Small Planet Fund
c/o Rudolf Steiner Foundation
P.O. Box 29915
San Francisco, CA 94129
 

Contribute to the Small Planet Fund

Mission
The Fund supports movements around the world showing how we can re-embed economic life in community, ensure we all eat healthfully, and heal our relationship to the earth.

History
We founded the Small Planet Fund in February 2002 as we launched Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. Moved by the courage of millions of everyday changemakers around the world, we wanted to support their much-needed work through grantmaking and public education. We also hoped the Fund would encourage other artists and authors to consider ways to connect their work with support for those who inspire it. To date, the Fund has raised more than $100,000 for movements on five different continents. In 2005, we received an anonymous donation of an additional $50,000 to offer emergency support to food justice and sustainable farming efforts in the U.S. and overseas.

Learn more
...about the Fund, fundraisers, and the grantees at www.smallplanetfund.org. We invite you to contact us with any questions.

Contribute
All donations are tax-deductible. You can pay by check or donate securely online with a credit card. Every donation—of any size!—makes a difference.

Donations online
Donate to the Rudolf Steiner Foundation, through Network for Good’s secure website. Be sure to note that the gift is for the "Small Planet Fund," when asked which specific fund you’d like to support.

Donations by mail
Print this PDF and enclose a check (payable to "Rudolf Steiner Foundation" with "Small Planet Fund" in the memo line) to:

Small Planet Fund
c/o Rudolf Steiner Foundation
P.O. Box 29915
San Francisco, CA 94129

Grantees
The Small Planet Fund provides ongoing support to eight organizations:

• Fair Trade movement/TransFair USA
• Landless Workers Movement (Brazil)
• Green Belt Movement (Kenya)
• Navdanya Farmers Network (India)
• Grameen Bank (Bangladesh)
• Nayakrishi Farmers Network (Bangladesh)
• Garden Project (California)
• Center for Ecoliteracy/School Gardens (National)

Read more about our grantees here.

Emergency Fund
The Small Planet Emergency Fund contributes small grants ($500 to $5,000) for social change organizations around the globe at critical points in their projects. Past grants, for example, have gone to Via Campesina tsunami rescue efforts and to support the MST and the march of rural workers to the capital of Brazil.

Visit www.smallplanetfund.org for more information.

Please note: As a volunteer-run operation, we cannot accept unsolicited grants. We would invite you, however, to learn more, get involved, and join us for our annual party and fundraiser in New York City in December.


Read Frances's reflections on 1968, "the year I decided to find out why people were hungry in the world," in AARP the Magazine.

Listen to the May 4th podcast of CBC Sunday Edition featuring the lead interview with Frances on food prices and poverty

Visit Anna's new "Take a Bite out of Climate Change" website.

Hear Anna on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, discussing whether higher food prices might mean that we'll eat healthier food. (Nina Planck is a guest as well.)

Read Frances's "Wasn't It Also Obama's 'Democracy Speech'?" on Huffington Post.

Read Anna weighing in on "Some Good News on Food Prices" (NY Times).

Read "The Only Fitting Tribute," Frances's take on the New Deal written for The Nation and found also on CommonDreams.org.

Read "Hanging with Frances Moore Lappé" in the Boston Globe

Read Anna's op-ed in Seattle Post Intelligencer on food and climate change; hear her on Seattle radio

Watch Anna as your guru for fair trade and safe beauty products on Howdini.com

• Thanks to everyone who made our annual fund-raising gala a success! Watch The Invisible Revolution, a film about those your investment helps to support.

Watch Getting a Grip on Money & Politics, Frances' & Anthony's film about the "Best Kept Secret in America!"

Read Anna's blog as she continues the call to Eat Grub!

Read Frances's Getting a Grip blog!

• Frances's first book, Diet for a Small Planet, was chosen among 75 Books by Women whose Words have Changed the World

Read a prepublication version of Frances' 'World Hunger: Roots and Remedies,' from the upcoming Oxford title A Sociology of Food and Nutrition.


Read more about Frankie’s book, Democracy’s Edge

Read “Creating Real Prosperity” by Frances, in Yes! Magazine and AlterNet

Read "Big Apple to go Trans-Fat Free" by Anna in Alternet

Read News from Brazil’s Zero-Hunger Campaign

• Listen to Anna with Ruth Reichl on The Leonard Lopate show.

Stop the Genocide in Darfur

• Listen to Frances on PBS Now

'Time for Progressives to Grow Up' on Common Dreams. Read responses, too.

• Interested in volunteering with SPI? Email us to find out about current volunteer opportunities.

 

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
World Future Council Congress
Hamburg, Germany
Frances

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008, 9:00AM
Keynote Speech
16th Annual IFOAM World Congress
Modena, Italy
Frances

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