Resources Legacy Fund
For The Dams And Rivers Fund
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Amount$50,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/22/2016
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Term120.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This grant to the Resources Legacy Fund will support a 10-year fund aimed at preserving significant ecological places by restoring the integrity of rivers through dam removal. The fund will be created to honor the Hewlett Foundation’s 50th anniversary, and to recognize its longstanding commitment to western conservation. The work supported by the fund will focus on dam removal projects that are critical to landscape integrity and climate resilience. Over the 10-year period of the fund, the Resources Legacy Fund will identify projects that help ensure the health of western waterways and the species that depend on them.
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)
