GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

The nonprofit Food Project empowers youth while educating and engaging them in sustainable agriculture. Not only do teens learn about nutrition and health through farming, but they also gain vital workforce skills such as leadership training, community building and marketing through the organization’s Farmers’ Markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs. The Boston Globe highlighted the work of this unique organization and its impact on the urban agriculture movement.

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Featuring The Food Project, a grantee of the Ludcke Foundation, the Schrafft Charitable Trust and the Foley Hoag Foundation.

RESEARCH IN ACTION

A report by Corporate Accountability International as part of its national public education and action campaign, Think Outside the Bottle, outlines bottled water spending in nine states, maps trends in public water system investments and examines the additional costs associated with water bottling.

The report recommends the elimination of all unnecessary state spending on bottled water and calls for renewed investments in the nation’s public water systems.

Author: Public Accountability International

Date: March 2009

Contact: Kristin Urquiza: info @ stopcorporate abuse.org

To read the report, click here.

Featuring Corporate Accountability International, a grantee of the Jessie B. Cox Trust

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Huffington Post

Corporate Accountability International’s Think Outside The Bottle Campaign is the subject of a video highlighting an action of enviro-pranksters, the Yes Men.  The goal of the campaign is to raise public awareness about the environmental costs of bottled water.

Featuring Corporate Accountability International, a grantee of the Jessie B. Cox Trust.

To watch the video, click here.