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Janga & Acao ⁽⁶³⁶⁾

http://www.jangamaisacao.org.br

Brazil / $172

Flow Funder: Guilhereme Figueiredo Nascimento

Year Funded: 2010

This non-governmental organization (NGO), headed by Negro Rauls, works on the social development of the community of Jardim Jangadeiro in the suburbs of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Every year they organize a beautiful festival and they needed some extra financial help this year, to make it happen.

Advocacy, Arts, Cultural Preservation

Homeless Garden Project ⁽⁶³⁴⁾

http://www.homelessgardenproject.org

United States - California / $300

Flow Funder: Malaika Bishop

Year Funded: 2010

The Homeless Garden Project provides job training and transitional employment to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The programs offer trainees an opportunity to rebuild and develop basic life skills and a sense of worth as human beings. Their work brings together people from throughout the community in the beauty and security of a certified organic garden. They also teach principles of economic and ecological sustainability through classes and hands-on experience and provide homeless men and women job training and transitional employment.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health

Oakland Institute ⁽⁶³³⁾

http://www.oaklandinstitute.org

United States - California / $400

Flow Funder: Malaika Bishop

Year Funded: 2010

This policy think tank increases public participation and promotes fair debate on critical social, economic and environmental issues in both national and international forums, through working in coalitions and networks to strengthen social movements, especially multi-cultural, cross-border and cross-class alliances. The Institute engages in three main areas of interrelated program work: Bringing a social and economic human rights lens to organizing and policy work; Reframing the debate on security; and Building strategic alliances to strengthen popular struggles nationally and internationally.

Advocacy, Biodiversity, Education

Associacao Bem- Estar Animal Amigos da Celia ⁽⁶¹⁶⁾

Brazil / $2,836

Flow Funder: Charlie Barnett

Year Funded: 2010

The Associacao Bem-Estar Animal Amigos da Celia (Celia Animal Welfare Association or ABEAC Animal Shelter) provides food, shelter and medical care for more than 200 dogs. We shared a gift to help raise funds to buy dog food and cover other expenses of the shelter. Another gift was shared to build a septic system for the kennel to meet government code standards.

Advocacy, Health, Poverty

Fair Food Matters ⁽⁵⁷⁸⁾

http://www.fairfoodmatters.org

United States - Michigan / $1,000

Flow Funder: Penny Kelly

Year Funded: 2010

A gift was shared with this non-profit in Kalamazoo, Michigan USA whose mission is to support thriving local communities worldwide that are growing and distributing safe, nutritious, locally produced foods that foster healthy communities, environments, and economies.

Advocacy, Agriculture, Ecology/Sustainability

Shirley Sherrod ⁽⁵⁷³⁾

United States - Georgia / $500

Flow Funder: Larry Yee

Year Funded: 2010

Shirley Sherrod, a black woman from Albany, Georgia, was asked to resign from her position as the USDA Director of Rural Development for the state of Georgia. She was the target of conservative bloggers and radio talk shows, and was branded a black racist, because of remarks she made during a speech to a meeting of the NAACP. The excerpt that was used was taken out of context. Her speech was actually about redemption and how she evolved from an experience where she acted slightly discriminatory toward a poor white farmer, but whom later she helped to save his farm. Both USDA and the White House acted in haste by asking for her resignation. After they realized their mistake in rushing to judge, they apologized, but the damage had been done. I have the utmost respect and admiration for Shirley Sherrod, as I have personal experience of her character and her integrity is impeccable. Shirley plans to fight her case legally, and this Flow Fund gift will help with her legal fees. This case has re-opened the conversation of race in this country and brought attention to the destructive and hate-filled agenda of ultra conservative groups.

Advocacy, Inter-Cultural, Women

Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) ⁽⁵⁶⁸⁾

http://www.coastalalliance.com/

United States - California / $3,000

Flow Funder: Larry Yee

Year Funded: 2010

CAUSE was established in 2000 by the Ventura County Living Wage Coalition to promote economic and social justice for the working people of the Central Coast region of California, through policy advocacy, research, organizing, leadership development and community building. CAUSE has successfully undertaken developing several important community planning and public policy initiatives addressing such issues as living wage jobs, uninsured working families, women's economic justice, fair political representation, environmental cleanup, health access, and regional transportation. My Flow Fund gift went toward general support of this organization.

Advocacy, Economic Development, Women

Flower Aceh ⁽⁵¹³⁾

Indonesia, Thailand / $2,500

One of the oldest women's rights organizations in the province, Flower Aceh has been actively helping women who have fallen victim to violence, including torture and rape, during and after the bloody conflict between the Indonesian army and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). Of all the areas hit by the tsunami, the Indonesian province of Aceh, suffered most. In the aftermath of the tsunami, Flower Aceh also provided basic necessities and ran a Women's Crisis Center in conjunction with other local women's groups. Using the experience garnered from empowering women in conflict situations, Flower Aceh is working to include women in the re-construction process, post earthquake and tsunami. A gift was shared with 3 women from this organization to attend the Sustainability Leadership Training program, which was held for activists, community leaders, and representatives from organizations around Asia and held at Pun Pun, an earth-house, organic community based in Chiengmai, Thailand.

Advocacy, Peace, Women

Legal Support for Political Detainee ⁽⁴⁹⁷⁾

Sudan / $300

In Darfur, people who are suspected of opposing the current government are being tortured and often end up disappearing without a trace. We became aware that the brother-in-law of a good friend was arrested by the security police in South Darfur, and was being detained without accusation. Over time it became clear that legal intervention could help his release. We decided to share a Flow Fund Gift to provide the very costly legal support required to lobby for this man's release.

Advocacy

Living Water System Model ⁽⁴⁷⁹⁾

United States - Minnesota / $3,500

This community project's intention is to convince the city of Duluth, Minnesota USA to make the first sustainable bio-remediation project to protect Lake Superior from the run-off of the city. Sustainable systems are not yet acceptable by city governments except as tokens to the environmental movement. They are usually less expensive to build and far less expensive to maintain and therefore are viewed as anti-growth. Our gift attracted matching funding for the project.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Water

The Kalyanamitra Council ⁽⁴³⁷⁾

Thailand / $5,000

The Kalyanamitra Council consists of more than two dozen Thai non-governmental organizations (NGOs) committed to bringing justice to Thai-Burmese relations. A Flow Fund Gift was shared to support monks, students, villagers and other activists in their direct-action protest (the first of its kind in Thailand) against the Yadana gas pipeline coming through Burma into old growth forest areas of Thailand. PTT (Thailand's petroleum authority) and the Thai Prime Minister both are guilty of lack of disclosure about the environmental impact of this pipeline, and a lawsuit is forming. This is one of the most important environmental legal cases in Southeast Asia, which forces greater transparency in Thai governmental processes.

Advocacy, Cultural Preservation, Ecology/Sustainability

Grassroots Leadership Training Program ⁽⁴²⁹⁾

Thailand / $2,000

Year Funded: 1999

In the Fall of 1998, a "Seminar for Village Leaders" was held in the Karen village of Soblan, in northern Thailand. Over thirty leaders attended. The seminar was designed along the model of "bearing witness," in which questions were asked about the current situation facing the Karen and their responses were listened to. The Karen shared that villages are being forced to relocate to the lowlands by government agents. It became clear that the Karen had no training in non-violent resistance, and could be at considerable risk during these often violent re-locations. Seeing the need of non-violent resistance training through these conversations, the "Grassroots Leadership Training Program" was shared, with the help of a Flow Fund Gift. The program began in March, 1999, with an initial training held in Soblan. Participants in this training have proceeded to train younger leaders in other villages.

Advocacy, Inter-Cultural, Peace

The Alliance for Sustainable Forests & Communities ⁽⁴²⁷⁾

Thailand / $3,000

Year Funded: 1999

A Flow Fund Gift was shared for the initiation of the first coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) - agencies and individuals - who are working on Thai tribal issues. This Alliance is dedicated to supporting the health of the forests of Thailand and the survival and well-being of forest-based communities. In the midst of ongoing conflicts between the government and local peoples, the Alliance: creates opportunities for dialogue and cooperation regarding government policies and land use by tribal communities, deepens understanding in Thailand and throughout the world of the sustainability of traditional forest communities, and works to eliminate discrimination against indigenous communities in Thailand. The gift was used to set up the Chiang Mai office, establish contact with relevant groups, organization of a "Festival of the Forest," training for tribal peoples displaced by a dam in Ubon Ratchathani, and initiating a process among Karen leaders (the largest indigenous group in Thailand) to write a Declaration of the Rights and Responsibilities of Forest Communities.

Advocacy, Biodiversity, Ecology/Sustainability

English Training for Activists ⁽⁴²²⁾

Thailand / $2,000

Moo and Lek have become able leaders in the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) and the Grassroots Leadership Trainings (GLT), both non-governmental organization (NGO) projects. An obstacle to their international work however is their need to improve their English and a Flow Fund Gift was shared for educational and travel expenses to learn English.

Advocacy, Education, Spirituality

Legal Literacy in India ⁽⁴⁰⁷⁾

India / $10,000

The Justice Sunanda Bhandare Foundation was established in 1994 to facilitate a more gender-equitable society in India. In the course of its work, it has embraced women as their main constituents, in addition to the physically challenged and the vast majority of Indian people who live in villages. In India, 49%) of women and 30% of the total population is illiterate. While the National Literacy Mission has embarked on a massive literacy project throughout the country, this Foundation is concerned with spreading awareness of the legal rights, particularly those of women. Its legal literacy mission is designed to make more people aware of their legal rights as well as gender biases in laws, so that eventually public opinion will support the removal of these anomalies. The courts in India are becoming more pro-active, particularly when addressing women's rights in the areas of maintenance, divorce, inheritance and adoption. The' Foundation's experience shows, however, that very often the women themselves seem unaware of these rights.

Advocacy, Education, Women

The Work of Angela Gennino ⁽⁴⁰³⁾

United States - California, Japan / $3,500

Angela Gennino is a Northern California investigative journalist reporting on the growing Japanese/Asian nuclear industries' uranium mining and their indigenous communities' campaigns to stop it. She shared her uranium mining report at the uranium mining on their lands.

Advocacy, Education, Nuclear

Anna Rondon & The Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum ⁽³⁹⁷⁾

United States - New Mexico, United States - Arizona / $500

Year Funded: 1997

Indigenous activists are gathering to brainstorm strategies to confront the fact that uranium mining is starting again in Arizona and New Mexico USA. A gift was shared with Anna Rondon to create the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum July 1997.

Advocacy, Education, Nuclear

Satomi Ohba, Plutonium Action, Hiroshima ⁽³⁸⁹⁾

Japan / $4,000

Satomi has been the major activist from Hiroshima against civilian use of plutonium. She works passionately with activists from other Asian countries.

Advocacy, Education, Nuclear

Safe Energy Handbook Translated into Chinese ⁽³⁸⁷⁾

China / $900

Flow Funder: Mayumi Oda

The Safe Energy Handbook was translated into Chinese with the help of Anni Chung.

Advocacy, Health, Nuclear

Gabriel Tetiarahi & Hiti Tau ⁽³⁸⁶⁾

French Polynesia / $1,550

Flow Funder: Mayumi Oda

Year Funded: 1997

Gabriel Tetiarahi is the founder of the non-governmental network Hiti Tau in Tahiti, which hosted the International Conference of Abolition in January 1997. A gift was shared with Hiti Tau to publish and distribute a Health Study of Nuclear Workers in French Polynesia in October 1997.

Advocacy, Health, Nuclear

Phil Harrison & Compensation of Navajo Uranium Miners ⁽³⁸²⁾

http://www.wise-uranium.org/ureca.html

United States / $4,500

Phil Harrison has been working to get appropriate compensation for former uranium workers and their families from the U.S. government. A gift was shared to help him in his work. Phil Harrison produced a booklet called, "Memories Come to Us in the Rain and the Wind," which is a collection of oral histories and photographs of Navajo uranium miners and their families.

Advocacy, Health, Nuclear

Satomi Ohba & The Safe Energy Hand Book ⁽³⁷⁹⁾

Japan / $2,000

Flow Funder: Mayumi Oda

Satomi Ohba is an activist from Hiroshima Japan, working against civilian use of plutonium. A gift was shared with her to publish 1,000 copies of the Japanese version of the Safe Energy Hand Book for a climate conference held in Kyoto Japan.

Advocacy, Media, Nuclear

Julia Butterfly Hill & The Circle of Life Foundation ⁽³⁷⁰⁾

http://www.circleoflife.org/

United States - California / $2,000

A gift was shared to provide a foundation to work with people across the world in developing a sustainable culture of life on Earth rooted in love and respect for the interconnectedness of all life.

Advocacy, Biodiversity, Education

Reprinting of Safe Energy Handbook in Russian and Ukrainian ⁽³⁶⁵⁾

Russian Federation, Ukraine / $1,000

There is great demand for these local language publications (500 copies each)

Advocacy, Education, Media, Nuclear

Georgian Center for Energy Effectiveness ⁽³⁶⁴⁾

Georgia / $2,500

Flow Funder: Enid Schreibman

A gift was shared with the Georgian Center for Energy Effectiveness to help with energy conservation and safe energy work in Georgia. This gift helped fund a seminar, produced in part, by the Environmental Program at the Center for Citizen Initiatives. Through this work, Georgia will be accepted into the former Soviet non-governmental energy network and will provide both intensive learning and the opportunity for partnering with American organizations that can lend information and technical expertise.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education

Deep Ecology Training Manuals ⁽³⁶⁰⁾

Ukraine, Russian Federation / $700

This is the only group I know who is writing training manuals in Russian for young people in deep ecology. They conducted a multi-level three month training for trainers. The money enabled them to carry out their well thought out program after their request for funds were cut beyond capacity to achieve their goals. The manual has been completed and we are now in the process of translating it into English to see if their ideas are applicable here.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Spirituality

Wind Power Videotape Translation to Russian ⁽³⁵⁹⁾

Russian Federation / $329

In connection with the 10th anniversary of Chernobyl, the environmental organization Green World in three Ukrainian cities, worked with the Center for Citizen Initiatives and Plutonium Free Future to sponsor seminars on Alternatives to Nuclear Energy. Speakers and participants included local officials from regional and local government, utility executives, and engineers, faculty and students. I was a speaker on energy conservation. Translation and transport for the translator were provided from my funds. In order to provide visuals a visiting Russian woman scientist voluntarily translated and narrated the American Wind Power video and gave a personal introduction. All labor was donated for the production. I sponsored the actual printing and duplication for distribution to seven Ukrainian and Russian cities. I just learned that portions were already being used in Ukrainian cities after it's use at the seminars.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Nuclear

Translation of Rokassho Video for Ukrainian television ⁽³⁵⁸⁾

Ukraine, Japan / $117

This is a Japanese produced video in English of grassroots activists protesting plutonium that was shipped around the world to their plutonium reprocessing plant. I showed it to a group of activists in Kiev who were so enthusiastic about seeing non-violent forms of protest that they wanted to put it on their weekly environmental TV program.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Media, Nuclear

Green Dossier, Deep Ecology Handbook translated into Russian ⁽³⁵⁷⁾

Russian Federation / $554

The teachers needed material in Russian experiential ecological teaching methods. Green Dossier agreed to translate and publish a handbook from the Despair and Empowerment exercises. They chose the 25 most relevant exercises with the author Joanna Macy and produced a handbook which was welcomed by the teaching community.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Spirituality

Ecological information booklet ⁽³⁵⁶⁾

Russian Federation / $500

Lama Tientsin, Ahalar Ulan Ude 2000 copies of ecological information booklet for local Buryats This respected monk travels between Ulan Ude, Chernigov, and St. Petersburg. He says that the Buryats are destroying their own nature just from lack of education and misinformation. He has included in his booklet inspirational and factual material for the local Buryat population

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Spirituality

Ecological Information Booklets Ahalar, Chernigov, Ukraine ⁽³⁵⁵⁾

Ukraine / $350

This is a Buddhist oriented non -profit environmental organization about three hours from Kiev. Its leaders were fascinated by the American Deep Ecology material and started using it for trainings. Hours were spent on their own translations. When I conducted a deep ecology seminar for them, they wanted to put the material in terms understandable and relevant for their members.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Spirituality

Clean and Healthy Food Production Project ⁽³⁵⁴⁾

Russian Federation / $500

Dana -a Nikolaev women's organization Unlimited Possibilities Award to Natasha Pokrass a 'Can-Do' lady. When we did a check-in at the women's circle to see what the life focus was for each participant. Most said "family" but not Natasha. Although she has a family, her goal was to help make positive changes in the health of her community.. "She's not happy unless she's too busy" said a friend at the circle. She has already found a donation of bread baking machines and is sponsoring a seminar to encourage and support others to produce healthy clean (as opposed to irradiated) food.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Women

Unlimited Possibilities Award to Ludmilla Zhirina ⁽³⁵³⁾

Russian Federation / $645

There are some people who you know are working every day to make a difference and will use whatever money you give them thoughtfully with the idea of making an impact. Ludmilla is one of those people. She comes from a small city near the Ukrainian border that was the most heavily radiated as a result of the Chernobyl accident. She was inspired by our alternative energy seminars and the information she heard at the 10th Anniversary of Chernobyl conference. When I offered her the grant of $500 with no strings attached, she immediately produced a simple booklet on energy production in her area to present at a series of seminars which she did for teachers who are working in schools and environmental centers throughout her region. She reports that her booklet is very popular and that there is a demand for expanding the energy seminars. Booklets will be used by the teachers with their students throughout her area and she wants further help in expanding the energy seminars. Previously, I provided her with a $145 grant for supplies and translation for an experiential ecology seminar

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Media, Nuclear, Women

Socio-Ecological Union - Sosnovy Bor, ⁽³⁵²⁾

Russian Federation / $700

This is a small nuclear city outside of St. Petersburg). Oleg Bodrov lives in a closed nuclear city. He is a whistle blower who used to work in a secret nuclear R&D center He educates the public on the nuclear threat and also volunteers leading ecological expeditions for children identifying pollution sources and cleaning their local river. Through the work of the Center for Citizen Initiative's Nuclear Watchdog Project, he became interested in alternative energy and energy conservation and started the first non profit energy center in St. Petersburg in May 1996. He organized an ecological seminar for environmental activists and teachers for which I provided $100. My grant enabled the seminar to take place after another organization co-opted his funds and he had given up He was invited to attend the Deep Ecology summer training in Seattle but he didn't have the airfare. I provided $600 and showed him how he could use $500 from another grant. I sought to increase his US contacts and to enable him to learn the latest ecological thinking. I know that he will make good use of the training because his courage, motivation and spirit are so strong.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Health, Nuclear

Russian Center for Assistance on Environmental Initiatives, Saratov ⁽³⁵⁰⁾

Russian Federation / $600

Olga Pitsunova is working almost single handedly to educate the public about the nuclear hazards in her region. She says many activists have stopped working due to economic hardships and at this point she has trouble even paying the rent. She uses the phone of a neighbor for her work. This money will provide an office for a year so that she can have a legal address in order to apply for grants and to get on with her activist initiatives.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Nuclear

Baltic Sea Information Center, Sosnovybourg, St.Petersburg ⁽³⁴⁹⁾

Russian Federation / $850

This closed area where the government is continuing to build nuclear power plants is supported by other Baltic Sea neighbors like Finland that buy their power from this plant. Oleg Bodrov, whose life has been threatened for his dedicated work continues to publish articles in a monthly bulletin to educate the Baltic Sea activists. He needed a duplicating machine since he can no longer gain access to the machine at the plant.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Media, Nuclear, Water

Teen Ecological Center, Kiev ⁽³⁴⁷⁾

Ukraine / $1,200

I funded a center for Anthill, a group of teenagers active in the environment. The physical legal space and address enables them to apply for additional grants. The space will also be used for networking meetings of NGO's in Kiev.

Advocacy, Children/Teens, Ecology/Sustainability

Three Ukrainian Anti-Nuclear Activists attend conference in Russia ⁽³⁴⁶⁾

Ukraine, Russian Federation / $225

Three Ukrainian Anti-Nuclear Activists attend conference in Russia The Ukrainian nuclear activists are not well connected to the Russian nuclear activists. I made it possible for three Ukranians to attend an alternative energy conference in Moscow and the result will be a traveling renewable energy conference at the five nuclear power stations in the Ukraine. Communication with the Socio-Ecological Union will enable them to be aware of information, trainings, and joint actions relevant to their work.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Inter-Cultural, Nuclear, Peace

Ukrainian Uranium Mining Group ⁽³⁴⁵⁾

Ukraine / $100

In Kirovograd, Ukraine there are three uranium mines near the population center. The local green group is trying to seal the mine which is not working and to draw public attention to the problems associated with Uranium mining.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Nuclear, Water

Living with Radiation In the Ukraine ⁽³⁴⁴⁾

Ukraine / $2,000

There is still a figurative cloud of radiation hanging over their cities. Families don't know what genetic damage has been done and whether their children will still develop thyroid cancer. There is a fifteen year peak so the cancer rate is steadily increasing. It has been ten years since Chernobyl. Families are still living in areas with above normal radiation. A group called Salvation has developed radiation testing centers operated by children in the most heavily contaminated areas. I have funded the publication of one pamphlet, perhaps more based on the first production, about living with radiation. They will research foods which help to clean out body toxins, how to grow clean food and how to deal with the psychological effects of living with radiation and will publish and distribute their findings.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Nuclear

Council for Safe Energy Booklet ⁽³⁴³⁾

United States - California / $2,000

A gift was shared with a group of Berkeley women who call themselves the Council for Safe Energy to support their creation of a 14-page, illustrated booklet geared towards the health and safety of children. The published booklet was shared at the Beijing Women's Forum in August 1995, and at the Alternative Energy Workshop in Moscow, Russia in November 1995.

Advocacy, Children/Teens, Nuclear

Mattole Salmon Group (MSG) ⁽³⁴²⁾

http://www.mattolesalmon.org/

United States - California / $100

A gift was shared with this community-based, salmon enhancement program.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Water

Krasnoyarsk Ecological Movement ⁽³⁴⁰⁾

Russian Federation / $2,000

Krasnoyarsk Ecological Movement Conference in the spring 1996 on threats posed by RT-2, a nuclear fuel reprocessing site under construction. If completed it would be the largest in the world. The operation would pose an enormous threat to the city of Krasnoyarsk(population one million) and to the environment. Start-up funds to enable Victor Mikheev, a hard hitting journalist who devotes time and energy to public dangers posed by RT-2, to organize this conference for next Spring.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Media, Nuclear, Water

Krasnoyarsk Radio-nucleides Conference publication-English translation. ⁽³³⁹⁾

Russian Federation / $350

Krasnoyarsk Radio-nucleides Conference publication-English translation. Many independent scientists presented unique data at the conference in Sept.1994. It is important to copyright and sell this data in English as well as Russian as a way to help the organization be self funding. A previous publication, although copywritten but not translated, was duplicated and labeled confidential by the US government, available to US citizens without any compensation to the authors.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Inter-Cultural, Nuclear

Ecological Initiative Tomsk, Russia ⁽³³⁶⁾

Russian Federation / $150

Ecological Initiative Tomsk, Russia Tomsk in Siberia is the area of the former gulags. It is also the area of a secret nuclear weapons manufacturing city. Independent scientists have found radioactive pollution in the river, Chernoble syndrome in the children who live across the river from the nuclear plant, and discovered lies on the part of the government concerning dangers of explosions from the plant and leakage from the storage of plutonium. (last May there was an explosion releasing radioactive material into the atmosphere) I have funded a professional dictaphone for a Tomsk journalist who has a weekly radio show on the environment. I got a matching grant from Sacred Earth Network. Tomsk Ecological Initiative wanted informational materials produced from the point of view of activists concerning nuclear waste, versus the government viewpoint.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Media, Nuclear, Water

Beijing Conference fees ⁽³³⁵⁾

Russian Federation, Uzbekistan / $600

Beijing Conference fees I am trying to raise the money for both of the women heading two projects, to represent areas of extreme ecological devastation at the Beijing Women's Conference in September. One participant has already raised her own airfare.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Water, Women

Perzent Karalkalpakistan, Uzbekistan ⁽³³⁴⁾

Uzbekistan / $2,500

Many large international agencies have done research in the Aral Sea area, but few actually have operational programs. Mothers' breast milk is toxic, the drinking water is polluted, and there is the highest rate of infant mortality in the FSU. I first funded a pamphlet written in the Karalkalpak language for teenagers who marry and have children at 16-19 years of age, concerning sanitation, drinking water, and health. After consulting with Oral Atanyazova in Nukus, I've decided to additionally fund a monthly women's bulletin based loosely on the book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" Oral is an independent woman Gynecologist and now Ph.d, of Karalkalpak origin, who is deeply committed to the health of her people and is bursting with good ideas. She is a real hope for change and I am working to get UNICEF involved with her visionary future for the women of her region.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Nuclear, Water, Women

Movement for Nuclear Safety-Chelyabinsk (Urals) ⁽³³³⁾

Russian Federation / $2,000

A grass roots environmental organization attempting to address the ecological disaster of government dumping radioactive waste into their river in the 50's One river town is so dangerous that standing on the banks produces lethal doses of radiation in just one hour. Further down river, cows graze and children play. MNS is concerned about ecological problems resulting from the nuclear weapons industry. They are afraid that polluted waters from lakes outside of town will eventually contaminate the city's drinking water and do not trust the government studies. I gave them money to use the already collected data to find out which direction the contamination was moving and whether it was moving toward the city's drinking water The second phase of the project is to produce maps and a publication to publicize the potential disaster. Only by providing written scientific data will the government and policy making community believe their findings. Note of explanation! The Soviets are a very literate population and rely heavily on written data. As a general rule their educated population is willing to absorb dense scientific treatises, which Americans would shun as too detailed. This is an example of funding a project through the eyes of a Russian. The MNS staff has completed the research and are in the process of compiling the maps. These will be used as proof of the seriousness of the potential pollution of the drinking water of Chelyabinsk, a city of 300,000 population, and the opportunity for the government to prevent this disaster. My contact, Natalia, is a dynamic outspoken former city councilwoman who started the nuclear watchdog operation and has a million ideas for important projects. Her organization is respected both by government and by the local populace.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Nuclear, Water

Edie Harshome's Work with Bosnian Women ⁽³³¹⁾

Bosnia and Herzegovina / $1,000

Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton

Year Funded: 1996

A gift was shared with Edie Harshome for travel expenses to meet with grassroots women's groups at Desa, a women's center in Dubrovnik, Sarajevo Bosnia. Her work with refugee women helps them reorganize their lives and regain a means of livelihood after the Bosnian War.

Advocacy, Economic Development, Women

Castle Valley Collaborative ⁽³¹⁷⁾

United States - Utah / $1,000

Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton

The Castle Valley Collaborative is a Utah Residents Group that is trying to preserve the natural environment: "We are dedicated to the process of listening to the land and each other, exploring what we want our future to be, working together to minimize the pressures of growth, and ensuring the health and majesty of this pocket of peace we call home."

Advocacy, Biodiversity, Ecology/Sustainability

Dhamma Sati Law Office ⁽²⁹²⁾

Thailand / $2,500

The Dhamma Sati Law Office mediates between the hill tribe people, and governmental agencies. Without any legal documents, the hill tribe people are often ill-treated and threatened. A Flow Fund Gift was shared with the Dhamma Sati Law Office to support general legal aid and training for its volunteers.

Advocacy, Cultural Preservation, Refugees

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) ⁽²⁷⁷⁾

http://www.icahd.org

Israel / $5,500

Flow Funder: Lilian Peters

Year Funded: 2003

Please click the image to view the video.

This committee is a non-violent, direct-action organization established in 1997 to resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories "on the ground." They rebuild Palestinian homes, provide legal assistance and produce information about the effects of the occupation. On July 9, 1998, The Israeli military government in the Occupied Territories demolished the home of Salim and Arabia Shawamreh and their seven children. The reason given, as it is for thousands of other Palestinian families, is that the West bank is zoned as agricultural land and therefore Palestinians who own land there cannot receive building permits. Salim had purchased the land in the early 1990s and had duly registered it with the Civil Administration. He applied four times for a building permit, paying each time a fee of $5000, and was each time rejected. Finally he built his house without a permit. After four years, his house was demolished with hundreds of military overseeing the operation. Since then Salim, ICAHD and dozens of volunteers have rebuilt the home, till it was demolished again. After it was demolished for the fourth time in March 2003, the family decided to find an other place to live, rebuilding the demolished house as a Palestinian-Israeli Peace Center. A gift was shared to help Salim and Arabia Shawamreh buy the apartment where they live.

Advocacy, Muslims, Peace

Stichting TALLIQ: Justice for Palestinian Children ⁽²⁷⁶⁾

http://www.talliq.nl/E_Index_Contact2.htm

Netherlands, Palestinian, Territory Occupied, Israel / $630

Flow Funder: Lilian Peters

Year Funded: 2004

A gift was shared with Marijke Kruyt to create this non-profit foundation in the Netherlands, dedicated to the rights of Palestinian children in detention in Israel.

Advocacy, Children/Teens, Muslims

Independent Newspaper in Tajikistan ⁽²⁷²⁾

Tajikistan / $1,000

A gift was shared with Karen Stepanyan to support the formation of an independent newspaper in Tajikistan.

Advocacy, Media

Tilos Radio ⁽²⁷⁰⁾

Hungary / $2,000

Flow Funder: David Hoffman

Year Funded: 1993

Tilos (which means "forbidden" in Hungarian) Radio was the first community radio station in Hungary, first broadcasting as a "pirate" station in 1991. Founder Laszlo Nerosi and the other programmers are all volunteers and there is no commercial support. It has a strong social and freedom-of-expression commitment, and plays a key role in the cultural and lifestyle scene of Budapest Hungary. A gift was shared with this station to help keep in on the air and broadcasting.

Advocacy, Education, Media

Project Help Them Help Themselves ⁽²⁶⁵⁾

United States / $2,000

Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some

A gift was shared with this AIDS/HIV Project.

Advocacy, Disability, Health

Association of University Students' Theater Education ⁽²⁶³⁾

Burkina Faso / $200

Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some

A gift was shared with this drama project for students at the university, whose purpose is to take different social issues and illustrate them in a play to educate the public.

Advocacy, Arts, Children/Teens

Vivian Ky ⁽²⁶¹⁾

United States / $1,000

Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some

A gift was shared with Vivian Ky, who is doing peace work and healing work with victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. She also works with people with AIDS and finding doctors for under privileged people.

Advocacy, Health, Peace

Alternative Politics for Asia Translation ⁽²⁵⁰⁾

Myanmar / $1,700

Flow Funder: Anonymous

Our Flow Fund Gift helped translate the Alternative Politics for Asia (APA) books into Burmese. The APA books contain interviews about Asian political/spiritual ideas of important and outstanding Asian leaders. Edited by Pracha Hutanuwatr and Ramu Manivann, the book highlights indigenous spiritual and cultural identity of Burma. The interviews dig deeply into the wisdom of various spiritual traditions including Islam, Buddhism, Hindu, Jainism, Ghandism, Christianity and indigenous wisdom, applying this knowledge to contemporary issues facing Asian society. The aim of the book is to find alternative, culturally and spiritually appropriate bases upon which to build a sustainable Asia. Burma has been largely closed to outside influence for more than 40 years. The positive side of this is that much of the spiritual and cultural richness is intact. The numerous ecological and economic crises that have occurred in nearby Asian countries are a warning to look back on their own wisdom and Asian ways.

Advocacy, Inter-Cultural, Spirituality

Strategic Planning for Nothern Ethinic Leaders ⁽²⁴⁹⁾

Thailand / $3,700

Most northern ethnic leaders are from forest-dwelling communities whose lifestyle has been ecological and very close to nature. For two decades these communities have been threatened by relocation by the local government. The leaders have been working hard to negotiate with the authorities as well as raise awareness among their people and solicit support from the Thai public. The leaders need more skills in social analysis and strategic planning. An intensive training has been organized for 30 participants selected from the activists and leaders in North Peasant Ethnic Groups. The proposed training includes environmental conservation, democracy, the role of civil society and strategy in social movement and leadership skills. A Gift was shared to set up an Information Center in order to improve contact with professional academics and produce some development media.

Advocacy, Cultural Preservation, Ecology/Sustainability

Self-Development Program for Activist Leader ⁽²⁴⁸⁾

http://www.metta-myanmar.org/

Myanmar / $1,000

Flow Funder: Anonymous

A Flow Fund Gift was shared to provide a scholarship for an outstanding activist in Burma who has been working as Program Director of the Metta Development Foundation, since its conception. The Metta Development Foundation is the first local non-governmental organization (NGO) in Burma, and it concentrates on empowering grassroots community development work for self-reliance. This organization provides people at the grassroots level throughout Burma with valuable and effective programs to empower communities and individuals and improve the capacity for community development. Programs include: Women's Development; Early Childhood Care & Development; Community-Managed Healthcare; Rural Reconstruction; Farmer Field School for Sustainable Agriculture, and more. With this gift, this activist leader plans to visit an alternative community in the United Kingdom in order to enhance her knowledge about alternative development. She will explore the ideas of alternative community management and other issues so that she can apply this appropriately to her work in Burma. She will also have the opportunity to visit some international NGOs.

Advocacy, Inter-Cultural, Women

Hate-Free Zone in Seattle, Washington USA ⁽²²⁸⁾

United States - Washington, United States - New York / $2,000

This gift provides food, clothing, and shelter for immigrants and their US-born spouses and children being separated and displaced in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Advocacy, Inter-Cultural, Muslims

Kembatta Women's Self-Help Center (KMG) ⁽²²⁶⁾

Ethiopia / $3,000

Bogaletch Gebre embodies Ghandi's call for us to be the change we want to see in the world. She was the first girl in her village/district to be educated beyond the fourth grade. After studying microbiology, physiology, epidemiology and public health in Israel and the US, she taught health sciences in Ethiopia and the US before returning home to establish KMG. While lead by women, KMG works holistically, via three interrelated programs that help women and their families to help themselves improve community: Reproductive health education, including the elimination of female genital excision (FGE); HIV/AIDS prevention; Vocational training and advancement of women's entrepreneurial skills; and Restoring depleted watersheds and damaged ecosystems.

Advocacy, Children/Teens, Ecology/Sustainability, Economic Development, Women

Sistership Grant for Kristin Rothballer ⁽²²⁰⁾

United States - Texas / $300

This Sistership Grant helped Kristin travel to Texas to support and document Diane Wilson's hunger strike in protest of Dow/Union Carbide's pollution of the gulf and the possibility that they may be released from responsibility for the Bhopal disaster in 1984. At the time of this grant, Kristin was the Youth & Community Outreach Manager for Bioneers/CHI and has been engaged in education, environmental and social justice issues for the past many years. She is passionate about inspiring people to follow their own path of discovery to earth activism.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education

Animated Short Focusing on Oil Depletion ⁽²¹³⁾

United Kingdom / $4,208

Flow Funder: Richard Douthwaite

Tim Helveg-Larsen wanted to make an animated short about oil depletion. A Flow Fund Gift helped with his living expenses for the two months it will take to make it as well as enable him to buy the computer software he needed for the project.

Advocacy, Education, Media

Purchase of Gas & Water Meters ⁽¹⁷⁹⁾

Kazakhstan / $203

Flow Funder: Tamara Sabitova

Roza is a single mother with three young children. She has no money to buy meters for the gas and water going to her apartment, so authorities charge her a "fixed fee," which is six times the amount she would have paid if she had the meters. A gift was shared to help pay for registration fees for the apartment, the purchase of gas/water meters, and bathroom pipes.

Advocacy, Poverty, Women

Small Business Registration Fees ⁽¹⁷⁸⁾

Kazakhstan / $33

Flow Funder: Tamara Sabitova

An Association of Small Businessmen was formed and this gift helped pay the fees to make them legitimate.

Advocacy, Micro-enterprise, Poverty

Ecological Organization in Ak-Bulak ⁽¹⁵⁸⁾

Kazakhstan / $1,200

Flow Funder: Nilzia Rakhisheva

A gift was shared with this environmental organization to purchase a computer and laser printer for disseminating environmental education among students in rural areas.

Advocacy, Children/Teens, Media

Computer for High School Advocacy Group ⁽¹⁵⁴⁾

Kazakhstan / $1,000

Flow Funder: Natalya Koloskova

Members of this Youth Advocacy Group are students from the local school as well as young adults who are already working. The mission of the organization is to help, inform and support socially-unprotected people such as the elderly, children and disabled adults. The group already started their efforts by obtaining a list of people that need their advocacy and they have begun to visit their houses to find out what their situations and immediate needs are. In this village there is no newspaper and very few phone lines, so the organization decided to establish and print an informational bulletin, where they can write about local news, national laws and citizens' rights. To help their cause we purchased much-needed computers, a copy machine, a printer, and a modem for connecting to Internet and e-mail.

Advocacy, Education, Media

Clean Home/Clean Earth ⁽¹⁴⁹⁾

Kazakhstan / $1,300

Flow Funder: Natalya Levkina

A gift was shared to produce seminars, round tables and training programs to involve people in environmental protection activity with the population of an polluted and industrial town.

Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health

Camera for High School Activists ⁽¹⁴²⁾

Kazakhstan / $100

Flow Funder: Natalya Levkina

A gift was shared to help purchase a digital camera so teen activists from the local high school can publish a weekly newsletter with pictures showing their activities. A publication will also help them participate in contests for young journalists.

Advocacy, Children/Teens, Media

New Youth Activism Organization ⁽¹³⁸⁾

Kazakhstan / $15

Flow Funder: Natalya Levkina

A gift was shared to provide the registration fee for the creation of this new youth activism organization. Students and young teachers together worked on the documents needed for this new organization, which will promote youth social needs.

Advocacy, Children/Teens, Education

Copy Machine for Veterans ⁽¹³⁰⁾

Kazakhstan / $361

Flow Funder: Mira Bocharnikova

A gift was shared to purchase a copy machine, so that veterans of World War II can make the copies they need for benefits and health care.

Advocacy, Elders, Health

Media Equipment for Local Residents ⁽¹²⁹⁾

Kazakhstan / $1,080

Flow Funder: Mira Bocharnikova

A gift was shared to purchase a computer and copy machine, so local residents can stay informed about local government, politics and the city budget.

Advocacy, Education, Media

Crisis Center ⁽¹¹⁵⁾

Kazakhstan / $203

Flow Funder: Kalima Kulbatchaeva

Funding was provided for a crisis center providing support and psychological help.

Advocacy, Health, Rehabilitation

Local Businesswomen's Group ⁽¹¹⁴⁾

Kazakhstan / $609

Flow Funder: Kalima Kulbatchaeva

Funds were shared to create a local businesswomen group where ten women farmers pooled their money in order to pay the land ownership fees for their land plots. They now all own their land, through community support.

Advocacy, Economic Development, Women