Platinum-level sponsorship of grantee's annual Capital Conservation Awards Dinner April 26, 2017 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
Sponsorship of grantee's 5th annual Americas Latino Eco-Festival (ALEF)
2017
Environment
$5,000
The Chicago Community Foundation
Support for the Network for Good, a project of the grantee’s Donor-Advised Fund: Capacity Building Fund, to develop and deliver a capacity-building program to grantees working across the Gulf Coast.
Support to protect and restore rivers in the Colorado River basin and to advance partnerships with the agricultural community to promote water sharing transactions in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
To work with other universities and the state-federal partnership known as the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Taskforce (HTF) to improve measurement of the impact of agricultural conservation practices on water quality
To support grantee's initiative to defend against efforts intended to undermine the use of independent science to protect the environment.
2017
Environment
$200,000
University of Notre Dame Du Lac
To develop a pilot project to demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of combining cover crops, a soil health building practice, with two-stage ditches, a trap and treat practice
Continued support for the Colorado River Research Group to collaborate and develop solutions related to the future water management challenges facing the Colorado River basin; and support for the University of Colorado Getches-Wilkinson Center’s June conferences
To expand the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database to include major fisheries globally with an emphasis on increasing the inclusion of fish stocks in Mexico, Peru and Chile and to integrate with other databases providing stock information to increase overall global coverage of fish stocks
Support to implement riparian restoration on private lands in the Escalante River, one of the foundation’s priority tributaries in the Colorado River basin
