Resources Legacy Fund

For Support Of The Center For Western Priorities

  • Amount
    $1,000,000
  • Program
  • Date Awarded
    10/6/2017
  • Term
    24.0 Months
  • Type of Support
    General Support/Program
Overview
This grant will support the Center for Western Priorities, a project of the Resources Legacy Fund. The Center works to encourage open, public debate about conservation policy issues and works to advance those discussions online, in the news media, and throughout Western communities by sharing original research and reports.
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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