GRANTS OVER $10K MADE SINCE OCTOBER 2006
For privacy reasons, grant amounts are not disclosed.
• The Foundation for Global Community (FGC) funding Process began in January, 2007.
• FGC is not actively seeking funding proposals or requests for funding.
• FGC will be searching out worthy efforts worldwide, and will appreciate input to our funding process in the following form: If you know of a worthy effort, group or individual that is working to carry forward the philosophical thread contained on our homepage, we invite you to send a single page electronic (email) "letter of introduction" about that effort, group, or individual.
• The receipt of your letter will be acknowledged
Genesis Farm
Blairstown, New Jersey
A learning center for Earth studies, Genesis Farm welcomes all people of good will in the search for alternative ways to achieve true human and ecological well-being. Rooted in a spirituality that reverences Earth as a primary revelation of the divine.
www.genesisfarm.org
Friends of Shipley Nature Center
Huntington Beach, California
This 18-acre nature preserve is an ideal example of how volunteer citizens, a city, and local environmental groups can partner together to provide an ecological sanctuary and environmental education in an urban setting.
www.fsnc.org
Kilili Self-Help Project
Kenya, Africa
Since 1984 the Manor House Agricultural Centre (MHAC) in Kenya has been teaching the biointensive method of farming with outstanding success. An informal study of 90 farmer groups trained through Kilili showed that on average, each trained farmer teaches four others. In the current year Kilili grants are training over 16,000 men and women.
www.kililiselfhelp.org
Stanford University
Stanford, California
The Harry and Emilia Rathbun Fund for Exploring What Leads to a Meaningful Life
was established to promote important discourse on issues of spiritual significance. The Rathbun Visiting Fellows program includes Harry’s Last Lecture in which an outstanding speaker each year shares his or her personal experiences and discoveries of what leads to a meaningful life.
www.stanford.edu
New Roadmap Foundation
Seattle, Washington
A citywide event called “The Power of Conversation to Change the World” launched Conversation Cafes. Five years later, the CC method is being used around the world in cafes, libraries, conferences, meetings, living rooms and classrooms.
www.newroadmap.org
Thomas Berry Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
To assist in final stages of production of The Heart of the Universe, a two-hour documentary film and 13-part educational DVD series created by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Designed to tell the story of the unfolding of the universe up to the present day and thus develop a new and closer relationship between humanity and Earth.
www.brianswimme.org
Family Resources International
Saratoga, California
A program called “Celebrating Families” looks at recovery as a family concept. The grant will help to complete an evaluation/replication study to secure listing in the Federal Registry for Proven Effective Programs and enable programs in other states to receive federal funding.
www.celebratingfamilies.net
Children and Nature Network
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Serving as the “hub” for the growing children and nature movement and building the knowledge base and distribution system for gathering and sharing resources.
www.cnaturenet.org
Music for the Earth
Litchfield, Connecticut
Funding for Paul Winter’s “Flyways” project is intended to show that music and migrating birds know no boundaries and will lead the initiative to designate the Great Rift Valley a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the goal of bringing together in common cause the 22 countries along its length.
www.livingmusic.com
MetaFour Productions
Los Angeles, California
Directed specifically at young students, the “Beyond Walls” project is designed to create a forum for global conversations that promote understanding and cooperation. It consists of ten thematic modules—eg. empathy, conflict resolution, responsibility— using videos, music, graphics and written materials.
www.MetaFourProductions.com
YES – Helping Visionary Young Leaders
Bainbridge Island, Washington
To help expand and promote the “YES! Earth Charter Curriculum Module” and the “YES! Universal Declaration on Human Rights Curricular Module.” In addition to serving teachers nationwide, YES is enabling Washington state teachers to respond to new requirements that “all students are prepared to be responsible citizens for an environmentally sustainable, globally interconnected and diverse society.”
www.yesmagazine.org
Bioneers (Collective Heritage Institute)
Lamy, New Mexico
Bioneers inspires, educates and connects people to act effectively with practical solutions and innovative strategies for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing human communities. In 2007, Bioneers held its 17th annual conference which was attended by more than 3,000 people with an estimated 9,000 more participating via satellite or community meetings.
www.bioneers.org
The Land Institute
Salina, Kansas
“When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited.” The Land Institute seeks “to develop a natural systems agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned, while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.”
www.landinstitute.org
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Santa Barbara, California
The Youth Empowerment Initiative is designed to empower young people (15-29) to contribute to the realization of a coordinated, nationwide critical mass of young people focused on peace, demilitarization of campuses and communities, and the global abolition of nuclear weapons.
www.wagingpeace.org
Pachamama Alliance
San Francisco, California
The Awakening the Dreamer initiative is designed “to inform, inspire and support us, as citizens of a modern industrial society, in bringing forth a new dream: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet.” The grant will help expand and accelerate this effort, and assist in preparation of a new audiovisual version of the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium.
www.pachamama.org
Ecology Action
Willits, California
Teaches people worldwide to better feed themselves while building and preserving the soil and conserving resources. Grant will assist in training of interns, complete an interactive training manual in English and Spanish, and provide scholarships at the African workshops.
www.growbiointensive.org
Sustainability Institute
Hartland, Vermont
Focus is upon understanding the root causes of unsustainable behavior in complex systems. Goal is to help restructure systems and shift mindsets that will move human society toward sustainability. Grant is in support of Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program and also Climate Ourselves Program.
www.sustainer.org
smartMeme
San Francisco, California
SmartMeme’s mission is to build movements and amplify the impact of grassroots organizing with strategy approaches that have the explicit focus of changing the story about contemporary problems by challenging underlying assumptions and reframing the debate using the power of narrative, culture, and memes.
www.smartmeme.com
Central Asia Institute
Bozeman, Montana
Promoting literacy and girls’ education in Pakistan and Afghanistan, this effort was begun by Greg Mortenson and described in the book Three Cups of Tea. More than 60 schools have been built and hundreds of teachers fully or partially supported. As staffing and additional funds become available, CAI plans to expand its efforts to other remote regions of Central Asia.
www.threecupsoftea.com
One Dollar for Life
Palo Alto, California
ODFL addresses third world poverty by collecting just one dollar from US high school students and channeling those funds into small-scale infrastructure projects such as water wells, irrigation systems, sanitary waste disposal, in developing countries. The nexus connecting students and developing world villages is a web site that provides training tools to help schools operate fundraisers, profiles of qualified NGOs, and case studies of successful projects.
www.odfl.org
Hand In Hand
Portland, Oregon
A new model of education for Israel’s school system: schools where Israeli Arab and Jewish children and their families can learn together and build partnerships based on reconciliation and peaceful relations. Almost 1,000 students are currently enrolled in a Hand In Hand school. HYPERLINK "http://www.handinhandk12.org"
www.handinhandk12.org
Children of Abraham
New York, New York
Children of Abraham seeks to build an international community of Muslim and Jewish youth that celebrates their religious identities. Since 2004, it has been facilitating dialogue and connecting teenagers from 43 different counties using a range of emerging online technologies.
www.childrenofabraham.org
The Art of Yoga Project
Palo Alto, California
Designed to show that a yoga and creative arts curriculum is a valid and effective treatment for adolescent girls, particularly girls in the juvenile justice system. Begun in 2004, the program received the 2007 Excellence Award from the County Probation Department, expanded the volunteer staff to more than 20 certified yoga teachers and assistants, and established affiliate relationships with eight other organizations across the United States.
www.theartofyogaproject.org
Population Media Center
Shelburne, Vermont
PMC is dedicated to the idea that people everywhere, especially women, have the right to make choices in family planning and their own reproductive health. It uses entertainment broadcasting, creating long-running, serialized melodramas (prime-time radio or television soap operas) written and produced in participating countries in local languages, to create characters who gradually evolve into positive role models.
www.populationmedia.org
Search for Common Ground
Washington, D.C.
SFCG’s Leadership Wisdom Initiative will provide transformational conflict management training and leadership development for political and civil society leaders worldwide. Based on 25 years of field experience in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe, SFCG is dedicated to helping “existing leaders who are calling out for new approaches to peace, security, and dignity.”
www.sfcg.org
Yes!
Soquel, California
The organization holds events called Jams that help outstanding young leaders who are in positions of significant influence in the world to become more sustainable, effective, and positive in their work for social change. Directed at dedicated young leaders, aged 15-35, participants build deep and long-lasting support networks based on friendship, authentic communication, and a recognition of common destiny.
www.yesworld.org
Co-Intelligence Institute
Eugene, Oregon
Grant is to assist in the marketing and promotion of Michael Dowd’s latest book, Thank God for Evolution. which has been praised by more than 120 scientific, religious, and cultural leaders across the religious and philosophical spectrum, including five Nobel laureates.
www.co-intelligence.org
Carnegie Endowment Global Think Tank
Washington, D.C.
Carnegie is establishing the “first multinational—and ultimately global—think tank” with offices in Beijing, Beirut and Brussels in addition to Washington and Moscow. Part of its New Vision effort is “to address the urgent need for the United States, as the sole superpower, to understand the interests of others if it is to successfully pursue its own.”
www.CarnegieEndowment.org
River of Words
Berkeley, California
Initiated by Robert Hass (US Poet Laureate 1995-1997), River of Words is an international poetry and art contest for children (K-12) that invites students to explore their own watershed, discover its importance in their lives, and express what they have learned, felt, and observed in words and images.
www.riverofwords.org
Waldorf School of the Peninsula High School
Los Altos, California
This new high school is located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Grant is for “educating and engaging students with appropriate communication technologies with the goal of exposing the Waldorf process and principles to the larger world,” and for “helping students engage with the world of technology to help discover and communicate its most appropriate uses in furthering the sustainability of all life.”
www.highschool.waldorfpeninsula.org
Alliance for Childhood
College Park, Maryland
In connection with an already produced video program for PBS, Where Do The Children Play?, grant is “to support a global education and engagement campaign on the critical importance of children’s self-directed play, especially outdoors in nature, to their physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual development.”
www.allianceforchildhood.org
Center for Whole Communities
Fayston, Vermont
The Center’s mission is to “create a more just, balanced and healthy world by exploring, honoring, and deepening the connections among land, people and community.” On a 400-acre organic farm they invite hundreds of leaders each year— farmers, ranchers, biologists, politicians, environmental justice advocates, writers, urban gardeners, business men and women—as part of a Whole Thinking Program.
www.wholecommunities.org
Proyecto Itzaes
Yucatan, Mexico
A free, community-service-based educational program, Proyecto Itzaes (Project of the People) includes childhood and family literacy, computer and technology classes, health and science, and Mayan culture and language. Grant to assist installation of reliable, affordable wireless networks to serve six remote villages free of charge.
www.proyectoitzaesusa.org
Gaia Project
New York, New York
Grant to cover initial development costs in re-creating the transformational experience that occurs when viewing Earth from space in various media—live performances in planetarium dome theaters as well as live outdoor events that bring world music, dance, art and images from space onto one stage.
www.kenjiwilliams.com
