The Skaggs Foundation supports programs to protect threatened areas and species, education programs (particularly those directed towards youth), and collaborative organizations active in the field of ecological concerns. The following are brief descriptions of 2003 Environment & Ecology Grants.

 [The links on the left take you to archived Environment grants.]

Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, California
Grant to Monastery of Benedictine Order on California coast at Big Sur.  The Monastery's property was damaged during severe storms three years ago and this grant will go for land stabilization programs to protect the property, as well as adjacent properties from further erosion, slippage and slides.
               $7,500.00

Clapperstick Institute, Berkeley, California
Grant to assist in publication of Bay Nature, a magazine devoted to the natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area from Salt Point to Monterey, from San Francisco to Stockton.
               $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

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 provide a setting for integrated, whole systems curricula and an educational framework where children can learn first hand about ecological principals.
               $10,000.00

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

Student Conservation Association, Charlestown, New Hampshire
First 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

        Total
              $45,000.00