Sierra Club Foundation
Encyclopedia
The Sierra Club Foundation is a public charity
whose mission is to provide financial
support to the Sierra Club
and other environmental organizations for tax deductible work. The Sierra Club Foundation funds a range of environmental
projects which fall into the three general categories of public education, litigation, and training.
Since 1960, the foundation has funded tens of millions of dollars worth of important work, from small local projects costing a couple of hundred dollars, to large, multi-year campaigns which require millions of dollars to support.
The financial support for the foundation comes from individual donors and foundations who recognize the foundation as an effective means to sponsor important environmental work.
Charitable organization
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whose mission is to provide financial
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
support to the Sierra Club
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
and other environmental organizations for tax deductible work. The Sierra Club Foundation funds a range of environmental
Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
projects which fall into the three general categories of public education, litigation, and training.
Since 1960, the foundation has funded tens of millions of dollars worth of important work, from small local projects costing a couple of hundred dollars, to large, multi-year campaigns which require millions of dollars to support.
The financial support for the foundation comes from individual donors and foundations who recognize the foundation as an effective means to sponsor important environmental work.
Board of trustees
Loren Blackford- Chair -- Robert McKinney - Vice Chair - Indianapolis, Indiana
- Loren Blackford - Secretary - New York, New York
- Nels Leutwiler - Treasurer - Lake Bluff, Illinois
- Chuck Frank - Fifth Officer - Highland Park, Illinois
- J. Michael McCloskey - Portland, Oregon
- Amy Cherot - Ventura, California
- Paul Farr - San Francisco, California
- Richard Fiddler - Shoreline, Washington
- Joseph FontaineJoseph FontaineJoseph Louis Rosario Fontaine was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born at Saint-Damase, Quebec. He was a master butcher, meat cutter, farmer and merchant by career....
- Tehachapi, California - Michael Loeb - New York, New York
- J. Robert Cox - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Paul CraigPaul CraigPaul Craig is currently Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College. Craig is a specialist in Administrative and EU Law....
- Martinez, California - Michelle Skaff - Sonoma, California
Advisory Members
- Carolyn Carr - Land & Property Committee - Auburn, Atlanta
- J. Fred Weintz - Investment Committee - New York, New York
Honorary Members
- Dr. Edgar WayburnEdgar WayburnEdgar Wayburn was an environmentalist who was elected president of the Sierra Club five times in the 1960s. One of America's legendary wilderness champions, Dr...
- Honorary President and Trustee, 1998–present - Gary Torre - Honorary Trustee, 2001–present
See also
- SustainabilitySustainabilitySustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
- BiodiversityBiodiversityBiodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...
- Global warmingGlobal warmingGlobal warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
- EcologyEcologyEcology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
- EcosystemEcosystemAn ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....
- Earth ScienceEarth scienceEarth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences...
- Natural environmentNatural environmentThe natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
- NatureNatureNature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
- Conservation MovementConservation movementThe conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future....
- Conservation ethicConservation ethicConservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to...
External links
- The Sierra Club Foundation - Official website
- The Sierra Club - Official website