Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund
Ensure Nature Always Has a Champion
Since 1962, Green Foothills has championed climate resilience and biodiversity by advocating for our local natural environment. For over 50 years, Lennie Roberts has volunteered as an advocate with Green Foothills, achieving significant victories for open space and farmland. The Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund honors her enduring legacy by supporting our vital Advocacy Program in perpetuity.
If you prefer to mail your donation (with a memo for Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund), send it to: Green Foothills, 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303. The Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund accepts contributions in cash, stock, pledges, or bequests. Investment of the funds provides returns that will be spent over time ensuring support for our advocacy for nature and farmland in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties.
Building on the Success of a Milestone
Thanks to our generous community, we’ve reached the initial $2 million goal for the Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund. This milestone enables us to expand our impact starting in 2025, including welcoming Environmental Associate Alexandra Mendoza to work alongside Lennie Roberts on our Coastal Resilience Program. This strategic addition to our team demonstrates how the Fund is already helping build capacity for crucial environmental work.
Add to the Fund and Grow Our Impact
While reaching our initial goal was a significant achievement, the challenges facing our local environment continue to grow. Every additional contribution to this restricted Fund carries on Lennie’s legacy by helping us to hire and compensate professional environmental advocates who engage in local land-use issues, meet with decision makers, and partner with and mobilize community members.
Join us in building a stronger foundation for local environmental advocacy. Donate today! Your gift to the Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund helps ensure nature will always have a champion in our community.
To learn more, please contact Justyne Schnupp, Associate Development Director, at 650.968.7243 x340 or [email protected].
What Your Gift Will Accomplish
Your gift will help to provide a stable source of funding for Green Foothills’ advocacy work in perpetuity.
Our advocacy team secures sustainable and environmentally sound policies and defeats environmentally harmful development proposals to protect natural areas and farmlands for generations. We do this by rallying community members to take action to effect change and influencing decision-makers to make better and healthier decisions for our communities’ future.
The Advocacy Program works to advance our Green Future Vision of a resilient region where wildlife thrives, everyone has natural beauty to enjoy, and communities live in balance with nature. More specifically:
- Communities become climate-resilient.
- Everyone has access to nature close to home.
- Native wildlife and plant habitats are being restored.
- Farms, ranches, and agricultural lands strengthen communities.
Since our founding, more than 200,000 acres of open space, farmland, and natural resources in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties have been permanently protected. This is the result of our advocacy on over 900 land use issues and 62 ballot measures.
About Lennie Roberts
Lennie joined Green Foothills as a board member in 1968. Ten years later, she became a Legislative Advocate, serving in that position on a volunteer basis for her entire career. Lennie’s steadfast voice for open space over the past 50 years is why thousands of acres of hillsides, forests, creeks, farms, wetlands, and pristine coastal bluffs and beaches are still here for us to enjoy in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. Today she is one of the Bay Area’s most respected environmental leaders.
Thank You To Our Growing List of Donors
Green Foothills appreciates every individual, agency, and foundation who makes our work possible. For a complete list of donors to the Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund, see Our Donor Community.
Why We Give
“Green Foothills has lived up to their name. All of our lives are better for their work. It’s critical that strong advocacy in our region continues. That’s why we support the Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund. Please join us.”
Steve Blank and Alison Elliott
Donors since 2000 and Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund founding members
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