Grant Program Environment

To convene at least four additional facilitated meetings among the nine farmers in the “Tough Talks” process, resulting in a unanimously agreed upon strategy for addressing the GMO issue in Vermont.

To support farmers and agricultural enterprises in rural Vermont.

To provide operating support for the Health and Environmental Funders Network, which promotes increased and effective grantmaking at the intersection of health and the environment.

To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures by phasing out use and release of persistent toxic chemicals and enacting comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Maine.

To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures by phasing out use and release of persistent toxic chemicals and enacting comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Maine.

To promote healthier, low-carbon alternatives to coal-fired power plants through new standards that require the industry to assume liability for the disposal risks and costs of coal combustion waste that are now assumed by the public.

To speed substitution of safer chemicals in consumer products and reduce other sources of exposure to toxic chemicals affecting the health of fetuses, children and other vulnerable populations by conducting research and taking action to build the business case and…

To implement the European Union’s REACH policy on chemicals use as rigorously and effectively as possible; to encourage voluntary substitution of toxic chemicals with safer alternatives by progressive businesses; and to provide a tool for collaborative toxic use reduction work,…

To develop a market and regulatory framework that reduces the economic and legal risks to farmers and rural communities from GE agriculture while promoting the continued growth of conventional alternatives such as organic and local crops.

To build the international public interest movement calling for chemical policy reforms that reduce harm to human health and the environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants.