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Charlotte Martin Foundation Spring 2018 Charlotte Martin Foundation Spring 2018 Grantee State Project Name Award Total for 2018 Spring Cycle $426,788 Conserving Biodiversity in a Changing Climate Total $161,150 Bethel Community Services Foundation AK Newtok Storytellers Media Campaign $10,000 Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project OR Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project $10,000 Cascades Carnivore Project OR The Cascade Red Fox and Wolverine: Climate Sentinels $15,000 Adding Capacity for Increased EDRR Invasive Species Centennial Valley Association MT $5,500 Management Efforts in the Centennial Valley Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation WA Mapping Traditional Cultural Plants of the Colville Confederated Trib $13,000 Building ecosystem resilience by mapping climate-wise wildlife Conservation Biology Institute OR $15,000 connectivity & prioritizing actions Cook Inletkeeper AK Continuing Salmon Habitat Science in the Cook Inlet Watershed $10,000 Conserving the Biodiversity of the Klamath Wildlife Refuge Complex Crag Law Center OR $10,000 in a Changing Climate Friends of the Clearwater ID Grizzly Bears: Preparing the Salmon-Selway for the next climate refu $2,650 Idaho Conservation League ID Preserving Biodiversity in Central Idaho $10,000 Engaging K-12 Youth in Monitoring Ecosystem Resiliency and At- Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School OR $10,000 Risk Species Northwest Watershed Institute WA Puget Sound Forest Protection Project, Phase II $5,000 Oregon Wild OR Defending the Biodiversity of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monum $5,000 Palouse Land Trust ID Enhancing Resilience of endangered Palouse Praire Grasslands $10,000 Refining and Expansion of Citizen Science Protocols in Aquatic RE Sources WA $10,000 Reserve Ecosystems Building climate resiliency of salmon through adaptive restoration Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition AK $10,000 and stewardship, Wrangell Alaska Climate Change in the Chilkat Valley: Monitoring Surface Water Takshanuk Watershed Council AK $10,000 Temperature and Chemistry Increasing opportunities for minority youth Total $265,638 America SCORES Seattle WA The Power of Soccer, Poetry & Community Service $5,000 Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon OR Increasing Opportunities for Oregon's Asian & Pacific Islander youth $10,000 The Boys & Girls Club of Salem, Marion and Polk County’s Training Boys & Girls Club of Salem, Marion and Polk Counties OR $10,000 Teens for Tomorrow (T3) Program Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation MT Northern Cheyenne Cultural Learning Project $15,000 Caldera OR Caldera Youth Mentor Program $10,000 Carnegie Center dba Carnegie Picture Lab WA Carnegie Picture Lab Summer Art Program $4,200 Center Pole MT Ba-ga-de (Our Crow Clan Children) $10,000 Central Washington University WA Game On - A Central Washington University Program $10,000 Chess for Success OR Athletics for the Mind $5,000 The Mounted Scholars Program: An After School Initiative for At-risk Chief Joseph Foundation ID $10,000 Tribal Youth Increasing early college awareness and access to post-secondary College Access Now WA $15,000 education for minority youth Constructing Hope Pre- Apprenticeship Program OR Construction Trades for Disadvantaged Youth Summer Camp $5,000 CultureSeed WA T.R.U.S.T. Program (Time to Rest, Unfold, find Strength and Thrive) $9,100 El Centro de la Raza WA Plaza Maestas After School Program $10,000 Elite Sports Academy OR Elite Sports Academy $5,000 Fort Belknap Community Economic Development Corporation MT Fort Belknap Youth Garden Mentor Project $15,000 Girls on Ice (University of Alaska Fairbanks) AK Girls on Ice Alaska Expedition (University of Alaska Fairbanks) $10,000 Hilltop Artists in Residence WA Arts Connect $10,000 Koahnic Broadcast Corporation AK Young Media Makers 2018 $5,000 KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio WA RadioActive Youth Media Program $10,000 Na'ah Illahee Fund WA Next Generation Native Environmental Stewards $10,000 Para Los Niños de Highline WA Descubriendo Nuestra Cultura (Discovering Our Culture) $10,000 Powerful Voices WA Powerful Voices Employment Readiness and Activism Program $10,000 Southern Oregon University Pre-College Youth Programs OR Academia Latina $15,000 Spokane Tribal Network WA Native Youth leadership and empowerment Program $10,000 UM - Western Montana Area Health Education Center MT Missoula MedStart: An Exploration of Health Science Careers $2,338 Washington State University - Native American Programs WA Native Youth Exploring Higher Education $10,000 Yakima Music en Accion (YAMA) WA Closing the Opportunity Gap Through Music $15,000.
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