GRANTS 1998-2010

Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
David Weisman, Filmmaker
Post Office Box 1328
San Luis Obispo, California 93406-1328
davidweisman@charter.net
www.a4nr.org
805-772-7077tel/fax

• September 2007: $3500 toward producing a documentary film about the economic cost, environmental hazard, and national security risk of nuclear energy.

American Farmland Trust
Blair Fitzsimons, Texas Advisor for Policy and Program Development
4040 Broadway, Suite 430
San Antonio, Texas 78209
bcf@sanpedroranch.com
www.farmland.org
210-828-7484tel
210-828-5091fax

• September 1999: $3000 toward startup of the Texas office, as an effort to slow the breakup of Texas ranches and farms and the fragmentation of the habitat they protect.

• September 2000: $5000 for the Bandera County Cost of Community Services study, which explores the financial cost of sprawl.

• March 2001:  $2500 for the Bandera County Cost of Community Services study.

• September 2001: $4000 for the Bandera County Cost of Community Services study.

• March 2002: $4000 for open lands protection efforts in Texas, much of which is focused currently on getting public awareness and support for Purchase of Development Rights (PDRs).  Authorization and funding for PDRs would allow the state or other governmental bodies to invest in conservation easements protecting open space, habitat, and watershed found on private lands, which make up more than 95% of Texas land area.

• March 2003:  $2500 for Texas land conservation policy work.

• September 2004:  $3000 for advocating Purchase of Development Rights policy in Texas.

• March 2005:  $3000 for continued work on building support and understanding for PDRs in Texas.

• March 2006: $3700 for further work on protecting Texas farm and ranchlands from breakup and dissolution.

• September 2007:  $4750 for American Farmland Trust programs in Texas.

• September 2008:  $5000 for continued support for Trust efforts in Texas.

Artspace Projects Incorporated
Wendy Holmes Nelson
Vice President for Resource Development
528 Hennepin Ave Suite 404
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
wendy@artspaceprojects.org
www.artspaceprojects.org
612-333-9012 ext.117tel
612-333-9089fax

• September 1999: $5000 for Artspace National Conference in Galveston, where ways of developing space for artists' studios and galleries were discussed. These spaces can have a good effect on artists' careers, on a city's culture, and on compact, inner-city development.

Audubon Texas*
Anne Brown , Executive Director
2904 Swiss Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75204-5910
abrown@audubon.org
www.tx.audubon.org
214-370-9735tel
214-370-8527fax

• December 1998: $2500 for environmental education promotion

• March 2000: $5000 for Facts about Texas Birds, Wildlife, and Habitat, an environmental issue guide for public policymakers in Texas.

• March 2007: $5000 for the Quail and Grassland Birds Initiative, an effort to restore mixed grassland habitat in Texas, through prairie grass and forb replanting, prescribed burning, and other methods.

*Formerly known as the Texas Audubon Society.

Austin College
Center for Environmental Studies
Dr. Peter Schulze, Director
900 North Grand Avenue
Sherman, Texas 75090
pschulze@austincollege.edu
www.austincollege.edu
903-813-2284tel
903-813-2420fax

• September 2004:  $3000 in support for pavilion improvements at the Sneed native prairie that would allow for better access, interpretation and appreciation of the site.

Austin Community Foundation*
MariBen Ramsey, Associate Director
Post Office Box 5159
Austin, Texas 78763
mbramsey@austincommunityfoundation.com
www.austincommunityfoundation.org
www.hillcountryconservancy.org
www.srccaustin.com
www.interfaithenvironment.org
512-472-4483tel
512-472-4486fax

• September 2000: $1000 for general support of the Hill Country Conservancy*, a land trust focused on the Austin area.
  
  
• September 2005: $3000 for a neighborhood association, the South River City Citizens, and their effort to restore the 100-year old, inner-city Stacy Park, which has suffered from stream erosion, soil compaction, and nonnative plant invasion.



• September 2009: $2250 for general support of the Interfaith Environmental Network of Austin, which seeks to bring a message of conservation to congregations' liturgy, education, outreach, and service.
  

* The Hill Country Conservancy is now an independent group and can be reached directly c/o George Cofer, HCC Executive Director; 3306 Gentry Drive; Austin 78746-5507.

Austin Metropolitan Ministries
Susan Wills
2026 Guadalupe, Suite 226
Austin, Texas 78705
amm@prismnet.com
512-472-7627tel
512-472-5274fax

March 2001:  $3750 for the Texas Impact* project, an effort to bring together members of various faiths in progressive causes for environmental protection, public health care, and educational reform.

* This project was later reorganized as an independent non-profit, Texas Impact (see below).  

Austin Parks Foundation
Rosie Weaver, Outreach Director
701 Brazos Street, Suite 170
Austin, Texas 78701
rweaver@austinparks.org
www.austinparks.org
512-477-1566tel
512-477-1586fax

• September 2004: $3000 in general support for the Austin Parks Foundation, which seeks to create a community of responsible volunteers who will provide stewardship, education and advocacy for local parkland.
• September 2007: $3500 for restoration of the City of Austin properties, Stacy Park and Blunn Preserve, particularly through exotic plant removal and replacement with native vegetation.

Balanced Ecology
Orie Gilad, Ph.D., Executive Director
315 Danzig Drive
Kempner, Texas 76539
orie.gilad@balancedecology.org
www.balancedecology.org
254-488-4642tel
254-488-4642fax

• September 2009: $2500 for the Texas Mountain Lion Project, which seeks to study and find protected habitat and public support for these animals, which are not currently covered under game or endangered species regulation.

Bastrop County Environmental Network
Ann Mesrobian, Conservation Chair
Post Office Box 1069
Bastrop, Texas 78602
bcen@bastrop.com
www.bcen.org
512-321-3535tel
512-360-3045fax

• September 2000: $5000 for the Texas Water Council, an effort to promote the more responsible and efficient use of Texas water, particularly groundwater.

• March 2001: $2500 for education regarding Texas groundwater law, resources, use and control proposals, and various other policy issues.

Bat Conservation International
Amy Price
Post Office Box 162603
Austin, Texas 78716
aprice@batcon.org
www.batcon.org
512-327-9721tel
512-327-9724fax

• December 1998: $1000 for protection of Mexican migratory bats.
  
  September 2000: $3000 for the artificial roosts project, an effort to find replacement shelter for bats, as tree cavities, caves, and other natural roosts are lost.

• September 2001: $3000 for Texas bat programs.

• March 2002: $4000 for the artificial roosts project.

• September 2003: $3000 for the artificial roosts project.

• March 2004: $2500 for the artificial roosts project.

• March 2005:  $3000 for the artificial roosts project.

• September 2006:  $5000 for the artificial roosts project.

• September 2007:  $4750 for the artificial roosts project, focusing on providing shelter for the rare Rafinesque's big-eared bat and southeastern Miyotis bat.

• September 2009:  $2500 for White-Nose Syndrome study and protective measures.  The Syndrome is associated with a fungus and has wiped out up to 95% of hibernating bats in contaminated colonies in the Northeastern U.S., and is spreading west and south.

• July 2010:  $4000 for White-Nose Syndrome responses and for participation in the revision of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Conservation Strategy process, to help raise awareness and priority for bat protection.

Bexar Audubon Society
Tajana Terauds
Post Office Box 6084
San Antonio, Texas 78209-0084
tatjana@wordwright.com
210-375-1777tel

• March 2001:  $5000, including $2500 for a Farm and Ranch Forum to explore the environmental and financial aspects to agriculture in south Texas, and  $2500 for organizing and conducting a seminar for the San Antonio Environmental Network on genetic engineering and its economic and environmental consequences.

Bexar Land Trust
Julie Koppenheffer , Executive Director
Post Office Box 15677
San Antonio, Texas 78212
juliekoppenheffer@sbcglobal.net
www.bexarlandtrust.org
210-222-8430tel
210-720-3864fax

• September 2000: $1000 for general support of the Bexar Land Trust, which focuses on habitat and open space conservation in the San Antonio area.

• March 2001:  $2500 for general support of the Trust.

• March 2002: $5000 for general support of the Texas Land Trust Council (formerly sponsored by the Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas, and described in more detail below at that entry).

• March 2003: $2500 for general support of the Texas Land Trust Council (since spun off as an independent non-profit coporation).

Big Thicket Association
Maxine Johnston, Board Member
Post Office Box 198
Saratoga, Texas 77585-0198
johnmx@quik.com
www.bigthicket.org
936-262-8522tel/fax

• September 2006: $3000 for the Big Thicket Science Conference, number IV, a meeting to discuss and better understand the ecological behavior and protection needs of this diverse area of southeast Texas. The Conference will be held in Beaumont, Texas, March 22-25, 2007.
  
  
• September 2007: $5000 for the Thicket of Diversity project, an all-taxa inventory of flora and fauna in the Big Thicket.

Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust
Ellen Buchanan, President
206 Amanda Court
Whitehouse, Texas 75791
ellen.buchanan@tpwd.state.tx.us
www.btatx.org/BTNHT
903-566-0535, x.232tel

• March 2006: $3000 for land protection efforts to benefit the Big Thicket, the biologically rich area of southeastern Texas composed of some 3 million acres of pinelands, bottomland hardwoods, and swamps that is increasingly threatened by suburban sprawl, timber company divestment, road construction and dam proposals.

Blackwood Educational Land Institute
Cath A. Conlon, Founder and Director
PO Box 271347
Houston, Texas 77277-1347
cathbkwood@aol.com
www.blackwoodland.com
832-721-4711tel
979-826-8357fax

• September 2005: $3000 for supporting a 3-day Bioneers conference in Houston, connected by satellite uplink with the main California meeting, and hosting local discussions regarding creative ideas for sustainable development.

Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Anne Olson, Conservation Director
1113 Vine Street, Suite 200
Houston, Texas 77002
aolson@buffalobayou.org
www.buffalobayou.org
713-752-0314tel
713-223-3500fax

• September 2005: $3000 for a native plant demonstration as part of redevelopment of a 10-acre site on the East End of downtown Houston, including a hike-and-bike trail, canoe access point, Bayou overlook site, prairie and wetland area.

• September 2008: $5000 for general support of the Partnership.

Caddo Lake Institute
Rick Lowerre, President
707 Rio Grande, Suite 200
Austin, Texas 78701-2733
info@caddolake.us
www.caddolakeinstitute.us
512-482-9345tel
512-482-9346fax

• March 2004: $2500 for participation in efforts to protect environmental water flows to Caddo Lake.

• September 2007: $5000 for general support of the Institute's work on ensuring that the Lake and its wetlands receive adequate freshwater and nutrients while they are protected from mercury and other contaminants.

Center for Public Democracy
DBA Campaigns for People
Fred Lewis, Executive Director
700 West Avenue
Austin, Texas 78701
info@campaignsforpeople.org
www.campaignsforpeople.org
512-472-1007tel
512-451-5000fax

• March 2000: $7500 for a Texas journalism workshop on money and politics.

• September 2001: $7000 for the Sunset Commission's review of the Texas Ethics Commission, which critics contend has basic structural problems that have discouraged it from giving effective oversight to the Texas political campaigns.  For instance, the TEC has heard over 800 complaints in its 10-year life, but has never audited a campaign, never subpoenaed a witness or documents, never made a criminal referral, and has held only one public enforcement hearing.

• March 2002: $7000 for a poll regarding Texans' attitudes about campaign finance reform.

• September 2003: $4875 for campaign finance disclosure education focused on environmental supporters.

Center for Y2K and Society
C/O The Tides Center
Norman Dean, CYS Executive Director
Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Presidio Building 1014
San Francisco, California 94129
norm@coopamerica.org
www.y2kcenter.org
415-561-6400tel

• March 1999: $2500 for Texas industry Y2K preparations regarding concerns that computer software errors might cause plant upsets and pollution discharges.

CERES, Inc.
Claudia Thompson
Director of Planning and Development
11 Arlington Street
Boston, Massachusetts 2116
thompson@ceres.org
www.ceres.org
617-247-0700tel
612-267-5400fax

• December 1998: $1000 toward Texas companies' endorsement of the CERES Principles, a set of corporate environmental cost accounting and disclosure guidelines.

Chatham Hall
Sarah Perkins
Director of the Annual Fund
800 Chatham Hall Circle
Chatham, Virginia 24531
sperkins@chathamhall.org
www.chathamhall.org
804-432-2941tel
804-432-4756fax

• March 1999: $5000 for the annual fund of this girl's boarding school, in honor of the Class of 1949.

Citizens' Environmental Coalition Education Fund
Justus Baird
Post Office Box 27579
Houston, TX 77227-7579
issues@cechouston.org
713-523-4232tel

• March 2001:  $2000 for helping the Coalition organize a meeting to explore the environmental and economic ramifications of genetic engineering.

• September 2003: $4375 for the CEC Update, an emailed environmental newsletter covering Houston, Galveston, and Austin.

Clean Water Fund of Texas
David Foster, Project Manager
715 West 23rd Street, Suite R
Austin, Texas 78705
dfoster@cleanwater.org
www.cleanwater.org
512-474-0605tel
512-474-7024fax

• March 2000: $7500 for linking lists of environmental donors and voters in Texas, in order to help inform their participation in governmental decisions.

• September 2008: $5000 for research and reporting on water conservation opportunities in Texas.

Conservation Fund - Texas Office
Julie Shackelford, Texas Programs Director
101 West 6th Street, Suite 601
Austin, Texas 78701
julieshackelford@aol.com
www.conservationfund.org
512-477-1712tel
512-477-3316fax

• March 2001: $2500 for general support of the Texas office, which acquires land in the state to entrust to governmental agencies for habitat protection.

• September 2001:  $3000 for the Texas Forest Lands Initiative, which aims to buy and protect portions of commercial woodland, chiefly those of International Paper, which have recently come on the market.

• March 2004: $4000 for the Texas Forest Lands Initiative, which seeks to build on the recent acquisition of the 33,000-acre Middle Neches River corridor, and work toward conservation of 60,000 acres within the Piney Woods of east Texas.

• September 2004: $3000 for continuing support of the Texas Forest Lands Initiative, including land acquisition in the Big Thicket National Preserve.

• September 2005: $5000 for additional support of the Texas Forest Lands Initiative, towards acquisition of 60,000 acres of forested wetlands and future parkland along the Neches River in east Texas.

• September 2006: $5000 for general support of the Texas office of the Conservation Fund.

• March 2008: $5000 for general support of the Texas office of the Conservation Fund.

• September 2009:  $2500 for protecting timberlands in east Texas, where 3.34 million acres of forest have changed hands since 2000, raising concerns about habitat fragmentation, residential development, and erosion of the paper and wood products economy.

Conservation History
Association of Texas*
David Todd, Coordinator
1304 Mariposa Drive, Unit 211
Austin, Texas 78704-4404
dtodd@wt.org
www.texaslegacy.org
512-416-0400tel
512-416-0900fax

• March 1999: $2500 for Texas conservation history research, interview, archive, and documentary work.

• March 2000: $4508 for general support.

• March 2001: $5000 for general support.

• September 2001: $5000 for general support.

• March 2003:  $2500 for general support.

• September 2003: $3000 for general support.

* Formerly a project of the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission .

Consumers Union
Southwest Regional Office
Lisa McGiffert
Senior Policy Analyst on Health Issues
506 West 14th Street, Suite A
Austin, Texas 78701
mcgili@consumer.org
www.consumer.org
512-477-4431tel
512-477-8934fax

• March 1999: $5500 to help ensure that conversion foundations, the grantmaking institutions created by the privatization of formerly non-profit insurers and hospitals, continue their mandate for health protection.

• September 2001: $3000 to support CU's participation in genetic engineering policy discussions convened by Texas A&M University and the Texas Medical Association.

Council for Responsible Genetics
Sujatha Byravan, Executive Director
5 Upland Road, Suite 3
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
crg@gene-watch.org
www.gene-watch.org
617-868-0870tel
617-491-5344fax

• March 1999: $2500 for education about biotechnology's moral, health and environmental impacts.

• March 2001: $2000 for outreach regarding biotechnology.

• September 2001: $2000 for biotechnology discussions on the national level.

Downwinders Education Fund
Becky Bornhorst, Co-Chair
Post Office Box 763844
Dallas, Texas 75376
beckybo@hotmail.com
www.downwindersatrisk.org
972-293-8300tel
972-293-8400fax

• March 2000: $5000 for air quality work in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, which is in non-attainment for traditional air pollutant standards, and also suffers from more exotic pollution related to hazardous waste incineration.

Earth Share of Texas
Edie Muehlberger and Max Woodfin, Directors
707 West Avenue, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78701
estx@earthshare-texas.org
http://earthshare-texas.org
512-472-5518tel
512-472-4930fax

• March 1999: $4000 for radio and print outreach to promote workplace giving to over 70 Texas environmental organizations.

• March 2002: $3000 for general support of Earth Share of Texas.

• September 2003: $3000 for general support.

• September 2004: $3000 for general support.

• September 2007: $1750 for support of Earth Share of Texas' Texas Environmental Grantmakers Group (Texas EGG), particularly Texas EGG's efforts to find solutions to slow and reduce climate change. Texas EGG (www.texasegg.org) is a loose coalition of Texas community, corporate and family foundations convened under the Earth Share of Texas umbrella which meets to discuss environmental problems and opportunities.

• September 2009:  $3500 in total, with $2500 for general support of Earth Share of Texas, as a tribute to Ann Hamilton, veteran conservationist, and $1000 for support of the Texas Environmental Grantmakers Group.

Earthspan
William S. Seegar, Board Chairman
1450 South Rolling Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21227
jkrill@earthworksaction.org
www.earthworksaction.org
410-961-6692tel
410-455-5923fax

• September 2004: $3000 for support of the annual Padre Island Peregrine Falcon survey, to help track the Falcon's numbers and overall population health following its recent delisting as an endangered species. 

Earthworks
Jennifer Krill, Executive Director
1612 K Street, NW, Suite 808
Washington, D.C. 20006
wsseegar@aol.com
www.earthspan.org
410-961-6692tel
410-455-5923fax

• July 2010: $4000 for the Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project, which is focused on ensuring the safety of petroleum development from shale deposits, where there have been problems with air pollution, groundwater contamination, and excessive water use.

Ecological Recovery Foundation
Helen Besse , Executive Director
2525 Wallingwood, Suite 705P
Austin, Texas 78746
springsoftexas@sbcglobal.net
512-327-6915tel
512-327-6915fax

• March 2002: $3000 for editing, printing and distributing Springs of Texas, Volume II, a review of the location, quality, flow rates, and threats facing 1500 springs  in the state, as an update to and expansion of Volume I, first produced by Gunnar Brune in 1981.

• March 2004: $4000 for continued work on Volume II of Springs of Texas.

• March 2005:  $3000 for further efforts on the Springs of Texas, Volume II.

• March 2008:  $5000 for the Springs of Texas project.

Edwards Plateau Prescribed Burning Association
Butch Taylor, Professor
Post Office Box 918
Sonora, Texas 76950
angora@sonoratx.net
www.ranchmanagement.org/eppba/
325-387-3168tel
325-387-5045fax

• March 2009: $4750 for support of prescribed burning in central Texas, to help control encroachment of ashe juniper and other woody species, to restore the diverse open savanna once found there, and to control wildfire risk.

Environmental Defense*
Texas Office
Jim Marston, Texas Regional Director
44 East Avenue, Suite 304
Austin, Texas 78701
jmarston@environmentaldefense.org
www.environmentaldefense.org
512-691-3402tel
512-478-8140fax

• March 2000: $7500 for air pollution efforts in the state, including work to build new renewable energy sources, to require full disclosure of fuel sources to utility customers, and to help implement nitrogen oxide reductions from grandfathered utilities.

• September 2000: $7500 for water conservation in Texas through more realistic pricing and other market-based methods.

• March 2001: $2500 for the Texas Safe Harbor, which seeks to encourage private landowners to undertake experimental conservation efforts to benefit endangered species, particularly the golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo, without fear of governmental prosecution if these efforts fail.

• September 2001: $2500 for promoting construction of additional renewable energy facilities in Texas.

• March 2003: $2500 for educational assistance to the Texas Groundwater Conservation Districts.

• March 2004: $2500 for the Forgotten River Chronicle, a series of videotaped oral history interviews, and related publications and documentaries, recording and protesting the decline of the Rio Grande's reach between Fort Quitman and Big Bend National Park, where diversions and salt cedar have largely dried up the river.



• September 2004: $3000 for a partnership with the Gulf of Mexico shrimping industry to seek ways to protect habitat, sea turtles, fish and other marine life, while increasing the net value of the wild shrimp catch.
  
  
• September 2005: $3000 for help with maps and incentives that would encourage and guide ocelot recovery on private lands in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
  
  
• September 2006: $5000 for promoting renewable energy from wind, solar, and other non-fossil sources, efficiency in electricity use , and development of IGCC "clean coal" technologies.
  
  
• March 2008: $5000 for research and advocacy of renewable energy in Texas.
  
  
• September 2009: $2500 for the Pecan Street Project, a partnership between the Austin municipal utility, the University of Texas, the Austin Chamber, and 11 national companies to create a smart electrical grid, featuring an interconnected, distributed generation system.

Environment Texas Research and Policy Center
Luke Metzger, President
815 Brazos Street, Suite 600B
Austin, Texas 78701
luke@environmenttexas.org
www.environmenttexas.org
512-479-0388tel
512-479-0400fax

• September 2007: $4750 toward climate change mitigation, including research, coalition-building, media outreach, activist-organizing, and meetings with decisionmakers and opinion leaders.

• September 2008:  $5000 for continued work on climate change policy in Texas.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
Rachel Goldstein, Development Manager
55 Exchange Place, Suite 405
New York, NY 10005-2655
rgoldstein@ega.org
www.ega.org
646-747-2655tel
646-747-2656fax

• March 2008: $3000 for the State of the States Briefing, a two-day review of state and regional grantmaking efforts focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation held in Austin in February 2008.

Environmental Integrity Project
Ilan Levin, Counsel
1002 West Avenue, Suite 300
Austin, Texas 78701
ilevin@environmentalintegrity.org
www.environmentalintegrity.org
512-619-7287tel
512-479-8302fax

• March 2007: $5000 for support of the Texas office in its work to promote cleaner alternatives to Texas' traditional pulverized coal power plants that contribute heavily to the state's sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon dioxide emissions.

Environmental Stewardship
Steve Box, Executive Director
Post Office Box 1423
Bastrop, Texas 78602
Steve.Box@att.net
www.environmental-stewardship.org
512-300-6609tel
512-321-3045fax

• September 2008:  $3000 for work protecting surface waters and aquifers in the Colorado River basin.

  March 2010:  $3500 for continued work on the waters of the Colorado River basin.

Forest Conservation Council
John Talberth
Post Office Box 22488
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502-2488
jtalberth@cybermesa.com
505-986-1163tel
505-820-0079fax

• September 2001: $3000 for a study of the benefits and costs of logging in the national forests of Texas.

• March 2002: $4000 for completing and distributing the Texas national forests logging study.

Forest Stewards Guild*
Mary Chapman, Executive Director
P.O. Box 519
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8309
mary@foreststewardsguild.com
www.foreststewardsguild.com
505-983-8992,x.21tel
505-986-0798fax

• September 2000: $3250 for a study and tour of forest fragmentation in Texas.

* Formerly a project of the Forest Trust .

Forest Trust
Henry Carey, Director
Post Office Box 519
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0519
foresttrust@igc.org
www.theforesttrust.org
505-983-8992tel
505-986-0798fax

• September 1999: $3000 for the Forest Stewards Guild's efforts to interconnect and educate the more conscientious forest landowners and managers in Texas. The Forest Trust later spun off the Forest Stewards Guild as an independent organization.

Friends of the Brazos River
Ed Lowe, President
6336 Goliad
Dallas, Texas 75214
edlowe@celebratoinrestaurant.com
www.friendsofthebrazos.org
214-358-0612tel
214-904-1716fax

• March 2008: $4000 for protection of adequate instream flows in the Brazos River to support riverine and estuarine life.

Friends of the Texas Historical Commission
Linda Lee, Executive Director
Post Office Box 13497
Austin, Texas 78711
friends@thc.state.tx.us
www.thc.state.tx.us
512-457-8090tel
512-463-3571fax

• December 1998: $2000 for Texas conservation history research, later organized as an independent effort of the Conservation History Association of Texas.

Friends of the West 11th Street Park
Lorraine M. Cherry, President
6046 Woodbrook Lane
Houston, Texas 77008
west_11th_st_park@earthlink.net
www.west11thstreetpark.org
713-868-1549tel
866-295-6181fax

• September 2007: $1750 towards acquisition of a 20-acre woodland park, noted for its intact and diverse flora and fauna, in inner-city Houston.

Galveston Bay Conservation and Preservation Association
Jim Blackburn, Chair
Post Office Box 323
Seabrook, Texas 77586
jbb@blackburncarter.com
www.gbcpa.net
281-326-3343tel
281-236-3312fax

• March 2003:  $2500 for protection of Trinity River instream flows, which are threatened by dams and diversions.

• March 2004:  $2400 for continued work protecting the Trinity River's instream flows.

• March 2005:  $3000 for a citizens' State of the Bay conference to explore and address threats and opportunities facing Galveston Bay.

Galveston Houston Association for
Smog Prevention
Sabrina Strawn, Executive Director
3100 Richmond Avenue, Suite 309
Houston, Texas 77098-3015
strawn@ghasp.org
www.ghasp.org
713-528-3779tel
713-526-0550fax

• March 2000: $5000 for work to reduce air pollution in the Galveston/Houston area, which suffers from the worst air quality in the nation.
  
  
• September 2005: $5000 for community education, media outreach and policy advocacy for smog prevention, focusing on reducing impacts from the world's largest petrochemical complex.

Gladys Porter Zoo
Patrick Burchfield, Deputy Director-Zoologist
500 Ringgold Street
Brownsville, Texas 78520
ridley@gpz.org
www.gpz.org
956-546-7187tel
956-546-5703fax

• September 2005: $3000 for work to protect populations of and establish new nesting sites for the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle.

Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
Dennis Neffendorf
501 West Felix Street, FWFC Building 23
Fort Worth, Texas 76115-3494
dennis.neffendorf@ftw.nrcs.usda.gov
www.glci.org
817-509-3225tel
817-509-3210fax

• March 2001: $2500 for support of a Texas Chapter of the Initiative.

Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance
Annalisa Peace, Executive Director
Post Office Box 15618
San Antonio, Texas 78212
annalisa@aquiferalliance.org
www.aquiferalliance.org
210-320-6294tel
210-320-6298fax

• March 2006: $4000 for general support of the Alliance, which seeks to coordinate and support efforts by over 30 local groups to protect the purity and flow of the Edwards Aquifer.  The Aquifer provides the sole source of drinking water for many communities, including San Antonio, in an area stretching from Uvalde to San Marcos.
  
  
• March 2007: $5000 for general support of the Alliance.
  
  
• March 2008: $5000 for continued general support of the Alliance.

Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
Cecilia Riley, Executive Director
103 West Highway 332
Lake Jackson, Texas 77566
criley@gcbo.org
www.gcbo.org
979-480-0999tel
979-480-0777fax

• September 2004: $3000 for general support of the Observatory's efforts to coordinate migratory bird monitoring and habitat protection in Gulf coastal regions of the U.S., Mexico and Cuba.

• March 2006 : $3000 for the 10th annual Great Texas Birding Classic, a bird count competition that draws wide participation among birders, strong coverage from the press, and critically-needed financial support for birds and their habitat along the Texas coast.

Hawkwatch International
Emilie Turner
2240 South 900 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84106
eturner@hawkwatch.org
www.hawkwatch.org
801-484-6808tel
801-484-6810fax

• September 2005: $3000 for help with monitoring of raptor migrations through Smith Point and Corpus Christi on the Texas coast.
  
  
• September 2008:  $3000 for raptor monitoring in Texas.

Hill Country Alliance
Christy Muse, Executive Director
15315 West Highway 71
Austin, Texas 78669
christy@hillcountryalliance.org
www.hillcountryalliance.org
512-560-3135tel

• March 2006: $3000 for general support of the Alliance, which works to preserve open space, water supply, water quality and the unique character of the rapidly-developing Texas Hill Country.


• March 2007: $5000 for continued general support of the Alliance.

Hill Country Land Trust
Bart English, President
Post Office Box 1724
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624
landtrust@hughes.net
www.hillcountrylandtrust.org
830-997-0027tel/fax

• September 2000: $1000 for general support of the Hill Country Land Trust, which focuses on habitat and open space protection in central Texas.

Holistic Resource Management of Texas
Peggy Jones, Executive Secretary
5 Limestone Trail
Wimberly, Texas 78676
hrmoftx@earthlink.net
www.hrm-texas.org
512-847-3822tel
512-858-2761tel

• December 1998: $1000 for HRM field days and workshops, to teach ways of managing land that better integrate financial and ecological concerns.

• September 1999: $3000 for general operating support of HRM of Texas.

• September 2001: $1500 for general support.

• March 2002: $1000 for general support.

• March 2004: $2500 for general support.

• September 2004: $3000 for educating land owners and managers in promoting commercial agricultural viability and biodiversity protection.

• March 2006: $4300 for educating land owners and managers in promoting commercial agricultural viability and biodiversity protection.

Houston Advanced Research Center
Bob Harriss, Director of Development
4800 Research Forest Drive
The Woodlands, Texas 77381
rharris@harc.edu
www.harc.edu
281-363-7910tel
281-363-7914fax

• September 2008: $2500 for the book, Climate Change in Texas.

Houston Audubon Society
Gina Donovan, Executive Director
440 Wilchester Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77079-7199
gdonovan@houstonaudubon.org
www.houstonaudubon.org
713-932-1639tel
713-461-2911fax

• March 2000: $1000 for the Emmott Library of materials about environmental organizations and issues in the Houston area.

• March 2001: $2500 for habitat restoration at coastal sanctuaries owned and/or managed by the Society.

• March 2003: $2500 for the Coastal Sanctuaries program, which is investing in acquiring, protecting and managing key migratory habitat along the upper Texas coast.

• September 2003: $1000 for the Coastal Sanctuaries program.

• March 2004: $2500 to support internships at the High Island sanctuary, to assist with maintenance and admissions work at the preserve.

• March 2006: $10,000 towards construction of a building to house volunteers, staff, and equipment at the Audubon coastal sanctuary on High Island.

• September 2007: $4750 for cleanup and repairs of the damage to the High Island sanctuary from Hurricanes Rita and Humberto.

• March 2009: $4250 for general support.

• September 2009:  $4250 for support of land acquisitions in the Columbia and Neches River bottomlands.

• July 2010: $6000 for matching the Graham land acquisition grant challenge, to help secure habitat in the future.

Houston Museum of Natural Sciences
Dina Kohleffel, Development Director
One Hermann Circle Drive
Houston, Texas 77030-1799
dkohleffel@hmns.org
www.hmns.org
713-639-4616tel
713-523-4125fax

• December 1998: $1000 for environmental education programming.

Houston Parks Board
Roksan Okan-Vick, AIA, Executive Director
300 North Post Oak Lane
Houston, Texas 77024
roksan@houstonparksboard.org
www.houstonparksboard.org
713-942-8500tel
713-942-7664fax

• September 2009: $5720 in total, including $3220 in general support, and as a tribute to Ann Hamilton, a leading Texas environmentalist, and $2500 for the Cullinan Park Conservancy. The Conservancy will help protect and restore a 750-acre nature preserve in the Sugarland area of Fort Bend county.
  
  
• March 2010: $3500 for the Cullinan Park Conservancy.

Houston SPCA
Alice Sarmiento
900 Portway Drive
Houston, Texas 77024
asarmiento@hspca.org
www.hspca.org
713-869-7722, ext.198tel
713-869-5857fax

• September 1999: $3000 for Houston SPCA's 75th anniversary, in memory of A.J. Wray, a former chair of the group.
  
  
• March 2007: $5000 for the Houston SPCA's Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation program which provides shelter and care for diverse wild animals, including opossums, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, birds, bears, and even exotics such as primates, bears, lions and tigers.

Houston Wilderness
Rosie Zamora, President
Post Office Box 66413
Houston, Texas 77266-6413
rozamora@houstonwilderness.org
www.houstonwilderness.org
713-524-7330tel
713-525-9600fax

• March 2005:  $3000 for preparing, printing and distributing the Passport and brochure, efforts to celebrate the diverse prairies, woodlands, and other natural areas that surround Houston.

Houston Zoo
Joseph Moore,
Director of Grants and Development Communications
1513 North MacGregor
Houston, Texas 77006
jmoore@houstonzoo.org
www.houstonzoo.org
713-533-6716tel
713-522-2823fax

• March 2005:  $3000 to support captive breeding of the highly endangered Attwater's Prairie Chicken, once common in the coastal prairies near Houston.

• March 2007: $5000 for field research on the swift fox, a rare animal native to the open prairie of the Panhandle, that is suffering from habitat loss and fragmentation, in addition to coyote predation.

• September 2008:  $5000 for a Texas recovery plan for the Louisiana black bear, which appears to be migrating back into the eastern portion of the state.

Interfaith Center on
Corporate Responsibility
Fr. Michael Hoolahan, Interim Executive Director
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1842
New York, New York 10115
mhoolahan@iccr.org
www.iccr.org
212-870-2295tel
212-870-2023fax

• December 1998: $1000 for supporting, coordinating and negotiating environmental shareholder proxy resolutions.

• March 1999: $2000 for the Foundation Partnership for Corporate Responsibility, an effort to help foundations to align their investments, proxy votes, and other policies with their grants' environmental direction.

• March 2001: $4000, including $1500 for the Foundation Partnership for Corporate Responsibility, and $2500 for the Energy and Environment Program, which presses corporations to develop better policies on climate change, environmental auditing, vendor environmental standards, and other topics.

Interfaith Environmental Network of Austin
c/o The Reverend Bo Townsend
Saint Christopher's Episcopal Church
8724 Travis Hills Drive
Austin, Texas 78735
interfaithenvironment@gmail.com
www.interfaithenvironment.org
512-288-0128tel

• September 2009: $500 for general support of this effort to expand environmental service, education, advocacy, and infrastructure improvements in the Austin faith community.

International Crane Foundation
Jeb Barzen, Director of Field Ecology
E-11376 Shady Lane Road
Post Office Box 447
Baraboo, Wisconsin 53913-0447
jeb@savingcranes.org
www.savingcranes.org
608-356-9462,x.125tel
608-356-9465fax

• March 1999: $5000 for sandhill crane research, helping track the cranes' migration from their breeding area in eastern Siberia to their wintering sites in central Texas.

• September 1999: $2200 in general support.

• March 2000: $2500 for sandhill crane research.

• September 2000: $3000 for helping with ICF's participation in the Port Aransas Crane Festival and for supporting ICF's website.

• March 2001: $1500 for sandhill crane research and protection.

• September 2001: $6000 in total, including $3000 for participation in the Port Aransas Crane Festival, and $3000 for studying and managing sandhill cranes overwintering in the area in and around Lake Lahoka in the Texas Panhandle.

• March 2002: $4000 for sandhill crane protection efforts in Texas.

• March 2003: $2500 for sandhill crane protection work.

• September 2003: $3000 for sandhill crane projects.

• March 2004: $2500 for sandhill crane projects, which increasingly focus on how to deter cranes' damage to corn and other crops in the summer breeding areas, while not in turn harming the cranes.

• March 2005:  $2500 for sandhill crane protection.

• March 2006:  $3500 for sandhill crane research, continuing to focus on simultaneously protecting cranes and corn harvests.

• September 2007: $4000 for sandhill crane programs.

• March 2009: $4750 for development of an open-source, on-line database to track crane research and conservation projects.

• March 2010: $3500 for continued development of the research database, focused on support for the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership, an effort to establish a migratory population of cranes in Florida and other parts of the eastern U.S.

Katy Prairie Land Conservancy
MaryAnne Piacentini, Executive Director
3015 Richmond Avenue, Suite 230
Houston, Texas 77098
info@katyprairie.org
www.katyprairie.org
713-523-6135tel
713-523-6145fax

• September 2000: $1000 for general support of efforts to protect the rapidly developing prairie to the west of Houston, still home to the largest wintering population of waterfowl in the nation.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Steve Windhager, Ph.D., Director of Programs
4801 La Crosse Avenue
Austin, Texas 78739
stevew@wildflower.org
www.wildflower.org
512-292-4200, x.122tel
512-292-4627fax

• March 2003: $2500 for the Landscape Restoration Program, which seeks to explore and promote alternative land recovery methods, such as prescribed burns, mowing, and reintroduction of endemic species.

• March 2004: $2500 for support of the Landscape Restoration Program.

• March 2005: $3000 for continued support of the Landscape Restoration Program.

• September 2006: $2000 for the Invaders of Texas citizen science program, an effort to enlist volunteer help from the public in identifying and controlling invasive plants in Texas. More than 100 exotic plants, including salt cedar, Chinese tallow, ligustrum, water hyacinth and many others, threaten the stability of native ecosystems in the state.

• September 2007: $4750, towards two projects:  $4000 for research on controlling invasive Old World bluestem grasses, and $750 for a Texas conference on invasive plants generally.

League of State Conservation Voter Funds
Southwest Regional Office
Andy Schultheiss
2060 Broadway, Suite 230
Boulder, CO 80302
Andy_Schultheiss@lcvef.org
www.lcvef.org
303-541-0362tel
303-449-4328fax

• December 1998: $2500 to track votes on environmental matters in the Texas Legislature. See a related gift under the Texas League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.

Legacy Land Trust
Jennifer Lorenz, Executive Director
Post Office Box 980816
Houston, Texas 77098-0816
info@LLT.org
www.llt.org
713-524-2100tel
713-524-6331fax

• December 1998: $1000 for land protection work, particularly promotion of conservation easements, in the Houston area.

• March 2001: $2500 for general support of the Trust.

Lower Laguna Madre Foundation
Walt Kittelberger, Chair
Post Office Box 153
Port Mansfield, Texas 78598
llmf@granderiver.net
www.lowerlagunamadrefoundation.com
956-944-2278tel
956-944-2387fax

• March 2008: $5000 for educational work regarding wind farm proposals for south Texas, which could cause wetland destruction and bird migration harm.

Matagorda Bay Foundation
Dale Cordray
4709 Austin Street
Houston, Texas 77004
dalecordray@blackburncarter.com
www.thearansasproject.org
713-524-1012tel
713-524-5165fax

• March 2010: $3500 to help ensure adequate freshwater inflows to Aransas Bay, critical winter habitat for the endangered whooping crane.

National Audubon Society
Population and Habitat Campaign
Patricia Waak, Senior Advisor
3109 28th Street
Boulder, Colorado 80301
pwaak@audubon.org
www.audubonpopulation.org
303-442-2600tel
303-442-2199fax

• December 1998: $1000 for population stabilization education.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Eastern Partnership Office
Peter Stangel, Director
1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200
Atlanta, Georgia 30345
stangel@nfwf.org
www.nfwf.org
404-679-7099tel
404-679-7141fax

• December 1998: $1000 towards a national birding festival directory.

• March 1999: $3000 for work with the Texas & Southwest Cattlemen's Association to create a rangeland trust that would help slow fragmentation of agricultural lands.

• September 1999: $3000 for a Texas rangeland trust.

• March 2000: $5000 for a Texas rangeland trust.

National Institute on
Money in State Politics
Sue O'Connell, Communications Director
833 North Main
Helena, Oregon 97212
sueo@statemoney.org
www.followthemoney.org
406-449-2480tel
406-457-2091fax

• December 1998: $1000 for a Texas campaign finance website, to assist research on the donors, amounts, and recipients of state-level political contributions. Please see the entry for the Public Justice Foundation of Texas for related gifts.

• September 2000: $7500 for a study of Texas campaign financing.

National Parks Conservation Association
Dr. James Nations, Vice President, State of the Parks
1300 19th Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
jnations@npca.org
www.npca.org
800-628-7275tel
202-659-0650fax

• March 2004: $4000 for an assessment of the status of the Big Thicket National Preserve, a highly diverse community of wetlands, bottomland hardwoods, prairie remnants in southeast Texas, examining and publicizing the Preserve's strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

National Wildlife Federation
Gulf States Office
Susan Kaderka, Director
44 East Avenue, Suite 200
Austin, Texas 78701-4334
kaderka@nwf.org
www.nfwf.org
512-476-9805tel
512-476-9810fax

• September 2000: $7500 for the Texas Living Waters Project, towards ecological review of the 16 regional water plans prepared, and more than 30 new reservoirs proposed, under Texas Senate Bill 1.

• September 2000: $7500 for protection of instream flows under the Living Waters Project.

Native Prairies Association of Texas
Jason Spangler, Treasurer
2002-A Guadalupe
Austin, Texas 78705
jason.spangler@texasprairie.org
www.texasprairie.org
512-535-4994tel

• September 1999: $2500 for a survey of the location, quality, ownership, and conservation potential of Texas tallgrass prairie remnants.

• September 2000: $3508 in total, including $1008 for a native prairie seed propagation project in cooperation with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and $2500 for the continued tallgrass prairie survey.

• September 2001:  $3000 in total, including $1500 for the native seed propagation project, and $1500 for the tallgrass prairie survey.

• March 2004: $2500 for native prairie surveys to continue efforts to locate and encourage protection of Texas prairies.

• March 2006: $2000 for continued native tallgrass prairie surveys in Texas.

Nature Conservancy-Mashomack Preserve
Carter Roberts, Friends of Mashomack
Post Office Box 850
Shelter Island, New York 11964
www.shelter-island.org/mashomack.html
631-749-1001tel
631-749-1480fax

• September 2000: $1000 for support of Cerro San Gil Preserve, Mashomack's southern sister sanctuary for migratory birds.

Nature Conservancy of Texas
Anna Sweeden, Annual Giving Manager
Post Office Box 1440
San Antonio, Texas 78295-1440
asweeden@tnc.org
www.tnc.org
210-224-8774tel
210-228-9805fax

• December 1998: $1000 for a Texas conservation data center for mapping plant and animal information and planning protection work.

• March 1999: $1000 for general support.

• March 2000: $2500 for trail work, brush and resaca restoration, and exotic plant control at the Southmost Texas Ranch.

• September 2000: $3000 for Southmost Texas ranch restoration.

• September 2000: $5000 for an economic study of the viability of uneven-aged, long-rotation management of Texas longleaf pine.

• March 2001: $2500 for the economic study of sustainable longleaf pine management.

• September 2001: $4000 for the economic study of longleaf pine silviculture.

• March 2003: $2500 for a study of the hydrologic behavior of the Devil's River basin, a relatively pristine watershed in the southern border region of Texas, near Del Rio, which the Conservancy is seeking to protect.

• September 2003: $3000 for the Devil's River project.

• September 2006: $4000 for the Devil's River project.

Neighbors for Neighbors
Martha Boethel, Secretary and Fundraising Chair
Post Office Box 661
Elgin, Texas 78621
marthaboethel@totalaccess.net
www.neighborsforneighbors.com
512-476-6861, ext. 368tel
512-476-2286fax

• March 2003: $2500 to assist in oversight of groundwater quality and supply impacts from the operation of an Alcoa strip mine and wellfield near Rockdale, Texas.

• March 2005: $3000 for the Carrizo-Wilcox Sustainability Initiative, an effort to protect this central Texas aquifer from overdraft and contamination.

• September 2006: $3000 for general support of Neighbors for Neighbors, which is activein four major areas: 1) cleaning up air emission from the Alcoa smelter and power plant, 2) reviewing compliance of the Alcoa strip mine, 3) monitoring water-export schemes for Carrizo-Wilcox groundwater, and 4) opposing industry efforts to loosen regulation of coal combustion waste.

North American Butterfly Association
International Butterfly Park
Dr. Sue Sill, Park Director
Post Office Box 878
Mission, Texas 78573
sill@naba.org
www.naba.org
956-583-9009tel
956-583-0081fax

• September 2004: $3000 to support the NABA International Butterfly Park a 100-acre botanical garden and arboretum dedicated to butterfly conservation, education and research.  The Park's location in the Rio Grande Valley takes advantage of the region's overlap of subtropical, temperate, coastal and desert influences, its crossing by major butterfly migratory routes, and its connection with over 1000 acres of adjoining protected state and federal land.



• March 2006: $3000 to support the NABA International Butterfly Park a 100-acre botanical garden and arboretum dedicated to butterfly conservation, education and research. 

Organic Consumers Association
Ronnie Cummins, Director
6101 Cliff Estate Road
Little Marais, Minnesota 55614
ronnie@purefood.org
www.organicconsumers.org
218-226-4164tel
218-226-4157fax

• March 2001: $2000 for education on the risks and benefits of genetic engineering, especially in the food industry.

• September 2001: $500 for Texas genetic engineering discussions.

• March 2003: $1000 for Texas genetic engineering education.

• March 2005: $1000 for Texas genetic engineering education.

Organic Farming Research Foundation
Bob Scowcroft, Executive Director
Post Office Box 440
Santa Cruz, California 95061-0440
research@ofrf.org
www.ofrf.org
831-426-6606tel
831-426-6670fax

• December 1998: $1000 for a survey of Texas organic farmers to profile their industry and their research needs. Recent studies indicate that less than 1% of USDA and land grant college research is focused on organic methods.

• September 1999: $4000 for a conference among Texas and southwestern organic agricultural researchers.

• September 2001: $2000 for meetings and strategic planning on organic agriculture.

• March 2004: $2500 for a meeting of the Scientific Congress on Organic Agricultural Research, expected to be held in Texas, to discuss implementation of the National Organic Research Agenda.

• March 2005: $2250 towards support of the SCOAR group meeting.

Outdoor Nature Club
A. K. Stoley, Sanctuaries Vice President
10635 Inwood
Houston, Texas 77042-2328
aandkstoley@yahoo.com
www.outdoornatureclub.org
713-781-1372tel

• September 2000: $1000 for care of the 700-acre Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary in southeast Texas.

• March 2004: $1000 for continued support of the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary, in memory of Craig F. Cullinan, Jr.

• September 2008: $1750 for maintenance and improvements for the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary.
  

Park People
L. Diane Schenke, Executive Director
Post Office Box 980863
Houston, Texas 77098
info@parkpeople.org
www.parkpeople.org
713-942-7275tel
713-942-8429fax

• March 1999: $1000 for general support of this Houston park and open space advocacy group.

Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas
Dick Davis, Executive Director
1901 North Akard Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
ddavis@tpwf.org
www.pwftx.org
214-720-1478tel
214-720-3864fax

• December 1998: $1000 for the Legacy ranch program, an effort by Texas Parks and Wildlife to recognize and train landowners who are voluntarily protecting rare species.

• March 1999: $2000 for Land Trust Council meetings; $2000 for the Lone Star Land Stewards symposium. The Council coordinates, trains and develops standards for over 30 regional and statewide land trusts in Texas. The Stewards program recognizes landowners in each ecoregion of the state for their good land use practices.

• September 1999: $2000 for Texas Land Trust Council meetings; $3800 for the Texas Organization of Wildlife Management Associations (TOWMA). TOWMA is a network of wildlife cooperatives that coordinates management by over 3000 landowners of 1.5 million acres spread across 33 counties in the state.

• March 2000: $5000 for Texas Land Trust Council general support; $5000 for TOWMA general support

• September 2000: $5000 for Texas Land Trust Council regional workshops.

• March 2001: $5000 for the Texas Land Trust Council's general support.

• September 2001: $6000 in total, including $4000 for the Texas Land Trust Council's general support, and $2000 for the support of the Texas Organization of Wildlife Management Organizations.

• March 2003: $1000 for the Texas Organization of Wildlife Management Organizations.

Peregrine Fund
J. Peter Jenny, Vice President
5668 West Flying Hawk Lane
Boise, Idaho 83709
pjenny@peregrinefund.org
www.peregrinefund.org
208-362-3716tel
208-362-2376fax

• September 2004: $3000 for reintroduction and protection of the Northern Aplomado Falcon in west Texas.  The Aplomado is the last remaining falcon on the federal endangered species list. The Apl0mado's numbers had been hurt in the past by farming, grazing, and DDT use, but release of captive birds, control of predators, and construction of artificial nest structures appear to be helping with their restoration.
  
  
• September 2006: $4000 for continued Northern Aplomado Falcon restoration efforts in west Texas.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Dr. Lisa Doggett, Austin Chapter Chair
Post Office Box 300582
Austin, Texas 78703
doggett_l@msn.com
www.psr.org
www.austinpsr.org
512-740-2159tel

• September 2007: $5000 for support of the Austin and Texas chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility, groups that have been particularly active in lending health professionals' voices to the debates over air pollution, especially mercury and carbon dioxide emissions.

Pines and Prairies Land Trust
Tom Dureka, Executive Director
106 Conference Drive, #2A
Bastrop, Texas 78602
tdureka@pplt.org
www.pinesandprairieslandtrust.org
512-308-1911tel/fax

September 2006: $4000 for general support of the Pines and Prairies Land Trust, which is seeking to protect habitat and recreational lands in the rapidly developing areas of Bastrop and Lee counties to the east of Austin.

Progressive Forum
Randall Morton, President
4826 Palmetto
Bellaire, Texas 77401
rmorton@progressiveforumhouston.org
www.progressiveforumhouston.org
713-664-0020tel
713-664-2231fax

• March 2009: $4750 for an October 2009 public presentation in Houston by the NASA scientist and global warming expert, Dr. James Hansen.
  
  
• March 2010: $3500 for an October 2010 talk in Houston by paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and author, Richard Leakey.
  
  
• July 2010: $4000 for a Spring 2011 talk in Houston by the accomplished oceanographer and former chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sylvia Earle.

Proteus Fund
Meg Gage, Executive Director
101 University Drive, Suite A2
Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
info@proteusfund.org
www.proteusfunder.org
413-256-0349tel
413-256-3536fax

• March 1999: $6000 for Texas League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. See related later gifts listed under the Texas League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.. $4000 for Texas List Enhancement Project. See a related later gift under the Clean Water Fund of Texas.

Public Citizen Educational Foundation
Tom "Smitty" Smith, Texas Director
1002 West Avenue, Suite 300
Austin, Texas 78701
smitty@citizen.org
www.citizen.org/texas
512-477-1155tel
512-479-8302fax

• September 2005: $5000 to help promote market development for design and construction of Plug-in Hybrid vehicles, which promise high fuel efficiency and low emissions.

• March 2007: $5000 for meetings to coordinate climate-change mitigation efforts among Texas non-profit organizations.

• July 2010: $4000 for participation in the Sunset Review of major Texas state environmental agencies, including the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Coastal Coordination Council, Electric Reliability Council, Public Utility Commission, Railroad Commission, and the Water Development Board.

Public Justice Foundation of Texas
Craig McDonald, Executive Director
609 West 18th Street, Suite E
Austin, Texas 78701
tpj@tpj.org
www.tpj.org
512-472-9770tel
512-472-9830fax

• December 1998: $1000 for the Texas Library on Money and Politics, as an effort to disclose and diminish the effect of campaign funding on public policy decisions, including environmental choices.

• March 2000: $7500 for the Texas Library on Money in Politics database and website, which now comprises campaign finance information covering over 250,000 contributions and $120 million for state level races in 1998.

• March 2001: $5000 for the Texas Library on Money in Politics.

• September 2001: $2500 for the Texas Library on Money in Politics.

• March 2003: $1000 for the Texas Library on Money in Politics.

• March 2008: $4500 for the Protecting Our Assets program, which researches misuse of the public commons, including groundwater, roads, school revenues and tax abatements.

Public Research Works
Robin Schneider, Executive Director
611 South Congress Avenue, Suite 200
Austin, Texas 78704
robin@publicresearchworks.org
www.publicresearchworks.org
512-326-56554tel
512-326-5922fax

• March 2000: $7500 for the Smokestacks and Greenbacks study, which showed that the top 100 companies benefiting from the 30-year old grandfathered exemption (affecting 36% of industrial air pollution in the state), had invested over $4.6 million in the political campaigns of Texas state officials from 1993-98, a period when the exemption was being challenged by public interest groups.

Rio Grande Restoration
Steve Harris, Executive Director
Post Office Box 1612
El Prado, New Mexico 87529
unclergr@laplaza.org
www.riogranderestoration.com
505-751-1269tel/fax

• March 2003: $2500 to assist in intervention in the water rights adjudication for the Rio Grande's reach between El Paso and Fort Quitman, the so-called Forgotten River, in order to protect instream flows from appropriation and diversion.

Rock Art Foundation
Jim Zintgraff, Executive Director
4833 Fredericksburg Road
San Antonio, Texas 78229
jzintgraff@aol.com
www.rockart.org
210-525-9907tel
210-525-9909fax

• March 2004: $1000 to support the Foundation's conservation and education work regarding Native American rock art in the Lower Pecos region of Texas, near Del Rio, including acquisition of important sites.

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Educational and Charitable Fund
Leland Swenson, Executive Director
5655 South Yosemite Street, Suite 400
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111-3219
center.director@co-ops.org
www.rmfu.org
303-752-5800tel
303-752-5810fax

• March 2005: $2250 to support the Ogallala Commons playa protection effort in the Panhandle of Texas and northward.
  
  
• March 2006: $3000 to support the Ogallala Commons playa protection effort in the Panhandle of Texas and northward.

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
6008 College Avenue, Suite 10
Oakland, California 94618
tlittle_rose@earthlink.net
www.rosefdn.org
510-658-0702tel
510-658-0732fax

• March 2002: $800 for the Foundation Partnership for Corporate Responsibility, an effort previously under the wing of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, which seeks to leverage foundation investments to press for mission-related improvements in corporate performance in the fields of labor, environment, and other areas.

Rural Advancement
Foundation International - USA
Cathy Zaumseil
Post Office Box 640
Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312
kz@rafiusa.org
www.rafiusa.org
919-542-1396tel
919-542-0069fax

• September 1999: $3500 for the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, a network covering the 13 states stretching from Virginia to Texas that promotes education, research, funding, and marketing for alternative agriculture.

San Antonio Peace Center
Alyssa Burgin, Core Team
16306 Buena Tierra
San Antonio, Texas 78232
aburgin4peace@gmail.com
texasdroughtproject.org
210-381-4021tel
210-545-1704fax

• September 2009: $2500 towards a conference using the opportunity of the current Texas drought to make the public more aware of water stresses in the state, including habitat harm, subsidence, groundwater decline, epidemiological impacts, and concerns over the rule of capture and commodification of water.

San Antonio Trees
Richard Alles, Board Member
Post Office Box 700066
San Antonio, Texas 78270
treeinfo@treecoalition.org
www.treecoalition.org
919-542-1396tel
919-542-0069fax

• September 2006: $3000 towards an urban forest management program for San Antonio, which has lost 40% of its tree canopy since 1985 due to clearing related to road construction and land development. San Antonio Trees is working with City staff to use GIS-based analysis of high-altitude images to determine compliance with the City tree preservation ordinance, to project canopy area trends in to the future, and to develop tree preservation and planting standards to reach the City's reforestation goals.

San Marcos River Foundation
Dianne Wassenich, Executive Director
Post Office Box 1393
San Marcos, Texas 78667-1393
wassenich@grandecom.net
www.sanmarcosriver.org
512-353-4628tel
512-353-6524fax

• March 2001: $2500 for securing water rights for instream and estuarine flows to support wildlife in the Guadalupe and San Marcos River system.

• September 2001: $4000 for the Guadalupe / San Marcos instream and estuarine flows permit application.

• March 2002: $5000 for the Guadalupe / San Marcos River water rights permit project.

• March 2003: $2500 for protection of Guadalupe / San Marcos instream flows.

• March 2004: $2500 for protection of Guadalupe / San Marcos flows.

• March 2005: $2500 for continued work protecting Guadalupe / San Marcos flows.

• March 2006: $4000 for protecting Guadalupe / San Marcos flows, capitalizing on the recent court ruling recognizing the procedural sufficiency of the proposal for water rights for instream flows, which had earlier been rejected out of hand by the state environmental agency. To date, the agency has only provided permitted rights for human uses, such as industrial, agricultural and domestic applications, disregarding the needs of the biota in the river and estuary.

• March 2007: $5000 for general support of the Foundation.
  
  
• March 2008: $5000 for general support of the Foundation, particularly participation in the Recovery Implementation Project, a new effort to secure drought spring flows to ensure that dependent endangered species recover to viable populations.  This consensus-based stakeholder process is intended to resolve debates that have thus far failed to be cured by legislation and litigation.

Save Our Springs Alliance
Pat Brodnax, Managing Director
Post Office Box 684881
Austin, Texas 78768
pat@sosalliance.org
www.sosalliance.org
512-477-2320tel
512-477-6410fax

• March 2001: $2500 for opposition to the Lower Colorado River Authority's plan to extend a pipeline and drinking water to the Dripping Springs area, an exurban area to the southwest of Austin.  There is concern that the pipeline will contribute to urban sprawl, and downstream water pollution and shortages.

• September 2004: $3000 for general support of the Alliance, which works to protect the quantity and quality of spring flows in the Hill Country of Texas, through education, litigation, and land acquisition in the contributing recharge zones.

• March 2009: $4750 for general support of the Alliance.

Scenic Galveston
Lalise L.W. Mason, Habitat Restoration Chair
20 Colony Park Circle
Galveston, Texas 77551
lalise@earthlink.net
www.scenicgalveston.org
979-664-1870tel
409-744-1456fax

• March 2005: $3000 for regrading and replanting Galveston Bay marshes.

Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Carole H. Allen, Gulf Office Director
Post Office Box 400
Forest Knolls, California 94933
carole@seaturtles.org
www.ridleyturtles.org
281-444-6204tel
281-444-6204fax

• March 2007: $5000 for protecting and extending nesting for the endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle along the Texas coast.

Seeds of Texas Seed Exchange
Jack Rowe, Board Secretary
Post Office Box 9882
College Station, Texas 77842
jackrowe@compuserve.com
979-693-4485tel

• March 1999: $2000 for propagating and sharing over 600 varieties of heirloom vegetable and wild seed to maintain a stable, diverse, locally-adapted and disease-resistant germplasm.

• September 1999: $3000 to help the Seeds of Texas Grower's Network save and trade heirloom seed.

Sierra Club Foundation
Lone Star Chapter
Ken Kramer, Director
Post Office Box 1931
Austin, Texas 78767
ken.kramer@sierraclub.org
www.texas.sierraclub.org
512-476-6962tel
512-477-8526fax

• March 2000: $7500 for the Lone Star Chapter clean air efforts, including bringing grandfathered facilities into the permit system, developing plans to reduce urban ozone levels, and opposing toxic pollution in industrial areas.

• September 2000: $7500 for the Lone Star Chapter water protection education program.

• September 2001: $7000 for the Lone Star Chapter's research and education work on the number, type and size of radioactive waste sources in the state.

• September 2003: $4250 for the Texas Radioactive Waste Project, an effort to monitor and improve proposals to dispose of commercial and military nuclear waste in private sites in Texas.

• March 2004: $3200 for ongoing efforts regarding the Texas Radioactive Waste Project.

• September 2004: $3000 for continued support of the Texas Radioactive Waste Project.

• March 2009: $4750 for the Texas Radioactive Waste Project, focused on concerns about potential waste handling accidents and site leakage at a proposed low-level radioactive waste facility in Andrews County, Texas.

Society for Ecological Restoration
Texas Chapter
Kevin Thuesen, President
Post Office Box 310559
Denton, Texas 726203-0559
txser@unt.edu
www.ser.org/txser
512-632-8064tel
940-565-4297fax

• September 1999: $2000 for support of the Texas chapter, and its network of land managers, growers, researchers, and teachers interested in repairing and maintaining native and endemic ecotypes.

• March 2001: $2500 for general support of the Texas chapter.

• September 2004: $1000 for general support of the Texas chapter.

Society of Environmental Journalists
Beth A. Parke, Executive Director
Post Office Box 2492
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 19046
bparke@sej.org
www.sej.org
215-884-8174tel
215-884-8175fax

• September 2005: $3000 to help host the 2005 annual conference of the SEJ, to be held in Austin, Texas.

Southwest Environmental Center
Kevin Bixby, Executive Director
275 North Downtown Mall
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88001
swec@zianet.com
www.wildmesquite.org
505-522-5552tel
505-522-0775fax

• September 2000: $2500 for studies on restoring instream flows and riparian habitat in the upper Rio Grande, which has been drastically changed with construction of the Elephant Butte reservoir, and related channel dams and diversion channels.

• March 2001: $2500 for studies related to discovering the existence and scale of water rights in the upper Rio Grande that might be available for instream flows.

Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition
Karen Hadden, Executive Director
1801 Westlake Drive, #209
Austin, Texas 78746
karen@seedcoalition.org
www.nukefreetexas.org
512-797-8481tel
512-906-0006fax

• March 2008: $5000 to contest construction of a new nuclear utility plant in Matagorda County, the first of 29 to be proposed for permitting since the near melt-down of the Three Mile Island plant in 1979.  Critics of nuclear power argue that the industry is still beset by mining toxicity, high construction costs, terrorist vulnerabilities, and long-term radioactive waste disposal issues.

Texans for State Parks
Linda Evans, News and Administration
PO Box 41480
Austin, Texas 78704-0025
leevans@texas.net
www.texansforstateparks.org
512-444-8079tel/fax

• March 2004: $1000 in general support for Texans for State Parks, which acts as a voice for volunteers, visitors and other users of the parks who are interested in their stewardship.

Texas A&M University- College Station
Master Naturalist Program
Sonny Arnold, Program Executive Director
113 Nagle Hall, TAMU 2258
College Station, Texas 77843-2258
sarnold@ag.tamu.edu
http://masternaturalist.tamu.edu
979-458-1099tel

• March 2006: $4000 for a network of over 30 Master Naturalist chapters across Texas which train and organize volunteers in protecting and restoring prairies, woodlands, rivers and lakes under supervision of the Texas Cooperative Extension and Texas Parks and Wildlife.
  
  
• September 2007: $4750 for support of Texas Master Naturalist chapters.

Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Professor Michael E. Tewes
700 University Boulevard, MSC 218
Kingsville, Texas 78363
michael.tewes@tamuk.edu
www.ckwri.tamuk.edu
361-593-3972tel
361-593-3924fax

• September 2004: $3000 for research regarding the risk of ocelot extinction due to genetic erosion and habitat fragmentation.

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - RLE
Wayne Hamilton
Room 225 Animal Industries Bldg.
College Station, Texas 77843
wt-hamilton@tamu.edu
http://rangeweb.tamu.edu/
409-845-5589tel
409-845-6430fax

• December 1998: $1000 for sustainable ranching research on a central Texas ranch to explore rotational grazing, reduced stocking rates, prescribed burns, and other ways of preserving the land and a viable cattle operation.

Texas Center for Policy Studies
Cyrus Reed, Director
1002 West Avenue, Suite 300
Austin, Texas 78701
tcps@texascenter.org
www.texascenter.org
512-740-4086tel
512-479-8302fax

• September 2000: $2500 for socioeconomic review of SB 1 Water Plans. There is concern that plans for various reservoirs, wellfields, canals and pipelines to serve urban dwellers will harm rural populations and farming and ranching industries in Texas.

• March 2005: $3000 for the Green Tax and Scissors Campaign, an effort to identify and promote conservation and  additional Texas state revenue with raised pollution permit fees, reduced caps on sporting goods taxes, and other tools.

Texas Coalition for Conservation
George L. Bristol, President
8812 Mesa Drive
Austin, Texas 78759
txcoalition@aol.com
www.texascoa.org
512-349-2449tel
512-349-2439fax

• March 2003: $2500 for exploring and discussing possible methods of financing acquisition and protection of parklands, open space and wildlife habitat in Texas.

• March 2004: $4500 for continued work developing adequate financial support for state parks in Texas, in part by pointing out the key commercial  role that these parks play in supporting the state's tourism, sporting, and general economy.

• September 2004: $3000 for general support of the Coalition.

• March 2005: $4500 for general support of the Coalition and its efforts to increase conservation funding in Texas state government.

• September 2008:  $5000 to help secure greater and more stable funding for state parks in Texas.

Texas Conservation Alliance *
Janice Bezanson, Executive Director
Post Office Box 6295
Tyler, Texas 75711-6295
bezanson@texas.net
www.TCAtexas.org
512-327-4119 [Austin office] tel
903-592-0909 [Tyler office] tel/fax

• March 1999: $1000 for the East Texas Forests and Wildlife Coalition's efforts to protect bottomland hardwood forests and free-flowing streams.

• September 1999: $5000 for a coordinated campaign among ten Texas public interest groups to participate in the state's Sunset Review of the mission, funding, structure, and performance of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission.

• September 2000: $5750 for opposition to Texas reservoirs and diversions which could harm riparian, instream and estuarine ecosystems.

• March 2001: $5000 for opposition to Texas reservoir plans, and promotion of more cost-effective, less environmentally harmful alternatives.

• September 2001: $6500 in total, including $5000 for protection of the Neches and Sulfur Rivers from proposed damming, and $1500 for the East Texas Forest and Wildlife Coalition project.

• March 2002: $6500 in total, including $5000 for the Neches and Sulfur River protection project, and $1500 for the East Texas Forest and Wildlife Coalition project.

• March 2003: $4000 in total, including $2500 for opposition to unneeded reservoir projects throughout Texas, and an additional $1500 for work to protect free flows in the Sulfur River, currently threatened by proposals to build the Marvin Nichols Reservoir.

• March 2004 : $4000 for Texas river protection, particularly from threats by proposed dams and diversions in east Texas.

• September 2004: $3000 for protection of the remaining free-flowing sections of the Neches and Sulfur Rivers of east Texas.

• March 2005: $4500 for protection of the Neches and Sulfur Rivers.

• March 2006: $4000 for continued protection of the Neches and Sulfur Rivers.

• September 2007:  $4750 for protection of east Texas rivers.

• September 2008:  $5000 for Neches and Sulfur river protection.

* - Formerly known as the Texas Committee on Natural Resources.

Texas Democracy Foundation
Charlotte McCann, Publisher
307 West 7th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
mccann@texasobserver.org
www.texasobserver.org
512-477-0746tel
512-474-1175fax

• March 2003: $2500 for support of environmental investigative reporting at the Texas Observer, a weekly independent publication.
  
  
• March 2006: $4000 for support of environmental investigative reporting at the Texas Observer.
  
  
• September 2007: $3500 for environmental reporting at the Texas Observer.

Texas Forestry Association Education Fund
Texas Project Learning Tree
Cheryl Stanco, TFAEF Director
Post Office Box 1488
Lufkin, Texas 75902-1488
tfa@lcc.net
www.plttexas.org
936-632-TREEtel
936-632-9461fax

• September 2003: $4420 for a North American Association of Environmental Education workshop to give Texas teachers scientifically accurate and comprehensive ecological and conservation information and teaching tools.

Texas Fund for Energy and Environmental Education
c/o SEED Coalition
Karen Hadden, SEED Coalition Executive Director
1801 Westlake Drive, #209
Austin, Texas 78746
karen@seedcoalition.org
www.seedcoalition.org
www.stopthecoalplant.org
www.nukefreetexas.org
512-797-8481tel
512-306-1359fax

• March 1999: $2000 for renewable and efficient energy education at Earth Day 1999 events.

• March 2001: $2500 for a meeting to teach and connect activists involved in corporate reform on environmental, energy, and other topics.

• September 2007: $4750 for work on climate change mitigation in Texas.

Texas Impact Education Fund
Bee Moorhead, Executive Director
221 East 9th Street, Suite 403
Austin, Texas 78701-2512
bee@texasimpact.org
www.texasimpact.org
www.breathoflifetx.org
512-472-3903tel
512-473-2707fax

• September 2001: $4000 for the Cool Texas Interfaith Campaign, an effort among a variety of religions and denominations to address climate change problems.

• September 2003: $3000 for an environmental education meeting among Texas clergy.

• March 2006: $3000 for the Breath of Life program, an effort to raise awareness of air pollution, global warming, and renewable energy options among clergy and congregants.

• September 2007: $4750 for Texas Interfaith Power and Light (IPL), to include "Breath of Life" work with congregations in Texas, and to connect with 22 other state IPL organizations.

• September 2008: $5000 for work on climate stability through partnerships among Texas congregations, promoting energy conservation initiatives and solar photovoltaic panel installations.

• September 2009:  $2500 for support of the Texas and Houston Interfaith Power and Light chapters.

*This project was earlier spun off as an independent organization from Austin Metropolitan Ministries (see above).

Texas Invasive Plant and Pest Council
Damon Waitt, President
4801 La Crosse Avenue
Austin, Texas 78739
dwaitt@wildflower.org
www.texasinvasives.org
512-232-0110tel
512-232-0156fax

• September 2009: $2500 for general support of Texas efforts to respond to the spread of exotic plants and animals, such as tamarisk, giant salvinia, hydrilla, Chinese tallow, ligustrum, emerald ash borer, and channeled applesnail, that are decreasing biodiversity and interfering with ecosystem functions like fire, nutrient flow and flooding.

Texas Land Conservancy*
Mark Steinbach, Executive Director
PO Box 162481
Austin, Texas 78716-2481
mark@texaslandconservancy.org
www.texaslandconservancy.org
512-301-6363tel
512-301-6364fax

• March 2000: $5000 for general support of this state-wide land trust, which holds conservation easements or fee title to over 35 tracts comprising more than 30,000 acres.

• September 2000: $5000 for general support and for publications regarding endangered plant communities in Texas.

• March 2001: $2500 for general support of the Conservancy.

• September 2002:  $68,300 for purchase of the 31-acre native sandhill prairie remnant, known as the Tanglewood tract, in Lee County, Texas.

• March 2005:  $3000 in general support for the Conservancy.

• March 2008:  $5000 in general support for the Conservancy, which now protects more than 91 properties and 50,000 acres in the state.

• March 2010:  $3500 to help endow monitoring, shredding, burning, and legal defense of the Tanglewood native prairie in Lee County.

* The Texas Land Conservancy was formerly known as the Natural Area Protection Association.

Texas Land Trust Council
Susan Armstrong, Executive Director
Post Office Box 40505
Austin, Texas 78704
susan@texaslandtrustcouncil.org
www.texaslandtrustcouncil.org
512-236-0655tel

• September 2003: $3000 in general support for the Texas Land Trust Council, which provides technical assistance and services to Texas' 45 non-profit land trust organizations, professional advisors and landowners.

• March 2004: $2500 in general support to the Council and its members, which protect over 1 million acres of land, including open space, key watersheds, farmland and habitat  in the state.

• September 2004: $3000 for general support of the Council.

• September 2006: $5000 for general support of the Council.

• September 2007: $4750 for continued general support of the Council.

• March 2010: $7000 for inventory, mapping, and web presentation of privately and publicly protected lands in Texas.

• July 2010: $4000 for continued mapping of protected lands in Texas.

Texas League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
James Canup, Executive Director
44 East Avenue, Suite 202
Austin, Texas 78701
james@tlcv.org
www.tlcvef.org
512-477-4424tel
512-477-6555fax

• March 2000: $5000 for green political education support in Texas.

• September 2000: $7500 for general support.

• September 2004: $5000 for research on the impact of the Trans-Texas Corridor project, a 4000-mile network of highway, rail and utility routes which is estimated to cost $145 billion and affect 608,000 acres of habitat in the state.

• March 2005: $4000 for enhancing environmental non-profit group member lists with additional information about locations and political participation.

• March 2006: $4000 for continued work enhancing environmental organizations' member lists with additional information to help groups understand, organize and motivate their membership.

• September 2008: $5000 for general support of the League's educational work in Texas.

Texas Natural Science Center
Susan Romberg, Director of External Affairs
2400 Trinity Street
Austin, Texas 78705
sromberg@mail.utexas.edu
www.texasnaturalsciencecenter.org
512-232-56548tel
512-471-4794fax

• March 2008: $4500 for evolutionary education training for elementary and middle school teachers, drawing on the Center's paleontology collection and expertise.

Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Steve Bridges, Executive Director
Kimas Tejas Nursery
962 Highway 71 East
Bastrop, Texas 78602
steve@texasgrown.com
www.tofga.org
877-326-5175tel

• September 1999: $5000 for a survey of acreage, output, marketing, and needs of Texas organic grain, hay, poultry and livestock producers.

• September 2000: $1000 for general support.

• March 2001: $1500 for general support.

• September 2001: $1500 for general support.

Texas Organization of Wildlife Management Associations
Linda McMurry
Post Office Box 18392
Austin, Texas 78760
Linda.McMurry@tpwd.state.tx.us
www.towma.org
512-389-4800tel

• September 2004: $1000 for support of the Organization, which represents 61 cooperatives in Texas, consisting of 4200 landowners who work to protect wildlife habitat and populations on over 2 million acres.
  
  
• September 2006: $5000 for general support of the Organization, which continues to coordinate habitat and wildlife work among the various Associations, while also promoting efforts to control fire ants and to use prescribed burns.
  
  
• September 2007: $2000 for the general support of the Organization.

Texas Parks and Wildlife
Passport to Texas Program
Cecilia Nasti, Program Executive Producer
4200 Smith School Road
Austin, Texas 78744
cecilia.nasti@tpwd.state.tx.us
www.passporttotexas.org
512-389-4667tel
512-389-4450fax

• September 2004: $3000 for support of the Passport to Texas radio program, particularly its partnership with the Conservation History Association of Texas to develop the Association's interviews with veteran environmentalists into radio segments.  The Passport to Texas program is broadcast by more than 100 public and commercial stations in the state, providing environmental education for over 750,000 listeners.
  
  
• September 2005: $3000 for continued support of the Passport to Texas radio program.

Texas Public Interest Research Group
Education Fund
Luke Metzger, President
1009 West 6th Street, Suite 208
Austin, Texas 78703
luke@environmenttexas.org
www.environmenttexas.org
512-479-0388tel
512-479-0400fax

• September 2006: $5000 for a short video promoting the Texas state park system, which has seen funding decline by 34% since 1990, and now ranks 49th in the nation.

* Earlier related gifts are listed under U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund.

Texas Rice Industry Coalition for the Environment
Bill Stransky, Executive Director
Post Office Box 644
Pierce, Texas 77467
stransky95@sbcglobal.net
www.karankawa.com/rice.htm
979-531-9746tel
979-532-4251fax

• March 2007: $5000 for restoration of native prairies and wetlands in rice fields and national wildlife refuges, where Chinese tallow has degraded much of the coastal Texas waterfowl habitat.
  
  
• March 2009: $4750 for continued prairie and wetland restoration work.

Texas State University
River Systems Institute
Andy Sansom, Institute Director
601 University Drive
San Marcos, Texas 78666-4615
andrewsansom@txstate.edu
http://rivers.txstate.edu
512-245-9200tel
512-245-7173fax

• September 2003: $4420 for the Groundwater 2004 meeting, to convene state, local and academic authorities and assess the technical understanding and regulation tools for managing the Texas' 32 aquifers, which currently supply 60% of the state's water, but are increasingly threatened by aggressive mining and export.
  
  
• September 2005: $5500 for the 2005 Environmental Flows conference, to study the feasibility and ways to assure Texas streamflow for river and estuarine life.
  
  
• September 2006: $5000 for the 2006 "Charting the Course" conference, to discuss water conservation and reuse, drought preparedness, population and economic growth predictions, water project financing, and the ecological implications of proposed water use in Texas.
  
  
• September 2007: $4750 for the spring 2008 conference on water and climate change, a discussion on how to estimate and prepare for global warming's impact on Texas water resources.
  
  
• July 2010: $4000 for the fall 2010 conference on water quality, quantity and availability, including discussions about regulatory authority over groundwater, on toxicity and nutrient standards for water quality, and regarding conservation and reuse of water.

Tides Center - Chautauqua
Mike Dolan
1615 Broadway
Oakland, California 94612
mdolan@citizen.org
510-645-1027tel
510-663-8569fax

• March 2002: $2000 for the Texas Chautauqua meeting of April 2002, the first of a series designed to promote environmental protection and the civic involvement required to make protection a reality.

Tides Center - The Regeneration Project
Rev. Sally Bingham, Regeneration Project Director
Post Office Box 29336
The Presidio
San Francisco, California 94129
sally@theregenerationproject.org
www.theregenerationproject.org
415-561-4891tel
415-561-4892fax

• March 2001: $3750 for tours of Texas promoting energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy among the religious community, as both direct retrofit proposals for churches and synagogues, and as general education for congregants.

• September 2001: $2000 for the Texas green energy tours among the state's religious community.

• March 2005: $5000 for the Texas Interfaith Power & Light project, an effort increase awareness of and investment in renewable energy among Texas congregations. Please see Texas Impact's "Breath of Life" program, which evolved from the Texas Interfaith Power & Light project.

Trans Pecos Water Trust
David Crum, Executive Director
Post Office Box 1049
Alpine, Texas 79831
director@transpecoswatertrust.com
www.transpecoswatertrust.org
432-426-2244tel

• March 2006: $3000 for general support of the Trust, which seeks water rights from willing donors and sellers in the segment of the Rio Grande between El Paso and the Big Bend National Park, to ensure adequate flows for biota in the river and riparian corridor.

• March 2007: $5000 for continued general support of the Trust.

Trust for Public Land
Nan McRaven, Texas State Director
815 Brazos Street, Suite 400
Austin, Texas 78701
nan.mcraven@tpl.org
www.tpl.org
512-478-4644tel
512-478-4522fax

• March 1999: $2500 for a poll of Texans' attitudes regarding the needs, priorities, and funding for protection of the state's habitat, water, and historical resources.

• September 1999: $6000 for "Texas Our Texas" regional meetings, to help build grassroots support for the agenda identified in the earlier polling work.

• March 2000: $5000 for continued help building support for a "Texas Our Texas" conservation bond issue.

U.S. Green Building Council
Katherine Major, Manager of Foundation Relations
1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20016
kmajor@usgbc.org
www.usgbc.org
202-742-3289tel
202-828-5110ax

• September 2008: $5000 for supporting sustainable building and land development practices in Texas, through help to Council chapters in the state.

U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Education Fund*
Luke Metzger, Texas Director
1604 1/2 San Antonio Street
Austin, Texas 78701
txfield@texpirg.org
www.texpirg.org
512-479-7287tel
512-479-0400fax

• March 2002: $3000 for the Texas Safe Foods campaign, an effort to engender public discussion and product labeling regarding genetically engineering of food.  Currently, 40 varieties of genetically engineered (GE) crop are approved for marketing in the U.S. and 60-70% of the foods on grocery shelves contain GE components.

* Later related gifts are listed under Texas Public Interest Research Group Education Fund.

University of Houston
Houston Coastal Center
Dr. Glenn D. Aumann, Director
ENL 5505
4800 Calhoun
Houston, Texas 77204
gaumann@uh.edu
www.eih.uh.edu/coastalcenter/
713-743-9140tel
713-743-9134fax

• December 1998: $1000 for native prairie management and seed collection at the University's La Marque coastal tallgrass prairie remnant.

University of Houston - Clear Lake
Jim Lester, Professor
2700 Bay Area Boulevard, Box 540
Houston, Texas 77058-1098
lester@cl.uh.edu
www.txeep.net
281-283-3950tel
281-283-3044fax

• March 1999: $2500 for the Texas Environmental Education Partnership, an effort to increase the availability, richness, and accuracy of environmental education in the state, with support from business, industry, academia, the environmental community, and the general public.

• September 2001: $2500 for developing the protocol for training and certifying environmental educators in the state.

• March 2002: $4000 for a state-wide conference of Texas environmental educators to be held in Fall 2002.

University of Texas
R.H. Richardson, Professor of Integrative Biology
Mail Stop C-0930, Patterson Lab
Austin, Texas 78712
d.richardson@mail.utexas.edu
www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB/faculty/richards.htm
512-471-4128tel
512-471-3878fax

• March 2004: $1000 for research and education regarding the soil food web, the cycle of food, minerals and energy among plants, bacteria, nematodes, fungi, and arthropods that supports the productivity of the soil.

University of Texas
Marine Science Institute
Tony Amos, Director, Animal Rehabilitation Keep
750 Channel View Drive
Port Aransas, Texas 78373
afamos@utmsi.utexas.edu
www.utmsi.utexas.edu/people/staff/amos/ARK/
361-749-6720tel
361-749-6777fax

• September 2006: $4000 for rehabilitating and releasing marine turtles (Kemp's ridleys, hawksbill, loggerhead, green sea turtles) and large aquatic birds (pelicans, cormorants, herons, gulls and terns) found injured along the Coastal Bend. The injuries are due to natural causes such as storms, droughts and freezes, as well as human-related causes, such as entanglement with fishing tackle, ingestion of plastic debris, collision with boats, autos and power lines, or harm from dredging operations.

University of Texas
McDonald Observatory
Joel Barna, Development Director
Robert Lee Moore Hall 15.308
Austin, Texas 78712
fnb@astro.as.utexas.edu
www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/mcdonald.html
512-471-6335tel
512-471-5812fax

• March 1999: $500 for the McDonald Observatory, a four-telescope astronomical research and public education complex in the Davis Mountains of west Texas.

• September 1999: $1000 for the McDonald Observatory.

• March 2000: $500 for the McDonald Observatory.

• September 2000: $1000 for the McDonald Observatory.

• September 2001: $500 for the McDonald Observatory.

• September 2006: $1500 for the McDonald Observatory.

Useful Wild Plants of Texas
Scooter Cheatham, President
2612 Sweeney Lane
Austin, Texas 78723
info@usefulwildplants.org
www.usefulwildplants.org
512-928-4441tel
512-928-8091fax

• December 1998: $1000 for general support of this effort to understand the crop values and uses of over 4000 wild plant species, including applications for food, fuel, medicine, and shelter.

• September 2000: $3000 for preparation and publication of the 600-page Volume 2 of the total UWP series of 12.

• March 2001: $2500 for general support of the UWP project.

• September 2001: $3000 for general support of the UWP project.

• March 2002: $4000 for general support of the UWP project.

• March 2003: $2500 for general support of the UWP project.

• March 2004: $2500 for general support of the UWP project.

• September 2006: $5000 for general support of the UWP project.

• September 2007: $4750 for general support of UWP.

Valley Land Fund
Myra Jean Perez, Programs Director
2400 N. 10th Street, Suite A
McAllen, Texas 78501
myra@valleylandfund.com
www.valleylandfund.com
956-686-6429tel
956-686-1909fax

• September 2000: $1000 for general support of this effort to recognize good land stewardship through fine nature photography.

Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network
Dr. Karen Eckert, Executive Director
1348 Rusticview Drive
Ballwin, Missouri 63011
keckert@widecast.org
www.widecast.org
314-954-8571tel

• September 2009: $2500 for community-based solutions for direct killing, habitat loss, and fishing bycatch that are endangering six species of sea turtles that navigate the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and wider seas.

Wildlife Habitat Federation
Jim Willis, President
3295 FM 949
Cat Spring, Texas 78933
quailridge@hughes.net
www.whf-texas.org
979-732-8362tel
979-732-8498fax

• March 2008: $5000 for purchase of a no-till seed drill for planting native prairie grasses and forbs, as part of an effort to restore examples of coastal prairies in Texas.
  
  
• September 2009: $2500 toward purchase of a native seed harvester to collect seed from prairie remnants, to later clean and redistribute to restoration sites.

Wimberly Valley Watershed Association
David Baker
Post Office Box 2534
Wimberly, Texas 78676
jawell@aol.com
www.visitwimberley.com/water/
512-847-1582tel

• March 2001: $2500 for general support of the Association, which seeks to protect the springs and streams of the Wimberley valley, southwest of Austin, from water pollution and groundwater pumpage associated with suburban development.

World Birding Center
Sumita Prasad, Director of Birding
Post Office Box 5485
Austin, Texas 78763-5485
sumitap@fermatainc.com
www.worldbirdingcenter.org
512-472-0052tel
512-472-0057fax

• March 2005: $3000 for a biological inventory and ecotourism plan for the Gonzales property in Santa Margarita, Texas, in the Rio Grande valley.