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We're developing this area to become an excellent resource on environmental funding for our members.
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Check the Member Area for additional resources. Please let us know what you’d like to see here, or suggest resources that would be helpful to other environmental grantmakers, by contacting Rachel Goldstein at rgoldstein@ega.org.
EGA Publications
EGA Journal Fall 2009
October 19, 2009 - EGA
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Briefing Books
Ecotourism: A Conservation Strategy for Funders
March 14, 2008 - Genevieve Biggs,, EGA
This report places U.S. foundation giving for ecotourism in the context of the broader tourism industry, details ecotourism’s promises and challenges, tracks its major sources of funding, and highlights needs and opportunities
for interested foundations.
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The Story of Stuff
December 7, 2007 - Sustainability Funders
The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption (the Sustainability Funders), a funders-only working group within EGA, and the Tides Foundation recently collaborated to produce a short film about the environmental and social impacts of our current production and consumption systems.
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Green Beyond Grants: A Toolkit for Greening Foundation Operations
April 23, 2007 - EGA with SAFSF and Sustainability Funders, EGA
GREEN BEYOND GRANTS:
A Toolkit for Greening Foundation Operations.
Grantmaking isn’t the only way to support the environment!
There are easy ways to go “green” through your organizational
practices.
EGA’s "Green Beyond Grants" guide offers simple advice and
specific steps to start your foundation on the road to practicing
environmental sustainability.
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Audio Files
Key Note: Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
November 20, 2008 - Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, EGA
Special Key Note:
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
The Prime Minister addressed the road to Copenhagen, the likelihood of achieving real success, what constitutes the Danish government's goals and commitments, and how civil society around the world can contribute to agreement by governments on an ambitious, equitable climate deal in Copenhagen.
The speech was followed by a Q&A session led by Alden Meyer, Director of Strategy and Policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Featured Conversation: Busting Silos, Creating Connection: Can Systems Thinking Change the Way We Do Business?
October 16, 2008 - EGA, EGA
The philanthropic sector is dealing with enormous, often entrenched problems. Might applying systems thinking be an effective tool for solving these problems?
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Keynote: Lois Gibbs
October 16, 2008 - Lois Gibbs, EGA
Lois Gibbs is the founder of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, (CHEJ), an organization that has assisted over 10,000 grassroots groups with organizing, technical, and general information nationwide. Today, she serves as Executive Director and speaks with communities nationwide and internationally about toxic chemicals and children’s unique vulnerability to environmental exposures. Ms. Gibbs has been recognized extensively for her critical role in the grassroots environmental justice movement. She has spoken at numerous conferences, has been featured in hundreds of newspaper articles, magazine, textbooks and has appeared on many television and radio shows including 60 Minutes and 20/20. The many awards she has received include the 1990 Goldman Environmental Prize, the 1998 Heinz Award, the 1999 John Gardner Leadership Award from the Independent Sector and, in 2003, Lois was nominated for the Noble Peace Prize.
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Links
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