Resources Legacy Fund
For Support Of The California Water Foundation
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/13/2014
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
California’s current drought is focusing public and decision makers’ attention to California’s precarious water supplies, especially groundwater supplies. This grant to the Resources Legacy Fund would support the work of its California Water Foundation in its efforts to reform the way groundwater is managed in the state. Currently, there is no regulation of groundwater pumping in California, leading to major aquifers, especially in the Central Valley, being depleted. The Foundation will work for groundwater reform by educating policymakers and the public, devising policy alternatives to the current system, and seeking new sources of groundwater management funding.
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)
