The Conservation Alliance sent grants totaling $750,000 to 20 organizations working to protect
wild places throughout North America. The donations marked the
Alliances first funding disbursal for 2013, and comprise the largest
funding cycle in the groups 24-year history. The Alliance plans to
contribute $1.5 million this year with a second disbursal in October.
Conservation Alliance made donations to 20 grassroots conservation
organizations as follows:
Organization
|
Location
|
Grant Amount
|
Access Fund
|
Boulder, CO
|
$ 40,000
|
Adirondack Mountain Club
|
Lake George, NY
|
$ 50,000
|
American River Conservancy
|
Coloma, CA
|
$ 35,000
|
Appalachian Mountain Club
|
Boston , MA
|
$ 25,000
|
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Yukon
|
Whitehorse, Yukon
|
$ 35,000
|
Chelan-Douglas Land Trust
|
Wenatchee, WA
|
$ 35,000
|
Conservation Resource Alliance
|
Traverse City, MI
|
$ 35,000
|
Friends of the Inyo
|
Bishop, CA
|
$ 25,000
|
International Mountain Bicycling Association
|
Boulder, CO
|
$ 45,000
|
Montana Wilderness Association
|
Helena, MT
|
$ 50,000
|
Oregon Wild
|
Portland, OR
|
$ 50,000
|
Rivers Without Borders
|
Clinton, WA
|
$ 35,000
|
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council
|
Ashland, OR
|
$ 25,000
|
Thompson Divide Coalition
|
Carbondale, CO
|
$ 25,000
|
Trust for Public Land
|
Montpelier, VT
|
$ 40,000
|
Vermont Land Trust
|
Montpelier, VT
|
$ 50,000
|
Western Rivers Conservancy
|
Portland, OR
|
$ 35,000
|
Wilderness Land Trust
|
Carbondale, CO
|
$ 35,000
|
Winter Wildlands Alliance
|
Boise, ID
|
$ 40,000
|
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
|
Canmore, Alberta
|
$ 40,000
|
Total
|
|
$750,000
|
Thanks to our member companies deep commitment to
conservation, we continue to grow our funding program, said Executive
Director John Sterling. This list of grants supports the best land and
water conservation opportunities in the U.S. and Canada.
distribution of Conservation Alliance members. Conservation Alliance
funds will support efforts to: secure new wilderness designations in
Colorado, Montana, and Oregon; purchase a climbing area in Illinois;
acquire wildlands in California, Colorado, Vermont, Maine, and
Washington; protect wild rivers in Alaska, Colorado, the Yukon, and
British Columbia; and remove dams in Michigan.
Each project was first nominated for funding by a Conservation Alliance member company.
Our member companies continue to identify great projects for funding,
said Sterling. Our program gives our members the ability to contribute
real dollars to protecting wild places in their backyards.
For a complete overview of each grant see:
The Conservation Alliance is an organization of outdoor
businesses whose collective contributions support grassroots
environmental organizations and their efforts to protect wild places
where outdoor enthusiasts recreate. Alliance funds have played a key
role in protecting rivers, trails, wildlands and climbing areas.
all aspects of the outdoor industry, including manufacturers,
retailers, publishers, mills and sales representatives. The result is a
diverse group of businesses whose livelihood depends on protecting our
natural environment.
Since its inception in 1989, the Alliance has contributed more than
$11.9 million to grassroots conservation groups. Alliance funding has
helped save more than 41 million acres of wildlands; protect 2,700 miles
of rivers; stop or remove 25 dams; designate five marine reserves; and
purchase nine climbing areas.