Grantee Database

This database contains a representative list of grants approved since 2004. Grants appear alphabetically by organization name, with most recent grants first. Unless otherwise specified, grants are for general operating support.
296 results found

Research Center of Forest and Wetlands

Ho Chi Minh City

for the project, creating local understanding of the impacts of proposed dams on the Mekong Delta

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $60,000

ReTRAK

Surrey

to support a foster care program for orphans in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $51,500

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Richmond Surrey

for the project Optimized Pest Management With Botanical Pesticides on Legume Cropping Systems in Malawi and Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $96,000

for the project, Safe and Effective Pesticidal Plants for Agro-Ecological Intensification of Legumes

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $100,000

Rural Research and Development Training Center

Vientiane

for a Minnesota Initiative Foundations development training center and preparation of an environmental/land rights law initiative in Laos

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $30,000

for a livelihoods and land rights training project, and for a national level capacity building and training center in Laos

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $70,000

Samreth Law Group

Phnom Penh

to provide start-up co-funding for Cambodia's first public interest law firm, and to assist its legal work on community and indigenous land and resource rights

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $80,000

to expand public interest legal advocacy in Cambodia through support for the cases, activities, and projects of Samreth Law Group

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $45,000

Save the Children Federation, Inc.

Wesport CT

For a microfinance program for women in Vietnam

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $120,000

for institutional capacity building, and expansion of a microfinance program for women in the Thanh Hoa Province of Vietnam

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $25,000

SEF MICROFINANCE

Dar es Salaam

for financing research, studies, and advocacy activities of the network of village savings and loans associations

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $25,000

to support development of the Village Community Bank Alliance (VICOBA) as it studies and champions the VICOBA movement for microcredit

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $30,000

Serengeti Farmers' Association

Mara

to enable 400 women to participate in beekeeping and agro-forestry for income generation and environmental conservation in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $83,000

for a sustainable agriculture and agro-forestry project for women in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $15,000

to support women in beekeeping, as they increase production and quality and develop dependable markets

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $65,000

SERO Business Women Association

Dar es Salaam

for a microcredit program for women in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $40,000

Service Health and Development for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Dar es Salaam

for potato and poultry farming projects for AIDS widows and orphans in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $40,000

Single Parents Foundation

Dar es Salaam

to assist widows to start new enterprises or improve existing ones, and also to improve services to aged widows in the Kibaha District of Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $113,000

Skillshare International

Leicester

for a variety of income-generating projects for women in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $42,000

Small Enterprises Foundation

Dar es Salaam

for a microfinance program for women in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $120,000

for mentorship and business skills training for women entrepreneurs in Temeke district in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $40,000

for mentorship and business skills training for women entrepreneurs in Temeke and Mkuranga districts in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $40,000

for women business skills training, financial education, market search, and connection activities of small women entrepreneurs

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $105,000

Smithsonian Institution

Washington DC

to increase marketing opportunities for craft producers from Cambodia and Laos through participation in the 2007 Folklife Festival

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $50,000

Social Action for Change

Phnom Penh

to strengthen and support a network of women's organizing and empowerment initiatives in Cambodia

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $25,000

for an organization providing support to grassroots women's empowerment and awareness raising about Minnesota Initiative Foundations issues in Cambodia

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $100,000