GRI Charitable Foundation Annual Report on Activities

During the period 2000-2005 the foundation was an operating foundation meaning that it directly engaged in activities in addition to making small grants. Since 2006 the foundation has been a purely grant making foundation.

Grant Making Report

In 2007 the foundation received a large donation which has significantly increased its grant making capabilities for the future.

Summarizing the funding provided by the foundation for 2000-2009:

    RESULTS Educational Fund - $66,600 (25%)
    Health GAP - $66,000 (24%)
    Institute for One World Health - $63,100 (23%)
    Knowledge Ecology International - $25,000 (9%)
    Consumer Project on Technology (c/o Essential Information) - $7,500 (3%)
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    Total - $270,012.04 (100%)

This total doesn't match the grants total reported on the expenses page because it also includes some program expenses such as membership fees and potentially affiliate cost sharing.

Annual Report on Activities

2009: Report on Activities
2008: Report on Activities
2007: Report on Activities
2006: Report on Activities
2005: Report on Activities
2004: Report on Activities
2003: Report on Activities - Some related documents:
- Responsible Wealth taught us about shareholder activism:
  - Pfizer: cover letter, proposal, ownership letter, vanguard letter, ownership letter 2, ownership letter 3, ownership letter 4, Responsible Wealth: response to SEC no-action request, SEC: no-action letter
  - Bristol-Myers Squibb: cover letter, proposal, withdrawl
- Which we then applied to the HIV/AIDS pandemic:
  - Merck: cover letter, proposal, vanguard letter, ownership letter, ownership letter 2, withdrawl
  - Bristol-Myers Squibb: cover letter, proposal, withdrawl
- South Africa - please provide anti-retroviral drugs
2002: Report on Activities - Some related documents:
- Abbott - thank you letter to Abbott Laboratories
- Coke - please do more letter to Coca-Cola
- Coke - distributed a flyer about Coca-Cola at SF AIDS walk with HealthGAP; we distribed many other flyers with HealthGAP at many other events
- El Salvador - Ricardo Monge's life is in danger
2001:
- Tanzania - visited Tanzania and engaged in HIV/AIDS education and prevention work with GSC
- Washington - attended RESULTS Ed Conference
- Oakland - attended GWoB conference / NNG
2000:
- Establishment - established as a non-profit operating foundation in January
- Endowment - received initial endowment from Gordon Irlam in February
- El Salvador - Andrea: The Pig Lady of Panchimalco - a trip to El Salvador to study microcredit