerry Mander wrote a book against TV; HCA-Hospital Corp. of America; Telefonos de Mexico, a NAFTA bonus-baby; and Wal-Mart, not-so-local presence across  America.

FDE funds attack groups in the anti-Exxon Mobil campaign:

• CorpWatch
• Ruckus Society

FOUNDATION OFFICERS:

• Douglas Tompkins, President
• Kris McDivitt Tompkins, Vice President
• Quincey Imhoff, Vice President
• Debra Ryker, Secretary/Treasurer

FOUNDATION STAFF:

• Quincey Imhoff, Executive Director
• Jerry Mander, Program Director, Megatechnology and Globalization Program Officer
• John Davis, Biodiversity and Wildness Program Officer
• Melanie Adcock, Ecological Agriculture Program Officer
• Esther Li, Financial Controller
• Lizzie Udwin, Grants Administrator
• Sharon Donovan, Publishing Manager
• Renee Gallegos, Office Coordinator/Receptionist
• Fay Li, Staff Accountant

Globalization and Megatechnology Grantees 1990-99

A Seed Europe
Abya Yala Fund
Alliance for a Paving Moritorium
Alliance for Global Justice
Alternative Forum
Amazon Watch
American Lands Alliance
Amiq Institute
Austria's Future (Zukunft Osterreich)
Bank Information Center
Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition
Berkeley Region Exchange and Development
Biotechnology Working Group
Both ENDS
Campaign Against A Single Currency
Car Busters
Center for a Commercial-Free Public Education
Center for Ecoliteracy
Center for Environmental Public Advocacy
Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Plain Living
Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Paix et les Conflits
Centro De Asistencia Legal Popular
CEPAUR/ Development Alternatives Center
Citizen Alert
Citizens Campaign on Trade
Corporate Europe Observatory
Council for Responsible Genetics
Council of Canadians
Council on Public & International Affairs
Cultural Survival Canada
Data Center
Earth Rights International
ECOROPA
Edmonds Institute
En'owkin Centre
Environment and Free Trade in Latin America
Environmental News Network
Envision Environmental Media
European Centre for Eco Agro Tourism
Farmworker Association of Central Florida
First Nations Development Institute
Foundation on Economic Trends
Free Agency
Friends of Nitassinan
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Red Road
Global Exchange
Grassroots International
Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
Gwich'in Steering Committee
Indian Law Resource Center
Innu Support Group
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Economic Relocalisation
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Institute for Policy Studies
International Center for Technology Assessment
International Development Exchange
International Forum on Globalization
International Media Project
International Rivers Network
International Society for Ecology and Culture
Kunas Unidos por Napguana
Ladakh Project
Learning Alliance
Loka Institute
Lokayan/SPACE
Media for International Development
Millennium's Neighborhood
Movimiento contra la Europa de Maastricht
National Council of Rubber Tappers
National Lawyers Guild Foundation
Native Lands Institute
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nature Institute
New Internationalist
New York Open Center
Nuclear Free Future Awards
Observatoire de la Globalisation Economique
Ozone Action
People's Global Action
People-Centered Development Forum
Positive Futures Network
Prairie Island Coalition Against Nuclear Storage
Project Underground
Public Citizen
Public Health Institute
Rainforest Information Centre
Redwood Environmental Education Institute
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Rethinking Tourism Project
Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)
Ruckus Society
Sarawak Campaign Committee
E.F. Schumacher Society
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Sierra Club Foundation
South and Meso American Indian Information Center
Southwest Community Resources
Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum
Survival International
Sustainable Alternatives to the Global Economy
Thakiwa Foundation
Third World Network
Tonantzin Land Institute
Trade Research Consortium
Transnational Institute
Transnational Resource & Action Center
Transportation Alternatives
Turning Point Project
TV-Free America
Umwelt- und Projektwerkstatt e.V. Freiburg
United Nations of Chippewa and Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Washington Biotechnology Action Council
Western Shoshone Defense Fund
White Earth Land Recovery Project
World Uranium Hearing

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