JMG Foundation
6 Kent Close
Winchelsea
East Sussex
TN36 4EX
Great Britain
Phone:
:+44.8453633630
Fax: not available
Contact: Heather Godwin:
heather@jmgfoundation.org
Website:
www.jmgfoundation.org
UK Registry:
Non-charitable
foundation
Harriet Williams, JMG Foundation,
presentation at
Global Philanthropists
Partners for a Knowledge-based Response to Climate Change
2008
Description: British-style true believers in environmental causes
Anti-corporate, anti-capitalist foundation created with part of the
fortune of the late billionaire, Sir James Michael Goldsmith (JMG). Funds
aggressive campaign to destroy biotech crop production worldwide,
member of International Forum on Globalization and Funders Network
on Trade and Globalization.
Wikipedia: "Goldsmith's
estate has provided finance for the JMG Foundation[15]
which supports a diverse range of
non-governmental organisations campaigning against
GMO foodstuffs." (links go to Wikipedia
pages)
Funders Network on Trade and
Globalization Profile
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Name |
JMG
Foundation |
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Email |
info@jmgfoundation.org |
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Address |
Geneva,
Switzerland |
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Description |
Proactive
grants to organisations (primarily based in
Western Europe) seeking to curb tropical
deforestation and effect a transition away
from industrial agriculture. Not interested
in unsolicited applications. |
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Areas of Funding |
environment and ecosystems ($100,000 to $1
million)
agriculture and food security ($100,000 to
$1 million)
climate and energy ($100,000 to $1 million)
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JMG Foundation
Personnel
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Edward Goldsmith, Trustee
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No
others known |
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"the fortune left by Sir James Goldsmith (an anti EU lord)
has gone into the JMG Foundation, which is overseen by Jon
Cracknell, one of the founder members of the
Funders Network on Trade and
Globalisation. Mr Cracknell did not return phone calls.
(Sir Jimmy's brother, Teddy, was editor of
The Ecologist and a
leading light in the movement.)"
Financial Times October
15 2001
JMG Foundation Director:
Jon Cracknell
Founder member, Funders Network on Trade and Globalization
Sample grants
given by JMG Foundation:
Recipient:
ANPED - The Northern
Alliance for Sustainability, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Purpose: Publication of report: "Genetically Engineered Food and
Crops in Croatia: A Threat to Sustainable Agriculture"
Date: 2001
Amount unknown
Recipient:
ZHABA Facilitators Collective,
Budapest, Hungary
Purpose: The formation of a network of NGOs in the Newly
Independent States (former Soviet Union)
working on the issue of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Date: December 2000
Amount unknown
Recipient:
Soil Association,
United Kingdom
Purpose: Publication of report: "Organic
Food and Farming: Organic vs. Non-organic: The Facts"
Date: March 2001
Amount unknown
Recipient:
WISE-Paris
Purpose: Publication of book: "La
France nucléaire: matières et sites" by
Mary Byrd Davis
Date: 1997
Amount unknown
Recipient:
ANPED - The Northern
Alliance for Sustainability, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Purpose: Meeting: "Building Resistance to Genetically Engineered
Food and Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly
Independent States", in Jachranka, near Warsaw, Poland
Date: May 2000
Amount unknown
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