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HEFN 2007 Meeting Resources

Background resources for our 2007 national meeting.

Meeting Information

HEFN 2007 Meeting Agenda

November 27-29 Funder Participants List

General Background on Environmental Health

Environmental Health Primer

Our Health and the Health of the Environment - a public policy primer written by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment

HEFN Membership/Outreach Flyer 

Environmental Health Sciences - searchable archives of environmental health news, science, and reports

Environmental Health Perspectives - peer reviewed scientific journal on environmental health sciences

CHE's Toxicants and Disease Database

Updates From the Field:  updates from collaboratives, campaigns, coalitions, and networks of groups working together on environmental health issues:

BE SAFE update

Blue Green Alliance update

Building Capacity in Green Chemistry Centers of Excellence update

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment update

Coming Clean update

Coming Clean Fenceline Action Workgroup update

Coming Clean Markets Workgroup update

Coming Clean Pesticide Working Group update

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (US) update

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (EU) update 

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives general update

GAIA's Zero Waste for Zero Warming update

Health Care Without Harm update

The Investor Environmental Health Network update

National Council of Churches Environmental Health Initiative update

Right to the City Alliance update

State Alliance for Federal Reform of Chemicals Policy update

Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative update

Women's Health & Environment Initiative update

The following resources are organized to correspond with Airlie 2007 Meeting agenda topics:

Funding in Place

NFG/HEFN web guide to grantmaking for healthy environments in low-income communities

Investing in Communities - HEFN briefing memo for 2006 funder retreat

Women, Health, and Environment

A New Vision for Advancing Our Movement for Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights and Justice

The Collaborative Fund Model: Effective Strategies for Grantmaking

The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls: What We Know, What We Need to Know

Proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

Vogue: An Inconceivable Truth

Organizations Working at the Intersection of Environmental and Reproductive Justice

See also Women's Health and Environment Initiative update in the "Updates from the Field" section above.

Lessons from Environmental Justice Movement on Civic Engagement & Building Political Power

Funder Strategy Brief:  Grantmaking Strategy to Support the Just and Sustainable Recovery of the Gulf Coast Region

Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta

 
Funders Committee on Civic Participation resources 

Alliance for Justice Advocacy Initiative for Foundations and Non-Profits

See also updates from several EJ networks in the "Updates from the Field" section above.

Moving Chemicals Policy

Cloudy Skies, Chance of Sun: A Forecast for U.S. Reform of Chemicals Policy

See also updates from SAFER and Coming Clean in the "Updates from the Field" section above.

Moving Markets

Market Strategies Overview

Municipal Procurement: HEFN July 07 Funder Call

Who Owns the Bioeconomy?

Buying Smart: Experiences of Municipal Green Purchasing Pioneers

See also Coming Clean Markets Workgroup and Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative updates in the "Updates from the Field" section above.

Green Chemistry and Economic Development

Little Green Molecules (Collins/Walter 2006 article on green chemistry in Scientific American

Biodiversity, Spring 2006 (O'Brien article on green chemistry)

Funder Strategy Brief: Building Capacity in Green Chemistry

An Introduction to HEFN's Green Chemistry & Economic Transitions Project 

Integrating Green Chemistry and Safer Materials Into Regional Economic and Workforce Development Strategies (Parzen scoping paper for HEFN Catalysts 2007)

Green Chemistry - Strategic Opportunities (Ackerman scoping paper for HEFN Catalysts 2007)

HEFN Green Chemistry Retreat Report (2005)

See also Building Capacity in Green Chemistry Centers of Excellence update in the "Updates from the Field" section above.

Environmental Health & Environmental Justice Grantmaking in California

Funder Strategy brief: California CHANGE

Funder strategy brief:  California diesel & AQ

Funder strategy brief:  California cumulative exposures policies

Funder strategy brief: AB 32 - climate change policy