| | Organization Name | Project Description | Approved Amount |
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| Citizens Committee for New York City | for awards to volunteer neighborhood improvement projects that work with City agencies. | $100,000 |
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| Community Voices Heard | to coordinate a participatory budget project in eight City Council districts. | $70,000 |
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| Graduate Center of the City University of New York | to create a centralized source of online information about political districts and elected officials. | $25,000 |
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| Northwestern Queens Financial Education Network | to coordinate a network of four financial education and counseling services for immigrant residents of northwestern Queens. | $80,000 |
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| Picture the Homeless | for research and advocacy to improve housing options for very low-income families and individuals. | $40,000 |
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| Union Settlement Association | for a broad coalition to improve social and economic conditions in East Harlem. | $50,000 |
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| Pratt Area Community Council | to provide financial education and counseling to public housing residents in several Brooklyn neighborhoods. | $70,000 |
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| Blue Green Alliance Foundation | to involve labor unions in chemical policy reform. | $75,000 |
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| Center for Health, Environment and Justice | to promote green building materials for New York City schools. | $60,000 |
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| Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities | to support partnerships between public sustainability directors and local foundations. | $100,000 |
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| Multi-State Mercury Products Campaign | to phase out the use of mercury in products. | $75,000 |
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| New Partners for Community Revitalization | to accelerate brownfields redevelopment in New York City. | $50,000 |
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| Product Policy Institute | to reduce packaging waste by making product manufacturers responsible for its disposal. | $100,000 |
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| Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance | to ensure a community voice in the redesign of the Sheridan Expressway. | $50,000 |
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| Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York | to support an awards program promoting excellence in nonprofit management. | $125,000 |
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| Start Small, Think Big! | to provide free legal and business workshops and advice for entrepreneurs in poor neighborhoods. | $50,000 |
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| Business Outreach Center Network | to work out of its new satellite office at the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator with Start Small, Think Big to provide bi-lingual counseling to small businesses. | $60,000 |
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| Clean and Healthy New York | to build grassroots support for federal and State chemical policy reform, including the passage of the Safe Chemical Act. | $50,000 |
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| Public Policy and Education Fund of New York | to enable statewide civic and advocacy groups working in Albany to share technology and other resources. | $60,000 |
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| Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development | to transfer apartment buildings in foreclosure to responsible owners. | $65,000 |
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| Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (U-HAB | to transfer apartment buildings in foreclosure to responsible owners. | $65,000 |
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| Clean Production Action | for BizNGO and GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals, two programs—developed with prior Trust support—that connect businesses and nonprofit organizations to promote green chemistry and safer products. | $100,000 |
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| Lower East Side Ecology Center | to support an electronics recycling program that reduces the amount of toxic chemicals entering landfills. | $50,000 |
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| New York Public Interest Research Group Fund | to prevent the construction of experimental and potentially toxic trash incinerators and promote environmentally sustainable and equitable solutions for dealing with the City’s waste. | $50,000 |
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| Green Worker | to help worker-owned cooperatives involved in recycling, energy conservation, and other green efforts build their businesses. | $50,000 |
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| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition | to expand the number of Bronx contractors that can retrofit buildings to be more energy efficient. | $50,000 |
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| Forest Stewardship Council U.S. | to increase consumer demand for wood and paper products harvested using environmentally sustainable methods. | $100,000 |
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| Nature Conservancy | to reduce damage from extreme weather caused by climate change by identifying wetlands and other natural features that protect waterfront areas. | $200,000 |
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| Natural Resources Defense Council | to promote post-Sandy rebuilding and disaster protection approaches that respect nature and protect public health. | $100,000 |
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| Pesticide Action Network North America | to expand the market for crops grown without hazardous pesticides. | $50,000 |
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| Riverkeeper | to protect the City’s drinking water by monitoring land use and conservation in its watersheds. | $50,000 |
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| Sierra Club Foundation | for the Green Fleets campaign, which aims to persuade U.S. businesses to reduce the amount of oil they use for vehicle fleets, shipping, business travel, and employee commuting. | $100,000 |