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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1998







Community and Resource Development Approved Grants and Projects, Fiscal Year 1998

United States and Worldwide Programs

Agricultural productivity
  • International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Washington, D.C.)
    $100,000
    To improve gender analysis and professional opportunities for women in international agricultural research centers.

  • To promote board and staff diversity, agricultural sustainability and outreach, five grants:

    • International Center for the Improvement of Corn and Wheat (Mexico)
      $400,000

    • International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (Kenya)
      $300,000

    • International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Colombia)
      $400,000

    • International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington, D.C.)
      $350,000

    • International Irrigation Management Institute (Sri Lanka)
      $350,000

  • For assistance to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, two grants:

    • Conservation Company (Philadelphia)
      $200,000

    • Simmons College
      $296,200

Land and water management
  • African Wildlife Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
    $50,000
    To diversify and increase the organization's funding base.

  • Appalachian Mountain Club (Boston)
    $200,000
    For its initiative in conservation-based community development in northern New Hampshire and Maine.

  • Bethel New Life (Chicago)
    $290,000
    For an urban environment and development program.

  • Center for Resource Economics (Washington, D.C.)
    $275,000
    For publications, technical assistance and marketing.

  • Center for Rural Affairs (Walthill, Neb.)
    $146,000
    To support the Department of Agriculture's Commission on Small Farms.

  • Certified Forest Products Council (Beaverton, Ore.)
    $200,000
    For public education and marketing of forest products.

  • Chiang Mai University (Thailand)
    $70,000
    For a book on changing patterns of forest resource management.

  • Collins Center for Public Policy (Tallahassee, Fla.)
    $250,000
    To establish a Smart Growth Institute to assist low-income neighborhoods in metropolitan south Florida.

  • Collins Center for Public Policy (Tallahassee, Fla.)
    $10,000
    To support planning for a new organization to promote inner-city participation in growth management debates.

  • Colorado College
    $31,000
    For a conference on irrigation-based farming in Latino rural communities in Colorado and New Mexico.

  • County of Rio Arriba (Espanola, N.M.)
    $57,200
    To explore cultural and economic links between Spain and rural communities.

  • Environmental Defense Fund (New York)
    $100,000
    To support projects on the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • First Nations Development Institute (Fredericksburg, Va.)
    $310,000
    For assistance to tribes regarding the certification of forest lands.

  • Foundation-administered project
    $435,000
    For worldwide learning to build the environment and development field.

  • Foundation-administered project
    $10,000
    For worldwide learning to build the environment and development field.

  • Foundation-administered project
    $8,733
    For participation in donor associations in Bangladesh.

  • Forest Stewardship Council, A.C. (Mexico)
    $250,000
    To develop national standards for certification of sustainable forest management.

  • Granary Foundation (Walthill, Neb.)
    $2,000,000
    For an endowment fund to support the Center for Rural Affairs.

  • Greater Yellowstone Coalition (Bozeman, Mont.)
    $325,000
    For the coalition's private land stewardship program.

  • Henry's Fork Foundation (Island Park, Idaho)
    $200,000
    For watershed restoration and protection.

  • High Country Foundation (Paonia, Colo.)
    $100,000
    For a series of articles on community-based conservation issues.

  • Interhemispheric Resource Center (Albuquerque, N.M.)
    $150,000
    For publications on the environment and development issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Washington, D.C.)
    $75,000
    For an international workshop on community-based conservation.

  • International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Switzerland)
    $200,000
    For the Global Sustainable Use Initiative.

  • Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
    $275,000
    To strengthen involvement by citizens' groups in conservation-based development activities.

  • Montana, University of (Missoula)
    $100,000
    For community-based planning in the Rocky Mountain West.

  • Natural Resources Defense Council (New York)
    $75,000
    To develop an initiative on sustainable community development.

  • New England Environmental Policy Center (N. Ferrisburgh, Vt.)
    $330,000
    For the U.S. operations of the Forest Stewardship Council.