Financing Nature: Closing the global biodiversity financing gapSarah Bergs
2. Deutz, A., Heal, G.M., Niu, R., Swanson, E., Townshend, T., Zhu, L., Delmar, A., et al. (2020), Financing Nature: Closing the global biodiversity financing gap, The Paulson Institute, The Nature Conservancy, and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Schoolyard Habitats: How to Guide - Part 7, Appendix
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Oceans & Fisheries work aims to increase the health and productivity of coastal fisheries by replacing unsustainable fishing practices with innovative approaches that recognize the full, long-term value of sustainable marine ecosystems and that improve the economic, nutritional, and social conditions of the poor and vulnerable people whose well-being depends on these near-shore fisheries.
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, WRI and more than 25 partners launched Reefs at Risk Revisited, a comprehensive analysis of the threats to coral reefs. Find out more at http://bit.ly/hSWmhU
Covering Natural Disaster Losses for Water Utilities - An insurance mutual fo...CAWASA
The Caribbean region is highly prone to climate hazards and has a history of being adversely impacted by weather related events, resulting in significant losses and damages.
Most of the Caribbean islands lie within the North Atlantic “hurricane belt,” with the major climatic events affecting the region being tropical depressions and cyclones, which generate strong winds, and rainstorms that cause flooding, landslides, and storm surges.
Financing Nature: Closing the global biodiversity financing gapSarah Bergs
2. Deutz, A., Heal, G.M., Niu, R., Swanson, E., Townshend, T., Zhu, L., Delmar, A., et al. (2020), Financing Nature: Closing the global biodiversity financing gap, The Paulson Institute, The Nature Conservancy, and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Schoolyard Habitats: How to Guide - Part 7, Appendix
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Oceans & Fisheries work aims to increase the health and productivity of coastal fisheries by replacing unsustainable fishing practices with innovative approaches that recognize the full, long-term value of sustainable marine ecosystems and that improve the economic, nutritional, and social conditions of the poor and vulnerable people whose well-being depends on these near-shore fisheries.
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, WRI and more than 25 partners launched Reefs at Risk Revisited, a comprehensive analysis of the threats to coral reefs. Find out more at http://bit.ly/hSWmhU
Covering Natural Disaster Losses for Water Utilities - An insurance mutual fo...CAWASA
The Caribbean region is highly prone to climate hazards and has a history of being adversely impacted by weather related events, resulting in significant losses and damages.
Most of the Caribbean islands lie within the North Atlantic “hurricane belt,” with the major climatic events affecting the region being tropical depressions and cyclones, which generate strong winds, and rainstorms that cause flooding, landslides, and storm surges.
Just as the children of 1989 became the leaders of today, the children and young people of 2019 will be the leaders of the future. The children inspire us.
We want to join hands with them to find solutions to face today's challenges, to build a better tomorrow for them and for the world they will inherit.
An international white paper I contributed to for the US National Science Foundation and the World Bank.
Biodiversty remains broadly misunderstood and left behind in corporate sustainability strategies.
This report offers a fresh look on how businesses could review their way of operating.
More work at www.bluestrike-group.com
In 2012 Planet Aid celebrated its 15th year of operation.
When we started back in 1997 we had just a few dozen or so drop-off boxes in the Boston area, collecting several thousand pounds of clothes a week. Today, our operations
reach across 22 states. In 2012 alone we collected 110 million pounds of clothing from 18,000 collection bins that we own and operate. Our growth is a testament to the hard work of our staff and the help received from our many supporters.
Every day, more businesses, schools and community groups choose to host Planet Aid bins, helping to make recycling more convenient for all and saving valuable resources.
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The Love Canal site began a movement vital to the field of environmental health because it resulted in the establishment of superfund sites. The Love Canal incident, located in Niagara Falls, New York, became a home to the disposal of over 20,000 tons of hazardous waste ranging from dioxin, pesticides and other organic compounds (Friis, 2012, p. 333), which we learned over the course of this class are detrimental substances not only to the environment, but to human health as well. In1942 the Niagara Power and Development Company granted permission to the Hooker Chemical Company in 1942 to dump waste into the canal. Hooker was the primary company, however, the City of Niagara and the United States Army used the site as well (Gibbs, 2008). Needless to say, there were a few responsible parties, but they were granted permission under pretenses that it would be used for the disposal of waste only. The responsibility for the allowing this national emergency falls in the primary hands of the government agency: the Niagara Falls Board of Education. The land was sold to Board of Education who blatantly ignored the “warning” of the chemical wastes buried on the property (Gibbs, 2008) and Hooker even provided a disclaimer relieving any possible liability. Negligence on behalf of the Hooker Chemical Corporation did occur, however, the true failure came about when the Board of Education decided to build a school and housing on the land without investigating potential adverse health effects of chemical waste (i.e. miscarriages, birth defects, cancer and urinary tract diseases (Friis, 2012, p.334).
Back in the 1970s, the concerns and complaints started to rise, and the city did nothing to protect its residents, except cover the substances with dirt and add a few window fans in homes that contained high levels of chemical residues (Gibbs, 2008). Residents were suffering and many organizations and agencies came about during this time frame (i.e. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Love Canal Homeowners Association, Love Canal Parents Movement, etc.). Although, there is speculation as to why the New York State Department of Health didn't interfere sooner, ultimately, the Board of Education doesn't report to the State Department of Health. It is a separate entity, yet they are both government agencies that share in the responsibility to safeguard the people one way or another. The responsible parties did pay their dues, but no amount of money can heal the terrible experiences these citizens faced. Both the Hooker Chemical Corporation and the City of Niagara Falls paid more than $20 million to the former residents of the Love Canal Site; and additionally, more than $200 million was paid to the New York State and the federal government for cleanup of the site (p.334). One positive result is the development of a superfund, administered by the EPA, which sustains regulations that hold liable parties accountable for their actions when it comes to .
Harnessing nature to protect our communities.
"Natural Defenses in Action" highlights the important role that natural and nature-based approaches can play in reducing the mounting risks to our communities from weather and climate-related natural hazards. The report highlights how properly managed ecosystems and well-designed policies can help reduce disaster risk in ways that are good for both people and nature. "Natural Defenses in Action" profiles a dozen case studies that highlight best-in-class examples of how natural defenses are being put to use to avoid or reduce risks from flooding, coastal storms, erosion, and wildfire. It illustrates that harnessing nature to protect people and property is not just a good idea—it already is being done across the country!
A new report from the National Wildlife Federation looks at how 20 species that depend on a healthy Gulf are faring in the wake of the BP oil spill. The full extent of the spill’s impacts may take years or even decades to unfold, but Five Years & Counting: Gulf Wildlife in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster examines what the science tells us so far.
Climate change already is having significant impacts on the nation’s species and ecosystems, and these effects are projected to increase considerably over time. As a result, climate change is now a primary lens through which conservation and natural resource management must be viewed. How should we prepare for and respond to the impacts of climate change on wildlife and their habitats? What should we be doing differently in light of these climatic shifts, and what actions continue to make sense? Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice offers guidance for designing and carrying out conservation in the face of a rapidly changing climate.
Addressing the growing threats brought about or accentuated by rapid climate change requires a fundamental shift in the practice of natural resource management and conservation. Traditionally, conservationists have focused their efforts on protecting and managing systems to maintain their current state, or to restore degraded systems back to a historical state regarded as more desirable. Conservation planners and practitioners will need to adopt forward-looking goals and implement strategies specifically designed to prepare for and adjust to current and future climatic changes, and the associated impacts on natural systems and human communities—an emerging discipline known as climate change adaptation.
The field of climate change adaptation is still in its infancy. Although there is increasing attention focused on the subject, much of the guidance developed to date has been general in nature, concentrating on high-level principles rather than specific actions. It is against this backdrop that this guide was prepared as a means for helping put adaptation principles into practice, and for moving adaptation from planning to action.
MAKING CONSERVATION CLIMATE SMART
The fate of our wildlife and wild places depends on steps we take now to prepare for and cope with the growing impacts of a changing climate. While managers traditionally have looked to the past for inspiration, increasingly we will be faced with future conditions that may have no historical analogs.
Although climate adaptation will have costs, the cost of inaction—through continuing with business as usual—is likely to be far higher. Furthermore, the sooner we begin the task of planning for a climate-altered future and taking meaningful adaptation action, the more successful these efforts ultimately will be. It is imperative that natural resource managers begin to act now to prepare for and manage these changes, in order to provide the best chance for cherished conservation values to endure. Putting climate-smart conservation into practice can make a difference for sustaining our nation’s diverse species and ecosystems well into the future. Indeed, protecting our rich conservation legacy depends on our rising to this challenge.
This National Wildlife Federation report details how 14 Gulf wildlife species are faring in the wake of BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf. Since the tragedy, NWF has closely monitored the harm done to wildlife and important habitats in the Gulf and along the coast. Though the full impacts of the oil spill remain unknown, this summarizes what we know so far, and what restoration still needs to be done. http://www.nwf.org/fouryearslater
Be Out There takes an in-depth look at how to balance screen time with green time in the report, Friending Fresh Air: Connecting Kids to Nature in a Digital Age. Here, we offer insight on how to use technology you already love and still connect your kids to nature.
Offering sufficient outdoor time improves the overall health of our children while lengthening attention spans, diminishing aggressiveness, improving test scores and ultimately advancing learning. This guide addresses those concerns.
National Wildlife Federation (NWF) created the Be Out There movement to give back to American children what they don’t even know they have lost: their connection to the natural world. In the process, NWF aims to help reverse alarming health trends and help families raise happier, healthier children. Signs everywhere show the spirit of the movement taking hold.
For more information, go to www.beoutthere.org/join
Nature deficit has had profound impacts on our children’s mental and physical health. Over the past 20 years, time spent playing outdoors has been cut in half, but the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled and the adolescent obesity rate has tripled.
National Wildlife Federation (NWF) created the Be Out There movement to give back to American children what they don’t even know they have lost: their connection to the natural world. In the process, NWF aims to help reverse alarming health trends and help families raise happier, healthier children. Signs everywhere show the spirit of the movement taking hold.
For more information, go to www.beoutthere.org/join
American kids are out of shape, tuned out and stressed out because they’re missing something essential to their health and development, unstructured time playing outdoors.
National Wildlife Federation (NWF) created the Be Out There movement to give back to American children what they don’t even know they have lost: their connection to the natural world. In the process, NWF aims to help reverse alarming health trends and help families raise happier, healthier children. Signs everywhere show the spirit of the movement taking hold.
For more information, go to www.beoutthere.org/join
How Outdoor Education and Outdoor School Time Create High Performance Students.
In this report, we summarize the available studies on the role of outdoor learning programs and outdoor play time in furthering children’s overall education: improving their lifelong learning skills, prospects for career success and school test scores.
National Wildlife Federation (NWF) created the Be Out There movement to give back to American children what they don’t even know they have lost: their connection to the natural world. In the process, NWF aims to help reverse alarming health trends and help families raise happier, healthier children. Signs everywhere show the spirit of the movement taking hold.
For more information, go to www.beoutthere.org/join
2. Safeguarding Wildlife and
its Habitat page 4
Connecting Kids with Nature page 6
Taking Strides to Stop
Carbon Pollution page 8
Financial Overview page 10
Affiliates and Regional Offices page 12
How to Help page 13
Volunteer Leadership, Executive Staff
and Corporate Partners page 14
3. Innocent questions like these are often how we find ourselves introducing children to the complex beauty of
our natural world. The stories of why people decide to join our fight to protect wildlife hold a similar theme.
A parent or grandparent encouraged them as a child to explore nature. There, they witnessed a beautiful
sunset, caught their first fish or spotted an owl nesting in a tree. These moments create memories that last a
lifetime … and influence new generations to care for and conserve our environment.
Sadly, though, the nature of childhood has changed. Today there isn’t much nature in it. America’s
childhood has moved indoors, taking with it the instinct to keep the wild alive. At National Wildlife
Federation we know this is a trend we must reverse, which is why we are proud to highlight as one of our
successes for 2012 our public commitment to get 10 million more children outside.
In addition to this goal — and despite the economic uncertainty and precarious political climate that marked
this past year — NWF, working with our partners, was also able to achieve much success for wildlife. From
restoring genetically pure Yellowstone bison to their native habitat on tribal lands to achieving passage of
the RESTORE Act, which dedicates billions of dollars to restoring communities and habitats in the Gulf of
Mexico, we are making a significant impact for wildlife.
These are just a few of the many accomplishments that would not have been possible without the support of
our members and donors. Together we are influencing real change. But as we look ahead, we know there is
still much more that needs to be done.
Climate change is having profound effects on our natural areas — like record droughts, forest fires and
devastating weather events such as Superstorm Sandy. Unless we act quickly, a destabilized climate will
become a principal driver of species extinction. National Wildlife Federation is playing a critical role in
efforts to reduce carbon pollution, stop the expansion of dirty fuels and expedite the deployment of clean
energy alternatives.
By leading the fight against climate change, protecting at-risk habitats and connecting kids with nature, we
are working to keep the wild alive across America. And we are grateful to have you as our partner in this
critically important fight. Thank you for standing with us.
Sincerely,
Do fish sleep? How do birds fly? What are
whiskers for? What does a polar bear sound like?
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Larry J. Schweiger
President CEO
Stephen K. Allinger
Chair, Board of Directors
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Safeguarding Wildlife
and its HabitatFrom iconic species like the bison to the
common butterfly, wildlife has the ability
to inspire awe and wonder in us all. Our
work is rooted in protecting the amazing
wildlife that calls our nation home. The
following highlights showcase a few of
our efforts safeguarding wildlife over the
past year.
5. Passing the Historic RESTORE Act
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010,
the future for Gulf wildlife looked bleak. Sadly, there are marine species in the region that are still feeling
the impacts of that disaster today. But in 2012, Gulf wildlife got good news. Thanks to efforts spearheaded
by National Wildlife Federation and other environmental groups, Congress passed the RESTORE Act,
which establishes a multi-billion dollar fund, created from fines paid by BP and others responsible for
the Gulf disaster, to be used to restore the environmental health of the region. This represents the largest
ecosystem restoration trust fund in history and will pave the way toward protecting severely degraded
habitat for future generations of people and wildlife alike.
Relocating Bison to their Ancestral Homeland
The March 2012 move of 61 wild, genetically pure bison to Montana’s Fort Peck Indian Reservation was the
result of more than 20 years of effort and critical partnerships between National Wildlife Federation, tribes
(including the Assiniboine and Sioux of Fort Peck) and state and federal agencies. It was the first return of
wild bison to tribal lands in more than a century — they are now flourishing and have given birth to more
than 20 calves. The relocation is the first of many we hope to forge with Native American tribes, and it
is occurring in tandem with NWF’s other conservation efforts to protect and restore bison. We hope that
future generations will grow up in a world where an iconic wildlife species like the American bison has the
room it needs to roam safe and free on its native landscape.
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“We consider it a matter of justice
that funds from this terrible [oil spill]
disaster be returned to this area of the
country that was so affected, to help
it recover.”
Susan Kaderka
Regional Executive Director,
South Central Region
6. It’s imperative that today’s kids — our
future conservationists — get back
outside and reap all the benefits of
outdoor play. Featured in this section
are two of the ways we are working with
parents, educators and caregivers to
get families reconnected to the amazing
natural world around them.
Connecting Kids
with Nature
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7. Helping 10 Million Kids Get Outside
Our children are the conservationists of the future. Yet today less than 25 percent of kids play outside daily,
as opposed to 75 percent only a generation ago. This disturbing trend is affecting the health and well-being
of our kids. And as they grow up, these kids could have a connection to nature that is tenuous at best. That’s
why National Wildlife Federation has established a goal of getting 10 million more kids outside by 2015.
Through our Be Out There™ movement and through active partnerships with the major influencers of
children’s time — parents, policymakers and child-serving institutions like schools and daycares — we are
working to meet this ambitious goal.
Greening Our Nation’s Schools
National Wildlife Federation is active in more than 6,000 schools across the United States helping children
learn about natural science, plant and animal species, energy, recycling and water conservation. With our
Eco-Schools USA program, outdoor “green time” is woven into school curricula. NWF’s Eco-Schools USA
and Schoolyard Habitats®
programs help schools across the U.S. to improve academic performance, teach
respect and responsibility, save money and protect wildlife and the environment. In 2012, NWF’s Eco-
Schools USA program grew by over 1,500 schools, and 500 new schoolyard habitats were certified. Thanks
to these efforts, more than one million students are now spending regular time outdoors.
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“Connections with nature instill a sense
of wonder and curiosity and help bring
out the secret scientists in all of us.
When we embrace the natural world, we
begin to value and protect it not only for
ourselves, but for the benefit of future
generations.”
Michele Hoffman Trotter
Hike Seek™ Volunteer
8. Taking Strides to Stop
Carbon PollutionClimate change is having profound effects
on the resiliency and health of wildlife
and its habitat. NWF knows that in order
to truly combat this issue, we need to
halt the rapid expansion of dirty fuels,
combat carbon pollution and champion a
clean energy future. The following section
showcases our efforts on these fronts.
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9. Protecting the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge from Dangerous Drilling
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a magnificent, 19.6-million-acre expanse of largely untouched
wilderness that is home to a vast array of wildlife such as walruses, grizzly and polar bears, caribou,
migratory birds and Arctic foxes, among others. When the 112th Congress attempted to open the refuge
for oil drilling and energy development, National Wildlife Federation acted quickly and decisively to
defend this critical habitat by defeating the legislative attacks against it. As the Arctic Refuge continues to
be targeted for oil and gas drilling, NWF is advocating on behalf of this iconic landscape by seeking to have
it designated as a federal wilderness area. This will effectively protect the Arctic Refuge from consideration
for energy development.
Mobilizing Grassroots Support Urging the
EPA to Cut Carbon Pollution
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started considering how to limit America’s carbon
pollution, National Wildlife Federation and our supporters were there to advocate for the environment
and for wildlife. Working with other environmental organizations, we submitted an astounding 2.1 million
comments from Americans all over the country to the EPA in favor of stricter carbon pollution standards
for coal-fired power plants. This massive volume was the largest number of public comments ever submitted
to a federal agency, and the message was received loud and clear. In an unprecedented decision, the EPA put
in place groundbreaking regulations to limit carbon pollution from new coal-fired power plants. The next
step is to ensure that limits are put on carbon pollution from existing power plants, as well.
“If we stand together, unpolluted by
politics and oil profits, united about
what’s morally right, we can shift the
political debate. And our legacy will be
that we stood up for those who don’t
have a voice.”
Felice Stadler
Senior Director,
Climate and Energy
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10. The organization’s consolidated
statement of activities includes the
results of the operations of the National
Wildlife Federation (NWF) and National
Wildlife Federation Endowment, Inc.
Financial Overview
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Funding
In fiscal year 2012, NWF revenue totaled $92 million, with 67 percent of this revenue coming from
supporters through memberships, donations, publications and catalog.
Thirty-five million dollars in donations and bequests came from generous individual donors, including our
members, Guardians of the Wild, Leaders Club, the J.N. “Ding” Darling Circle and members of our bequest
program, the Legacy Society.
Foundations and corporations provided 225 grants for National Wildlife Federation’s conservation and
education programs, totaling $22 million. Major foundation grants were awarded by the Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Great Lakes Fishery Trust, Joyce Foundation,
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Kendeda Fund, Keith Campbell Foundation, The Kresge
Foundation, McKnight Foundation, New York Community Trust, Sarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH
Perpetual Charitable Trust, Town Creek Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation, Wyss Foundation and other anonymous donors.
Revenues generated by NWF’s publications and films totaled $17 million. Nature Education Materials’
revenue totaled $10 million. Gain on investment income totaled $5 million, and royalties and other income
yielded $3 million.
Supporting Services
General, administrative and fundraising expenses, which support NWF’s conservation mission, totaled
only 20 percent of total expenses for 2012.
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2012 EXPENSES
80%
20%
Support
services
Conservation
education
programs
Foundations and
corporations
2012 REVENUE
38%
23%
18%
11%
10%
Individuals
Publications
Other
Nature
education
materials
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES
For the Year Ended August 31, 2012 ($ in thousands)
REVENUE
Contributions from individuals $35,172
Contributions from foundations corporations $21,511
Publications $16,561
Nature educations materials $10,003
Other $9,475
Total Revenue $92,722
EXPENSE
CONSERVATION EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Conservation advocacy programs $37,163
Education outreach and publications $21,454
Other nature education programs $10,785
Membership education programs $11,582
Total program expense $80,984
SUPPORT SERVICES
Fund raising $10,780
General and administrative $8,872
Total support service expense $19,652
Total expense $100,636
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS BEFORE GAINS ($7,914)
Other gains $2,275
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS ($5,639)
NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF THE YEAR $48,213
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $42,574
12. Alabama
Wildlife
Federation
Arizona
Wildlife
Federation
Arkansas
Wildlife
Federation
Colorado
Wildlife
Federation
Connecticut Forest
Park Association
New Jersey Audubon Society
PennFuture
Delaware Nature Society
National Aquarium
Florida
Wildlife
Federation
Georgia
Wildlife
Federation
Idaho
Wildlife
Federation
Prairie
Rivers
Network
Indiana
Wildlife
Federation
West Virginia
Rivers Coalition
Iowa Wildlife
Federation
Kansas
Wildlife
Federation
Louisiana
Wildlife
Federation
Natural Resources
Council of Maine
Environmental League
of Massachusetts
Michigan United
Conservation Clubs
Minnesota
Conservation
Federation
Mississippi
Wildlife
Federation
Conservation
Federation
of Missouri
Montana
Wildlife
Federation
Nebraska
Wildlife
Federation
Nevada
Wildlife
Federation
New Mexico
Wildlife
Federation
Environmental
Advocates
of New York
North Carolina
Wildlife Federation
North Dakota
Wildlife
Federation
Environment Council
of Rhode Island
South Carolina
Wildlife Federation
South Dakota
Wildlife Federation
Tennessee
Wildlife
Federation
Vermont Natural
Resources Council
Northeast
Regional Center New Hampshire Audubon Society
Wisconsin
Wildlife
Federation
Wyoming
Wildlife
Federation
Association
of Northwest
Steelheaders
Planning and
Conservation
League
Virginia Conservation Network
National Advocacy Center
Earth Conservation Corps
Mid-Atlantic Regional Center
NWF Affiliate
NWF Regional Center
South Central
Regional Center
—Atlanta Office
Great Lakes Regional Center
South Central
Regional Center
Texas
Conservation
Alliance
Rocky Mountains and Prairies
Regional Center—Missoula Office
Rocky Mountains and Prairies
Regional Center—Boulder Office
Pacific Regional Center
NWF Headquarters
Virgin Islands
Conservation
Society
Sociedad
Ornitológica
Puertorriqueña, Inc.
Conservation
Council
for Hawai i
Renewable
Resources
Coalition and
Foundation
ALASKA HAWAII PUERTO RICO VIRGIN ISLANDS
Affiliates and Regional Offices
Affiliates and
Regional Offices
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13. How to Help
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Outright Gifts
• Give monthly through our Leaders Club program
• Become a Guardian of the Wild with a yearly donation of $100-$999
• Join the J.N. “Ding” Darling Circle with an annual gift of $1,000 or more
• Honor a loved one with a memorial or tribute gift
• Contribute a gift of securities, such as stocks or bonds
Estate Gifts
• Remember NWF in your will or trust
• Make a gift through your Individual Retirement Account
Life Income Gifts
• Set up a Charitable Gift Annuity to support NWF while still receiving
yearly income
• Make a donation from your Charitable Remainder Trust
Matching Gifts
• Your gift could double — or even triple! — if your employer is one of
thousands that match employee donations to charitable organizations
like NWF. For more information, please visit www.nwf.org/matching
For more information on how you can help or to make a donation,
please call us at 1-800-822-9919 or visit ww.nwf.org/howtohelp
14. Volunteer Leadership, Executive
Staff and Corporate Partners
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Board of
Directors
as of September 1, 2012
Stephen Allinger
Chair
Albany, NY
Deborah Spalding
Chair Elect
Guilford, CT
Paul Beaudette
Eastern Vice Chair
East Greenwich, RI
David Carruth
Central Vice Chair
Clarendon, AR
Kathleen Hadley
Western Vice Chair
Butte, MT
Gregor Bailar
At-Large Director
McLean, VA
Brian Bashore
Region 9 Director
Lincoln, NE
Tahlia Bear
At-Large Director
Longmont, CO
Virginia Brock
Region 4 Director
Crawfordville, FL
Clark Bullard
Region 6 Director
Urbana, IL
Beatrice Busch von Gontard
At-Large Director
Front Royal, VA
Alison Byers
At-Large Director
Philadelphia, PA
Shelley Cohen
At-Large Director
Washington, DC
Sharon Darnov
At-Large Director
Los Angeles, CA
John Grant
At-Large Director
Atlanta, GA
Monty Halcomb
At-Large Director
Wartrace, TN
David Hargett
Region 3 Director
Greer, SC
Mark Heckert
Region 11 Director
Puyallup, WA
William Houston
Region Director 1
Kingfield, ME
Jerry Little
At-Large Director
Clifton, VA
Christopher Nook
At-Large Director
Russell, OH
Gloria Reuben
At-Large Director
New York, NY
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
At-Large Director
Iowa City, IA
Kent Salazar
Region 10 Director
Albuquerque, NM
Truman Semans
At-Large Director
Durham, NC
Leslie Shad
At-Large Director
Evanston, IL
Gregory Smith
At-Large Director
Laurel, MD
Mary Van Kerrebrook
Region 8 Director
Houston, TX
Lise Van Susteren
Region 2 Director
Bethesda, MD
Bruce Wallace
Region 7 Director
Ann Arbor, MI
Nicole Wood
Region 5 Director
Bonne Terre, MO
Julia Reed Zaic
Region 12 Director
Laguna Beach, CA
Endowment
Trustees
as of September 1, 2012
Alex Speyer III
Chair
Pittsburgh, PA
Stephen K. Allinger
Ex Officio Trustee
Albany, NY
Jerry Little
Trustee
Clifton, VA
E. Wayne Nordberg
Trustee
New York, NY
Deborah Spalding
Trustee
Guilford, CT
Eric Steinmiller
Trustee
Washington, DC
Charles A. Veatch
Trustee
Reston, VA
Executive
Staff
Larry J. Schweiger
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Jaime Berman Matyas
Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
Barbara McIntosh
Senior Vice President and
General Council
Anthony Caligiuri
Senior Vice President,
Conservation and Education
Programs
Dulce Gomez-Zormelo
Vice President, Finance
Chief Financial Officer
Treasurer
Vice
Presidents
Julie Blessyn
Kevin Coyle
Meri-Margaret Deoudes
John Kostyack
Jim Lyon
Matt Schuttloffel
Anne Senft
Maureen Smith
15. 2012 NWF Annual Report 15
President’s
Advisory
Council
as of September 1, 2012
Ellen H. Carroll
Chair
Ocala, FL
Kay Kelley Arnold
Little Rock, AR
Mark W. Baum
Reston, VA
Loren Blackford
New York, NY
Joseph Brennan
Evanston, IL
Magalen O. Bryant
Middleburg, VA
Fran Buchholzer
Akron, OH
Elizabeth Burleson
White Plains, NY
Peter Blaze Corcoran, Ed.D
Sanibel, FL
Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn and
Martha Darling
Ann Arbor, MI
Leslie C. Devereaux
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Nicholas Moore Eisenberger
New York, NY
Michael V. Finley
Medford, OR
Rick Flory and Lee Robert
Jackson, WY
James Fowler
New York, NY
Jameson S. French
Kingston, NH
Robert H. Gardiner
Cumberland Foreside, ME
Tom Gilmore
Pocono Pines, PA
Raymond and Linda Golden
Palm Beach, FL
Susan Gottlieb
Beverly Hills, CA
Dale L. Grimm Esq.
Westlake Village, CA
Maureen Hackett, MD
Minnetonka, MN
Christine P. Hsu
Potomac, MD
Matt James
Menlo Park, CA
Catherine Ladnier and J. M.
Robinson
Greenwich, CT
Dr. Robert S. Lawrence
Baltimore, MD
Ramon Lopez
Newport Beach, CA
Ellen Luttrell
Burlingame, CA
Derith MacBride
Piedmont, CA
Gina Melin
Coconut Grove, FL
Olga Melin
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
Virginia Claiborne Miller
and Bruce Wallis
New Orleans, LA
Gilman and Marge Ordway
Honorary Members
Wilson, WY
Paul F. Rizza, PhD
Grove City, PA
Simon C. Roosevelt
New York, NY
Sallie Sebrell
Lexington, VA
Alanna E. Tarkington
Westlake Village, CA
Michael Traynor
Berkeley, CA
Lesley Turner
Vienna, VA
R.E. Turner III
Honorary Chair
Atlanta, GA
Walter Umphrey
Beaumont, TX
Peter M. Wege
Honorary Member
Grand Rapids, MI
Steve Weinstein
Pembroke, Bermuda
Madelin Martin Wexler
Chicago, IL
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Scott Helfrich (NWF photo
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