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International Rivers mission "is to protect rivers and defend the rights of communities that depend on them." [1] One of the cofounders of the network was Mark Dubois.
- Patrick McCully, Executive Director
- Glenn Switkes, Latin America Program Director
Contents
Foundation Funders (2006) [2]
- Aveda Corporation
- Ford Foundation
- Global Environment Project Institute
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Kendeda Fund
- Libra Foundation
- George and Miriam Martin Foundation
- McKnight Foundation
- Steve J. Miller Foundation
- Moriah Fund
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Open Society Institute
- Oxfam America
- Oxfam Australia
- Oxfam Great Britain
- Sigrid Rausing Trust
- Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
- Tides Foundation
- Wallace Global Fund
- Walton Family Foundation
- Weeden Foundation
- Working Assets
2006 Funding
- Grants $1,515,670
- Contributions $166,041
- Fund for International Rivers $80,000
- Other income $29,706
- Total income $1,791,417
Directors
Accessed September 2008: [3]
- Martha Belcher (Chair) - Vice President for Sustainable Business Practices, Sungevity
- Andre Carothers - Senior Fellow, Rockwood Leadership Program
- Robert Hass - Poet; Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley
- Marcia McNally - Associate Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning; Partner, Community Development by Design
- Carlos E. Mejia - Vice President, Youth Leadership Institute
- Milan Momirov - Entrepreneur and investor
- Deborah Moore - Executive Director, Green Schools Initiative
- Cymie Payne - Director, Global Commons Project; Associate Director, California Center for Environmental Law and Policy, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
- David N. Pellow - Professor and Martindale Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota
- Lori Udall - Program Director, Sacharuna Foundation
- Meeta Vyas - Partner, SRV International; Board Member, MIT South Asian Alumni; Advisory Board Member, South Asian Women's Leadership Forum
International Advisory Board
Accessed September 2008: [4]
- Celio Bermann - University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Joan Carling - Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Philippines
- Gustavo Castro Soto - Mexican Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples, Mexico
- Nga Dao - Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development, Vietnam
- Shripad Dharmadhikary - Manthan Resource Centre, India
- Philip Fearnside - National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Brazil
- Liane Greeff - Writer/Photgrapher; African Rivers Network, South African Water Caucus, South Africa
- Nicholas Hildyard - The Corner House, England
- Naeem Iqbal - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pakistan
- Frank Muramuzi - National Association of Professional Environmentalists, Uganda
- Astrid Puentes - Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense, Mexico/Colombia
- Lucia Schild Ortiz - Friends of the Earth, Brazil
- Himanshu Thakkar - South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, India
US Advisory Board
Accessed September 2008: [5]
- Dan Beard - Chief Administrative Officer, US House of Representatives
- Patricia W. Chang - Former President and CEO, Women’s Foundation of California
- Gigi Coe - Board President, The Bay School of San Francisco
- Peter Coyote - Actor and writer
- Christina L. Desser - Fellow, Tomales Bay Institute
- Huey D. Johnson - Founder and President, Resource Renewal Institute
- Barbara Rose Johnston - Center for Political Ecology; Professor, Michigan State University
- Dorka Keehn - Commissioner, Commission of the Status of Women for the City and County of San Francisco; Chair, San Francisco’s Justice and Courage Domestic Violence Panel
- Lauren Klein Hayes - WELL Network
- Nion McEvoy - Chairman and CEO, Chronicle Books
- Sylvia McLaughlin - Conservationist; Co-founder and former president and board member of Save the Bay
- Juliette Majot - Activist; non-profit consultant; former Executive Director, International Rivers
- Mutombo Mpanya - Professor of international environmental studies; Director of the Science and Humanities Integration Project, Sonoma State
- Mayumi Oda - Artist; Co-founder, INOCHI and Plutonium Free Future organizations
- Drummond Pike - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tides Network
- Brian Smith - Partner, Heller Ehrman LLP
- Gary Snyder - Poet; Professor Emeritus, University of California at Davis
- Paul Strasburg - Activist, farmer. Former Chair, International Rivers Board of Directors
- Lara Truppelli - Chair, Ocean Beach Vision Council, City and County of San Francisco; Co-founder and proprietor, San Francisco's Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant and Park Chalet Garden Restaurant
Contact
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
References
- ↑ Mission, International Rivers, accessed September 23, 2008.
- ↑ 2006 Annual Report, International Rivers, accessed September 23, 2008.
- ↑ Board, International Rivers, accessed September 23, 2008.
- ↑ Board, International Rivers, accessed September 23, 2008.
- ↑ Board, International Rivers, accessed September 23, 2008.
