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As You Sow Foundation
NJ Work Environment Council
Health and Environment Alliance
New Place Fund
Convergence Partnership
Marisla Foundation: Reduce toxic pollution in the environment.
John Merck Fund: The John Merck Fund was established in 1970 to support clinical research and treatment for children with developmental disabilities and emotional disturbances. Since 1986 the fund's scope of philanthropic support has broadened to include other issues including the environment, human rights and reproductive health.
Coming Clean
Jenifer Altman Foundation: The Jenifer Altman Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to the vision of a socially just and ecologically sustainable future through program interests in environmental health and mind-body health.
Panta Rhea Foundation
Cedar Tree Foundation
Cornell Douglas Foundation
Johnson Family Foundation: With assets of $92 million, the Johnson Family Foundation provides national grants for environmental health, sexuality and local development issues.
Bullitt Foundation
WestWind Foundation
Tides Foundation
National Health Foundation
Mercury Policy Project
European Environmental Bureau
Passport Foundation
ETC Group
Mitchell Kapor Foundation
Alliance for Healthy Homes: The Alliance for Healthy Homes is a national, nonprofit, public interest organization working to prevent and eliminate hazards in our homes that can harm the health of children, families, and other residents.
WaterWebster.org
River Raisin Institute
High Plains Films
Resource Institute of Social Education-RISE
American Family Housing
Climate Change is Elementary
Merck Family Fund
Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders
Kresge Foundation: The Kresge Foundation is a $3.9 billion private foundation that works “for the promotion of human progress” by supporting community-based, non-profit organizations that create positive and sustaining change.
CrossCurrents Foundation
Environmental Grantmakers Association
Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
Literacy for Environmental Justice: Founded in 1998 by a coalition of youth, educators, and community leaders, LEJ addresses the ecological and health concerns of Bayview Hunters Point and the surrounding communities of southeast San Francisco.
National Center for Healthy Housing
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Community Revitalization Alliance
Science Communication Network
Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, UMass Lowell
Environment California Research & Policy Center
CLEARCorps USA
Adler & Colvin
Marie Keese Lelash Foundation
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice: "Founded in 1989, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) has been at the forefront of building a Reproductive Justice Movement that places the reproductive health and rights of Asian women and girls within a social justice framework. ACRJ promotes and protects reproductive justice through organizing, building leadership capacity, developing alliances, and education to achieve community and systemic change."
Native American Community Board
Collaborative on Health and the Environment: The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a diverse network of more than 3000 individual and organizational Partners in 45 countries and 48 states, working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors. Underlying all of CHE's activities is a commitment to strong, uncompromised science. CHE Partners share the conviction that under conditions of scientific uncertainty, when evidence of the potential for harm to human health and the environment is scientifically compelling, precautionary measures that emphasize exposure prevention should be undertaken. CHE's primary activities include: - Sharing scientific research information about the links between environmental contaminants and human disease; - Fostering interdisciplinary and inclusive collaboration among diverse constituencies interested in those links; and - Facilitating appropriate actions to reduce exposure to contaminants and to improve care of those affected. Please see http://www.healthandenvironment.org for more information.
Healthy Child Healthy World
Columbia College Chicago
Silent Spring Institute: Silent Spring Institute researches the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer.
Wings WorldQuest, Inc.: The mission of WINGS WorldQuest is to celebrate and support extraordinary women explorers by promoting scientific exploration, education and conservation.
Calvary Episcopal Church
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
The Center for International and Environmental Law (CIEL): The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a nonprofit organization working to use international law and institutions to protect the environment, promote human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society.
Women's Foundation of California: The Women's Foundation of California invests in women and girls to build a more just and equitable society for all.
Ford Foundation
California Endowment
Fred Gellert Family Foundation: The Fred Gellert Family Foundation focuses on non-profit, tax-exempt, collaborative and coalition building organizations in the San Francisco Bay area (mostly) that work in areas of the "arts and humanities, education, health, the environment, and social services."
Garfield Foundation: As a private grantmaker, the Foundation works to educate, inspire and mobilize into action holistic solutions for reaching a more "equitable, prosperous, and sustainable global society."
Bush Foundation
Overbrook Foundation: "Generally speaking, the Foundation's domestic programs support policy development, advocacy, coalition building, research, legal and other strategies likely to impact large classes of people or shape issues important to the Foundation's mission. In its international funding, the Foundation also supports organizations providing direct services." More specifically, the Foundation’s environment program “supports organizations working to develop better consumption and production habits in the United States and in Latin America (currently Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador only). In Latin America the primary objective is to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity.”
Compton Foundation: “In a world that is increasingly interrelated, the Compton Foundation seeks to foster human and ecological security by addressing contemporary threats to these inalienable rights. We support responsible stewardship that respects the rights of future generations to a balanced and healthy ecology, both personal and global, allowing for the full richness of human experience. The Foundation envisions a world in which humans live in harmony with each other, and in sustainable balance with the earth.”
San Diego Foundation: "The San Diego Foundation's purpose is to improve the quality of life within all of our communities by promoting and increasing responsible and effective philanthropy. Entrusted with this responsibility, we have a four-part mission: 1) assist donors to build and preserve enduring assets for charitable purposes in all of San Diego's communities; 2) monitor and assess changing needs; 3) meet those needs through financial awards and organizational support; and 4) convene members of the community to promote creative dialogue and action on issues affecting our communities."
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Center for Environmental Health: The Center for Environmental Health protects people from toxic chemicals and promotes business products and practices that are safe for public health and the environment.
Herring Run Watershed Association
Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (SKAPP): The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (SKAPP) studies the use and misuse of science in public policy and organizes scientific-community support for transparent decision-making, based on the best available science, to protect the public’s health and environment.
Greater DC Cares: Greater DC Cares is the leading coordinator of volunteering and business philanthropy in the Washington region. We are a network of thousands of volunteers and hundreds of nonprofits and businesses working together to make this the best place to live and work for all who live here. During the month of July 2008, Greater DC Cares will be focusing on issues surrounding Environmental Health. Please take the time to learn more about our environmental health programming and find out how you can get involved!
The Takagi Fund for Citizen Science
Keep Antibiotics Working: Keep Antibiotics Working is a coalition of health, consumer, agricultural, environmental, humane and other advocacy groups with more than nine million members dedicated to eliminating a major cause of antibiotic resistance: the inappropriate use of antibiotics in food animals.
California Environmental Associates
Challenge Industries, Inc.
Breast Cancer Action
California Indian Environmental Alliance
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles
Columbia University Center for Children’s Environmental Health
University of California, San Francisco, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)
National Council of Churches
Beldon Fund: The Beldon Fund was created as a spend-out foundation to operate for ten years. We made our final grants in June 2008, and have begun close-down operations. Consequently, we will no longer be accepting aplications for funding.
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The Health & Environmental Funders Network (HEFN): The Health and Environmental Funders Network is a network of funders committed to grantmaking at the nexus of environment and health. It’s committed to improving the grantmaking done on EH issues by providing information and updates to grantmakers. In addition, it does outreach into the philanthropic community on EH issues. HEFN is a project of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity.
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
ANERA, American Near East Refugee Aid
Whatcom Land Trust
Investor Environmental Health Network: The Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) is a collaborative partnership of investment managers, advised by NGOs, concerned about the market and health risks associated with corporate toxics policies. It serves as an informational resource and secretariat for investors and NGOs alike. It's goal is to foster corporate adoption of precautionary corporate safer chemicals policies, promoting the reduction and elimination of toxic chemicals and substitution of safer materials IEHN is comprised of more than 20 Socially Responsible Investment organizations and engages companies via dialogues and shareholder resolutions. It also builds the business case for safer chemicals policies via publications and reports and promotes enhanced disclosure of toxic chemicals issues and concerns by companies.
Healthy Schools Network: Healthy Schools Network is an award-winning national not-for-profit organization dedicated to assuring that every American child has an environmentally healthy (high performance/green) school. We pursue our mission through a deliberate commitment to collaborations in research, local education, and policy advocacy across three interrelated program areas: 1) healthy school siting, design, and construction standards; 2) green (nontoxic) supply, purchasing, and maintenance; and 3) new mandates for environmental public health interventions for children in harm’s way. Each is undertaken with the understanding that “it takes a village” to change schools, with collaborative work at all levels. We organize horizontally (not vertically) by seeking out and engaging multiple stakeholders: advocates from the fields of health, environment, labor, parent and disability groups, and many others. These groups are united via the national Coalition for Healthier Schools convened to “provide the platform and the forum” for environmental health at school. As its coordinator, we track and interact with hundreds of organizational members from all of the states. We are also distinguished by our refusal to accept in-kind or cash support from chemical and carpeting companies and our long standing refusal to endorse products commonly sold to schools.
Friends of Lassen Forest
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is a diverse organization engaged in research, advocacy and grassroots organizing to promote human health and environmental justice in response to the rapid growth of the high-tech industry.
Funders' Network for Smart Growth & Livable Communities: "To help funders maximize their effectiveness, and increase the number of funders in this field, the Network works to inform and connect funders, offers responsive services, implements projects, and provides facilitative leadership in selected regions. Through its work the Network helps funders to advance policy reforms; share knowledge of effective strategies and tools; build the capacity of key constituencies; raise awareness about the interdisciplinary nature of these issues; and encourage sustained engagement with these issues by a diverse coalition of funders."
Center for Progressive Reform
Oregon Environmental Council: The Oregon Environmental Council advances innovative, collaborative solutions to Oregon’s environmental challenges for today and future generations. We work to create innovative change on three levels: we help individuals live green; we help businesses, farmers and health providers thrive with sustainable practices; and we help elected officials create practical policy. Our vision for Oregon includes solving global warming, protecting kids from toxins, cleaning up our rivers, building sustainable economies, and ensuring healthy food and local farms.
Center of Southwest Culture
Green Guide for Health Care
Global Community Monitor
Yanadi Education Society
Internews Network
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
National Council for Science and the Environment
National Environmental Education Foundation: The goal of the National Environmental Education Foundation's Health & Environment Program is to advance environmental knowledge among health professionals in order to improve public health. Through a variety of initiatives, we facilitate the integration of environmental health into healthcare provider education and practice, with a special emphasis on children and other populations disproportionately impacted by environmental pollutants
Apollo Alliance
Iowa West Foundation
California Environmental Justice Working Group
UUSC
Harder Foundation
Clean New York: Clean New York advocates for broad policy and market changes that protect our families, our health and the environment from toxic chemicals while empowering women to be involved in this transformation.
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF) is a 501(c)(3) public charity located in Oakland, California, dedicated to expanding effective philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area by seeking out people and programs doing outstanding human service work, matching donors with high-impact programs and initiating programs to serve critical needs in the community. PVF serves individuals, foundations and businesses by customizing giving to match a donor’s giving interests. PVF also consults with private foundations and community foundations on creative grant making and has consulted at over 350 community foundations in the United States, Canada and abroad.
Libra Foundation
Aveda
San Francisco Foundation: To promote environmentally sustainable practices and equitable development that guarantee livable communities and healthy environments.
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation: The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation "supports organizations that promote systemic change; involve constituents in planning and decision-making; encourage volunteer and professional development; and engage in ongoing program evaluation."
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Robert and Dee Leggett Foundation: "The Robert and Dee Leggett foundation has supported good works in fields such as the environment and conservation, arts and humanities, hunger relief, and research and education. This range provides the Leggett Foundation flexibility to focus on timely, strategic donations rather than specific giving categories."
Liberty Hill Foundation
Women's Voices for the Earth
Rachel Carson Homestead Association
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Starry Night Fund
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Sustainability Funders Group
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation: The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation works to create and support internationally recognized and renowned leaders in positive environmental change. The Foundation bases its work and funding on six main values: 1) Belief in Individuals 2) Environmental Stewardship 3) Sustainability and Systems Thinking 4) Interdisciplinary and Innovative Problem-solving 5) Maximizing Impact 6) Accountability and Results
Sustainable Path Foundation
Florida Department of Corrections
University of California Berkeley, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Oceana
Environmental Grantmakers Association
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation: The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation works to promote and ensure healthier communities and greater access to high-quality health care for individuals of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in Minnesota. Two main programs the Foundation funds – Growing UP Healthy: Kids and Communities and Healthy Together: Creating Community with New Americans – address key health determinates and works to eliminate pervasive health disparities in Minnesota.
Ms. Foundation for Women
People Organized to Defend the Earth and her Resources (PODER)
Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network: All people have a right to a clean and healthy environment in which to live, work, learn, play and thrive. With 15 years of organizing in Asian immigrant and refugee communities, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network strives to advance systemic change and bring environmental justice to our communities.
wild ones niagara falls and the river region chapter
Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Tri-Valley CAREs
Ecology Center
Environmental Health Sciences
Environmental Defense Fund
Infinite Possibilitites International
RSF Social Finance
Grantmakers In Health
American Public Health Association
San Diego River Park Foundation
Inquiring Systems, Inc.
Washington Toxics Coalition
University of Minnesota Extension Service
Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights
Waste Free World
University of Missouri-Columbia
The Linchpin Campaign of the Center for Community Change
Sage Femme/EcoBirth
V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation: "The V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation has emphasized environmental grantmaking since it was founded in 1991. We have also undertaken a grantmaking program in Greenwood, South Carolina , and supported medical research, especially in the field of eye research. In all of our grants, we seek to emphasize collaboration across disciplines and among institutions and people."
Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida
Ella Baker Center
CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative/Asian Health Services
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Moms Making Our Milk Safe
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
University of Washington
Fresno Regional Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Barbara Smith Fund: Managed by the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Barbara Smith Fund is a private foundation dedicated to contributing to health, healing, and the healing arts.
New York Community Trust: Since 1924, the New York Community Trust has been a community foundation that helps turn charity into positive, impacting and sustainable action. Specifically, "the Trust currently manages over $2 billion in charitable assets, made up of more than 1,800 funds established by individuals, families, and businesses."
Environmental Health Strategy Center
Blacksmith Institute
University of California, San Francisco
Breast Cancer Fund: In response to the public health crisis of breast cancer, the Breast Cancer Fund identifies – and advocates for elimination of – the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease.
Land Trust Alliance
OMB Watch: OMB Watch is a nonprofit government watchdog organization dedicated to promoting government accountability, citizen participation in public policy decisions, and the use of fiscal and regulatory policy to serve the public interest.
Austin YMBL Sunshine Camps
Running Strong for American Indian Youth
West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT)
Children’s Environmental Health Network
National Partnership for Women and Families
Center for Health Environment and Justice
Rockwood Leadership Institute
Chicago Foundation for Women
Environmental Working Group
Women’s Health and Environment Initiative (WHEI)
Women's Fund of Hawaii
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
Carolyn Foundation
French American Charitable Trust
California Wellness Foundation: The mission of The California Wellness Foundation is to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention.
Seventh Generation Fund
Turner Foundation
Kendeda Fund
Heinz Endowments
New World Foundation
Practice Greenhealth
Safe Passage
Prevention Institute
Women’s Voices for the Earth
Campaign for Safe Cosmetics/The Breast Cancer Fund
State Alliance for Federal Reform of Chemicals Policy (SAFER)
Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT): ACAT is a growing, progressive environmental health and justice organization that engages individuals, tribes, and other communities to advocate for the right to live in a healthy environment. ACAT has a solid track record of base-building, organizing, and advocating for social and policy change. We work locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally.
Global Greengrants Fund
Marshall Islands Conservation Society
Pesticide Action Network North America
Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders: As a project of Community Partners since 2005, the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) works to foster communication, shared learning and information exchange about issues connected to sustainable agriculture and food systems. SAFSF seeks to carry out its mission by providing opportunities for collaboration, increasing awareness of the issues as well as funding needs, and expanding beyond the current membership to increase support and funding for organizations that (i) promote sustainable food production; (ii) link to concerns about sustainability of our food system; and/or (iii) connect food production with issues of environmental stewardship, diet and health, and viability of rural communities.
INFORM, Inc.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Fine Fund
US Public Interest Research Group
California Product Stewardship Council
Earth Protect
Environmental Health Fund
Science & Environmental Health Network
Earthjustice
Lambi Fund of Haiti
Westly Foundation
Lawson Valentine Foundation: A foundation that focuses on environmental justice, sustainable agriculture and food systems.
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Maverick Lloyd Foundation
Commonweal
Business Ethics Network
Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity

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