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 more than 50 years, Lennie Roberts has volunteered as an advocate with Green Foothills, achieving significant victories for open space and farmland in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. Green Foothills launched the Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund to support, in perpetuity, our Advocacy Program in honor of her enduring legacy.
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
Green Foothills has been extremely fortunate to have Lennie volunteering as an advocate for more than 50 years. However, Lennie will eventually retire and our primary funding need is to compensate new, additional paid advocacy staff who can transition into the role Lennie has filled for so long without accepting a salary. The Lennie Roberts Advocacy Fund is a restricted fund that will ensure long-term financial support for our Advocacy Program going forward. It will play a significant role in sustaining the program and the vital work it accomplishes year after year.
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
Your gift will help to provide a stable source of funding for Green Foothills’ advocacy work in perpetuity.
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 is a region where wildlife thrives, everyone has natural beauty to enjoy, and communities live in balance with nature.
The Advocacy Program works to advance our Green Future 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.
Since our founding, approximately 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 60 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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