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 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)
