Resources Legacy Fund

For The Conservation Litigation Project

  • Amount
    $120,000
  • Program
  • Date Awarded
    4/13/2020
  • Term
    4.0 Months
  • Type of Support
    General Support/Program
Overview
Resources Legacy Fund’s Conservation Litigation project works with a network of expert academics and partner organizations to advance legal scholarship and analysis in support of conservation of public lands and water and related wildlife policies. The project organizes and facilitates the filing, by academics, of comments in administrative proceedings and amicus briefs in critical litigation. The project raises the profile of legal issues related to public lands for both legal and general audiences. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Defend Public Lands.)
About the Grantee
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 Bear Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition communications  
This Organizational Effectiveness grant supports the communications needs 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. (Western Conservation Sub-strategy: Building the Conditions for Enduring Conservation)
for wildfire strategies  
Resources Legacy Fund works for the conservation of land, ocean, and water resources; climate change resilience; and conservation funding and policies that benefit all communities. This grant, which is funded by the Western Conservation grantmaking program and the Climate Change Initiative, supports RLF’s work to accelerate wildfire resilience in Western states and nationwide. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Solutions and the Climate Change Initiative)

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