by LouiseGund | Dec 17, 2019 | Conservation, Environment, Legislation, Nature, Organizations, Programs
In October 2019, the nonprofit Clean Water Action praised the vote by the California State Water Resources Control Board to reduce the previously established timeline to end nitrate water pollution in California’s Central Valley by 10 years. The 3-1 vote in...
by LouiseGund | Dec 12, 2019 | Conservation, Environment, Legislation, Nature, Organizations
The only nonprofit organization of its kind that monitors local waters in its own pollution patrol boat, San Francisco Baykeeper has spent the past 30 years playing a lead role in protecting the health of the San Francisco Bay and adjacent wetlands. Baykeeper focuses...
by LouiseGund | Dec 9, 2019 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Wildlife
The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts (COLT) works to serve the interests of the land trust community in the state and to strengthen its collective ability to preserve the environment for the benefit of people everywhere, now and in the future. Through its many...
by LouiseGund | Nov 26, 2019 | Broadway, Cast, Music, Play, Production
A passionate arts lover and philanthropist, Berkeley resident Louise Gund has a long history of supporting art institutions in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is one such institution: in 2007,...
by LouiseGund | Nov 22, 2019 | Acting, Broadway, Cast, Music, Play, Production
With The Great Society, renowned playwright Robert Schenkkan presents his second in a series of works about the life and career of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The new production reunites Schenkkan with director Bill Rauch, who helmed the playwright’s Tony...
