Habitat Conservation

IDENTIFY CRITICAL LANDS AND WATERS

Technical Assistance, Data Collection & Sharing, Public Education & Outreach

America’s Wildlife Association for Resources Education
for Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies

$800,000 over 4 years
Washington, DC – To support a set of activities aimed at updating state wildlife action plans to account for climate change and advancing implementation of the action plans. The grantee will develop national guidance to incorporate climate change into the action plans, identify national effectiveness measures for plan implementation, and coordinate conservation of amphibians and reptiles at risk from climate change. 
www.fishwildlife.org 

American Planning Association

$50,000 over 6 months
Chicago, IL – To support a census of planning in communities, counties and regions that contain priority conservation areas for wildlife habitat protection.
www.planning.org

Conservation Resources Inc.

$300,000 over 2 years
Chester, NJ – To expand the efforts of the Raritan-Piedmont Wildlife Habitat Partnership to implement the state wildlife action plan in Central New Jersey.
www.conservationresourcesinc.org

Defenders of Wildlife

$1,200,001 over 4 years
Washington, DC – To assist states in developing strategies to address the impacts of climate change, with a special focus on the issue of corridors and connectivity; a synthesis guide to mapping priority habitat areas in state wildlife action plans; and workshops on wildlife and transportation planning.
www.defenders.org

National Wildlife Federation

$1,200,281 over 4 years
Reston, VA – To help states revise their wildlife action plans to account for climate change including assisting agencies in selected pilot states with identifying and assessing the species and habitats most vulnerable to climate change, and identifying and promoting best practices in planning for climate change.
www.nwf.org

NatureServe

$600,000 over 4 years
Arlington, VA – To launch a science-based initiative that will assist state wildlife agencies as they update their wildlife action plans to account for a changing climate. NatureServe will classify and map priority wildlife habitats, incorporate connected corridors of wildlife habitat into wildlife action plans, and assess the expected impacts of climate change on plant species.
www.natureserve.org

Open Space Institute, Inc.

$100,000 over 1 year
New York, NY – To support the Outdoors America Campaign’s research and education to assist with the establishment of a fully funded land and water conservation fund.
www.osiny.org

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

$399,690 over 4 years
Washington, DC – To use multimedia public communications tools to inform sportsmen of the effects of climate change on fish and wildlife, and inspire additional support for integrating and implementing climate change strategies as part of the state wildlife action plans.
www.trcp.org

Trust for Public Land

$75,000 over 1 year
San Francisco, CA – To research how Clean Water State Revolving Funds could be accessed for land conservation.
www.tpl.org

IMPLEMENT LAND PROTECTION

Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

Environmental Defense Fund

$2 million over 4 years
New York, NY – To renew support for the Center for Conservation Incentives to better align wildlife goals and actions from the state wildlife action plans with federal agricultural conservation incentives program dollars.
www.edf.org/cci

The Nature Conservancy

$185,000 over 2 years
Arlington, VA – To improve wetlands mitigation practices through watershed planning in partnership with Environmental Law Institute, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
www.nature.org

Regional Plan Association

$400,000 over 3 years
New York, NY – To help improve the integration of wildlife conservation with land use planning and infrastructure investments in 13 states across the Northeast, from Maine to Virginia.
www.rpa.org

The Trust for Public Land

$600,000 over 3 years
San Francisco, CA – To support six pilot projects under TPL's Greenprints program that will help local communities incorporate the geographic habitat priorities into local planning.
www.tpl.org

BUILD CONSERVATION KNOWLEDGE

Training & Education

Land Trust Alliance

$1,000,000 over 4 years
Washington, DC – To provide support for preparing land trusts for the national accreditation process and a matching contribution to the endowment of the Land Trust Accreditation Commission.
www.lta.org

Climate Change

Greenhouse Gas Pricing Policies

Duke University,

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions 

$301,727 over 1 year
Durham, NC – To design an efficient and transparent carbon market and regulatory framework.
www.nicholas.duke.edu/institute

Harvard University

$600,000 over 1 year
Cambridge, MA – To support year three of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, which aims to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational and politically pragmatic post-2012 international agreement.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu

Peterson Institute for International Economics

$400,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC - To collaborate with the World Resources Institute to examine mechanisms and institutions for financing the emerging global deal on climate change, including low-carbon technology transfer from developed to developing countries.
www.piie.com

Resources for the Future

$598,227 over 18 months
Washington, DC – To support research and analysis on the economic impacts of domestic climate change policies and on examining the case for U.S. climate policies to help reduce tropical deforestation.
www.rff.org

World Resources Institute

$750,000 over 18 months
Washington, DC – To support research and analysis on U.S. climate policy design.
www.wri.org

Technology Innovation Policies

Clean Air Cool Planet

$66,100 over 3 months
Portsmouth, NH – To collaborate with E3G, a U.K. nonprofit, to develop the concept of the “Global Partnership” on clean energy technologies that was announced in July 2009 as part of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate.
www.cleanair-coolplanet.org

Clean Air Task Force, Inc.

$100,000 over 5 months
Boston, MA – To collaborate with Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science and Policy Outcomes and the Bipartisan Policy Center to synthesize and elevate key climate technology innovation principles common across several recent studies in a report to policymakers. 
www.catf.us

Council on Foreign Relations

$350,000 over 1 year
New York, NY – To support research and analysis on the potential role that U.S. technology transfer strategies through bilateral agreements could play in encouraging the major emerging economies of China, India and Brazil to adopt low-carbon technologies.
www.cfr.org

Ecologic Institute

$75,264 over 5 months
Washington, DC – To conduct an in-depth, non-partisan study of technology transfer proposals under consideration by the U.N. technology working group in advance of the 2009 UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://ecologic.eu/Washington

Natural Resources Defense Council

$85,000 over 6 months
New York, NY – To support analysis of how a newly proposed Clean Energy Deployment Administration could work effectively to speed deployment of clean energy technologies by providing affordable financing.
www.nrdc.org

Other Grants

Council on Foreign Relations

$20,000 over 2 months
New York, NY – To support a symposium on U.S. and international options for the UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.
www.cfr.org

University of California, Berkeley

$20,000 over 4 months
Berkeley, CA – To support a conference on the role of technology transfer and intellectual property rights in the UNFCCC climate negotiations.
http://berkeley.edu

Yale University

$20,000 over 3 months
New Haven, CT – To support the 2009 Renewable Energy and International Law Project Roundtable conference.
www.yale.edu

Habitat Conservation

IMPLEMENT LAND PROTECTION

Capital Grants

The Nature Conservancy

$7,000,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with key conservation organizations in the Pacific Northwest region to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Idaho, Oregon and Washington, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.nature.org

Open Space Conservancy

$6,000,000 over 3 years
New York, NY – To work in partnership with key conservation organizations in the Northeast region to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships. The Open Space Conservancy is the land acquisition affiliate of the Open Space Institute.
www.osiny.org

Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

Wildlife Conservation Society

$4,400,109 over 3.8 years
Bronx, NY – To renew support for the Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund, which competitively awards grants to support projects that will accelerate the implementation of state wildlife action plans across the country.
www.wcs.org

BUILD CONSERVATION KNOWLEDGE

Education, Training & Research

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

$2,849,297 over 2.75 years
Princeton, NJ – To renew support for the Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program, which supports future leaders in conservation enrolled in master’s degree programs at eight of the nation’s leading environmental schools, and promotes their employment in the public and nonprofit sectors.
www.woodrow.org

Climate Change

Design Pricing Policies for Greenhouse Gases

Natural Resources Defense Council

$750,000 over 1 year
New York, NY - To conduct an analysis using economic models of how the value of emission allowances under a cap-and-trade program can be used to accelerate a transition to a clean-energy economy.
www.nrdc.org

Peterson Institute for International Economics

$1,500,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC - To collaborate with the World Resources Institute to examine the interplay between international climate change and trade policies and how they can be mutually supportive.
www.iie.com

Pew Center on Global Climate Change

$247,600 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To conduct educational outreach to federal policymakers on climate policy design.
www.pewclimate.org

Habitat Conservation

IMPLEMENT LAND PROTECTION

Capital Grants

Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

$10,800,000 over 3 years
Des Moines, IA – To work in partnership with The Conservation Fund and Ducks Unlimited to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.inhf.org

The Nature Conservancy

$13,000,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with key conservation organizations in the Rocky Mountain region to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.nature.org

Development of New Conservation Funding

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

$400,000 over 2.25 years
Washington, DC – To launch a campaign to mobilize corporate support for the implementation of state wildlife action plans.
www.nfwf.org

Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

Wildlife Conservation Society

$1,550,739 over 2 years
Bronx, NY – To support the Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund, which competitively awards grants to support projects that will accelerate the implementation of state wildlife action plans across the country.
www.wcs.org

BUILD CONSERVATION KNOWLEDGE

Monitoring & Evaluation

Defenders of Wildlife

$300,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support the testing, refinement and national launch of the Conservation Registry, which is a Web-based database that will enable organizations and individuals to report on and track conservation actions across the country.
www.defenders.org

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

$125,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC – To support the design of a comprehensive database of all protected areas in the United States.
www.nfwf.org

Education, Training & Research

Keystone Center

$153,979 over 7 months
Keystone, CO – To conduct a national dialogue within the wildlife conservation community to identify the major challenges and opportunities facing the community over the next five to 10 years, and what philanthropy can do to address those challenges and opportunities.
www.keystone.org

Climate Change

Design Pricing Policies for Greenhouse Gases

Environmental Defense

$500,000 over 1 year
New York, NY – To contribute to an analysis of options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. and their associated costs.
www.environmentaldefense.org /
Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
How Much at What Cost? (McKinsey & Company)

Harvard University

$750,000 over 2 years
Boston, MA – To support the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, which is being led by researchers from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Resources for the Future. The project will develop options for an international policy regime to address global climate change after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$500,000 over 2 years
Cambridge, MA – To support a project based at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research to help inform the U.S. policymaking process related to climate change by analyzing the European Union’s carbon dioxide Emissions Trading Scheme, options for limiting the economic burden of a federal regulatory regime, and options for harmonizing federal climate policies with evolving state and regional policies.
www.mit.edu

Pew Center on Global Climate Change

$395,000 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To produce Congressional briefing books on key design questions regarding U.S. climate policy, including the design elements of a cap-and-trade system and other key, complementary policies such as those related to coal use, transportation, carbon taxes and technology.
www.pewclimate.org

Resources for the Future

$750,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support work by RFF’s Climate and Technology Policy Program to research and write papers on the attributes, strengths and weaknesses of various climate policy design elements; conduct an in-depth quantification of the costs of carbon-control policies on various industry sectors, along with an assessment of policy options for ameliorating those costs; and assist in the development of a proposed post-2012 international framework for addressing climate change that will be acceptable to the U.S.
www.rff.org / Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options

World Resources Institute

$750,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support the work of WRI’s Climate and Energy Program to demonstrate the need for a mandatory federal greenhouse gas registry that is consistent with global greenhouse gas accounting standards; inform the debate regarding various climate policy design elements through the production of issue briefs and communication efforts; and identify ways to integrate climate impacts and opportunities into the national energy security debate.
www.wri.org

Deploy & Develop Clean-Energy Technologies

Bipartisan Policy Center

$490,000 over 1.5 years
Washington, DC – To support work by the National Commission on Energy Policy to determine a feasible mix of low-carbon technologies for the U.S. and recommend policy changes to facilitate their development and deployment.
www.bipartisanpolicy.org

Carnegie Mellon University

$1,850,000 over 2.5 years
Pittsburgh, PA – To enable a team of investigators at Carnegie Mellon, University of Minnesota, Vermont Law School and other institutions to work with a wide range of stakeholders and experts to design a regulatory structure for the capture, transport and deep geological sequestration of carbon dioxide in the United States.
www.cmu.edu

Clean Air Task Force

$845,000 over 1.5 years
Boston, MA – To create a strategy for investing in public and private research, development and demonstration of technologies that use coal for power generation without adding appreciably to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on innovative gasification and post-combustion capture pathways. A sub-grant to the Climate Policy Center of Clean Air-Cool Planet will enable that organization to develop specific recommendations for implementing ARPA-E, a recently authorized federal agency aimed at accelerating transformational advances in energy technology.
www.catf.us

Energy Foundation

$21 million over 3 years
San Francisco, CA – To support the Energy Foundation’s work in four areas: developing efficient building codes and building technologies in the U.S.; transforming U.S. utility regulation to make efficiency profitable and create vibrant markets for renewable energy; greening China’s building boom; and supporting the Energy Foundation’s core U.S. programs to build strategic flexibility.
www.ef.org

Harvard University

$1,460,000 over 3 years
Cambridge, MA – To support work by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to develop policy recommendations for an expanded U.S. federal energy-technology innovation endeavor; evaluate the U.S. federal energy research, development, and demonstration budget on an annual basis; and assess energy technology innovation activities in the private sector of the United States, as well as in the public and private sectors of China, India, Japan and Europe.
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$1,987,000 over 2 years
Cambridge, MA – To support a comprehensive assessment by the MIT Industrial Performance Center of the energy technology innovation system in the United States, including recommendations for improvements to federal and state research, development and demonstration policies, as well as mechanisms for early adoption and large-scale deployment of supply and demand-side innovations.
www.mit.edu

Implement Land Protection – Capital Grants

Conservation Resources, Inc.

$1,051,318 over 2 years
Chester, NJ – To work with nonprofit conservation organizations to begin implementation of the Raritan Piedmont Wildlife Habitat Partnership’s Grassland Conservation Plan, which aims to protect critical wildlife habitat identified in the New Jersey State Wildlife Action Plan and to advance the Central Piedmont Plains’ emerging role as a haven of regional significance for grassland birds.
www.conservationresourcesinc.org

The Conservation Fund

$7,500,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with The Nature Conservancy to protect high-priority lands identified in the state wildlife action plans for North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.conservationfund.org

Implement Land Protection –
Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

Wildlife Conservation Society

$2,607,221 over 3 years
Bronx, NY – To create a competitive re-granting program (the “Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund”) to support projects that will accelerate the implementation of state wildlife action plans across the country through the creation of new public-private partnerships and the coordination of conservation efforts among the many organizations and agencies that can contribute to conservation.
www.wcs.org

Identify Critical Lands

National Wildlife Federation

$904,248 over 3 years
Reston, VA – To promote the implementation of wildlife action plans in Georgia, Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina and Wisconsin by working with NWF affiliates in each state to reinvigorate their state-based Teaming With Wildlife Coalitions around a shared agenda for implementation of the action plans; identify the best opportunities within the action plans for proactive, incentive-based habitat conservation; implement high-priority conservation actions from the action plans; and disseminate lessons learned, best practices and success stories to other states.
www.nwf.org

Implement Land Protection – Capital Grants

Massachusetts Audubon Society

$1,000,000 over 1 year
Lincoln, MA – To protect high-priority habitats identified in Massachusetts’ wildlife action plan.
www.massaudubon.org

The Nature Conservancy-Florida Chapter

$1,000,000 over 1 year
Altamonte Springs, FL – To protect high-priority habitats identified in Florida’s wildlife action plan.
www.nature.org

Implement Land Protection –
Development of New Conservation Funding

The Nature Conservancy

$3,999,642 over 4 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with the Trust for Public Land to establish a Conservation Finance Initiative that will assist a group of states in identifying and evaluating options for funding habitat conservation through public means.
www.nature.org

Implement Land Protection –
Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

NatureServe

$1,209,440 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To provide $1 million for NatureServe’s endowment for the natural heritage network, to raise matching endowment funds on a ratio of at least 1:1, and to expand development capacity.
www.natureserve.org

Build Conservation Knowledge – Education

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

$3,717,482 over 3 years
Princeton, NJ – To manage and continue to improve the Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program, and to increase the number of participating universities from five to eight through a national competition in 2006.
www.woodrow.org

Build Conservation Knowledge – Research

National Council for Science and the Environment

$3,338,334 over 4.5 years
Washington, DC – To create and administer the Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program to strengthen policies and approaches to protecting wildlife habitat in the U.S. by awarding three rounds of competitive, peer-reviewed research grants ranging from $25,000 to $200,000.
www.ncseonline.org

Identify Critical Lands

America’s Wildlife Association for Resources Education

(for the Int'l. Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)
$600,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To work in partnership with The Nature Conservancy to build support for state wildlife action plans at national and state levels through briefings, workshops and educational outreach; and to develop a strategic communications plan to build support for state plans among traditional and non-traditional audiences.
www.iafwa.org

Defenders of Wildlife

$375,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To increase the focus of state wildlife action plans on all species and habitats (rather than individual game species) and identify specific areas for protection; to track progress in development of state plans and post on website; to educate federal, state and local agencies on the state plans; and to educate key stakeholders on opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency of existing policies and programs.
www.defenders.org

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

$1.5 million over 3 years
Washington, DC – To administer a three-year re-granting program to strengthen state wildlife action plans and promote their implementation, with a focus on conservation actions that cross jurisdictional and organizational boundaries.
www.nfwf.org

NatureServe

$342,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To develop capabilities to produce species-wide summaries, evaluate state wildlife action plans across state lines, and report on regional and national trends; to produce a national summary that highlights the nation’s conservation priorities; to ensure state plans can adapt to changing conditions by updating maps with new information and using Vista software to integrate state strategies into other planning efforts; to develop a new module for Biotics software to monitor progress in plan implementation, and detect and document changes in species or habitat status; and to produce an annual report on implementation and impact of state plans.
www.natureserve.org

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

$300,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To create and distribute broad communications about the nature and importance of state wildlife action plans for 9 million members of its partner organizations; to conduct outreach with field staff by visiting hunting and fishing organizations and union locals in specific regions; and to present expert analysis of state plans and their implementation status to member organizations, key state and federal policymakers, and gatherings of conservation professionals.
www.trcp.org

New Jersey & Rhode Island

The foundation awarded a series of small grants to existing partners in New Jersey and Rhode Island – two of the seven focus regions supported by the foundation to date – to work with state wildlife agencies to strengthen their wildlife action plans.

The Nature Conservancy, Rhode Island

$49,616 over 1 year
Arlington, VA
www.nature.org

The Nature Conservancy, New Jersey

Arlington, VA
$50,020 over 1 year
www.nature.org

New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Far Hills, NJ
$50,000 over 1 year
www.njconservation.org

New Jersey Future

Trenton, NJ
$50,190 over 1 year
www.njfuture.org

Trust for Public Land

New York, NY
$50,000 over 1 year
www.tpl.org

Implement Land Protection –
Capital Grants

The foundation awarded a series of capital grants totaling $6 million to continue land conservation activities in four of the seven focus regions it has supported to date.

Northern Forest

Open Space Conservancy

$1.5 million over 1 year
New York, NY – To protect lands critical to wildlife in the Northern Forest by supporting large-scale land protection projects, building region-wide consensus on wildlife conservation priorities, and increasing resources for conservation.
www.osiny.org

East Gulf Coastal Plain

The Conservation Fund, Southeast Office

$750,000 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To protect lands critical to wildlife habitat in the Red Hills region by administering a $500,000 capital fund for land protection efforts in consultation with Tall Timbers Research Station; and to provide support to partner organizations for complementary statewide land use planning activities in Georgia and Florida.
www.conservationfund.org

The Nature Conservancy, Southeast Region

$750,000 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To protect lands critical to wildlife in the Northwest Florida Greenway, and to build support for the Greenway plan and advance its implementation; and to provide support to a partner organization (1000 Friends of Florida) for capacity-building and land use planning activities.
www.nature.org

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

The Nature Conservancy, Montana

$1.5 million over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To lead a partnership that will protect lands critical to wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by providing support for land protection, establishment of a region-wide easement defense fund, administration and capacity building, and land use planning and public education.
www.nature.org

Southern Appalachians

The Conservation Fund

$1.5 million over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To protect lands critical to wildlife in the Southern Appalachian region of North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, and to provide support to partner organizations (Western Carolina University and The Nature Conservancy) for capacity building, landowner outreach, research, and work with the state wildlife agencies on their state wildlife action plans.
www.conservationfund.org

Implement Land Protection –
Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into
Other Conservation Efforts

Defenders of Wildlife

$450,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue its work to integrate state wildlife action plans into federal transportation policy and state transportation planning; to articulate and implement a new vision for more effective habitat mitigation; and to research the economic benefits to local communities of investments in open space systems as identified in state plans.
www.defenders.org

Environmental Law Institute

$450,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To identify opportunities to integrate state wildlife action plans into water and waste-water infrastructure investments; to assess the amount of funding in state and federal mitigation programs; and to determine whether state and local governments have the authority to use existing open space programs to implement state wildlife action plans.
www.eli.org

NatureServe

$450,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To support dissemination of Vista (a decision support software program that aids conservation planning) to state and local organizations nationwide.
www.natureserve.org

Build Conservation Knowledge - Education

Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program

$1.055 million over 2 years
The foundation awarded 5 grants totaling $1.055 million to the following universities to administer Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships for one additional class of fellows:

• Duke University

  Durham, NC
  $275,000 over 2 years
  www.env.duke.edu
  
  

• University of Michigan

  Ann Arbor, MI
  $275,000 over 2 years
  www.snre.umich.edu
  
  

• University of Montana

  Missoula, MT
  $115,000 over 2 years
  www.umt.edu
  
  

• University of Wisconsin

  Madison, WI
  $115,000 over 2 years
  www.ies.wisc.edu
  
  

• Yale University

  New Haven, CT
  $275,000 over 2 years
  www.yale.edu/forestry

Build Conservation Knowledge - Training

Land Trust Alliance

$1 million over 3 years
Washington, DC – To strengthen its Standards and Practices for land trusts; to design a training, assessment and accreditation program for land trusts; to establish a national easement defense program; to keep its membership abreast of emerging developments in land conservation; and to leverage funds from other sources.
www.lta.org

Protecting Places

The Nature Conservancy of South Carolina

$4 million over 3 years
Columbia, SC - To support the Lowcountry Forest Conservation Partnership, a strategic alliance that will work to protect biological diversity across 2.9 million acres of coastal forest in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The seven partner organizations are:

• Clemson University
• The Conservation Fund
• Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
• South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
• Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center
• Lowcountry Open Land Trust
• The Nature Conservancy

Protecting Places

Selection of a Seventh Region for Support

$80,000 over 2 months
Following a competitive application process in 2002, the foundation awarded four planning grants of $20,000 each to the following organizations to develop full proposals for a $4 million grant, which will be awarded in 2003 to support conservation activities in one of the finalists' regions based on an expert panel's review of the proposals:

EcoTrust, Portland, OR

Region: Central Coastal Pacific Forests
www.ecotrust.org

Sustainable Northwest, Portland, OR

Region: Klamath Siskiyou Forests
www.sustainablenorthwest.org

The Nature Conservancy Hawaii Chapter

Region: Hawaii Moist and Dry Forests
http://nature.org

The Nature Conservancy South Carolina Chapter

Region: Mid Atlantic Coastal Forests
http://nature.org

Improving Conservation Practice

Environmental Defense, Inc.

$5 million over 5 years
New York, NY - To establish the Center for Conservation Incentives to promote more efficient and effective approaches to conservation of biodiversity on the nation's private lands.
www.environmentaldefense.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

The Conservation Fund

$200,750 over 2 years
Arlington, VA - To manage the Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program at five universities.
www.conservationfund.org

Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program

$2.11 million over 4 years
The foundation awarded 5 grants totaling $2.11 million to the following universities to administer Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships for two additional classes of fellows:

Duke University

Durham, NC
$550,000 over 4 years
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
$550,000 over 4 years
www.snre.umich.edu

University of Montana

Missoula, MT
$230,000 over 4 years
www.umt.edu

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI
$230,000 over 4 years
www.ies.wisc.edu

Yale University

New Haven, CT
$550,000 over 4 years
http://www.yale.edu/forestry/

Protecting Places -
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Inc.

$500,000 over 3 years
Bozeman, MT - To train and help strengthen citizen groups, to conduct research and disseminate information, and to develop a media campaign to raise awareness about the importance of growth management in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
www.greateryellowstone.org

Land Trust Alliance, Inc.

$500,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with land trusts in the Greater Yellowstone region to increase the quality of land protection plans, improve stewardship of acquired lands, increase organizational capacity and diversify financial support.
www.lta.org

Sonoran Institute

$521,927 over 3 years
Tucson, AZ - To work with the National Association of Counties to train and educate county commissioners in the Greater Yellowstone ecoystem about best practices in land use planning, and to help develop the Greater Yellowstone Business Council, a business voice for improved planning.
www.sonoran.org

The Conservation Fund

$2.14 million over 4 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Henry's Fork Foundation, Teton Valley Land Trust, Jackson Hole Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy to protect 10,000 acres in Idaho and Wyoming, and to raise $10 million in public and private matching funds for conservation.
www.conservationfund.org

The Nature Conservancy, Inc.

$2.6 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Montana Land Reliance to protect at least 40,000 acres in Montana and Wyoming and to raise $15.6 million in public and private matching funds for conservation.
http://nature.org

Trust for Public Land

$1.8 million over 4 years
San Francisco, CA - To work with the Gallatin Valley Land Trust and various public agencies to protect 10,000 acres in Gallatin County and western Montana and to raise $9 million in public and private matching funds for conservation.
www.tpl.org

University of Wyoming Foundation for the Institute for Environment and Natural Resources

$200,000 over 4 years
Laramie, WY - To conduct research on trends in land use, best practices in financing for open space acquisition and growth management, and to disseminate information to decision-makers in Wyoming in collaboration with the Sonoran Institute.
www.uwyo.edu/enr/ienr

Protecting Places -
Southern Appalachians

The Nature Conservancy, Inc.

$2.5 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To work with The Nature Conservancy's Alabama chapter and the Chattowah Open Land Trust to create conservation plans in the northern and southern Cumberland Plateaus, to protect at least 12,000 acres in the southern Plateau, and to raise at least $6 million in matching public and private funds for conservation.
http://nature.org

The Conservation Fund

$3.5 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, Western Carolina University and The Nature Conservancy's Tennessee Chapter to create a science-based conservation plan, to conduct forestry extension to private landowners, to protect at least 15,000 acres in the Little Tennessee River Basin and the northern Cumberland Plateau, and to raise at least $10 million in matching public and private funds for conservation.
www.conservationfund.org

Improving Conservation Practice

National Council for Science and the Environment

$3 million over 5 years
Washington, DC - To support the research program of the National Commission for Science on Sustainable Forestry, which will competitively re-grant funds to research institutions to support projects that aim to strengthen the knowledge base for forest management in the United States.
http://www.ncssf.org

Rainforest Alliance

$700,000 over 3 years
New York, NY - To complement DDCF-funded land protection in Southern Appalachia and the Northern Forest by working with landowners to certify at least one million acres of land under the internationally recognized standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
www.rainforest-alliance.org

Yale University - School of Forestry and Environment Studies

$350,000 over 2 years
New Haven, CT - To determine the effectiveness of forest certification under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in improving forest management.
www.yale.edu/forestry/

Protecting Places -
East Gulf Coastal Plain

1000 Friends of Florida

$500,000 over 4 years
Tallahassee, FL - To identify, analyze and promote policies that protect flora and fauna and encourage ecologically appropriate growth and development.
www.1000friendsofflorida.org

The Conservation Fund

$3.5 million over 4 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Tall Timbers Research Station and Trust for Public Land to protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes, and to raise public and private matching funds on a four-to-one basis.
www.conservationfund.org

The Georgia Conservancy

$581,600 over 4 years
Atlanta, GA - To identify, analyze and promote policies that protect flora and fauna and encourage ecologically appropriate growth and development.
www.gaconservancy.org

The Nature Conservancy

$6.3 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes, and to raise public and private matching funds on a seven-to-one basis.
http://nature.org

Protecting Places -
Northern Forest

Beaverkill Conservancy, Inc.

$10.55 million over 3 years
New York, NY - To work with the Open Space Institute to establish the "Northern Forest Protection Fund" to protect ecologically significant forestland for nature preserves, wildlife corridors and working forests, and to raise public and private matching funds on a four-to-one basis.
www.osiny.org/northernforest

The Nature Conservancy

$600,000 over 3 years
Bangor, ME - To revise and complete an ecological assessment of the Northern Forest, to help design working forest easements that protect biological diversity and encourage responsible forest management, and to develop new sources of private funding for forest conservation.
http://nature.org

Appalachian Mountain Club

$725,000 over 3 years
Boston, MA - To advance large landscape conservation in the Northern Forest by providing technical data and maps to shape proposed private land transactions and forest policy on public lands; to guide land protection through the re-licensing of hydroelectric dams; and to increase community support for forest conservation transactions in Maine.
www.outdoors.org

Forest Society of Maine

$225,000 over 4 years
Bangor, ME - To increase its capacity for conservation transactions, and to increase and diversify its funding base.
www.fsmaine.org

Improving Conservation Practice

Association for Biodiversity Information, Inc.

$2.2 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To develop, test and market new and improved computer tools that integrate information about biological diversity into land-use decision-making, and to establish an endowment for the project with $400,000 to be matched on a three-to-one basis over three years.
www.natureserve.org

Center for Resource Economics / Island Press

$1.1 million over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with Defenders of Wildlife and the Environmental Law Institute to research and disseminate information about the connection between biodiversity protection and land-use planning.
www.islandpress.org

Defenders of Wildlife, Inc.

$437,430 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with the Center for Resource Economics and the Environmental Law Institute to research and disseminate information about the connection between biodiversity protection and land-use planning.
www.defenders.org

Environmental Law Institute

$515,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Resource Economics to research and disseminate information about the connection between biodiversity protection and land-use planning.
www.eli.org

U.S. Working Group, Inc. dba Forest Stewardship Council

$800,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To increase the acreage of certified forests in the United States, particularly among small landowners; to build the communications and public information capacity of FSC-US; and to develop markets for certified wood.
www.fsc.org

Pinchot Institute for Conservation

$750,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC - To increase the amount of certified forestland in Washington, Vermont, Maine, North Carolina and Tennessee.
www.pinchot.org

World Resources Institute

$1 million over 3 years
Washington, DC - To help shift the purchase of wood in North America from ecologically sensitive forests to forests managed in environmentally sound ways.
www.wri.org

Protecting Places -
New Jersey & Rhode Island

Grow Smart Rhode Island

$350,000 over 4 years
Providence, RI - To identify, research and promote policies that protect flora and fauna while facilitating ecologically sound growth management and economic activity.
www.growsmartri.com

The Nature Conservancy, Rhode Island Chapter

$4.391 million over 4 years
Providence, RI - To protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes, to increase the effectiveness of local conservation organizations, and to raise public and private matching funds on a three-to-one basis.
http://nature.org

New Jersey Conservation Foundation

$500,000 over 4 years
Far Hills, NJ - To increase the effectiveness of local conservation organizations, and to promote more diverse conservation constituencies and funding.
www.njconservation.org

New Jersey Future

$450,000 over 4 years
Trenton, NJ - To identify, research and promote policies that protect flora and fauna while facilitating ecologically sound growth management and economic activity.
www.njfuture.org

Trust for Public Land - Mid Atlantic Region

$8.4 million over 4 years
New York, NY - To protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes in partnership with the New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and to raise public and private matching funds on a four-to-one basis.
www.tpl.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

The following six universities received four-year grants ranging from $245,000 to $625,000 in 1999 to offer Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships to graduate students focusing on environmental studies at their institutions:

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY
www.cornell.edu

Duke University

Durham, NC
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
www.snre.umich.edu

University of Montana

Missoula, MT
www.umt.edu

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI
www.ies.wisc.edu

Yale University

New Haven, CT
www.yale.edu/forestry

Protecting Places

Greater Yellowstone Coalition

$600,000 over 3 years
Bozeman, MT - To promote conservation while enhancing the local economy and communities in the 18-million-acre Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
www.greateryellowstone.org

Improving Conservation Practice

American Planning Association

$1.275 million over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To develop and manage the City Parks Forum, a national training and education program for mayors of mid-sized cities on urban parks, in partnership with the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.
www.planning.org

Certified Forest Products Council

$350,000 over 2 years
Beaverton, OR - To launch a two-year campaign to encourage greater commitment by business, public and nonprofit entities to purchase certified wood products.
www.certifiedwood.org

Environmental Defense Fund

$500,000 over 2 years
New York, NY - To develop, test, and implement incentive-based approaches to conservation of imperiled biodiversity on privately owned land.
www.environmentaldefense.org

Institute for Agriculture and Trade

$150,000 over 1 year
Minneapolis, MN - To help promote independent third-party forest certification among cooperatives of private landowners in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
www.iatp.org

Land Trust Alliance

$725,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To increase the quality, professionalism and effectiveness of the land trust movement.
www.lta.org

National Association of Counties

$575,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - In collaboration with the Sonoran Institute, to launch the Western Community Stewardship Forum, a three-year program to educate and train up to 75 county commissioners and their public and private stakeholders in the Western states about best practices in conservation and growth management.
www.naco.org

Natural Resources Defense Council

$325,000 over 2 years
To protect forest biodiversity and conservation in the Northwest by working with landowners to undertake more sustainable forest management, and by encouraging increased use of wood products derived from sustainable managed forest ecosystems.
www.nrdc.org

The Nature Conservancy

$2,351,149 over 3 years
Leesburg, VA - To implement an integrated conservation program consisting of: community-based conservation projects at five sites; technical support and development of conservation tools for these and other projects; targeted training of promising TNC field leaders in community-based conservation and compatible development; and establishment of the working reserve for the proposed Forest Bank, which provides private forestland owners in Virginia's Clinch Valley with economic incentives for sustainable forest management.
http://nature.org

Wildlife Conservation Society

$700,000 over 3 years
Bronx, NY - To incorporate ecosystem and biological research into local land use planning, and educate public, private and nonprofit leaders about promising approaches to mitigating urban sprawl in the tri-state region of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
www.wcs.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

Duke University Nicholas School of Environment

$126,500 over 2 years
Durham, NC - To provide support for summer internships in environmental conservation to 20 Doris Duke Fellows over two years as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources & Environment

$113,850 over 2 years
Ann Arbor, MI - To provide support for summer internships in environmental conservation to 18 Doris Duke Fellows over the next 2 years as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.snre.umich.edu

Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

$126,500 over 2 years
New Haven, CT - To provide support for summer internships in environmental conservation to 20 Doris Duke Fellows over the next 2 years as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.yale.edu/forestry

Other

Massachusetts Audubon Society

$2 million over 4 years
Lincoln, MA - To develop community and environmental education programs and create a permanent endowment for programming for the Boston Nature Center at the former Boston State Hospital site.
www.massaudubon.org

Shorebank Enterprise

$1.3 million over 2 years
Ilwaco, WA - To expand its revolving loan fund and develop new tools to assist promising enterprises that promote the preservation and restoration of the environment along the coastal temperate rainforest of Washington and Oregon.
www.sbpac.com

Protecting Places

Trust for Public Land and Open Space Institute

$5 million over 1 year
To complete the acquisition of Sterling Forest, a 17,500-acre tract of undeveloped and environmentally sensitive land on the New Jersey-New York border that is to become a park and nature preserve.
www.tpl.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

Duke University Nicholas School of Environment

$1.7 million over 2 years
Durham, NC - To create a Doris Duke Chair in Conservation Ecology in which the senior professor holding this chair would act as a catalyst at Duke University and in the broader environmental world on issues of human dominated landscapes.
www.env.duke.edu

Duke University Nicholas School of Environment

$400,000 over 3 years
Durham, NC - To support incoming graduate students in the Fall of 1998 and 1999 as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources & Environment

$400,000 over 3 years
Ann Arbor, MI - To support incoming graduate students in Fall of 1998 and 1999 as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.snre.umich.edu

Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

$400,000 over 3 years
New Haven, CT - To support incoming graduate students in the Fall of 1998 and 1999 as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.yale.edu/forestry