The Shared Earth Foundation Grants, FY 2014

The Shared Earth Foundation provided $750,502 to its

39 partners in 2014, primarily to protect endangered species and their habitats, and to support the local people who are their guardians.

Adkins Arboretum

Ridgely, MD

Habitat Enhancement and Ecological Program, including using goats to remove invasive plants.

Alliance for International Reforestation

Atlanta, GA and Chimaltenango, Guatemala

Planting trees in the highlands of Guatemala, to prevent mudslides, reforest project areas, and bring more income to the indigenous Maya peoples of the area.

American Bird Conservancy

The Plains, VA

North with the Spring Project, tracking four bird species along their migratory route up the Mississippi Flyway.

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Cotati, CA

Continued support for ALDF's Criminal Justice and Zero Tolerance for Cruelty programs, which use the courts, laws and individual cases to protect animals from abuse.

$18,000.00

$25,000.00

$4,500.00

$18,000.00

Bat Conservation International $25,000

Austin, TX

To launch Rapid Ecological Assessment program, covering 35 bats on four continents focusing on the most endangered of these important animals.

Center for Environmental Filmmaking

Washington, DC

Promoting the importance of ethical environmental film making in the classroom and the field.

Chesapeake Conservancy

Annapolis, MD

Using corridors to connect lanndscapes and wildlife habitat around the Chesapeake Bay.

Chesapeake Media Services

Seven Valleys, PA

Supporting the Bay Journal, which covers the Chesapeake Bay, providing timely and in-depth envronmental coverage through print, web, radio and syndication services.

Chester River Association

Chestertown, MD

Supporting continued improvements to the Chester River, a major tributary to the Chesapeake Bay.

Clean Water Fund

Washington, DC

$15,000.00

$10,000.00

$5,000.00

$15,000.00

$12,500.00

To support Clean Water Fund's programs in Maryland with special emphasis on issue-based, nonpartisan civic engagement.

Earth Sangha

Fairfax, VA and the Dominican Republic

Support for increasing propagation of native plants in the Washington DC suberban area, and reforesting an area in the Dominican Republic with cash crops to improve the lives of local

Eastern Shore Land Conservancy

Queenstown, MD

15th Annual Planning Conference, bringing planners, elected citizens together to work for sustainable change on Maryland's shore.

$20,000.00

$15,000.00

Environmental Film Festival

Washington, DC

Support for the Environmental Film Festival, 2015, screening 160 over 13 days.

$40,000.00

Environmental Film Festival

Washington, DC

Second annual Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy recognizing the film that best inspires advocacy in response to a compelling environental challenge: to Louis Psihoyos for RACING

Environmental Investigation Agency

Washington, DC

Continuing to document, expose and publicize China's and Japan's noncompliance by an ivory-importing state through strengthening CITES protections for elephants, to re-establish a world-wide ban on the ivory trade.

Houston Zoo

Houston, TX

Supporting Photo Ark, a monumental work by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore to document the world's myriad species as studio portraits.

$15,000.00

$30,000.00

$5,000.00

LEAP

Oakland, CA and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

To support a micro-hydro plant in a small community in Sabah,
Borneo, part of LEAP's Forever Sabah program to make Sabah a truly green state.

$5,000.00

LEAP

Oakland, CA

Sewage Treatment plant training for wastewater operators in Sabah, a Forever Sabah project.

$2,100.00

LEAP

Oakland, CA

Operations

$30,000.00

Lewis & Clark Law School

Portland, OR

The 12th National Animal Law Competition, helping law students hone their legal advocacy skills.

$15,000.00

Lion Guardians $15,000.00

Alexandria, VA, Kenya and Tanzania

To continue work conserving lions in Africa by working closely with Maasai herdsmen, changing the culture to one that does not include killing as a rite of passage; and preventing retribution killing.

National Aquarium in Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

For the Aquarium's Marine Animal Rescue Program, rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing stranded sea turtles, seals and other marine animals along the East Coast; and other purposes.

National Wildlife Federation

Choose Clean Water advocacy for the Chesapeake Bay.

$10,000.00

$12,500.00

Northern Jaguar Project

Tucson, AZ and Sonora, Mexico

Continued work supporting Jaguar Reserve and conservation in
Sonora, Mexico.

Northern Jaguar Project

Tucson, AZ and Sonora, Mexico

Acquisition of Babaco, a ranch in Sonora, Mexico, to be added to the
Northern Jaguar Project's Jaguar Reserve.

Orang Utan Republik Foundation

Santa Monica, CA and Sumatra, Indonesia

Orang utan conservation in Sumatra, Indonesia.

$30,000.00

$30,000.00

$2,000.00

PETA

Norfolk, VA

Promoting humane treatment of horses by manufacturers of antitoxins for human use.

$20,000.00

Rachel's Network

Washington, DC

Promoting women as leaders and stewards of the Earth. $20,000

Red Wolf Coalition

Columbia, NC

Continued conservation of Red Wolves in their home range in North
Carolina, against threats by hunters and other human impacts.

San Antonio Zoo

San Antonio, TX

Continued work testing for the Chytrid fungus in frogs in Chile.

$10,000.00

$10,000.00

Savannah Science Museum $10,000

Savannah, GA

Continued support for the Caretta Research Project, to expand its research focus, educational reach and conservation efforts for the Loggerhead Turtles on Wassaw Island, GA.

Savannah Science Museum

Savannah, Georgia

To enable the Caretta Research Project to participate in the 35th

$2,500.00

International Sea Turtle Sumposium in Turkey.

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Front Royal, VA and Panama

Next step in work to restore Panamanian Golden Frogs to their habitat in Panama: release of a test species.

$20,000.00

Smithsoniand Conservation Biology Institute $15,000.00

Front Royal, VA, Myanmar and Thailand

To support elephant conservation and welfare in Burma and Thailand

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Front Royal, VA and Myanmar

Production of film Burma's Elephants at the Crossroads, educating local Burmese on living in harmony with wild elephants.

Snow Leopard Conservancy

Sonoma, CA and throughout the Himalayas

Conservation of Snow Leopards in 7 of their range countries, working with local communities to value and protect this endangered cat.

Street Sense

Washington, DC

A newspaper of, by and for the homeless, helping them escape homelessness, build work histories, and forge new lives.

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Conservation in the American Southwest

$25,000.00

$25,000.00

$2,000.00

$6,902.00

Upstream Alliance

Annapolis, MD

To launch a program developing leadership skills for the next generation of environmental leaders on the Chesapeake Bay.

Western Environmental Law Center

Eugene, OR

To protect keystone Western predators (wolverine and lynx) and their habitats through litigation, advocacy, and related campaigns.

WildAid

San Francisco, CA and China

Communications campaign in China (TV, billboards, other public education) using well-known Chinese actors and sports heroes, to convince that owning ivory is not socially acceptable. "When the buying stops, the killing can too."

$5,000.00

$30,000.00

$30,000.00

WildAid $30,000.00

San Francisco, CA and China

To reduce demand for Tiger parts in China through a documentary

and associated campaign materials.

Wildlands Network

Seattle, WA

Conservation of corridors for cougars and other wildlife along the
East Coast of the United States.

Wildlife Conservation Network

$30,000.00

$20,000.00

Los Altos, CA and Africa

To Save the Elephants, to continue work persuading China's middle class and newly wealthy to avoid purchasing ivory.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bronx, NY and Brazil

Green Ranching in Brazil's Pantenal, helping cattle ranchers coexist with an abundance of wildlife in this landscape-sized area.

Woodland Park Zoo

Seattle, WA and Papua New Guinea

Conservation of the endangered Tree Kangaroo on the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea and support for education and health benefits as well as self-government, for the local people who are their stewards.

$10,000.00

$10,000.00