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Environmental Education
3E Strategies - Creating tools for sustainable living - $3,000
3 E Strategies goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable lifestyle and economic models by empowering people through education, research and community collaboration. Based in Central Oregon, the organization supports a variety of projects such as tours of solar houses, an outlet for green building materials, and a center for political activism in an area whose economy has traditionally been based on timber and ranching.
Earthworks – Developing a cell phone recycling program - $2,000
Earthworks mission is to “Protect communities and the environment from the impacts of mining, digging and drilling;” by educating consumers regarding the impacts of their choices on the environment, influencing them to use the leverage of consumer spending to persuade the mineral extraction industries to improve environmental practices. Cell phones are a highly visible vehicle to demonstrate the link between production of toxic materials and current irresponsible disposal practices.
International Forum on Globalization – Ecologizing Capitalism - $7,000
The international Forum on Globalization is a leading edge think tank focused on the intersection of the environment and the economy. The current focus is the development of an effective strategy to insure that environmental costs are included along with direct costs in the pricing structure of all consumer goods.
Slide Ranch –Matching grant for program development - $5,000
Slide Ranch provides hands on educational experience to help children understand the interrelationship of natural systems and their own lives. Training is also provided for educators through its internship programs. Slide Ranch is also in the process of replacing its infrastructure with buildings that are compatible with its goals of living in a sustainable way on the earth.
Mediation works is dedicated to the premise that “empowering individuals and organizations to resolve their differences peacefully contributes to a healthy and safe community.”
Oregon Natural Resources Council (ONRC) -Wilderness - $4,000
ONRC is working in Oregon to protect wild areas threatened by logging, mining and development. A key element of the program is permanently protecting pristine land through the establishment of wilderness areas.
Annette McGee Rasch – Support for grass roots organizing to protect roadless areas - $500
Annette McGee Rasch provided organizational support for the grass roots efforts to prevent logging of healthy trees, and logging in designated roadless areas under the guise of salvage logging after the “Biscuit Fire” in the Illinois Valley of Southern Oregon.
The Developing World
Cottonwood Foundation – Grassroots support for the environment in the developing world - $3,000
Cottonwood Foundation is small foundation with an all volunteer staff awarding small effective grants to grassroots organizations that are working for a sustainable future by specifically combining activities that protect the environment, promote cultural diversity, and empower people to meet their basic needs.
E-Law U.S. – Protecting Natural Resources in Liberia, Congo, Ghana, and Togo. - $5,000.
E-LAW U.S. gives public interest lawyers and scientists around the world the skills and resources they need to protect the environment through law. This grant allows E-law to continue supporting environmental advocates in Liberia as the country continues to transition to democracy, and to reach out to new advocates in Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, and Togo.
Katheryn Anderson – Vilcabamba-Amboro habitat corridor, Bolivia - $4,713.15
The United Nations Development Programme "environment and development" project is aimed at reconciling human development strategies with environmental protection priorities for the Vilcabamba-Amboro habitat corridor. Kathryn Anderson was responsible for modeling the various environmental impacts of different development scenarios and working with local and national government, industry, and citizen groups to disseminate the project’s findings and actually implement the prescribed strategies.
One Village Planet – Introducing solar cooking and methane generation to Haiti - $4,000
One Village Planet believes that solutions to the problems of environmental degradation come from the people who experience the problems locally. This project will test the acceptance of methane generation and solar cooking as an alternative to the traditional wood and charcoal fuels used for cooking in rural Haiti. The consumption of wood for fuel is a major cause of deforestation in Haiti.
Conservatree – Sponsorship of a roundtable on single stream recycling - $5,000
Conservatree, a project of the Tides Foundation has been associated with its role in providing accurate information to consumers on environmentally sound paper products. Seeing that there were serious problems in the paper industry resulting from contamination due to the switch to single stream recycling Conservatree took the initiative to convene leaders from the recycling industry, the consumers of recycled materials, (paper, glass, plastics etc.) and the municipal governments responsible for the decision making to begin a dialog about best practices.
Alan Kapuler Ph.D. - Developing new lines of open pollinated food crops - $5,000
Dr. Kapuler, using traditional breeding techniques, is developing new open pollinated varieties of vegetables and grains with the goal of increasing their nutritional value by crossing them with wild varieties.
John Relyea – Support for work with Common Ground Collective in New Orleans - $500
Whole Systems Foundation provided transportation costs, protective clothing and living expenses to enable John Relyea to work in the Algiers area, one of the hardest hit sections outside New Orleans.
Recycle Utah – Support community outreach and education - $2,000
Recycle Utah runs a well established program to recycle and reuse materials in Park City, Utah. This grant supports the production of a film for use in its educational program in local schools.
Ashland School of Environmental Technology - Developing the Young Inventors Program - $2,000
ASET is developing a program to bring together students and mentors for hands-on education and research to create commercially-viable inventions that foster a healthy and sustainable future for all.
Total Grants 2004 - $53,213
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In 2007 Whole Systems Foundation will only accept proposals from organizations that have previously applied for a grant, or from organizations that are directly addressing the issue of climate change. If your organization has applied for a grant even if it was not funded, you are welcome to submit a letter of inquiry for 2007. The primary focus of the Foundation in 2007 is the issue of climate change. The board believes that climate change is the single most important environmental issue of our era. While it is a single topic, there are nearly infinite ways of addressing the issue. Whole Systems does not have the funds to address major capital projects, but is seeking ways to leverage a relatively small grant into a significant change in technology, policy, or attitudes. We tend to fund projects that lead to long term solutions over ones that focus on short term political activism. If you feel your organization has a project the Foundation would be interested in, send a one page summary preferably by E-mail. After an initial review the board will contact you to request a full proposal. Please read the proposal guidelines |