The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation

Past Grants

Grants 2024

Acate Amazon Conservation
San Francisco, CA
$30,000 to increase the capacity of the aquaculture and agroforestry system led by women in the Matsés Communal Reserve of northeastern Peru and Brazil.

Addis Clinic
Nashville, TN
$30,000 to develop clinical mentorship programs and patient text messaging systems that reduce infant mortality rates in Somalia.

Adolescent Health Champions
Pleasanton, CA
$50,000 to train adolescents to help their peers navigate health challenges in schools in Jharkhand, India.

Agro-Shrub Alliance
Columbus, OH
$21,883 to expand a shrub intercropping research program in a network of Senegalese farms.

Amazon Watch
Oakland, CA
$50,000 to protect rainforests in solidarity with indigenous communities in the Amazon.

Canopy
Vancouver, Canada
$50,000 to protect ecosystems from paper and pulp companies in Indonesia.

Centre for Wildlife Studies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
$33,660 to help communities near wildlife reserves cope with zoonotic disease and animal/human conflict.

Centro de Estudios de Politicas Ambientales
Buenos Aires, Argentina
$36,550 to implement a seafood traceability policy in Argentina to reduce illegal fishing.

Concern America
$100,000 to expand community health promoter programs in Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia.

Corporate Accountability f/b/o Corporate Accountability and Public Participation
Lagos, Nigeria
$30,000 to expand a water rights advocacy coalition that fights water privatization in Africa. In collaboration with Corporate Accountability.

Development in Gardening
Atlanta, GA
$50,000 for a pilot project in Senegal and Kenya that integrates traditional foods into gardening practices and foodways.

Ecology Action of the Midpenninsula f/b/o ECOPOL
Willits, CA
$30,000 to spread biointensive farming in Latin America.

Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation, Inc.
Allenspark, CO
$40,000 for field studies of an upland rice varietal in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico that is drought- and hurricane-tolerant.

Etta Projects
Tacoma, WA
$49,649 to increase access to long-term contraceptives in Minero, Bolivia.

Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
$30,000 to help communities in Chile challenge environmentally destructive industries.

Fundacion Vida Silvestre
Buenos Aires, Argentina
$50,000 to develop a citizen monitoring and rescue program for animals trapped in Canal de La Patria in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, and create an advocacy plan to address the canal’s threats to wildlife.

Global Greengrants Fund f/b/o/ Agroecology Fund
Boulder, CO
$100,000 to support the East Africa Agroecology Fund.

Global Seed Savers
Denver, CO
$50,000 to promote seed saving among small farmers and develop a seed savers network in the Philippines.

GRAIN
Barcelona, Spain
$50,000 to monitor the financing of corporate agriculture that harms communities and help develop advocacy strategies.

Greenhood Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
$29,373 to identify the medicinal plant preferences of traditional doctors of the mid-hills of Central Nepal, conduct cultivation trials of six threatened plant species and test the potency of wild and cultivated plants in the lab.

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
Huntington, VT
$28,600 to document the use of rainforest habitat in Costa Rica by migrating birds.

Gunung Palung Oranguntan Conservation Program
Lexington, MA
$100,000 to support the development of the Laboratory for One Health Research in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
Lexington, MA
$35,000 to protect orangutans in Indonesia through research, monitoring, and community-led conservation projects.

Heath Equity International
Newton, MA
$25,000 to increase family planning and prenatal health services and improve maternal and infant health outcomes in Haiti.

Hesperian Health Guides
Berkeley, CA
$45,000 to promote using the French language app that supports reproductive health education and family planning among healthcare providers in Benin.

International Crane Foundation
Baraboo, WI
$50,000 to test and refine a regenerative rice farming system that protects wetland biodiversity in Vietnam’s Tram Chim National Park. In collaboration with Wildtour Company and Mekong Organics.

International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$30,000 to help grassroots environmental organizations in Africa fight the threats of dams.

InterPares f/b/o Likhaan Center for Women’s Health in the Philippines
Ottawa, CA
$36,708 to support a network of ten sexual and reproductive health clinics in Manila.

Mil Milagros
Somerville, MA
$20,000 to support a health and family planning initiative in rural Mayan communities in Guatemala.

Mamiraua Sustainable Development Institute
Tefe, Brazil
$50,000 to study mercury levels in Amazonian fish, compile a nutritional database of Amazonian foods, and promote local food biodiversity.

National Center for Biological Sciences
Bangalore, India
$33,000 to study the characteristics and vulnerabilities of the endangered Asiatic wild dog across India’s Western Ghats and develop a conservation plan.

Occupational Knowledge International
$33,436 to investigate lead and chromium content in paints, check labeling practices and work with advocacy organizations to promote comprehensive lead paint regulations in Mexico.

One Heart Worldwide
San Francisco, CA
$50,000 to increase the capacity of rural healthcare facilities to promote family planning in Nepal.

Optio
$35,000 to support a network of safe space clubs that address sexual abuse and adolescent pregnancy in Honduras.

Pacific Environment
$70,000 to support grassroots advocacy campaigns reducing plastic use and electrifying shipping in China.

Partners in Agriculture
Greenville, SC
$30,000 to support smallholder farming among women in Haiti’s Central Plateau.

Princess Center
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
$30,000 to create a health curriculum for adolescent girls, establish girls’ health clubs in 12 secondary schools in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and educate girls on sexual and reproductive health.

Project Pressure
London, UK
$50,000 to investigate how pollution flows to the Mesoamerican reef from inland on the Yucatán Peninsula into the Mexican waters.

Restore Hope
Lyme, NH
$50,000 to reduce depression and anxiety among women in Liberia through group therapy and the development of food forest gardens in the Upper Guinean Forest. In collaboration with SHADE.

Sartstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management
Punta Gorda, Belize
$20,500 to revive traditional knowledge of forest management to protect the wetlands of the Sarstoon Temash National Park.

Sena Institute of Technology Foundation
Boston, MA
$25,000 to develop a Sub-Saharan African Genome Repository as a resource for promoting biomedical research, conservation assessment, and natural drug discovery.

TIP Global Health
Aptos, CA
$50,000 to increase female decision-making power and encourage men to be champions of family health in 30 Rwandan villages with digital family health progress reports.

Tithandizane FSW
Mangochi, Malawi
$30,000 to promote reproductive health and family planning for female sex workers.

Ugandan Water Project
$43,294 to improve water and sanitation services in two districts in Ghana by implementing a data management platform.

University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, CA
$85,665 to support the national adoption of spatial monitoring technology in Equatorial Guinea that improves the management of protected areas. In collaboration with the Calgary Zoon and the Equatoguinean Institute for Forestry Development. (2-year grant)

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
$43,576 to use eDNA to characterize populations of endemic marine species that are endangered in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In collaboration with the Galapagos Science Center and the Galapagos National Park.

WEEMA International
Action, MA
$25,000 to build the capacity and resiliency of smallholder farmers in Tembaro, Ethiopia.

WISE Tropics
East Setauket, NY
$36,000 to expand an avian influenza monitoring program at waterbird congregations in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. In collaboration with Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, University of San Marcos, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Grants 2023

Acate Amazon Conservation
San Francisco, CA
$30,000 to pilot an aquaculture system led by women in the Matsés Communal Reserve of northeastern Peru and Brazil.

Addis Clinic
Nashville, TN
$35,000 to develop clinical mentorship programs and patient text messaging systems that reduce infant mortality rates in Somalia.

Africa Development Promise
Denver, CO
$21,100 to start an integrated pest management program in farmer field schools in Bugesera District, Rwanda.

Afya Pamoja
Cambridge, MA
$30,000 to improve patient care in healthcare facilities in Tanzania by gathering client feedback about services through mobile phones.

Agro-Shrub Alliance
Columbus, OH
$16,500 to pilot a shrub intercropping program in a network of Senegalese farms. In collaboration with the University Iba Der Thiam.

Amazon Watch
Oakland, CA
$40,000 to support the land claims of indigenous communities in Peru and Ecuador and protect the rainforest from oil drilling.

Bank Information Center f/b/o Iniciativa para las Inversiones Sustentables China-América Latina
Washington, D.C.
$70,000 to help communities in Latin America develop the legal and policy expertise to guard against potential environmental threats of Chinese infrastructure projects.

Bosque Colombiano Foundation
San Roque, Colombia
$15,000 to support a community plan for a marine protected area in Cupica Bay, Colombia.

Canopy
Vancouver, Canada
$50,000 to protect ecosystems from paper and pulp companies in Indonesia.

Centre for Wildlife Studies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
$33,660 to expand public health and safety awareness of disease transmission between people, livestock, and wild animals.

Etta Projects
Tacoma, WA
$28,126 to increase access to long-term contraceptives in Minero, Bolivia.

Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
$30,000 to help communities in Chile challenge environmentally destructive industries.

Fundacion Mundo Azul
Guatemala City, Guatemala
$27,772 for a shark population study and planning that supports marine conservation in Guatemala.

Global Seed Savers
Denver, CO
$40,000 to promote seed saving among small farmers and develop a seed savers network in the Philippines.

GRAIN
Barcelona, Spain
$46,000 to monitor the financing of corporate agriculture that harms communities and help develop advocacy strategies.

Hesperian Health Guides
Berkeley, CA
$45,000 to test and increase the use of a phone app that supports reproductive health education and family planning among healthcare providers in Rwanda.

Mil Milagros
Somerville, MA
$20,000 to support a health and family planning initiative in rural Maya communities in Guatemala.

Centro de Estudios de Politicas Ambientales
Buenos Aires, Argentina
$33,650 to implement a seafood traceability policy in Argentina to reduce illegal fishing.

Centro de Investigaciones Para La Transformación
Buenos Aires, Argentina
$35,000 to expand a collaborative, open-source seed breeding initiative with farmer networks in Argentina.

Comission Ecumenica de Derechos Humanos (CEDHU) f/b/o Dulcepamba Water Justice Project
Quito, Ecuador
$77,000 to help communities protect their rights to water in Ecuador with new water monitoring techniques, accountability mechanisms, and advocacy strategies.

Development in Gardening
Atlanta, GA
$35,750 to help Batwa communities in Uganda integrate traditional forest foods into their gardening practices and foodways.

EarthRights
Washington, D.C.
$75,000 to help grassroots environmental organizations in the Mekong Delta improve their advocacy campaigns.

Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation, Inc.
Allenspark, CO
$35,000 for field studies of an upland rice varietal in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico that is drought- and hurricane-tolerant. In collaboration with Fundación Agricultura Marcos Orozco.

Global Greengrants Fund f/b/o/ Agroecology Fund
Boulder, CO
$100,000 to support the East Africa Agroecology Fund.

Good Business Lab
New Delhi, India
$29,620 to test the effectiveness of a workplace-based sexual and reproductive health training program for large employers of low-income women workers, such as the Indian garment industry.

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
Huntington, VT
$28,600 to document the use of rainforest habitat in Costa Rica by migrating birds. In collaboration with Área de Conservación Guanacaste government, the Mennill Lab at the University of Windsor, Canada, the Monteverde Institute, and the Center for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
Lexington, MA
$35,000 to protect orangutans in Indonesia through research, monitoring, and community-led conservation projects.

Heath Equity International
Newton, MA
$30,000 to test if “maternal accompagnatrices” increase the uptake of family planning and prenatal health services and improve maternal and infant health outcomes in Haiti.

InterPares f/b/o Likhaan Center for Women’s Health in the Philippines
Ottawa, CA
$43,132 to support a network of nine sexual and reproductive health clinics in Manila.

International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$30,000 to help grassroots environmental organizations in Africa fight the threats of dams.

Malaysian Nature Society
Kuala Lumpur, Malasia
$25,000 for a study of Malaysia’s coastal otter population and otter-human conflict. In Collaboration with the Malaysia Otter Network and the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia.

National Center for Biological Sciences
Bangalore, India
$30,000 to study the characteristics and vulnerabilities of the endangered Asiatic wild dog across India’s Western Ghats and develop a conservation plan.

Natura International
Washington, D.C.
$50,000 to create 1 million acres of new protected areas in Argentina as national or provincial parks.

NutriFund International
St. Louis, MO
$26,218 to test a communal approach to promote breastfeeding and shift long-standing misconceptions about breastfeeding in rural Honduras.

Occupational Knowledge International
San Francisco, CA
$26,166 to investigate the manufacture, trade, and use of chemicals in pottery glazes to inform national policy in Mexico to address the health hazard. In collaboration with Casa Cem / Vías Verdes.

Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
$19,950 to identify plant pathogen threats to endemic species in the Galapagos Archipelago. In collaboration with Agencia de Bioseguridad Galapagos and Universidad Central del Ecuador.

Organic Growers Research and Information Sharing Network
Bainbridge, NY
$41,900 to test if farmer-made biofertilizers increase yield and protect crops in Kenya.

One Heart Worldwide
San Francisco, CA
$30,500 to increase the capacity of rural healthcare facilities to promote family planning.

Partners in Agriculture
Greenville, SC
$30,000 to support smallholder farming among women in Haiti’s Central Plateau.

Ripple Effect
Washington, D.C.
$28,017 to improve the food security, nutrition, and income among 5,500 smallholder farmers in Dawuro Zone of the Southern West Region of Ethiopia by promoting agroecological farming.

Sena Institute of Technology Foundation
Boston, MA
$25,000 to develop a Ghanaian crop database and biospecimen repository to help conserve medicinal and food plants.

Sartstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management
Punta Gorda, Belize
$20,500 to train Maya women to map land use and participate in government consultations for land titling in Belize.

SeedChange
Ottawa, Canada
$30,000 to improve seed banking systems in Timor Leste.

Sustainable Rural Agriculture and Development
Nkroful, Ghana
$64,600 to test soil solarization and Black Soldier Fly frass fertilizer to grow pathogen-free seedlings of Amaranth. (Two years)

TIP Global Health
Aptos, CA
$25,000 to increase female decision-making power and encourage men to be champions of family health in 30 Rwandan villages with digital family health progress reports.

Trees That Feed Foundation
Winnetka, IL
$21,000 to develop auxiliary heat sources for hybrid solar food dehydrators in the Caribbean.

Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
$49,190 to develop portable tests to detect tropical vector-borne diseases in rural Colombia.

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$26,930 to Identify and predict the parasite burden of mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo to improve the health of gorillas and humans.

University of Georgia
Athens, GA
$27,500 to study livestock depredation and develop mitigation solutions in the Greater Etosha Landscape, Namibia. In collaboration with the Ongava Research Centre.

University of Miami
Miami, FL
$50,000 to identify the risks and benefits of using Sargassum as a fertilizer in the Caribbean. (Two years)

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$50,200 to create species distributional maps of Colombian bee species to inform conservation and agriculture programs.

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
$36,603 to transfer predatory mite-rearing methods to commercial growers to ensure a source of biocontrol agents for farmers in Lebanon.

Voces y Manos
Oakland, CA
$40,000 to train youth outreach workers to promote agroecology in Rabinal, Guatemala. (Two years)

Grants 2022

Addis Clinic
Nashville, TN
$30,000 to improve maternal and child health outcomes in Somalia with a regional telehealth system.

ATREE
Bangalore, India
$39,000 to help formally integrate biodiversity conservation into India’s development process and improve the national infrastructure for conservation science.

Agro-Shrub Alliance
Columbus, OH
$12,000 to develop a network of Senegalese farms that demonstrate shrub intercropping.

Amazon Watch
Oakland, CA
$30,000 to support the land claims of indigenous communities in Peru and Ecuador and protect the rainforest from oil drilling.

Bank Information Center
Washington, D.C.
$30,000 to help communities in Latin America develops the legal expertise to guard against potential environmental threats of Chinese infrastructure projects.

Cambodian Rural Development Team
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
$29,500 to improve the quality of water entering the Anlung Pring Protected Landscape in Cambodia by helping farmers reduce their use of agrochemicals in rice production.

Canopy
Vancouver, Canada
$25,000 to protect ecosystems from paper and pulp companies in Indonesia. In collaboration with Kelompok Studi dan Pengembangan Prakarsa Masyarakat.

Care 2 Communities
Boston, MA
$25,000 to reduce unwanted pregnancies among young women and girls in Northern Haiti.

Centre for Wildlife Studies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
$22,728 to expand public health and safety awareness of disease transmission between people, livestock, and wild animals.

Centro de Estudios de Politicas Ambientales
Buenos Aires, Argentina
$14,400 to develop a seafood traceability policy in Argentina that reduces illegal fishing.

Centro de Estudos e Promoção da Agricultura de Grupo (CEPAGRO)
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina – Brasil
$30,000 to develop a network of cover crop demonstration farms and a participatory organic produce certification system in Southern, Brazil.

Centro de Investigaciones Para La Transformación
Buenos Aires, Argentina
$30,000 to pilot a collaborative, open-source seed breeding initiative with three farmer networks in Argentina.

Common Ground for Africa
Kitale, Kenya
$23,350 to support bio-intensive mini-farming training program serving 80 villages in Western Kenya.

Concern America
Santa Ana, CA
$60,000 to replicate a health promotor training program in Chiapas, Mexico.

Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences
Bogotá, Colombia
$25,632 to test the use of underwater photogrammetry as a way of engaging local communities in marine conservation, in the Archipelago of the San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Colombia.

Development in Gardening
Atlanta, GA
$19,898 to help Batwa communities in Uganda integrate traditional forest foods into their gardening practices and foodways.

Developing Radio Partners
Washington, D.C.
$60,000 for two-years to promote family planning reproductive health through youth-led radio and community outreach campaigns in Malawi. In Collaboration with Mzati Community Radio and Voice of Livingstonia Radio.

Earthrights
Washington, D.C.
$25,000 to help grassroots environmental organizations in the Mekong Delta improve their advocacy campaigns.

Eco-Health Alliance
New York, NY
$30,000 to train the government of Bangladesh how to detect and respond to emerging infectious disease outbreaks.

Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula f/b/o ECOPOL
Willits, CA
$25,000 to spread biointensive farming in Mexico.

Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation, Inc.
Allenspark, CO
$15,000 for field studies of an upland rice varietal in Guatemala that is drought resistant and hurricane tolerant. In collaboration with la Semilla del Progresso.

Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
$30,000 to help communities in Chile challenge environmentally destructive industries.

Forest Conservation Fund
Geneva, Switzerland
$34,000 to train organizations in Kalimantan, Indonesia how to use software and analysis tools to protect conservation areas.

Global Seed Savers
Denver, CO
$30,000 to promote seed saving among small farmers and develop a seed savers network in Benguet and Cebu provinces in the Philippines.

GRAIN
Barcelona, Spain
$40,000 to help a network of grassroots organizations prevent the expansion of oil palm plantations in Central and West Africa.

Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
Lexington, MA
$35,000 to protect orangutans in Indonesia through research, monitoring, and community-led conservation projects.

Hesperian Health Guides
Berkeley, CA
$25,500 to test a phone app that supports reproductive health education and family planning in Rwanda. In collaboration with the Health Development Initiative, the Rwanda Women’s Network, the Rwanda Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Medical Students for Choice.

Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas de Tercer Mundo
Quito, Ecuador
$33,402 to help communities protect their rights to water in Ecuador with new water monitoring techniques, accountability mechanisms, and advocacy strategies.

International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$35,000 to help grassroots environmental organizations in Africa fight the threats of dams.

MarAlliance
Belize City, Belize
$28,235 to train fishers and community members how to monitor endangered fish populations that benefit from the new national gillnet ban.

Mil Milagros
Somerville, MA
$20,000 to support a health and family planning initiative in rural Maya communities in Guatemala. In collaboration with WINGS and Wuqu Kawok.

National University of Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
$25,010 to document ecosystem changes due to climate change and overgrazing in the grassland region of Hovsgol, Mongolia.

Occupational Knowledge International
$25,400 to reduce community lead, mercury, and dust exposure by changing mining practices in Cameroon. In collaboration with CREPD.

One Health
$13,627 to map the distribution of snail fever in Southwest Nigeria, identify animal/human risk factors, and make recommendations.

Optio
Berkeley, CA
$25,000 to promote reproductive health for girls in Guatemala through 1,000 Safe Space clubs. In collaboration with CEPROSAF, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley and Centre for Girls Education.

Pacific Environment
San Francisco, CA
$25,000 to help a network of grassroots Chinese environmental advocacy organizations reduce trash and plastic pollution in the Yangtze river.

Partners in Agriculture
Greenville, SC
$30,000 to support smallholder farming among women in Haiti’s Central Plateau.

Saving Mothers
New York, NY
$30,000 to train nurses how place intrauterine devices and provide family planning services in West Pokot, Kenya.

SeedChange
Ottawa, Canada
$25,000 to start four seed banking systems in Timor Leste. In collaboration with RAEBIA Timor Leste and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. In collaboration with INRAN-Niger, University of Lome-Togo and INRAB-Benin.

SEED Madagascar
London, UK
$24,998 to protect lemurs by creating habitat corridors in the Ste Luce Littoral Forest of Anosy, Madagascar.

Semilla Nueva
Boise, ID
$30,000 to reduce rates of chronic malnutrition in Guatemala by producing, promoting, and selling biofortified corn seeds.

TIP Global Health
Aptos, CA
$25,000 to increase female decision-making power and encourage men to be champions of family health in 30 Rwandan villages with digital family health progress reports.

Sena Institute of Technology Foundation
Boston, MA
$25,000 to develop a Ghanaian crop database and biospecimen repository to help conserve medicinal and food plants.

Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs for the Environmental Paper Network
Calabasas, CA
$75,000 to support advocacy campaigns in Asia that reduce the demand for unsustainably harvested pulp and paper threatening Indonesian rainforests.

Sumatran Orangutan Society
Abingdon, UK
$30,000 to test satellite monitoring technology that will help Yayasan Orangutan Sumatra Lestari respond to threats of deforestation in the Leuser rainforest of Sumatra, Indonesia.

Unlocking Communities
Chicago, IL
$30,000 to make and sell household 100,000 water filters in Haiti by 2024.

University of Maryland
College Park, MD
$20,000 to study contamination of rainwater harvesting ponds in Nepal and set up a monitoring and treatment system. In collaboration with Sanskriti Farms and Research Center and Kathmandu University.

Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Quito, Ecuador
$26,920 to study how light affects the growing cycle of quinoa and evaluate its tolerance to salinity in soils.

University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Burlington, VT
$30,000 to study sustainable biocontrol for greenhouse vegetables in Lebanon.

University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
$29,843 to develop sustainable bamboo forestry standards in Ecuador and create a stewardship network.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
$19,000 to study if deforestation increases mosquito-borne diseases in Guatemala. In collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society and Universidad de San Carlos.

Weltweit
Bad Soden, Germany
$19,000 to develop a system to map and monitor soil salinity and test soil salinity mitigation strategies with local produce farmers in Mozambique

Grants 2021