Belo FoundationIt was established in 1952 as the G. B. Dealey Foundation in honor of Belo’s longtime majority owner and founder of The Dallas Morning News; later it was renamed the A. H. Belo Corporation Foundation and then, simply, The Belo Foundation. During The Belo Foundation’s 50 years of philanthropic …
BEST is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) based in Indonesia. Our objective is to improve the prosperity of underprivileged groups in Urban Indonesian society. Most of the programs we run are located in Urban Settlement areas were sanitation and environmental conditions are often poor.In 1995 BEST with the help of its …
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)The USDA’s North Central Region (NCR) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has awarded more than $30 million worth of competitive grants to farmers and ranchers, researchers, educators, public and private institutions, nonprofit groups, and others exploring sustainable agriculture in 12 states.Since 1988, the …
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)The USDA’s North Central Region (NCR) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has awarded more than $30 million worth of competitive grants to farmers and ranchers, researchers, educators, public and private institutions, nonprofit groups, and others exploring sustainable agriculture in 12 states.Goals- Foster site-specific, …
Mission Statement:To provide information on green building design to community members in Iowa. Focusing on design, energy consumption, and materials.
Recent years have seen a marked increase in cooperation between the public and private sectors for the development and operation of infrastructure for a wide range of economic activities. Such Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) arrangements were driven by limitations in public funds to cover investments needs but also by efforts to …
A truly independant monitoring service that is currently watching particulate levels in the areas surrounding the Padeswood Hazardous Waste Co-Incinerator The fundamental problem with cement kiln hazardous wasteincineration is that it has the effect of putting 100% of the toxic metals found in hazardous waste into the environment, either as …
Global Warming and Peak Everything pose challenges that need to beaddresses through all scales of human organizing. As higher levels ofgovernance (United Nation, National Governments) have been captive toforces that are only driven by short sighted profiteering, thepressures for action have increased on the more local scales. TheCarrboro Greenspace will …
Our MissionThe Catskill Watershed Corporation is a Local Development Corporation established to protect the water resources of the New York City Watershed West of the Hudson River (WOH); to preserve and strengthen communities located in the region; and to increase awareness and understanding of the importance of the NYC Water …
The Center for Creative Land Recycling [CCLR or see clear”] is a nonprofit organization focused on creating sustainable communities by identifying and implementing responsible patterns of land use and development. Our mission is to encourage and facilitate land recycling in ways that revitalize urban areas
