The Conservation Alliance Contributes $820,000 in Grants to 23 Organizations
October 5, 2016
Disbursal Brings 2016 Total to $1.61 Million
Bend, Ore., October 5, 2016 – 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.
The Conservation Alliance has more than 200 member companies who care passionately about protecting wild places for their habitat and recreation values. By a vote of these members, 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.
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.”
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.”
For a complete overview of each grant, visit conservationalliance.com or download the Summer 2016 Grant Announcement:
Website: http://www.conservationalliance.com/seasons
About the Conservation Alliance:
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.
Membership in the Alliance is open to companies representing 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 $17 million to grassroots conservation groups. Alliance funding has helped save more than 45 million acres of wildlands; protect 2,972 miles of rivers; stop or remove 28 dams; designate five marine reserves; and purchase 11 climbing areas.
For complete information on the Conservation Alliance, see www.conservationalliance.com.
Contact:
John Sterling
541-389-2424
john@conservationalliance.com
Julie Evans
970-259-3555
julie@verdepr.com
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