Resources Legacy Fund
For A Public-private California Conservation Initiative
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/1/2021
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Resources Legacy Fund builds alliances that advance bold solutions to secure a just and resilient world for people and nature. This grant supports a public-private partnership between the fund’s hosted Environmental Systems Research Institute and the state of California to provide research capacity, planning, public engagement, and communications toward the development of a framework for the state to significantly advance biodiversity protection, natural and working lands conservation, equitable access to nature and the outdoors, climate resilience, food security, and economic sustainability by 2030. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.resourceslegacyfund.org
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)
