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 | Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia
Governance for reduced deforestation. | $1,151,027 | Aug. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $1,151,027 | Aug. 2010 |
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Purpose
Through this grant Imazon will support the establishment of deforestation free cattle production in Para and Mato Grosso, monitor the impacts of cattle sector policies to enable adaptive management of state and federal level processes, enhance monitoring and enforcement of deforestation in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, and secure gains in the Calha Norte Protected areas mosaic. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,373,492 | May 2007 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to contribute to the consolidation of 7.4 million hectares of state forests in the state of Para, Brazil, which were created in December 2006 with support from AAI. And to monitor deforestation within 212 million hectares of protected areas, including indigenous lands, in the Brazilian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,190,000 | Jun. 2004 |
Purpose
Bolstered by the National Forest Program and with support from this grant, Imazon is working to create and manage sustainable forestry areas in Brazil. Outcomes include increased financial and administrative capacity, implementation of a forest sector monitoring system, increased transparency and capacity for enforcement, and a map of priority areas for national forest creation (four million hectares) and dissemination of information to decision-makers and stakeholders. | | Turning Point Initiative Society
Integrating First Nations' Marine Spatial Plans | $2,257,226 | Aug. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $2,257,226 | Aug. 2010 |
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This grant to Coastal First Nations – Great Bear Initiative (GBI) supports enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) 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. | $214,493 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
This grant to Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative (GBI) supports enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) 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. | | Turning Point Initiative Society
Integrating First Nations' Marine Spatial Plans | $214,493 | Aug. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $214,493 | Aug. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant to Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative (GBI) supports enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) 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. | $2,257,226 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
This grant to Coastal First Nations – Great Bear Initiative (GBI) supports enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) 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. | | David Suzuki Foundation
Salmon Market Standards | $329,525 | Aug. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $329,525 | Aug. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant supports the David Suzuki Foundation in increasing the incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve salmon aquaculture and fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $130,334 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of the David Suzuki Foundation’s efforts 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. | | Instituto Floresta Tropical
Brazil Reduced Impact Logging | $594,649 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $594,649 | Jul. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant is in support of the establishment of reduced impact logging practices and the elimination of illegal, conventional logging in Brazilian frontiers of deforestation. Funding will be used to train government, community, and industry stakeholders in reduced impact logging practices, conduct extension events to promote sustainable forestry, and develop locally adapted silvicultural, road building, and timber extraction techniques. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,471,414 | May 2010 |
Purpose
This grant supports a community forestry project in the settlement communities of Moju I and II in the State of Para, Brazil that will serve as a demonstration for forest-based co-management between communities, government, and the timber industry. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,122,947 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
With this grant the Instituto Floresta Tropical (IFT) will train key forest sector stakeholders in sustainable forest management practices, conduct extension events to promote these practices, and conduct applied research to develop locally adapted Reduced Impact Logging methods. As an outcome of this grant, the newly established Brazilian Forest Service, state government managers, industry employees, and community members will implement sustainable forest management in two Forestry Districts, in the Calha Norte and along the Transamazon Highway. This grant will also strengthen IFT as an institution, enabling it to play a stable and expanded role in the development of sustainable forest management in the Brazilian Amazon. | | Conservation International
Enabling the processing and deployment of the USGS Landsat archive for broad public access | $332,785 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $332,785 | Jul. 2010 |
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This grant will enable the processing of the United States Geological Service (USGS) 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. | $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. | 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. | | Living Oceans Society
Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform in BC | $855,783 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $855,783 | Jul. 2010 |
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This grant will support efforts of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform to achieve formal commitments from Canadian governments and the BC aquaculture industry to mitigate negative impacts of open net cage salmon farming and adopt alternative technologies that eliminate the risk to wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $239,835 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Living Oceans Society to partner with a team of scientists to conduct a series of research dives to further describe the functional role of British Columbia’s deep sea corals within the coastal-marine ecosystem. The grant will facilitate science-based interim protection efforts for deep sea corals and unite fisheries management and Area-Based Management (ABM) in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,843,531 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support efforts of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform to achieve formal commitments from the British Columbia Government and the BC aquaculture industry to halt expansion of open net cage salmon farming, mitigate negative impacts and make the transition to closed containment systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Living Oceans Society, as part of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, will fund research on the impacts of sea lice on wild salmon and the economic viability of closed containment production technology. This research will be carried out jointly with industry leader Marine Harvest Canada, consistent with the terms of their Framework for Dialogue. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $578,098 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Through this grant, Living Oceans Society is addressing the need for a formal, effective mechanism for stakeholder awareness and engagement in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. Living Oceans Society and partners are also working to understand the impacts of oil and gas exploration and development on British Columbia’s marine ecosystems. The outcomes of this Grant include a stakeholder engagement mechanism formalized in the PNCIMA process and regional stakeholder support and participation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $500,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Living Oceans Society supports the work of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR). CAAR seeks to reform salmon aquaculture production practices in order to protect wild salmon ecosystems. In January 2006, CAAR entered into a formal "Framework for Dialogue" with farmed salmon producer Marine Harvest This grant will provide CAAR with resources to implement the Framework agreement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,125,000 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant to the Living Oceans Society supports the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform’s efforts to drive the adoption of more sustainable aquaculture practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $453,400 | Oct. 2003 |
Purpose
The Living Oceans Society used this grant to educate major buyers and key local stakeholders in British Columbia about issues related to salmon farming and the need to transition the industry to ecologically acceptable technology and practices. | | University of California, San Francisco Center for the Health Professions
New RN Graduate Hiring Survey | $245,475 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $245,475 | Jul. 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant to the University of California, San Francisco is to conduct an annual evaluation of the plans of California acute care hospitals to hire new RN graduates. This evaluation will provide updated information on the demand for new RN graduates over time and will identify implications for new RN graduates based on an enhanced understanding of RN supply and demand. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 50 mo. | $511,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, San Francisco Center for the Health Professions will be used to support Phase II of the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program. Nurse release time and specific programming aimed at physician and executive engagement will ensure successful implementation of a program for early identification and treatment of sepsis, to reduce inpatient mortality from severe sepsis in eight San Francisco Bay Area adult acute care hospitals by 15 percent. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 35 mo. | $6,475,996 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, San Francisco Center for the Health Professions (CHP) will be used to implement Phase II of the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program (INLP), and continue to develop curriculum that addresses frontline practitioners’ leadership and change management skills, improves medication administration processes, and results in earlier identification and treatment of sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection). It will also increase participation of nurses from the five Bay Area counties in the Regional Nurse Network (RN2). Outcomes include reduction in the rates of medication administration errors, and inpatient mortality from severe sepsis in eight Bay Area adult acute care hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $150,000 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant supports a study of how two information technology systems affect nurses and patient care in Veterans Health Administration hospitals. California hospitals were required to implement information technology solutions by 2005 to reduce or eliminate medication-related errors. Outcomes include a report of the effects of Computerized Patient Record and Bar Code Medication Administration systems in the Veterans Health Administration. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $5,708,450 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
UCSF’s Center for the Health Professions is using this grant to teach leadership and management skills to hospital executives, managers, and nursing staff. Through this program, the Center will also help 16 Bay Area hospitals develop and implement organization-specific strategies to improve nursing staff retention and nursing-related patient care. Outcomes include a 50% improvement in any single effectiveness indicator or an aggregate average of 25% improvement across all indicators in 16 Bay Area hospitals. | | American Association for the Advancement of Science
Office of Science and Technology Policy Fellow | $111,826 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $111,826 | Jul. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant to the American Association for the Advancement of Science is in support of placing a PhD-level science and technology policy fellow in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for one year. Funding will be used to manage fellowship activities in coordination with the grantee’s long-running Congressional and Executive Branch fellowship programs. | | Chabot Space & Science Center
Planning Grant: Chabot Climate Change Teacher Workshops | $310,000 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $310,000 | Jul. 2010 |
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In support of the development of a comprehensive implementation plan to launch the Chabot Climate Change Teacher Workshops in the summer of 2011, which will provide training to teachers on the fundamental concepts of climate change to effectively instruct their 4th-6th grade students across Alameda County. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $850,000 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
This grant will support the development of a cost-effective, replicable model for scaling up the successful Techbridge program, which provides hands-on activities, role models and worksite visits, family outreach, and teacher training to serve girls across the San Francisco Bay Area. National research, robust assessment, and evaluation will be components of the program design and refinement to develop a scalable and sustainable model for expansion and durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $300,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center will support fabrication and installation of Bill Nye’s Climate Laboratory, an exhibition to increase climate change science literacy and engagement in approximately 175,000 youth, ages 8-14, over two years measured by 1) k knowledge of fundamentals of climate science and impact of human energy use; 2) knowledge of sustainable energy technologies; and 3) actions taken to support sustainable energy and reduce their climate impact. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $561,862 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center supports the Techbridge program partnership with the Girl Scouts of Northern California to develop, implement and scale up a two-year, out-of-school curriculum delivery pilot program ("Girls Go Techbridge") in the 10-county Bay Area region, resulting in 1) increased confidence, skills, and interest in science in 2,000-2,500 Bay Area middle school girls; and 2) an expansion of the pilot program to 3 additional Girl Scouts regional councils by the conclusion of this grant period. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,090,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Chabot Space and Science Center supports its Techbridge program. Outcomes include increased participation from girls in science, technology, and engineering. | | Forest Trends
Mobilizing early action during interim phase REDD: Articulating sub-national activities and national frameworks | $484,818 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $484,818 | Jul. 2010 |
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This grant will support Forest Trends in advancing the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation)-plus and forest carbon policy dialogue, both at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the national-level, to reconcile the potential for sub-national project activities to deliver emissions reductions and secure financing within emerging regulatory frameworks. Options assessments will guide legal, technical and financial design elements. Best practice demonstrations will be implemented in key countries to illustrate successful integration of national and sub-national REDD-plus architecture. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $309,252 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant is to support the development of Ghana’s national Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) strategy by targeting key technical and institutional capacity building opportunities and focusing on specific national and sub-national level demonstration activities that will inform relevant policy and increase the likelihood that an effective REDD mechanism will be included in a post-2012 international climate agreement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $504,842 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports Forest Trends to develop a suite of Katoomba events focused on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanisms that aim to improve the capacity of developing countries to carry out REDD activities and build solid REDD frameworks of action in different regions around the world. This grant will convene key international stakeholders, galvanize REDD collaboration via a South to South network of stakeholders, and provide this network with tools and technical support, related to the ongoing activities and opportunities that exist for bringing financing to forests in the form of REDD programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $442,532 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
Forest Trends used this grant to expand the Ecosystem Marketplace, an international website on payments and markets for conservation of ecosystem services. | | Vanderbilt University Medical Center
National Nursing Workforce Research | $676,100 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $676,100 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant supports a portfolio of national nursing workforce research using three national datasets, with the goal of developing improved empirical estimates of future national and regional Registered Nursing (RN) workforce needs. The research will provide new estimates of the factors that affect RN labor force participation and will update estimates of the future supply of RNs. The findings from this research will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals and disseminated nationally. | | Tides Canada Foundation
British Columbia Wild Salmon Conservation – Small Grants Fund | $832,910 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $832,910 | Jun. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant to Tides Canada Foundation will support an agile mechanism for timely small scale investments in grassroots activities aimed at protecting wild salmon in British Columbia. The intention is to capitalize on time-limited opportunities to advance identified strategic outcomes of the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $726,757 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to the Tides Canada Foundation’s British Columbia Marine Planning Fund supports development of a multi-sector Innovative Oceans Partnership in support of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $162,785 | Jun. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant will support Tides Canada Foundation in redesigning and rebuilding its service delivery model to ensure robust and sustainable support to environmental philanthropy in British Columbia’s wild salmon and marine ecosystems. Specifically, it will help fund a comprehensive business planning initiative to guide future organizational development and growth. This planning will help ensure regional capacity to enhance the durability of the conservation outcomes for the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative and the Marine Conservation Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $395,910 | Mar. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to Tides Canada Foundation will provide an agile mechanism for timely small scale investments in grassroots activities aimed at protecting wild salmon in British Columbia. The intention is to capitalize on time-limited opportunities to advance identified strategic outcomes of the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative. Areas of focus include habitat protection in the Taku and Skeena watersheds, as well as harvest and aquaculture reform. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $1,241,635 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Tides Canada Foundation to elevate and secure the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management process. Tides Canada will also facilitate marine conservation Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (ENGO) coordination by partnering with the BC Marine Planning Network, a consortium of five ENGOs, to implement their joint strategic plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $655,000 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
Tides Canada will use this grant to make a strategic acquisition of a guide outfitter business operating in the Taku Watershed in order to advance overall ecosystem conservation and sustainable development goals in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $529,629 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
The Tides Canada Foundation will use this grant to complete and implement a conservation financing deal for the protection of Great Bear Rainforest, and to launch two new organizations (known collectively as the Coast Opportunities Funds) that will manage conservation investments in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,212,150 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Tides Canada Foundation is using this grant to establish a Donor Advised Fund devoted to increasing and sustaining Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (ENGO) capacity, strategic planning, and coordination for British Columbia’s Area-Based Management processes. The key outcome of this grant includes marine conservation ENGO capacity to effectively advance a science-based, stakeholder-driven Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $469,227 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
TWA will work with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation to build community support for ratifying a long-term conservation vision that will help secure the watershed’s valuable salmon resources. Additionally, TWA will conduct education and outreach to government officials and other important stakeholders in order to build support for protecting the Taku watershed from threats posed by the Tulsequah Chief mine and the associated road project. There are two primary outcomes for this project: 1) the Tulsequah Chief mine and associated road are mitigated to maintain salmon ecosystem integrity; and 2) a comprehensive Land Use plan for the Taku River Watershed is ratified. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $600,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
Based on the geographic and strategic priorities identified by the Foundation, Tides Canada will reach into key communities, and identify smaller organizations and individuals that are critical to the success of executing these priorities. This will increase local community support and conservation capacity to generate and sustain effective salmon protection in priority watersheds - Skeena, Stikine, and Taku. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $500,000 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
Tides Canada Foundation is using this grant to support organizational development, facilitation, and strategic coordination for ENGOs, First Nations, anglers, and commercial fisherman concerned with threats to wild salmon ecosystems in Skeena and Stikine watersheds in British Columbia. Outcomes for this grant include expansion of Stikine Conservation Network, development of Tahltan land use vision, and increased capacity of Tahltan and Iskut First Nations to assert a land use vision. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,481 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Tides Canada used this grant to complete the formation of the Rainforest Solutions Project and finalize land use planning processes in the Great Bear Rainforest, which encompasses critical habitat for conserving wild salmon in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $277,525 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Through this grant, the Tides Canada Foundation supports the Transboundary Watershed Alliance's efforts to preserve wild salmon and wild salmon ecosystems in British Columbia's Taku River watershed. Outcomes for this grant include increased Tlingit First Nation conservation profile and capacity to negotiate with other governments and the immobilization of the Tulsequah Chief mine and road development proposal. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $600,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant marks the Foundation's continued and increased support for Tides Canada's Donor Advised Fund. Outcomes for this grant include execution of 12 to 15 additional grants per year, supporting small-scale NGOs focused on salmon habitat protection. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $350,000 | May 2003 |
Purpose
With this grant, Tides Canada facilitates grantmaking to local NGOs working to conserve wild salmon and protect pristine watersheds in British Columbia. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of a donor advised fund to support wild salmon conservation work. | | Center for Quality Systems Improvement
Hospital Readmissions Learning Community | $959,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $959,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant is to create a Readmissions Learning Community (RLC) in which hospitals and their outpatient provider partners (e.g., clinics, physician practices) will confirm and share evidence-based practices (EBP) shown to reduce hospital readmissions. The RLC will achieve the following outputs: 1) participation by at least 50% of 5-county SFBA hospitals and 2) collaborative development of detailed plans to implement the EBP, each designed to reduce both 30- and 90-day hospital readmission rates by at least 30% (by no later than December 31, 2013). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports research in two to three San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals on the impact of high patient volume days on the increased likelihood of preventable patient harm. The research will identify high patient volume points at which patient harm is significantly more likely to occur. Following identification of these points, an actionable program for SFBA hospitals will be developed and piloted with the goal of reducing preventable harm during high volume days in at least three SFBA hospitals. | | Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil
Pan-Amazonian Participatory Mapping and Zoning Seminar | $263,425 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $263,425 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant will support the convening and facilitation of a Pan-Amazonian seminar that will bring together civil society organizations, indigenous mapping technicians, and government policy-makers to present, discuss and systematize their methodologies of participatory mapping and zoning of indigenous territories in the Amazon Basin. This seminar proposes to develop a methodological synthesis of these varied experiences, disseminate the results in printed and electronic form and contribute to policy formulation regarding forest management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 51 mo. | $1,876,504 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
Through this grant, the Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB) will enable effective co-management of protected areas in the BR-319 Frontier Zone by creating and training local associations and management councils, and by restructuring two local NGOs. IEB will also secure its own financial stability through the development and implementation of a fund-raising strategy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $170,259 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant provides supplemental funding to complete the activities of current Grant #532 to the Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB), addressing the discrepancy between the original budget in local currency and the amount received in US Dollars due to exchange rate fluctuations. Funding will cover the costs of committed undergraduate and technical school small grants for research and study, and three professionalizing courses in the areas of Environmental Law, Economic Tools for Conservation, and Communication and the Environment. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,496,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Instituto Internacional de Educacao do Brasil is using this grant to improve planning, implementation, and management of on-the-ground conservation throughout Amazonia. Outcomes include publication of 54 theses and three books on the Andes-Amazon, 54 scholarships to Brazilian students (39 MS, 15 PhD) for domestic and international programs, 125 grants to undergraduates for fieldwork and technical training toward their BS degrees, and 60 professional development grants enabling 425 professionals to participate in courses on Environmental Law, Communications and Environment, and Economic Tools for Conservation. | | Chabot Space & Science Center
Techbridge: Scale-up and Pilot Grant | $850,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $850,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant will support the development of a cost-effective, replicable model for scaling up the successful Techbridge program, which provides hands-on activities, role models and worksite visits, family outreach, and teacher training to serve girls across the San Francisco Bay Area. National research, robust assessment, and evaluation will be components of the program design and refinement to develop a scalable and sustainable model for expansion and durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $310,000 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the development of a comprehensive implementation plan to launch the Chabot Climate Change Teacher Workshops in the summer of 2011, which will provide training to teachers on the fundamental concepts of climate change to effectively instruct their 4th-6th grade students across Alameda County. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $300,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center will support fabrication and installation of Bill Nye’s Climate Laboratory, an exhibition to increase climate change science literacy and engagement in approximately 175,000 youth, ages 8-14, over two years measured by 1) k knowledge of fundamentals of climate science and impact of human energy use; 2) knowledge of sustainable energy technologies; and 3) actions taken to support sustainable energy and reduce their climate impact. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $561,862 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center supports the Techbridge program partnership with the Girl Scouts of Northern California to develop, implement and scale up a two-year, out-of-school curriculum delivery pilot program ("Girls Go Techbridge") in the 10-county Bay Area region, resulting in 1) increased confidence, skills, and interest in science in 2,000-2,500 Bay Area middle school girls; and 2) an expansion of the pilot program to 3 additional Girl Scouts regional councils by the conclusion of this grant period. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,090,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Chabot Space and Science Center supports its Techbridge program. Outcomes include increased participation from girls in science, technology, and engineering. | | Life Sciences Research Foundation
Biological sciences post-doctoral fellowships | $684,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $684,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant to the Life Sciences Research Foundation will support prestigious post-doctoral fellowships for four top researchers in biological science disciplines typically underfunded by other granting sources. The fellowships will last three years. | | University of California, San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine
Impact of Health Coaching in an Outpatient Clinic: A Randomized Controlled Trial | $1,429,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,429,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of a Randomized Controlled Trial to test the efficacy of a Primary Care Health Coaching intervention at the Mission Neighborhood Health Clinic (MNHC) in San Francisco, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and/or Hypertension. By implementing the Health Coaching intervention at the clinic, the project is anticipated to result in lower rates and/or mitigation of adverse events and complications that can result from these illnesses. The impact of the coaching program will be demonstrated through a Randomized Controlled Trial and cost-benefit analysis which will be disseminated through publication in a peer-reviewed journal and/or at a national meeting including a cost-benefit analysis | | University of Pittsburgh, Learning Research and Development Center
Measuring the Level of Science Activation of Young Learners | $380,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $380,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant will support the development of a valid, reliable and scalable assessment system to measure efficiently how well children in grades K-5 have learned science in ways that develop and retain their ability to engage in critical inquiry in later years. The University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center will partner with the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley to develop an assessment system that (1) determines whether the Activated Young Science Learner (AYSL) framework effectively and efficiently captures children’s persistent engagement in science learning and critical inquiry, (2) defines how AYSL can be measured with instruments drawn from a broad range of preceding science learning efforts, and (3) identifies and cross-validates a scalable set of measures that could be used to transform the design and assessment of early science experiences for children ages 5-11 across informal and formal settings. | | The Nature Conservancy
Making Global Scale Conservation Datasets available on "Earth Engine | $299,550 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $299,550 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant to The Nature Conservancy will help make global-scale conservation datasets publicly available in a cloud computing platform and geospatial database facility provided by Google’s Earth Engine, and will also foster long-term open data sharing mechanisms and commitments by the owner community. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $600,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for their role in a) continued preparation of the Forever Costa Rica conservation financing deal through the end of 2009 - the anticipated closing date, and b) one year of follow-up monitoring and support to Costa Rica's protected area agency (SINAC), and the newly established trust (Forever Costa Rica Association). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $5,000,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the innovative conservation finance initiative called Forever Costa Rica. Through this public-private partnership effort Costa Rica will establish an ecologically representative and effectively managed system of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine protected areas, with a stable source of funding, making Costa Rica the first developing country in the world to meet its goals under the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity’s Program of Work on Protected Areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $249,705 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy will support a partnership with New England fisheries sectors to pilot permit banks, providing a model for achieving conservation goals that align with community objectives for maximum durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This preparation grant for the Forever Costa Rica Initiative, to the Nature Conservancy (TNC), will ensure that all conditions and requirements necessary to allow for a simultaneous close of the partners are met and that a successful conservation financing deal is launched in 2009, thus positioning Costa Rica to be the first developing country to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity goals for protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $334,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to support its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program. GIS are used to produce maps, conduct spatial analysis of landscapes, and manage conservation data. Outcomes include training biodiversity conservation managers in the use of GIS. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,994,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the Osa region, which harbors Costa Rica's remaining significant populations of jaguars, tapirs, white-lipped peccaries, and harpy eagles. Outcomes for this grant include stabilization and protection of 360,000 acres in Costa Rica (Piedras Blancas and Corcovado National Parks and the Osa Biological Corridor) and increased conservation capacity among local groups, NGOs, and governmental agencies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $268,714 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to develop a fundraising campaign for the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,350,000 | Feb. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the infrastructure build-out for a scientific research station in the South Pacific. Outcomes for this grant include the establishment of a station on Palmyra Atoll to facilitate research of local, regional, and global importance. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,499,084 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant will help The Nature Conservancy and its partners facilitate the creation and management of Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru. The new park will border the existing Serra do Divisor National Park in Brazil, forming a large bi-national park that protects a contiguous landscape with some of the highest levels of biodiversity found in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include creation of the national park in Peru (3.2 million hectares) and reduction of biodiversity threats, establishment of a minimum of five indigenous reserves in the neighboring Brazilian state of Acre, and solid conservation management for the territories. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $10,000,000 | Apr. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports a Program Related Investment. Outcomes include the acquisition of Palmyra Atoll. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to support management and organizational changes behind its Conservation by Design initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $35,000 | Jun. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to initiate plans for establishing a research station on Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific. | | Carnegie Institution of Washington
Advanced high resolution forest/carbon mapping in the Colombian Amazon with CAO-Lidar | $591,750 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $591,750 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant is in support of demonstrating field methods for forest and carbon monitoring in Colombia, by providing advanced guidelines and training for the integration of the various field, airborne, and space-based approaches to forest monitoring in accordance with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Tier 3 level. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $5,250,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Global Ecology will use this grant to develop and integrate a next generation spectrometer into the Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System (AToMS). This remote sensing system will have the ability to accurately identify the chemical, structural and taxonomic makeup of tropic forests at an unprecedented scale and level of detail. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,590,718 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Carnegie Institution for Science will increase the technical capacity to implement transparent, standardized monthly and annual satellite-based monitoring of forest disturbance and deforestation across the Andes Amazon region by providing training and basic equipment for the CLASLite system to both government agencies and the NGO community. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Apr. 2007 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institute of Washington will use this grant to determine baseline forest conditions, selective logging as well as outright deforestation in Peru and enable Moore grantees and other organizations to monitor, map and report on these variables annually. The outcome is to ensure that forest monitoring by even the smallest NGO or government office in Peru can be done in a transparent and replicable way. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 84 mo. | $4,263,239 | Nov. 2002 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institution is using this grant to establish the Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University. | | Pacific Salmon Foundation
Skeena Watershed Monitoring Baseline Research 2 | $852,864 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $852,864 | May 2010 |
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This grant supports enhancement of the scientific baseline information available to Skeena watershed stakeholders in developing recommendations for implementation of the harvest reform provisions in Canada’s new Wild Salmon Policy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $408,957 | Jun. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports the full implementation in the Skeena watershed of the harvest reform provisions in Canada’s new Wild Salmon Policy. It will do this by enhancing scientific baseline information available to Skeena watershed stakeholders in developing recommendations to government agencies regarding wild salmon assessment, monitoring and management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $276,961 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the full implementation in the Skeena watershed of the harvest reform and habitat protection provisions of Canada’s new Wild Salmon Policy. It will do this by enhancing scientific baseline information available for assessment, monitoring and decision-making by the Skeena Watershed Congress multi-stakeholder process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $288,109 | Feb. 2008 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the Pacific Salmon Foundation is to develop an Independent Science Review Panel for the Skeena River fishery in British Columbia. The primary output of this project will be a report that describes the strengths and weaknesses of current fisheries practice and makes recommendations for fisheries reform. | | Watershed Watch
Wild Salmon Policy Implementation | $578,280 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $578,280 | May 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant is to support Watershed Watch Salmon Society in 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 |
Purpose
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. | | Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Magnet Re-designation Program | $165,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $165,000 | May 2010 |
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This grant will support Stanford Hospital & Clinics’ application for Magnet re-designation, leading to re-designation by December 31, 2011. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $75,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Stanford Hospital & Clinics ("Stanford Hospital") is to support the planning required to develop a patient surveillance system that can proactively identify patients at risk for significant clinical deterioration. The output of this grant will be a proposal, including timeline and budget, to implement and evaluate a patient surveillance system. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Stanford Hospital and Clinics is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Health Plan of San Mateo
Care Transitions Model Implementation Plan | $117,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $117,000 | May 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant is to support development of a plan for fully implementing the Care Transitions (CT) Model with Health Plan of San Mateo patients hospitalized at San Mateo Medical Center. The immediate goal of the grant is to double patient participation in the Care Transitions Model at SMMC, and the long-term goal is to reduce 30-day and 90-day readmission rates for Health Plan of San Mateo patients hospitalized at San Mateo Medical Center by at least 30%. | | Instituto Floresta Tropical
Forest Families II: Co-managing Community Forests | $1,471,414 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,471,414 | May 2010 |
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This grant supports a community forestry project in the settlement communities of Moju I and II in the State of Para, Brazil that will serve as a demonstration for forest-based co-management between communities, government, and the timber industry. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $594,649 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of the establishment of reduced impact logging practices and the elimination of illegal, conventional logging in Brazilian frontiers of deforestation. Funding will be used to train government, community, and industry stakeholders in reduced impact logging practices, conduct extension events to promote sustainable forestry, and develop locally adapted silvicultural, road building, and timber extraction techniques. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,122,947 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
With this grant the Instituto Floresta Tropical (IFT) will train key forest sector stakeholders in sustainable forest management practices, conduct extension events to promote these practices, and conduct applied research to develop locally adapted Reduced Impact Logging methods. As an outcome of this grant, the newly established Brazilian Forest Service, state government managers, industry employees, and community members will implement sustainable forest management in two Forestry Districts, in the Calha Norte and along the Transamazon Highway. This grant will also strengthen IFT as an institution, enabling it to play a stable and expanded role in the development of sustainable forest management in the Brazilian Amazon. | | Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Summer Courses Dedicated Sequencing Pipeline | $766,296 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $766,296 | May 2010 |
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This grant to Pennsylvania State University will create a dedicated "next generation" DNA sequencing pipeline for five microbial diversity summer courses supported by MMI. Students in those courses will learn to generate and interpret sequence data from advanced sequencing technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,008,000 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will be used by Pennsylvania State University (Penn State University) to support the "Save the Devil" breeding Project. The Tasmanian Devil is under threat of extinction due to an unusual highly infectious facial tumor. The goal of the grant is to generate a draft version of the Tasmanian Devil genome (DNA sequence. This information will be used by scientists and nature conservationists to tackle the cause, route and ultimate prevention of this devastating infectious cancer and to reestablish the Tasmanian Devil population. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $2,036,298 | Oct. 2007 |
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This grant to Pennsylvania State University will be used to increase publicly-available marine microbial DNA sequence information through the creation of a dedicated "next generation" marine microbiology DNA sequencing resource. A pyrosequencing instrument, technical support and required reagents for 75 project runs will support a two-year "experimental sequencing" pipeline dedicated to MMI grantees. New knowledge and DNA sequence information from genomics and metagenomics projects will be deposited into CAMERA for public access. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $184,446 | May 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to Pennsylvania State University supports a metagenomics comparative study. Outcomes for this grant include preparation of small and large insert libraries and DNA sequence via chain termination and GS20 methods, and analysis of the data and comparison of the results between library and library-less DNA preparations.
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Enabling GIS modeling tools for conservation and planning compatible with "Earth Engine" | $451,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $451,000 | May 2010 |
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This grant will support Clark Labs to develop a new cloud-computing system for the origination, planning, and evaluation of REDD projects from its Land Change Modeler software system. The new cloud-computing system will be publicly available in a geospatial database facility provided by Google’s Earth Engine. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $617,457 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Clark University, jointly funded with Google.org, will provide the basis for the development of Early Warning Systems for ecosystems, food, and health security applications. Outcomes include the ability to describe and monitor short-term and interannual climate variability (the most significant element of uncertainty in ecosystems, food, and health security) given that over the past two decades, it has become evident that major modes of climate variability, known as teleconnections, can be used both to study these sources of uncertainty. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $644,395 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Clark University is using this grant to develop an early warning protocol and system that uses remotely sensed data to monitor and analyze biodiversity. Outcomes for this grant include creation of an early-warning system that employs satellite data to infer changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function available to the global environmental community. | | Wild Salmon Center
State of the Salmon | $690,875 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $690,875 | May 2010 |
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This grant to State of the Salmon, a partnership between the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust, aims to facilitate the transfer of information, encourage the use of best management practices, and introduce better tools to managers and other stakeholders in salmon ecosystems throughout the Pacific Rim. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $6,840,589 | Mar. 2008 |
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This grant will support the conservation of wild salmon and wild salmon habitat in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $354,448 | Jul. 2007 |
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