Group will disburse $1.55 Million in 2014

The Conservation Alliance sent grants totaling $800,000 to 23 organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. The donations marked the Alliance’s second funding disbursal for 2014, and comprise the largest funding cycle in the group’s 25-year history. The Alliance contributed a record $1.55 million in 2014.

By a vote of the group’s member companies, The Conservation Alliance made donations to 23 grassroots conservation organizations as follows:

• Access Fund, Boulder, CO $25,000
• Adirondack Mountain Club, Albany, NY $30,000
• Alaska Wilderness League, Washington, DC $42,812
• American Rivers, Seattle, WA $35,000
• American Whitewater, Cullowhee, NC $50,000
• California Wilderness Coalition, Oakland, CA $50,000
• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Ottawa, ON $30,000
• Conservation Lands Foundation, Durango, CO $50,000
• Earthjustice, San Francisco, CA $50,000
• Earthworks, Washington, DC $30,000
• Grand Canyon Trust, Flagstaff, AZ $35,000
• Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Bozeman, MT $30,000
• Kittery Land Trust, Kittery, ME $30,000
• Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Ashland, OR $25,000
• Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Fairbanks, AK $30,000
• Oregon Natural Desert Association, Bend, OR $42,188
• Save the Waves Coalition, Davenport, CA $35,000
• Thompson Divide Coalition, Carbondale, CO $25,000
• Trust for Public Land, Montpelier, VT $35,000
• Tuleyome, Woodland, CA $25,000
• WaterWatch of Oregon, Portland, OR $25,000
• WildSouth, Asheville, NC $30,000
• Winter Wildlands Alliance, Boise, ID $40,000

Total: $800,000

“We have added 12 new member companies so far this year, and 100-percent of the membership dues are allocated to our central grant fund. Due to the Outdoor Industry’s deep commitment to conservation, we were able to support 23 organizations with grants ranging from $25,000-$50,000.” said John Sterling, Executive Director of The Conservation Alliance. “This list of grants supports the best land and water conservation opportunities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.”

Two out of the 23 organizations received funding from The Conservation Alliance for the first time: Kittery Land Trust and Save the Waves.

Conservation Alliance funds will support efforts to: secure new wilderness designations in Washington, California, and Oregon; purchase a climbing area in Maine; protect wildlands in Alaska, Canada’s Northwest Territories, Baja, North Carolina, Idaho, Utah, and Montana; protect wild rivers in Washington, California, and Oregon; remove dams in Oregon; halt mining and drilling in Colorado, Minnesota and Oregon; and acquire wildlands in Vermont and Maine.

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, visit conservationalliance.com or download the Summer 2014 Grant Announcement.

Contacts:

John Sterling
541-389-2424
john@conservationalliance.com

Julie Evans
970-259-3555
julie@verdepr.com

Logo courtesy The Conservation Alliance