The Conservation Alliance Contributes $820,000 to 23 Organizations

The Conservation Alliance sent grants totaling $820,000 to 23 organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. The donations mark The Conservation Alliance’s final funding disbursal for 2016 and reflects the votes of its more than 200 members.

This disbursal is the largest in the organization’s history, and brings the year’s contributions to an all-time high $1.61 million. The Conservation Alliance granted $790,000 during its Winter 2016 funding cycle in March.

“Our member companies understand that it is important to protect the places where their customers recreate,” said John Sterling, Executive Director of The Conservation Alliance. “This list of grants supports a variety of land and water conservation opportunities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.”

The Conservation Alliance made donations to 23 grassroots conservation organizations as follows:

Organization Project Amount
Adirondack Mountain Club Forever Wild Follensby Campaign $50,000
American Rivers North Cascades Nooksack Wild and Scenic River Campaign $40,000
Alaska Wilderness League Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Campaign $10,000*
American Whitewater Wild Olympics Campaign $30,000
Appalachian Trail Conservancy Bald Mountain Pond A.T. Landscape Protection Campaign $50,000
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society-Quebec Magpie River Campaign $40,000
Columbia Land Trust Klickitat Canyon Forest Conservation Project $50,000
Conservation Colorado Continental Divide Campaign $45,000
Conservation Lands Foundation National Monuments Campaign $20,000
Conservation Resource Alliance Free Flowing Maple River Campaign $30,000
Friends of Cedar Mesa Bears Ears National Monument Campaign $10,000*
Friends of Scotchman Peak Wilderness Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Campaign $20,000
Land Trust for Tennessee Denny Cove Acquisition Project $40,000
Montana Wilderness Association Blackfoot-Clearwater Stewardship Project $30,000
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters $50,000
Oregon Natural Desert Association John Day Wilderness Campaign $40,000
Oregon Natural Desert Association Owyhee Canyonlands Campaign $10,000*
Pacific Crest Trail Association Trinity Divide Conservation Project $50,000
Sierra Club-Santa Lucia Chapter Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary Campaign $40,000
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council Cascade Siskiyou National Monument Campaign $10,000*
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Colorado Plateau Master Leasing Plan Campaign $35,000
The Ocean Foundation Loreto Park Project $35,000
Washington Wild North Cascades Puget Sound Headwaters Initiative $35,000
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Alberta’s Bighorn Wildland Campaign $50,000

TOTAL: $820,000

*Discretionary Grant: The Conservation Alliance board has the authority to make discretionary grants not to exceed #10,000 to projects with an urgent and time-sensitive need.

Four of the grants (marked above with an asterisk), were quick-response grants made at the discretion of The Conservation Alliance board to provide immediate support to campaigns to secure new national monument designations from the Obama Administration. The Conservation Alliance board has the authority to make small grants – not to exceed $10,000 – to meet urgent needs.

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 2017.”


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