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School children in afterschool careprogram at FECHAC, Chihuahua, MexicoReading in the Fronteras Unidas ProSalud library, Tijuana, Mexicoproposals to strengthen TB control in the San Diego region – $45,618;to develop the Baja Eco Info, web GIS based mapping tool for prioritycoastal communities along the Baja California Peninsula threatened bypotential development with an emphasis on La Paz and Loreto –$11,500.Shanghai Charity Foundation(Shanghai, China) to provide charitable support for the ShanghaiOpera Art College Scholarship Program to assist talented studentsfrom poor families complete their art studies, and continue promotingthe Shanghai opera tradition – $11,670.Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)(Washington, D.C., USA) for teacher training workshops at theGaleta Marine Station, Panama – $29,853; to support the “Migration,Demography, and Conservation of Whale Sharks in the EasternTropical Pacific” project – $150,000.Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparajá A.C.(La Paz, BCS, Mexico) to support the program “Facing a Crossroads:Conservation of key land habitats in Southern Baja California” –$80,000; to support the initiative “Water Dialogues: Promoting anintegrated perspective for the use and management of water in LaPaz” – $130,000; for land acquisition in the San Cosme-PuntoMechudo Corridor – $105,000.Terra Peninsular, A.C.(Ensenada, BC, Mexico) to prepare a site conservation plan for theSierra Juarez – $17,000.The Nature Conservancy(Arlington, VA, USA) to support an economic analysis of thePetaquilla mining operations – $20,000.The Palapa Society of Todos Santos, A.C.(Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico) to support a scholarship program foracademically gifted for students from low-income families – $6,000.U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership(San Diego, CA, USA) for operating and programmatic support –$436,415.UCD-Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology(Davis, CA, USA) to support, “The Revillagigedo Archipelago ascritical habitat for migratory sharks and the establishment of a chainof marine reserves in the eastern tropical Pacific” – $40,000.Unidos Por Mata Ortiz, A.C.(Mata Ortiz, Chih, Mexico) for a computer project at the Mata OrtizTelesecundaria school – $6,000.United Nations Foundation(Washington D.C., USA) to support post-earthquake disaster reliefefforts in the Sichuan Province of China through the CentralEmergency Response Fund (CERF) of the United NationsFoundation – $56,868; to support post-disaster relief efforts inMyanmar – $1,916.Universidad Autónoma de Baja California(Mexicali, BC, Mexico) for programmatic and administrative supportrelated to the Baja California Diabetes Care and Prevention “WirelessReach” Binational Partnership: Empowering Communities to PromoteDiabetes Prevention & Disease Management through 3G WirelessTechnologies – $96,803; to support a two year grant ($20,000/year)to support Genetic Conservation of Rhizophora Mangle andAviccenia Germinans in Northwestern, Mexico – $40,000.Vigilantes de Bahía Magdalena, A.C.(Puerto San Carlos, BCS, Mexico) to provide programmatic supportto Vigilantes de Bahia Magdalena for the remainder of the 2008 year– $9,000; general operating support – $30,000; for monitoring andprotection of natural resources in Magdalena Bay, including waterquality, mangroves, and sea turtles, in addition to legal defense, andoutreach and education – $20,000.Wildcoast(Imperial Beach, CA, USA) general operating support – $15,000.Zoological Society of San Diego(San Diego, CA, USA) to purchase 18 kennels in support of theZoological Society of San Diego's efforts in protecting the CaliforniaCondor in northern Baja California – $2,209; to support the“Conservation Education Laboratory Visits for San Diego UnifiedCharter Schools” program – $20,000.21