Our grantees lie at the center of our work to improve the lives of children, families, and communities, and to restore and protect the planet. In recognition of the critical role that grantee organizations play in creating lasting change, we have collected the following real stories from the field. These stories are just a small sampling of the many that illustrate how the Foundation collaborates with leaders and organizations to find the most effective answers to the challenges we seek to solve together. In future improvements to this website, we hope to feature more vehicles in which grantees can share their stories with the people who want and need to hear them.
Conservation and Science
- Connecting Scientists and Policymakers
- Bringing the ‘Kuita’ Back in Fiji
- Restoring Island Ecosystems
- Surveying California’s Rocky Reefs
- Saving the Colorado River
- Pacific Shorebird Migration Project
- Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum
- Cow Power in California
Population and Reproductive Health
- Teaching Schools to Teach about Sex
- Transforming a Woman’s Life through Expanded Family Planning in Ethiopia
- Expanding Health Services across Pakistan
- Empowering Zambian Women as Reproductive Health Champions
- Expanding Access to Reproductive Health Care
- Improving Reproductive Health Services in India
- Confronting Global Contraceptive Shortages
- Helping Young Ethiopian Brides
Children, Families, and Communities
- Summer Matters in Glenn County, CA
- Transitional Kindergarten is all about Sharing
- Teaching the Teachers
- Ready for Kindergarten
- Fixing the System
- Help with Health Coverage
Local Grantmaking
- Teens Leading Change
- From City Hall to Science Workshop
- Sparking Potential through Apprenticeship
- Bringing a Traditional Museum to the Present
- Food for Local Families
- The Wonder in Wetlands
Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy
- By Telling Real Life Stories Moms Help Save Medicaid
- Empowering an Effective Network
- Building Better Grantmaking
- Communication Saves Condors
Program-Related Investments, Investee Stories
- The Nature Conservancy Conservation Notes
- EKO Green Carbon Fund
- Making Family Planning Products Affordable for Clinics
- Biofuels: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
- CEMEX Redwoods, Crucial Piece of Santa Cruz Conservation Puzzle
- EcoTrust Forests, LLC – Seeing the Forest for the Trees
- Saving Iconic Lands in California
- Partners for Development: Bringing Microfinance to Scale in Nigeria
- From Food Bank to Nutrition Bank
- A Change at Sea for All to See
