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You are invited to join us for Green Foothills’ 21st annual Nature’s Inspiration celebration on Sunday, September 29, 2024, from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at Oceano Hotel & Spa in Half Moon Bay with special guest, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo.

Enjoy a picturesque view of the San Mateo coast from the lovely Oceano Hotel as we celebrate our community and the launch of our new Coastal Resilience program along with Congresswoman Eshoo. Green Foothills has a long history of working to protect the natural beauty of the San Mateo coast and the public’s access to it and we are excited to share the future of our work there. Congresswoman Eshoo’s congressional district stretches along the San Mateo County coast and includes the communities of Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, and Pescadero. Before being elected to Congress in 1992, she served 10 years on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors. She has been a champion for open space protection and a longtime supporter of Green Foothills.

The power of our community and the local natural landscapes, farmland, and parks we protect together are reasons to celebrate. Sponsorships will be available by April 1, 2024, and tickets will go on sale in early summer. See photos from last year’s event.

Can’t attend but would still like to support Green Foothills? Make a donation today.

Questions? For additional information about Nature’s Inspiration, please contact Jocelyn Rodriguez 650.968.7243 x314, [email protected].

At Green Foothills, we take pride in the inclusive culture we’re cultivating within our organization. For those who are hard of hearing, all speakers will be individually microphoned. Please let us know in advance if there is anything else you require to make your experience comfortable and enjoyable. Kindly email [email protected] by September 1, 2024.

2023 Sponsors

Nature’s Inspiration underwrites a significant portion of Green Foothills’ annual expenses. We depend on funds raised from this event to support our work so that we can create the greatest impact. Your generous support makes it possible for us to champion climate resilience and biodiversity through the protection of open space and natural resources in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties. Since 1962, our advocacy has resulted in the permanent protection of 200,000 acres.

Thank you to our Nature’s Inspiration 2023 sponsors. Sponsorship opportunities for 2024 will become available by April 1.

O’Brien Family Charitable Fund

Ranae DeSantis
Morgan Elizabeth
Google
KPMG and Lisa & Edward Munro
Ann and Mark Monroe
Myrtle L. Atkinson Foundation
Laura Wells

Anonymous
Ben Hammett
Gary and Patricia Hedden
Insperity
Peter and Sue LaTourrette
Law Offices Of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy
Peter and Beverly Lipman
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Peninsula Open Space Trust
PG&E
Lennie and Mike Roberts
Sempervirens Fund
Nancy and Greg Serrurier

Steve Abbors
Applied Materials
Brandenburg Family Foundation
Linda and Sid Liebes
William Reller
Save Mount Diablo
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Maxine Terner and Keith Weber

Anonymous
ACLU Foundation of Northern California
Jon Adams
Leslie Airola-Murveit and Hy Murveit
Tamara Alvarado
Marilyn and Bill Bauriedel
Steve Beck and Jane Baxter
Barbara Bessey
Steve Betando
Greg and Lauren Boro
Craig Britton and Carleen Bruins
Phyllis Browning
Matthew Burrows
David Cohen, San Jose Councilmember
Martha Cohn
Mike Danzenbaker and Lee Hung
Marshall Dinowitz and Lisa Kelly
Rod Diridon, Sr. and Gloria Duffy
Barbara Erny
Megan Fluke and Jeff Prentice
The Foster Museum
Smita Garg
Sequoia Hall
Susan Hansch and Richard Wright
Jerry Hearn and Rebecca Reynolds
Cayce Hill and Joe Zullo
Tracy and Julie Hutcheson
Lee Ann Jarrell
Sergio Jimenez, San Jose Councilmember
Pitch and Cathie Johnson
Alice Kaufman and Scot Griffin
Margaret Laffan and Shashank Arora
Richard and Alanna Lanman
Charlie Lum
Tor and Nancy Lund
Theresa Lyngso and Joseph McClintock
Margaret and Jamis MacNiven
Shelley and Andrew Meyer
Dan and Helen Quinn
Katie Sanborn and Barbara Wright
Roberta Saxon and Mike Sasnett
Jeff Segall andHelen He
Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County Supervisor, and Mary Hughes
SPHERE
SRT Consultants
Carolyn and Edwin Tognetti
Valley Water
The Walt Disney Company
Terrell Watt and Mark Karwowski
Bart and Nancy Westcott
Wisdom Revealed
Ciddy Wordell
John Zotz

African American Community Service Agency
Jeffery and Sharon Allyn
Blanca Alvarado
Lawrence Ames
Garnetta Annable
Ian Bain
Bryan Beck and Kaia Eakin
Josh Becker, California Senator
Manjeet Bhamra
Phil and Mary Bobel
Jo-Ann Byrne Sockolov
Dan and Helen Chapman
Colorprint
Constance Crawford
Cooney Family
Paul and Jade Davis
Gabriel de la Rosa
Michelle Domocol
Paul and Maureen Draper
Craige and Jan Edgerton
Linda and Jerry Elkind
Sandy Emerson
Ron Erskine
Anna Eshoo, United States Congresswoman
Nazy Fahimi
Nancy Federspiel
Pam Foley, San Jose Councilmember
Steve and Leslie Furney-Howe
Linda Gass and Rob Steiner
Marian Goldeen and Arthur Ogawa
Jeffrey Gong
Shruti Gopinathan and Vishal Gupta
Melissa Hippard
Kristine Karnos
Arthur Keller
Bill and Kathy Korbholz
Los Gatos Birdwatcher
Andrea Mackenzie and Jenni Martin
Anand Madhavan
Chris Manning and Laura Salcido
Barbara Marshman
Mary L. Reber Trust
Hyma Menath
John and Valerie Metcalfe
Allen Olivo and Robin McKnight
Teresa O'Neill
David Oppenheimer and Elaine Sulzberger Oppenheimer
Smita Patel
Mike Potter, Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority Director, and Cindy Chavez, Santa Clara County Supervisor
Emily Ann Ramos, Mountain View Councilmember
Diana Reddy
Emily Renzel and Enid Pearson
Curt Riffle and Karen Scussel
San Mateo County Parks Foundation
Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency
Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Kathryn Schmidt
Ben and Annette Segall
Sequoia Audubon Society
Joan Sherlock
Diane Siemens
David Simon and Lynn Gordon
Sharon Snyder
Jackie Speier
Rene Spring, Morgan Hill Mayor Pro Tempore and Mark Hoffmann
Carolyn A. Straub and Stephen L. McHenry
Hartono Sutanto and Tom Myers
Arpana Tiwari
Charlie Tomberg
George Tucker and Zoe Kersteen-Tucker, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Director
Jessica Vernon
Don Weden
Mariquita West
Jim Wickett and Magdalena Yesil

Bay Maples

We owe a debt of gratitude to Green Foothills for their decades-long work standing up for nature and people. They have been effective advocates for the region’s open space, farmland, and natural resources, protecting our region’s natural heritage for future generations. As we experience the growing effects of climate change, the role Green Foothills plays as the conscience of the community will be needed more than ever.

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Andrea Mackenzie

I am grateful for the opportunities that Green Foothills opens up for sincere and organized acts of solidarity that collectively over time will result in change and movement. As a Chicana/Mexika mother and dancer, on the red road, Green Foothills inspires me to take action and center Mother Nature and First Peoples in this struggle to retain land as free and sacred.

Tamara Alvarado

From our founding more than 60 years ago until today, Green Foothills has been the local, vocal and effective protector of this region’s natural wonders. We have all benefited tremendously from the work of Green Foothills.

Jeff Segall
Jeff Segall

Many of the most important decisions affecting our natural environment involve land use decisions made by our local governments. For more than 60 years, Green Foothills and its allies have worked diligently and effectively to assure that local government decisions in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties have protected open space and prevented sprawl.

Don Weden
Don Weden

The work of Green Foothills is legendary and extremely environmentally significant to efforts to address climate change.

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Helen Chapman

My support for Green Foothills stems from our reliable long-term passionate commitment to protect local open space now and in the future. This in turn benefits our Wildlife friends and the Earth, essential partners of the human race!

Matt Burrows

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