Did you know that California foundations gave twenty-nine percent of all U.S. foundation giving for the environment? Some of our big environmental funders include the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Energy Foundation, and Marisla Foundation. To glean more tidbits download our brand new 2-page report, Spotlight on Funding for the Environment and Animals in California.
You also should check out two grantmaker conversations in our Philanthropy News Digest (PND). PND staff interviewed Steven J. McCormick, president and CEO of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, about his tenure at the Nature Conservancy, his new role and responsibilities at the foundation, its approach to environmental grantmaking, and the challenges facing environmental philanthropy. And David Grant, president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in New Jersey, spoke with PND about the history of the foundation's environment program, its forward-thinking approach to grantmaking in the environment area, and what the foundation is doing to make itself a greener organization.
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