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Purpose: To promote citizen awareness of the impacts of consumption on the economy, societ, and the environment. The group will help low-income community members build family farms with agroecological methods.

Purpose: To promote the participation of community councils and participatory bodies in regional public policies. The group will organize trainings and a meeting for environmental educators, local development agents, and popular speakers from Carajas in Para.

Purpose: To promote economic and social development within Barreirinha by improving food security and nutrition. The group will work with small family farms on management of banana, bacuri, pequi, and chicken production.

Purpose: To reduce social disparities and promote equality in development for urban and rural poor. The group support the participation of partnered group Brazilian Forum of Environmental Organizations in the VII Brazilian Environmental Education Forum as preparation for the Rio+20

Purpose: To improve the quality of life of youth in Rio Grande do Sul. The group will focus this work around environmental justice.

Purpose: To improve food security within the Sao Bernardo and Santana do Maranhao communities. The group will construct four chicken houses, as well as continue working to preserve the Buriti River.

Purpose: To protect the cultural and environmental heritage of the Kamayura people near Ipavu Lake. The group will conduct a feasibility study on tourism within the community's territory, including the Xingu Indigenous Park.

Purpose: To empower women in rural communities through income generating activities. The group will demonstrate the benefits of raising chickens in agroecological systems.

Purpose: To bring the voices of civil society groups into the creation of national and international proposals addressing climate change. The group will support partipation in climate change working groups meeting in May 2012 in Sao Paulo.

Purpose: To protect indigenous communities from the construction of the destructive Belo Monte dam. This project is a massive infrastructure and energy undertaking and it will impact the territories of communities in Itaituba.

Purpose: To denounce the impacts of Vale's mining and metallurgy production in the Amazonian region. The group will address this issue both at Vale's company assembly and at the Rio+20.

Purpose: To promote ecologically friendly practices, environmental education, and socio-cultural and traditional structures. The group will strengthen the "Forest Planters" project, incorporating unemployed workers from the Tiete basin and partnering with like-minded institutions.

Purpose: To protect the rights and fishing areas of fishermen and communities from Baia da Guanabara. The group will work with the communities to monitor their fishing area and its environment.

Purpose: To encourage good social and environmental practices within the cities of Posadas, Argentina and Encarnacion, Paraguay. The group will work with the communities to implement collection and recycling mechanisms for used vegetable oils.

Purpose: To support the Yarang Women Movement and Moygu Association in the Xingu Seed Network. The group will help reforestation and restoration efforts, particlarly in the Xingu basin.

Purpose: To improve the infrastructure of the local school. The group aims to fulfill the needs of the community and students.

Purpose: To build the capacity of the group, which works to with youth to promote environmental and water issues locally and internationally. The group will participate in discussions around the river transposition to supply water to Sao Paulo.

Purpose: To promote sustainable products, particularly those produced by family farmers. The group will help organize a collective of consumers who will use social theories and technologies and focus on agro ecologically produced foods.

Purpose: To implement alternative and sustainable practices in the Lulão settlement. The group will construct an organic garden and chicken facility to promote environmentally, economically, socially, and culturally friendly methods of production.

Purpose: To pursue a fair and equal society, in which local and indigenous are valued and protected. The group will use the funds to promote the environmental and human rights of communities threatened by the Belo Monte Dam in the Xingu Basin.

Purpose: To increase the capacity of activists advocating for sustainability. The group will train 26 people in campaign organizing and investigation skills, as well as form and support a network of activists.

Purpose: To promote the rich natural and cultural diversity of Serra da Calçada and Moeda Mountain. The group will publish relevant news and information in three newspapers and on their website.

Purpose: To promote income generation and rehabilitation of degraded areas through seed saving practices in the Terena community. The group will use the funds to build seed houses to improve the quality and preservation of saved seeds.

Purpose: To build the capacity of the group and strengthen its defense of the Madeira River and local indigenous communities from large corporate actions. The group will continue acting, mobilizing, and exchanging experiences with the 4 Rivers Alliance.

Purpose: To help advance the elaboration of deeper arguments and position from social movements to address the current environmental and climate crisis. The group will organize efforts to build a critical mass.

Purpose: To preserve and better the quality of life and natural resouces for communities in the south of Santa Catarina. The group will work with the communities on issues related to climate change prevention and adaptation.

Purpose: To encourage the preservation and sustainable management of arid regions. The group will communicate with the government about the importance of their management policies and the necessity of incorporating civil society demands and suggestions.

Purpose: To improve agricultural production and sustainability in the Nova Descoberta community. Funds will give residents practical training and technical skills in managing bacuri and other fruit crops.

Purpose: To help national and international civil societies prepare for the Rio+20.

Purpose: To develop urban areas for sustainable agricultural production. The group will design 4 of these locations and facilitate the marketing and distribution of their products.

Purpose: To stimulate dialogue among youth about the Rio+20, also known as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The group will organize a national meeting for youth groups which will address initiatives and a plan of action for the Rio+20.

Purpose: To organize local farmers from the Moeda municipality. The group will focus on strengthening traditional agriculture as well as sustainable production and consumption practices.

Purpose: To strengthen community groups in their opposition to infrastructure projects that threaten forests, rivers, and community livelihoods. The group operates in the basin of four Amazon rivers: the Madeira, the Tapajós, Xingu, and Teles Pires.

Purpose: To process and market organic agricultural products, promote agroforestry, and strengthen the group's identity and community agricultural production. The group will restructure their headquarters, distribute information about organic methods, and promote environmental activities.

Purpose: To create a plan for the sustainable use of medicine plants in the nature reserve areas of Cerrado. The plan will focus on meeting the demand of the market while building capacities of the groups that work with the plants.

Purpose: To stimulate the proactive participation of local leaders in the face of social and environmental problems of the Araguaia-Xingu. The group will engage with leaders and organizations and help increase their capacity to advocate for local concerns.

Purpose: To guarantee the sanitation of local water sources in the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Grant funds will promote citizen participation and increase pressure to comply with deadlines.

Purpose: To mobilize students, professionals, and local communities in the preservation of Amazonian environments and cultures. Funds will publicize information about the area and support local groups in the development of environmental projects.

Purpose: To mobilize local fishermen in the Bahia state to defend local interests. The group will help the fishermen voice their concerns for the territory and protect traditional practices and social control of public policies.

Purpose: To broaden access to information about Brazilian environmental issues through the use of journalism. The organization will train members in the English language and Anglophone cultures, study Canadian experiences in mining areas, undertake post-graduate courses in communication and the environment, and publicize their work in the international community.

Purpose: To promote greater participation of the group and the Yudjá community in the Seed Network of Xingu-Araguaia and reforestation activities in the Xingu Basin. The group will improve the current seed storage facility, enabling better quantity and quality of seeds in the market.

Purpose: To expand the use of agro-ecological practices among rural communities in the Alagoas state of Brazil. The group will hold workshops to train community members in agrarian reform by sharing technical knowledge and adapting new techniques to traditional approaches.

Purpose: To increase environmentally sustainable food production and promote the economic development of members of the Kalunga indigenous community in Cavalcante, Brazil. Funds will promote agro-ecological practices such as agroforestry, forest management, and sustainable agroextractivisim.

Purpose: To increase local income through sustainable activities, environmental training, and capacity building. The group will provide training on permaculture, agroforestry, and beekeeping to community members.

Purpose: To spread availability of healthy food choices while building sustainable livelihoods in Belo Horizonte. Funds will go towards supporting permaculture practices, especially by building mutual awareness between consumers and producers.

Purpose: To help youth groups resist large corporate development projects within the BR 163 region and Transamazonica. The impacts of these project are large and threaten the traditional way of life for local communities. The group will help youth organize and articulate their resistance to the developments.

Purpose: To raise awareness of relevant environmental issues for Costa Verde (Green Coast). The group will produce 3 short films which will cover several topics, including the Atlantic Forest, traditional communities, nuclear energy, and oil and land speculation.

Purpose: To continue and strengthen the social and environmental equality movement in Brazil. The group will promote the mobilization of communities, social movements, and organizations in the state of Ceara who are advocating for environmental justice.

Purpose: To promote preservation of biodiversity while increasing incomes among family farmers in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil. The organization will train community members to collect, process, and store native seeds for a seedling nursery, the products of which will be sold to generate income.

Purpose: To support economic development among family farmers, riparian indigenous populations, and fishermen by facilitating access to information. Funds will be used to promote seminars, radio programs, and workshops that will disseminate information on how to increase production, quality, and sustainability.

Purpose: To promote community development by increasing functional biodiversity in Community Cana Brava. The group will build a native seedling nursery, which will improve the backyard systems of 70 families.

Purpose: To support the network of organizations working to save whales and other cetaceans in Brazil. Funds will be used to alleviate financial pressures on the Center for Research and Treatment of Wildlife in Bahia, an organization that receives and cares for wildlife and produces seedlings for the restoration of the Atlantic Forest.

Purpose: To mobilize for a guarantee of local fishermen and traditional community rights. The group aims to protect community territories and promote the sustainable use of natural resources.

Purpose: To test new sustainable farming and management methods. The group will establish an agroforestry system as well as examine the benefits of a new technology that will help manage Bacuri fruit production.

Purpose: To oppose the encroachments of monoculture sugarcane on forest land. Funds will organize educational activities on monoculture crops while empowering young people from rural settlements to address environmental issues and participate in reforestation activities.

Purpose: To integrate the perspectives of farmers, technicians, public administrators, and academics in developing strategies to strengthen conservation of the juçara plant alongside economic development. Funds will support a meeting in Ribeira Valley, São Paulo.

Purpose: To expand and strengthen social movements through the dissemination of information. The organization will initiate publications, trainings, and mobilizing efforts to promote widespread involvement in social and environmental issues.

Purpose: To halt the Belo Monte dam project and inform the public, the government, and the mass media about the illicit activites surrounding it. The group will pressure the government for a cancelation of the partial license granted to the project and raise awareness of its impacts on local communities.

Purpose: To strengthen the organization's political position. Funds will consolidate the administrative and financial system of the group, promote training of members, and support the development of communication materials.

Purpose: To raise the visibility of the effects of aluminum production on communities within the Amazon, which include increased conflicts within their territories. The group will work on and edit a film to raise awareness of these impacts and give a voice to affected communities.

Purpose: To support local communities and initiatives resisting hydroelectric projects in the Amazon basin, including on the Tapajos and Teles Pires rivers. The group will raise public awareness about the project's impacts and lead discussions on human rights and environmental law.

Purpose: To promote the stewardship and conservation of forests. Funds will support education activities and workshops, as well as construction of a nursery for restoring degraded areas and training in sustainable forest management.

Purpose: To ensure sustainable production activities and water use in Maranhão state. Funds will go towards developing awareness of sustainability in rural communities.

Purpose: To implement a sustainable agroforestry systems model in the Yawanawá villages. Funds will be used to plant threatened species of trees and to ensure local food supplies by educating village members about sustainable consumption of native fruits, hardwood, and medicinal plants.

Purpose: To encourage local stewardship of biodiversity in São Luís, Brazil. The project will promote management of native species like buriti and juçara in workshops, through published materials, at the Jucara de Igarau Fair.

Purpose: To promote sustainable development among peasant families of Parana, Brazil. The organization will facilitate a farming production system and brand and market local products under the name Do Campesinato.

Purpose: To increase civil society's ability to advocate for sustainable practices. Funds will support meetings and discussions with experts on building capacity to address environmental issues.

Purpose: To understand the unsustainable consequences of the current development paradigm within the Amazon and identify alternatives. The group will critically analyse the methods of the model and its social and environmental impacts on communities. Additionally it will research initiatives that resist or differ from it.

Purpose: To support local women in their opposition to current models of food and energy production in Cerro Negro. The organization will facilitate capacity building workshops in which women will exchange their experiences and successes.

Purpose: To gather and organize all of the available information about carbon market policies outlined in the Kyoto Protocol and the voluntary market. The group will investigate the policies particularly as they relate to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation projects and other environmental services within the Colombian Amazon.

Purpose: To maintain and generate sources of employment for local fisherman. Specifically, the organization will create training programs for fisherman to strengthen and develop sustainable initiatives, which will add value to commercial fisheries.

Purpose: To organize campaigns to mobilize Atlantic forest communities against the exploitation of their lands for coal production and monocultures, like soybean and eucalyptus. The group works to protect the local health and environment of Piauí, Maranhão, Pernambuco and Tocantins.

Purpose: To improve the quality of life and provide economic opportunities in Jardim Vitroia. Specifically, the organization will strengthen community groups through selling their crafts and the organic vegetables they produce.

Purpose: To support the Center for Research and Treatment of Wildlife, located in Bahia, which protects and cares for threatened wildlife. Funds will also be used to help restore the Atlantic forest by producing seedlings and planting trees.

Purpose: To generate technical and scientific information to provide detailed information about the Belo Monte hydroelectric project to local organizations . Specifically, the organization will work with experts to simplify the findings of the technical information and disseminate it to the local people.

Purpose: To build a native plant nursery, which will grow important species to aid in the recovery of badly degraded areas. Funds will be used to inspire community involvement in reforestation and to promote sustainable agriculture practices that will aid in the long-term recovery of the area.

Purpose: To support the construction of two houses using bioconstruction techniques. The organization promotes environmentally sustainable and socially just practices in rural areas, particularly in the interest of defending the rights of women and marginalized field workers.

Purpose: To enhance the knowledge of the local community about the environmental issues of Bonito city. Specifically, the organization will involve the local population in practical actions that conserve natural resources and improve the quality of life.

Purpose: To indentify projects that threaten the coastal zone in Santa Catarina state. Activities include proposing legal mechanisms of protection and developing training activities for environmental non-governmental organizations.

Purpose: To develop strategic activities that protect the Amazon, in addition to maintaining traditional ways of life. Projects will focus on local production and sustainable management of forest resources.

Purpose: To disseminate information about the social and environmental impacts of the Tapajos Complex hydroelectric project. Specifically, the organization will build the capacity of local communities that are fighting for their rights.

Purpose: To guarantee that the leaders of local fisher associations can participate in the National Conference in Brasilia. These leaders will attend the conference in order to defend their rights and the Iguape Reserve, which is currently threatened by an industrial project.

Purpose: To send social leaders to a course called Transition Tows. The course is focused on exploring synergies, collaboration, and offering tools to assist social movement groups in Porto Alegre

Purpose: To strengthen environmental activist networks in Bahia. The grant will be used to disseminate information about new legislation among governmental and non-governmental organizations and to develop a website.

Purpose: To develop technical training workshops for rural workers who are unemployed. More specifically, the organization will involve them in the creation of new jobs, such as the recuperation of degraded lands.

Purpose: To strengthen the production of and market for sustainable agriculture by improving the Community Work House in Lapinha. The association will also begin to develop a means for alternative energy production, in order to build local energy and food security.

Purpose: To build the capacity of the environmental movement in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the face of poor environmental regulations. The organization's goal is to support sustainable livelihoods in projects, activism, and public policies.

Purpose: To protect the livelihoods and cultures of the indigenous people of Brazil, particularly through the sustainable use of natural resources in the Extractive Reserve Riozinho of Anfrísio. This extractive reserve has been set aside for the native people of Anfrísio for the sustainable use and conservation of natural resources; the reserve is home to a mature, old growth forest - one of the last of its kind in Brazil.

Purpose: To contribute to local sovereignty and food security in Anama, in the Amazonas state, by building a permaculture greenhouse for the organization's seed bank. Other activities include producing a communication piece to publicize information about the free distribution of seeds.

Purpose: To improve the infrastructure of the organization by creating a Deep Ecology Network of the Southern Bahia. Funds will also be used to build resistance to a nearby manganese mining project that threatens local biodiversity and water supplies.

Purpose: To build the capacities of several organizations supported by Greengrants' Alliance partner, Centro de Apoyo SocioAmbiental, by providing scholarships for the course "Education Gaia - Sustainability in Design." The organization seeks to promote public participation in activities surrounding social, environmental, and economic wellbeing.

Purpose: To promote workshops supporting community radio in Ipanema, including training on the production of reports, editing, and program presentation. The gatherings will emphasize the theme of social sustainability in a local context.

Purpose: To reforest degraded areas and to promote environmental education in Santa Teresa. The organization will use funds to build a nursery for seedlings of native plants and to aid in the reforestation of degraded areas.

Purpose: To build capacity for sustainable agriculture in the Daniel Gomes community. The grant will pay for energy efficient installations and permaculture technology in a community development project.

Purpose: To construct a building to house a newly-acquired ice machine, which was awarded to the Miranda fishermen's group for doing important advocacy work with the local government. The ice machine and new building will help build the capacity of the fishermen by better storing and preserving their bait.

Purpose: To give a voice to communities affected by climate change in the south of Santa Catarina. In addition to promoting meetings and disseminating information by more traditional means, the organization will use funds to edit a video for use at international meetings, giving greater weight to their demands for investment in adaptation.

Purpose: To build the alliance between producers and consumers of organic food by improving communication; developing the infrastructure of the farmers' market; and organizing a system to deliver locally-grown produce baskets to individual homes. Rede Terra Viva is an informal cooperative whose mission is to organize the production, purchase, sale, or exchange of organic, agroecological, handicraft-type products, as well as knowledge.

Purpose: To create an association dedicated to legal and environmental issues in Uruguay in order to address socio-environmental conflicts. Specifically, the organization will develop a strategic plan for the operation of the association.

Purpose: To improve coastal management through community-based activities, including the creation and implementation of Coastal Reserves in Bahia. Also to hold an Annual Assembly to bring members together to dialogue and plan for future activities.

Purpose: To support community-based organizations to increase their impact. The mission of this organization is to create possibilities for people to improve their quality of life in a sustainable manner.

Purpose: To improve the capacity of this organization, which works to defend the people and rivers of the Amazon.

Purpose: To build awareness, through art and education, about the impacts of projects related to the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA). This association is comprised of socially-conscious artists who use educational media to promote environmental education and action.

Purpose: To reduce pollution resulting from oil dumping in the Tiete River; activities include a public education campaign and trainings about proper oil disposal. The mission of this organization is to protect the environment through public education.

Purpose: To build the capacity of indigenous communities to develop and manage sustainable development projects, and to manage the association itself. This organization works to defend the rights of the Xavante people.

Purpose: To promote legal approaches to protect community rights. This organization works to promote social values and to advocate through legal means for community rights.

Purpose: To enable representatives to participate in an international meeting focused on biodiversity management, with the goal of improving practices in the Cerrado. This association seeks to protect the rights of the Xavante community.

Purpose: To strengthen the organic garden program and to expand to new urban environmental initiatives. The activities will focus on Vila Renascensa.

Purpose: To hold courses on agroecology and permaculture for university students, farmers, and other interested parties. The goal is to promote alternative sustainable agriculture techniques.

Purpose: To prevent unsustainable development activities from moving forward in the Serra Vermelha region. Activities include public marches and educational workshops.

Purpose: To participate in the Youth Encounter for Sustainability gathering in Austria. The objective is to train young leaders around the world in sustainability issues.

Purpose: To increase local knowledge about the socio-environmental impacts of a hydroelectric dam project proposed for the Madeira River. This movement fights the construction of large dams and works to protect river systems and the people who live along them.

Purpose: For support of this organization in treating activists injured in an accident.

Purpose: To hold several workshops to improve the recycling program in Casa Branca. This organization works to promote environmental awareness and sustainable economic initiatives.

Purpose: To work towards implementation of the National Environmental Education Policies, and promote state-level policies of a similar nature. This organization works to promote environmental education in the Bahia school system.

Purpose: To perform an integrated environmental assessment of the Uruguay Basin. This organization focuses on environmental research and technical services to promote sound environmental management.

Purpose: To support a local fire brigade in their efforts to combat and prevent forest fires.

Purpose: To complete an assessment of a forest region, and to form an association that will be charged with managing forest. This organization works with low income Amazonian communities to improve their quality of life.

Purpose: To create a community work center in Laphinha that will produce sustainable goods like honey and coffee. As a result, community members will be able to better support themselves while at the same time promote environmentally-sound practices.

Purpose: For general support of this organization. To improve communication among members and hold trainings in conflict resolution.

Purpose: To enable the indigenous people of Raposa Serra do Sol to participate in a ruling about demarcation of indigenous lands. This organization works to defend the rights of the Macuxi, Wapixana, Ingariko, Taurepand and Patamona peoples.

Purpose: To carry out a study about the impacts of the re-opening of a state highway. This organization works to defend the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon.

Purpose: For general capacity building support for this organization. This group participates in the Ecological Movement of Rio Grande do Sul.

Purpose: To develop youth environmental leaders through environmental education courses. This organizations promotes solidarity and empowerment among the under-represented peoples of the Pantanal, including indigenous, Afro-descendant, youth, and women.

Purpose: To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets.

Purpose: To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets.

Purpose: To improve health in the Serra do Amolarand Porto da Manga. This organization is comprised of young medical students who want to improve access to health care and emphasize the connection between healthy environments and healthy people.

Purpose: To protect the Paranaiba River in Floriano and deal with water pollution issues. This organization was created to promote environmental protection and citizen engagement in environmental issues.

Purpose: To support collective action, led by youth, against the Madeira River mega-dam project. The goal is to increase community participation in mobilizing against the project.

Purpose: For general capacity building support. This organization implements environmental education programs and promotes sustainable development and alternative technologies in communities, and builds collaborative partnerships among civil society groups, businesses and governmental agencies.

Purpose: For general capacity building support. This mission of this organization is to create sustainable development opportunities to improve the quality of life for local people.

Purpose: To document and distribute information about the process of creating ethanol from sugar cane, including environmental factors and market actors. This organization promotes rural worker rights and is comprised of 1,380 members.

Purpose: To improve health care available to the Xavante and Wedera indigenous communities. Activities include training the staff at the health care center.

Purpose: To increase awareness about the potential impacts of the Madeira River mega-dam project. The goal is to increase community mobilization against the project.

Purpose: To increase awareness about the potential impacts of projects associated with the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA). This organization works to stop the construction of large dams to protect river systems and traditional ways of life of riverbank communities.

Purpose: To increase production of sustainable fisheries. This organization works to improve the capacity of community members, especially women, to sustainably support themselves.

Purpose: To promote the use of art to create environmental awareness. This organization works to promote environmental sustainability and holistic community health and culture.

Purpose: For general support of this organization.

Purpose: For general support of this organization to register as a legal nonprofit. Its goal is to improve the quality of life in the community of Carmelo Peralta along the Paraguay River.

Purpose: For general capacity building support. This organization owns a 350-acre area that they are using to promote ecotourism, environmental education, and sound natural resource management.

Purpose: To build a central office and production kitchen to produce and sell fruit preserves. This organization focuses on improving the quality of life in the community of Antonia Maria Coelho.

Purpose: To form a branch of this organization in Bahia. The organization promotes the rights of traditional communities living by marine and mangrove ecosystems.

Purpose: To complete a participative assessment of the Paraitinga Basin. The assessment will identify opportunities for forest recovery and agroecology, and will include participation from youth.

Purpose: To hold an exchange among farmers and technicians in Cunha, Cooperfloresta and Apremavi. The exchange will promote shared learning around best practices for sustainable agriculture.

Purpose: To increase the participation of the peoples of the Xingu River in bringing about awareness of the negative socio-environmental impacts of the Belo Monte mega-dam project. This dam project will have significant implications for the lands and livelihoods of people who live along the river.

Purpose: To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets.

Purpose: To build a green office for this organization. This pioneer organization focuses on promoting environmentally-friendly public policies by working in concert with public institutions and officials.

Purpose: To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets.

Purpose: To improve this organization's communication capacity. It focuses on increasing information flows among environmental organizations.

Purpose: To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets.

Purpose: To create an environmental prize. The mission of this organization is to promote human rights, environmental sustainability, and cultural awareness in the Pantanal.

Purpose: To strengthen organizational capacity. This organization was founded in 1998 and focuses generally on environmental awareness and sustainability.

Purpose: Paz e Natureza Pantanal promotes the preservation of the environment and the quality of life for communities of the Pantanal area. This grant provides general support for the organization.

Purpose: To support a Riparian Community Art and Culture Festival, which will allow people from different cultures and social classes interact and increase their cultural and ecological awareness. The Festival will also feature discussions of such issues as the planned Hydroelectric and Waterway Complex of the Madeira River.

Purpose: To strategize and build public conscience in order to resist the implementation of IFI and state-supported energy projects in Rondonia. The grant will provide support for staff and enable the maintenance of a central office.

Purpose: To support the organization in its work to mobilize populations threatened by the social, environmental, and economic effects of aluminum mining.

Purpose: To implement a Responsible Tourism Development Program in the county of Rio Preto. The program will highlight the attractions of and need to protect the Rio Preto river itself.

Purpose: To support the development of tourism and to strengthen environmental education in the community of Casa Branca, Minas Gerais.

Purpose: Instituto Madeira Vivo promotes research, education, and training in support of sustainable public policies in Brazilian Amazonia. This grant provides general support for the organization and funds its work to oppose energy projects in the state of Rondonia.

Purpose: This organization works to strengthen the youth environmental movement across the country. The grant funds creation of a Communication Committee, which will strengthen outreach to and coordination of regional and local environmental youth groups.

Purpose: To support the network of individuals working to strengthen environmental education in Bahia state. More specifically, to maintain a network of educators, youth, and others, and to develop a training program for new members.

Purpose: To continue and expand radio broadcasts of relevant social and environmental topics in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.

Purpose: To analyze the Integrated Environmental Analysis of the Uruguay Basin, commissioned by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in order to determine the accuracy of this data that is being used to justify the construction of unsustainable dams in the region.

Purpose: To support a new mangrove revitalization program along the Western Coastline of Maranhão state. In addition, to acquaint the local population with the important role that mangroves play in the region.

Purpose: To help strengthen the network of environmental organizations in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Centro de Estudos Ambientais will work on the project in collaboration with the Brazilian Forum of NGOs and Social Movements for Sustainable Development and Environment (FBOMS).

Purpose: The purpose of the Carajás Forum is to develop sustainable alternatives to current patterns of production, consumption and development. This grant provides general support for the organization.

Purpose: To provide general support for the organization, which seeks to strengthen the cultural identity of the region and to promote sustainable development there. The grant also supports a specific project to encourage popular debate of the problems caused by shrimp farming in southern Bahia.

Purpose: IDETI's role is to strengthen the identity and diversity of indigenous peoples in Brazil. This grant will help IDETI to upgrade its office, to strengthen its programs in Sao Paulo, and to communicate more effectively with outlying villages.

Purpose: To support communities along the Madeira River as they work on linked issues of preservation, recycling, and reforestation.

Purpose: To fund equipment and training for volunteers working to prevent and fight forest fires.

Purpose: To provide the new Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA), a member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds, with its yearly grantmaking budget for 2005.

Purpose: To fund programs involving young people from Iporanga and São Lourenço da Serra in sustainable tourism development.

Purpose: To support this organization in protecting the Atlantic Rain Forest, including its work to connect and mentor smaller environmental organizations working on that issue.

Purpose: To support the organization's programs, including organic farming, agroforestry, raw material processing and production of herbal medicines.

Purpose: To fund documentation of the agricultural history of the Ceara Region, and to help forge sustainable agricultural practices there.

Purpose: To develop alternatives to a proposed water diversion project that will harm the residents and the ecology of the Sao Francisco River Basin.

Purpose: To fund participation in conferences and development of materials opposing the expansion of industrial soybean farming in Southern Maranhao and Parnaiba.

Purpose: To strengthen the programs of the Mangrove School, and to involve mangrove-dwelling communities in the sustainable management of those ecosystems.

Purpose: To fund programs to promote environmental awareness in youth groups and the inclusion of young people in environmental organizations.

Purpose: To support four youth-led environmental organizations working on environmental education and sustainable local development.

Purpose: To support the organization in promoting community self-sufficiency and sustainability as alternatives to current agricultural and other practices.

Purpose: General support to assist in the start-up of the Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA), which will serve as the Brazilian member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds.

Purpose: To promote the concept of permaculture, and to contribute to the creation of both rural and urban sustainable communities.

Purpose: To provide community educators in Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul with Environmental Toolkits on the concepts of permaculture and agro-forestry systems.

Purpose: To support clean-up activities along rivers and streams in municipalities of Jaboatão dos Guararapes and Santo Agostinho Cape, and to integrate those activities into a larger environmental campaign.

Purpose: To provide the new Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA), a member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds, with its yearly grantmaking budget for 2005.

Purpose: To support this agricultural cooperative society in its sustainable development projects, and to document the history of its progress.

Purpose: To fund publication of materials on hydroelectric dam development in the Uruguay River basin, in order to support environmental and community groups in resisting large dam construction in the region.

Purpose: To support several projects, including community environmental education, tree planting, trash management and alternative income generation.

Purpose: To support an environmental education campaign focusing on sanitation issues and the link between environmental protection and human health.

Purpose: To fund a conference on sustainable development, to support fishing communities harmed by commercial shrimp farming, and to support programs with the Quilombola and Xocó communities.

Purpose: The National Coordinating Committee of Rural Women Laborers and Indigenous Women (CONAMURI) is a feminist organization dedicated to preventing the exploitation of women and promoting a less gender-biased society. This grant supports their work to improve working conditions for women, including their environmental health.

Purpose: To support victims of agro-chemical spraying and to promote safer use of such chemicals in the country.

Purpose: General support to assist in the start-up of the Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA), which will serve as the Brazilian member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds.