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Audubon
Expedition Institute |
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The
Audubon Expedition Institute (AEI), is a fully accredited,
traveling undergraduate, graduate, and dual enrollment program,
which
has been transforming students into inspired, compassionate
and creative environmental leaders and activists for over
30
years. Profits for the Planet funds made it possible for Audubon
Expedition Institute to merge with Lesley University, offering
the opportunity
to
reach more students and expand programming to include urban
and international semesters.
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Chef’s
Collaborative |
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The Chef's Collaborative is a national network of more than 1,000 members of the food community who promote organic and sustainable cuisine. The Collaborative is dedicated to educating chefs and the general public on the value of protecting the environment and of supporting local family farmers, ranchers, and artisanal producers, and in the process moving America toward a more sustainable and delicious food supply. To that end, Stonyfield Farm partnered with the Chefs to create a Restaurant Guide to aid diners in finding Collaborative member restaurants.
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Earth Pledge Foundation
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The Farm to Table initiative
aims to educate the public about food and agriculture issues,
and to guide and support farmers in their transition to sustainable
practices.
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Earth
University |
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Profits for the Planet funding established of the Samuel and Louise Kaymen scholarship to be given to a student who wishes to study at EARTH University, a four-year, private, non-profit university in Costa Rica, Central America, dedicated to preparing promising Latin American students in the sustainable management of the humid tropics, which contain over 83% of the world's biodiversity. "The establishment of the scholarship allows EARTH University to recruit students for their leadership ability and commitment to community. Students receive an education focused on agronomy and the sustainable management and development of the humid tropics. Once the students graduate from EARTH, 96% remain in Latin America contributing to the sustainable development of the region." – Margaret Jenkins, EARTH University Foundation
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Environmental Working Group
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The Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce was designed to educate consumers about how to choose produce that helps cut dietary exposure to pesticides. The ranking is based on tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lists the 12 popular fresh fruits and vegetables that are consistently the most contaminated with pesticides and those 12 fruits and vegetables that have low levels. The guide encourages consumers to eat fresh fruits and vegetables, and helps them to prioritize what produce to buy organic.
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Global Green USA |
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Stonyfield contributed to the Sixth Annual Sustainability Symposium that explored the critical issues facing sustainability and the opportunities for solutions. Global Green USA is the U.S. affiliate of Green Cross International, President Mikhail Gorbachev¹s international environmental movement. Global Green USA seeks to foster a global value shift toward a safer, more sustainable planet by working to solve the three gravest problems facing humanity today: stemming global climate change; eliminating weapons of mass destruction; and ensuring access to safe drinking water for the more than 1 billion people who go without it everyday. “Thanks in part to the gift from Stonyfield, Global Green USA’s Symposium attracted an esteemed panel of environmental activists and thinkers, including Stonyfield Farm President & CEO Gary Hirshberg, and author Paul Hawken, who discussed the question of whether or not business can lead the way toward sustainability. Stonyfield Farm¹s support enabled Global Green USA to more effectively reach out to stakeholders on this critical issue, and to engage and challenge the public to become more involved in environmental and sustainability issues.” - Matt Peterson, Global Green
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Green
Acres Elementary School, Manchester, NH |
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Profits for the Planet funding
supported a Life Lab Curriculum
Coordinator and a Life Lab Instructor for a gardening program
that teaches children through touching and knowing the dirt
of
the earth,
and the excitement of hands-on science. This garden continues
to teach future generations respect and understanding for
the land. "Green Acres continues to provide strong
research-based instruction to every student who benefits
from
the power of hands on science activities. The funds allow
the Green Acres Life Lab program to continue researching
and
implementing up-to-date curriculum that creates a positive
learning environment and respect for our world environments."
- Douglas Fritsch, Principal, Green Acres Elementary School
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Green
Festival |
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Profits for the Planet helped support
the Green Festival, Green Business, SolFest, and SolFest
Ecological Seminar, all of which educate consumers on ecological
balance,
sustainable economy, and social justice. "Stonyfield
Farms’ generous support of Green Festival and SolFest
allowed our outreach to broaden significantly by helping
defray
the cost of adding a much needed networking coordinator and
a staffing director." -Greg Roberts, Producer,
Green Festivals
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Intervale
Foundation |
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The Intervale Foundation helps
connect people to the land, farms and food and ensures the
future of farming while teaching and inspiring
others. The Intervale is 700 acres of prime agricultural
land only a mile from downtown Burlington, VT that had fallen
into
disuse in the 1990’s. The Intervale Foundation has made
a mission of embracing the Intervale’s land, the Winooski
River, and the native plant and animal species and restoring
the area as a vital community resource. In the last 15 years,
dozens of small organic family farms, community gardens, nature
trails, wildlife sanctuaries, and innovative ecological businesses
have developed here. "Profits for the Planet funds
will help the Intervale’s new grain farmer get started
and support the Conservation Nursery in 2004." -
Andrea O'Connor, Intervale.
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New
Hampshire Public Radio |
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Stonyfield Farm provided financial support for the environmental
programming of New Hampshire
Public Radio. "This support helps to ensure the
perpetuity of these programs for listeners throughout the
State
of New Hampshire.” -- New Hampshire Public Radio
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Northeast
Organic Dairy Producers Association |
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Profits for the Planet funding
helped support communication programs and general operating
needs for the Northeast Organic
Dairy Producers Association, an organization which enables
organic family dairy farmers, situated across an extensive
area, to have informed discussion about matters critical
to
the well-being of the organic dairy industry.
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Northeast
Organic Farming Association of Vermont |
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Tthe Northeast Organic Farming
Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT), is a non-profit association
of farmers, gardeners, and consumers working to promote an
economically viable and ecologically sound Vermont food system
for the benefit of current and future generations.
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The
Northern Forest Center |
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The Center’s mission
is to serve as a convener of ideas and dialogue on
issues ranging from cultural heritage to economics, ecology,
and community development. “With support from Stonyfield's
Profit for the Planet program and other, the Center engaged
members of the Northern Forest community in collaborative
programs such as its second "Northern Forest Community
Leadership Exchange." The Exchange drew more than 180
community leaders, research scientists, business people, activists
and government staff to address regional needs and issues
and build collaboration. The Center has lead similar regional
efforts in policy research and place-based education. Corporate
support from Stonyfield, a recognized leader among socially
responsible businesses, helped attract other corporate support
for our programs.” – Northern Forest Center.
The Center was established in 1997 to help build a healthy
and productive future for the Northern Forest and its people
by strengthening citizen leadership and regional collaboration.
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Organic
Farming Research Foundation |
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Twenty-three organic research and education
projects for farmers were supported with Profits
for the Planet funding. “We were able
to send the latest project results and new organic information
to more than 15,000 farmers and others free of charge, and
educate the public and policy makers about the needs of organic
family farmers through extensive media work and policy analysis.”
- Bob Scowcroft, OFRF
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Physicians
for Social Responsibility |
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We supported groundbreaking research and
promotion of emerging links between children’s health
and pesticide exposure. Thousands of doctors, medical advisors
and parents will be helped by this effort to better appreciate
the promise of organics. “Support from Stonyfield
Farm will ensure that PSR can reach practicing health professionals
with the latest clinical guidance on advising patients how
to protect themselves from low-level chronic pesticide exposures.
The tool kit for providers will offer the latest science on
the connections between low level exposures to pesticides
and
health effects, and resources that providers can offer to their
patients. These funds are allowing PSR to prepare health
professionals
to be better advocates for their patients and their communities.”
- Susan West Marmagas, Physicians for Social Responsibility
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The Rainforest Site “Click”
to Contribute Program & The Ecology Fund “Click”
to Contribute Program |
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Stonyfield generated contributions to these
organizations listed through these Web-based Based Program.Charity
USA http://www.charityusa.com
- Nature
Conservancy
- To support the Palmyra Atoll, with 16,000 acres of
reef, the last intact marine wilderness in the US tropics
with millions of seabirds and 130 coral species.
- To support Canadian wildlife, protecting the habitat
for grizzly bears, elk and wolves in the Rockies, virgin
tall-grass prairies, and an 800-acre old-growth forest
on Lake Erie.
- To support Mexican wildlife by saving Mexican Thick-billed
Parrot nest areas in Sierra Madre and Cuatro Cienegas
with 100 endemic species and desert pools.
- Wilderness
Land Trust
- To support the Western U.S. wilderness by helping
keep in-holdings in US wilderness - including Trinity
Alps, CA, Cascades, WA & Snowmass, CO - from being
developed.
- Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds
- To support the Nature Reserves in Scotland by helping
Europe's largest conservation group buy globally rare
active blanket bog peatlands, home to numerous 'red
listed' birds.
- Michoacan
Reforestation Fund
- Fund tree-planting efforts in Mexico to help reforestation
of the winter home of most North American Monarch butterflies.
- World Land Trust
- Help preserve the Patagonian Coastal Reserve for
guanaco, puma, maras, peregrine falcons, burrowing owls,
and parrots and which includes an 8-mile beach for penguins
and sea lions.
- American Chestnut Foundation
- Aiding in the effort to save the American Chestnut,
once the dominant tree in the eastern United States,
by supporting efforts to breed blight-resistant chestnuts.
- Fondo Per La Terra
- Supporting the National Park in East Africa, Tanzania's
new Saadani Park, which as a bio-diverse hot spot includes
rainforest, savannas, rare antelopes, bats, and sea
turtle beaches.
- Cascade Conservation Partnership (including the
Sierra Club)
- Helping preserve old growth in the Cascades, with
800 year-old forests, wildlife corridors and hiking
trails near Mt. Rainier.
- Rainforest Conservation Fund, Project Amazonas,
WLT, & World Parks Endowment
- South American Rainforest goals include protection
of the world’s highest diversity of primate species
(14), river dolphins and manatee in Peru; rare birds
and woolly tapir in Andean Ecuador; and the giant otter
in the Atlantic rainforest.
- Fundacion
Jocotoco: Donations from Profits for
the Planet recently protected some 40 acres of endangered
bird habitat in an Ecuadorian rain forest, through
an Ecuadorian foundation with a New Hampshire connection.
Fundacion Jocotoco was created in 1998 by Dr. Robert
S. Ridgely, a long-time part-time resident in New
Hampshire, in response to his discovery of a splendid
new species of antpitta. The Jocotoco Antpitta is
a secretive forest bird found in only one location
in the world, in Ecuador. “The new foundation
acquired the entire mountainside and has gone on
to establish six other reserves, covering nearly
12,000 acres, of the most critical bird habitat
in Ecuador.”
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Rocky
Mountain Institute |
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Stonyfield Farm helped the Rocky Mountain Institute's
produce and distribute "Home Energy Briefs" to educate
consumers on energy efficiency. "The Briefs will guide
homeowners as they face decisions about appliance purchases
and home improvements, making it easier to decide how to reduce
their energy bills as well as their personal environmental
'footprint'. The grant was a significant boost for our public
outreach efforts, as we continue working to make the world
more secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining." -
Peggy Hill, RMI
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Solar
Electric Light Fund |
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The Solar Electric Light Fund is a non-profit
charitable organization that promotes, develops, and facilitates
solar rural electrification and energy SELF-sufficiency
in developing countries. “Stonyfield Farms' generous
contribution has provided critical operating support that
allows SELF to plan and manage solar energy projects in some
of the most remote villages of the world. With Stonyfield's
help, SELF has eased the burden of women who no longer have
to walk miles each day to collect firewood, brightened educational
opportunities for children in far-off villages who now have
lights and teaching aids in their schools, lifted pure water
from deep underground using clean solar power to replace
laborious hand-pumps, and given a new chance at economic
stability for
families who can now power their own micro enterprises.”
- Bob Freling, Executive Director, SELF
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UCSC
Farm & Garden |
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Profits for the Planet funding
helped support the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable
Food Systems “Farm and Garden” program, a research,
education, and public service program at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, dedicated to increasing ecological
sustainability and social justice in the food and agriculture
system. "Stonyfield supported the training of 38 new
organic farmers and gardeners in the six-month Apprenticeship
Program in 2003. The gift will also help produce a booklet
profiling some of the 1,000 graduates of the Apprenticeship
Program now working to create more sustainable food and agriculture
systems around the world." - Martha Brown, Center for
Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz
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Washington
Toxics Coalition |
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“Auction for Action,” is an
annual “the Coalition’s largest fundraiser and
an event which celebrates its history of protecting public
health and the environment and generates critical support
for its ongoing work to eliminate toxic pollution. Stonyfield
contributed to this event.
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World Media Foundation Inc (Living on Earth) |
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Stonyfield Farm supported programming for Living On Earth,
National Public Radio's award-winning environmental news journal,
produced
by World Media Foundation.
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YMCA
Camp Belknap |
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Camp Belknap, 300 acres located on Lake
Winnipesaukee in a conservation easement with the Society
for the Protection of NH Forests, celebrates its 100th anniversary
with the help of funding from Stonyfield Farm. "YMCA
Camp Belknap prides itself on stewardship of its land, and
funds from Stonyfield helped in the process of always maintaining
this beautiful spot for the safekeeping of children for generations
to come!" - Gene Clark, Camp Director
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