Current Grants
FIGHTING FALSE SOLUTIONS
Association de Veille et d’Information Civique sur les Enjeux des Nanosciences et des Nanotechnologies (AVICENN)
$35,000 for advocating for strong, science-based nanotechnology policy in France and the EU.
Climate Justice Alliance
Fiscal sponsor: Movement Strategy Center
$35,000 x 2 in support of Climate Justice Working Group on Geoengineering to integrate geoengineering critiques into the growing movement against extreme energy and false solutions to global warming.
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Fiscal sponsor: Friends of Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
$45,000 to strengthen civil society resistance to climate geoengineering.
Biofuelwatch US
Fiscal sponsor: Global Justice Ecology Project
$40,000 x 2 for research, analysis and policy advocacy on the impacts of land-based geoengineering methods and synbio fuels.
EcoNexus
$30,000 x 2 for geoengineering and synthetic biology advocacy.
Indigenous Environmental Network
$60,000 x 2 for a geoengineering outreach coordinator to educate and embed geoengineering critiques into their broader work on just transition and fossil fuel extraction in their environmental and climate justice work.
Center for Food Safety
$60,000 x 2 for the International Center for Technology Assessment project for legal work and policy advocacy to challenge the use of unregulated nanotechnology and synthetic biology products.
ETC Group
Fiscal sponsor: Friends of Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
$150,000 x 3 in general support to promote conservation of food crop germplasm and agricultural biodiversity, and to encourage socially responsible development of new technologies.
Physicians for Social Responsibility - LA
$50,000 for challenging carbon capture and shifting the climate narrative in California.
Third World Network
$100,000 x 2 for Global South analysis and advocacy against geoengineering.
Center for International Environmental Law
$60,000 x 2 for equipping a global movement to confront a rising global threat of geoengineering.
$60,000 x 2 for the Nanotechnology Policy Project to advocate a precaution-based framework for regulating nanotechnology in the European Union and other regions.
Friends of the Earth International
$50,000 for engaging in the critical issue and strengthening the global movement protecting communities in the Global South against the false climate solutions of geoengineering technologies.
Semillero de Ideas
$50,000 for a Farmworker AgTech Center to transform how farmworkers are trained and managed in the workplace and how the larger AgTech field centers workers and not corporate control and profits.
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
$45,000 x 2 for amplifying the African voice for food sovereignty through strengthening media outreach and internal communications.
Colectivo por la Autonomía
Fiscal sponsor: Friends of Action Group on Erosion, Technology & Concentration
$41,820 x 2 to strengthen resistance against GM maize plantings in Mexico and support the defense of maize as core to food sovereignty and self-determination.
Genetic Resources Action International
$50,000 x 2 for seed saving and soil building efforts in Latin America and Africa in collaboration with social movements and farmer organizations.
Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance
$35,000 to link Indigenous practitioners and communities in the upper Midwest in building a regional seed hub and reclaim ancestral relationships with Indigenous seeds.
WhyHunger
$40,000 x 2 for advancing food sovereignty and agroecology in the US.
Central Valley Agroecology
Fiscal sponsor: Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs
$22,000 for advancing a BIPOC-led agroecology network model for Farmer Training in this important region.
Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali
Fiscal sponsor: Institute for Food & Development Policy
$49,500 x 2 for agroecology capacity building in Africa.
La Via Campesina
Fiscal sponsor: Center for the Study of the Americas
$51,500 x 2 for seeds and agroecology work.
Pesticide Action Network North America
$25,000 x 2 to push for policymaker action to protect pollinators in the US and the UK.
The Xerces Society
$50,000 x 2 for the Pollinator Conservation in Agriculture Program to advance the conservation of native agricultural pollinators and their habitat through advocacy, education and outreach, and applied research.
Centro de Estudios para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano
Fiscal sponsor: Friends of Action Group on Erosion, Technology & Concentration
$30,600 x 2 to defend peasant seeds and organize social resistance to genetically modified maize in Mexico.
Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula
$45,000 x 2 for training, providing technical expertise, and assisting international partners for GROW BIOINTENSIVE, a method of growing food that builds soil, utilizes open-pollinated seeds, and rejects synthetic chemical inputs.
Movimiento de Campesinos Populares
Fiscal sponsor: Center for the Study of the Americas
$40,000 x 2 to expand a native seed restoration project in the rural countryside of Brazil.
Southeastern African American Farmers Organic Network
Fiscal sponsor: Inquiring Systems, Inc
$47,800 x 2 for Afroecology Training School, bringing together Black farmers and allies for trainings grounded in Black agrarian history and culture.
Ceres Trust
$20,000 for a strategic planning process for the Pollinator Protection Network.
ECOPOL
Fiscal sponsor: Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula
$30,000 x 2 in general support to teach biointensive farming methods and establish sustainable family mini-farms throughout Latin America.
National Black Food and Justice Alliance
Fiscal sponsor: Praxis Project
$43,600 for this coalition‘s work cultivating and advancing Black leadership, organizing for Black food and land, and building institutions for Black food sovereignty and liberation.
Southern African Rural Women’s Assembly
Fiscal sponsor: South Africa Development Fund
$41,200 x 2 for their educational work and collective analysis of rural women to strengthen farmer managed seed systems.
Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum
Fiscal sponsor: Center for the Study of the Americas
$51,500 x 2 for strengthening and defending African peasant seed systems.
RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
$45,000 x 3 in general support to promote a progressive interpretation of the Constitution and build a network of progressive leaders in law and public policy.
Constitutional Accountability Center
$45,000 x 3 in general support to advance the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history through litigation, advocacy, and scholarship.
Law for Black Lives
Fiscal sponsor: NEO Philanthropy
$50,000 for work of radical lawyers and legal workers committed to building a responsive legal infrastructure for movement organizations and cultivating a community of legal advocates trained in movement lawyering.
Open The Government
Fiscal sponsor: Fund for Constitutional Government
$30,000 x 2 in general support for the coalition’s efforts to reduce secrecy in government and advance the public’s right to know.
Project on Government Oversight
$50,000 x 3 in general support of this government watchdog’s investigations into waste, fraud and abuse and efforts to advance good government reforms.
The Brennan Center
$40,000 x 3 for the Liberty and National Security Program to advocate for transparency and accountability in domestic intelligence collection.
Defending Rights and Dissent
$70,000 x 2 in general support to challenge the surveillance, repression, and criminalization of activists.
MediaJustice
$30,000 x 2 for building racial justice leadership and strategies to reform discriminatory surveillance, in partnership with Free Press.
Our World Is Not For Sale
Fiscal sponsor: Global Exchange
$60,000 x 2 in general support for this worldwide network of organizations working to make international trade agreements more equitable, sustainable, and democratic.
Public Citizen Foundation
$115,000 x 2 for Global Trade Watch to make US and international trade policy and institutions socially equitable, environmentally sustainable, and democratically accountable.
Center for Constitutional Rights
$115,000 x 5 in general support for litigation, organizing, and education efforts to protect constitutional rights.
Free Press
$30,000 x 2 for building racial justice leadership and strategies to reform discriminatory surveillance, in partnership with MediaJustice.
National Lawyers Guild Foundation
$25,000 outright and $10,000 in matching funds x 2 for the Mass Defense Project to provide legal observers and legal representation to citizens engaging in their constitutional right to protest, and to litigate repressive policies and practices that chill dissent.
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
$55,000 x 2 in general support plus $20,000 in matching funds to defend the constitutional rights of free speech and assembly, train attorneys in mass defense litigation, and expose government surveillance of activists.
RISE Together Fund
Fiscal sponsor: Proteus Fund
$30,000 x 2 for expanding leadership and organizing capacity in Black, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian communities.
Community Justice Exchange
Fiscal sponsor: Tides Center
$40,000 for the National Bail Fund Network to ensure that protesters and others caught up in the criminal justice system can fight their charges from a place of freedom.
Government Accountability Project
$100,000 x 3 in general support matching funds to protect the public interest and promote government and corporate accountability by defending whistleblowers.
National Security Archive Fund
$45,000 x 2 for the Freedom of Information Project to create a more transparent government by challenging national security secrecy and to preserve government documents.
Piper Fund
Fiscal sponsor: Proteus Fund
$45,000 x 2 for the Right to Protest Fund in support of groups fighting against the assault on the right to protest.
Sierra Club Foundation
$60,000 for the Living Economy Program to educate the public, policymakers, and other organizations about the impacts of international trade agreements and promote a progressive vision that supports workers, healthy communities, and environmental and climate justice.
Special Opportunity Grants
FIGHTING FALSE SOLUTIONS
Corporate Europe Observatory
$20,000 for research and media outreach to scale up the European campaign to maintain GMO regulations.
ETC Group
Fiscal sponsor: Friends of Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
$10,200 for coordination of the North America Digital Agrifood Working Group to address an urgent need for research and outreach on the issue of digital disruption of the agriculture sector.
$29,800 for North America Digital Agrifood Working Group mapping and messaging.
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International
$6,000 for public education to scale up the campaign to maintain GMO regulations.
Magyar Termeszetvedok Szovetsege
$10,000 for advocacy, press work and public education to scale up the European campaign to maintain GMO regulations.
Friends of the Earth Europe
$30,000 for organizing and advocacy to scale up the European campaign to maintain GMO regulations.
Friends of the Earth Europe
$88,000 for blocking authorization of the biotechnology industry’s Impossible Burger in Europe.
Berkeley Food Institute
$30,000 to convene an Agrifood Tech working group, cultivate community research partnerships, and share findings.
GMWatch
$10,000 for public communications to scale up the European campaign to maintain GMO regulations.
Instytut Spraw Obywatelskich
$24,000 for advocacy, press work and public education to scale up the European campaign to maintain GMO regulations.
GMWatch
$12,000 for their expert and communications input on food safety aspects of the Impossible Burger to the European Food Safety Agency as well as consumer and environmental groups.
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Pesticide Action Network North America
$50,000 for resisting corporate capture of food systems in the UN.
Terre à Vie
$50,000 for research, education, and communications work to increase civil society understanding and engagement in a gene drive mosquito project in Burkina Faso and West Africa.
Grotius Consulting Group
$50,000 for legal, advocacy and communications work to increase civil society understanding and engagement in a gene drive mosquito project in Uganda.