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2018 Board-Approved Grants NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS FOUNDATION 2018 BOARD-APPROVED GRANTS Decision Project Country Organization Address Project Name Amount Awarded Date Grand Total $ 578,873 Belize $ 57,200 39-40 North Road, London, N7 9DP, United Developing a market for invasive lionfish to diversify fishing livelihoods and reduce pressure on Belize’s 08/01/2018 Blue Ventures $ 7,200 Kingdom threatened marine biodiversity P.O. Box 3962, Santa Barbara, CA 93130 08/01/2018 Exploring Solutions Past Reawakening the culture and nature connection of the Maya forest of El Pilar and Cayo, Belize $ 8,000 USA 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, 12/05/2018 Oceana Protecting Belize’s marine resources from destructive fishing $ 10,000 DC, 20036 USA Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenious P.O. Box 127, Punta Gorda, Toledo, Belize, 05/01/2018 Reviving ancestral Mayan culture in support of customary forest governance $ 5,000 Management (SATIIM) C.A. Sarteneja Alliance for Conservation and North Front Street, Sarteneja, Corozal, The Community Researcher Programme: Empowering youth through leadership opportunities for the 05/01/2018 $ 5,000 Development (SACD) Belize, C.A. better stewardship of the natural resources and ecosystem services of Corozal Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 4411 Bee Ridge Road #490, Sarasota FL 12/05/2018 Sea to Shore Alliance Conserving manatees to enhance community livelihoods in Belize $ 7,000 34233 USA To improve the capacity of SEA's Science & Research Program through the provision of new dive 05/01/2018 Southern Environmental Association (SEA) Placencia, Belize, C.A. $ 5,000 equipment 20A George Price Stree, Punta Gorda, 05/01/2018 Ya'axché Conservation Trust (YCT Monitoring efforts in the Maya Golden Landscape $ 5,000 Toledo, Belize, C.A. Toledo Institute for Development and 05/01/2018 Punta Gorda, Toledo, Belize, C.A. Improving visitors' experience at the Port honduras Marine Reserve $ 5,000 Environment (TIDE) Cameroon $ 62,900 Old Market Square, Bangem, South West 08/01/2018 Community Action for Development (CAD) Promoting community wildlife management in the Bakossi Landscape Area $ 6,500 Region, Cameroon P.O. Box 111, Limbe Botanic Gardens, 12/05/2018 Forest, Resources and People (FOREP) Market enterprise development for sustainable livelihoods in the South West Region of Cameroon $ 8,500 Limbe, South West Region, Cameroon The Green Project: Alternative livelihoods for ex-hunters in communities surrounding Mount Cameroon 12/05/2018 Limbe Wildlife Centre/Pandrillus Foundation P.O. Box 878, Limbe, Cameroon $ 8,000 National Park Up-station Bamendankwe/P.O Box 234, Curbing forest fires and improving rural income in the Bamenda highlands by providing training on honey 12/21/2018 Mfombo Foundation (MfoFou) Bamenda I Sub division, Mezam Division, $ 9,000 collection techniques and expanding bee farms Northwest Region, Cameroon Organization for Gender, Civic Engagement and West End Junction, Newtown, Limbe, South 12/05/2018 Green City Theatre Road Show $ 8,000 Youth Development (OGCEYOD) West, 467, Cameroon 3426 S.W. Arnold Street, Portland, OR 08/01/2018 Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) Cameroon conservation education program phase 2: Edutainment Films $ 8,900 97219 USA Ngen Junction, Ghana Street Entrance Promoting agroecology to improve food, nutrition and income security of rural poor farmers in Njising- 12/05/2018 Sustainable Run For Development (SURUDEV) Ngen, Bamenda, North West Region, +237, $ 7,000 Tabenken montane forest, Cameroon Cameroon Chambers Street, Mundemba, Southwest Towards sustainable management of natural resources and exploiting alternative livelihood sources in the 12/05/2018 Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG) $ 7,000 Region, 237, Cameroon Rumpi hills Landscape Ecuador $ 25,000 Jaime Roldós 4-80 & Av. huayna Cápac, Scaling community agroecology solutions: Forest restoration and silvopasture training in Ecuadorian 08/01/2018 Fundación Cordillera Tropical Edificio El Consorcio, oficina 412, Cuenca, $ 10,000 Andes Azuay, Ecuador Sensibilización ambiental a caficultores del corredor de conservación binacional Yacuri-Namballe Macara 11-25 y Azuay, Loja, 110108, 08/01/2018 Fundacion Ecologica Arcoiris (Ecuador-Perú)/Environmental training to coffee growers in the Yacuri-Namballe binational conservation $ 7,000 Ecuador corridor (Ecuador-Peru) Guipuzcoa E16-02 y Avenida Coruña, Quito, 08/01/2018 Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano Strengthening the good governance process of the Collay Commonwealth with a biocultural approach $ 8,000 Pichincha, 170109, Ecuador Ecuador and Peru $ 15,500 520 3rd Street, Suite 108, Oakland, CA Defending the Defenders: Supporting environmental and human rights activists in the Ecuadorian and 08/01/2018 Amazon Watch $ 8,000 94607 USA Peruvian Amazon 495A henry Street #1006, Brooklyn, NY 08/01/2018 Land is Life Indigenous-led grantmaking in the Andes and Amazon $ 7,500 11231 USA As of 4/3/19 NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS FOUNDATION 2018 BOARD-APPROVED GRANTS Ghana $ 70,300 P.O. Box KN 3480, Kaneshie, Accra, Greater 08/01/2018 A Rocha Ghana Sankofa: Utilizing Indigenous culture and folklore to redeem a dying lake: Role of the youth (Phase II) $ 8,000 Accra Region, 00233, Ghana P.O. Box KN 3480, Kaneshie, Accra, Greater Community-based development of a medicinal plant garden near the Bobiri Forest Reserve and Butterfly 12/05/2018 A Rocha Ghana $ 11,300 Accra Region, 00233, Ghana Sanctuary, Ghana Accelerated Rural Development Organisation Upscaling the conservation of Togbe Weto Grove through alternative livelihoods enterprises and flow of 12/05/2018 P. O. Box 359, hohoe, Volta, +233, Ghana $ 10,300 (ARDO) ecosystem services along the landscape P.O. Box Ct 1095, Cantonments, Accra, 08/01/2018 Agro-Introductions Ghana (AIG) Enhancing community resource management: The case of Wechiau hippopotamus Sanctuary (Phase 2) $ 8,600 Ghana Centre for Sustainable Rural Agriculture and P. O. Box 67, Esiama, Ellembelle District, Greening and integrating youth through creative approaches to strengthen conservation of Amanzule 12/05/2018 $ 7,800 Development (CSRAD) Western Region, Ghana Wetland for generational benefits 5211 N. Brummetts Creek Road, 08/01/2018 healthy Villages, Inc. Voices of the Ancestors: Environmental education through storytelling $ 6,800 Bloomington, IN 47408 USA P.O. Box CE11117, Tema, Greater Accra, 12/05/2018 heritage and Culture for Development Our Forest Our heritage: Youth actions in safeguarding a heritage at a crossroad $ 10,000 00233, Ghana P.O. Box MC 0941,Takoradi, Western 08/01/2018 Man and Natural Resources Restoration Ghana Establishment of the Pusupu-Nkwanta Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) $ 7,500 Region, Ghana Guatemala $ 15,000 Asociación Multicultural de Mujeres para el Barrio Cacahuatal, Livingston, Izabal, 18002, 12/05/2018 Building resilient communities with the participation of women from Bahia de Amatique, Guatemala $ 7,000 Desarrollo Integral y Sostenible Guatemala 3ra Calle 3-53 Zona 2, Barrio San Jacinto, Compartiendo experiencias, fortaleciendo capacidades/Sharing experiences, strengthening capacities: 08/01/2018 Fundación para el Desarrollo del Norte Aq'ab'al Tactic, Cobán, Alta Verapaz, 1603, Working with communities in the buffer zone of the Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve in support of $ 8,000 Guatemala traditional agroforestry practices Honduras $ 37,000 12/05/2018 Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide 1412 Pearl Street, Eugene, OR 97401 USA Using citizen science to reduce plastic pollution in the Bay Islands National Marine Park, honduras $ 7,000 209 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, CA Empowering and inspiring the next generation of decision-makers to conservation action for marine 12/17/2018 MarAlliance $ 20,000 94107 USA megafauna (Two-year grant) 101 Mortimer Drive, Evington, VA 24550 Land for Life: Food security, saving rainforests, and transforming lives and landscapes in the Cangrejal 12/05/2018 The Inga Foundation $ 10,000 USA and Cuero Rivers watersheds Nicaragua $ 60,500 4249 Loudoun Avenue/P.O. Box 249, The Improving land use practices with indigenous communities in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous 08/01/2018 American Bird Conservancy $ 8,000 Plains, VA 20198 USA Region and Department of Jinotega 12/05/2018 Artists for Soup P.O. Box 835, Millbrook, NY 12545 USA Bio-intensive family gardens and improved nutrition in Corozo, Nicaragua $ 7,000 Del puerto de Moyogalpa, 400 metros al Asociación Movimiento de Jóvenes de Ometepe Oeste, 100 metros al Norte en Oficinas de Cuidando fuentes de agua del Parque Volcán Madera en la Reserva de Biosfera Isla de Ometepe/Caring 12/05/2018 $ 7,500 (AMOJO) ROCO,Municipio de Moyogalpa, Isla de for the water sources of Volcán Madera National Park in the Isla de Ometepe Biosphere Reserve Ometepe, Rivas, Nicaragua 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460, Berkeley, CA Guías Unidos/United Guides: Improving the resources for and expanding the work of local guides on 12/05/2018 Earth Island Institute, Guias Unidos $ 7,000 94704 USA Ometepe Island, Nicaragua 80 Garden Center, Suite 135, Broomfield, 08/01/2018 El Porvenir Community watershed restoration in Waslala, Nicaragua $ 10,000 CO 80020 USA 4479 Central Avenue, Western Springs, IL Children flourishing in safe and food secure communities: A holistic approach to food security in 17 Miskito 12/05/2018 Foods Resource Bank $ 12,000 60558 USA and Mayagna communities 08/01/2018 Global Wildlife Conservation P.O. Box 129, Austin, TX 78767 USA Ending illegal fishing with pesticides in the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve $ 9,000 Peru $ 80,800 P.O. Box 15895, San Francisco, CA 94115
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