Resources Legacy Fund

For The Dams And Rivers Fund

  • Amount
    $50,000,000
  • Program
  • Date Awarded
    3/22/2016
  • Term
    120.0 Months
  • Type of Support
    Project
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
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)

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