The Conservation Alliance 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. Since the organization’s founding in 1989, the Alliance has contributed more than $9.3 million.


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

 Each project was first nominated for funding by a Conservation Alliance member company.


“Our members care deeply about the wildlands in their backyards,” said John Sterling, Executive Director of The Conservation Alliance. “We’re proud that our funding program gives them the ability to contribute real dollars to protecting those places.”


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.