Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund
Ensure Nature Always Has a Champion
The Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund was launched in honor of Lennie’s 50+ year legacy of open space preservation in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties with Green Foothills. Its purpose is to provide a stable source of funding for our advocacy work in perpetuity.
Double Your Impact: $400K Match Challenge through December 31, 2024
We have raised $1,200,000 of our initial $2 million goal for the Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund. An anonymous donor has generously offered a $400,000 match. Meeting this match will mean achieving our initial $2,000,000 goal, which will allow us to begin drawing from the Fund so that we can hire additional advocacy staff.
You can contribute now or pledge a gift to be made before December 31, 2024. If you wish to mail your pledge form or donation (with memo for Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund), please send it to: Green Foothills, 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Download the case for support and pledge form.
To learn more, please contact Justyne Schnupp, Associate Development Director, at 650.968.7243 x340 or [email protected].
Why the Fund Is Needed
Lennie has volunteered as an advocate for her entire career with Green Foothills, working as a member of our professional staff for more than 50 years without accepting a salary. The Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund is a new, restricted fund that will ensure long-term financial support for our Advocacy Program going forward. Our primary need is to provide funding to compensate additional paid advocacy staff, as Lennie will eventually retire.
The Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund accepts contributions (in the form of cash, stock, pledges, or bequests) restricted to our Advocacy Program. These funds create a mechanism for Green Foothills to save and invest sums of money, the returns of which can be spent over time to ensure a stable source of funding to support our advocacy for local open space, farmland, and natural resources in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties.
What Your Gift Will Accomplish
Our advocacy team engages in complex land use issues, educates decision-makers and community leaders, and partners with and mobilizes community members to take action to effect change.
Our vision:
- 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.
About Lennie Roberts
Lennie first joined Green Foothills as a board member in 1968. Ten years later, she volunteered as a Legislative Advocate. 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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