Colorado College
For The State Of The Rockies 2012 Conservation In The West Poll
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Amount$175,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/3/2011
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
As part of Foundation efforts to broaden the base of support for land and water conservation and clean energy initiatives throughout the western United States, Hewlett funded a first-of-its kind bi-partisan public opinion poll in five Rocky Mountain states in 2011. The poll showed that residents shared a range of pro-environmental values across race, political party, geography, and other divisions. Hewlett grantees and other advocacy organizations throughout the West found the 2011 poll results to be very helpful in building support amongst decision-makers for an array of conservation and clean energy policies, and asked that we conduct the poll annually. A project grant to Colorado College will allow the college to host the poll, this time expanded to six western states. Colorado College will work with Western Conservation Foundation and other media and web consultants and NGOs to widely distribute the findings of the poll in each state. The pollsters and other and key spokespeople will conduct briefings for decision-makers. The poll serves as an advocacy tool while at the same time helps establish baselines from which to evaluate the impact of Hewlett grantee's work in the West.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
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Address
14 East Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for public opinion research
Colorado College’s State of the Rockies project seeks to increase public understanding of vital issues affecting the U.S. West. This grant supports State of the Rockies’ annual Conservation in the West Poll, an Intermountain West-wide poll of attitudes toward national public lands and water issues. (Substrategy: Build the Conditions for Enduring Conservation)
for public opinion research
Colorado College’s State of the Rockies project seeks to increase public understanding of vital issues affecting the Rocky Mountain West. This renewal grant will support State of the Rockies’ annual Conservation in the West Poll, an Intermountain-wide poll of attitudes toward national public lands and water issues. (Substrategy: Build the Conditions for Enduring Conservation)
for public opinion research
This renewal grant will support Colorado College’s annual State of the Rockies poll, an Intermountain-wide bipartisan poll of attitudes toward energy development and land conservation on public lands. This public poll has been conducted annually since 2011 and has become a very effective tool in communicating the attitudes of Westerners to policymakers.
