The Conservation Alliance sent grants totaling $700,000 to 20 organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. The donations mark The Conservation Alliance’s second funding disbursal for 2017.

The Conservation Alliance membership includes more than 210 businesses that care passionately about protecting wild places for their habitat and recreation values. By a vote of these members, The Conservation Alliance made donations to 18 grassroots conservation organizations:

  • American Whitewater – Wild Olympics Campaign – $30,000
  • Appalachian Mountain Club – Campaign to Protect Katahdin Woods and Waters – $25,000
  • Carolina Climbers Coalition – Buckeye Knob Campaign – $35,000
  • Conservation Colorado Education Fund – Continental Divide Campaign – $40,000
  • Conservation Lands Foundation – Defending Public Lands through Monument Management Planning – $50,000
  • Friends of the Columbia Gorge – Preserve the Wonder Campaign – $45,000
  • Montana Wilderness Association – Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project- $45,000
  • National Park Trust – Bald Mountain Pond Acquisition Campaign – $30,000
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association – Securing Lasting Protections for Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands – $45,000
  • Park County Environmental Council – Protecting Wild Lands and Waters of Yellowstone Gateway – $50,000
  • Potomac Conservancy – White Horse Mountain Campaign – $40,000
  • Save The Waves Coalition – Campaign to Secure Baja California’s First State Park – $20,000
  • South Yuba Citizens League – Stop Centennial Dam on the Bear River Campaign – $40,000
  • The Pew Charitable Trusts – California’s Northwest Mountains and Rivers Campaign – $50,000
  • Vermont Land Trust – Richmond Town Forest Acquisition Campaign – $30,000
  • Washington Wild – North Cascades and Puget Sound Headwaters Campaign- $35,000
  • Wild Salmon Center – Elliott Forest Campaign – $45,000
  • Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative – Campaign to Protect for Alberta’s Bighorn Wildland – $45,000

“In a challenging political landscape, conservation work is more important than ever,” said John Sterling, executive director of The Conservation Alliance. “With this funding cycle, we are on track to contribute an all-time high $1.8 million in 2017.”

Three of the 18 organizations received funding from The Conservation Alliance for the first time: Friends of the Columbia Gorge; National Park Trust and Park County Environmental Council.

Each project funded during this grant cycle was first nominated for funding by a Conservation Alliance member company. Conservation Alliance member companies also play a key role in determining which organizations receive funding.

“Our program gives our members the ability to contribute real dollars to protecting wild places in their backyards,” said Sterling. “We look forward to tracking these projects, and to growing our grant fund in 2018.”

Photo courtesy The Conservation Alliance