The Conservation Alliance has sent grants totaling $500,000 to 17 organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. The donations marked the Alliance’s first funding disbursal for 2011.
By a vote of the group’s member companies, The Conservation Alliance made donations to 17 grassroots conservation organizations as follows:
Access Fund – Boulder, CO - $25,000
Adirondack Mountain Club – Lake George, NY - $30,000
American River Conservancy – Coloma, CA - $30,000
California Wilderness Coalition – Oakland, CA - $35,000
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Ottawa, Ontario - $30,000
Conservation Resource Alliance – Traverse City, MI - $30,000
Deschutes Land Trust – Bend, OR - $30,000
Dogwood Initiative – Victoria, British Columbia - $30,000
Grand Canyon Wildlands Council – Flagstaff, AZ - $30,000
Greater Yellowstone Coalition – Bozeman, MT - $30,000
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance – Albuquerque, NM - $30,000
Out Ocean – Portland, OR - $30,000
Pacific Rivers Council – Portland, OR - $30,000
Rivers Without Borders – Juneau, AK - $25,000
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests – Concord, NH - $25,000
The Wilderness Society (Idaho) – Boise, ID - $30,000
Western Rivers Conservancy – Portland, OR - $30,000
Total - $500,000
This round of grant recipients reflects the geographic distribution of Conservation Alliance members. Conservation Alliance funds will support efforts to: secure access to a climbing area in California; remove dams in Michigan; secure new wilderness designations in California and Idaho; protect wild rivers in Canada, Montana, Oregon, and California; acquire wildlands in New Hampshire and Oregon; and secure new National Monuments in New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Each project was first nominated for funding by a Conservation Alliance member company. For the first time, The Conservation Alliance plans to contribute at least $1 million in grants in a single year. This first disbursement accounts for one half of that goal. The organization has budgeted to contribute another $500,000 in October. Since the organization’s founding in 1989, the Alliance has contributed more than $9.3 million.
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