To support riparian habitat restoration, to promote broad watershed partnership efforts, and to support the One for the Verde program that connects community and businesses to the river
Support for grantee's initiative to conduct two reporter training institutes - one for the upper basin and one for the lower basin of the Mississippi River.
Ocean Awareness Project Inc dba Blue Frontier Campaign
Sponsorship of the 2017 Peter Benchley Ocean Awards annual ceremony
2017
Environment
$10,000
Partners for Western Conservation
Support for a project entitled "The Ag Water Network," which will support the education of agricultural water rights holders and the development of technical tools to assist agricultural water rights holders in analyzing the impacts and benefits associated with water sharing and water leasing possibilities
Support for the Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), to help advance scientific research and analyses that support program strategies of the new Chile country level strategy for the Foundation
Support for the development of an Indonesian Tuna Fisheries Strategy and assist with a series of meetings and field visits in Indonesia in conjunction with the February 2017 Economist World Oceans Summit in Bali, Indonesia
To support grantee's initiative to allow CoLab (FishLab) – a unit within the grantee, one of Chile's largest universities – to deploy its expertise around multi-stakeholder collaboration and use social innovation laboratories to improve two artisanal fisheries in communities in Central Chile.
Support for the University of Minnesota's Green Lands Blue Waters program to improve conservation programs in the Midwest, with a focus on Illinois, Iowa and Indiana
To incentivize the creation of new fisheries improvement projects (FIPs) within Chile, Peru and Mexico and also to support basic capacity building within the local NGO communities related to the design and implementation of FIPs
Capacity building and coaching support to the team leading a Collective Impact (CI) effort aimed at creating well-managed, sustainable fisheries in Mexico.
Support for the Upper Gila River Riparian Restoration Project through restoring native riparian habitat along the Upper Gila River, advancement of a scalable riparian restoration strategy that can be applied throughout the lower Colorado River basin, and building capacity within the GWP
To support grantee's initiatives to conduct planning and build consensus among Japanese NGOs in support of a longer-term strategy for Japan to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) seafood from entering its markets.
2017
Environment
$65,337
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation
To support grantee's initiative to develop a strategy for responding to Hurricane Harvey in a manner that enhances coastal resilience, advances coastal restoration goals and builds on the lessons learned by post-Katrina New Orleans.
