International Finance and the Amazon Program, a project of Amazon Watch, monitors and works to influence extractive industry and infrastructure projects financed by international financial institutions and other public and private banks. This renewal grant will support Amazon Watch to strengthen the capacity of constituencies in Amazon countries, particularly environmental and indigenous organizations, to influence and hold accountable international financial decisionmakers for the environmental and social impacts of energy and infrastructure projects. The grant will also support monitoring of emblematic highway, waterway, and hydroelectric dam projects in the Amazon region.

The program goal is to enhance the development of community philanthropy globally. To this end, the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, in cooperation with the City University of New York Graduate Center, runs an annual international community foundation fellowship program. Each year, the program offers emerging leaders and seasoned community foundation practitioners from foreign countries opportunities to learn about community foundations through an intensive graduate program of research, seminars, conferences, mentoring, and internships. To date, the program has provided fellowships to 142 individuals from 54 countries. The program has sparked the creation of new philanthropic ventures and research resources in places as diverse as Argentina, India, Korea, and Ukraine. Founded in 1846, the City University of New York is among the nation's leading urban public universities. The university's Research Foundation was created to expedite and provide oversight of the management of funds obtained by faculty.

The Synergos Institute's Senior Fellows Program links civil society leaders in a worldwide learning, service, and action network. The network strengthens the capacities of these leaders and provides them with opportunities to be catalysts in partnerships that address the systemic causes of poverty and promote sustainable social change. Senior fellows serve as peer consultants to developing community foundations and other civil society organizations around the world, and their work produces knowledge on trends and innovative models which the Synergos Institute distributes to a wide audience. The current senior fellows' network comprises 100 fellows from 30 countries. In 2010-2011, the program will add up to 30 new fellows and provide networking, convening, peer learning, collaboration, and service opportunities. Founded in 1986, the Synergos Institute promotes collaborative approaches that bring rich and poor together, along with other relevant groups and institutions, to overcome poverty and foster sustainable development in developing countries.