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RECENT GRANTS

Conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef

(Click here or scroll down for Leadership for
Adolescent and Reproductive Health Program
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Amigos de Sian Ka’an
Cancun, Mexico

$50,000 over one year (2009)
For protecting the Mesoamerican Reef by Saving Quintana Roo's Aquifer.
www.amigosdesiankaan.org

Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental
Cancun, Mexico

$249,000 over one year (2008)
For protecting the Mesoamerican Reef through the application of law.
www.cemda.org.mx

Conservation International Foundation in partnership with Amigos de Sian Ka’an
Arlington, VA

$470,133 over one year (2009) and
Coral Reef Alliance
San Francisco, CA

$120,000 over one year (2009)
For the “Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative:” a multi-institutional effort to significantly reduce the tourism industry’s environmental footprint and maximize its contributions to the protection of the Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion.
www.conservation.org
www.coral.org

Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY

$233,655 over one year (2008)
For the Mesoamerican Reef Sustainable Fisheries Initiative: An Incentive-Based Approach for Belize.
www.environmentaldefense.org

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Eugene, OR

$154,200 over one year (2008)
For building capacity of environmental law groups in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
www.elaw.org

Forest Trends Association
Washington, DC

$50,000 over one year (2009)
For Innovation Financing for Marine Conservation: Payment for Ecosystem Services in the Mesoamerican Reef Region of Mexico.
www.forest-trends.org

Mesoamerican Reef Fund
Guatemala City, Guatemala

$125,000 over one year (2009)
For general support.
www.marfund.org

Mesoamerican Reef Fund
Guatemala City, Guatemala

$131,100 over one year (2008)
For a Special Enforcement Program for the Southern Belize Barrier Reef Complex.
www.marfund.org

Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC

$95,176 over one year (2008)
For the Healthy Mesoamerican Reef Ecosystem Initiative.
www.healthyreefs.org

Toledo Institute for Development and Environment
Punta Gorda, Belize

$150,000 over one year (2009)
For general support.
www.tidebelize.org

Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, NY

$219,600 over one year (2009)
For A Sustained Recovery: Restoring Spawning Aggregations, Groupers, and Sharks on the Mesoamerican Reef.
www.wcs.org

World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC

$650,000 over two years (2008)
For reducing agricultural effluent threats in the Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion through the adoption of ‘better management’ practices by agro-industry.
www.wwfus.org

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Leadership for Adolescent and Reproductive Health

Advocates for Youth
Washington, DC

$125,000 over one year (2009)
For general support.
www.advocatesforyouth.org

Advocates for Youth
Washington, DC

$20,000 over one year (2009)
For Experiential Advocacy: Channeling Life Stories into Social Change.
www.advocatesforyouth.org

Americans for Informed Democracy
Baltimore, MD

$60,000 over sixteen months (2008)
For Innovators for a Sustainable World, a campus-based communications and advocacy campaign to raise awareness about youth reproductive health globally.
www.aidemocracy.org

Americans for UNFPA
New York, NY

$15,000 over one year (2009)
For the Student Award for the Health and Dignity of Women
www.americansforunfpa.org

Feminist Majority Foundation
Arlington, VA

$45,000 over one year (2009)
For the Global Reproductive Rights Campus Campaign
www.feminist.org

The Guttmacher Institute
New York, NY

$62,400 over one year (2008)
For setting the evidence-based U.S. policy agenda needed to ensure sexual and reproductive health among youth.
www.guttmacher.org

International Planned Parenthood Federation
Western Hemisphere Region
New York, NY

$110,000 over seventeen months (2009)
For working with the Belize Family Life Association to increase access to youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services.
www.ippfwhr.org

Island Press-Center for Resource Economics
Washington, DC

$25,000 over one year (2009)
For the Population Justice Project.
www.islandpress.com

Pathfinder International
Watertown, MA

$50,000 over one year (2008)
For A Campaign to Protect the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youth in Developing Countries.
www.pathfind.org

PCI-Media Impact
New York, NY

$15,000 over 7 months (2009)
For Technical Assistance to "Together We Can" in Belize.
www.population.org

Planned Parenthood Federation of America
New York, NY

$65,000 over one year (2008)
To support the organization’s international advocacy work.
www.plannedparenthood.org

Population Action International
Washington, DC

$25,000 over one year (2009)
For The Young People's Working Group: Promoting Leadership, Awareness, and Advocacy of Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Worldwide.
www.populationaction.org

The Population Council
New York, NY

$100,000 over two years (2008)
To document the impact of interventions to build safe spaces and social capital among indigenous girls and adolescents in Guatemala.
www.popcouncil.org

Population Services International
Washington, DC

$125,175 over one year (2009)
For the Regional Adolescent Reproductive Health Program in Central America and Mexico.
www.psi.org

Public Health Institute/
International Health Programs
Oakland, CA

$1,890,000 over three years (2007)
For the continuation of the Youth Leadership in Sexual and Reproductive Health (GOJoven) Program, a leadership development program for young professionals involved in adolescent reproductive health in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Quintana Roo, Mexico.
www.ihp.org and
www.gojoven.org

Public Health Institute
International Health Programs
Oakland, CA

$96,342 over seventeen months (2009)
For a partnership with the Comprehensive Center for Human Sexuality for Adolescents and Youth (CHISPAS) in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
www.ihp.org and
www.chispas.org.mx/2008/?page_id=4

Public Health Institute/
International Health Programs
Oakland, CA

$234,572 over three years (2009)
For an academic scholarship program for GoJoven alumni fellows.
www.ihp.org and
www.gojoven.org

Public Health Institute/
International Health Programs
Oakland, CA

$48,000 over two years (2008)
For the Yeny Mendoza Youth Leadership Academy, designed to increase the capacity of the Petén Network of Youth Leaders in SRH in Petén, Guatemala.
www.ihp.org

Puntos de Encuentro
Managua, Nicaragua

$60,000 over one year (2009)
For Capacity and Alliance Building for Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health in Honduras and Guatemala
www.puntos.org.ni/english

The Sierra Club Foundation
San Francisco, CA

$50,000 over one year (2008)
For the Campus Outreach Campaign of the Global Population & Environment Program.
www.sierraclub.org

Students Partnership Worldwide
London, England

$58,000 over one year (2008)
For young leaders to advocate for the United Kingdom to increase support for global sexual and reproductive health programs for youth.
www.spw.org

United Nations Foundation
Washington, DC

$25,000 over one year (2008)
For Reclaiming Leadership: Boosting U.S. Support for Global Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
www.unfoundation.org

World Population Foundation
Hilversum, The Netherlands

$60,000 over one year (2008)
For support to the European Youth Network on Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YouAct).
www.youact.org

Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Ottawa, Canada

$65,000 over one year (2008)
For the International Youth Strategy for Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health.
www.youthcoalition.org

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