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 | Turning Point Initiative Society
First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation | $7,113,700 | May 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,113,700 | May 2013 |
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To support First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 |
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Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $314,472 | Jun. 2012 |
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To support Coastal First Nations Stewardship Directors and the Network to achieve their resource management objectives in developing and implementing land and marine use plans and agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $576,614 | Oct. 2011 |
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This grant supports the Great Bear Initiative to engage in communications and training activities in support of marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $216,338 | Aug. 2010 |
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In support of enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans to achieve a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability and their continued help in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $2,404,350 | Aug. 2010 |
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For enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $247,727 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
The grant to the Turning Point Initiative enables Coastal First Nations to make measurable progress towards a sound marine spatial plan for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) through an Innovative Oceans Partnership that reflects First Nations’ conservation and management vision. The grant also supports efforts to incorporate First Nations community-level marine spatial plans into the PNCIMA plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $3,562,658 | Sep. 2007 |
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This grant to the Turning Point Initiative Society enables First Nations to define and advance the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, building on the conservation success realized through the Great Bear Rainforest land use planning process. Over a three year period, First Nations will produce the necessary scientific and technical analyses to construct science-based individual ABM plans. First Nations will also convene communities and other stakeholders to advance ABM in the PNCIMA. | | New Venture Fund
A Plan for Sustainable Global Fisheries | $650,000 | May 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $650,000 | May 2013 |
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To support the development of a plan and up to three prototype projects to achieve sustainable management of half the overfished fisheries, in countries where multi-lateral development banks lend, in 10 years. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 |
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To inform funders and interested stakeholders on needs and opportunities for New England groundfish and monkfish fisheries financing to enhance durability of sustainable management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $400,000 | Mar. 2012 |
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This grant supports a fund to increase field-level capacity for analysis of the economic value of well managed ocean activities. | | Ecotrust
Building West Coast Tribal Capacity for Marine Spatial Planning | $309,347 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $309,347 | Apr. 2013 |
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This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in California, Oregon, and Washington to develop capacity to gather information, coordinate, and engage in marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $71,186 | May 2012 |
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This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in compiling spatial data on coastal natural resources and uses | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $599,420 | Jun. 2008 |
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To work in partnership with salmon management agencies to develop and improve data storage and access systems. Outputs from this project include publicly-accessible databases and visualization tools for salmon management and conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $927,136 | May 2007 |
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This grant provides continuing support for State of the Salmon, a joint effort of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust. With this grant, State of the Salmon aims to advance salmon management by developing a set of Principles of Wild Salmon Conservation and introducing innovative techniques for managers to track biodiversity and abundance for long-term sustainability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $1,592,777 | Oct. 2006 |
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This grant will enable Ecotrust and its partners to work toward institutionalizing an integrated, watershed-scale approach to managing the Copper River watershed in Alaska and its valuable salmon resources. The outcome of this Grant will be to empower key local stakeholders with critical information about the Copper and its resources, and enable them to engage in better management of the region through the creation of a formalized watershed council. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $386,162 | Nov. 2005 |
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This renewal grant to Ecotrust provides support to the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon, a joint effort of Ecotrust and the Wild Salmon Center, is organized around four major components: Knowledge Systems, Status & Trends, Standards & Best Practices, and Consortium Development. Outcomes for this grant include web versions of the metadata inventory, 2006 Status & Trends, and Best Practices polyglot (in English, Russian & Japanese). Additional outcomes include the development and restructuring of the State of the Salmon consortium. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $620,319 | Sep. 2004 |
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Ecotrust is using this renewal grant to expand the State of the Salmon program. With this additional investment, Ecotrust is improving access to existing information on stock status from agencies and tribal entities, expanding resources for the development of a management index/report card, and dedicating additional support to its program team. Outcomes for this grant include completion of the salmon baseline status atlas and State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $660,000 | Jul. 2003 |
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Ecotrust is using this grant to lay the groundwork for an integrated, watershed-scale management solution that will significantly enhance the protection of the Copper's critical slamon resources. Key outputs of this grant include: development of a GIS-based management strategy for habitat protection and watershed, completion of two strategically important private land acquistions, identification of key information gaps, and collaboration with stakeholders to pilot management reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,030,000 | Feb. 2003 |
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This grant to Ecotrust helped launch of the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon consists of the following seven components: (1) Baseline State of the Salmon atlas; (2) Red List Reviews by species and stock around the North Pacific; (3) Annual Pacific Salmon Report on key selected topics; (4) Annual "Report Cards" on selected agency management and policy; (5) Triennial State of the Salmon Conference and Report; (6) Creation of international standards for population monitoring protocols and metrics; and (7) a State of the Salmon website. Outcomes for this grant include delivery of the baseline status atlas for North Pacific salmon, completion of the State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $25,000 | Apr. 2001 |
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Ecotrust used this grant to produce a watershed conservation strategy for Alaska's Copper River ecosystem. | | Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Aligning Incentives Conference | $114,685 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $114,685 | Apr. 2013 |
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To develop a framework and action plan to raise awareness of shared decision making (SDM) incentive issues among key decision and policy makers concerned with healthcare reimbursement. | | New Venture Fund
Financing needs assessment for New England finfish fisheries | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 |
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To inform funders and interested stakeholders on needs and opportunities for New England groundfish and monkfish fisheries financing to enhance durability of sustainable management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $650,000 | May 2013 |
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To support the development of a plan and up to three prototype projects to achieve sustainable management of half the overfished fisheries, in countries where multi-lateral development banks lend, in 10 years. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $400,000 | Mar. 2012 |
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This grant supports a fund to increase field-level capacity for analysis of the economic value of well managed ocean activities. | | Henry M Paulson Jr Institute
Sustainability in China: Cities and Natural Resource Use | $999,660 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $999,660 | Apr. 2013 |
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This grant will support efforts to develop and deploy a suite of sustainability measures focused on natural resource use in key Chinese cities in order to raise awareness and ultimately inform the development of national sustainability standards. | | Science Friday Initiative
Informing and Educating the Public through Science Friday innovations | $900,000 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $900,000 | Apr. 2013 |
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Increase public knowledge and engagement with scientific information through expansions to the radio program Science Friday, its Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) content, and accompanying online and social media resources. | | Sonoma Land Trust
Permanent protection of Preservation Ranch | $1,000,000 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $1,000,000 | Apr. 2013 |
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This grant to Sonoma Land Trust will support acquisition of the 19,645-acre Preservation Ranch, which will protect a biologically diverse property in Sonoma County’s Gualala River watershed from being converted to vineyard and subdivided into rural residential development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $1,798,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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The purpose of this grant is to protect a critical chokepoint within a high-priority wildlife corridor in Sonoma Valley in order to maintain wildlife habitat, optimize free movement of species, and provide resilience to respond to climate change. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $6,000,000 | Jul. 2008 |
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In support of permanently protecting the Jenner Headlands, 5,630 acres of biologically diverse, complex coastal prairie and forest on the scenic Sonoma Coast. The project will establish sustainable financing of ecological stewardship and public access using carbon credits and sustainable timber harvests. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,000,000 | Jul. 2007 |
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Sonoma Land Trust will use this grant to permanently protect 1,689 acres of upland riparian habitat in southern Sonoma County. The protected acres will become part of Tolay Lake Park and will complete a 6000 acre protected corridor adjacent to San Pablo Bay. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $7,932,000 | Sep. 2004 |
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Sonoma Land Trust used this grant to support the Sonoma Baylands Project. Project goals include permanent protection and restoration of 2,329 acres at the far northern end of San Pablo Bay. | | Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment
Leopold Leadership Program | $360,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $360,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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To support the Leopold Leadership Program to provide leading scientists with the tools and skills training to engage on real-world sustainability challenges. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $499,558 | Aug. 2012 |
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In support of the Natural Capital Project to develop, test and support the implementation of new metrics, tools, and approaches for quantifying both natural capital and human well-being, interrelating them under present conditions and alternative future scenarios. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,749,582 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant supports the rapid advance in uptake of ecosystem service science to inform policy by creating innovative models for tradeoff analysis, setting standards, and advancing tools for major sector permitting and mitigation, water fund design, industrial agriculture, and monitoring. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $209,170 | Aug. 2011 |
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This grant will support the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum’s work with Regional Fishery Management Council members and staff on the integration of fisheries and Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,596,964 | May 2011 |
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To support the completion and application of a suite of ecosystem service models to inform Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) decisions. These models are being developed as part of the Natural Capital Project using the InVest modeling framework. This grant will also complete pilot testing in British Columbia’s West Coast Vancouver Island, complete a suite of core ecosystem services models, and scope work for potential application in New England or other regional MSP process in 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,364,763 | Jun. 2010 |
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To advance the science of ecosystem services through basic research and modeling of their provision, development of tools for assessing tradeoffs, and application of those tools in land use planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,967,175 | Oct. 2008 |
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For the development and application of a suite of ecosystem service models, using the InVest modeling framework being developed as part of the Natural Capital project, to inform Area-Based Management decision-making in temperate marine ecosystems. The models will be developed and tested in one of the Marine Conservation Initiative's focal geographies. | | Watershed Watch
BC Salmon Habitat Protection | $640,489 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $640,489 | Mar. 2013 |
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To advance the protection of freshwater habitat, species diversity and abundance for British Columbia wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $598,815 | May 2010 |
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In support of advancing the implementation of the Pacific Wild Salmon Policy in British Columbia, as well as in applying rigorous science and monitoring to the mitigation of fish farm impacts on wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Mar. 2007 |
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The grant will build upon Sierra Club BC's previous success of developing the Wild Salmon Policy (WSP) in B.C. Watershed Watch will work to fully implement WSP within the time-frame of this grant. | | World Wildlife Fund
China Sustainable Growth Fund - Planning Phase II | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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This grant will enable the newly established China Sustainable Growth Fund to deliver a sustainable growth strategy that leverages and accelerates global best practices and key partners in the effort to protect worldwide biodiversity and ecosystem services. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,172,069 | Nov. 2012 |
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World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program and provide technical support to Brazilian protected area agencies in the refinement of management effectiveness indicators. Grant outputs include analyses of management effectiveness and contribution of protected areas to national and regional economies, communication and fundraising materials, design of fund structures, fund-raising, and coordination of a multi-stakeholder engagement process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $4,272,740 | May 2012 |
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WWF and its regional partners will complete implementation of protected area management strategies, monitoring, and sustainable finance tools in eight protected areas covering approximately 10.5 million hectares in the Amazon Headwaters region of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,994,781 | May 2012 |
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In support of conservation of wild salmon and wild salmon habitat in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $495,000 | Mar. 2012 |
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World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will use grant funds to secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. Grant outputs include ecological analyses and dissemination materials. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,523,939 | Mar. 2011 |
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For Phase III of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative aimed at protecting and effectively managing large blocks of protected areas in the southwestern headwaters of the Amazon Basin. Specifically, this grant will achieve the basic consolidation of 10 priority protected areas covering a total of 10.4 million hectares in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; the creation of a new protected area in Brazil totaling 100,000 hectares, and the development of financial business plans for two sites in Bolivia totaling 182,000 hectares. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $169,896 | Oct. 2010 |
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To finalize data collection and publish manuscripts on the spatial and habitat needs of keystone vertebrate species in the southern Peruvian Amazon. This research will advance the scientific basis for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $357,191 | Oct. 2010 |
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In support of analyzing the extent, patterns, trends, and causes of protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD), a widespread, but largely overlooked, trend in conservation. Exploring the conservation implications of PADDD will serve to better inform conservation practices and emerging conservation policies, ultimately resulting in more robust, resilient, and targeted strategies for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,665,166 | Mar. 2009 |
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To promote sustainable fisheries practices in Kamchatka. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $225,000 | Nov. 2008 |
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To build an exemption into the Brazilian income tax system for contributions by individuals and corporations to qualifying environmental projects being implemented by national environmental funds, state environmental funds and non-governmental organizations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 62 mo. | $1,461,357 | May 2008 |
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For the Education for Nature (EFN) program to establish permanent training capacity for park guards in four Andean countries and improve the skills of the existing park guard force in three Andean countries. It will increase the institutional capacity for protected area management in these countries by providing job placement assistance to former EFN? fellowship recipients and graduate fellowships in fields of study related to protected area management at preselected universities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $404,336 | Mar. 2008 |
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This project with the World Wildlife Fund will continue the collection of data on a number of important indicator species with large or complex habitat needs to advance the scientific justification for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $466,433 | Jan. 2008 |
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This grant serves to provide supplemental funding to complete the initial grant to World Wildlife Fund (to conserve the headwaters regions of the Southwest Amazon, while simultaneously investing in strategic scientific research and policy interventions), and to maintain the core project staff and local partners that are essential to a second-phase grant currently under development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $7,168,000 | Jan. 2007 |
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World Wildlife Fund will use this grant to support the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. Outcomes include 10-15 million hectares of new protected areas and strengthening the implementation of 6.3 million hectares of existing protected areas to the 50 million ha target of the ARPA program.. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,422,984 | Dec. 2005 |
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This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's efforts to improve the framework for protecting Kamchatka's salmon in their marine environment by reforming salmon fishery policies, increasing local awareness of market-based sustainable salmon fisheries, creating the first Marine Fishery Protective Zone for critical salmon habitat, and strengthening antipoaching enforcement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $400,000 | Dec. 2005 |
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This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's 2006 and 2007 International Smart Gear Competitions and post-competition activities to catalyze new fishing gear technologies to reduce bycatch. Outcomes for this grant include implementation of strategies for winning technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,457,000 | Dec. 2004 |
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Through its Education for Nature program, World Wildlife Fund is using this grant to provide academic and applied training to graduate students and protected-area personnel throughout South America. Outcomes include protected area management training for 615 park guards and 54 two-year scholarships to individuals from the Andes-Amazon region for masters and doctoral degrees at universities in the region or abroad. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $15,407,000 | Nov. 2004 |
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This renewal grant supports Phase II of World Wildlife Fund's Amazon Headwaters Initiative. Outcomes include protection and management of 1.3 million hectares in the Itenez-Mamore Block (Bolivia) and 6.9 million hectares in the Southern Amazon Block (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil), evaluation of Amazonia policy interventions, and expansion of science capacity for conservation of Amazon headwaters. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $849,415 | Nov. 2003 |
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World Wildlife Fund used this grant to improve ecoregional conservation by raising management standards and practices for large-scale programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,351,000 | Aug. 2003 |
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World Wildlife Fund used this grant to support the pilot phase of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative, a plan to maintain regional terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $15,581,000 | Aug. 2002 |
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This grant supports the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. In response to World Wildlife Fund's Forest for Life Campaign, the Brazilian government pledged to place 10% of its of biologically rich forest under conservation protection. ARPA was developed to help implement that commitment. Outcomes include creation, establishment, and management of 14 sustainable-use reserves covering nine million hectares in two large forested blocks. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,400,000 | Jun. 2002 |
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World Wildlife Fund used this bridge grant to create new protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, through the Amazon Region Protected Areas programme. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $300,000 | Mar. 2002 |
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World wildlife Fund used this grant to design a marine conservation network and develop a project management plan for large-scale conservation in three specified ecoregions: the southwest Amazon, Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef, and the Terai Arc of India/Nepal. | | Life Sciences Research Foundation
Biological Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellowships | $915,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $915,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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In support of prestigious three-year post-doctoral fellowships for five top researchers in non-biomedical biological science disciplines typically underfunded by other sources. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $908,000 | May 2012 |
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In support of prestigious three-year post-doctoral fellowships for five top researchers in biological science disciplines typically underfunded by other sources. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $855,000 | Apr. 2011 |
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This grant to the Life Sciences Research Foundation is a renewal grant and will support prestigious post-doctoral fellowships for five top researchers in biological science disciplines typically underfunded by other granting sources. The fellowships will last three years. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $684,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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In support of a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship opportunity for four top researchers in biological science disciplines typically underfunded by other granting sources. The fellowships will last three years. | | California Institute of Technology, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences
Cracking open the microbial sulfur cycle using novel stable isotope approaches | $2,260,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $2,260,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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To support the development of novel and innovative methods to crack open the black box of the microbial sulfur cycle using isotopic tracers. The new microanalytical methods developed will allow for unprecedented levels of inquiry into near seafloor cycling of sulfur by microbial communities using high-precision, high sensitivity measurements of sulfur-containing metabolic products. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $2,000,000 | Oct. 2011 |
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The California Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley, will analyze the past 80 years of earthquakes in southern California to improve rupture forecasts, and develop both ground-level and building-specific shaking algorithms to determine when automatic shutdown of industrial processes could mitigate serious damage or injury. The knowledge gained will contribute to the development of a west coast prototype earthquake early warning system capable of providing robust advance warning—ranging from tens of seconds to minutes—of the size, extent and timing of imminent earthquakes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $725,325 | Jun. 2011 |
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This grant to the California Institute of Technology is to develop new techniques to characterize images taken from space to monitor long term changes in the Earth’s surface at fine spatial and temporal scales. Funding will support a core team to develop the technique, analyze large image datasets acquired by a suite of instruments over multiple decades, and apply them to two case studies to detect very small changes in the Earth’s surface due to seismic-volcanic and landslide processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $650,000 | Mar. 2005 |
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This grant supports research in the Caltech laboratory of Dr. Orphan. Her interests include microbial community structure and function in deep subsurface habitats, marine sediments, oil and gas seeps, and early Earth analog environments. Outcomes for this grant include documentation of the flow of carbon and nitrogen through microbial assemblages using novel methods, detection of metabolic gene expression in uncultured archaea and bacteria, and analysis of complex microbial communities using state-of-the-art, high-resolution technologies. | | Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
Sportfishing conservation and stewardship | $309,880 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $309,880 | Mar. 2013 |
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In support of the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership's efforts to improve the conservation and management of saltwater sportfisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $600,000 | Dec. 2005 |
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The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is using this grant to apply the influence of key hunting and fishing conservation organizations to improve the protection of fish and wildlife and their habitats. Outcomes for this grant include specific and measurable changes in energy development rules and procedures as outlined in a report to the National Commission on Energy Policy. | | Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
Strengthened collaboration of biodiversity conservation grantmakers | $130,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $130,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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To contribute to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity by enhancing effective collaboration among environmental foundations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $70,000 | Jul. 2003 |
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The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity used this grant to support general operations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $70,000 | Jul. 2001 |
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The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity used this grant to support general operations. | | Green Fire Productions
Distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers" | $481,512 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $481,512 | Mar. 2013 |
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To increase the understanding of and support for coastal marine spatial planning through production and distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers," which captures stories of successful ocean planning through the eyes of coastal communities, managers, scientists, and others. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $229,625 | Oct. 2011 |
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To increase the understanding of and support for coastal marine spatial planning through production and distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers," which captures stories of successful ocean planning through the eyes of coastal communities, managers, scientists, and others. | | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
National Fisheries Innovation Fund | $1,305,993 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,305,993 | Mar. 2013 |
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In support of the Fisheries Innovation Fund's grants for new tools and technologies that will improve fisheries science and management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $1,145,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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In support of the transition of U.S. fisheries to catch share programs by encouraging fishermen to pursue innovative management strategies through a competitive grant award process. | | B.C. Wildlife Federation
Strengthening Protection for BC Aquatic Habitat | $524,382 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 34 mo. | $524,382 | Feb. 2013 |
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Strengthening Protection for BC Aquatic Habitat. | | Nanwakolas Council
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | $113,603 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $113,603 | Feb. 2013 |
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Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $1,162,974 | Oct. 2010 |
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For the organization's leadership participation within the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative, and the development and integration of smaller-scale community and regional-level Marine Spatial Plans, which will in turn help achieve a good PNCIMA Marine Spatial Plan. | | Turning Point Initiative Society
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 |
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Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,113,700 | May 2013 |
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To support First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $314,472 | Jun. 2012 |
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To support Coastal First Nations Stewardship Directors and the Network to achieve their resource management objectives in developing and implementing land and marine use plans and agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $576,614 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Great Bear Initiative to engage in communications and training activities in support of marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $2,404,350 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $216,338 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans to achieve a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability and their continued help in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $247,727 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
The grant to the Turning Point Initiative enables Coastal First Nations to make measurable progress towards a sound marine spatial plan for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) through an Innovative Oceans Partnership that reflects First Nations’ conservation and management vision. The grant also supports efforts to incorporate First Nations community-level marine spatial plans into the PNCIMA plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $3,562,658 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the Turning Point Initiative Society enables First Nations to define and advance the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, building on the conservation success realized through the Great Bear Rainforest land use planning process. Over a three year period, First Nations will produce the necessary scientific and technical analyses to construct science-based individual ABM plans. First Nations will also convene communities and other stakeholders to advance ABM in the PNCIMA. | | Parkland Health and Hospital System
Framework and Action Plan for Predictive Analytics | $152,000 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $152,000 | Feb. 2013 |
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To develop a framework and action plan for advancing the use of predictive analytics to improve patient outcomes and reduce cost. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 52 mo. | $2,000,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Parkland Health and Hospital System supports the development and implementation of a generalizable, exportable, automated software system to identify and flag Heart Failure (HF) patients at high risk of hospital readmission. Once finalized, it will be installed in a hospital outside of the original development site. The system will then be used, in combination with evidence-based interventions, to identify and intervene on HF patients at high risk of readmission, resulting in a 20% relative reduction from baseline in the hospital’s 30-day HF readmission rate. The software will then be available for adoption nationwide, and available for installation to at least three additional hospitals, one of which will located in Greater Sacramento or the San Francisco Bay Area if mutually agreeable, by December 2015. | | David Suzuki Foundation
Technical analysis and strategic communications for marine spatial planning and implementation | $501,102 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $501,102 | Feb. 2013 |
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To develop technical analyses and strategic communications in support of marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $496,850 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To increase the regional market incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $315,430 | May 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to David Suzuki Foundation supports developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $339,287 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
To increase the incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve salmon aquaculture and fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $132,249 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
To maintain a targeted constituency in British Columbia that is supportive of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area that includes a spatial management plan and network of marine protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $471,972 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The David Suzuki Foundation is using this grant to address the need for elevated awareness and better management of British Columbia’s marine ecosystems through reframing marine conservation issues. The outcomes of this grant include increased understanding of key stakeholders’ views on marine conservation, the state of marine ecosystems, and preferred management solutions in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Dec. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to the David Suzuki Foundation supports an integrated approach to protecting wild salmon populations along the British Columbia coast. Outcomes for this grant include conversion of the Wild Salmon Policy to an ecosystem-based management regime, establishment of the Salmon Stewardship Network as an effective self-sustaining entity, as well as modeling and a report of sea lice dispersal. | | University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
New technologies to query the behavior of individual microbial cells that form a symbiosis with an animal host | $2,468,000 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $2,468,000 | Feb. 2013 |
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In support of developing technologies to visualize, manipulate, and explore the behavior of individual bacterial cells that form a mutually beneficial symbiosis with a squid. Funds will be used to create a high sensitivity sequencing instrument prototype and to develop new gene expression and microscopy methods to allow tracking how symbiotic bacteria change their behavior when transitioning from a seawater ecosystem to become an integral part of the squid host’s tissues. | | Conservation International
Metrics for Conservation and Human Well-Being | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 |
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This grant will enable Conservation International to create a metrics framework focused on the conservation of natural capital to sustain human well-being, implement this framework within the organization, and disseminate products and results to the broader community of practice in conservation, development, and other sectors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To support the implementation of approaches that incorporate natural capital into policy and decision making at various scales and address linkages between ecosystems and the economy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,479,879 | Jul. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM)’s core and partner institutions to collect and incorporate data into modeling efforts and translate them into policy and conservation interventions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $198,323 | May 2012 |
Purpose
To develop a technically sound, broadly acceptable approach to estimating exploitation rates for fisheries in each country around the world, as well as an approach to estimating maximum fisheries production for each ocean area, which can serve as the global standard for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other groups. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $210,000 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports detailed business planning and demand assessment for significantly scaling up the Verde Ventures Fund as a legally-separate investment fund for financing environmentally sustainable small- and medium-sized businesses that benefit healthy ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $332,785 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
To enable the processing of the United States Geological Service Landsat archive to make it publicly available in a cloud computing platform and database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $12,613,000 | Jul. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support Conservation International’s efforts in the Guiana Shield region to continue implementing a large-scale comprehensive approach to place under effective protection the largest continuous network of protected areas of Amazonia (~54 million hectares), extending across four countries (Brazil, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela) and including diverse and pristine ecosystems as well as the most endangered species of the northern Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $7,180,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Conservation International will use this grant to implement a large-scale comprehensive approach to protect remaining intact ecosystems and endangered biodiversity in the Cerrado-Pantanal biomes including zero extinction of target species and designated protected areas within and outside of the biodiversity corridors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $23,200,000 | Jan. 2006 |
Purpose This grant is in support of activities of CI's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science involving multidisciplinary data gathering and analysis as well as development of new analytical, monitoring and simulation tools for conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 54 mo. | $12,540,000 | Jan. 2005 |
Purpose This grant will enable CI to answer some fundamental and critical questions regarding Marine Management Areas (MMA) internationally. This funding will help CI to create a MMA Science Program within its Center for Applied Biodiversity Science and in partnership with its Marine Programs Division to research key issues and to seek solutions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $100,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose The Global Conservation Fund (GCF) was established to finance the creation, expansion, and long-term management of protected areas in the world's biodiversity hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas, and coral reef hotspots. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 84 mo. | $121,200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant is designed to expand CI's biodiversity conservation investments in four key regions: The Andes, Brazil/Guianas, Melanesia, and Madagascar. Through the Centers for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC) investment, CI will increase its ability at the corridor level, within the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, to forge strategic partnerships—alliances with communities, NGOs, governments, businesses and other stakeholders—for conservation action. Through the CBCs, CI will deliver technical assistance, provide training, coordinate strategy development, and facilitate access to resources. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $40,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant will support the operations of the first 10—of an anticipated 50—scientific field stations of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) initiative, as well as the initiative's central data management processes. These field stations, to be established in the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, will provide the first standardized set of data on biodiversity collected on the ground in key sites across tropical forest ecosystems globally. | | Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysical Observatory
Imaging supermassive black holes with an Earth-sized radio telescope | $1,777,000 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,777,000 | Feb. 2013 |
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In support of the development of a next-generation high-speed digital data acquisition system for the Event Horizon Telescope—-a worldwide network of millimeter-wave telescopes that will have the greatest resolving power of any astronomical instrument ever assembled, and allow imaging of the "surface" (event horizon) of a supermassive black hole. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,601,290 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of acquiring new knowledge about many astrophysical puzzles, including dark matter, dark energy, the origin and evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and black holes by developing, designing, testing, and manufacturing adjustable grazing incidence optics and developing a CMOS-based detector for the next generation of satellite-based X-ray telescopes. | | UC Davis Foundation
Challenge Grant | $500,000 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $500,000 | Feb. 2013 |
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In support of efforts to attract and accelerate contributions from major donors to the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. | | Resources Legacy Fund
Building Support for Long-term Baylands Restoration Funding | $447,555 | Jan. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $447,555 | Jan. 2013 |
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For business coalition and constituency development to advance long-term funding for San Francisco Bay habitat restoration. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $350,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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Coalition and constituency development to advance long-term funding for San Francisco Bay habitat restoration. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $1,808,071 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
This grant to Resources Legacy Fund is in support of securing a marine spatial planning (MSP) framework for California state waters. Funding will be used to build support for marine spatial planning among targeted audiences (i.e., key policy makers and stakeholders) and to design a good framework. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $953,224 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Resources Legacy Fund (RLF) builds off the recently published law review article that contains an analysis of existing gaps in California’s legal and regulatory marine management system and promotes adoption of Area-Based Management (ABM) to protect California’s marine ecosystems (#1188). With this subsequent grant, RLF will partner with the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University to conduct a deeper evaluation of the scientific and institutional framework necessary for ABM in California state waters and communicate the benefits and opportunities for better stewardship through ABM to key opinion leaders in California. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $121,514 | Aug. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports a small working group of lawyers to perform a legal, regulatory, and institutional gap analysis to understand the existing framework for Area-Based Management in the state waters of California. The outputs include a findings and recommendations document to be used to advance area-based management in California. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $674,450 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant to the Resources Legacy Fund supports the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership Fund. The Resources Legacy Fund is creating a five-year strategic plan poised to advance efforts to develop and implement comprehensive multi-use management in Massachusetts. Outcomes for this grant include formation of the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership Fund (MOPF) and five-year strategy, and development of a science plan to support comprehensive management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $262,500 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Resources Legacy Fund supports the newly created Sierra Nevada Conservancy and will help leverage its impact. The Sierra Nevada supplies over 69% of the water used by California's cities and farms, which makes it one of the most biologically important mountain ranges in North America. Outcomes for this grant include the Sierra Nevada Conservancy’s environmental, strategic, and operating plans as well as increased public and private funding for newly established Sierra Nevada Conservancy efforts. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $180,000 | Feb. 2003 |
Purpose
The Resources Legacy Fund is using this grant to support tidal restoration of the South Bay salt ponds, while maintaining and enhancing wildlife. Outcomes include initial stewardship of the ponds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $50,000 | Jan. 2003 |
Purpose
With this grant, the Resources Legacy Fund developed a plan for conservation of the private lands that are integral to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. | | University of California, San Francisco Office of Sponsored Research
Piloting Graduate Student Internships for Career Exploration (GSICE) | $684,000 | Jan. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $684,000 | Jan. 2013 |
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This grant to the University of California, San Francisco is in support of a scalable and externally evaluated program to address current gaps in graduate training by preparing doctoral students with the professional skills necessary for non-academic careers, dedicated mentorship for exploring nonacademic science careers and hands-on internship experiences in relevant environments. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $1,588,000 | Oct. 2012 |
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In support of the University of California, San Francisco to develop the first-of-its-kind super-resolution cryo-microscope that will allow researchers to co-localize protein and structure within cells in their native state. | | World Wildlife Fund Canada
Tools and solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning Implementation | $1,150,475 | Jan. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $1,150,475 | Jan. 2013 |
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Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,045,066 | Aug. 2012 |
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To advance conditions and relationships that facilitates healthy oceans and the use of Marine Spatial Planning in Canada. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $378,130 | Jun. 2011 |
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This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada supports efforts to improve protection of ecological flows to address the cumulative effects of water diversion on British Columbia’s wild salmon watersheds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $729,613 | Oct. 2010 |
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For the development of science and management tools and business and economic solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning in support of the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,105,625 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada enhances the effectiveness of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations, industry representatives, and other influential Canadians to promote Area-Based Management (ABM) in areas like British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. Through direct engagement, the grant also facilitates government commitment to policy, approaches (including ABM), and platforms that secure resilient and productive marine ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,656,083 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) is using this grant to foster relationships with key stakeholders in the northern region of British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. WWF-Canada is also working to build the capacity for an objective marine science organization that provides a hub of marine ecosystem knowledge in British Columbia, the Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association (PacMARA). Outcomes for this grant include regional stakeholder support and participation in the PNCIMA process, with PacMARA elevated to an independent, accessible, and multi-stakeholder science organization. |
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