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California Oak Foundation,
Oakland, California
Further support of program to educate young people about
the importance of oak woodlands in providing habitat for wildlife
and clean drinking water for Californians. A publication,
A Community of Oaks, will be prepared and some 10,000 copies
will be distributed to schools and educators in California.
The grant will include the cost to write, design and print
the publication.
$10,000.00
Ala Gales Creek Camp Foundation,
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Grant to support summer camp at Gales Creek, Oregon, which
provides camping experiences for diabetic children from the
Pacific Northwest area.
$7,500.00
National Audubon Society,
Alaska Chapter, Anchorage, Alaska
Further grant to support Arctic Nesting Snow Goose Calendar
Project wherein contests are held through Eskimo and Indian
schools in Alaska to teach conservation and preservation of
the arctic goose and to protect their nesting grounds. This
grant is a continuation of very successful prior grants.
$10,000.00
Santa Catalina School,
Monterey, California
Grant
to develop and present an exhibit recounting the history of
Santa Catalina's first 50 years. The exhibit will also trace
the activities of the Dominican Sisters in establishing and
maintaining schools in California since 1850.
$20,000.00
Sustrans, Bristol, England
First installment of three-year grant totaling $45,000
for the support of this organization which designs and builds
traffic free routes for cyclists, walkers and disabled people.
It makes use of disused railway lines, canal towpaths, river
sides and other open spaces and creates routes which run through
the middle of towns and cities linking schools, houses, shops
and offices with local amenities and the countryside. The
grant will support programs in the area of York, England.
$15,000.00
Zoological Society of San
Diego, San Diego, California
Further support of "Sperm Preservation in Endangered
Carnivores" project at San Diego Zoo. For the past
20 years researchers have been engaged in the collection,
evaluation, freezing and thawing techniques for both sperm
and oocytes of endangered species. The Foundation has
supported this program with a number of grants in the past.
$10,000.00
Total:
$72,500.00
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