THE SHARED EARTH FOUNDATION GRANTS
THE SHARED EARTH FOUNDATION GRANTS FISCAL YEAR 2016
Fiscal Year 2016
Name Grant Amount
Alliance for International Reforestation
Atlanta, GA
Continued assistance restoring forests in the Guatemalan highlands, promoting agroecology, assisting with the establishment of native tree nurseries and their transfer to the hillsides.  
$20,000.00
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Cotati, CA
ALDF's Criminal Justice Program and the Zero Tolerance for Cruelty campaign, providing assistance to lawyers, prosecutors and law enforcement personnel, and other support to prevent cruelty and bring perpetrators to justice.
$20,000.00
Bat Conservation International
Austin, TX
Continued conservation of imperiled bat species, supporting protections for endangered bats endemic to Mexico and Papua New Guinea.
$30,000.00
Bay Journal Media
Seven Valleys, PA
To help this multi-media organization dedicated to protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, facilitating the addition of a development staffer to help the organization reach its full potential.
$25,000.00
Bay Journal Media
Seven Valleys, PA
General support for Chesapeake media, including the Bay Journal, Bay Journeys, Radio and TV, Internet and Films.
$5,000.00
Bay Journal Media
Seven Valleys, PA
For the film RISING TIDE, on Sea Level Rise in the Chesapeake Bay and beyond.
$25,000.00
Chesapeake Legal Alliance
Annapolis,MD
CLA provides free legal services and information to individuals, community groups and organizations to protect the Chesapeake Bay, holding governments accountable, advising on better laws, and providing legal firepower where necessary.
$25,000.00
Clean Water Fund
Washington, DC
Protecting Maryland's waters and the Chesapeake Bay to defend strong anti-pollution laws through citizen and local jurisdiction programs.
$15,000.00
Defenders of Wildlife
Washington, DC
Big Data, a unique, advanced, in-house-developed data crunching technology to help Federal agencies administer the Endangered Species recovery programs.
$35,000.00
Earth Sangha
Fairfax, VA 
Support for native plant nurseries in Virginia and the Dominican Republic.
$10,000.00
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
Easton, MD
17th Annual Planning Conference, "Food Fight!  Healthy? Sustainable?  Realistic" bringing together planners and decision-makers from six counties on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Eastern Shore.
$15,000.00
Environmental Film Festival
Washington, DC
2017 Environmental Film Festival and Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy.
$30,000.00
Environmental Investigation Agency
Washington, DC
Focusing anti-ivory poaching campaign on Japan as a major conduit of illegal ivory trade to China; to persuade the Japanese Government to enact a domestic ban on ivory trade.
$30,000.00
LEAP
Oakland, CA
Freshwater for the Future, comprising all aspects of the Telupid watershed, including hydrology, aquatic life, human wastes, enlisting and building capacity for the local communities to participate with government and LEAP.
$10,000.00
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
For a visiting professor to the College, to teach, mentor and advise students, preparing them to enter the field of animal law.
$15,000.00
The Maryland/DC Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
Bethesda, MD
Promoting stormwater runoff reduction in the District of Columbia through nature-based solutions, tree planting and involving youth and diverse communities in the work.
$25,000.00
MDLCV
Annapolis. MD
Saving the Chesapeake's Cow Nose Rays, a state legislative campaign to prevent the large-scale slaughter of these animals from being clubbed to death wholesale.
$20,000.00
National Aquarium in Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
To continue the Marine Animal Rehabilitation Program, rescuing injured and cold-stunned sea turtles, seals and other marine life; and contribute to a major improvement of the Aquarium's rehabilitation capacity.
$15,000.00
National Wildlife Federation
Annapolis, MD
Choose Clean Water:  Restoring the Chesapeake Bay
$15,000.00
Northern Jaguar Project
Tucson, AZ
Support for Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora, Mexico, and for work convincing surrounding cattle ranchers to protect Jaguars and other large carnivores in this is rugged area of Northern Mexico.
$30,000.00
Northern Jaguar Project
Tucson, AZ
Opposition to the Border Wall, to
 assure that wildlife, including jaguars, can continue to pass unimpeded between international borders.
$5,000.00
Orang Utan Republik Foundation
Santa Monica, CA
Conserving Orang Utans, an endangered species, in Sumatra.
$5,000.00
Rachel's Network
Washington, DC
Supporting women leaders in environmental philanthropy.
$20,000.00
Rainforest Trust
Warrenton, VA
To build capacity of local organizations in Madagascar to protect critical sites for amphibians on this large but threatened island.
$20,000.00
Red Wolf Coalition
Columbia, NC
Red Wolf conservation, educating and advocating for the long-term survival of Red Wolves in North Carolina
$10,000.00
Sassafras Environmental Education Center
Queenstown, MD
To help fund a staffer for the SEEC, which partners with local organizations, the agricultural community, watermen, historians, scientists and educators to increase environmental literacy for young people on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
$5,000.00
Savannah Science Museum
Atlanta, GA
To cover the costs of visit to Wassaw Island
Savannah Science Museum
Savannah, GA
Protecting nesting and hatching beaches on Wassaw Island for endangered Loggerhead and other Sea Turtles 
$15,000.00
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Front Royal, VA
Support for DNA Bar Code, permitting wildlife products (traditional medicines and others) to be analyzed for possible DNA from endangered species.
$24,000.00
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Front Royal, VA
Continued work to assure conservation and welfare of domestic elephants in Thailand and Myanmar.
$25,000.00
Snow Leopard Conservancy
Sonoma, CA
Conservation of Snow Leopards in their Himalayan Range
$25,000.00
Snow Leopard Conservancy
Sonoma, CA
Challenge grant for Gala, raising funds for distribution in Mongolia of educational materials on Snow Leopards.
$25,000.00
Street Sense
Washington, DC
Continued support for assistant to Executive Director for this newspaper of, by and for the homeless in Washington, DC
$20,000.00
Upstream Alliance
Annapolis, MD
Funding two programs: the Expedition Network, building the next generation of environmental leaders; and the School Superintendents' Environmental Education Collaborative, whose long-term goal is to graduate environmentally literate students nationwide.
$25,000.00
Western Environmental Law Center
Eugene, OR
Predator Protection Program, to assure Endangered Species Act protections for lynx and wolverines; to end illegal and recreational trapping of lynx and protect habitat for these rare animals.
$15,000.00
Wildlands Network
Seattle, WA
Returning predators (cougars, red wolves, gray wolves and others) to eastern ecosystems and building a Wildlands network connecting potential habitats along the Appalachian Trail.
$20,000.00
Wildlife Guardians
Washington, DC
Work with Maasai, training Lion Guardians in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, and to expand training programs into Tanzania, Rwanda and Zimbabwe.  
$15,000.00
Wildlife Media
Bellingham, WA
For distribution of BEARTREK, which highlights the scientists and their bears in Malaysia, Peru, Canada and the US.
$30,000.00
World Parrot Trust
Lake Alfred, FL
Release and monitoring of Great Green Macaws in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest, Guayaquil, Ecuador
$10,000.00
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