New Venture Fund
For Addressing The Land Use Impacts Of Fossil Fuel Development
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/2/2012
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
New Venture Fund would regrant funds to Canadian NGOs for efforts to oppose construction of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Gateway proposes to carry tar sands oil from Alberta across private, provincial, and First Nations land to the pristine inlet port of Kitimat, BC, to create access to Asian and Western U.S. markets. Preventing development of the pipeline would protect valuable ecosystems and water resources.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newventurefund.org
Address
1828 L Street NW, Suite 300 – A, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Tech Talent Project
The Tech Talent Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit project fiscally sponsored by New Venture Fund that addresses the pressing need for tech talent in government to effectively implement nonlegislative policy, provide services, and address emerging technologies like AI. Recent shifts in the digital labor market present an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this work in the federal government. (Substrategy: Executive Branch)
for Vision First’s Abortion on Our Own Terms project
Abortion On Our Own Terms, a project of Vision First (a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund) is a national campaign that aims to make safe, effective self-managed abortion available to all people without shame, stigma, or legal risk. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
