Grant Program Environment

To coordinate and promote campaigns in multiple states to eliminate brominated flame retardants as a precursor to comprehensive chemicals policy reform on persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals.

To research, write, produce and widely distribute a new edition of the Farmers’ Guide to GMOs, which in its original edition became a reliable, accessible, and independent source of information for family farmers and the progressive agricultural community as they…

To stop the release of genetically engineered corn and taro in Hawaii, while cleaning up contamination from the release of the genetically engineered papaya.

To provide the staff capacity to ensure that the Healthy City Youth Farm in the Intervale can successfully fulfill its fresh organic vegetable sales contract with Fletcher Allen Health Care and one additional institutional customer; to broker larger local fresh…

To improve the Incubator Farms Program, which will include upgrading the recruitment, training and transitioning programs, and will ensure that Intervale land is managed properly for the long term sustainability of the program and organization.

To conduct outreach about the relationship between health, the environment and racism to the 1,700 congregations affiliated with the Massachusetts Council of Churches member denominations and other interested religious groups; to educate congregation members using the Healthy Churches adult education…

To coordinate and promote campaigns in multiple states to eliminate brominated flame retardants as a precursor to comprehensive chemicals policy reform on persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals.

To stop the commercialization of genetically engineered rice, and to increase farmer awareness of Monsanto and Syngenta’s growing monopoly on farm crop seeds.

To secure adoption and implementation of energy efficiency appliance standards among states in the Northeast; and to use the momentum and political pressure from state agreements to ensure that similar appliance standards are adopted at the federal level.

To improve the Incubator Farms Program, which will include upgrading the recruitment, training and transitioning programs, and will ensure that Intervale land is managed properly for the long term sustainability of the program and organization.