2001 Grants for Conservation
Total: $96,217,622
Grants Awarded: 263
Median Award: $150,000

Alaska Conservation Foundation
$400,000 for the Alaska Rainforest Campaign and the Alaska Defense Initiative

Alaska Conservation Foundation
$295,300 for Alaska Oceans Network

Alaska Marine Conservation Council
$70,000 for the southeastern Alaska office

American Architectural Foundation
$250,000 for the Mayors' Institute on City Design

American Lands Alliance
$140,000 for the Northwest Old Growth Campaign

American Oceans Campaign
$250,000 for the Pacific Fisheries Protection Initiative

American Oceans Campaign
$100,000 to enhance the grassroots and media capabilities of the Marine Fish Conservation Network

American River Conservancy
$162,500 for the acquisition of Leek Springs Valley, a 160-acre parcel on the headwaters of the Cosumnes River

American River Conservancy
$98,000 for acquisition of a 488-acre easement on the Garibaldi Ranch

Annual Sea Turtle Symposium
$132,735 for expenses for international scientists traveling to the 21st Annual Sea Turtle Symposium

Annual Sea Turtle Symposium
$75,000 for expenses for international scientists traveling to the 22nd Annual Sea Turtle Symposium in Miami, Florida

Antarctica Project
$100,000 for the Southern Ocean Fisheries Campaign, an effort to protect Antarctica's marine resources from unlawful fishing

Antarctica Project
$10,000 to hire a consultant to research and draft comments on the proposed certification of the South Georgia Patagonian toothfish fishery

Aspen Institute
$100,000 for western participation in the Innovations in Smart Growth Project, which will increase public demand for smart growth and systemic change in growth

Bat Conservation International
$19,500 for the Anascan Project

Bay Institute of San Francisco
$250,000 for the expansion of scientific, policy, and technical leadership of restoration activities of the San Joaquin River

Big Sur Land Trust
$346,000 to acquire Notley's Landing and to develop an acquisition prioritization plan for the Central Coast

Border Ecology Project
$141,000 to collect data on water quality and water quantity and for related local outreach efforts in the proposed Mavavi Reserve in Sonora, Mexico

Boston University
$150,000 for the Science Into Practice: Next Steps in Managing California's Nearshore Fishery for Sustainability Project

California Rangeland Trust
$405,475 to implement a strategic plan to increase organizational capacity to protect ranch land across California

California Waterfowl Association
$1,500,000 for the conversion, protection, and stewardship of 12,000 acres of intensively farmed agricultural land to diverse natural habitats to benefit a host of wildlife species in the Central Valley

California Wilderness Coalition
$150,000 for the California Wildlands Project and its implementation project in the Central Coast, Central Valley, and Sierra Nevada regions of California.

Carmel Middle School
$75,000 for the Carmel Middle School Habitat Project

Center for a New American Dream
$250,000 for a nationwide, interactive communications campaign to generate positive change in consumer attitudes and behaviors among American youths

Center for Environmental Citizenship
$200,000 over two years for education and training for emerging leaders in journalism on the topics of population, consumption, and the environment

Center for Regional and Neighborhood Action
$35,000 for planning and priority-setting in Colorado to create livable communities

Center for Resource Economics
$184,220 to expand outreach and education efforts on marine reserves to policymakers in Washington, D.C., and to key stakeholders in selected regions of the country

Center for Resource Economics
$3,300,000 for the COMPASS Five-Year Plan for the Future to advance and communicate marine conservation science

Center for Resource Economics
$80,000 for The Missing Connections, a series of articles written to galvanize support for more comprehensive environmental coverage in the media

Center for the Support of Native Lands
$50,000 for production and publication of The Coexistence of Indigenous Peoples and the Natural Environment in Central America map

Center for the Support of Native Lands
$40,000 to expand a mapping project focused on bringing together marine and terrestrial conservation constituencies in southern Mexico

Center for Watershed and Community Health
$50,000 for sustainable development projects

Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center
$50,000 for educational and outreach programs that raise public awareness concerning land planning and resource issues

Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental
$200,000 to protect marine biodiversity in northern Mexico

Chefs Collaborative
$200,000 for Seafood Solutions: A Chef's Guide to Ecologically Responsible Fish Procurement

City CarShare
$30,000 for the promotion of car-sharing as a transportation alternative in San Francisco

Coalition for Utah's Future
$450,000 for the development and implementation of a transportation and land-use opportunities strategy for the greater Wasatch area of Utah

Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
$100,000 for a project to reduce nonpoint source pollution into Morro Bay and to protect and restore habitat in the Morro Bay watershed

Collins Center for Public Policy
$40,000 for the Transportation Funders Group, part of the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

Colorado Conservation Trust
$250,000 for a regranting program for public policy development projects related to land conservation and growth management in Colorado

Colorado Environmental Coalition
$75,000 for a project to improve communications within the environmental community regarding issues of uncontrolled growth in Colorado

Common Ground Monterey County
$50,000 for participation in arriving at consensus with conservation interests on key issues relating to the Monterey County general plan update process

Commonweal
$50,000 for the New Initiatives Program

Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
$250,000 for the Yellowstone Business Council

Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
$190,000 for Action Pajaro Valley's completion of a regional plan for the Pajaro Valley and participation in community education regarding the Monterey County general plan update

Conservation Biology Institute
$150,000 for a scientific assessment of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area

Conservation Earth
$100,000 for conservation education programs on the San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula

Conservation Fund
$104,000 for the acquisition of a conservation easement on the 722-acre Negus Ranch property, a key part of the Tule watershed

Conservation of the Island Territory of Mexico
$50,000 to support planning for collaborative expropriation of Isla Espiritu Santo, a communally owned island in the Sea of Cortez that is both biologically and strategically important

David Suzuki Foundation
$400,000 for the Pacific Salmon Forests Project

Ducks Unlimited
$3,000,000 for the acquisition and restoration of 8,000 acres of habitat for wintering waterfowl in key regions of the Central Valley and for reconnecting key hydrologic linkages to expand and improve critical wetland resources on 9,000 acres in the Central Valley

Earth Action Network
$150,000 for population/environment coverage, reaching untapped audiences, and hiring a circulation/marketing director

Earth Share
$375,000 to launch a national partnership of state and local federations promoting workplace giving for the environment

EcoLogic Development Fund
$800,000 to develop economic incentives for locally driven conservation in the Chihuahua's Sierra Madre and other priority areas in Mexico

Ecotrust
$65,000 for the Bioregional Salmon Initiative and Alaska Community Ecosystem Program

Ecotrust Canada
$300,000 for efforts to harness cultural and economic resources to protect the biodiversity of British Columbia's coastal temperate rainforest region

Energy Foundation
$7,034,800 over two years for the U.S. Clean Energy Program

Energy Foundation
$4,000,000 for three coordinated campaigns to counter anti-environmental activities during the California energy crisis

Energy Foundation
$250,000 to develop and implement a media campaign on the California energy crisis

Environmental Defense
$225,000 for the protection of key watershed lands, the acquisition of water rights, and the completion of Safe Harbor Agreements in California

Environmental Defense
$25,000 to plan an advertising campaign featuring seafood from sustainable sources

Environmental Defense
$2,000,000 for the activities of Oceans Program

Environmental Defense
$1,000,000 for the Ocean Wilderness Network

Environmental Volunteers
$100,000 for core programs and general operating expenses

Fall River Resource Conservation District
$31,675 for the development of a conservation easement program along the Fall River watershed in Shasta County

Falls Brook Centre
$50,000 for the transition of the ISEAL (International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling) Association from an informal collaboration to a fully functioning nongovernmental organization

Fenton Communications
$132,720 for Now Hear This: Nine Laws of Successful Advocacy Communications

Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza
$1,500,000 for the Espiritu Santo Conservation Fund

Fondo Mexicano para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza
$140,600 to design and establish the Gulf of California Conservation Fund

Forest Ethics
$200,000 for the British Columbia Program and work on shifting market forces to sustainably harvested forest products

Foundation for American Communications
$48,300 for a pilot program to provide mapping services to small rural newspapers located in the three target regions of the Conserving California Landscapes Initiative

Gallatin Valley Land Trust
$108,000 for land-trust planning and involvement in protection of critical lands in and around Gallatin County, Montana

Great American Station Foundation
$500,000 for work in the western United States on transportation policy development and implementation

GreenInfo Network
$248,000 for GIS mapping and information systems technology assistance for grantees of the Conserving California Landscapes Initiative

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center
$49,995 to develop a membership and donor program

Hawaii Community Foundation
$4,000,000 for a grantmaking program in the Hawaiian Islands

Institute for Media, Policy, and Civil Society
$60,000 for Your Communications Centre

Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources
$250,000 for West Coast workshops, or institutes, for journalists to learn about environmental issues

Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans
$180,000 for CEDO's community outreach efforts, conservation of the vaquita species, and management of coastal wetlands and shallow-water benthic species

International Marinelife Alliance
$225,333 for managing and enforcing a proposed marine protected area at Tobi Island and Helen Reef Atoll in Palau

International Marinelife Alliance
$811,680 to expand the Western Pacific Coral Reef Conservation Initiative 2001-2003

JF Ledesma Foundation
$250,000 over three years for an integrated conservation management, family planning, and maternal/child health project in Occidental Negros, the Philippines

JSI Research & Training Institute
$2,000,000 over four years for the promotion of integrated programs in population, health, and the environment in Madagascar

Kabang Kalikasan ng Pilipinas
$400,000 to connect and explore the long-term viability of marine protected area sites throughout the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas ecoregion

KCET Community Television of Southern California
$500,000 for a documentary titled Globaltrek: In Search of the New

Land Trust Alliance
$500,000 for general operating expenses

Land Trust for Santa Barbara County
$100,000 for the acquisition and stewardship of the 782-acre Arroyo Hondo Ranch along the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County

Land Trust of Santa Cruz County
$116,000 for an organizational capacity-building process

League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
$100,000 for general operating expenses

Local Government Commission
$75,000 for an assessment of the effectiveness of the various growth-management ordinances, policies, and initiatives in California

Long Live the Kings
$100,000 for the Hatchery Reform Project and other salmon strategy projects

Malpai Borderlands Group
$100,000 for operating expenses related to ranchland conservation in southern Arizona, New Mexico, and the western United States

Marine Affairs Research and Education
$150,000 to create a capacity-building and networking tool for planners and managers of marine protected areas

Marine Aquarium Council
$530,000 for general support

Marine Biological Laboratory
$50,000 to quantify the reproductive behavior of the commercially important squid Loligo opalescens on spawning grounds in Monterey Bay, California

Marine Conservation Biology Institute
$125,000 for the Living Oceans Society: Marine Protected Area Program

Marine Conservation Biology Institute
$50,000 for the Living Ocean Society's Marine Protected Areas Workshop

Marine Conservation Biology Institute
$277,583 to create a book and targeted educational curriculum that would help build a marine conservation ethic among Southeast Asia's affluent youth

Marine Stewardship Council
$245,000 to establish MSC's trading company, Marine Stewardship Council International, Ltd.

Marine Stewardship Council
$2,000,000 to implement a strategic plan and establish a foundation

Marine Stewardship Council
$50,000 for the salary of a U.S. research and development officer

MBA-Nonprofit Connection
$50,000 for a fellowship program to allow Conservation Program grantees to recruit MBA students for projects that require business skills

Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary Foundation
$2,000,000 for a Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN) in central California to identify natural and human induced changes to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary Foundation
$71,750 for the Assessment of Human Impact on Tidepools of the Pt. Pinos Area Project

Monterey Bay Salmon & Trout Project
$250,000 for a curriculum upgrade for the Salmon and Trout Education Project, for facilities restoration, and for equipment replacement

Monterey County Agricultural and Historical Land Conservancy
$2,500,000 for the creation of a strategic agricultural and growth-management land transaction program in Monterey County

Monterey County Land Watch
$350,000 to raise public awareness and understanding of regional land issues and to help Monterey County develop Smart Growth policies

Napa County Land Trust
$110,000 for the development of an overall conservation framework to establish conservation priorities and identify management opportunities for the Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area

National Association of Local Government
$50,000 for research into the development and implementation of a multiyear smart growth business partnership strategy for western communities

National Audubon Society
$125,425 for further development of natural resource information and conservation strategies from the Elkhorn Slough Watershed Conservation Plan and other Monterey County planning efforts

National Audubon Society, California
$350,000 for the expansion and extension of the conservation planning and resource protection strategy work in Monterey County

National Council for Science and the Environment
$43,000 to explore recommendations developed at the National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment

National Environmental Trust
$500,000 for the Wise Choice Seafood Initiative: A Consumer Education Project

National Fisheries Conservation Center
$50,000 for a workshop to inform the fisheries management community about the benefits of using decision analysis

National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices
$70,000 for a program to encourage states to adopt balanced transportation strategies that promote transit-oriented growth

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
$250,000 for the International Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness Initiative

National Parks Conservation Association
$47,500 to create and launch the Yellowstone Business Council

National Wildlife Federation
$125,000 for the Prince William Sound Alliance

Natural Resources Defense Council
$50,000 for organizing and communications activities promoting the establishment of fully protected marine reserves within the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

Natural Resources Defense Council
$350,000 to protect ocean wilderness on the Pacific coast and throughout the United States, reform fishery management at both the state and federal levels, and increase public support for ocean protection

Nature Conservancy
$4,000,000 for the acquisition of properties in the Sargent Hills and Las Uvas conservation areas of western Santa Clara County

Nature Conservancy
$1,000,000 for a major public outreach and education program to increase awareness of and support for the conservation of unique habitats and scenic landscapes in California

Nature Conservancy
$250,000 for photographic documentation of the Conserving California Landscapes Initiative

Nature Conservancy
$50,000 for ongoing conservation project in San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico

Nature Conservancy
$47,000 for a series of consultative roundtables with Mexican conservation organizations to develop a private lands conservation strategy

Nature Conservancy
$817,400 to conserve the critical borderlands ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert and the San Pedro River Watershed

Nature Conservancy
$50,000 to deploy a large-scale reef rehabilitation technology at four sites in Komodo National Park, Indonesia

Nature Conservancy
$44,010 for a meeting of fisheries experts to map a plan of action for protecting spawning aggregation sites

Nature Conservancy
$50,000 for a comprehensive program of research and monitoring to develop a model, sustainable recreational fishery for bonefish at Palmyra Atoll

Nature Conservancy
$250,000 for a transfer of development rights pilot program to evaluate urban growth and wetland protection options near Great Salt Lake

Nature Conservancy
$246,000 for a plan for habitat protection, restoration needs, and priorities in the Greater Skagit Delta area

Nevada County Resource Conservation District
$100,000 for conservation planning and restoration of the Bear River watershed in the Sierra Nevada

New England Aquarium Corporation
$50,000 for the Global Sustainable Seafood Sourcing Initiative to improve the purchasing decisions of a major supermarket chain

New Jersey Future
$120,000 for the Growth Management Leadership Alliance to increase leadership development among smart growth organizations in the western United States

New Zealand Family Planning Association
$250,000 over two years for a small projects fund to support innovative NGO/community initiatives that address population and environmental issues in Vanuatu and Kiribati.

New Zealand Family Planning Association
$30,000 for a scoping exercise of Population and Environment Program opportunities in the Western Pacific

Northwest Environment Watch
$125,000 for general support

Oceans Blue Foundation
$125,000 for the Cruise Ship Stewardship Initiative

1000 Friends of Oregon
$200,000 for education and research to address major obstacles to implementing smart-growth urban development plans

1000 Friends of Washington
$400,000 for a land protection and restoration program in Snohomish and Skagit Counties, Washington

Oregon State University
$63,388 for an external consultant to evaluate the impacts of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program

Oregon Water Trust
$50,000 for general support

Otter Project
$11,360 for volunteer training and data analysis for the BeachCOMBERS Project in Santa Barbara

Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
$150,000 for conservation-related activities

Pacific Marine Conservation Council
$50,000 for the Groundfish Fleet Reduction Information and Analysis Project

Pacific Marine Conservation Council
$127,517 for the Fishermen's Marine Protected Area Forum

Pacific Marine Conservation Council
$250,000 for the salary and benefits of the Rockfish Campaign coordinator

Pacific Rivers Council
$200,000 for the conservation of forested watershed in the Pacific Northwest

Palau Conservation Society
$248,250 to establish and manage marine protected areas in Palau

Palau International Coral Reef Center
$48,213 for a marine monitoring program

PCL Foundation
$75,000 for the creation of a progressive statewide transportation coalition and to develop and refine a permanent funding source for transportation and a related environmental mitigation mechanism

People for Open Space, Inc. Greenbelt Alliance
$50,000 for the Transportation Choices Forum's transportation and land-use reform efforts in Santa Clara County with a primary goal of reducing the growth impacts to surrounding counties

People for Open Space, Inc. Greenbelt Alliance
$250,000 to protect open space and contain sprawl in southern Santa Clara County

People for Puget Sound
$150,000 to protect and restore marine and estuarine habitat along the Skagit, Snohomish, and Stillaguamish rivers

Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research
$335,639 to dramatically improve useful information on, and influence the conservation of, spawning aggregation sites in the Western Pacific

Point Reyes Bird Observatory
$1,000,000 for conservation planning for birds and their habitat throughout the West Coast

Population Action International
$500,000 over two years for research, media outreach, and organizing around population and environment issues

Population Reference Bureau
$220,000 over two years for training program managers and researchers from Mexico and the Western Pacific in policy communications for integrated population and environment projects

Prairie Foundation
$80,000 for start-up costs

Project A.W.A.R.E. Foundation
$48,000 for Protect the Sharks public awareness and education campaign

Project Underground
$50,000 for an international workshop on the disposal of waste from mine sites and how to monitor its impact on coastal zones

Pronatura
$200,000 for private lands conservation in northwest Mexico

Pronatura Península de Yucatán
$30,000 for strategic planning for the implementation of population and reproductive health programs in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
$180,000 for The Thin Blue Line, a new program to provide outreach and assistance to federal marine fisheries employees

Public Policy Institute of California
$100,000 for a series of public opinion surveys on growth, land use, and environmental issues in California in collaboration with the Irvine and Hewlett Foundations

RARE Center for Tropical Conservation
$197,078 to develop the Diploma in Conservation Education Program

Resolve, Inc.
$50,000 for a feasibility assessment of the negotiation and consensus-building needs of grantees of the Conserving California Landscapes Initiative

Resources First Foundation
$168,000 to create a Web site to give private landowners the ability to pass on their property through managing natural resources maximally for conservation

Resources Legacy Fund
$3,000,000 for the regranting program for the Conserving California Landscapes Initiative

Resources Legacy Fund
$80,000 to develop a private lands conservation strategy for the Greater Yellowstone Region

River Network
$630,000 to acquire a 1,226-acre parcel in the Big Chico watershed

Rockefeller Family Fund
$100,000 for the Environmental Grantmakers Association 2001 Fall Retreat and 2001 Federal and International Policy Briefings

Round River Conservation Studies
$250,000 for the Taku River Wildlife Conservation Project and the Transboundary Conservation Area Design Project

Santa Cruz County Resource Conservation District
$197,615 to improve water quality and reduce sedimentation in the Watsonville and Elkhorn Sloughs

Save Our Shores
$250,000 for the Sanctuary Watch and Sanctuary Stewardship programs and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Education Management Plan Review

Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
$375,000 for the Columbia and Snake Rivers Campaign

Save the Redwoods League
$1,000,000 for the acquisition of Dillonwood Grove in the Sierra Nevada foothills

Seacology
$400,000 for general support and the small grants program in the Western Pacific

SeaWeb
$41,800 for a seafood ranking workshop

SeaWeb
$500,000 for Caviar Emptor: Science, Policy and Consumer Advocacy in Support of Sturgeon Conservation

SeaWeb
$250,000 for The Ocean Project: Promoting Ocean Conservation through Aquariums, Zoos and Museums

SeaWeb
$219,500 to develop a campaign theme and message for the ocean wilderness advocacy community

Sempervirens Fund
$1,000,000 to purchase the 1,340-acre San Lorenzo River Redwoods land for addition to Castle Rock State Park

Sierra Legal Defence Fund Society
$120,000 for the Endangered Species Campaign

Sonoran Institute
$800,000 over two years for financial and technical assistance for field and policy work in the Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

Sonoran Institute
$50,000 for the start-up phase of a two-year project to build support for short-term measures to maintain key habitat in the Colorado River Delta

South Coast Wilderness Sanctuary
$180,000 for general operating expenses

South Yuba River Citizens League
$250,000 for Yuba Tools, a collaborative watershed management plan for flood control and restoration in the Yuba River watershed

Stanford University
$15,000 for the American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium entitled The Aquaculture Paradox: Does Fish Farming Supplement or Deplete World Fisheries

Stanford University
$50,000 for Wild and Farmed Salmon Interactions in the Pacific Northwest: Implications for Policy

Stanford University
$61,684 to provide the 12-month salary, benefits, and travel expenses for the coordinator of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment's Global Invasive Species Programme

Stanford University
$675,000 to construct a new research and educational facility at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and to develop educational programs

Sulu Fund for Marine Conservation Foundation
$476,215 for coral reef management in the Philippines

Sustainability Institute
$25,000 to develop a business plan to create the Donella Meadows Sustainability Fellows Program

Sustainable Conservation
$49,000 for communication and outreach activities designed to create a stronger and more recognizable organization identity

Sustainable Northwest
$247,600 for the development and beginning implementation of a multiyear strategy and program of work in the Klamath-Siskiyou region

Tahoe-Baikal Institute
$50,000 for the development of environmental leaders through study and restoration projects affecting Lake Tahoe and Lake Baikal in Russia

Tides Center
$242,698 for Environmental Media Services' work to expand the communications capacity of grantees of the Conserving California Landscapes Initiative

Tides Center
$500,000 for the Trans-boundary Watershed Alliance

Tides Center
$415,000 for the Conservation and Community Investment Forum to develop sustainable, commercial reef fisheries and establish private concessions for the aquarium trade in Indonesia and the Philippines

Tides Center
$189,500 for a feasibility study on the creation of a private, for-profit business that could lead reform of the marine ornamentals industry

Tides Center
$43,290 for the Conservation and Community Investment Forum's analysis and synthesis of current environmental certification and labeling systems in promoting conservation

Tides Center
$150,000 for the Passionfish educational event series promoting sustainable seafood

Tides Center
$50,000 for TransparentCommerce.org

Tides Center
$500,000 for Environmental Media Services' Green Media Toolshed

Tides Foundation
$100,000 for Forest Stewardship Council-BC

Tides Foundation
$150,000 for the Global Greengrants Fund, to strengthen the global grassroots environmental movement in Mexico

Tides Foundation of Canada
$990,908 for the Rainforest Solutions Project

Tides Foundation of Canada
$346,500 for general support and for sustainable aquaculture in British Columbia

Tides Foundation of Canada
$35,000 for alternative economic development: the Taku River Tlingit Salmon Smokery

Transportation Choices Coalition
$50,000 for alternatives to, and technical analysis of, the Washington State Department of Transportation plan to widen the I-405 freeway

Trust for Public Land
$100,000 for conservation efforts in targeted regions of the Sierra Nevada

Trust for Public Land
$100,000 for research and communications about the connections between federal highway subsidies and the costs of land conservation

Trust for Public Land
$500,000 for the Skagit River Delta Initiative in response to urgent sprawl-related threats to the Lower Skagit River Delta

Trust for Public Land
$500,000 to develop conservation finance strategies in three regions of the western United States: northern Arizona and the Sonoran Desert, western Colorado, and the greater Yellowstone region

Trustees for Alaska
$20,000 for the Review of the MSC Certification of Eastern Bering Sea Pollock Fishery

Turtle Island Restoration Network
$50,000 for an emergency meeting to prevent the extinction of eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtles

Union of Concerned Scientists
$127,000 for the Sound Science Initiative

United Nations Environment Programme
$50,000 for a sustainable fisheries policies workshop

University of California, Berkeley
$15,000 for the Santa Cruz Endemic Plant Recovery Project

University of California, Berkeley
$25,500 for international students to attend the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Summer Program

University of California, Davis
$750,000 for the expansion and improvement of a hydrologic model that will enhance conservation and land-use decision making in the Cosumnes River Watershed

University of California, Davis
$2,600,000 to establish an environmental research facility and learning center in Lake Tahoe to restore surrounding wetlands

University of California, Santa Barbara
$297,225 to establish community-based marine protected areas and no-take zones in the Solomon Islands

University of California, Santa Barbara
$250,000 for a fish and habitat survey essential to the rebuilding of overfished groundfish populations along the West Coast of North America

University of Hawaii at Manoa
$100,000 for the activities of the Secretariat for Conservation Biology

University of Hawaii at Manoa
$12,000 for a symposium and public discussion on marine reserves at the 2002 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

University of Maryland at College Park
$50,000 for the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education

University of Michigan
$60,000 for workshops to strengthen the network among Population-Environment fellows

University of Minnesota
$145,000 to mobilize interest in organic aquaculture practices and policies

University of Rhode Island Foundation
$240,000 for coastal resource management training and partnerships with government institutions to advance coastal resource management policies in the Philippines and Fiji

University of Rhode Island Foundation
$35,360 for a workshop on methods of learning across portfolios of projects on coastal conservation and management

University of Rhode Island Foundation
$18,000 for participants to attend the Women in Integrated Coastal Management-Leadership Development Workshop

Wan Smolbag Theatre
$300,000 over two years for population-environment education and training using various media and selected service provision in the Pacific

Washington Water Trust
$50,000 for general support

Water Keeper Alliance
$12,000 for a design study for sustainable shellfishing at San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja California, Mexico

WaterWatch of Oregon
$75,000 for the Streamflow Protection and Restoration Program

Wild Salmon Center
$250,000 for Salmon Refugia work

WildAid
$250,000 for the Shark Conservation Program

Wildcoast
$310,000 for projects in Baja California to protect 630,000 acres at three coastal and marine sites and to expand a sea turtle recovery program

Wilderness Society
$100,000 for the National Trails and Waters Coalition

Wildlife Conservation Society
$405,000 for Testing Locally Managed Marine Areas as a Conservation and Resource Management Tool: Managing a Learning Portfolio

Wildlife Conservation Society
$20,000 for Trade in Asian Dried Seafood: A Market Study

Wildlife Conservation Society
$499,800 for the Asia Corals Program and a scientific analysis of marine protected areas

Wildlife Conservation Society
$50,000 to evaluate the wildlife values of different riparian restoration techniques and provide guidelines for public and private landowners

Winrock International
$71,202 for the marketing of native forest products from the Maya Zone of Quintana Roo

World Media Foundation
$100,000 for Living on Earth, an environmental radio program

World Resources Institute
$40,000 to incorporate coastal resources data into an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for Sabah, Malaysia

World Resources Institute
$233,297 for a map-based project addressing the impact of mining on critical ecosystems

World Wide Fund for Nature Australia
$162,582 for Regional and International Fisheries: Providing tools to reform Fisheries Management in Oceania and South East Asia

World Wildlife Fund
$300,000 for general operations in the Klamath-Siskiyou regional office

World Wildlife Fund
$800,000 for the Gulf of California Ecoregional Conservation Program

World Wildlife Fund
$65,000 for a workshop to assess the feasibility of engaging the Japanese public on environmental issues and influencing government policy

World Wildlife Fund
$49,400 for the certification of the Southern Fishermen's Association

World Wildlife Fund
$1,000,000 for general operating expenses of the Marine Conservation Program

World Wildlife Fund
$500,000 for research into North American markets and trade in seafood products

World Wildlife Fund
$400,000 for Sustainable Fisheries in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

World Wildlife Fund
$40,000 for a study of the genetic structure of the blue crab population in the Visayan Sea and Guimaras Strait of the Philippines

World Wildlife Fund
$50,000 for emergency conservation activities needed as a result of an oil spill in the Galapagos Islands

World Wildlife Fund Canada
$100,000 to establish marine protected areas in British Columbia

Worldwatch Institute
$500,000 over two years for general support

Yayasan Adi Citra Lestari
$50,000 for a coastal zone survey and monitoring program

Yosemite Natural History Association
$125,000 for artwork for The Field Guide to Birds of the Sierra Nevada and the development of an affiliated Web site