The Burning Foundation


Washington Environmental Groups
Organization Project Grant
Conservation Northwest
Bellingham
General operations: Protecting a wildlife habitat links between mountain ranges, protecting old-growth forests on federal lands, recovering native wildlife in the North Cascades. $12,000
Inland Northwest Land Trust
Spokane
Family Forests Forever: prioritizing the lands as larger parcels, and land adjacent to national forest lands. 2009 goal is to protect 800 forested acres in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. $10,000
North Olympic Land Trust
Port Angeles
Collaboration with the Jefferson Land Trust and the Cascade Land Conservancy to create an Olympic Agenda. Implementing a community-based "visioning" process. $10,000
Olympic Park Institute
Port Angeles
Summer youth field science education programs, including hands-on restoration programs. $5,000
Seattle Audubon Soc.
Seattle
Forest Protection Campaign in collaboration with Audubon Washington, focusing on both urban forests and rural forests. $12,000
Trust for Public Land
Seattle
Greenprinting Program: helping communities identify conservation priorities and create action plans for balanced growth.

$10,000
Oregon Environmental Groups
Organization Project Grant
Columbia Riverkeeper
Hood River
Columbia River Estuary Protection Project: expanding grassroots organizing and coalition building, providing technical and legal expertise and materials; filing legal challenges. $12,000
Gifford Pinchot Task Force
Portland
General operations to protect the Gifford Pinchot forest: including activating a diverse constituency, and pushing USFS towards landscape-scale forest restoration. $12,000
National Center for Conservation Science & Policy
Ashland
Restoring Freeways for Fish Campaign: removal of Savage Rapids Dam and habitat restoration, accelerating the process of Gold Ray Dam removal, and connecting quality habitat back to the Little Butte Creek and its floodplain.

$12,000
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Organization Project Grant
Family Planning of Clallam County
Port Angeles
Youth programs: weekly Adolescent Support Group sessions; healthcare and reproductive classroom and group health education; and Baby-Think-it-Over infant simulator program.

$20,000
Multiyear Requests
Organization Project Grant
American Rivers
Seattle
Third year funding for the NW Office: Flowing Rivers for Washington Campaign. $20,000
BARK
Portland
Second year funding: Restore Mount Hood Campaign. $20,000
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
 
Third year funding: Pacific Northwest program. $10,000
Futurewise
Seattle
Second year funding: Shoreline Master Program. $25,000