California Coast Keeper Alliance, Santa Monica, California
Grant to support the educational component of Alliance’s Kelp Restoration Project. The Project is already partially funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Community-Based Restoration Program. The educational component is directed toward elementary, junior high and high school students. Using ECO-Karts in their own classrooms, students cultivate kelp from spores, track the growth of the young kelp, and observe as their kelp are transplanted to the underwater sites. Over the course of the school year, marine biologists visit with the students to orientate them to the Project, teach marine ecology, kelp biology, coastal conservation, careers in SCUBA diving and science and how to grow kelp.
        $5,000.00

Clapperstick Institute, Berkeley, California
Grant to assist in publication of a comprehensive field guide to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Foothills. The field guide will cover species of birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, fish and mollusks. Insects, butterflies and moths, fungi, lichen, trees, shrubs and wildflowers will also be presented. The guide will also include weather (cloud types and seasonal patterns), geology and stars. The guide will be 320 pages long, compact and fit easily into a backpack.
        $7,500.00

Environmental Volunteers, Palo Alto, California
Support for Kids-In-Nature classroom and field trip program for K-8 grade students in San Mateo and Santa Clara County. The Program covers eight broad scientific subjects concerning the local ecology, Bay lands ecology, earthquake geology, foothills ecology, marine ecology, early California Indians: an environmental perspective, water science and conservation and all about birds and nature in your neighborhood.
        $5,000.00

Friends of Sausal Creek, Oakland, California
Grant to support educational component of a volunteer-based community group which educates and takes action to restore, preserve and protect Sausal Creek and its 2,656-acre watershed as a natural and unique community resource in highly urbanized Oakland, California. Through this program, the Education Director meets with teachers to coordinate field activities for students and monitor education outcomes and help train other volunteers.
        $4,000.00

Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California
Support of Marine Science Education Program in Bay Area. The Program has an extensive seven session course that targets underserved high schools, particularly in intercity and rural areas of the Bay Area. The Marine Science Discovery Program participants learn about marine mammals and their marine ecosystems, perform the same lab exercises as the Center’s research biologists and spend a day on the San Francisco Bay collecting and analyzing field samples.
       $7,500.00

Muir Heritage Land Trust, Martinez, California
Grant to assist in the purchase of the Historic Dutra Ranch in the hills above Martinez on the Franklin Ridge. The major portion of the acquisition price came from the State of California Coastal Conservancy, with a further grant from the Bay Area Ridge Trail Association since the Ridge Trail will go through the Dutra Ranch.
       $15,000.00

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.
       $7,500.00

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Occidental, California
Grant to support the school garden teacher training and support program of the Center. The goal of the project is to develop a program for educators that demonstrates that students can be taught through gardening based education. The project is a collaboration that includes the California Department of Education Garden Team, the UC Davis School Gardens project and the Center. The project has provided ongoing support for school garden projects in over 40 Bay Area schools. The School Gardens project provides a setting for integrated, whole systems curricula and an educational framework where children can learn first hand about ecological principles.
       $12,500.00

Placer Nature Center, Auburn, California
Further support of Environmental Educational Program for Seniors. The thrust of the program is to increase in older adults the sense of stewardship to the natural world and hopefully stimulate them to become part of the community of volunteers working with organizations like Placer Nature Center to provide environmental education for school children.
        $5,000.00

Save San Francisco Bay Association, Oakland, California
Grant to support Canoes In Sloughs Watershed Education project. This is a program developed for on the water education for middle school and high school students using the Bay as the integrating concept and is in conformance with the California State science standards. One day programs cultivate student knowledge about the Bay ecosystem, provide direct access to local marshes and wetlands and promote student interest in actions that protect and restore the Bay.
       $5,000.00

Seacology, Berkeley, California
Grant to support the Ngardmau Marine and Mangrove Conservation Area, Palou, Micronesia. Seacology has assisted the Palou Conservation Society in the establishment of the marine reserves and has worked with local villages to purchase and install demarcation buoys and signage, purchase equipment for patrol boats and train rangers from local communities to monitor the conservation areas. The Ngardmau area is known as a nursery for many valuable food fish, feeding ground for highly endangered dugongs and a habitat for invertebrates, especially sea cucumbers.
       $7,500.00

Snow Leopard Conservancy, Los Altos, California
Grant to support preparation of materials for Himalayan school children teaching the importance of protecting the snow leopard and its ecosystem. Books are prepared in English/Nepali and Tibetan/Chinese, as well as a Braille version. The material can be incorporated into the school classroom to discuss the preservation of snow leopards and the ecosystem of the Himalayas.
       $7,500.00

Student Conservation Association, Charlestown, New Hampshire
Final installment of two-year grant totaling $15,000.00 to support conservation intern program at Frederick Olmsted Historic Site in Massachusetts. SCA recruits and places college age and older volunteers to work alongside resource professionals for maintenance and preservation service projects. At the Olmsted historic site the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation has been set up to promote the stewardship of cultural landscapes.
       $7,500.00

Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, California
Further support for Reproductive Physiology programs being conducted at the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species. The Center is the premier location in the United States for the study of endangered species and steps necessary to ensure their survival and has been supported by the Foundation for many years. This project is to determine the precise time of ovulation which is essential for timed mating artificial insemination which requires introduction of a male to a female only at the most fertile moment to reduce aggression between animals (especially in animals like the clouded leopards) and to prevent solitary females (e.g. cheetahs who do not cycle if housed with males) from terminating the ovulation process.
        $5,000.00

TOTAL: $101,500.00