Resources Legacy Fund
For The Western Energy Project
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Amount$325,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/6/2017
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The Resources Legacy Fund’s Western Energy Project seeks to protect ecologically-significant and culturally important national public lands in the American West. This renewal grant will support the Project’s efforts to ensure that energy development is appropriately located and incorporates protections for our water, air, land, and wildlife, as well as opportunities for Americans to enjoy our public lands.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.resourceslegacyfund.org
Address
400 Capitol Mall, Suite 2150, Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Resources Legacy Fund is a nonprofit organization that partners with leaders in philanthropy, communities, government, science, and business to promote smart policies and secure equitable public funding for the environment, climate change resilience, and healthy communities. Across the Western U.S. and internationally, it manages large, multiyear grantmaking programs and fiscally sponsors projects that accelerate change toward environmental and equity goals. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)
for the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
Resources Legacy Fund is a nonprofit organization that partners with leaders in philanthropy, communities, government, science, and business to promote smart policies and secure equitable public funding for the environment, climate change resilience, and healthy communities. This grant supports the ongoing collaboration, communications, and planning efforts of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, for which the Resources Legacy Fund serves as fiscal sponsor. Leaders from five Tribes founded the coalition in 2015, representing a historic consortium of sovereign Tribal nations united in the effort to conserve the Bears Ears cultural landscape. (Substrategy: Indigenous-Led Conservation)
