Philanthropic Partner Approaches To Land Conservation - 1

Established in 1996, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation supports four national grant-making programs including one focused on the environment.  The foundation is headquartered in New York and is governed by a board of 12 Trustees. DDCF's activities are guided by the will of Doris Duke, who endowed the foundation with financial assets that totaled approximately $1.6 billion as of December 31, 2012.

The mission of the Environment Program is to enable communities to protect and manage wildlife habitat and create efficient built environments.DDCF’s awareness of climate change as the greatest emerging threat to biodiversity – and the need to aggressively mitigate it without unnecessarily sacrificing wildlife habitat – has shaped the Environment Program’s grant-making priorities. The Environment Program has awarded more than $240 million in grants since 1997 related to the conservation of wildlife in the United States, including more than $40 million in grants to mitigate global climate change over a five year period.

Andrew Bowman, the Program Director for the Environment, will share observations about DDCF's support for innovative climate resiliency approaches, watershed initiatives, the role of science in planning on a landscape scale, engaging urban constituencies and other strategies that can guide philanthropic investments in land conservation.