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 worked 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.
Every contribution to this restricted Fund helps ensure we have professional environmental advocates who champion our irreplaceable landscapes, the wildlife that calls them home, and the communities that depend on them. Investment of the funds provides returns that will be spent over time to support our advocacy for nature and farmland in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties.
If you prefer to mail your donation (with a note that it’s for the 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.
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 farmland for generations. We do this by rallying community members to take action to effect change, and by 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.
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 or justyne@greenfoothills.org.
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 for her entire career and never accepting a salary. 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 and still works as a Green Foothills Legislative Advocate focused on the San Mateo County Coastside.
Some Highlights of Lennie’s Career
During her decades as a Green Foothills staff member, Lennie has played a central role in preserving the natural beauty of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. In addition to being considered one of the founders of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) – a public agency, which was created when local voters passed Measure R in Santa Clara County in 1972 – Lennie played a pivotal role in:
- Expanding Midpen’s boundaries over time, from the initial Santa Clara foothills and baylands to include southern San Mateo County in 1976, and then to the San Mateo County coastside in 2004.
- Helping secure the permanent preservation of iconic local landscapes such as Russian Ridge, Purisima Creek Redwoods, and Bear Creek Redwoods open space preserves.
- Championing landmark policy efforts such as the California Coastal Act of 1976 and San Mateo County’s Measure A in 1986, which curbed sprawl and safeguarded the rural character of the Coastside.
- Passing San Mateo County’s Measure T, which saved Devil’s Slide and Montara Mountain on the San Mateo coast.
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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