GLOBAL INITIATIVE GRANTS AND CONTRACTS LIST ONGOING ActionAid USA – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to identify, develop, and promote policies that reduce negative impacts of agrocommodity production on food security, land use, and climate change AMOUNT: $264,600.00 DURATION: 13 months / Start date: July 2016 ActionAid USA – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to identify, develop, and promote policies that mitigate the impact of biofuels production on food security, land use, and climate change AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: July 2015 ActionAid USA – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to reduce the negative climate, food security, and land‐use impacts of biofuels, with a focus on U.S. and international policy AMOUNT: $800,000.00 DURATION: 23 months / Start date: November 2015 ActionAid USA – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to reduce the negative climate, food security, and land‐use impacts of biofuels, with particular attention to the expanding use of ethanol AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: October 2014 Association pour l'Amélioration de la Gouvernance de la Terre, de l'Eau et des Ressources Naturelles (AGTER) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to promote the visibility of indigenous peoples and forests at the UNFCCC Paris COP AMOUNT: $174,825.00 DURATION: 6 months / Start date: November 2015 Ateneo de Manila – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to develop a system of environmental and social safeguards as part of national and subnational REDD+ programs AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: March 2015 Bank Information Center (BIC) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to ensure the World Bank Group's finance supports positive actions to reduce deforestation and protect the rights of forest communities AMOUNT: $300,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2017 Bank Information Center (BIC) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to increase the World Bank Group’s commitment to engaging constructively in the forest sector and to ensure the availability of more and better project‐level finance to reduce deforestation and protect the rights of forest communities AMOUNT: $300,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2016 Bank Information Center (BIC) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to develop a forest sustainability screen to reduce the impact of investments by the International Finance Corporation and other lenders on forests and forest‐dependent peoples AMOUNT: $300,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2015 Bank Information Center (BIC) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to ensure the World Bank develops adequate safeguards to protect people and forests AMOUNT: $300,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2014 Better World Group – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to continue organizing a business‐to‐business collaborative effort to build corporate support for the West Coast Climate Campaign in Washington State AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 6 months / Start date: August 2015 Bipartisan Policy Center – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to establish a leadership council of agribusiness stakeholders to address climate change risks and opportunities AMOUNT: $125,000.00 DURATION: 3 months / Start date: April 2016 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to develop a policy analysis examining China’s role and potential impact in promoting sustainability in major global commodity markets AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: July 2016 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to provide an understanding of how the sustainability of global commodity markets is relevant to China's interests and to suggest policy tools through which China might promote sustainability in those markets AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 5 months / Start date: June 2016 Burness Communications – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to increase media attention on deforestation‐free commodities, forests, the role of indigenous peoples in the climate change agenda, and opportunities for effective climate finance in the forest sector AMOUNT: $196,075.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2017 Burness Communications – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to develop and implement a strategic communications plan and provide communications training and technical assistance to promote community forest rights as an effective climate change solution AMOUNT: $600,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: March 2017 Burness Communications – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to promote community forest rights as an effective climate change solution through the development and implementation of strategic media planning, communications training and assistance AMOUNT: $550,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: March 2016 Burness Communications – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to develop and implement a strategic media plan and provide communications training and technical advice to promote community forestry as an effective climate change solution AMOUNT: $600,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: February 2015 Carnegie Institution of Washington – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to develop a community‐based assessment of the prospects for biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) to meet global climate mitigation goals AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: July 2016 Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen enforcement and implementation of safeguards and legal standards protecting ecosystems, indigenous rights, and forest communities under international climate change agreements AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: March 2015 Ceres – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to move major food and beverage companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental and social risks in their agricultural supply chains AMOUNT: $500,000.00 DURATION: 24 months / Start date: January 2016 Clark University – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to conduct an assessment of the impacts of extractive industries and infrastructure development on forests and forest peoples AMOUNT: $177,900.00 DURATION: 10 months / Start date: August 2016 Clean Air Task Force, Inc. (CATF) – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to ensure high quality greenhouse gas accounting for biofuel and biomass feedstocks in the regulatory pathways governing their use AMOUNT: $440,000.00 DURATION: 24 months / Start date: October 2015 Clean Air Task Force, Inc. (CATF) – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to conduct research and analysis of new technical and legal developments in biofuel and biomass feedstock development, greenhouse gas accounting, and regulatory pathways governing their use AMOUNT: $220,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: August 2014 Climate Advisers – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to encourage major palm oil producers to make commitments to produce palm oil with no deforestation, peatland expansion, or exploitation AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 9 months / Start date: February 2015 Climate Focus – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to share findings on progress toward achievement of the commitments articulated in the New York Declaration on Forests. AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: February 2017 Climate Focus – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to assess potential opportunities and challenges for reducing beef consumption globally. AMOUNT: $249,000.00 DURATION: 7 months / Start date: December 2016 Climate Focus – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to clarify how various studies arrive at their GHG estimates for livestock, evaluate their strengths and limitations, and produce a more definitive percentage attribution to more effectively inform policy makers AMOUNT: $23,700.00 DURATION: 5 months / Start date: March 2015 Climate Policy Initiative – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to encourage informed policy choices in Indonesia by building an empirical platform for future, in depth, qualitative and quantitative analysis concerning biofuels and related renewable energy policies AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 2 months / Start date: September 2015 Climate Solutions – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to continue building a strong coalition of public support for clean fuels standards in Oregon and Washington AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 8 months / Start date: May 2015 ClimateWorks Foundation (CWF) – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to ensure high environmental integrity in the global aviation sector’s mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, specifically related to the use of biofuels and offsets AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 7 months / Start date: June 2016 Consensus Building Institute (CBI) – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to map the organizations working on different agricultural commodities linked to deforestation, identify the initial lessons they are drawing from their work, and assess opportunities to promote cross‐commodity lesson learning AMOUNT: $90,150.00 DURATION: 7 months / Start date: June 2016 Conservation International – Packard Grant PURPOSE: to accelerate U.S. market conversion to sustainable palm oil and develop similar initiatives in emerging markets including Indonesia AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: October 2014 Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support the Amazon Summit which provides a forum for international exchange among indigenous peoples from the Amazon and other regions on forest and territorial rights AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 3 months / Start date: August 2016 Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to provide indigenous peoples’ organizations with capacity‐building and advocacy