Grant Program Environment

To improve corporate, investor and public policies on climate change in New England.

To achieve fundamental reform in Massachusetts policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment-by building a broad statewide coalition representing health-affected, medical, organized labor, environmental, and faith communities that generates grassroots advocacy.

To achieve fundamental reform in Massachusetts policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment-by building a broad statewide coalition representing health-affected, medical, organized labor, environmental, and faith communities that generates grassroots advocacy.

To achieve fundamental reform in Massachusetts policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment-by building a broad statewide coalition representing health-affected, medical, organized labor, environmental, and faith communities that generates grassroots advocacy.

To stop the release of genetically engineered Hawaiian commodity crops (taro, coffee, sugarcane, banana and pineapple) while furthering research into the environmental and economic damage genetically modified papaya has caused in the islands.

To achieve fundamental reform in Massachusetts policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment-by building a broad statewide coalition representing health-affected, medical, organized labor, environmental, and faith communities that generates grassroots advocacy.

To inform small-town and rural residents in Ohio about environmental policy issues through the opinion pages of their local newspapers.

To advance and defend federal environmental protections through issue-based national campaigns.

To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.

To continue developing the grassroots constituency for climate protection in Massachusetts, primarily through the Cities for Climate protection campaign; and to use the participation of local leaders to press for stronger climate protection policies at the state and regional levels.