GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: National Public Radio

National Public Radio’s Living on Earth interviews Perry Gottesfeld, Director of Occupational Knowledge International. OKI is developing environmental certification program for lead battery manufacturers in India and Vietnam

Features Occupational Knowledge International a grantee of the Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation.

To read the transcript of the Living on Earth story, click here.
To listen to the NPR Living on Earth story, click here.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Oprah Magazine

Oprah magazine profiles, Kinari Webb, founder of Health in Harmony and its counterpart Alam Sehat Lestari. The organization provides healthcare to villagers in Borneo to villages that actively protect the rainforest.

Features Conservation, Food, and Health grantee Health in Harmony

To read the profile in Oprah, click here.

The Parker Foundation focuses its grantmaking exclusively on Lowell, the fourth largest city in Massachusetts.  Lowell was established in 1826 as the first planned industrial city in America.  With the decline of the textile industry, followed by the decline of high tech, it experienced an economic depression throughout much of the 20th century.  Inspired civic leadership and an influx of immigrant population (including the second largest Cambodian population in America) have given the city a new life.   A recent positive development has been the growth of a creative economy, spearheaded by the relocation of numerous artists to the city. 
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