by LouiseGund | Jan 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
For more than half a century, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (The Fossey Fund) has continued the pioneering work of the iconic zoologist and conservationist Dian Fossey. Today, the Fossey Fund works to preserve the mountain gorilla species in Rwanda’s Virunga...
by LouiseGund | Jan 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Almost 60 years ago, British-born primatologist, anthropologist, and ethologist Jane Goodall first made camp near Gombe Stream in Tanzania. At the time, she was an enthusiastic young researcher just starting out on her lifelong pursuit of insights into primate...
by LouiseGund | Jan 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
The nonprofit environmental advocacy group Earthjustice is currently handling more than 600 active legal matters through its team of more than 130 full-time attorneys. Earthjustice works on behalf of hundreds of client organizations. These include the Sierra Club, the...
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...
by LouiseGund | Nov 20, 2019 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Organizations, Programs, Wildlife
Late in 2017, in the small salmon-fishing town of Dillingham, Alaska, a mining firm filed paperwork to obtain a permit for the development of a new open-pit gold and copper mine upstream. Residents in this town of 2,300 people, whose livelihood centers on fishing, are...
by LouiseGund | Nov 15, 2019 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, History, Nature, Organizations, Programs, Wildlife
A nonprofit law firm focused on defending the earth and its people, animals, and natural resources, Earthjustice has won numerous court battles since its establishment in the 1970s. These lawsuits have halted air pollution, increased protections for Arctic lands and...
