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Monsanto Fund Highlights
The Monsanto Fund seeks to improve the earth’s ecosystem — to ensure clean water, productive land, and thriving biodiversity — and the well-being of its people.7 In 2006, the Monsanto Fund awarded $11.9 million in grants. This sum included $10.9 million distributed across four focus areas (Community, $2.4 million; Environment, $0.9 million; Nutritional Well-Being, $4.1 million; Science Education, $3.5 million) and $1 million to match employee gifts to other charitable organizations. Grants awarded in 2006 include:
Finca International (Malawi) Grant to improve nutritional well-being of the productive poor through services that include microfinance capital and training, agricultural productivity education, agro-enterprise training, and nutrition education: $360,000.
Centro Educacional de Tecnologia (Brazil) Grant to support an environmental education program in nine schools, serving as many as 10,000 children in the communities of Camaçari and Dias d’Avila in Bahia state: $38,000.
International Rice Research Institute (Philippines) Grant to provide funds for critical equipment that can accelerate and expand the analytical activities of the Grain Quality and Nutrition Research and Training Center, in support of improving the micro-nutrient content of polished rice: $220,000.
Botanical Society of America (United States) Grant for “Planting Science”, a computer-based project to develop and test new inquiry-teaching and learning resources that integrate plant science content and processes: $81,730.
