Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation Announces New Grants
Published 12-22-20
Submitted by Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas
The River Aguarico located near the indigenous village of San Pablo de Kantesiya in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Pablo Yépez, courtesy of Equitable Origin’s Center for Strengthening the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
December 22, 2020 /CSRwire/ - On November 18, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) approved a new three-year grant to
Forest Trends to address water security issues in Moquegua, Peru while seeking to develop income streams for local communities. The Board of MCFA also approved renewed funding to:
, the University of Michigan School for the Environment and Sustainability, and the Yale School of the Environment, to help provide a stream of professionals into the environmental workforce;
Earth Rangers, the kids’ conservation organization, with over 200,000 members in Canada, committed to instilling environmental knowledge and the confidence to take action in every child in Canada; and
, to support First Nations-led Caribou conservation in British Columbia, Canada.
MCFA’s mission encompasses biodiversity conservation, environmental education, environmental justice and sustainable development, and it is but one of several means through which
Mitsubishi Corporationis working to generate societal and environmental value.
The
Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas, based in New York City, was established 1991 with funding from Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan, and its U.S.-based subsidiary, Mitsubishi International Corporation. MCFA is currently supported by