RESOURCES

Environment-Related Funder Affinity Groups

As part of our commitment to facilitating collaboration among funders, EGA offers this online Funder Affinity Group Directory. If you wish to list your group, please create an account. Posting to the Funder Affinity Group Directory is subject to EGA approval.

We also offer this guide below to environment-related funder affinity groups. We hope you will find this useful in connecting with other funders working on similar issue areas. Please contact Luis Davila at ldavila@ega.org with any additions or corrections to this list.

Affinity Group Contacts

International

Australian Environmental Grantmakers
Coordinator: Amanda Martin
Level 1,
39 Little Collins Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
amanda@aegn.org.au
www.aegn.org.au

Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network (CEGN)
Coordinator: Kathryn Townshend
615 Yonge Street, Suite 502
Toronto ON M4Y 1Z5
Canada
ktownshend@cegn.org
www.cegn.org

Climate Change Philanthropic Action Network (CCPAN)
Coordinator: Denise Lee
Suite 4, 7th Floor, Berkeley Square House
Berkeley Square, London W1J 6BR
United Kingdom
d.lee@khemkafoundation.org
www.climatephilanthropists.org

Environmental Funders Network (EFN)
Coordinator: Jon Cracknell
United Kingdom
jon@jmgfoundation.org
www.greenfunders.org

European Foundation Center – Environmental Affinity Group
Coordinator: Sevdalina Rukanova
51, rue de la Concorde
1050 Brussels
Belgium
srukanova@efc.be
www.efc.be

Israel Environmental Grantmakers
Coordinator: Sigal Yaniv Feller
1 Marcus Street
Jerusalem 92232
Israel
sigal@crbj.org.il

Latin American and the Caribbean Network
of Environmental Funds (RedLAC)
Coordinator: Camila Monteiro
RedLAC
Largo do Ibam, 1/6 andar Humaitá
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
camila@funbio.org.br
http://www.redlac.org

Based in the United States

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD)
Contact: Michael Fischer
Presidio Building 1016, Second Floor
PO Box 29361
San Francisco CA 94129
mfischer@cgbd.org
www.cgbd.org

Working groups of CGBD:

1. Marine Conservation
   Contact: William Hull
   whull@cgbd.org
2. Land & Fresh Water Conservation
   Contact: William Hull
   whull@cgbd.org
3. Climate and Energy Funders
   Contact: Paige Brown
   pbrown@cgbd.org
4. Conservation Science
   Contact: William Hull
   whull@cgbd.org
5. Gulf of California – Mexico Conservation
   Contact: Marina Cazorla
   mcazorla@cgbd.org

Funders Forum on Antibiotic Resistance
Contact: Catherine Porter
P.O. Box 29104, The Presidio
San Francisco CA 94129
cjporter@igc.org

Funders Forum on Environment and Education (F2E2)
Coordinator: Geri Unger
18310 Scottsdale Blvd
Cleveland, OH 44122
geri@f2e2.org
www.f2e2.org

Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights
Coordinator: Denise Shannon
6 Grant Avenue
Tacoma Park MD 20912
denise@fundersnet.org
www.fundersnet.org

Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN)
Coordinator: Ben Starrett
1500 San Remo Avenue, Suite 249
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
ben@fundersnetwork.org
www.fundersnetwork.org

Funders for Sustainable Food Systems
Coordinator: Jamaica Maxwell
423 Washington Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco CA 94111
jamaica@ceaconsulting.com
www.foodfunders.org

Grantmakers Without Borders
Coordinator: John Harvey
PO Box 181282
Boston MA 02118
gwob@att.net
www.InternationalDonors.org

Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN)
Coordinator: Kathy Sessions
4805 St. Elmo Avenue, 2nd Floor
Bethesda, MD 20814
ksessions@hefn.org
www.hefn.org

International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP)
Coordinator: Evelyn Arce White, MA.T.
PO Box 1040
Akwesasne, NY 13655
evelyn@internationalfunders.org

International Human Rights Funders Group
Coordinator: Andrew Park
c/o Wellspring Advisors
424 West 33rd Street, Suite 460
New York, NY 10001
info@ihrfg.org
www.ihrfg.org

Peace and Security Funders
Coordinator: Katherine Magraw
7 Elliewood Avenue
Third Floor
Charlottesville, VA 22903
kmagraw@peaceandsecurity.org
www.peaceandsecurity.org

Philanthropy Roundtable
Coordinator: Alex Echols, Director of Conservation Programs
1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC
echols@conrod.com
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
Coordinator: Virginia Clarke-Laskin
911 W. Pedregosa Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Email: vclarke@safsf.org
www.safsf.org

Regional Working Groups

Northwest Environmental Funders
Coordinator: Carol Orr
Northwest Environmental Funders Coordinator
3061 Fremont Avenue N., Suite 304
Seattle WA 98103
carol@wilburforce.org
www.wilburforce.org

Texas Environmental Grantmakers Group
Contact: David Todd, dtodd@wt.org
www.texasegg.org

EGA Working Groups

Funders Network on Trade and Globalization
Coordinator: Mark Randazzo
3401 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
mark@fntg.org
www.fntg.org

Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption
Coordinator: Ann Leonard
1442A Walnut Street #272
Berkeley, CA 94709
aleonard@ega.org

Affinity Group Profiles

International

Australian Environmental Grantmakers
Coordinator: Amanda Martin
Level 1,
39 Little Collins Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
amanda@aegn.org.au
www.aegn.org.au

Group Mission
The AEGN’s mission is to help member organizations and others become more effective environmental grantmakers through information sharing, collaboration and networking. The principal objective is to improve the conservation, protection and functioning of Australia’s natural environment and ecological processes.

Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network (CEGN)
Coordinator: Kathryn Townshend
615 Yonge Street, Suite 502
Toronto ON M4Y 1Z5
Canada
ktownshend@cegn.org
www.cegn.org

Group Mission
The Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network (CEGN) is a membership group of private, community, public and corporate foundations, and government and corporate funding programs that give grants in support of the Canadian environment. CEGN’s mission is to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the Canadian environment.

CEGN’s goals are: To increase networking and collaboration among environmental grantmakers, and between grantmakers and grantseekers; to contribute to a better understanding of the context of environmental grantmaking in Canada; to promote best practices in environmental grantmaking, and provide opportunities for environmental grantmakers in Canada to develop their grantmaking skills; to promote and increase environmental giving in Canada; to serve as a voice for environmental grantmaking in Canada.

Climate Change Philanthropic Action Network (CCPAN)
Coordinator: Denise Lee
Suite 4, 7th Floor, Berkeley Square House
Berkeley Square, London W1J 6BR
United Kingdom
d.lee@khemkafoundation.org
www.climatephilanthropists.org

Group Mission
CCPAN seeks to advance the field of climate change philanthropy by bringing together donors in a structured platform to promote strategic philanthropic initiatives, coordination and collaboration at a global level. The group aims to catalyze the scale needed to solve the climate crisis by promoting opportunities for concrete action by all constituencies to address global warming. Recognizing the serious implications of climate change both to this generation and the next, CCPAN supports, disseminates and generates ideas and initiatives that highly leveragable, substantial and sustainable impacts the multinational, national and local levels.

Environmental Funders Network (EFN)
Coordinator: Jon Cracknell
United Kingdom
jon@jmgfoundation.org
www.greenfunders.org

Group Mission
EFN is an informal network of trusts, foundations and individuals making grants on environmental and conservation issues. EFN is a funder-to-funder network and is not open to grant-seeking organizations. Its main purpose is to allow for peer group contact between environmental grant-makers, and to provide a forum in which issues of common concern can be discussed.

European Foundation Center – Environmental Affinity Group
Coordinator: Sevdalina Rukanova
51, rue de la Concorde
1050 Brussels
Belgium
srukanova@efc.be
www.efc.be

Group Mission
The European Foundation Centre is an international association of foundations and corporate funders dedicated to creating and enabling legal and fiscal environment for foundations, documenting the foundation landscape, strengthening the infrastructure of the sector, and promoting collaboration, both among foundations and between foundations and other actors, to advance the public good in Europe and beyond.

Israel Environmental Grantmakers
Coordinator: Sigal Yaniv Feller
1 Marcus Street
Jerusalem 92232
Israel
sigal@crbj.org.il

Latin American and the Caribbean Network
of Environmental Funds (RedLAC)
Coordinator: Camila Monteiro
RedLAC
Largo do Ibam, 1/6 andar Humaitá
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
camila@funbio.org.br
http://www.redlac.org

Group Mission
RedLAC is made up by a group of organizations that finance conservation efforts and sustainable use of natural resources in order to enhance the environment and allow humanity to inhabit this planet in harmony with other life forms.

The community is made up by institutional donors at the local level representing various countries, with a deep knowledge of the diversity of social and cultural sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean, and with the potential to ensure the continuity of our conservation efforts.

Based in the United States

The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD)
Contact: Michael Fischer
Presidio Building 1016, Second Floor PO Box 29361
San Francisco CA 94129
mfischer@cgbd.org
www.cgbd.org

Contact: Michael Fischer
Presidio Building 1016, Second Floor
PO Box 29361
San Francisco CA 94129
mfischer@cgbd.org
www.cgbd.org

Group Mission
The mission of the CGBD is to support foundations in their efforts to conserve and restore biological diversity in order to safeguard and improve global environmental health.

Working Groups

1. Marine Conservation- To save the global oceans and the biodiversity contained therein by strengthening marine conservation grantmaking and providing a vehicle for information sharing, dialogue, strategy development and collaboration among funders.
   
2. Land & Fresh Water Conservation- To protect biodiversity in global terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems by strengthening grantmaking and providing a vehicle for information sharing, dialogue, strategy development and collaboration among funders.
   
3. Climate and Energy Funders- To expand the field of climate and energy philanthropy, and to promote collaborative, strategic grantmaking among its members.
   
4. Conservation Science- It engages CGBD members and other funders on a broad range of conservation science issues of interest to each of the current CGBD working groups. These efforts complement the programs of the current Working Groups and provide a cross-cutting perspective on conservation science that informs the biodiversity grantmaking of all CGBD members.
   
5. Gulf of California – Mexico Conservation - To protect and save marine and terrestrial biodiversity of the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in Mexico by strengthening conservation grantmaking and providing a vehicle for information-sharing, dialogue, strategy development and collaboration among funders.
   

Group Mission
The Funders Forum on Antibiotic Resistance (FFAR) is a small partnership organized late in 2000 to respond to an emerging concern about antibiotic resistance in humans caused by over-use of antibiotics in agriculture, specifically in the poultry, pork and beef industries. It links environmental exposures to human health in this singular concern. FFAR is a unique collaboration in that it responds directly to a coalition of health and environment NGOs (the Campaign to Keep Antibiotics Working), with rapid response to the priorities of the campaign -- using FFAR as a coordinating service.

The Funders’ Forum on Environment and Education
Coordinator: Geri Unger, Director
18310 Scottsdale Blvd
Cleveland, OH 44122
216.991.3085
geri@f2e2.org
www.f2e2.org

Group Mission
Funders’ Forum on Environment and Education (F2E2) is an informal network of grantmakers interested in environment and place-based approached to education that contribute to positive student outcomes, academic achievement, personal development as well as environmental literacy, at the K-12 and post-secondary levels. F2E2 is a project of the Tides Center.

Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights
Coordinator: Denise Shannon, Executive Director
6 Grant Avenue
Takoma Park MD 20912
denise@fundersnet.org
www.fundersnet.org

Group Mission
The Funders Network is a network of grantmakers who address issues of population, reproductive health and reproductive rights, both domestically and internationally. Its members approach their work with a wide variety of concerns, priorities and strategies, but they share a common goal: to ensure that all people have access to the information and services they need to manage their own fertility and protect and promote their sexual and reproductive health. To that end, the Funders Network seeks to improve communication, foster collaboration, and enhance the overall effectiveness of grantmakers in this field.

Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Coordinator: Ben Starrett, Executive Director
1500 San Remo Avenue, Suite 249
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
Telephone: (305) 667-6350
Facsimile: (305) 667-6355
ben@fundersnetwork.org
www.fundersnetwork.org

Group Mission
The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that exists to inspire, strengthen and expand philanthropic leadership and funders’ abilities to support organizations working to improve communities through better development decisions and growth policies.

The Network’s current projects address: 1) communications, 2) community foundations leadership, 3) regional and neighborhood equity, 4) transportation, 5) green building and green neighborhoods, and 6) healthy people and places.

Funders for Sustainable Food Systems
Coordinator: Jamaica Maxwell
423 Washington Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco CA 94111
jamaica@ceaconsulting.com
www.foodfunders.org

Group Mission
The Sustainable Food Systems Funders (formerly FAWG) is a California-based group of public and private grant makers whose mission is to promote a sustainable agriculture and food system in California that: protects the environment, human health and the welfare of farm animals; supports all parts of an economically viable agriculture sector and provides just conditions and fair compensation for farmers and workers; provides all people with locally-produced, affordable and healthy food; and contributes to the vitality of rural and urban communities and the links between them.

Grantmakers Without Borders
Coordinator: John Harvey, Executive Director
PO Box 181282
Boston MA 02118
gwob@att.net
www.InternationalDonors.org

Group Mission
Grantmakers Without Borders is a philanthropic network dedicated to increasing funding for international social justice and environmental sustainability and to improving the practice of international grantmaking. The membership is currently numbering close to150 grantmaking entities. Grantmakers without Borders is a project of the Tides Center.

Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN)
Coordinator: Kathy Sessions, Coordinator
8823 Hawkins Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
hefn@aol.com
www.hefn.org

Group Mission
HEFN is a network of funders committed to grantmaking at the nexus of environment and health. HEFN provides information and updates for its members, organizes funder events, does outreach in philanthropy, and enables funders to collaborate around shared goals and projects. HEFN is a project of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity.

International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP)
Evelyn Arce White, MA.T.
IFIP Coordinator
First Nations Development Institute
2300 Fall Hill Ave, Suite 412
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Phone: 540-371-5615 ext. 14
Fax: 540-371-3505
ifip@firstnations.org
www.firstpeoples.org/ifip.html

Group Mission
IFIP’s mission is to expand, enrich, and increase the effectiveness of grantmaking for international indigenous development. IFP accomplishes its mission by increasing knowledge and understanding of the unique issues of Indigenous peoples by facilitating dialogue both among its grantmaking members and between that membership and Indigenous communities.

International Human Rights Funders Group
Coordinator: Andrew Park
c/o Wellspring Advisors
424 West 33rd Street, Suite 460
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 1 212 609-2631
Fax: 1 212 609-2633
info@ihrfg.org
www.ihrfg.org

Group Mission
The International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) is an association of grantmakers devoted to supporting efforts to achieve the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the treaties and laws it has generated so that all people may enjoy a truly and fully human existence. Formed in 1994, the IHRFG has become a multi-national network representing nearly ninety grantmaking institutions and individual philanthropists committed to advancing human rights around the world. The Group is open to grantmakers who are currently funding human rights; adding a human rights component to their current grantmaking; exploring links with their current programs, such as peace and security, population and the environment; or who simply want to know more about human rights around the world.

Peace and Security Funders Group
Coordinator: Katherine Magraw
7 Elliewood Avenue
Third Floor
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 989-1514
kmagraw@peaceandsecurity.org
www.peaceandsecurity.org

Group Mission
Peace and Security Funders Group is dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of philanthropy working to promote international peace and security. The group is maintained as an informed, engaged and collegial community of funders, whose numbers and investments in the field work effectively on a broad range of issues from eliminated and limiting the spread of biological and nuclear weapons, to preventing and resolving violent conflict, to enhancing the capability of cooperative international efforts and institutions to provide international human security.

Philanthropy Roundtable
Coordinator: Alex Echols, Director of Conservation Programs
1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC
echols@conrod.com
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/

Group Mission
The environmental Breakthrough Group was created for donors who are committed to debate the political economy of environmental quality and find solutions to environmental problems. The Philanthropy Roundtable seeks to strengthen civic institutions for local and regional problem-solving in the area of environmental conservation. The Philanthropy Roundtable has undertaken a new initiative to broaden participation in conservation philanthropy and increase the range of conservation issues supported.

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
Coordinator: Virginia Clarke-Laskin
911 W. Pedregosa Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Tel 805.687.0551
Fax 805.569.2686
Email: vclarke@safsf.org
www.safsf.org

Group Mission
The Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) is a project of Community Partners. SAFSF was formed in 1991 by funders with a shared interest in economically viable, environmentally sound and socially responsible systems of food production, processing, distribution and consumption. Originally named the Sustainable Agriculture Grantmakers, SAFSF functioned as a working group of the Environmental Grantmakers Association from 1991 until October 2005. SAFSF became a project of Community Partners as of November 1, 2005.

SAFSF is a national working group of grant-makers that seeks to promote a more sustainable agriculture and food system. SASF does this primarily by fostering communication, engaging in shared learning and exchanging information about issues connected to sustainable agriculture and food systems. SAFSF seeks to carry out its mission by providing opportunities for collaboration, increasing awareness of the issues as well as funding needs, and expanding beyond the current membership to increase support and funding for organizations that (i) promote sustainable food production; (ii) link to concerns about sustainability of our food system; and/or (iii) connect food production with issues of environmental stewardship, diet and health, and viability of communities.

Regional Working Groups

Northwest Environmental Funders
Coordinator: Carol Orr; Grants Administrator, Wilburforce Foundation;
Northwest Environmental Funders Coordinator
3061 Fremont Avenue N., Suite 304
Seattle WA 98103
carol@wilburforce.org
www.wilburforce.org

Group Mission
Northwest Environmental Funders is an informal regional coalition of grantmakers that meet quarterly to discuss issues and programs, creating opportunities for networking and collaboration. Member organizations rotate hosting and facilitation. The agenda is set with assistance from the membership attending the meeting prior. The host organization invites speakers and/or organizes panels around the chosen topic.

Texas Environmental Grantmakers Group
Contact: David Todd, dtodd@wt.org
www.texasegg.org

EGA Working Groups

Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption
Coordinator: Ann Leonard
1442A Walnut Street #272
Berkeley, CA 94709
aleonard@ega.org

Group Mission
The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption supports foundations and individual donors in their efforts to promote a shift to a more sustainable economy and culture. The Workgroup grew out of a concern that our economic practices and policies are increasingly in direct conflict with sustainable development. In particular, US consumption and production patterns, based on the principles of maximizing growth and acquisition, are the root causes of many major environmental problems.