Annual Report 2004 - Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

ENVIRONMENT: OVERVIEW
The Two Hearted River,
which rushes through the
eastern half of Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula, is
among the trout streams
protected as part of the
Northern Great Lakes
Forest Project.
National Lakeshore, all of which remain open
to the public for fishing, hunting,
snowmobiling and other recreational activities.
Elsewhere in the U.S., a two-year,
$80,000 general purposes grant to the
Cumberland River Compact (CRC) helped
the Nashville, Tennessee-based
organization continue to connect people
with a shared interest in enhancing the
water quality of the Cumberland River and
its watersheds, which flow through
Tennessee and Kentucky.
In addition to those two states, CRC
also crosses sector boundaries to encourage
partnerships among federal and state
officials, the business community, and
environmental organizations and agencies.
CRC’s efforts include helping strengthen
local watershed groups, conducting
informational programs for the general
public and providing training seminars for
specific audiences such as home builders.
REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL
FINANCE AND TRADE (RIFT)
The Stichting Forest Peoples Programme
(FPP), based in the United Kingdom, is a
grantee that works in developing countries
with people who are directly or indirectly
affected by development projects in their
forest communities. FPP received a two-year,
$240,000 grant to safeguard forest people’s
human rights and protect their natural
environments, which could be negatively
impacted by specific projects funded by
international financial institutions (IFIs),
such as the World Bank Group and the
Inter-American Development Bank.
FPP monitors and evaluates how IFI
policies and standards are applied, particularly
those policies that relate to indigenous
peoples and involuntary resettlements;
provides networks of grassroots groups with
regular briefings in several languages about
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